Whirligig
Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.
Twelfth Night. Act v. Sc. 1.
Twelfth night is the night of January 5-6.
Tonight is twelfth night in Australia; 4 AM Jan. 5
in New York City is 8 PM Jan. 5 in Sydney.
An October 6 entry:
Twenty-first Century Fox
On Sunday, October 6, 1889, the Moulin Rouge music hall opened in Paris, an event that to some extent foreshadowed the opening of Fox Studios Australia in Sydney on November 7, 1999. The Fox ceremonies included, notably, Kylie Minogue singing "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend."
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Red Windmill
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Kylie Minogue
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For the mathematical properties of the red windmill (moulin rouge) figure at left, see Diamond Theory.
An October 5 entry:
The Message from Vega
"Mercilessly tasteful"
-- Andrew Mueller,
review of Suzanne Vega's
"Songs in Red and Gray"
In accordance with the twelfth-night
"whirligig of time" theme,
here are two enigmatic quilt blocks:
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Devil's Claws, or
Hourglass Var. 3 |
Yankee Puzzle, or
Hourglass Var. 5 |
One can approach these symbols in either a literary or a mathematical fashion. For a purely mathematical discussion of the differences in the two symbols' structure, see Diamond Theory. Those who prefer literary discussions may make up their own stories.
"Plato is wary of all forms of rapture other than reason's. He is most deeply leery of, because himself so susceptible to, the literary imagination. He speaks of it as a kind of holy madness or intoxication and goes on to link it to Eros, another derangement that joins us, but very dangerously, with the gods."
"It's all in Plato, all in Plato; bless me,
what do they teach them at these schools?"
— C. S. Lewis in the Narnia Chronicles
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