"Finite groups of the same order are sometimes
related by a nontrivial identity."
— Steven H. Cullinane,
Groups related by a nontrivial identity
(a note on universal algebra).
See as well a related note written 40 years ago today.
A related webpage —
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"Going to dark bed there was a square round Sinbad the Sailor roc's auk's egg in the night of the bed of all the auks of the rocs of Darkinbad the Brightdayler." |
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Robert A. Heinlein, Glory Road — “What did I want? I wanted a Roc’s egg. I wanted a harem loaded with lovely odalisques less than the dust beneath my chariot wheels, the rust that never stained my sword. I wanted raw red gold in nuggets the size of your fist, and feed that lousy claim jumper to the huskies! I wanted to get up feeling brisk and go out and break some lances, then pick a likely wench for my droit du seigneur – I wanted to stand up to the Baron and dare him to touch my wench! I wanted to hear the purple water chuckling against the skin of the Nancy Lee in the cool of the morning watch and not another sound, nor any movement save the slow tilting of the wings of the albatross that had been pacing us the last thousand miles. I wanted the hurtling moons of Barsoom. I wanted Storisende and Poictesme, and Holmes shaking me awake to tell me, 'The game’s afoot!' I wanted to float down the Mississippi on a raft and elude a mob in company with the Duke of Bilgewater and Lost Dauphin. I wanted Prester John, and Excalibur held by a moon-white arm out of a silent lake. I wanted to sail with Ulysses and with Tros of Samothrace and to eat the lotus in a land that seemed always afternoon. I wanted the feeling of romance and the sense of wonder I had known as a kid. I wanted the world to be the way they had promised me it was going to be, instead of the tawdry, lousy, fouled-up mess it is. I had had one chance – for ten minutes yesterday afternoon. Helen of Troy, whatever your true name may be – and I had known it and I had let it slip away. Maybe one chance is all you ever get.” |
"There is no writing on glass."
— Paraphrase of Mark Zuckerberg at 2017 Harvard Commencement
* Cf. this journal on August 4, 2021.
Analogy . . . When A/B = C/D . . .
Illustration from a Log24 post tagged Quale —
— and related material from the date of the above Quale post …
… as well as, from July 31, a version for the institutionalized —
Season 2 Teaser of "The Peripheral" —
Non-fiction —
Monday, September 20, 2021
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I did not attempt a solution of the above red-dot problem, but others
have done some related work —
Some related Log24 remarks: "The Dotted Line," Sept. 21, 2021.
A search in this journal for "ilich" yields some interesting results.
And then there is the version with two l's.
An image from the previous post —
The W image at lower left above suggests a variation —
Vogue — Promotion photo for "Bombshell."
* Title suggested in part by a post of Dec. 11, 2022 —
Anthony Lane in The New Yorker on July 20 —
"Barbie has a male chum, Ken (Ryan Gosling), though
he wishes he were more than that. 'We’re girlfriend-boyfriend,'
he tells her, running the words together into a single unit.
Smooth. They can’t have sex, although a showing of
'Team America: World Police' (2004) might give them some
handy tips."
Yes, it might. This journal on September 2, 2020 —
"Smile, you're being candid."
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Team America: The Metadata
Dialogue from a poet's memorial —
– Exactly. Did you read my book?
– No, I’m sorry.
– That’s okay. This is marvellous.
– A first date like a game show.
– I didn’t mean to lecture.
– I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to call it a date.
Related documentation from my email today . . .
"Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.” — Paul Simon
"Or tangled up in blue." — Steven H. Cullinane
The last line* of the previous post . . .
"See as well a search in this journal for Zettel ."
suggests another entertainment review —
"Interspersed with the surprisingly fruitful escapades
of these drunken detectives are a series of flashbacks
to Christmas 2007 . . . ."
— Rachel Aroesti in The Guardian ,
"Fri 29 Jul 2022 01.00 EDT,"
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/
2022/jul/29/the-resort-peacock-now-funny-
fast-paced-caper-the-white-lotus
* Added at about 7:20 this morning. The relevant material is in
the last post from that search — dated December 26, 2007.
" 'Hotel California,' with its mysterious, allegorical lyrics,
became among the band’s best-known recordings.
It topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1977 and won
a Grammy Award for record of the year in 1978."
— The New York Times tonight on an Eagles founding
member who reportedly died on Wednesday, July 26.
"Mirrors on the ceiling, pink champagne on ice . . . ."
See as well a search in this journal for Zettel .
The New Yorker , review dated July 20 …
Anthony Lane on "Barbie" director Greta Gerwig —
"Nobody else would even attempt
to meld a feminist colloquium
with a plug for a chunk of plastic"
Voilà , the Barbie Walters meld —
The above title was suggested by a Log24 post of Sunday morning.
"You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?"
Related material
from Log24 on July 20 —
Remarks by Kai Bird, co-author
of the biography behind the July 21
film "Oppenheimer" . . .
Wormhole Science: The Kaku’s Nest
Filed under: General — Tags: Bullshit Studies — m759 @ 9:29 AM
See posts now tagged Kevin Kate Carl.
"His is a language that is highly charged with
a harmonic resonance and a certain distancing
and abstracting which makes the reference
more universal, less specifically personal."
— Durham University, 1999 Ph.D. thesis
As verse . . .
A harmonic resonance
And a certain distancing
And abstracting which
T.S. Eliot and
the music of poetry
Durham theses, Durham University, 1999
"Taking into consideration the Symbolist influence,
together with his preoccupation with language
and his interest in the musical quality inherent
in verse, one finds that Eliot's verse contains
a rhythmic movement that tends to sweep across
the whole line and links lines and stanzas together.
His is a language that is highly charged with
a harmonic resonance and a certain distancing
and abstracting which makes the reference
more universal, less specifically personal."
"Where past and future are gathered" — T. S. Eliot
"Do you remember All Souls' Day two years ago?"
"For ten years, we've been on our own . . ." — American Pie
In the spirit of "Boogie Nights" (1997), a scene from March 17, 2022 —
Related rhetoric from Harvard —
The Harvard math department's pie-eating contest—
The new URL topdot.art refers to depictions of
the top dot (or point, or vertex) in a vertex-edge diagram
of a square, cube, or hypercube that has been rotated
so that the bottom dot (or point, or vertex), represented by
all-zero coordinates in a labeling, is at the bottom …
and the top dot (or point, or vertex), represented by
all-one coordinates in a labeling, is at the top.
See (for instance) the Log24 post Physicality (Oct. 5, 2022).
Related philosophical remarks: Einheit .
"It is not enough to cover the rock with leaves.
We must be cured of it by a cure of the ground
Or a cure of ourselves, that is equal to a cure
Of the ground, a cure beyond forgetfulness.
And yet the leaves, if they broke into bud,
If they broke into bloom, if they bore fruit,
And if we ate the incipient colorings
Of their fresh culls might be a cure of the ground."
— "The Rock," a poem by Wallace Stevens from
a section with the same title in the Collected Poems .
Email Metadata —
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Email Excerpt —
"The interview starts out with a discussion of 'the weird,' and all of the meanings
contained in that word, from the uncanny to the easily dismissed . . . ."
Commentary —
Friday, May 27, 2011
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For related material on the geometry of a 2×3 rectangular array —
a domino — see the previous post and also a search in this journal for attic .
"I'll have what she's having."
— Classic movie line from "When Harry Met Sally,"
suggested by the ending scene from "Grease."
From this morning's online NY Times obituaries —
“Anyone who loves to play chess knows that
it’s enough to defeat your opponent. You don’t
have to loot his kingdom or seize his assets
to make it worthwhile,” he wrote in his book.
— Kevin Mitnick, who reportedly died on
Sunday, July 16, 2023, at 59.
See as well the "where it belonged" link in today's 7:52 AM ET post.
“Heaven was kind of a hat on the universe,
a lid that kept everything underneath it
where it belonged.”
— Carrie Fisher,
Postcards from the Edge
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From this journal on July 6, 2023 —
A search for material related to this citation yields the name
"Stephen Obelisk" in a short story from the same website.
From The New York Times today, a different Stephen —
A Log24 flashback from the date of Silverman's reported death —
Despite today's New York Times warnings about chatbot inaccuracy,
the above short summary is well-written, helpful, and correct.
