Month: January 2005

  • The Romantic School

    Today's New York Times:

    "Mr. Denker was of the romantic school
    of chess - always looking to attack."

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    Related material:

    From Endgame:

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    Black the knight upon that ocean,
    Bright the sun upon the king.
    Dark the queen that stands beside him,
    White his castle, threatening.

    In the shadows' see a bishop
    Guards his queen of love and hate.
    Another move, the game will be up;
    Take the queen, her knight will mate.

    The knight said "Move, be done.  It's over."
    "Love and resign," the bishop cried.
    "When it's done you'll stand forever
    By the darkest beauty's side."

    From Log24.net, Feb. 18, 2003:

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    Kali, a goddess sometimes depicted
    as a dancing girl; Kali is related to kAla,
    time, according to one website,  as
    "the force which governs and stops time."
    See also the novel The Fermata,
    by Nicholson Baker.

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    From an entry of Sunday, Jan. 2,
    the day Denker died:

    "Time had been canceled."    
    -- Stephen King, The Shining

    From Truth and Style, a tribute
    to the late Amy Spindler, style editor
    of the New York Times Magazine:

    "I don't believe in truth. I believe in style."

    -- Hugh Grant in Vogue magazine, July 1995

    From a related page,
    The Crimson
    Passion
    :

    "He takes us to the central activity
    of mathematics—which is
    imagining...."

    -- Harvard Magazine on
    Harvard mathematician
    and author Barry
    Mazur.

    For related material on Mazur, see

    A
    Mathematical Lie
    .

    "The teenagers aren't all bad.
    I love 'em if nobody else does.
    There ain't
    nothing wrong
    with young people.
    Jus' quit lyin' to 'em."

    -- Jackie "Moms" Mabley

  • Feast of Stephen

    "Time had been canceled....
     And here he was again, in the ballroom."

    -- Stephen King, The Shining

    From a year ago today:

    "Heaven was kind of a hat on the universe,
    a lid that kept
    everything underneath it
    where it belonged."

     — Carrie Fisher,
    Postcards from the Edge

         

    "720 in  
    the Book"


    and
    "Paradise"

    From today's New York Times:

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    "What's funny, honey?"
    -- The Shining

    Truth and Style and Always in Style.

  • Metamorphosis

    This illustration was added yesterday
    to Geometry of the 4x4 Square.