The Stepping Stones to Eternity — from Flowering Poverello
From the Flowering Poverello blog, a poetry sequence which, for some reason, especially resonated. I will let it speak for itself, except the resonance began with the opening lines “I…
Category: infinity
“From birthday to death-day we continue to collect and weave together the materials of our minute private universe, as a bird builds its nest “
From the always interesting First Known When Lost here is a post with a wonderful piece of 0rose (rather than poetry, FKWL’s usual beat) by Walter de la Mare: “As…
Escher on video and in Lego form
The Escher Museum in the Hague have a page with lots of Escher videos Here is an excerpt from a National Film Board of Canada film which elegantly animates Escher’s…
From “The Book of Silences” Introduction to Volume 1
The Book of Silences, Volumes 1 – 23343 From the introduction to Volume 1 … the editors have found the task of compiling all the silences of recorded history a…
From “The Transfinite Codex”
The Transfinite Codex From the Introduction The Infinite Annex is an annex of this library which consists entirely of infinite stories. The annex, via the use of an innovative filing…
First Conversation, “The Practice of the Presence of God”, Brother Lawrence
More on this book. The first time I saw Brother Lawrence was upon the third of August, in the year 1666. He told me God had done him a great…
“Thinking about the immortality of the crab”
Via the Wikipedia page devoted to Miguel de Unamono, I came across this wonderfully evocative Spanish idiom: Thinking about the immortality of the crab (Spanish: Pensar en la inmortalidad del cangrejo) is…
Review of “The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, The Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity”, Amir D Aczel, Lancet, 17th February 2001
Following on from a review of a book on Nabokov on butterflies, my second piece in a proper non-student publication was this review of Amir D Aczel’s book on George…
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