Friday, June 30, 2023
Margaret Atwood on Lewis Hyde's
Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art—
"Trickster is among other things the gatekeeper who opens the door into the next world; those who mistake him for a psychopath never even know such a door exists." (159)
What is "the next world"? It might be the Underworld….
The pleasures of fabulation, the charming and playful lie– this line of thought leads Hyde to the last link in his subtitle, the connection of the trickster to art. Hyde reminds us that the wall between the artist and that American favourite son, the con-artist, can be a thin one indeed; that craft and crafty rub shoulders; and that the words artifice, artifact, articulation and art all come from the same ancient root, a word meaning "to join," "to fit," and "to make." (254) If it’s a seamless whole you want, pray to Apollo, who sets the limits within which such a work can exist. Tricksters, however, stand where the door swings open on its hinges and the horizon expands: they operate where things are joined together, and thus can also come apart.
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"Drop me a line" — Request attributed to Emma Stone
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"Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
had its world premiere at Cannes
on May 18, 2023, and is scheduled to
be released in the United States on
June 30, 2023." — Data from Wikipedia
From this journal on May 18, 2023 —
In memory of Mr. Zell, some notes suggested by his initials . . .
S/Z in Wikipedia and . . .
Related amusements from the above publication date —
August 1, 2017 — "Biff's Pleasure Detailing."
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Thursday, June 29, 2023
English translation of 'Fuge ' [ˈfuːɡə]
FEMININE NOUN Word forms: Fuge genitive, Fugen plural
"Mind the gap."
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Related material —
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A coffin-like image from yesterday —
.
This suggests a review:
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Wednesday, June 28, 2023
See also earlier Pilgrim posts.
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From the above image: "/gds_rip/" —
Related geek lore:
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Also on January 21, 2023, the
"Consecration" upload date —
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See also Turning 63.
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Tuesday, June 27, 2023
" 'We caught lots of flack from the die-hard bluegrass fans,'
Mr. Osborne said of the group’s sometimes fraught relationship
with bluegrass purists in a 2011 interview with the online publication
Mandolin Café." — New York Times report of a June 27 death
Perhaps the Times meant "flak" . . .
"Flak is a contraction of German Flugabwehrkanone …." — Wikipedia
Or perhaps the Times meant Roberta Flack . . . "Killing me softly…."
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A death from last Thursday reported today by
The New York Times suggests . . .
* See yesterday's post A Tune for Whitelaw.
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Continued from February 6, 2014.
This flashback to 2014 was prompted by the following search history —
Related logic —
Related material — "Boolean Functions" in this journal.
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Monday, June 26, 2023
The YouTube upload date — Aug. 30, 2019 — of "Schism," by Tool,
suggests a review . . .
The Go Set link leads to Plan 9 material.
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Jena Malone as the young Eleanor Arroway in "Contact" (1997) —
Jena Malone in "The Neon Demon" (2016) —
Jena Malone in "Lorelei" (2020) —
Lines from the above "Lorelei" scene —
Wayland — "You've been busy."
Dolores — "Yep."
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Sunday, June 25, 2023
The New York Times reports this evening that McReynolds died
on Friday, June 23, 2023.
See also Cold Mountain in this journal.
From Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier, 367-368:
"They consulted and twisted the pegs again
to make the dead man’s tuning…."
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Sturgeon versus Plato —
Sturgeon's Dreaming Jewels meet Plato's Righteous Gemstones.
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Saturday, June 24, 2023
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Friday, June 23, 2023
"… the timeless / With time … ." — T. S. Eliot
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The broken pencil in a Dial illustration of June 20 —
"I could a tale unfold . . ." — Hamlet's father's ghost
"Thus the entire little drama, from crystallized carbon
and felled pine to this humble implement, to this
transparent thing, unfolds in a twinkle."
— Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things
"… a cardboard tube, more or less the same length as
the inner core of a toilet roll, but thicker. He frowned,
took the roll out, laid it on the desk and poked up it
with the butt end of a pencil. Something slid out.
It looked like a rolled-up black plastic dustbin liner;
but when he unfolded it, he recognised it as the funny
sheet thing he’d found in the strongroom and briefly
described as an Acme Portable Door, before losing
his nerve and changing it to something less facetious."
— Holt, Tom. The Portable Door . Orbit. Kindle Edition.
According to goodreads.com, the Holt book was
"first published March 6, 2003."
See also this journal on March 6, 2003, in a search for
Michelangelo Geometry.
Punchline of the above little drama —
"Try the other end of the pencil, Liz."
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In memory of Broadway lyricist Sheldon Harnick,
who reportedly died today at 99:
Related legal notice from Princeton —
The above copyright notice is from The Symbolic Quest,
by one Edward C. Whitmont (birth name: Weissberg).
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Thursday, June 22, 2023
See a search in this journal
for the following image —
.
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Found today at Language Log:
Translated from the Russian —
Also from Language Log, an earlier use of the phrase —
F. C. Burnand's novel My Time and What I've Done with It , Chapter 27,
in Old and New, Volume 8, 1873:
It is thus that ignorant prejudices are fostered ;
and how few of us in afterlife have the time or the will
to sift the rubbish of the dust-bin of history
on the chance of discovering the diamond of truth.
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"I could a tale unfold . . ." — Hamlet's father's ghost
"Thus the entire little drama, from crystallized carbon
and felled pine to this humble implement, to this
transparent thing, unfolds in a twinkle."
— Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things
"… a cardboard tube, more or less the same length as
the inner core of a toilet roll, but thicker. He frowned,
took the roll out, laid it on the desk and poked up it
with the butt end of a pencil. Something slid out.
It looked like a rolled-up black plastic dustbin liner;
but when he unfolded it, he recognised it as the funny
sheet thing he’d found in the strongroom and briefly
described as an Acme Portable Door, before losing
his nerve and changing it to something less facetious."
— Holt, Tom. The Portable Door . Orbit. Kindle Edition.
According to goodreads.com, the Holt book was
"first published March 6, 2003."
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Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Related tunes — "Hot Rod Lincoln" and
"Junk in the Trunk" (Planet Booty, YouTube, Feb. 27, 2019)
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Tuesday, June 20, 2023
See also . . . .
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(Continued from the previous post, Annals of Devolution)
The above seems an improved version of the
beach romp in the 2023 film of "The Portable Door."
♫ "Little bitty pretty one . . . ."
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Timeless (TV Series)
The War to End All Wars (2018)
-
Denise Christopher : How's it going?
Rufus Carlin : Uh, well, we printed out all the documents from the iPhone.
Denise Christopher : Is there anything in there that would tell us a specific plan?
Rufus Carlin : Mostly just devolves into a bunch of ranting, like "Mein Kampf" by Philip K. Dick. We can't figure it out.
Denise Christopher : Well, there's someone who might know.
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Fritz Leiber ?
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Monday, June 19, 2023
"Experience the magic of Mexico." — Delta vacations ad.
See also Midnight in the Garden (March 15, 2011)
and New Day Nina (September 22, 2011).
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"… a cardboard tube, more or less the same length as
the inner core of a toilet roll, but thicker. He frowned,
took the roll out, laid it on the desk and poked up it
with the butt end of a pencil. Something slid out.
It looked like a rolled-up black plastic dustbin liner;
but when he unfolded it, he recognised it as the funny
sheet thing he’d found in the strongroom and briefly
described as an Acme Portable Door, before losing
his nerve and changing it to something less facetious."
— Holt, Tom. The Portable Door . Orbit. Kindle Edition.
According to goodreads.com, the Holt book was
"first published March 6, 2003."
Compare and contrast the "portable door" as a literary device
with the "tesseract" in A Wrinkle in Time (1962).
