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Geometry is a Deductive Science.
On Plato's door, it says let no one enter who does not know geometry. On Love's door, it says let no one enter who does not know cry!
But who shall parcel out His intellect by geometric rules, Split like a province into round and square?
A Discordian is someone who sees windmills and thinks they might be giants
We two [Deucalion and Pyrrha, after the deluge] form a multitude.
[Lat., Nos duo turba sumus.]
Most of us know what we should expect to find in a dragon's lair, but, as I said before, Eustace had read only the wrong books. They had a lot to say about exports and imports and governments and drains, but they were weak on dragons.
What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools.
Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and elegance in the whole. The present author humbly confesses that, to him, geometry is nothing at all, if not a branch of art.
Geometry is knowledge that appears to be produced by human beings, yet whose meaning is totally independent of them.
The cunning livery of hell.
The sacrifice of Diogenes to all the gods.
PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as a lecture hall by the Audible Reformer.
On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.
By Tink's diaphram...!
Inferno is the underworld as described in Dante Alighieri's epic poem The Divine Comedy, which portrays hell as an elaborately structured realm populated by entities known as "shades" - bodiless souls trapped between life and death.
In the black chaos where the seas and the skies become confused let the projectors blow their white trumpets of silence
("Roundness")
A faint tickling on the back of his right hand caused Eragon to look down. A huge, wingless cricket clung to his glove. The insect was hideous: black and bulbous, with barbed legs and a massive skull-like head. Its carapace gleamed like oil.
I've learned something on the road, traveling around: state shapes. The easier it is to draw the shape of the state, the harder it is to live in that state. So, if you live in a regular polygon, get the hell outta there. You gotta move to a squiggly area. Culture's attracted to squiggles.
Let no one destitute of Geometry enter my doors.
When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric.
What in the actual hell of all nine circles of Hell was this?
Polygons are fashionable at the moment - particularly in the arcades.
a square black hole that yawned darkly beneath a stone archway.
King Offa's dyke,
The motto was 'Pax', but the word was set in a circle of thorns.
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The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.
I've decided to get into shape, and the shape I've selected is a triangle.
That like I best that flies beyond my reach.
Set me to scale the high pyramids
And thereon set the diadem of France;
I'll either rend it with my nails to nought,
Or mount the top with my aspiring wings,
Although my downfall be the deepest hell.
Above us, outlined against the brilliant sky, dragons crowded every available perching space on the Rim. And the sun made a gold of every one of them.
Another part or piece,' said Diabolus, 'of mine excellent armour, is a dumb and prayerless spirit, a spirit that scorns to cry for mercy, let the danger be ever so great; therefore be you, my Mansoul, sure that you make use of this.
Sire, there is no royal road to geometry.
It seems to us unwise to have insisted on teaching geometry to the younger Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in order to make him a good king, but from Plato's point of view it was essential. He was sufficiently Pythagorean to think that without mathematics no true wisdom is possible.
Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied, but only with another kind of pride.
... if geometry were as much opposed to our passions and present interests as is ethics, we should contest it and violate I but little less, notwithstanding all the demonstrations of Euclid and Archimedes ...
Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading.
This ... hole in the world, man-shaped. Me-shaped. A vacancy.
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The circle is the synthesis of the greatest oppositions. It combines the concentric and the eccentric in a single form and in equilibrium. Of the three primary forms, it points most clearly to the fourth dimension.
In Damascus:
poems become diaphanous
They're neither sensual
nor intellectual
they are what echo says
to echo ...
The effect was that of a Cyclopean city of no architecture known to man or to human imagination, with vast aggregations of night-black masonry embodying monstrous perversions of geometrical laws and attaining the most grotesque extremes of sinister bizarrerie.
Dit is Pangaea. - Jake
Which circle did Dante himself go to after death...
Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.
Everything in proximity to the hero becomes tragedy; everything in proximity to the demigod becomes satyr-play; and everything in proximity to God becomes ... what? "world" perhaps?
BAAL ONE, PLIEADES CLUSTER 4210
The King of the Pleiades was well prepared for the last war. This, however, was not it." -Renegades of Ophelia's World
This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid;
Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms,
The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans,
Liege of all loiterers and malcontents.
One boy had drawn a perfect isosceles triangle on every single page- meticulously, it was emphasized. Meticulously was a chilling touch: meticulousness, we knew, was just one step away from full-blown lunacy.
The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.
The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry.
Lothaire Konstantin Daciano, Sovereign of Dacia, the Realm of Blood and Mist.
Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the fine-spun garments of the divine Plato.
I see the world through a diaphanous curtain of blood.
When a king asked Euclid, the mathematician, whether he could not explain his art to him in a more compendious manner? he was answered, that there was no royal way to geometry.
Abbesses' recesses are not for excesses!
hydra of revolution,
It never ceases to amaze me how adaptable social geometry can be. Within a couple of days I went from being the centre of the circle to an indefinite point outside its circumference.
