Jack Manassas and Company

Coming of Age with Harry Potter I am really getting tired of reading about the Witchcraft/Wizardry angle of the Harry Potter stories.   Witchcraft and Wizardry is certainly the setting in which the story is told, but the books are not at all about that.   Harry Potter is a coming of age story, and it is very cleverly done. In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, we get to know Harry first as a non-magical Muggle.   He is an orphan, bumping along through life and being bullied by relatives who resent having to take care of him.   Strange things sometimes happen to him, but he has no plans, no insights into who he is and the significance of his life.   No one expects a child to have such fully-formed insights, but Harry’s relatives are no help to him at all in this respect.   Harry receives letters, delivered magically, that invite him to be a student at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.   This is symbolic of destiny, follow...

20181212-All is Number I have been hacking my way through an entire volume of   a Chemistry Journal, abbreviated “Struct Bond.”   The volume is 148, published in 2013 with the general title, “Chemistry By Number Theory.” It is truly an amazing and revolutionary journal!   I might understand about half of it, but it has been well worth the read.   The final paper in the journal is entitled, “All is Number.” (1).   It is a review and summary of the rest of the papers in that volume.   Among the other wonders described by the authors, there is one particularly mysterious item;   About   4,000 years ago, a pattern of numbers was delivered to the Emperor of China “on the back of a dragon horse.”   These are known as the ‘Ho Tu Numbers.’   The peculiar patterning of the dots and the grouping of different areas provides some rather astonishing information.    The dots provide a map of the structure of DNA base pair...