See also this journal on March 6, 2003.
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On finite geometries . . .
"Although many of these structures are studied for
their geometrical importance, they are also of great
interest in other, more applied domains of mathematics."
— Remark from the metadata of a mathematical article
dated September 22, 2021
More applied domains . . .
"Sex Show at a Brothel" — This journal on September 22, 2021.
A scene from the "Badass Song" film mentioned in that post —
Another cinematic towel scene —
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Sunday, June 18, 2023
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Earlier posts have mentioned a British version of my work.
It currently appears among many other images at . . .
https://www.bsswebsite.me.uk/Puzzlewebsite/for-puzzlers.html —
Related cinema for Hogwarts fans —
* The late John Nash might prefer the version "For Isadore."
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Saturday, June 17, 2023
Abigail Spencer in the "Timeless" Watergate episode
Less alone . . .
See also posts now tagged Crary Corner, and
the name Crary.
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Maureen Dowd today in The New York Times on The Trump Papers —
"It bespeaks a frailty, a need to be bolstered by talismanic items."
[Link added.]
" During his presidency, The Times reported, 'his aides began to refer to
the boxes full of papers and odds and ends he carted around with him
almost everywhere as the "beautiful mind" material. It was a reference to
the title of a book and movie depicting the life of John F. Nash Jr., the
mathematician with schizophrenia played in the film by Russell Crowe,
who covered his office with newspaper clippings, believing they held
a Russian code he needed to crack.' "
The Nutshell Code:
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Friday, June 16, 2023
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"He earned a doctorate at Harvard, joined the RAND Corporation
and began studying game theory as applied to crisis situations
and nuclear warfare. In the 1960s, he conferred on Washington’s
responses to the Cuban missile crisis and North Vietnamese
attacks on American ships in the Gulf of Tonkin.
By 1964, Mr. Ellsberg was an adviser to Defense Secretary
Robert S. McNamara."
— Robert D. McFadden in The New York Times this afternoon.
For McNamara in this journal, see (for instance) Groundhog Day 2006.
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* For the first part of the title, look up posts now tagged Jigs.
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Thursday, June 15, 2023
For the blue-black frame, a hat tip to Willard Motley.
See also the above date — 6 Nov 2021 — in this journal.
* See as well a Log24 search for Red and Gray .
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Transcribed from a PDF:
Received September 29, 2019, accepted October 15, 2019,
date of publication October 24, 2019, date of current version
November 7, 2019.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2949310
A Method for Determining
the Affine Equivalence of Boolean Functions
ZIYU WANG1 , XIAO ZENG1 , JINZHAO WU2,3, AND
GUOWU YANG1
1Big Data Research Center, School of Computer Science
and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology
of China, Chengdu 611731, China
2Guangxi Key Laboratory of Hybrid Computation and
IC Design Analysis, Guangxi University for Nationalities,
Nanning 530006, China
3School of Computer and Electronic Information,
Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
Corresponding authors:
Jinzhao Wu (gxmdwjzh@aliyun.com) and
Guowu Yang (ygwuestc@163.com)
This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation
of China under Grant 61772006 and Grant 61572109, in part by the
State Key Laboratory of Information Security, Institute of Information Engineering,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, in part by the Science and Technology
Program of Guangxi under Grant AB17129012, in part by the Science and
Technology Major Project of Guangxi under Grant AA17204096, in part by
the Special Fund for Scientific and Technological Bases and Talents
of Guangxi under Grant 2016AD05050, and in part by the Special Fund for
Bagui Scholars of Guangxi, in part by the Open fund of State Key Laboratory
of Information Security.
ABSTRACT
Determining the affine equivalence of Boolean functions
has significant applications in circuit and cryptography.
Previous methods for determining this require a large
amount of computation when Boolean functions are bent
functions or when the truth table is sparse. This paper
presents a new method to determine the affine equivalence
based on matrix algebra. By transforming Boolean function
to the corresponding matrix representation, we first propose
and prove the congruent standard form of Boolean function.
