The diamond from the Chi-rho page
of the Book of Kells —
The diamond at the center of Euclid's
Proposition I, according to James Joyce
(i.e., the Diamond in the Mandorla) —
“He pointed at the football
on his desk. ‘There it is.’”
– Glory Road
The previous post discussed some fundamentals of logic.
The name “Boole” in that post naturally suggests the
concept of Boolean algebra . This is not the algebra
needed for Galois geometry . See below.
Some, like Dan Brown, prefer to interpret symbols using
religion, not logic. They may consult Diamond Mandorla,
as well as Blade and Chalice, in this journal.
See also yesterday’s Universe of Discourse.
"Examples are the stained-glass windows of knowledge." —Nabokov
Suggested by yesterday's evening NY lottery—
Post 4248: The Hunt for Exemplary October, and
Post 942: Links for St. Benedict
Related material—
— Collins English Dictionary
See also…
Tiffany Case and…
The Diamond
in the Mandorla
“He pointed at the football
on his desk. ‘There it is.’”
– Glory Road
To the leftist philosophers of Villanova
From "Make a Différance"
(Women's History Month, 2005)—
“He pointed at the football
on his desk. ‘There it is.’”
– Glory Road
Quodlibet*
Compare and contrast
the diamond in the football
with the jewel in the lotus.
* "A scholastic argumentation upon a subject chosen at will, but almost always theological. These are generally the most elaborate and subtle of the works of the scholastic doctors." —Century Dictionary
Part II
“Raiders of the Lost…”
(Feb. 17, 2006)
Part III
The Further
Adventures of
Tony Rome
(March 7, 2008)
Parts I and II above
may be summarized by
the famous phrase
“jewel in the lotus”–
which, some say, has
a sexual meaning–
and by the diagram
For discussions
of this structure
in Western thought,
see
the ovato tondo
and
Last to the Lost.
Humphrey Carpenter in The Inklings, his book on the Christian writers J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and Charles Williams, says that
“Eliot by his own admission took the ‘still point of the turning world’ in Burnt Norton from the Fool in Williams’s The Greater Trumps.”
— The Inklings, Ballantine Books, 1981, p. 106
Today’s Birthdays: …. Actress-dancer Leslie Caron is 76…. Movie director Sydney Pollack is 73…. Dancer-choreographer Twyla Tharp is 66. –AP, “Today in History,” July 1, 2007
The Diamond
in the Mandorla
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