"Rage, rage, against the dying of the light"
— Dylan Thomas, quoted in the final episode of "Blacklist"
Related material, in memory of Raymond Reddington and
Harry G. Frankfurt —
See as well this journal on the morning of July 16,
and also "Cartoon Graveyard."
“I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.”
— Paul Simon
A screenshot today of a May 31 NY Times review of a book on hacking —
A New York Times obituary yesterday reported the
June 6 death, at 91, of a Harvard professor who dealt with
the relations between science and society —
“ 'Everett was one of a new generation of social historians
of science who insisted that it was not enough to pay attention
to the internal intellectual story of science,' Anne Harrington,
the Franklin L. Ford professor of the history of science at Harvard,
said by email. 'The field needed to attend also to how science was
shaped by and also helped shape the conditions of the social world.' ”
Consider as well Scarlett Johansson on Alan Watts in "Her" (2013)
and Harrington on intellectual history in Cuernavaca . . .
| By 1956, Fromm was dining at Suzuki’s part-time home in New York City, and talking with him about ways in which Zen could contribute to a wholesale reimagining of psychoanalytic therapeutics and theory (see Friedman and Schreiber 2013). By this time, also, Fromm was himself spending considerable periods of time at a new home in Cuernavaca, Mexico. At one point he suggested that Suzuki consider moving in with him permanently. When Suzuki politely declined, Fromm conceived instead a major conference based in Mexico that would try to take stock of the entire current state of the conversation between Zen and psychotherapy (see Friedman and Schreiber 2013). In 1957, some fifty psychotherapists—double the original expected number—participated in a week of presentations and discussions. Fromm later recalled the event as a magical time: what began as a traditional conference with the usual ‘over-emphasis on thoughts and words' changed over a few days, as people 'became more concentrated and more quiet.' |
A search in this journal for D-Day related material yields
posts tagged "Shadow Hacking."
"Please wait as your operating system is initiated."
The artwork in an IG ad today caught my eye —
Related material in this journal — Magister Ludi and The Unity.
From a New York Times report of a July 7 death —
My time has come. The water’s wide.
I’ll see you on the other side.
Related material —
See as well today's previous post and its excerpt from the
story "Pottage," by Zenna Henderson, first published in
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Sept. 1955 —
"Before time began . . ." — Optimus Prime
Structures from pure mathematics, by Plato and R. T. Curtis —
* See other "Preform" posts in this journal.
Dwight Garner today on the late Milan Kundera:
"Kundera’s novels, especially his later ones, could be abstract and
heavy-handed. His characters, at times, were little more than chess pieces.
Their author could be pretentious. His work is filled with observations such as:
'In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia,
even the guillotine.' But his best fiction retains its moments of sweep and power."
Illustration for Florence King's 1989 review of The Eight , a novel
by Katherine Neville that features prominently the date April 4.
See also "Dissolution" in this journal.
"Mr. Kundera told The Paris Review in 1983:
'My lifetime ambition has been to unite
the utmost seriousness of question with
the utmost lightness of form. The combination of
a frivolous form and a serious subject
immediately unmasks the truth about our dramas
(those that occur in our beds as well as those that
we play out on the great stage of History) and their
awful insignificance. We experience the unbearable
lightness of being.' "
The above is from The New York Times this morning.
The Times says that Kundera died yesterday in Paris at 94.
For another meeting of form and subject, see The Grid.
A midrash on the current New Yorker "therapy issue" —
NB : The author of the report below is not the same person as
the author of this journal, who is known as Steven H. Cullinane.
See also this journal on the above Sunday at Little Gidding date.
From the August 2023 Notices of the American Mathematical Society —
"He worked tirelessly towards a more egalitarian world…."
"Chandler’s egalitarian spirit infused the workshops."
— Memorial Tribute: Remembrances of Chandler Davis
* See yesterday's Log24 post "Egalitarian Plan 9."
Remarks by John Baez today suggest a flashback…
The Wikipedia article on Christoper Knight, the LA Times art critic
in tonight's previous post, leads to . . .
See as well Barnes in this journal.
Update at 9:06 PM ET . . .
Windows lockscreen this evening —
Related material in this journal: Weaveworld.
"I am what I am. You made a devil's bargain.
Did you really expect me to stop being the devil?"
