James Joyce, With His Eyesight Failing, Attracts a Sketch of Leopold Bloom (1926)

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James Joyce had a ter­ri­ble time along with his eyes. When he was six years outdated he obtained his first set of eye­glass­es, and, when he was 25, he got here down along with his first case of iri­tis, a really painful and poten­tial­ly blind­ing inflam­ma­tion of the col­ored a part of the attention, the…

John Coltrane Attracts a Image Illustrating the Arithmetic of Music

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Physi­cist and sax­o­phon­ist Stephon Alexan­der has argued in his many pub­lic lec­tures and his e-book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Ein­stein and John Coltrane had rather a lot in com­mon. Alexan­der in par­tic­u­lar attracts our atten­tion to the so-called “Coltrane cir­cle,” which resem­bles what any musi­cian will rec­og­nize because the “Cir­cle of Fifths,” however…