The Meaning of 3:16
From The New Yorker, issue dated Feb. 28, 2005:
"Time Bandits," by Jim Holt, pages
80-85:
"Wittgenstein once averred that 'there can never be surprises in
logic.'"
…
All Alone at the
End of the Evening...
So put me on a highway...
TerrainOn the 77th annual Academy Awards:"...
in the Sarabande of Suite
6 Ma's phrasing suggests we are in the same spiritual terrain as
Beethoven's late quartets."-- Thomas MayAmen.
For more on Bach, quartets, and film…
Necessity Above: Detail from the New York
Times obituary page of
Sunday, Feb. 27, 2005: "The form, the pattern"-- T. S. Eliot "We
symbolize logical necessitywith the box ()...."-- Keith Allen Korcz"4 x
4 = 16"-- An…
Four Quartets
"The form, the pattern"
-- T. S. Eliot
"4 x 4 = 16"
-- Anonymous Related material:
The Form, the Pattern
and Beethoven's Sixteen String Quartets: …
Mr. Holland's Week,
continued
"Philosophers ponder the idea of identity: what it is to give
something a name on Monday and have it respond to that name on Friday
regardless of what might have changed in t…
Three Days
Religious symbols that might
have been appropriate for February 20, 21, and 22:
Recall that this is Black History Month,
and that the octagon has a special
religious significance (here and here)…
It's Quarter to Three (continued) I could
tell you a lot But you gotta be true to your code....
The Past as Prologue:
Grand Rapids Revisited
For some background, see the
Log24 entries of Feb. 18-20, 2005,
which include the following illustration:
John Constantine,
cartoon character, and
Donald E.…
A Shot at Redemption
Hunter S. Thompson, photos
from The New York Times
Excerpt from Fritz Leiber's"Damnation Morning," 1959:"Time traveling,
which is not quite the good clean boyish fun it's crack…
It's Quarter to Three...
"... we just happen to have
a couple of arrangements
along with us...."
Spider
"You are Spider Jerusalem.
Spider is THE journalist of the future. He smokes, he does drugs, and
he
kicks ass. The drugs are going to eventually kill him but not before
he gets his way. And his…
Hunter Thompson
commits suicide
"Fear and Loathing" author dead at 67
Relativity Blues
Today, February 20, is the 19th anniversary of my note The Relativity
Problem in Finite Geometry. Here is some related material.
In 1931, the Christian writer Charles Williams grappled with the theo…
Highway From previous Log24.net entries:
Eight is a Gate: "There is no
highway in the sky." -- Quotation attributed to Albert Einstein. (See
Gotthard Günther's website"Achilles and the Tortoise, Part 2".)
"Don't
…
In Hoc Signo
Sources:
Hellblazer: Highwater,
from a graphic-novel series that is the source
of Keanu Reeves's latest
spiritual adventure --
Another source...
The home page of Donald E. Knuth.
For thos…
Modal Theology
"We symbolize logical necessity
with the box ()
and logical possibility
with the diamond ()."
-- Keith Allen Korcz,(Log24.net, 1/25/05)
And what do we symbolize by ?
…
Fahne Hoch
Nicole Bengiveno in
The New York Times
Answer
"Are you now, or have you ever been?"
-- Question posed to Philip Johnson,
entry of Feb. 12 "In the case of the Cartesian
question, the answer is affirmative, and metaphysics has produced, in
th…
Eight is a Gate,
continued
"The
eighth letter of the Hebrew alphabet is called 'Chet' (rhymes with
'let') and has the (light scraping) sound of 'ch' as in 'Bach.'"
-- The Letter Chet -- Akhlah.…
Eight is a Gate
"The old men know when an old man dies."-- Ogden Nash
"Heaven is a state,
a sort of metaphysical state."-- John O'Hara, Hope of Heaven, 1938 But
in a larger sense...Mais il y a un autre sens dans l…
Resurrection Blues
Memorial
For Abraham, Arthur, and Murray
Portfolio Analysis
For more on portfolio analysis, see
Michael J. Best and Tribute.
The Blues
and the
Abstract Truth
An obituary of jazz artist Jimmy Smith, who died on Mardi Gras, leads,
via his album Got My Mojo Workin', to a 1961 album of Oliver Nelson
that in turn suggests the following quotati…
The Crimson Passion
(last year's Mardi Gras drama)
continues with...
The Usual Suspects
(See previous entry.)
The theme of last year's drama
is still valid:
"The teenagers aren't all bad.
I love 'em…
New from the Oscar-winning producer,
director, and screenwriter
of "A Beautiful Mind" -
With apologies to Dan Brown...
"The Divine Proportion...
is an irrational number and
the positive solution of the …
The Equation
David Thomson on The Last Tycoon in The Guardian on 1/29/05:
"There's a passage in
the book, early on, where Cecilia's narration says: 'You can take
Hollywood for granted like I did, or you can dismiss i…
Fountainhead
Dominique and
Dominique
Sources:
A blog entry on The Fountainhead, a 1949 film featuring archltect
Howard Roark and his patroness,
Dominique Francon,
and a web page on
architecture …