Monday, January 19, 2015
Serial Box (continued)
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Product 19:
Revisionism
From Wikipedia as of today:
"In fiction, revisionism is the retelling of a story
or type of story with substantial alterations in
character or environment, to 'revise' the view
shown in the original work. Unlike most usages
of the term revisionism, this is not generally
considered pejorative.
The film Dances with Wolves is a revisionist
Western because it portrays the Native Americans
sympathetically instead of as the savages of
traditional Westerns, which have been criticized
as racist. Similarly, the novel Wicked by
Gregory Maguire is a revisionist account of
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , which portrays the
Wicked Witch of the West fighting for what she
believes is right, and the Wizard as a ruthless
dictator of Oz."
See also another Wikipedia article's Revision History.
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Sunday, January 18, 2015
Double Cross
Cross of Gold:
"I would tell them about Rhiannon,
and about my treasured gold cross…."
— Stevie Nicks
Dagger Cross:
See Dagger Definitions, by James Joyce:
"Hold to the now, the here, through which
all future plunges to the past."
A Jew's View:
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Thursday, January 15, 2015
Princeton Music continues…
A post yesterday linked to a discussion
of the Faustian music of Milton Babbitt,
a serial composer who reportedly died
in Princeton on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011.
Related material from this journal in
January 2005:
See also "me into you, you into me"
("Taking Lucifer Seriously," Jan. 24, 2004)
and the Saturday night "cold open" in this
journal on the date of Babbitt's death.
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Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Kulturkampf for Princeton*
Einstein and Thomas Mann, Princeton, 1938
A sequel to Princeton Requiem,
Gesamtkunstwerk , and Serial Box —
Fearful Symmetry, Princeton Style:
* See as well other instances of Kulturkampf in this journal.
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Serial Box
Enotes.com on Herman Wouk's 1985 novel Inside, Outside :
"The 'outside' of the title is the goyish world
into which David’s profession has drawn him;
the 'inside' is the warm life of his Russian-
Jewish family on which he, as narrator, reflects
in the course of the novel."
For a different sort of 'inside' life, see this morning's post
Gesamtkunstwerk , and Nathan Shields's Feb. 8, 2011,
tribute to a serial composer "In Memoriam, Milton Babbitt."
Some other context for Shields's musical remarks —
Doctor Faustus and Dürer Square.
For a more interesting contrast of inside with outside
that has nothing to do with ethnicity, see the Feb. 10,
2014, post Mystery Box III: Inside, Outside, about
the following box:
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Monday, February 10, 2014
Mystery Box III: Inside, Outside
(Continued from Mystery Box, Feb. 4, and Mystery Box II, Feb. 5.)
The Box
Inside the Box
Outside the Box
For the connection of the inside notation to the outside geometry,
see Desargues via Galois.
(For a related connection to curves and surfaces in the outside
geometry, see Hudson's classic Kummer's Quartic Surface and
Rosenhain and Göpel Tetrads in PG(3,2).)
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