3.648 Notes and Queries (55)

Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca)
Thu, 26 Oct 89 19:25:20 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 648. Thursday, 26 Oct 1989.


(1) Date: Wed, 25 Oct 89 20:03:00 EDT (13 lines)
From: KESSLER <IME9JFK@OAC.UCLA.EDU>
Subject: reRAPOPORT@MCMASTER

(2) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 89 08:33:44 CDT (18 lines)
From: "Kevin L. Cope" <ENCOPE@LSUVM>
Subject: Ideo-cartographic Projections of Fair Augusta

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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 89 20:03:00 EDT
From: KESSLER <IME9JFK@OAC.UCLA.EDU>
Subject: reRAPOPORT@MCMASTER

IF THIS REACHES YOU, re Sorabji, I would be willing to bet a dime that
the poetry, I bend to the rose, etc. is a translation from the Persian.
But whose? Hafez? Rumi? Ask some scholar of Persian Literature.
Prof Banani of UCLA, my colleague, has no modem, and still cannot
format his texts after 4 years with his Mac Plus. But he knows his
stuff, and we have done lots of Persian translations. You could write
him: Prof Amin Banani, Persian Literature & History, UCLA, Los Angeles,
CA 90024, USA.
Jascha Kessler.
Of course it might be a modern Persian, but who? The rhyme tells me,
though it is not metered at all like Classical Persian, that is
taken from an old poem, and revised for the jingle...but...?
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Date: Thu, 26 Oct 89 08:33:44 CDT
From: "Kevin L. Cope" <ENCOPE@LSUVM>
Subject: Ideo-cartographic Projections of Fair Augusta

HELP! I'm looking for images of London (or for that matter any British,
European, or world city) in which the city is stylized as a spiral, a
vortex, a labyrinth, or any other quasi- or post- or super-circular
configuration. I'm most interested in eighteenth-century images (for
example, any illustrations of Gay's _TRIVIA_, or the like), but would
settle for any period. This is a humanities and computers issue as I am
authoring a piece for the journal SYMMETRY on spirals, graphics,
etcetera.
Also, if such images are found, I'd like to know whether copies can be
obtained and reproduction permissions secured. Thank you!
Yours in Liberace,
Kevin L. Cope
ENCOPE@LSUVM
Dept. of English Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge,
Louisiana, 70803, U. S. A.; (504) 388-2864/' (504)766-2719.