Summers Revels Ended
"Wind over Water" in the I Ching,the Classic of
Transformations,signifies huan, "dissolving." Dissolving: Our revels
now are ended.
These our actors,
as I foretold you,
were all spirits...
Independence Day Cover Click on picture for
further details.
For the Feast of
St. Peter:
"The rock cannot be broken.
It is the truth."
-- Wallace Stevens, "Credences of Summer,"
Spellbound, and
Quotes on Mathematics,
collected byPeter Cameron.
Today's birthdays:
John Cusack is 40,
Mel Brooks is 80.
(See midnight on
Midsummer's Eve.)
"Like Gone with the Wind
on mescaline"
-- a description of Savannah
Noon
in the Garden of
Good …
Chinese Jar
Revisited
In memory of
Irving Kaplansky,
who died on
Sunday, June 25, 2006
"Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach The stillness,
as a Chinese jar still Move…
D-Day Notes
continued:
Lyle Stuart, publisher of The Anarchist Cookbook and The Turner
Diaries, died at 83 on Saturday, June 24, 2006.
"Mr. Stuart was named Lionel Simon when he was born in Manha…
A Little Extra Reading
In memory of
Mary Martin McLaughlin,
a scholar of Heloise and Abelard.
McLaughlin died on June 8, 2006.
"Following the parade, a speech is given by Charles Williams, based on
his book The …
Language Games:
Chess and Bingo
Chess: See Log24, Midsummer Day, 2003. Happy mate change, Nicole.
Bingo: See a journal entry from seven years ago, On Linguistic
Creation. Happy birthday, Willard Van Orman Qui…
Today's Sermon:
Carly Simon is 61.
Related material:
June 20, 2006
In memory of
Hunter S. Thompson
On Midsummer Day:
Big Time
Parts I, II, III
Part I:
April 17, 2003: Holiday Affair
Big Time, Part II:
April 16, 2003: Keeping Time
Big Time, Part III:
April 15, 2003: Green and Burning
Zen and the Art
"Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark."
-- "Ancient Zen saying," according to "Today in History," June 24, by
the Associated Press
"A man may be free to travel where he likes…
In memory of
Aaron Spelling
"Let the midnight special shine her light on me."
For more on the
eight-point star of Venus, see Bright Star.
Related material:
April 21-22, 2003.
Go with the Flow
continued
Review of a Feb. 15, 2006, entry:
Binary Geometry
There is currently no area of mathematics named "binary
geometry." This is, therefore, a possible name for the geometry
of sets with 2n elements (i.e., a sub-topic of Galois geometry and of
algebr…
Go with the Flow
The previous entry links to a document that discusses the mathematical
concept of "Ricci flow (pdf)."
Though the concept was not named for him, this seems as good a time as
any to recall the virtues …
Beijing String continued...A comment left at
Peter Woit's weblog:Xinhua has a story
from June 20 on Yau showing a video in Beijing of a talk by Hamilton on
the Poincare conjecture. This Xinhua story is rather Sinocentr…
Hopkins on Parallelism
"The structure of poetry is that of continuous parallelism,
ranging from the technical so-called Parallelism of Hebrew Poetry and
the
antiphons of Church music up to the intricacy of Greek or …
Cat's Yarn The Poincare Conjecture: Its Past,
Present, and Future --
"The history of topology dates back at least to the middle of the 18th
century. One of its first major boosts came at the end of the 19th
centur…
Beijing
String Oh, do not ask, "What is it?" Let us go and make our visit. --
T. S. Eliot On Tues…
Snippets:
A Reply to John Updike
See Updike on digitized snippets. The following four snippets were
pirated from the end of MathPages Quotations, compiled by Kevin Brown.
They are of synchronistic interest in …
For Blaise Pascal
on His Birthday
The Pascal Candle
"A Pascal Candle can be found in most churches, and it is easy to
identify. It could well be taller and fatter
than any other candle in the church…
Gold Bug
Variations
The personae of summer play the charactersOf an inhuman author, who
meditatesWith the gold bugs, in blue meadows, late at night.-- Wallace
Stevens, "Credences of …
Father's Day
For Mel Gibson,
who may or may not
see a parallel here.
