August 1, 2003

• For All Time

  
  

  “… and the Wichita lineman is still on the line…”

  
  

  (Reflection on a member of the Radcliffe Class of 1964 who lived near Wichita and now has her own home page… While listening to a song on my “home on The Range – KHYI 95.3FM, Plano, Texas.”)

  
  

  Readings for a seminar we never really finished:

  
  

  “…that ineffable constellation of talents that makes the player of rank: a gift for conceiving abstract schematic possibilities; a sense of mathematical poetry in the light of which the infinite chaos of probability and permutation is crystallized under the pressure of intense concentration into geometric blossoms; the ruthless focus of force on the subtlest weakness of an opponent.”

  
  

  – Trevanian, Shibumi

  
  

  ” ‘Haven’t there been splendidly elegant colors in Japan since ancient times?’

  
  

  ‘Even black has various subtle shades,’ Sosuke nodded.’ “

  
  

  – Yasunari Kawabata, The Old Capital 
  
  

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