Sunday, June 12, 2022
From "When Novelists Become Cubists," by Andre Furlani—
"The architectonics of a narrative," Davenport says,
"are emphasized and given a role to play in dramatic effect
when novelists become Cubists; that is, when they see
the possibilities of making a hieroglyph, a coherent symbol,
an ideogram of the total work. A symbol comes into being
when an artist sees that it is the only way to get all the meaning in."
* See "Starlight Like Intuition" by Delmore Schwartz.
The "Twelve" of the title may be regarded as cube edges.
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Show
Tell
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Saturday, June 11, 2022
Friday, June 10, 2022
An image from posts tagged The Fano Hallows —
Related material —
The new URL Combinatorics.space forwards to . . .
http://finitegeometry.org/sc/ .
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To me, the new URL "Songlines.space" suggests both the Outback
and the University of Western Australia. For the former, see
"'Max Barry' + Lexicon" in this journal. For the latter, see SymOmega.
The new URL forwards to a combination of these posts.
A related song —
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Thursday, June 9, 2022
The "inscape.club" of the previous post suggests Princeton's
"Triangle Club." Related material —
From the December 14, 2021, post Notes on Lines —
The triangle, a percussion instrument that was
featured prominently in the Tom Stoppard play
"Every Good Boy Deserves Favour."
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The new URL "inscape.club" forwards to …
http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=Inscape .
* For the "correspondences" of the above title, see …
http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=Correspondences+Ninth .
"He was looking at the nine engravings and at the circle,
checking strange correspondences between them."
– The Club Dumas , 1993
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Wednesday, June 8, 2022
Image from Matrix.Bingo —
Commentary added on June 8, 2022 —
"First we'll show and tell
'Till I reach your pony tail"
— Song lyric
Another image from Matrix.Bingo —
From a more recent Sandra Bullock film —
The times are still a-changin'.
(Remark adapted from a webpage of Halloween 2020.)
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Tonight is Replacement Eve —
"The metaphor for metamorphosis no keys unlock" — Cullinane, 1986
Related remarks —
From a Log24 search for "Notation+Levi-Strauss" —
"There is such a thing as a four-set."
— Motto adapted from a 1962 young-adult novel.
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Tuesday, June 7, 2022
The new URL matrix.bingo forwards to
http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=5×5 .
“If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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A mathematician from earlier Log24 posts
that were tagged IDE of March —
A related IDE —
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See Knoxville in this journal and . . .
"Feed your head." — Grace Slick.
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Monday, June 6, 2022
"Living in Los Angeles is living in the cradle of the industry I fantasized about being a part of since my father gifted me his Sears Super-8 movie camera when I was seven years old. Hollywood is a city but it is also a mythology. A magical fantasy. A living dream. And yes, a dream is a mere sigh away from becoming a nightmare. Many tears have been shed around this town. They’ve been watering the soil for generations, adding more lush green to this transient desert mirage. As Nathanael West wrote in his ode to those on the fringes of Hollywood in his 1939 novel, The Day of the Locust , ‘Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears.' "
— Adam Rifkin, quoted on Jan. 25, 2022
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See related remarks from a different author in a Log24 search
for a John O'Hara title, "Hope of Heaven."
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Sunday, June 5, 2022
Continued from Old Dog, New Trick yesterday
and Blancanieves Waltz this morning . . .
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* Title suggested by the above suit of lights and the film Blancanieves .
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Saturday, June 4, 2022
C. S. Lewis on myth —
"The stories I am thinking of always have a very simple narrative shape—
a satisfactory and inevitable shape, like a good vase or a tulip."
The image and quote are from posts tagged Spectral Valhalla.
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Bill Walker, Nashville Force as
Conductor and Arranger, Dies at 95
" 'You are there to make the artist sound good,
not to show how clever you can be,' Mr. Walker said
of his philosophy of recording in a 2015 interview at
the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville."
— Bill Friskics-Warren in The New York Times yesterday
Bill, some artists sound good without much help.
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Friday, June 3, 2022
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE:
GROTHENDIECK, A MULTIFARIOUS GIANT:
MATHEMATICS, LOGIC AND PHILOSOPHY
CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY, ORANGE (CA)
— BECKMAN HALL, ROOM 106 MAY 24TH-28TH, 2022 . . .
