May 12, 2006

• Tesseract

  “Does the word ‘tesseract’
  mean anything to you?”
  – Robert A. Heinlein in
  The Number of the Beast
  (1980)

  My reply–

  Part I:

  

  A Wrinkle in Time, by
  Madeleine L’Engle
  (first published in 1962)

  Part II:

  

  Diamond Theory in 1937
  and
  Geometry of the 4×4 Square

  Part III:

  Catholic Schools Sermon

  Conclusion:

  “Wells and trees were dedicated
  to saints.  But the offerings at many wells and trees were to
  something other than the saint; had it not been so they would not have
  been, as we find they often were, forbidden.  Within this double
  and intertwined life existed those other capacities, of which we know
  more now, but of which we still know little– clairvoyance,
  clairaudience, foresight, telepathy.”

  – Charles Williams, Witchcraft, Faber and Faber, London, 1941

  Related material:

  A New Yorker profile of Madeleine L’Engle
  from April 2004, which I found tonight online for the first time. 
  For a related reflection on truth, stories, and values, see Saint’s Day.  For a wider context, see the Log24 entries of February 1-15, 2003 and February 1-15, 2006.

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