August 30, 2006

• The Seventh Symbol:

  
  

  A Multicultural Farewell

  
  

  to a winner of the
  Nobel Prize for Literature,
  the Egyptian author of
  The Seventh Heaven:
  Supernatural Stories –

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  “Doctor Jackson has identified
  the seventh symbol.”
  – Stargate

  
  

  Other versions of
  the seventh symbol –

  
  

  Chinese version:

  
  

  

  
  

  pictorial version:

  
  

  
  
  algebraic version:

  
  

  

  
  

  “… Max Black, the Cornell philosopher, and others have pointed out how ‘perhaps every science must start with metaphor and end with algebra, and perhaps without the metaphor there would never have been any algebra’ ….”
  
  – Max Black, Models and Metaphors, Cornell U. Press, 1962, page 242, as quoted in Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors, by Victor Witter Turner, Cornell U. Press, paperback, 1975, page 25
   

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