From "A Piece of the Storm,"
by the late poet Mark Strand —
"A snowflake, a blizzard of one…."
Tuesday, August 9, 2016
Snowflake
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Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Models
Continued from November 30, 2014
"Number right → Everything right." — Burkard Polster.
See also the six posts of November 30, St. Andrew's Day.
Related material —
Peter J. Cameron today discussing Julia Kristeva on poetry …
"This seems to be saying that the Kolmogorov
complexity of poetry is very low: the entire poem
can be generated from a small amount of information."
… and this journal on St. Andrew's day :
From "A Piece of the Storm,"
by the late poet Mark Strand —
A snowflake, a blizzard of one….
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Sunday, November 30, 2014
Agents of a Great Despair
Or: Concepts of Space
1976 according to Cullinane:
1976 according to Plotnick:
“Irony and ridicule are entertaining and effective, and . . .
at the same time they are the agents of a great despair
and stasis in U.S. culture.” — David Foster Wallace,
as quoted by Adam Kirsch today at Salon
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Back to the Real
Continued from June 17, 2009 —
"I sit now in a little room off the bar
at four-thirty in the morning drinking
ochas and then mescal and writing this
on some Bella Vista notepaper I filched
the other night…."
— Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
See too a search for Snowflake in this journal.
This word may serve as Mark Strand's "Rosebud."
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Investments
From "A Piece of the Storm," by the late poet Mark Strand —
A snowflake, a blizzard of one….
From notes to Malcolm Lowry's "La Mordida" —
he had invested, in the Valley of the Shadow of Death….
See also Weyl's Symmetry in this journal.
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