Saturday Night to Sunday Morning John Kenneth
Galbraith died last
evening at 9:15 PM in Cambridge, Mass., according to news reports.
Related material: Plato, Pegasus, and the Evening Star, Time in the
Rock. Br…
In Memoriam Harvard mathematician George
Mackey The five Log24 entries
ending at 7:00 PM on March 14, 2006, the last day of Mackey's life: A
Circle of Quiet Christ at the Lapin AgileBurning BrightFearful
SymmetryF…
Not Harvard Bound
"Some of America’s most promising youth are seeking an even higher
education."
-- Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity
Amen.
Exercise
Review the concepts of integritas, consonantia, and claritas in
Aquinas:
"For in respect to beauty three things are essential: first of all,
integrity or completeness, since beings deprived of wholeness …
Poetry Month, continued
Was Heaven
Where You Thought?
(See previous entry.)
A partial answer:
Yesterday's Pennsylvania Lottery evening number was 432.
Poets and others who seek meaning in random numbe…
Excerpt The Blue Buildings in the Summer Air
by Wallace Stevens
(Collected Poems, p. 216) Cotton Mather died when I was a boy. The
books He read, all day, all night and all the nights, Had got him
nowhere. There…
Charmed
From today's online
Harvard Crimson:
From an Amazon.com review
of McCafferty's latest book:
"Charmed Thirds was a HUGE disappointment! The main character I once
loved has turned into someone vul…
Charm
At Decision Time,
Colleges Lay On Charm
-- Today's New York Times
Also in today's Times:
"'Lestat,' the maiden Broadway production of Warner Brothers Theater
Ventures, is the third vampire…
Plagiarist or Fraud?
The weekly Harvard Independent points out
that Kaavya Viswanathan's recent novel may have been
ghostwritten. Therefore the ghostwriter, rather than the
purported author, may have committed the…
Mathematics and Narrative, continued"There is
a pleasantly discursive
treatment of Pontius Pilate's unanswered question'What is truth?'" --
H. S. M. Coxeter, 1987, introduction toRichard J. Trudeau's re…
A Trinity
for Rebecca
(For Rebecca Goldstein of Trinity College)
Sources: today's New York Times
and the five Log24 entries ending
on the morning of April 7, 2006: ART WARS in Poetry Month
Of what use t…
Finis
Coronat
Opus continued from
Saturday, April 22
Finis
Opus
Sweet Little Sixteen She's just got to have About half a million Famed
autographs..…
Incoming!
Boston Globe photoby David L. Ryan
Harvard student
Kaavya Viswanathan,
author of Opal Mehta
From the novel How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got A Life,
excerpt in USA Today:
"If our …
Hollywood Easter Part 8 See also parts 1-7:
Hollywood Easter, Sub
Specie Aeternitatis, Here's Donny!, Another Opening, Department of
Defense, Finis Coronat Opus, and Dark Lady. Sweet Little SixteenShe's
got t…
Dark Lady
Today is
Shakespeare's birthday.
In his honor, a death
from April 9:
George C. Minden, 85, Dies;
Led a Cold War of Words.
"Mr. Minden was president of the International Literary Center, an
organizat…
Finis
Coronat
Opus
continued
See the essay
by Ana Marie Cox
on the final page
of this week's
TIME magazine.
Related material:
Jung and the Imago Dei,
Log24 entries of Feb. 20, 2004,
Space, Tim…
Department of Defense
(Found in Translation continued, Lust und Freud continued, and Here's
Donny continued)
"When a person has uncomfortable thoughts or feelings, they may project
these onto other people, assi…
Another Opening
of Another Show
"Sound familiar?"
-- USA Today, April 20, 2006 "I'm the decider."
-- President Bush, April 18, 2006
Headline in tonight's
online New York Times: Here's Donny! In His Defense, a Show Is Born
Related material: 1. Log24 entries of Good Friday through Easter
Monday, especially this …
Sub Specie Aeternitatis
"Pynchon's mind is the steel trap of American literature." -- Lorrie
Moore, from a page linked to in "Eternal," an entry of April 12 Related
material: …
A Hollywood Easter
Part I:
Good Friday morning
Hollywood turns to divine inspiration
Updated 4/14/2006 9:55 AM ET
By Scott Bowles, USA TODAY
LOS ANGELES -- In God, Hollywood is trusting it will find big…
Easter Conundrum:
Three Days, Three Nights?
