July 5, 2006

  • And now, from
    the author of Sphere...

    CUBE

    He beomes aware of something else... some other presence.
    "Anybody here?" he says.
    I am here.
    He almost jumps, it is so loud. Or it seems loud. Then he wonders if he has heard anything at all.
    "Did you speak?"
    No.
    How are we communicating? he wonders.
    The way everything communicates with everything else.
    Which way is that?
    Why do you ask if you already know the answer?

    -- Sphere, by Michael Crichton, Harvard '64

    "... when I went to Princeton things were
    completely different. This chapel, for instance-- I remember when it was
    just a clearing, cordoned off with sharp sticks.  Prayer was compulsory
    back then, and you couldn't just fake it by moving your lips; you had
    to know the words, and really mean them.  I'm dating myself, but this
    was before Jesus Christ."

    -- Baccalaureate address at Princeton, Pentecost 2006, reprinted in The New Yorker, edited by David Remnick, Princeton '81

    Related figures:

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    For further details,
    see Solomon's Cube
    and myspace.com/affine.

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    For further details,
    see Jews on Buddhism
    and
    Adventures in Group Theory.

    "In this way we are offered
    a formidable lesson
    for every Christian community."

    Pope Benedict XVI
    on Pentecost,
    June 4, 2006,
    St. Peter's Square    .