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A friendly note to all. Huffington Post has a story, with a video, about
John McCain's MLK Day speech in Memphis. I tried the link--not even the
video, just the link--and it crashed my computer. Twice. (Boy, can I be
stupid.)

The gist of the story is that McC. admitted he voted against making MLK
Day a nat'l holiday but later saw the light. He was received with boos.
The nut of the tale is that a black dude was holding an umbrella over
McC's head.

Wow. He's dumber than I am.

To all you good people out there, let's celebrate in our hearts the
wonderful man Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was, and the tremendous impact
he had on a nation that needed him. Where is our Martin Luther King now?
We surely need one.

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> I posted book and Lewin on V. wiki for the interested.....
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> Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:    Dave puts down:
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>   "'Not to mention field-coefficients ...'"
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> Help!
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>   I dunno if this is just oblique Kute Korrespondence or not.......but in
> V., TRP had an unusual use of field....'somebody being in one another's
> 'field'......which reminded me of this social
>   psychologist more famous when TRP was younger named Kurt Lewin whose
> ideas were given/he gave the name "field theory" to............as my
> no-attention--span 'scholarship" remembers it, the notion, baldly, went
> sorta like this:....all psychology is interpersonal psychology and
> anyone's personal psychology is made up of the fields of others one is
> (emotionally?) connected to.......
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> Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>   "Back on the Trieste station, no longer entirely welcome in Venice
> ..." (AtD, Pt. IV, p. 799)
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> "in a warren partially below street level"
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> Ref. to a specific, historical, maybe even existing location?
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> Bevis Moistleigh
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> Bevis Mostly? Bevis Wetly? Cf. Sir Bevis from Lang's Red Romance Book
> around this time. Or a Twilight Zone story, Mr. Bevis 1960.
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> Or, see later in AtD, Bevis is an allusion to Beavis & Butthead.
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> Possibly, given what follows, an allusion to the Bevis Marks Synagogue
> in London, oldest extant Jewish house of worship in Britain, but more
> likely a reference to (p.800) Bevis, the Story of a Boy.
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> http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_792-820#Page_799
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> In the parlance of the twentieth century, this is an oddball. His name
> is James B.W. Bevis, and his tastes lean toward stuffed animals,
> zither music, professional football, Charles Dickens, moose heads,
> carnivals, dogs, children, and young ladies. Mr. Bevis is accident
> prone, a little vague, a little discombooberated, with a life that
> possesses all the security of a floating crap game. But this can be
> said of our Mr. Bevis: without him, without his warmth, without his
> kindness, the world would be a considerably poorer place, albeit
> perhaps a little saner. Should it not be obvious by now, James B.W.
> Bevis is a fixture in his own private, optimistic, hopeful little
> world, a world which has long ceased being surprised by him. James
> B.W. Bevis, on whom Dame Fortune will shortly turn her back, but not
> before she gives him a paste in the mouth. Mr. James B.W. Bevis, just
> one block away from the Twilight Zone.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twilight_Zone/Mr._Bevis
> http://www.tv.com/the-twilight-zone/mr.-bevis/episode/12617/summary.html
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> Beavis (b. October 28, 1979 in Highland, Texas) is a character on the
> MTV series Beavis and Butt-Head....
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beavis
> http://www.mtv.com/ontv/dyn/beavis_and_butthead/series.jhtml
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> "aboriginal limestone"
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limestone
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> Secondary calcite may also be deposited by supersaturated meteoric
> waters (groundwater that precipitates the material in caves). This
> produces speleothems such as stalagmites and stalactites....
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limestone#Description
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> ebonite
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> Ebonite is one of the earliest forms of plastic. A hard, rigid and
> shiny resin, it was intended as an artificial substitute for ebony
> wood. It is actually a very hard rubber first obtained by Charles
> Goodyear by vulcanizing rubber for prolonged periods....
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebonite
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> macchinette
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> Italian for small devices
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> http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_792-820#Page_799
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> "the Glagolithic alphabet"
