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Sunday, June 26, 2005

Sunday June 26, 2005

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 7:26 pm

Thanks for the Memory

As I write, Susannah McCorkle is singing "Thanks for the Memory."

Below are some photos from the website of Paul Winchell, ventriloquist, inventor, theologian.  Winchell died in his sleep at 82 early on Friday, June 24, 2005.

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Paul Winchell seems to have
posted a topic for discussion:
 
"God is a mathematical equation
   beyond our understanding."

Related material:

From Friday's entry
Cross by Sol LeWitt
(Fifteen Etchings, 1973):

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"No bridge reaches God, except one…
God's Bridge: The Cross."
— Billy Graham Evangelistic Association,
quoted in Friday's entry.

This cross may, of course, also
be interpreted as panes of a window
  — see Lucy photo above —
or as a plus sign — see "a mathematical
equation beyond our understanding"
in, for instance, Algebraic Geometry,
by Robin Hartshorne. For a theological
citation of Hartshorne's work, see
Midsummer Eve's Dream
(June 23, 1995).

Saturday, June 25, 2005

Saturday June 25, 2005

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:00 am
Merry AntiChristmas!

Religious Symbolism
at Midnight:

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Related material:

Star Wars 6/13/05,
Dark City 6/14/05,
and De Arco, as well
as the following from
July 26, 2003:

Bright Star and Dark Lady

"Mexico is a solar country — but it is also a black country, a dark country. This duality of Mexico has preoccupied me since I was a child."

Octavio Paz,
quoted by Homero Aridjis

Bright Star

Amen.

 

Dark Lady

Friday, June 24, 2005

Friday June 24, 2005

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 4:07 pm
Geometry for Jews
continued:

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People have tried in many ways
to bridge the gap
between themselves and God….
No bridge reaches God, except one…
God's Bridge: The Cross

— Billy Graham Evangelistic Association,
according to messiahpage.com

"… just as God defeats the devil:
this bridge exists;
it is the theory of the field
of algebraic functions over
a finite field of constants
(that is to say, a finite number
of elements: also said to be a Galois
field, or earlier 'Galois imaginaries'
because Galois first defined them
and studied them….)"

André Weil, 1940 letter to his sister,
Simone Weil, alias Simone Galois
(see previous entry)

Related material:

Billy Graham and the City:
A Later Look at His Words

— New York Times, June 24, 2005

Geometry for Jews
and other art notes

Galois Geometry

Mathematics and Narrative

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