One of Christianity's many internal contradictions is as follows:
Jesus supposedly said he would be in the tomb for "three days and three
nights," yet most Christians a…
High Society
(See previous entry,
on Francis L. Kellogg)
More bookmarks, in the spirit of Hemingway rather than Fitzgerald, from
the date of Kellogg's death--
New York State lottery
on April 6, 2006:
…
For the Late
Francis L. Kellogg
Kellogg is said to have lived
"at the epicenter of
New York City society."
Here, in his honor, is
a social bookmark--
Princeton University,
Latin 338:
Latin Prose Fiction
…
Last Temptation:
Click on picture for details.
"Little Red Ridin' Hood, You sure are lookin' good...."
See also today's Log24 guestbook entries.
Even a stopped clock
is right twice a day.
To Read by
a Stopped Clock
Meanwhile, back at Coffin Castle...
Click on picture for details.
A Coffin for Passover
Eternal
Franklin Delano Roosevelt:
"Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh
meaning for every new social situation."
-- AP, Today in History, apparently quoted fr…
Dallas
Part I,
from
The Circle is Unbroken,
May 2003: Highballs "If you can bounce high,bounce for her too...." –
F. Scott Fitzgerald,
epigraph toThe Great Gatsby Mag…
"Ich bin ein Berliner"
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy Related material:
the previous 4 entries
and this morning's
New York Times story
"Boston Mob: Party of 4"
Club
continued
"What other colleges call fraternities,
Princeton calls Eating Clubs."
Illustrated below:
The Restaurant Quarré in Berlin,
with a view of the Brandenburg Gate.
Related etymology:
OF. qu…
Backstoryfor the previous entry, "Once Upon
a Time"
Ernest Hemingway, "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"
Ernest Hemingway,"The Killers"
Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays The Devil's Bible
Once Upon
a Time
I am waiting At the counter For the man To pour the coffee And he fills
it Only halfway And before I even argue He is looking Out the window At
somebody C…
ART WARS from
April 9 two years ago:
3 PMGoodFriday For an explanationof this icon, see Art Wars
and To Be.
Related material:
The five Log24 entries
ending on Pi Day, 2006.
April 8 two years ago:Art is magic delivered
fromthe lie of being
truth. -- Theodor Adorno, Minima moralia,London, New Left Books, 1974,
p. 222(First published in German in 1951.)
The director, Carol Reed, makes... impe…
April 7 two years ago:Welcome to our
imaginative and inspiring toy catalog!
Today is Wednesday 7-April 2004. On this day in 30 Jesus crucified by
Roman troops in Jerusalem (scholars' estimate).
April 6 two years ago:
Ideas and Art
The first idea was not our own. AdamIn Eden was the father of
Descartes...
-- Wallace Stevens, from Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction
Story
There is one story and one story only
That will prove worth your telling....
-- Robert Graves, "To Juan at the Winter Solstice" "To many,
mathematicians have come to resemble an eso…
Bright Star
From 7/14/04: Today's birthday:
Esther Dyson
To be continued...
ART WARS
in Poetry Month
Tomorrow is the final day
for the Liza Lou exhibit at London's White Cube gallery. For related
material, see
Log24, March 24-26, and
the entries culminating
on Pi Day.
Today is
Tartan Day
From Log24, July 3, 2005:
From Galois Geometry:
Harmony and Conciseness
"Problems are the poetry of chess. They demand from the composer the
same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality,
invention, harmony, conciseness, complexity, …
Trinities
Unholy and Holy
April is Poetry Month
and
Mathematics Awareness Month.
Three
Joni Mitchell
on the Trinity:
He is three
One's in the middle unmoved
Waiting
To show what he sees
To the other two
Related materi…
Quarter to Three (continued from Dec. 20,
2003, and from April 3, 2006)
... so put another nickel in the machine....
Related material: The death of jazz percussionist Don Alias, Miles
Davis's a…
Changes
For jazz artist
Jackie McLean,
who died on Friday
according to today's
New York Times.
From Log24
on Dec. 20, 2003:
(St. Emil's Day)
Click on various parts
of the picture to see related …
Miracle
Looking for a Miracle:
The Beatification of John Paul II
Background: Preface:
Last year's April 2 entry
Part I:
Eight is a Gate
Part II:
Zen and Language Games,
Directions Out,
Out…