July 30, 2005

• Born today: Laurence Fishburne

  Matrix
  

  

  “The nine-fold square
  has centre, periphery, axes and diagonals. But all are
  present only in their bare essentials. It is also a sequence
  of eight triads. Four pass through the centre and four do
  not. This is the garden of Apollo, the field of Reason,
  sheltered by the Gate from the turmoil of the Delta, with
  its endless cycles of erasure and reinscription. This is the
  Temple of Solomon, as inscribed, for example, by a nine-fold
  compartmentation to provide the ground plan of Yale….”

  – Architects John Outram Associates
      on work at Rice University

  Yale Daily News, Jan. 11, 2001:  

      “When New Haven was founded, the city was laid
  out into a grid of nine squares surrounded by a great wilderness.
      Last year History of Art Professor Emeritus Vincent Scully said the
  original town plan reflected a feeling that the new city should be
  sacred.
      Scully said the colony’s founders thought of their new
  Puritan settlement as a ‘nine-square paradise on Earth, heaven on
  earth, New Haven, New Jerusalem.’”

  “Real and unreal are two in one:
      New Haven
   Before and after one arrives….”

   – Wallace Stevens,
      “An Ordinary Evening in New Haven,’ XXVIII
  
  

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