From "Point," a Log24 post on St. Andrew's Day 2012 —
"….mirando il punto 
a cui tutti li tempi son presenti"
— Dante, Paradiso , XVII, 17-18
For instance…
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Wednesday, January 29, 2020
The Newman Prize
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Friday, November 30, 2012
Point
"….mirando il punto
a cui tutti li tempi son presenti"
— Dante, Paradiso , XVII, 17-18
For instance…
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Monday, March 7, 2011
Punto
"Time it goes so fast
When you're having fun"
"….mirando il punto
a cui tutti li tempi son presenti"
– Dante, Paradiso , XVII, 17-18
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Sunday, July 11, 2010
Philosophers’ Keystone
(Background— Yesterday's Quarter to Three,
A Manifold Showing, Class of 64, and Child's Play.)
Hermeneutics
Fans of Gregory Chaitin and Harry Potter
may consult Writings for Yom Kippur
for the meaning of yesterday's evening 673.
(See also Lowry and Cabbala.)
Fans of Elizabeth Taylor, Ava Gardner,
and the Dark Lady may consult Prime Suspect
for the meaning of yesterday's midday 17.
For some more serious background, see Dante—
"….mirando il punto
a cui tutti li tempi son presenti "
– Dante, Paradiso, XVII, 17-18
“The symbol 
is used throughout the entire book
in place of such phrases as ‘Q.E.D.’ or
‘This completes the proof of the theorem’
to signal the end of a proof.”
— Measure Theory, by Paul R. Halmos, Van Nostrand, 1950
Halmos died on the date of Yom Kippur —
October 2, 2006.
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Friday, May 20, 2005
Friday May 20, 2005
The Shining of Apollo
"Plato's most significant passage may be found in Phaedrus 265b: 'And we made four divisions of the divine madness, ascribing them to four gods, saying that prophecy was inspired by Apollo, the mystic madness by Dionysos, the poetic by the Muses, and the madness of love […] by Aphrodite and Eros' (trans. by H.N. Fowler, in the Loeb Classical Library)."
— Saverio Marchignoli, note on section 20, paragraphs 115-119, of the Discourse on the Dignity of Man (Oratio de hominis dignitate) (1486) by Pico della Mirandola, considered the "Manifesto of the Renaissance."
Related material:
A Mass for Lucero,
The Shining of May 29,
Shining Forth,
Sermon for St. Patrick's Day, and the phrase
Diamond Struck by the Sun.
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Friday, March 7, 2003
Friday March 7, 2003
Lovely, Dark and Deep
On this date in 1923, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," by Robert Frost, was published. On this date in 1999, director Stanley Kubrick died. On this date in 1872, Piet Mondrian was born.
"….mirando il punto
a cui tutti li tempi son presenti"
— Dante, Paradiso, XVII, 17-18
Chez Mondrian
Kertész, Paris, 1926
6:23 PM Friday, March 7:
From Measure Theory, by Paul R. Halmos, Van Nostrand, 1950:
"The symbol is used throughout the entire book in place of such phrases as 'Q.E.D.' or 'This completes the proof of the theorem' to signal the end of a proof."