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Thursday, August 1, 2024

Web Surfing Notes

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:12 am

The above search was suggested by a Google Doodle result . . .

For those who prefer the Society of Jesus to the Surf Club . . .

https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/
2024/07/29/olympics-last-supper-ceremony-248467

. . . and, from the dies natalis  of Junie Schenck . . .

The Dali Sacrament.

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Sacramental Geometry:

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:00 pm

The Dreaming Jewels  continued

" the icosahedron and dodecahedron have the same properties
of symmetry. For the centres of the twenty faces of an icosahedron
may be joined to form a regular dodecahedron, and conversely, the
twelve vertices of an icosahedron can be placed at the centres
of the faces of a suitable dodecahedron. Thus the icosahedral and
dodecahedral groups are identical
 , and either solid may be used to
examine the nature of the group elements."

— Walter Ledermann, Introduction to the Theory
of Finite Groups
  (Oliver and Boyd, 1949, p. 93)

Salvador Dali, The Sacrament of the Last Supper

Omar Sharif and Gregory Peck in Behold a Pale Horse

Above: soccer-ball geometry.
              See also

             See as well
"In Sunlight and in Shadow."

Sunday, April 12, 2015

Symbol of Heaven

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 7:00 pm

Today is Easter Sunday in the Orthodox Church.

Two readings:

"Ancient Symbol of Heaven"

From "Misunderstood Masterpiece," an essay
in the Jesuit weekly America  on Salvador Dali's
"The Sacrament of the Last Supper" —

"The setting is distinctive: a dodecahedron,
or 12-sided space, that we perceive in the
pentagon-shaped windowpanes behind the
table. The architecture is also transparent.
The dodecahedron is an ancient symbol of
heaven, where this event is taking place.
This is the realm of the Father…."

— Michael Anthony Novak, Nov. 5, 2012

Scholarship, Not Rhetoric

A PDF of the Kotrc paper is available online.

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