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Edward Reed Whittemore Jr. was born |
In memoriam:
PART I —
PART II —
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Death on Good Friday
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Monday, January 23, 2012
Labyrinth
"Yo sé de un laberinto griego que es una línea única, recta."
—Borges, "La Muerte y la Brújula"
"I know of one Greek labyrinth which is a single straight line."
—Borges, "Death and the Compass"
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Saturday, October 8, 2011
An Ordinary Evening in Hartford
From Rebecca Goldstein's Talks and Appearances page—
• "36 (Bad) Arguments for the Existence of God,"
Annual Meeting of the Freedom from Religion Foundation,
Marriot, Hartford, CT, Oct 7 [2011], 7 PM
From Wallace Stevens—
"Reality is the beginning not the end,
Naked Alpha, not the hierophant Omega,
of dense investiture, with luminous vassals."
— “An Ordinary Evening in New Haven” VI
For those who prefer greater depth on Yom Kippur, yesterday's cinematic link suggests…
"Yo sé de un laberinto griego que es una línea única, recta."
—Borges, "La Muerte y la Brújula " ("Death and the Compass")
See also Alpha and Omega (Sept. 18, 2011) and some context from 1931.
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Monday, May 9, 2011
Bolshoi*
This morning's post has the following from Borges—
"Yo sé de un laberinto griego que es una línea única, recta."
—Borges, "La Muerte y la Brújula"
This suggests a search for "bruja brújula" (witch compass).
The search yields a Facebook page that leads, in turn, to Lhasa de Sela—
A search for material in this journal from the date of her death, 1/1/10, yields
The Celestine Dream, with its text on Doctor Parnassus and its image from Shutter Island —
Click to enlarge this item from Christmas 2009.
All this is by way of commentary on the April-30-to-May-1 Walpurgisnacht-to-May-Day scenes in Disney's Fantasia … which I watched last night.
I had not known anything about Lhasa de Sela until this morning, but in the combined context of Fantasia and of Russia's Victory Day observances today, her song "Los Peces" seems worth noting.
* For the title, see Celestine Bohlen on the Bolshoi Ballet.
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Queen’s Gambit*
From March 9 four years ago—
* See this journal and the novel.
Update of 10 AM May 9—
Midrash for Gnostics —
A post linked to under "this journal" (above) has a brief discussion of theology and Wallace Stevens—
"Professor Eucalyptus in 'Ordinary Evening' XIV, for example, 'seeks/ God in the object itself '…."
I have more confidence that God is to be found in the Ping Pong balls of the New York Lottery.
This suggests a check of yesterday's NY numbers. They were… Midday 780, Evening 302.
A search for 780 in this journal yields a post quoting The Scotsman 's reporter Rhiannon Edward.
Related material:
Rhiannon's Scotsman story of May 6—
Rapist gets 20 years after justice system finally believes his victims
Published Date: 06 May 2011
By Rhiannon Edward
A SCOTTISH care home worker who groomed and raped teenage girls for more than a decade has been jailed for 20 years.
James Boyes abused a string of underage girls at Frant Court care home in Frant, East Sussex, during the 1980s and 1990s, leaving one so traumatised she is still being treated in a secure mental hospital….
See also this journal on May 7 —
For yesterday's NY evening 302, see the "780" post involving Rhiannon—
Glenn Ford as a playboy from Argentina —
— and "302" interpreted as "3/02," which yields…
"Yo sé de un laberinto griego que es una línea única, recta."
—Borges, "La Muerte y la Brújula"
"I know of one Greek labyrinth which is a single straight line."
—Borges, "Death and the Compass"
For some background music, click here.
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Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Labyrinth of the Line
“Yo sé de un laberinto griego que es una línea única, recta.”
—Borges, “La Muerte y la Brújula”
“I know of one Greek labyrinth which is a single straight line.”
—Borges, “Death and the Compass”
Another single-line labyrinth—
Robert A. Wilson on the projective line with 24 points
and its image in the Miracle Octad Generator (MOG)—
Related material —
The remarks of Scott Carnahan at Math Overflow on October 25th, 2010
and the remarks at Log24 on that same date.
A search in the latter for miracle octad is updated below.
This search (here in a customized version) provides some context for the
Benedictine University discussion described here on February 25th and for
the number 759 mentioned rather cryptically in last night’s “Ariadne’s Clue.”
Update of March 3— For some historical background from 1931, see The Mathieu Relativity Problem.
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