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> The Glagolitic alphabet or Glagolitsa is the oldest known Slavic
> alphabet. It was created by brothers Saint Cyril (827-869 AD) and
> Saint Methodius (826-885 AD) in 855 or around 862–863 in order to
> translate the Bible and other texts into Slavic.
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> The name of the alphabet comes from the Old Slavic glagolÅ­, which
> means sound (and is also the origin of the name for the letter "G").
> Since glagolati also means to speak, the Glagolitsa is poetically
> referred to as "the marks that speak"....
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glagolitic_alphabet
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> Cf. p. 252 ...
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> The Glagolitic Alphabet is the oldest known Slavic alphabet (9th c.).
> It originated as a tactic to lessen the dependence of the subjects of
> the Prince of Greater Moravia on Frankish priests, who banned it but
> could not suppress it; it played a similar role in preserving
> Bulgarian independence from Byzantium. It appears to be a nexus of the
> kind of simultaneous temporal and spiritual tasks the Chums of Chance
> are now involved in. In this, it raises the issues first explored by
> Pynchon in the "Tchitcherine in Kyrghizia" sections of Gravity's
> Rainbow in which the introduction of a written alphabet causes immense
> political and social change.
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> http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_243-272#Page_252
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> "gematria"
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> Gematria (Rabbinic Hebrew גימטריה gēmaṭriyā, from the Greek
> γεωμετρία;
> English since the 17th century) is the numerology of the Hebrew
> language and Hebrew alphabet, and is used by its proponents to derive
> meaning or relative relationship. Several forms can be identified ...
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gematria
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> Gematria Systems
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> http://www.mysticalinternet.com/gematria/index.php
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> Cf. ...
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> "Kabbalists who study the Rocket as a Torah, letter by letter ..."
> (GR, Pt. IV, p. 727)
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> "a series of digits"
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitizing
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> Main Entry: dig·i·tize
> Pronunciation: \ˈdi-jə-ˌtīz\
> Function: transitive verb
> Inflected Form(s): dig·i·tized; dig·i·tiz·ing
> Date: 1953
> : to convert (as data or an image) to digital form
> — dig·i·ti·za·tion \ˌdi-jə-tə-ˈzā-shən\ noun
> — dig·i·tiz·er \ˈdi-jə-ˌtī-zər\ noun
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> http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/digitize
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> "finding the limits they converge to"
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> The limit of a sequence is one of the oldest concepts in mathematical
> analysis. It provides a rigorous definition of the idea of a sequence
> converging towards a point called the limit.
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> Intuitively, suppose we have a sequence of points (i.e. an infinite
> set of points labelled using the natural numbers) in some sort of
> mathematical object (for example the real numbers or a vector space)
> which has a concept of nearness (such as "all points within a given
> distance of a fixed point"). A point L is the limit of the sequence if
> for any prescribed nearness, all but a finite number of points in the
> sequence are that near to L. This may be visualised as a set of
> spheres of size decreasing to zero, all with the same centre L, and
> for any one of these spheres, only a finite number of points in the
> sequence being outside the sphere....
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limit_of_a_sequence
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> In mathematics, a series is the sum of the terms of a sequence of
> numbers....
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> [...]
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> A series is convergent if the sequence of its partial sums converges ...
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_series
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergence#Mathematics
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> "'the look on your face,'" "'hysterical giggling'"
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> ?
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> "'Not to mention field-coefficients ...'"
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> Help!
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> "'... eigenvalues, metric tensors--'"
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenvalue
> http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Eigenvalue.html
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> http://mathworld.wolfram.com/MetricTensor.html
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_tensor
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> Here, by the way, is where URLs are FAR more efficient than text (and
> note symbols, characters, diagrams, illustrations, photographs,
> animations as well; antihyperlinkism is the new logocentrism) ...
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