27th Friday
4:30 – 5:30 Christian Houzel (IUFM de Paris):
Riemann surfaces after Grothendieck
[presented by J.J. Szczeciniarz]
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Related reading for enthusiasts of the Black Arts —
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See also Bernays in this journal.
Related reading:
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A Jan. 8, 2018, image from earlier Log24 posts tagged The Overnight Case —
A related earlier image —
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Wednesday March 10, 2004 — m759 @ 4:07 AM
Ennui of the First Idea
“Language was no more than a collection of meaningless conventional signs, and life could absurdly end at any moment. He [Mallarmé] became aware, in Millan’s* words, ‘of the extremely fine line
separating absence and presence, being and nothingness, life and death, which later … he could place at the very centre of his work and make the cornerstone of his personal philosophy and his mature poetics.’ “
— John Simon, "Squaring the Circle"
* A Throw of the Dice: The Life of Stéphane Mallarmé ,
by Gordon Millan
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See also Cornerstone.
Not-so-mature poetics —
… and completely im mature poetics —
See as well other posts now tagged Taiji , a search for Chinese Checkers,
and a recent Harvard Crimson piece by Gish Jen.
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Thursday, June 2, 2022
"… the self-enclosing processes by which late 20th-century
American academics established and secured their status
(you painfully develop a thesis in competition with your peers,
then you keep on elaborating it until you die)."
This excellent passage is from . . .
The book under review above is
Here and There: Sites of Philosophy ,
from Harvard University Press.
The target of the new URL neither.site is
http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=Harvard+Philosophy.
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"The number THREE is the formula of creation"
— From a novel by Balzac
See as well last midnight's "The Separatrix: 6/2."
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"“The Corporation can’t do its work if it’s perfectly transparent.”
— The president of Harvard on the university's governing body,
quoted in The Crimson on 26 May 2022
See as well Transparent Nabokov in this journal.
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"The proof: On June 9 Facebook will be buried.
Then will rise Meta Platforms, which will
completely replace the giant of social networks.
On this day, the stock symbol FB, which represents
Facebook, will be replaced by META, and
the transformation will be complete."
— Thestreet.com yesterday — "Zuckerberg
Buries Facebook and Turns to His Next Big Thing"
Related entertainment — Black Mirror S5E1, "Striking Vipers."
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Mathematics and Narrative continues . . .
The Mystic Equation
"6/2 = 3"
as
Holy Seed:
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Wednesday, June 1, 2022
"… every sufficiently good analogy is yearning to become a functor."
— John Baez, 2004: "Lessons from Topological Quantum Field Theory"
Related images — Quoting scripture at The Master's University
on Jan. 31, 2017 —
… and some images (re)posted here on that same date — Jan. 31, 2017:
A related analogy — Between (1) and (2) below —
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A right triangle A as the sum of two smaller,
inner, right triangles B and C, each similar to A .
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The square on the longest side of A as the sum
of the squares on the longest sides of B and C.
Exercise for Baez fans: Express the above analogy as a functor.
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Tuesday, May 31, 2022
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Last night's posts on triangles, and today's anniversary of the
death of Evariste Galois, suggest a review . . .
"Take triangles, perhaps" . . . as a category.
And then . . . take squares, perhaps, as another category,
and then . . . find a suitable "translation machine."
See "Square Triangles."
* Title adapted from a 2001 essay by Pierre Cartier.
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Monday, May 30, 2022
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Sunday, May 29, 2022
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For some material much more on the theory side,
see a Log24 post from the above IG date — Nov. 18, 2020 —
in posts tagged Qubes —
.
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"Black art" → "Black magic"
Consider the source.
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Good question.
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Saturday, May 28, 2022
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Last two days of the conference, May 27 and 28, 2022 —
27th Friday
9:00 – 10:00 Andrés Villaveces (Univ. Nacional de Colombia):
Galoisian model theory:
the role(s) of Grothendieck (à son insu! )
10:00 – 11:00 Olivia Caramello (Univ. of Insubria; by Zoom):
The “unifying notion” of topos 1
1:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break
1:15 – 12:15 Mike Shulman (Univ. of San Diego):
Lifting Grothendieck universes to Grothendieck toposes
12:15 – 1:15 José Gil-Ferez (Chapman Univ.)
