"His paintings weren’t a kind of art.
They seemed to present themselves as
art in essence, immaculately conceived.
They made me feel, precisely, dumb,
with nothing to say."
— Peter Schjeldahl today on the late
Ellsworth Kelly
Robbing Peter to Pay Paul continues …
"He must know somethin',
but don't say nothin'."
Livingstone
On this date:
In 1871, journalist-explorer Henry M. Stanley found Scottish missionary David Livingstone, who had not been heard from for years, near Lake Tanganyika in central Africa.
— AP “Today in History,” Nov. 10
1 Peter 2, on the
“living stone.”
— NIV Bible
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See also Wednesday’s
Grave Matters.
"Paul must not have been
talking about time
in a linear way."
— Sermon at Nassau Church,
Princeton, New Jersey,
Christmas Eve, 2004
Symmetry in Diamond Theory:
Robbing Peter to Pay Paul
"Groups arise in most areas of pure and applied mathematics, usually as a set of operators or transformations of some structure. The appearance of a group generally reflects some kind of symmetry in the object under study, and such symmetry may be considered one of the fundamental notions of mathematics."
"Counter-change is sometimes known as Robbing Peter to Pay Paul."
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For a look at the Soviet approach
to counterchange symmetry, see
The Kishinev School of Discrete Geometry.
The larger cultural context:
See War of Ideas (Oct. 24),
The Hunt for Red October (Oct. 25),
On the Left (Oct. 25), and
ART WARS for Trotsky's Birthday (Oct. 26).
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