May 25, 2005

• Midnight in the Garden
  
  continued

  “Poetry is a satisfying of
  the desire for resemblance….
  If
  resemblance is described as
  a partial similarity between
  two dissimilar
  things,
  it complements and reinforces
  that which the two dissimilar
  things
  have in common.
  It makes it brilliant.”

  – Wallace Stevens,
      “Three Academic Pieces” in
      The Necessary Angel (1951)

  Two dissimilar things:

  1.  A talk to be given at a conference on “Mathematics and Narrative” in Mykonos in July:

  Mark Turner,
  “The Role of Narrative Imagining in Blended Mathematical Concepts” –

  Abstract:
  “The Way We Think (Gilles Fauconnier and
  Mark Turner; Basic Books, 2002) presents a theory of conceptual
  integration, or “blending,” as a basic mental operation.
  See http://blending.stanford.edu.
  This talk will explore some ways in which narrative imagining plays
  a role in blended mathematical concepts.”

  2.  An application of the “conceptual blending” of  Fauconnier and Turner to some journal entries of 2004:  Cognitive Blending and the Two Cultures.

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