Elise DeBiasio

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WHAT IS A “JOT?” WHAT IS A “TITTLE?”
What is a “jot?” What is a “tittle?” | For What Saith the Scriptures?
The “tittle,” in the Hebrew language, is a small, horn-like projection on certain letters to differentiate them from the rounded letters
What is a “jot?” What is a “tittle?” | For What Saith the Scriptures?
“Jot” is the transliteration of the Greek word “iota” (the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet), equivalent to “jod” or “yod” (the tenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet).
What is a “jot?” What is a “tittle?” | For What Saith the Scriptures?
If so, then I’ll have to say “friends don’t let friends use ‘cf.’ – except in taxonomy”!
Friends don’t let friends use “cf.” | Scientist Sees Squirrel
it suggests that the reader can see the writer’s point by bringing together (to compare or contrast) two or more things that follow the “cf.”
Friends don’t let friends use “cf.” | Scientist Sees Squirrel
A king, who only had one son, anxiously waited for him to marry. One day, the prince cut his finger; his blood fell on white cheese. The prince declared that he would only marry a woman as white as the cheese and as red as the blood, so he set out to find her.
The Love for Three Oranges (fairy tale)
The decorated initials of each of the thirty-eight chapters create the acrostic POLIAM FRATER FRANCISCUS COLONNA PERAMAVIT (Brother Francisco Colonna desperately loved Polia)
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
The beautiful Bembo type with which this work is printed was one of the most modern in appearance of the fifteenth century types
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
Poliphilo visits her secretly at the temple of Diana, and when he falls into a deathlike swoon at her feet, she drags his body away and hides it
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
'in which it is shown that all human things are but a dream, and many other things worthy of knowledge and memory.'
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
In a splendid rebuttal of the view that culture is an extravagance — “an inexcusable frivolity on the part of creatures loaded with such awful responsibilities as we” — he offers a salve for our ahistorical rashes of panic:
The Marginalian – Marginalia on our search for meaning.
Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity.
The Marginalian – Marginalia on our search for meaning.
It is like the time someone told the composer Morton Feldman he should write for “the man in the street”. Feldman went over and looked out the window, and who did he see? Jackson Pollock. Write for Jackson Pollock.
A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox - LessWrong
Curius is a genus of beetles in the subfamily Cerambycinae
Curius
She would practise until the whole keyboard was stained with blood from her fingertips, and not stop even then if she didn’t feel like it. Her indifference to physical discomfort and pain was total. So was her outspokenness, so that the point comes when one wonders how, given the number of her friends and enemies that were disappeared, she managed to survive. True, she was Stalin’s favourite pianist, but that didn’t necessarily guarantee her safety, considering the ubiquity of intrigue among the Soviet leaders.
Playing until her fingers bled: the dedication of the pianist Maria Yudina | The Spectator
scientific term for the propensity of humans to find patterns in sets of unrelated data
St. Apophenia - Chris Sauter
The principle of TAT3D, create a realistic scenario able to provide a three-dimensional target as close as possible to the real one: to allow those who are training to be able to live an experience, especially at an unconscious level, which brings into play all those psychic and physical dynamics that will be found then to face in reality, and do it in a repetitive and continuous way until the automatic acquisition of the attack and defense reaction.
Combat Science, Technique and Psychology - TAT3D
At the same time, there is a sense that the result should be an alternative to the spaces of late or neo-capitalism: gated communities, buildings which reflect instead of being transparent, untethered from locality, symbols of the abolition of limit. The appeal to the past (Plato in particular) is here frequently functional not whimsical self-referentiality.
Modesty and Moonshots – Anatomies of Power
It is a short step to Hofmann’s rethinking of Lefebvre’s famous notion of a ‘right to the city.’ If cities indeed liberate, as Jacobs thought, their advantages should be more widely spread
Modesty and Moonshots – Anatomies of Power
pure accidentalness becomes the driving force of artistic activities, “and surrealism” breaks the form so much into separate elements that they lose their relationship with each other and allow the emergence of new, unexpected relationships and associations (aleatorism), or creates a form of heterogeneous independent elements (collage)
Aleatoricism – HiSoUR – Hi So You Are
Aleatorism should not be confused with improvisation found in, for example, jazz music, as freedom is manifested here in a different way
Aleatoricism – HiSoUR – Hi So You Are
musicians threw dice “for sheets of music and cues”
Aleatoricism – HiSoUR – Hi So You Are
compositions resulting from “actions made by chance”, with its etymology deriving from alea, Latin word for “dice”. It now applies more broadly to art created as a result of such a chance-determined process
Aleatoricism – HiSoUR – Hi So You Are