July 23, 2007
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8:00 AM – The Rock
Daniel Radcliffe
is 18 today.
Greetings.“The
greatest sorcerer (writes Novalis memorably) would be the one who
bewitched himself to the point of taking his own phantasmagorias for
autonomous apparitions. Would not this be true of us?” –Jorge Luis Borges, “Avatars of the Tortoise”“El
mayor hechicero (escribe memorablemente Novalis) sería el que se
hechizara hasta el punto de tomar sus propias fantasmagorías por
apariciones autónomas. ¿No sería este nuestro caso?” –Jorge Luis Borges, “Los Avatares de la Tortuga“Autonomous ApparitionAt Midsummer Noon:
“In Many Dimensions (1931)Williams sets before his reader themysterious Stone of King Solomon,an image he probably drew froma brief description in Waite’sThe Holy Kabbalah (1929) ofa supernatural cubic stoneon which was inscribed‘the Divine Name.’”
Related material:
Solomon’s Cube,
Geometry of the 4x4x4 Cube,
The Klein Correspondence,
Penrose Space-Time,
and a Finite Model
It is not enough tocover the rock with leaves.
We must be cured of it
by a cure of the ground
Or a cure of ourselves,
that is equal to a cureOf the ground, a cure
beyond forgetfulness.
And yet the leaves,
if they broke into bud,
If they broke into bloom,
if they bore fruit,And if we ate
the incipient colorings
Of their fresh culls might be
a cure of the ground.
– Wallace Stevens,
“The Rock”See alsothe recent venture of
Douglas Hofstadter
into trinitarian theology,as well as
Hofstadter on
his magnum opus:“… I realized that to me,
Gödel and Escher and Bach
were only shadows
cast in different directions by
some central solid essence.
I tried to reconstruct
the central object, and
came up with this book.”
Hofstadter’s coverHere are three patterns,
“shadows” of a sort,
derived from a different
“central object”:
Click on image for details.