IMDb Trivia for Music Box (1989) After the movie was released,
screenwriter Joe Eszterhas's
own father Istvan Eszterhas was accused …
In memory of Barbara Epstein: Spellbound
"Breaking the spell of religion is a game that many people can play."
-- Freeman Dyson in the current New York Review of Books
Part I:
The Game
Part I…
For Bloomsday 2006: Hero of His Own Story
"The philosophic college
should spare a detective for me." -- Stephen Hero. Epigraph to Chapter
2, "Dedalus and the Beauty Maze," in Joyce and Aquinas, by William T.
Noon, S. J…
Baez Link
John Baez's latest This Week's Finds
(Week 234, June 12, 2006) has a link
to my "Geometry of the 4x4 Square" at
http://finitegeometry.org/sc/16/geometry.html.
On the Brighter Side...
At 8 EDT tonight on CBS:
The American Film Institute's
100 most inspiring American films.
For the list of 300 films onthe AFI ballot sent to voters,
click here (pdf, 772k).
For a Dark Lady Hypercube and Cube
Hypercube and Cube
Unfolding
For every kind of vampire,
there is a kind of cross.
-- Gravity's Rainbow The above crosses are from an animation that "i…
Shining Appearance
Related material on philosophy:
The death of Hollywood agent
Ingo Preminger, brother of
Otto Preminger, on June 7,
the Log24 entry of June 7,
Figures of Speech, and
Lichtung!
Ingo…
The Meadow
continued from
December 18, 2005
"After I had advanced a good while I came finally to a lovely meadow
hedged about with a round circle of fruit bearing trees, and called by
the dweller…
Ursprache Revisited
"Rilke's poems operate at this balancing point between openness and
closure, between centripedal and centrifugal motion, the poem being all
symbol and being all object. Rilke developed the inwardn…
For the Clowns of Harvard
on Commencement Day,
a Reading from 2003's
The Word in the Desert:
Ground Zero Today's birthday: Harrison Ford is 61. …
From the
Library of Congress:
A Reading for
the Eighth of June
Sample text for
That Hideous Strength:
A Modern Fairy-Tale
for Grown-Ups,
by C. S. Lewis
Library of Congress
subject headings
fo…
Figures of Speech
Omen
(x)
in memory of
Arnold Newman,
dead on 6/6/6.
TIME magazine, issue dated June 12, 2006, item posted Sunday, June 4,
2006:
IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED ... By JULIE RAWE "Nerv…
The Omen: Now we are...
6!
From Jan. 1, 2006:
D-Day Morning,
62 Years Later
Review: ART WARS
on Sept. 12, 2002:
Und was fur ein Bild des Christentums ist dabei herausgekommen?
(Pentecost was Sunday, June 4, 2006.
The following Monday was form…
Pentecost
and
Queer Theory
"Stuff comes up,
weird doors open,
people fall into
things."
-- David Sedaris,
baccalaureate address
at Princeton on Sunday,
June 4, 2006,
the Feast of Pentecost
…
Death on Gypsy Day
Jeremy Pearce in this morning's New York Times:
"Dr. Fritz Klein, a psychiatrist and sex researcher who studied
bisexuals and their relationships and later helped start a foundation
…
'Ursprache' beats 'weltschmerz'
to win American spelling bee Weltschmerz
and the
Ursprache
From eudaemonist.com,
a quotation from
Paul Zanker's
The Mask of Socrates:
"Zanker describes the photograp…
Sting
"Float like a butterfly,
sting like a bee."
-- Muhammad Ali (See previous two entries.)
Related material:
Log24 on the
Feast of the Transfiguration
(Aug. 6, 2002) and
Bee Season
(Nov. 12…
Today's Birthday:
Morgan
Freeman
Location, Location, Location
(continued from previous entry):
-- From page 276 (pdf) of Outsider at the Heart of Things:
Essays by R. P. Blackmur,
University o…