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Related reading:

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Grid Language —

Grid Logic —

Tesseract  in this journal and "The Unmagicking."

See as well posts tagged May the Fourth.

Six uses of "overarching" in an Aeon  essay today —

• "an overarching story of life"
• "the overarching themes of thresholds and energy flows"
• "the overarching stages of human history"
• "an overarching evolutionary perspective"
• "overarching directional development"
• "the overarching laws of science"

See also "overarching" in this  journal.

This post was suggested by Chapter Two, "The Sprite and the Synergist,"
of Alfred Bester's The Deceivers , and by . . .

"Enthusiasts of group theory or incidence structures may enjoy reading about Tits'
work, such as Tits buildings, the Tits alternative, the Tits group, and the Tits metric."

— Annie Rauwerda, Boing Boing  reporter.  See also Tits in this  journal.

Related material: Smallfield.

Click for the soundscape "Nothing Is Real."

Related material — See KenKen in this journal.

As for BarbieBarbie . . .

* In honor of Sondheim, recent posts are now
  tagged with a phrase from a different show — 
  Send in the Clowns.

  Speaking of which . . .

Personally, I prefer  To Catch a Thief —

“Breast or Thigh”?

"Faced with a larger surface than he had ever provided with facets,
in his desperation he had divided the diamond with imaginary lines,
treating each section as if it were a single small stone and arranging
the clusters of facets so they would interact with one another, as if they
were single facets in a smaller stone.  What if the final result lacked fire?"

— Novel* by Noah Gordon, who reportedly died on Monday, Nov. 22.

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German translation of an April 1, 1979, novel.

Click for College of the Desert  in Log24.

From the online New York Times  today —

A related cinematic fiction —

Jake, it could be worse . . .

Details from yesterday's "Ities" image —

Some less abstract imagery —

* For James Joyce fans, a phrase suggested by the "ities" of the title —

Itty Bitty Titty Ditty.

Google reveals that this phrase was used as a poem title on 
September 3, 2011 . . .

Some may enjoy seeking the significance of the poem's date .

  1 2  3  4
   who are    we      for?

The title is from yesterday's 8:19 PM post.
An image from yesterday's 12:31 PM post —

What happens when the Logies  meet the Ities ?

A clue . . .

Some context:  A search in this journal for Lovelace.

The previous post suggests a followup . . .

The Times's obnoxious phrase "compelling options" suggests a review of . . .

The Birth of the Blues

From the above Rock obituary —

"One friend, whom he had met early in his time
at Cambridge, was Syd Barrett of the band Pink Floyd."

See as well "Crazy Diamond" in this  journal.

Or maybe Lucy.

♫   "Amazing Space . . ."

"… let’s stick to the math that gets our hot dogs to match our buns."

— https://www.quantamagazine.org/
the-secret-math-of-hot-dogs-and-buns-20211118/

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A footnote to history about St. Andrew's Day 2020 —

Related note —

Art Date:

"The serpent's eyes shine
As he wraps around the vine"
— Don Henley, The Garden of Allah

♫  "Make me a palette on your floor . . . ."

Above: Instagram profile image,
Georgia O’Keeffe with Pelvis Series, Red with Yellow, 1945. 

Below: Instagram image of art by the late Etel Adnan.

Α, ϴ, Ω 

Alpha,    Theta,    Omega

Related line: 

"Falls  the  Shadow."
 

Also from a Culture Desk  of sorts:

Related art — Background colors for the letters in the NPR logo —

"I just found me a brand new box of matches …"

Santa Fe.

“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”
— Saying attributed to Harvard linguist Anthony Oettinger

"I walked all the way through the park over to
the Museum of Natural History. I knew that was
the museum the kid with the skate key meant.”

— The Catcher in the Rye

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