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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 . . .

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.

*

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.

♫   "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

Fermata.

From a New York Times  online obituary today
by Bill Friskics-Warren —

"a role fulfilled with preternatural command"

The same meter in the Wikipedia article Alexandrine —

"Ye sacred Bards, that to your harps' melodious strings…"

From posts in a search for Aurora —

We put the ass  in class .

See as well my own remarks on the above keynote date — Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012.

"… thinking starts with a problem, a difficulty, a contradiction."
— The late Arthur Mattuck of MIT in last night's post Gestalt .

"The 'technical support' is an underlying ground for aesthetic practice
that supports the work of art as canvas supported oil paint."

— MIT Press on the book by Rosalind Krauss titled Under Blue Cup .

From Grid View and List View (Log24, 15 April 2021) —

In memory of an emeritus MIT professor who reportedly
died on October 8, 2021 —

"Thinking starts with a problem
Located somewhere between behaviorism and introspection,
the school of gestalt psychology  teaches that thinking starts
with a problem, a difficulty, a contradiction. It sounds like a truism,
yet is widely ignored in practice. Teachers say their aim is to get
their students to think, yet in classroom after classroom they
violate this psychological principle by giving the solution before
there is any problem."

— Arthur Mattuck in . . .

https://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-18-004-the-torch-or-the-firehose-
a-guide-to-section-teaching-spring-2009/online-publication/chapter4.pdf

This is a sequel to yesterday's post Query .

Along with Pawbeats, I'd rather look at Little Caprice.

From the Los Angeles Review of Books  today —

But did he ever find the church  basement of Western philosophy?

See http://narthex.site.

Pomona .