The Isomorphism Theorem of Algebraic Logic:
a Categorical Perspective
1:15 – 2:30 Lunch
2:30 – 3:30 Oumar Wone (Chapman) :
Vector bundles on Riemann surfaces according to
Grothendieck and his followers
3:30 – 4:30 Claudio Bartocci (Univ. of Genova):
The inception of the theory of moduli spaces:
Grothendieck's Quot scheme
4:30 – 5:30 Christian Houzel (IUFM de Paris):
Riemann surfaces after Grothendieck
[presented by J.J. Szczeciniarz]
28th Saturday
9:00 – 10:00 Silvio Ghilardi (Univ. degli Studi, Milano):
Investigating definability in propositional logic
via Grothendieck topologies and sheaves
10:00 – 11:00 Matteo Viale (Univ. of Turin; by zoom):
The duality between Boolean valuated models and
topological presheaves
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:15 Benjamin Collas (RIMS, Kyoto Univ.):
Galois-Teichmüller: arithmetic geometric principles
12:15 – 1:15 Closing: general discussion
animated by Alex Kurz (Chapman)
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I order the gin martini I’ve been anticipating
for the last twenty-four hours.
"Sorry. We only have wine.”
“You’re kidding me, right?”
He shrugs, reaching for a laminated pamphlet
that lists the bottles at his disposal.
It’s wine country, after all.
I start to read through the vineyards,
but the compound names quickly blur—
I don’t know a thing about wine.
I shut the menu.
“Something very cold and strong.”
— Steinhauer, Olen. All the Old Knives (p. 22).
St. Martin's Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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Friday, May 27, 2022
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Also on May 19 —
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The above scene from "Hanna" comes from a webpage
dated August 29, 2011. See also …
this journal on that date —
… and today's previous "Escape" post.
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"With the Tablet of Ahkmenrah and the Cube of Rubik,
my power will know no bounds!"
— Kahmunrah in a novelization of Night at the Museum:
Battle of the Smithsonian , Barron's Educational Series
Scholium —
Abstracting from narrative to structure, and from structure
to pure number, the Tablet of Ahkmenrah represents the
number 9 and the Cube of Rubik represents the number 27.
Returning from pure abstract numbers to concrete representations,
9 yields the structures in Log24 posts tagged Triangle.graphics,
and 27 yields a Galois cube .
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Thursday, May 26, 2022
Some images from 16 May 2022 —
* Title from a 2001 essay by Pierre Cartier.
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Wednesday, May 25, 2022
From the Amazon.com description of Colin Cantwell's space novel Corefires —
"Of the cargo, the data Crystals are the most important.
Necessary to life in space, they have to be protected at all costs."
Related merchandise — Disney Holocrons:
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The words in the above title were suggested by
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the title, Corefires , of a novel by the late
Colin Cantwell (see previous post).
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the place-name Temple, Texas , in the gas station
scene of "No Country for Old Men,"
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Log24 posts on the fictional cinematic Fire Temple,
and by …
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a folk etymology for the word "pyramid" —
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The New York Times yesterday ("2022-05-24T21:54:19.000Z")
on a Saturday, May 21, death —
"Colin Cantwell, an animator, conceptual artist and computer expert
who played significant production roles in seminal science fiction films
like '2001: A Space Odyssey,' 'Star Wars' and 'WarGames,' died
on May 21 at his home in Colorado Springs, Colo. He was 90."
Cantwell at Teotihuacan pyramid, September 26, 2019 —
A different image, also from September 26, 2019,
in other Log24 posts tagged Pyramid Game —
The letter labels, but not the tetrahedron, are from Whitehead’s
The Axioms of Projective Geometry (Cambridge U. Press, 1906),
page 13.
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Tuesday, May 24, 2022
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From a Jamestown (NY) Post-Journal article yesterday on
"the sold-out 10,000 Maniacs 40th anniversary concert at
The Reg Lenna Center Saturday" —
" 'The theater has a special place in our hearts. It’s played
a big part in my life,' Gustafson said.
Before being known as The Reg Lenna Center for The Arts,
it was formerly known as The Palace Theater. He recalled
watching movies there as a child…."
This, and the band's name, suggest some memories perhaps
better suited to the cinematic philosophy behind "Plan 9 from
Outer Space."
"With the Tablet of Ahkmenrah and the Cube of Rubik,
my power will know no bounds!"
— Kahmunrah in a novelization of Night at the Museum:
Battle of the Smithsonian , Barron's Educational Series
The above 3×3 Tablet of Ahkmenrah image comes from
a Log24 search for the finite (i.e., Galois) field GF(3) that
was, in turn, suggested by last night's post "Making Space."
