Symmetry and Change, Part 1…

Early Evening,
Shining Star

7:31:01 PM ET

Hexagram 01
The Creative:

The Image

The movement of heaven
is full of power.

Click on picture
for details.

The Clare Lawler Prize
for Literature goes to…

Iconography

For student
Anthony Fonseca,
Harvard ’04-’05:

Michael (Studio della Robbia, ca. 1475)

For teacher
Margaret Casey:

The Green and
Burning Tree, by
Chesca Potter

For the Voice of Gollum,
Peter Woodthorpe:

For further details, click on
any of the pictures above.

… y eres tú y soy yo 
y es un caminarte en círculo 
dar a tus hechos dimensión de arco 
y a solas con tu impulso decirte la palabra.

– Homero Aridjis

For Lucero:

dimensión de arco

(This last picture, taken by
Andrew from London,
was added at
11:30 AM ET Aug. 31, 2004.
For the excellent story that
accompanies the picture, see
“Early Evening, the Light
Beginning to Fade.”)

Agon

for Penelope Doob,
Radcliffe ’64:

“How much story do you want?”
– George Balanchine

Q.E.D.

A Log24 entry of Aug. 17, 2004, on the
three Semitic (or “Abrahamic”) religions:

“Looney.”

Author biography
from Deunant Books:

Father Cornelius (“Neil”) Horan

Horan

“Neil Horan was born in 1947, in Scartaglen, County Kerry, in the Republic of Ireland. After schooling in Ireland he was ordained a Catholic Priest in Saint Mary’s Cathedral, Killarney, in 1973.

He has served all his priestly life in the Southwark Diocese, covering London south of the River Thames and Kent, his first Parish being Bexley in Kent. His interest in Bible prophecy began when he attended a lecture in 1974, given by the Apostolic Fellowship of Christ, a group which had originated with the Christadelphians. Meaning ‘Brothers in Christ’, the Christadelphians were a small Church formed in 1861 by Dr John Thomas. Father Horan says he owes a debt of gratitude to the Christadelphian tradition for the understanding of the Bible which they gave him. He regards the Bible as the greatest Book in the world and has devoted his life to making it better known, especially the Prophecies.

He is not a prophet, considering himself to be merely an interpreter, has never received a Divine message or vision, and God has never spoken to him. He feels that he is right only in so far as he interprets the Book of Books correctly.

He is still a Catholic Priest, listed in the Catholic Directory under his full name of Cornelius Horan. Cornelius, a Centurian [sic] in the Roman army, was the first Christian convert; Father Horan is proud to bear that name and hopes to meet his famous namesake soon, when Jesus comes.”

A Glorious New World
by Father Neil Horan

“Are there passages in the Bible that foretell events that were, at the time it was written, far in the future? Father Neil Horan argues eloquently, knowledgeably and persuasively in this book, first published in 1985, that this is so. It is easy to scoff at predictions of events that were, according to the book, to have taken place a few years ago but which have not happened, but to do that would be wrong. With only the most subtle changes of emphasis in interpretation, it could just as easily be argued that events in the Middle East particularly have to a large degree fulfilled the prophecies for the years since 1985.

Then there are the events yet to come. They are, according to the author and his sources, to be the most significant in the history of mankind, and are going to happen soon. With a little thought, certain current-day world figures are a disconcertingly comfortable match for some of the characters who will act out the earth-shattering dramas to come. Even the most hardened cynic will get that prickly feeling down the back of his neck as he reads this book.

Taken together with Father Horan’s later work ‘Christ Will Soon Take Power From All Governments’ (also available from Deunant Books) the two books represent one of the most remarkable and significant bodies of work seen in this field for many, many years.”

– Deunant Books on Theology

Olympic Arc

Thomas Becker, president of Chautauqua Institution, on Friday, Aug. 27, 2004:

“I’m really proud of this lecture platform this year.  We started with Phil Wilcox on the first day of the season and finished with Sandra Day O’Connor.  The arc of participation between them was really amazing.”

Phil Wilcox: See 

Israel and Palestine:
Let’s Separate Myth from Reality,
by Philip C. Wilcox, Jr., President,
Foundation for Middle East Peace,
Chautauquan Daily, June 28, 2004

Sandra Day O’Connor: See

The Majesty of the Law:
Reflections of a
Supreme Court Justice,
by Sandra Day O’Connor

The O’Connor link above is to a page at the Chautauqua Bookstore.

For Justice O’Connor:

Reflections on Themis
(Log24, Aug. 17, 2004) 

For Wilcox:

The Zen of Abraham
(Same entry, different title.)

I personally was at Chautauqua only one day this season — Friday, the 13th of August.  My stops of course included the Chautauqua Bookstore, where I purchased the following:

Human cultural activity is mostly what Walker Percy astutely called “symbol-mongering.”  Of the three books above, the central one offers the best symbols.

My own version of a
Chautauqua “Versus” symbol:

The Line,
by S. H. Cullinane

For further details, see the

entries of Aug. 15, 2004.

For an “arc” symbol, see

Loretta’s Rainbow.

History of Mathematics

“… mathematicians often treat history with contempt (unsullied by any practice or even knowledge of it, of course).”

– The Rainbow of Mathematics

On the history of the relationship between orthogonality (in the Latin-square sense) and skewness (in the projective-space sense)–

See the newly updated

Orthogonal Latin Squares as Skew Lines.

The Tiffany Code

5:01:58 AM ET:

A link for Jill St. John’s birthday –

The Geometrics of Brilliance

Twinkle, twinkle…

Beach reading for
 brilliant redheads…

and for everyone else:

Click on pictures for details.

Angel of the
First Degree

June 24, 2002, at 8:22:21 PM:

Honey Blonde She’s as sweet as   tupelo honey She’s an angel   of the first degree. She’s as sweet as   tupelo honey Just like honey, baby,   from the bee. – Van Morrison, 1971

Elmer Bernstein, Film Composer, Dies at 82

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 1:22 a.m. ET
Thursday, Aug. 19, 2004

LOS ANGELES (AP)– Elmer Bernstein, the versatile, Oscar-winning composer who scored such movie classics as “The Ten Commandments,” “The Magnificent Seven,”‘ “To Kill a Mockingbird,”‘ “The Great Escape” and “True Grit,” died Wednesday. He was 82.

Bernstein died in his sleep at his Ojai home.

That, M.C.C., is what
Fritz Leiber means by

The Big Time.

Instantia Crucis

“Francis Bacon used the phrase instantia crucis, ‘crucial instance,’ to refer to something in an experiment that proves one of two hypotheses and disproves the other. Bacon’s phrase was based on a sense of the Latin word crux, ‘cross,’ which had come to mean ‘a guidepost that gives directions at a place where one road becomes two,’ and hence was suitable for Bacon’s metaphor.”

– The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

The high notes hit by Harriet Wheeler, Jen Slocumb, and Alanis Morissette can, I am sorry to say, be excruciating. (See previous entry.) I greatly prefer the mellow tones of Mary Chapin Carpenter:

– MCC, Grand Central Station

From an entry of 12/22/02:

A white horse comes as if on wings.

– I Ching, Hexagram 22: Grace

See also

Plato, Pegasus, and the Evening Star,

Shining Forth, and

Music for Pegasus.

Carpenter’s song quoted above
is from the album
Between Here and Gone,
released April 27, 2004.

A Cross Between

Grace

“The only way to describe her voice is a cross between Harriet Wheeler of The Sundays & Alanis Morissette.”

– Review of Jen Slocumb of Martha’s Trouble by Diane Matay

“Apostrophe Theory is a cross between.”

– Ian Lee, The Third Word War