August 7, 2007

• Three church scenes

  In memory of
  
  Atle Selberg, mathematician,
  dead at 90 on August 6, 2007
  
  According to the
  American Mathematical Society,
  Selberg died, like André Weil, on
   the Feast of the Metamorphosis.
  

  Endgame

  

  Metaphor for Morphean morphosis,
  Dreams that wake, transform, and die,
  Calm and lucid this psychosis,
  Joyce's nightmare in Escher's eye.

  -- Steven H. Cullinane, Nov. 7, 1986

  Read more.
  
  For further views of
  the Amalfi coast, site of
  the above Escher scene,
  see the film "A Good Woman"
  (made in 2004, released in 2006)
  starring Scarlett Johansson--
  
  
  
  Scene from "A Good Woman"
  
  -- and the following from

  The Feast of St. Luke, 2005:

   

  

   

  Collegiate Church of
  St. Mary Magdalene,
  Atrani, Amalfi Coast, Italy:
   
  "An interior made exterior"
  -- Wallace Stevens
  
  

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