See as well a mysterious document from a website in Slovenia
that mentions a 3×3 array "relating to nine halls of a mythical
palace where rites were performed in the 1st century AD" —
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Flashback to April 13, 2017 —
See also the post "Making Space"
in this journal on that date.
Related cinematic art:
A new film at Cannes has a character
named "Caprice" —
I prefer a different Caprice . . .
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Monday, May 23, 2022
* Alternate title:
"Time Is a Weapon,
or 4:45 Meets 8:38."
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"'Night Sky' is an absorbing series with an interesting premise
that marches to its own drummer…." — NY Post , May 18.
See as well posts tagged "Bedrock" in this journal.
"I need a photo opportunity . . . " — Paul Simon
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Sunday, May 22, 2022
Social Geometry, Social Physics . . .
and now Social Class —
* See other posts so tagged.
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From The Washington Post yesterday —
"Ben Roy Mottelson, an American-born physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for a groundbreaking explanation of the structure and behavior of the atomic nucleus, including its shape, its rotations and its oscillations, died May 13. He was 95. . . . .
Knowledge of nuclear structure is regarded as vital in weapons research, power generation and in solving the problems of astrophysics and the history of the universe.
In what is still regarded as one of the crowning achievements of nuclear physics, Dr. Mottelson helped show, using arguments and techniques from quantum theory, how each individual constituent of the nucleus — each proton and each neutron — exerted an effect on the properties and character of the nucleus as a whole. And vice versa." . . . .
— By Martin Weil, May 21, 2022, at 4:04 p.m. EDT
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From this journal on Friday the 13th of May —
"In magic, the will unites with the intellect in an
impassioned desire for supersensible knowledge.
This is the intellectual, aggressive, and scientific
temperament trying to extend its field of consciousness
[…] (Underhill 84; see also 178ff.)"
The reference above is to Underhill, Evelyn:
Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development
of Man’s Spiritual Consciousness.
New York: Dutton, 1911.
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Cannes Film Festival news in Variety yesterday —
"Östlund was last at Cannes with “The Square” in 2017, which
won the Palme d’Or. While there are many films left in competition
to screen, the reaction to “Triangle of Sadness” hints that
it could be a contender for one of the Cannes prizes."
“Triangle of Sadness” … takes its name from a fashion-world term for
the deep-V crease that appears between one’s eyebrows with stress
or age. Nothing a little Botox can’t fix."
For geometry of less social interest, see Friday's post "Squares to Triangles."
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Saturday, May 21, 2022
For the late actor Kenneth Welsh, who reportedly died at 80
on May 5, 2022 …
A Log24 search — Edmonton.
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Continued from yesterday, Eliza Doolittle Day.
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Jason Kehe at WIRED today —
"The Real Reason Matrix Resurrections Bombed"
. . . .
"Lana Wachowski’s film practically burns with mirrors, with self-scrutiny. The very first shot is of an upside-down someone walking toward us. It’s a reflection, it turns out, in a puddle. We’re in for inversions and reversals, Wachowski is signaling, and not just cinematographically. The first third of the movie or so recapitulates the events of the first Matrix, but badly, unconvincingly. 'Why use old code,' one character asks, 'to mirror something new?' The movie critiques, even hates on, itself. It looks in the mirror and doesn’t like what it sees."
. . . .
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Dr. Robert Ford — "Analysis."
* Title suggested by a textbook.
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Friday, May 20, 2022
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See "High Life" in this journal.
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Thursday, May 19, 2022
A literary note by the author of The Eight published on April 8, 2022 —
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See also a Log24 post from 2010, "Class of 64."
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Wednesday, May 18, 2022
An image from Slovenia missed earlier* in the search above —
"Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera." — Oscar Hammerstein
* See "Robin Wilson" in the Design Grammar post of
19 Oct. 2017. The author of the above document may
or may not be the Robin Wilson of Gresham College.
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The New York Times this afternoon —
From Log24 on the Catholic dies natalis of
the von Trapp daughter above —
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"Literature is not demography, nor is it politics, even if it is quite often political. Progress, at least when it comes to cultural production, becomes lasting not when one is trying to join the reigning establishment, or lamenting how exclusionary it is (it so often is!), but, to quote that anti-Semite Ezra Pound, when one seeks, in the first place, to make it new ."