It lays the foundation for the determination of equivalence
because affine Boolean functions must have the same
standard form. Then we find the generators of orthogonal
matrix group and symplectic matrix group, which greatly
reduce the search space. The computation complexity of
our method is o (2r2/2+n∗(n−r) ), where n is the number of
bit operations, and r is the rank of the matrix, which is
the product of Boolean-1 matrix of the test Boolean function
and its transposition. The experimental results show that our
method is useful when the test Boolean function is no more
than 7 bits and r is greater than 2.
INDEX TERMS Logic synthesis, Boolean functions,
affine equivalence, matrix group, algorithm.
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Meanwhile . . .
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Wednesday, June 14, 2023
See also the rest of "The Dreaming" (a Log24 tag).
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From the previous post . . .
A color analogy — The orange and black (Princeton colors) in the above
conference schedule suggest a recent screengeek image . . .
Related geek lore —
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Continued from October 6, 2022 —
A paper from an August 2017 Melbourne conference
on artificial intelligence —
See as well a Log24 search for Boolean functions.
A check on the date of the above paper's presentation —
From this journal on that date —
Happy 10th birthday to the hashtag.
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Continued from Feb. 18, 2017 —
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Tuesday, June 13, 2023
In memory of Cormac McCarthy, who reportedly
died today, here is a phrase by John Jeremiah Sullivan
in a NY Times review of McCarthy's 2022 novel
The Passenger —
"a reminder (just in time) of the elegance and force
of good McCarthy."
Sullivan also writes well. For instance, see the "pretty horses"
of this post's title.
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"Hi, are you my 3 o'clock?"
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"Does the expression 'generative pre-trained transformer'
mean anything to you?"
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Monday, June 12, 2023
Interpreting the counterclockwise circular arrow "Back 10" as 10 years . . .
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Update of 10 PM the same evening —
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Sunday, June 11, 2023
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"If it’s possible to be two things at once,
I was both pathologically insecure and
intoxicated by the power that my newly
discovered desirability to men seemed
to have conferred on me."
Possible ‽
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Ask Mark Wahlberg.
* See as well the September 1982 Kate Bush album.
Addendum of 10:50 AM June 11 —
My own concerns in September 1982 were
rather different —
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Saturday, June 10, 2023
A review by Robert Ghrist of a paper on aperiodic
Wang tilings suggests a search in this journal for Wang tiles.
A resulting image seems appropriate for today's posts,
which include a reference to a renowned Prada-wearer.
"She's like the wind." — Song lyric. See as well Hexagram 57.
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See also Prescott Street in this journal.
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Related material: A Log24 post of January 8, 2016.
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Tom Wolfe on art theorists in The Painted Word (1975) :
"It is important to repeat that Greenberg and Rosenberg
did not create their theories in a vacuum or simply turn up
with them one day like tablets brought down from atop
Green Mountain or Red Mountain (as B. H. Friedman once
called the two men). As tout le monde understood, they
were not only theories but … hot news,
straight from the studios, from the scene."
Anthony Lane in The New Yorker on June 2, 2023 —
"The album cover was a minor but deliriously popular art form
that was limited not just by shape—a neat fit, incidentally, for
the square format favored by many modish photographers of
the sixties—but also by the prospect of its own inevitable death.
Technology gave, and technology hath taken away."
See as well a mountain along with red and green album covers
in this journal on June 8.
Some will prefer the green and red crystal from Melencolia I
(adapted from the uncolored original) on the cover of the
1948 edition of Doctor Faustus.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12179599/
Emma-Watson-stuns-revealing-black-bandeau-Prada.html
The colors surrounding Watson's body in the above
"bandeau" photo suggest a review. A search in this journal
for Green+Orange+Black yields . . .
