November 9ths

11/9/1914

Wittgenstein generally anxious—affairs going badly. Russians quickly advancing on Krakow. The entire population must evacuate.

11/9/2009

20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. In many ways, the breaking or crumbling of boundaries is an emergent property (or teleological condition) of its symbology but also assumes that even if the physical barriers are removed, the semiotics endure. "For many years after reunification, there still was talk in Germany of cultural differences between East and West Germans (colloquially Ossis and Wessis), sometimes described as Mauer im Kopf (The wall in the head)."

[11/9/2024: The 20th@15. “In a modern world we should draw no lines, but our lives are framed in fear. In a peaceful world, there can be no war, but the enemies are always near.”] It's a Perfect World...

11/9/2020

November is C Lydian month. (Painting is Course of Empire (Destruction) by Thomas Cole (1830).

11/9/2024