— Mordechai Levy-Eichel and Daniel Scheinerman on
May 17, 2022, in The Chronicle of Higher Education —
"Digital humanists need to learn how to count:
A prominent recent book in the field
suffers serious methodological pitfalls."
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And then there are methodological sinkholes —
See Log24 posts tagged Sinkhole and . . .
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Tuesday, May 17, 2022
See also . . .
http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=Prism .
Further searching, on the wider Web, yields . . .
"Blair has multiple sclerosis, a condition Didion shared."
— Susan Burton, review of Mean Baby , NY Times 15 May 2022
Another recent narrative about Didion and MS —
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Daniel Radcliffe in the recent film "The Lost City" —
301
00:15:51,476 –> 00:15:54,513
Um, some might call me
a collector.
302
00:15:54,617 –> 00:15:58,310
But there is one obsession
in particular
303
00:15:58,414 –> 00:16:00,519
that has held me captive.
304
00:16:01,693 –> 00:16:03,177
The Crown of Fire
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From the Log24 post "Fish Babel" —
The final page, 759, of the Harry Potter saga —
Sunday, July 14, 2013
Filed under: General — m759 @ 8:25 PM Edit This
"Warming to the question of what it means to read a poem backward…."
— Essayist in a New Yorker weblog on July 11, 2013
“Death itself would start working backwards.”
— Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia , 1950
"I twisted my mind like a bright ribbon, folded it,
and tied the crazy Christmas knots I love so well."
— Roger Zelazny, A Rose for Ecclesiastes , 1963
"All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flame are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one."
— T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets , 1942
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See also some context for these quotations.
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Monday, May 16, 2022
"By a knight of lines and shadows
I summoned am to tourney…"
— Adapted from "Tom O' Bedlam's Song"
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Updates from later the same day —
Related affine structures —
See also "Square+Triangles" in this journal.
The fishlike shapes within three of the above
ninefold colored triangles suggest some . . .
Related Entertainment —
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Sunday, May 15, 2022
A flashback from posts of Feb. 14, 2013 —
More hype from Chapman —
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See also posts tagged "Will the Circle" and a Carter family song.
(The YouTube upload date on that song is not without interest.)
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Saturday, May 14, 2022
Click the image for a related news story.
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Friday, May 13, 2022
Fred Ward, an actor, reportedly died on Sunday, May 8, 2022.
Music that was used on the soundtrack of one of his films —
In memory of Ward and Nin-Culmell — See Jan. 14, 2004, in this journal.
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The above title is a reference to the time of the previous post.
Nightmare Alley fans may enjoy . . .
Those who prefer pure mathematics to entertainments of this sort
may meditate on the geometric properties of the number 56.
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Byron Gogol's "Dutton" remark suggests a search for that term
in this journal. That search, and tonight's previous post, suggest
a passage on magic and mysticism published by Dutton in 1911 —
"The fundamental difference between the two is this:
magic wants to get, mysticism wants to give […]
In mysticism the will is united with the emotions in
an impassioned desire to transcend the sense-world
in order that the self may be joined by love to
the one eternal and ultimate Object of love […]
In magic, the will unites with the intellect in an
impassioned desire for supersensible knowledge.
This is the intellectual, aggressive, and scientific
temperament trying to extend its field of consciousness
[…] (Underhill 84; see also 178ff.)"
The reference above is to Underhill, Evelyn:
Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development
of Man’s Spiritual Consciousness.
New York: Dutton, 1911.
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A new article on Norwegian artist Josefine Lyche was added
to the Norwegian Wikipedia on May the Fourth, 2022.
Meanwhile . . .
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Thursday, May 12, 2022
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In memory of an actor who reportedly died on May 7 —
"Mr. Jenkin's play aspires to a Borgesian take on
American cultural rubble (pulp novels, films noir,
diner menus, pop songs, etc.), here assembled into
a labyrinthine, coincidence-driven and self-consciously
artificial plot." — Ben Brantley, New York Times ,1996
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Wednesday, May 11, 2022
… in the Multiverse of Madness
Para los muertos —
"Where's my Bible?"