In the above image, the "hard core of objectivity" is represented
by the green-and-white eightfold cube. The orange and black are,
of course, the Princeton colors.
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Friday, June 9, 2023
Continues.
Finnegans Wake —
"The quad gospellers may own the targum
but any of the Zingari shoolerim may pick a peck
of kindlings yet from the sack of auld hensyne."
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Thursday, June 8, 2023
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/movies/
barry-newman-dead.html
An Actor Prepares . . .
See the previous post.
See also the film "Vanishing Point" discussed
in the above New York Times obituary.
Barry Newman's dies natalis is reportedly May 11.
See "On the Route" from that date in this journal.
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Report from Clouded Mountain
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A check of today's New Yorker penbots yields
an entertaining piece on pop culture by Sarah Larson:
Perhaps, in death's dream kingdom, there is some guidance from
the illustrator who reportedly did the book cover in the previous post —
one Hector Garrido.
"Operation Childlike Innocence, Phase One."
— Sarah Larson, quoted here on Sept. 5, 2015.
Garrido's dies natalis was reportedly 19 April, 2020.
Synchronology check — Log24 search: "Wittgenstein Easter."
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Wednesday, June 7, 2023
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"Another story" —
See also Sontag's own account of the Mann meeting.
Related material —
It would seem that Moser is deeply confused about two different
meetings of Sontag with Mann — discussing Doctor Faustus
in 1947, and, later, as a U. of Chicago student, discussing
The Magic Mountain with Mann in 1949 on the Feast of the
Holy Innocents — coincidentally, also the date of her dies natalis
(in the Catholic sense) in 2004.
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Tuesday, June 6, 2023
For further details, see a Log24 post from October 2002 and . . .
See as well today's previous post.
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Monday, June 5, 2023
More-recent reading on different modalities:
"Microsoft believes a multimodal approach
paves the way for human-level AI."
— Ars Technica , 3/1/2023
As for "pattern simultaneity in the real world," note the March 1 date
of the above Ars Technica article, and some remarks here on March 1.
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Related dramatic dialogue from FUBAR —
Hero — I guess I'll take the pill, and get it over with. (Dramatic music playing.)
Villain — This will be fun. (Music intensifies.) Cheers … Nothing's happening.
Hero — Come to think of it, I might have taken the antidote.
Read more at: https://tvshowtranscripts.ourboard.org/… .
Related synchronology check —
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"You put the lime in the coconut . . ."
Truth, Beauty, and The Good
Art is magic delivered from
the 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…
impeccable use of the beauty of black….
— V. B. Daniel on The Third Man
I see your ironical smile.
— Hans Reichenbach
Adorno, The Third Man, and Reichenbach
are illustrated below (l. to r.) above the names of
cities with which they are associated.
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Sunday, June 4, 2023
Rubik core:
Swarthmore Cube Project, 2008
Non- Rubik core:
Central structure from a Galois plane
(See image below.)
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Saturday, June 3, 2023
"It seems fitting that a handsome, professional and future-minded
space drama in fine color, like 'Marooned,' should open a new
jewel box of a theater, the Ziegfeld."
— Howard Thompson in The New York Times , Dec. 19, 1969
A related film tells of a real-life April 1970 sequel
to the 1969 film "Marooned."
Then there is my own "jewel box" picture with three horses . . .
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For those whose only philosophy comes from song lyrics —
See also … ADMAN PURSUED BY JEFFERSON AIRPLANE —
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In memory of set designer Robin Wagner, winner of three
Tony awards, who reportedly died at 89 on May 29 —
From Log24 on May 29
and the preceding day —
"When the men on the chessboard
get up and tell you where to go . . . ."
Don't take the Brown acid!
Sunday, May 28, 2023
Tags: Breadcrumbs for Gretel — m759 @ 3:47 PM
Continues .
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See as well Chess Set and Efficient Packing.
