March 16, 2008
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A Play for Kristen:
Real Numbers(continued from
March 7, 2008)
A search for the evening
number, 332, in Log24
yields a rather famous
line from Sophocles…Sophocles, Antigone,
edited by Mark Griffith,
Cambridge University Press,
1999:
“Many things are formidable (deina) and none is more formidable (deinoteron) than man.”– Antigone, lines 332-333, in Valdis Leinieks, The Plays of Sophokles, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1982, p. 62
Continuing the search within Antigone for the mid-day number, 874, we find…
“Power (kratos), for one who is concerned with power (kratos), is in no way to be transgressed.”– Antigone, lines 873-874, Leinieks, op. cit. p. 69
Both passages from Sophocles seem not unrelated to yesterday’s entry for the Ides of March and to last night’s opening routine on “Saturday Night Live.”
The above word deina (formidable, wonderful, awesome) in the latter context suggests the following meditation:
“… it’s going to be
accomplished in steps,
this establishment
of the Talented in
the scheme of things.”– Anne McCaffrey,
Radcliffe ’47,
To Ride Pegasus
Related material:
The Log24 Pi Day
mantra from
Roger Zelazny –
“center loosens,
forms again elsewhere.”