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A Story That Works
“There is the dark, eternally silent, unknown universe;
there are the friend-enemy minds shouting and whispering
their tales and always seeking the three miracles —
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that minds should really touch, or
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that the silent universe should speak, tell minds a story,
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or (perhaps the same thing) that there should be a story
that works, that is all hard facts, all reality, with
no illusions and no fantasy;
and lastly, there is lonely, story-telling, wonder-questing,
mortal me.”
– Fritz Leiber in “The Button Molder“
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♫ "Will the record be unbroken . . . ?"
— Adapted song lyric
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Tuesday, May 10, 2022
A link to
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/
2022/05/16/how-queer-was-ludwig-wittgenstein
appeared today in my RSS feed as . . .
Related remarks: Art Space, a Log24 post of 7 May 2017.
The art above is by one Alexis Beauclair. See as well
an earlier illustration, also credited to Beauclair —
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From the Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM) —
Related remarks —
"The form, the pattern" — T. S. Eliot — and . . .
See as well the new URLs ternary.space and ternary.group.
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Monday, May 9, 2022
From The DIadem of Death (May 29, 2008) —
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Click to enlarge.
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From the Log24 search Form + MLA —
See . . .
as well as . . .
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A tune from the conclusion of Episode 1 of Season 3,
"A Discovery of Witches" —
I prefer the Carter Family version and, from the YouTube upload date
of the above British version . . .
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Sunday, May 8, 2022
(Image from Vieux Carré , Jan. 20, 2022)
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From a Wikipedia article suggested by the previous post —
"A recurring theme among these characters
is that a dead human has been reanimated
with cybernetic technology."
"Tamen usque recurret . . . ." (Phrase originally from Horace.)
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… who reportedly died on Friday, May 6, 2022.
See as well Wonder Woman in this journal.
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Saturday, May 7, 2022
Related material — Posts tagged Interality and Seven Seals.
From Hermann Weyl's 1952 classic Symmetry —
"Galois' ideas, which for several decades remained
a book with seven seals but later exerted a more
and more profound influence upon the whole
development of mathematics, are contained in
a farewell letter written to a friend on the eve of
his death, which he met in a silly duel at the age of
twenty-one. This letter, if judged by the novelty and
profundity of ideas it contains, is perhaps the most
substantial piece of writing in the whole literature
of mankind."
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Update to yesterday's "Use Your Noodle" post . . .
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Update of 2:40 AM May 7, 2022 —
Flusser's seven "pillars" appear to be the main sections of the Tractatus
— numbered 1 through 7, with many intermediate numbered passages.
For a more geometric meditation on "the shape of things," see other
posts tagged "Shape Constant" in this journal.
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Friday, May 6, 2022
https://www.spotern.com/en/spot/tv/the-blacklist/7939/
the-borsalino-raymond-reddington-james-spader-in-the-blacklist
Related material —
"A good, involving mystery featuring strong characters and
prose as smooth as the brim of a fedora, this novel makes
smart points about writing, publishing and the cult of mysteries."
— Review of A Smile on the Face of the Tiger
See also . . .
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An essay from . . .
The Shape of Things: A Philosophy of Design
by Vilem Flusser
Wittgenstein’s Architecture
The universe of texts can be seen as a landscape. In it one can make out mountains and valleys, rivers and lakes, castles, farmyards and inner-city slums. On the horizon of the scene visualized in this way, the Bible and Homer appear as gigantic ice-covered mountains. The vast, tranquil lake of Aristotle’s texts, where fishermen idly throw their nets and philologists row their boats, occupies a part of the valley bottom. There, the tumbling waterfall of Nietzsche is captured by the broad river of modern pragmatism. Towering above everything, the Gothic cathedral of St Thomas Aquinas’s Summae dominates the cathedral square of the city, in which the roofs and gables of Baroque speculations jostle one another. In the suburbs of this city, one catches sight of the Romantic, Realist and Modernist housing-blocks and factories of more recent litera¬ ture; somewhat apart from all these stands a small, apparently insignificant house resembling scaffolding more than a finished building: Wittgenstein’s building.
This little house is called the Tractatus. This name isn’t the product of a one-track mind. For when one enters the house, one notices immediately that this is not a place that has lost track of things. Quite the opposite: It is a place of mirror- images. The house stands on six foundation pillars which support one another by means of cross-beams organized in a hierarchy. In the middle, however, there rises a seventh pillar whose function it is to cut through the building and free it from the ground. So the house with all its corners, angles and joints is protected, armoured and impregnable. And yet, and for that very reason, it is threatened with collapse and disappearance without trace – condemned in advance and from the outset.
