November 6, 2003
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Legacy Codes:
The Most Violent Poem
Lore of the Manhattan Project:
From The Trinity Site –
“I imagined Oppenheimer saying aloud, ‘Batter my heart, three person’d God,” unexpectedly recalling John Donne’s ‘Holy Sonnet [14],’ and then he knew, ‘ “Trinity” will do.’ Memory has its reasons.
‘Batter my heart’ — I remember these words. I first heard them on a
fall day at Duke University in 1963. Inside a classroom twelve of us
were seated around a long seminar table listening to Reynolds Price
recite this holy sonnet….I remember Reynolds saying, slowly, carefully, ‘This is the most violent poem in the English language.’ “
Related Entertainment
Today’s birthday:
director Mike NicholsFrom a dead Righteous Brother:
“If you believe in forever
Then life is just a one-night stand.”– Bobby Hatfield, found dead
in his hotel room at
7 PM EST Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2003,
before a concert scheduled at
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo.From a review of The Matrix Revolutions:
“You’d have to be totally blind at the end to miss the Christian
symbolism…. Trinity gets a glimpse of heaven…. And in the end… God Put A Rainbow In The Clouds.”Moral of the
Entertainment:According to Chu Hsi [Zhu Xi],
“Li” is
“the principle or coherence
or order or pattern
underlying the cosmos.”– Smith, Bol, Adler, and Wyatt,
Sung Dynasty Uses of the I Ching,
Princeton University Press, 1990Related Non-Entertainment
Symmetry and a Trinity
(for the dotting-the-eye symbol above)Introduction to Harmonic Analysis
(for musical and historical background)Mathematical Proofs
(for the spirit of Western Michigan
University, Kalamazoo)Moral of the
Non-Entertainment:“Many kinds of entity
become easier to handle
by decomposing them into
components belonging to spaces
invariant under specified symmetries.”– The importance of
mathematical conceptualisation
by David Corfield,
Department of History and
Philosophy of Science,
University of CambridgeSee, too,
Symmetry of Walsh Functions and
Geometry of the I Ching.