Read more at: https://tvshowtranscripts.ourboard.org/
viewtopic.php?f=194&t=64076
See as well yesterday's post CORE and Faustus in this journal.
"Isn't it pretty to think so?"
— The Sun Also Rises
This post was suggested by the following passage of prose:
The "CORE" reference in the previous post yields, via a search . . .
Within this thesis there are 19 references to the name "Cullinane"
and to my own work, cited as . . .
Cullinane, Steven H., ‘The Diamond Theorem’ (1979)
<http://diamondtheorem.com>
[accessed 6 May 2019]
––– ‘Geometry of the I Ching’ (1989)
<http://finitegeometry.org/sc/64/iching.html>
[accessed 6 May 2019].
A check of the Springer publication date —November 15, 2006 — of the
above 1981 conference proceedings yields, in this journal — Stone 588 :
A search for material related to this citation yields the name
"Stephen Obelisk" in a short story from the same website.
In this website, a search for "Obelisk" yields . . .
Among fictional Stephens, I prefer Dedalus.
From the end of a story by Vladimir Nabokov in
The New Yorker of May 15, 1948:
"You have the incorrect number. I will
tell you what you are doing: you are
turning the letter O instead of the zero."
The previous post featured Anya Taylor-Joy playing chess.
A search for the name "Pickman" in this journal yields a
more entertaining view of Taylor-Joy.
June 27, 2016, in YouTube and in life —
Today's date, July 4, was also, in 1826, the dies natalis of
former U.S. presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams.
Background from this morning's news:
Suggested by two June 13 deaths — those of
Cormac McCarthy (89) and Edward Fredkin (88) —
excerpts from this journal on the night of June 13-14:
See also Frindle at the author's
website and in this journal.
This is the first colored version of
the Diamond Theory cover
that I have done since 1976.
" Video killed the radio star . . ."
This tune concludes "Take This Waltz,"
a 2011 film starring Michelle Williams.
Related material —
A New York Times obituary from this afternoon
and a video from the 2011 Williams film.
The Times report is of a "radio star" death on Tuesday, June 27.
Related philosophy from Sarah Silverman . . .
"The southwest furthers."
This afternoon's Windows lockscreen is Badlands National Park —
From this morning's post, a phrase from Schopenhauer —
"Apparent Design in the Fate of the Individual."
An apparent design in the philosophy of Optimus Prime —
"Before time began, there was the Cube" —
Click the image for further remarks.
"Denn um zu wiederholen, was ich anfangs sagte:
in dem Geheimnis der Einheit von Ich und Welt,
Sein und Geschehen, in der Durchschauung des
scheinbar Objectiven und Akzidentellen als
Veranstaltung der Seele glaube ich den innersten Kern
der analytischen Lehre zu erkennen." (GW IX 488)
Thomas Mann died in Zurich on 12 Aug., 1955.
"The author left his works in his will
to the Thomas Mann archive at the ETH Zurich."
Related meditation from Lexington, Kentucky, on
the date of Mann's death —
Or not.
Related literature —
The Queen's Gambit
by Walter Tevis
"On 14 November 2019 Polaris announced their second full length
titled The Death of Me , released on 21 February 2020 . . . ."
See also Log24 on the former and latter dates.
* See a check.
"Infinity Cube" … hinged plaything, for sale —
"Eightfold Cube" … un hinged concept, not for sale—
See as well yesterday's Trickster Fuge ,
and a 1906 discussion of the eightfold cube:
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Margaret Atwood on Lewis Hyde's "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. |
"Drop me a line" — Request attributed to Emma Stone
"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."
English translation of 'Fuge ' [ˈfuːɡə]
FEMININE NOUN Word forms: Fuge genitive, Fugen plural
See also earlier Pilgrim posts.
Also on January 21, 2023, the
"Consecration" upload date —
" '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…."
A death from last Thursday reported today by
The New York Times suggests . . .
* See yesterday's post A Tune for Whitelaw.
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.
"Could you elaborate on the specificity of 'Blackness' here?"
— Dialogue about a 2022 book from Yale University Press.
Voilà —
256 Shades of Lincoln
The YouTube upload date — Aug. 30, 2019 — of "Schism," by Tool,
suggests a review . . .
The Go Set link leads to Plan 9 material.
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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