The building is set out: It consists of propositions. Every proposition presupposes all the preceding ones and is itself the 76 presupposition of all the following propositions. Proposition by proposition, anyone who enters progresses through the prescribed rooms, and his step is supported by consistencies. Suddenly, with one proposition, one single proposition, the ground gives way beneath his feet. He falls head first into the abyss.
Wittgenstein’s house is situated in a suburb of that city whose cathedral square is dominated by the towers of Thomas Aquinas’s cathedral. The small, modest pillars of Wittgenstein’s house support one another according to the same logico- philosophical method as the pillars of the cathedral support one another. But there appears to be a world of difference between the cathedral and the little house: The cathedral is a ship pointing in the direction of heaven, and the little house is a trap-door pointing in the direction of a bottomless abyss. But be careful: May Thomas Aquinas not have been right in saying after his revelation that everything he had written before was like straw? May not the heaven above the cathedral be the same black hole as the abyss beneath the little house? May not Wittgenstein’s little house be the cathedral of today? And those mirrors whose images simultaneously mirror one another, may they not be our equivalent of stained-glass windows?
The landscape portrayed in this essay, it goes without saying, is a metaphor. Is it possible to identify it as Vienna? And is it possible for anyone entering Wittgenstein’s little house in that unlikely place to make out a hint of the unsayable? What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence. 77
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See as well . . .
Update of 2:40 AM May 7, 2022 —
Flusser's seven "pillars" appear to be the main sections of the Tractatus
— numbered 1 through 7, with many intermediate numbered passages.
For a more geometric meditation on "the shape of things," see other
posts tagged "Shape Constant" in this journal.
*Byron Gogol is a tech magnate in the HBO series "Made for Love."
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WIkipedia on the URL suffix ".io" —
"In computer science, "IO" or "I/O" is commonly used
as an abbreviation for input/output, which makes the
.io domain desirable for services that want to be
associated with technology. .io domains are often used
for open source projects, application programming
interfaces ("APIs"), startup companies, browser games,
and other online services."
An association with the Bead Game from a post of April 7, 2018 —
Glasperlenspiel passage quoted here in Summa Mythologica —
“"I suddenly realized that in the language, or at any rate
in the spirit of the Glass Bead Game, everything actually
was all-meaningful, that every symbol and combination of
symbols led not hither and yon, not to single examples,
experiments, and proofs, but into the center, the mystery
and innermost heart of the world, into primal knowledge.
Every transition from major to minor in a sonata, every
transformation of a myth or a religious cult, every classical
or artistic formulation was, I realized in that flashing moment,
if seen with a truly meditative mind, nothing but a direct route
into the interior of the cosmic mystery, where in the alternation
between inhaling and exhaling, between heaven and earth,
between Yin and Yang, holiness is forever being created.”
A less poetic meditation on the above 4x4x4 design cube —
"I saw that in the alternation between front and back,
between top and bottom, between left and right,
symmetry is forever being created."
See also a related remark by Lévi-Strauss in 1955:
"…three different readings become possible:
left to right, top to bottom, front to back."
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The recent use by a startup company of the URL "interality.io" suggests
a fourth reading for the 1955 list of Lévi-Strauss — in and out —
i.e., inner and outer group automorphisms — from a 2011 post
on the birthday of T. S. Eliot :
A transformation:
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See "Flusser and the I Ching," by Peter Zhang.
Zhang has written extensively on the concept of "interality,"
a term coined by his colleague Geling Shang.
For interality as the mathematics underlying the natural
automorphism group of the I Ching, see my own work.
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Thursday, May 5, 2022
See also "Interality" in this journal.
Update of 8:56 AM ET
Friday, May 6, 2022:
“You have to all have a shared language of all this stuff,
otherwise it can get pretty confusing,” Waldron said.
The Waldron quote is from . . .
"‘Doctor Strange 2’ Writer Michael Waldron Wishes
That He Didn’t Make So Many Multiverse Rules In ‘Loki’ .
Later, at 9:29 AM ET . . .
See as well other posts now tagged Strange Change.
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In memory of a comic-book artist —
His views on physics at
http://web.archive.org/web/20060805085915/
http://nealadams.com/PhysicsOfGrow.html
… and a New Yorker cartoon from
his reported date of death — April 28 —
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Wednesday, May 4, 2022
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