• Mathematik ist die Wissenschaft von dem, was an sich klar. — Carl Jacobi (1804-51).
• “Mathematics is the science of that which is clear by itself.” — Carl Jacobi.
Category Archives: Literature
He Say, He Sigh, He Show #33
• Apud me omnia fiunt Mathematicè in Natura — René Descartes (1596-1650).
• For me, all things in nature occur mathematically. — Correspondence with Martin Mersenne (1640).
Performativizing Papyrocentricity #44
Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:
• Lesser Letters – You’ve Had Your Time: Being the Second Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess, Anthony Burgess (Heinemann 1990)
• The Light of Day – SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police, Vox Day (Castalia House 2015)
• Sextual Keeling – Sextant: A Voyage Guided by the Stars and the Men Who Mapped the World’s Oceans, David Barrie (William Collins 2014)
• Twy Defy the Eye – The World of Visual Illusions: Optical Tricks That Defy Belief!, Gianni A. Sarcone and Marie-Jo Waeber (Arcturus 2012)
Or Read a Review at Random: RaRaR
Mater Mysteriorum
“But just as all of Baltimore pondered the mystery of how a progressive city could produce such a despotic police force, a second mystery had presented itself: If everyone was organized to prevent violence, why did it continue to happen? The cops were back at their posts. The whole city had been politicized. The poorest streets were filled with activist group meetings and sermons. The gangs were professing nonviolence. Still, the murders continued.” — “A Most Violent City”, New York Magazine, viâ Steve Sailer.
He Say, He Sigh, He Sow #32
• Et harum scientiarum porta et clavis est Mathematica.
• And of these sciences the door and key is Mathematics. — Roger Bacon (c.1214-c. 1292)
Term-in-ator!
V. disappointed by China Miéville on BBC Radio 4’s Book Club (Sunday 1st November). It took him eight minutes to say “in terms of”.
He Say, He Sigh, He Sow #31
“SSV are not the Sisters. Their official full name is SSV-NSMABAAOTWMODAACOTIATW. Could this possibly stand for ‘Screw Shareholder Value — not so much a band as another opportunity to waste money on drugs and ammunition, courtesy of the idiots at Time Warner’? Surely not. That would require a comma.” — Andrew Eldritch.
He Say, He Sigh, He Sow #30
• Cognitio nostra est adeo debilis quod nullus philosophus potuit unquam perfecte investigare naturam unius muscae: unde legitur quod unus philosophus fuit triginta annis in solitudine, ut cognosceret naturam apis. — Sancti Thomae de Aquino Expositio in Symbolum Apostolorum (1273).
• Our knowledge is so weak that no philosopher has ever perfectly discovered the nature of a single fly, whence we read that one philosopher was thirty years in the wilderness that he might know the nature of a bee. — Thomas Aquinas, The Apostles’ Creed.
Performativizing Papyrocentricity #41
Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:
• Touring the Tower – Physics in Minutes: 200 key concepts explained in an instant, Giles Sparrow (Quercus 2014)
• Living with Rainbows – Miller’s Field Guide: Glass, Judith Miller (Octopus 2015)
• Men on the Margins – Edgelands: Journeys into England’s True Wilderness, Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts (Chivers 2011)
• Sward and Sorcery – Watership Down, Richard Adams (1972) (posted @ Overlord of the Über-Feral)
• Obscene Screen – Necro-Sluts from Satan’s Anus: Fifty Filthy Fester-Films to F*** You Up, Freak You Out and Feralize Your Fetidest Fantasies, Dr Joan Jay Jefferson (TransToxic Texts* 2015)
Or Read a Review at Random: RaRaR
(*TransToxic Texts is an infra-imprint of TransVisceral Books.)
He Say, He Sigh, He Sow #29
“…on every page there are observations and facts that I no longer know, but know that I once knew.” — Brian Sewell, Outsider II: An Autobiography (2012), ch. 6, pg. 79
