In memory of a Harvard Corporation Senior Fellow
who reportedly died at 86 on December 20, 2022 —
Friday, February 17, 2023
An Urn for Harvard
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Wednesday, December 21, 2022
The Unmagic Square
Last year on this date:
A Riddler Wannabe —
Related material — The Krauss passage quoted as above
by Shechtman in The New Yorker in December 2021 appears
also in a Log24 post of October 18, 2017: "Three Small Grids."
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Tuesday, December 20, 2022
The Puzzle
Today's previous post "The Urn" suggests a look at . . .
How to Solve The New York Times Crossword
By Deb Amlen. Illustrations by Elena Xausa.
Animations by Lorenzo Fonda.
That web page is undated, but its HTML source contains
43 instances of the date 2017-10-18.
See as well "Three Small Grids," a post from this journal on 2017-10-18.
Related material — Today's 3:05 PM ET New York Times obituary
for the above crossword guide illustrator, Elena Xausa —
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The Urn
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/12/26/the-cover-crossword
"The two cover characters, who I’ve been thinking of as ○ and □ . . ."
— Chris Ware on his New Yorker cover for the issue dated Dec. 26, 2022.
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Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Three Small Grids
An earlier post today, now tagged "Three Small Magic Squares,"
suggests a review of a post from October 25 three years ago
that contains the following figure —
Fans of the October Revolution may enjoy a passage
by Rosalind Krauss on grids:
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