Masoński kod w twórczości Władimira Nabokowa. Próba interpretacji powieści „Zaproszenie na egzekucję” w kluczu symboliki masońskiej

This article is an attempt to interpet a work by Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading, with the most important determinants of Masonic culture. There are few studies that discuss this outstanding prose writer in terms of freemasonry and the author of this article discusses this issue with particular attention to the symbolism  of the Masonic initiation ritual.This article is an attempt to interpet a work by Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading, with the most important determinants of Masonic culture. There are few studies that discuss this outstanding prose writer in terms of freemasonry and the author of this article discusses this issue with particular attention to the symbolism  of the Masonic initiation ritual

Sequential closure in the space of measures

We show that there is a compact topological space carrying a measure which is not a weak* limit of finitely supported measures but is in the sequential closure of the set of such measures. We construct compact spaces with measures of arbitrarily high levels of complexity in this sequential hierarchy. It follows that there is a compact space in which the sequential closure cannot be obtained in countably many steps. However, we show that this is not the case for our spaces where the sequential closure is always obtained in countably many steps.Comment: (18 pages, a gap in an argument from the previous version fixed

Improved technique for the earthquake proof suspension building

This paper presents the refined technique of dynamic calculations for suspension earthquake-resistant building. The improved design schemes of suspension buildings and structures have been demonstrated. Two versions of suspension buildings have been analysed. For the system with the building as a point mass suspension on the fixed bearing frame thread, a system of Lagrange differential equations of the second kind has been derived. For the building presented as a rigid rod with the length equal to its height, also suspended on the supporting frame, the solution is performed using principles of dynamic calculations and methods of theoretical mechanics. It has been demonstrated, that the horizontal force in the suspension building is ten times less than the force in a traditional cantilever building, and that for the real horizontal stiffness of the supporting frame the dynamic strains are far from resonant values. The possibility of adjusting dynamic forces by regulating the stiffness of the supporting frame, length of the thread of suspension and other parameters. The proposed calculation schemes are useful for the preliminary calculations, and the finite design of the suspension building can be performed in modern software packages (e.g., Ansys, Abacus, etc.)

On points avoiding measures

We say that an element $x$ of a topological space $X$ avoids measures if for every Borel measure $\mu$ on $X$ if $\mu(\{x\})=0$, then there is an open $U\ni x$ such that $\mu(U)=0$. The negation of this property can viewed as a local version of the property of supporting a strictly positive measure. We study points avoiding measures in the general setting as well as in the context of $\omega^\ast$, the remainder of Stone-\v{C}ech compactification of $\omega$

The Functioning of the CONTAINER Conceptual Metaphor in Doris Lessing’s "Children of Violence"

This paper is based on the assumption that there is a system to conceptual metaphor and to its conceptualized linguistic expression. Conceptual metaphor is not a matter of arbitrary fixity. Individual basic metaphors and even generic-level metaphors are not isolated. There is a higher unity to metaphor that governs not only all basic and generic-level metaphors, but novel metaphors as well. When we understand a scene, including those described in literary texts, we naturally structure it in terms of conceptual mega-metaphors which may structurally unite the patterns of meaning throughout the whole of the text and find expression in various minor novel metaphors. As the subject matter of this analysis I have chosen the series of novels "Children of Violence" by the famous British writer Doris Lessing (1919-2013), the Nobel Prize winner for literature in [email protected] Monachowicz, (Ph.D.) is a lecturer in English literature at the University of Białystok, Poland. She teaches literary theory and the history of English literature. Her research interests include: the theory of literature, contemporary British women writers, cognitive poetics.The University of Bialystok3354