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Friday, June 2, 2023
James Hillman
EGALITARIAN TYPOLOGIES
VERSUS THE PERCEPTION OF THE UNIQUE
“The kind of movement Olson urges is an inward deepening of the image,
an in-sighting of the superimposed levels of significance within it.
This is the very mode that Jung suggested for grasping dreams —
not as a sequence in time, but as revolving around a nodal complex.”
. . . Or, sometimes, as . . .
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From Log24 on the reported date of Singmaster's death —
Related geometric entertainment —
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For the American Nomenklatura —
The obituary's 101 above refers to time ,
the Stanford page's below to space .
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See The Eightfold Cube and . . .
Truth, Beauty, and The Good
Art is magic delivered from
the 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…
impeccable use of the beauty of black….
— V. B. Daniel on The Third Man
I see your ironical smile.
— Hans Reichenbach
Adorno, The Third Man, and Reichenbach
are illustrated below (l. to r.) above the names of
cities with which they are associated.
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"Boro makes Jim Jones look like Jim Henson."
— FUBAR, Netflix, Episode 1 (May 25, 2023)
"In The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test , Tom Wolfe writes about encountering
'a young psychologist,' 'Clifton Fadiman’s nephew, it turned out,' in the
waiting room of the San Mateo County jail. Fadiman and his wife were
'happily stuffing three I-Ching coins into some interminable dense volume*
of Oriental mysticism' that they planned to give Ken Kesey, the Prankster-
in-Chief whom the FBI had just nabbed after eight months on the lam.
Wolfe had been granted an interview with Kesey, and they wanted him to
tell their friend about the hidden coins. During this difficult time, they
explained, Kesey needed oracular advice."
— Tim Doody in The Morning News web 'zine on July 26, 2012
Related material — Brown Acid.
* The volume Wolfe mentions was, according to Fadiman, the I Ching.
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Thursday, June 1, 2023
In memory of a public intellectual who reportedly argued in favor of
"a universal identity system" and died at 94 on May 31 —
Detail from an illustration linked to here on May 31 —
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The above detail from today's previous post suggests a review —
Those who are not content to be merely entertained may consult
the date of the above image . . . June 24, 2008.
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A website by today's MIT commencement speaker —
* MIT-related news from May 19, 1961,
in Warren, Pennsylvania . . .
* "The Long Dark Trail" is the title of a recent film
directed by a later resident of 505 Market Street.
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"The stone may have contempt
For too-familiar hands."
— Adrienne Rich
Or not . . .
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The opening of the new Netflix film FUBAR suggests a review . . .
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Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Cullinane diamond theorem —
"Finite geometry explains the surprising symmetry properties
of some simple graphic designs." … Good summary.
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Tuesday, May 30, 2023
"He stopped at a bench where people could catch buses
from Somewhere to Elsewhere." — John Crowley, 1981
Hat tip to Stephanie Dick, now at Simon Fraser U.
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In memory of a co-founder of Hollywood's "Magic Castle"
who reportedly died at 92 on Sunday . . .
From posts that were tagged "Blake Tour" on Sunday —
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Continues.
See John Baez this morning on Galois. Note that Baez's
report of Galois's dies natalis is in error.
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Monday, May 29, 2023
From the Feast of St. Nicholas, 2022 —
"Does the phrase 'vinegar and brown paper'
mean anything to you?"
See also other posts tagged Up the Hill.
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"When the men on the chessboard
get up and tell you where to go . . . ."
Don't take the Brown acid!
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Sunday, May 28, 2023
Comments Off on Breadcrumbs for Gretel . . .
In memory of philosopher Ian Hacking, who
reportedly died on May 10, some Log24 posts
are now tagged "Shadow Hacking."
Related material — Plato's Ghost in this journal, and . . .
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… who reportedly died on May 25 — Posts now tagged Blake Tour.
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Saturday, May 27, 2023
A related question — From posts now tagged Weil Misery —
(See today's previous post) . . .
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