The Library is a sphere whose exact centre is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible.
A circle is the longest distance to same point.
Geometry enlightlens the intellect and sets one's mind right
Out of many things a great heap will be formed.
[Lat., De multis grandis acervus erit.]
A city where the Capitol Dome, perforated like a kitchen colander, is the symbol of how secrets are kept ...
So far has Athens left the rest of mankind behind in thought and expression that her pupils have become the teachers of the world, and she has made the name of Hellas distinctive no longer of race but of intellect, and the title of Hellene a badge of education rather than of common descent.
If we are still discussing its merits tomorrow, I will agree with you," said Diagoras.
"Cheer up, laddie. Nobody lives forever."
"Oh I expect you will, Druss, Old Horse. It's the mortals around you who always seem to kiss the granite.
The average Vogon will not think twice before doing something so pointlessly hideous to you that you will wish you had never been born - or (if you are a clearer minded thinker) that the Vogon had never been born.
Country IX. The Gorgon's Head X. Two Promises XI. A Companion Picture XII. The Fellow
Dark vaild Cotytto, t' whom the secret flame
Of mid-night Torches burns; mysterious Dame
That ne're art call'd, but when the Dragon woom
Of Stygian darknes spets her thickest gloom,
And makes one blot of all the ayr
There is in hell a place stone-built throughout, Called Malebolge, of an iron hue, Like to the wall that circles it about.
Meton (astronomer in 5th century BC): With the straight ruler I set to work To make the circle four-cornered .
Abstain from beans. There be sundry interpretations of this symbol. But Plutarch and Cicero think beans to be forbidden of Pythagoras, because they be windy and do engender impure humours and for that cause provoke bodily lust.
I've been in a few love triangles. I've been in a love quadrilateral.
The horizon bounded by a propitious sky, azure, marbled with pearly white.
I have no name for what circles so perfectly.
I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.
Diabolical error, when it has artfully colored its lies, easily clothes itself in the likeness of truth while very brief additions or changes corrupt the meaning of expressions; and confession, which usually works salvation, sometimes, with a slight change, inches toward death.
If someone said 'diametrically,' could 'opposed' be far behind?
That lovely brow, around which stars of diamonds formed a tremulous circlet ...
It was about as close as you could get to the platonic ideal of a ham, if Plato had spent more time discussing hams and less time mucking about with triangles.
For Honor and the Octagon!
Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first we may compare to a measure of gold; the second we may name a precious jewel.
connoisseurs of geologic form,
This, dear Phaedrus, is the most important point: no geometry without the word. Without it, figures are accidents, and neither make manifest nor serve the power of the mind.
Dagorath was a word in Sindarin, the Elvish language J. R. R. Tolkien had created for The Lord of the Rings.
What could you possibly write at Gates of Hades?" Cadmus asked.
"Keep your spirits up." Lycon sheathed the dagger he'd used to chisel the trunk.
Cadmus shook his head. "Idiot.
In the land of Bad Ass, Acheron reigned supreme.
What the fissure through which one sees disaster? The circle is unbroken; the harmony complete. Here is the central rhythm; here the common mainspring. I watch it expand, contract; and then expand again. Yet I am not included.
The Dagda, who reigned just before the coming of the Milesians, was the greatest of the De Danann. He was styled Lord of Knowledge and Sun of all the Sciences. His daughter, Brigit, was a woman of wisdom, and goddess of poetry. The Dagda was a great and beneficent ruler for eighty years.
Nighttown, because the Pit's inverted, and the bottom of its bowl touches the sky, the sky that Nighttown never sees, sweating under its own firmament of acrylic resin, up where the Lo Teks crouch in the dark like gargoyles,
Wicked Abyss, page 279, Lila, Princess Calliope of Sylvan to Abyssian "Sian" Infernas, King of Pandemonia
"There's a face to the violence you love so much, a cost that the Morior never have to pay. Why wouldn't you love war? You never feel the toll like the rest of us.
Baldric; but he made a remark that seems worthy of record.
rectangular slab of mincemeat that everyone, including the servers, referred to as baked turd.
You can't criticize geometry. It's never wrong.
Once I sought out a celebrated ethnologist, and amused him with peculiar questions regarding the ancient Philistine legend of Dagon, the Fish-God; but soon perceiving that he was hopelessly conventional, I did not press my inquiries.
The gloomy shade of death.
Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.
the coast, irregular
This is it, the geographical limit of how far I'll go for Ossie. We are learning longitude and latitude in school, and it makes my face burn that I can graph the coordinates of my own love and courage with such damning precision.
There are no sects in geometry.
I think I'll call you Cygnus," Chelsea said.
"The swan?" I said. A bit precious, but it could have been worse.
She shook her head. "Black hole. Cygnus X-1.
There's a snake hidden in the grass. Virgil. Ecologues,no. 3.1.1o8