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Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Recorded and edited By Aniela Jaffé, From pages 195-196:
“Only gradually did I discover what the mandala really is:
* Faust , Part Two, trans. by Philip Wayne (Harmondsworth,
… Gestaltung, Umgestaltung,
Jung’s “Formation, Transformation” quote is from The speaker is Mephistopheles. |
"I have too much backstory" — Bryan Cranston, 2012
Or not enough.
For more about the Sacred Timeline, see other posts tagged Social Calendar.
"Only poets and schizophrenics communicate in language
that defies rational analysis, and poets do not normally
do so in ordinary conversation . . . . They also do it with
a certain elegance, lacking in this case, and usually with
some kind of rhythm and sonority."
— Robert Anton Wilson, Quantum Psychology ,
discussing the following situation in a mental hospital:
"A strange man had approached and said, 'I'm not Slavic.'
Many paranoids begin a conversation with such assertions,
vitally important to them, but sounding a bit strange to
the rest of us."
See as well the previous two posts and a web page that
discusses whether Romania is a Slavic country.
Related material: Heidegger on "the night of lunacy."
Robert A. Wilson on symmetries of the ninefold square —
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"All of these ideas have shown promise at some time or other, and some are still under active investigation. But my conclusion after all this work is that the part of algebra that shows the most promise for genuinely useful applications to fundamental physics is the representation theory, real, complex, integral and modular, of the group GL(2, 3). There is, of course, no guarantee that a viable theory can be built on this foundation. But it appears to be the only part of algebra that both has a reasonable chance of success and has not already been exhaustively explored in the physics literature. It is therefore worth serious consideration." — "Potential applications of modular representation theory to quantum mechanics," arXiv, May 28, 2021, revised June 7, 2021. |
See as well GL(2,3) in this journal .
Some may consider more relevant the remarks of a different Robert A. Wilson —
The title was suggested by a New Yorker photo caption
about Yale on June 19, 2021 —
"Amy Chua, a celebrity professor at the top-ranked
law school in the country, is at the center of a
campus-wide fracas known as 'Dinner Party-gate.' "
Other recent Yale material —
Remarks related to New Haven and geometry —
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From the author in the previous post:
See as well Annals of Experimental Theology and Relativity Blues.
See as well a search in this journal for Feng Shui.
The above phrase "the intersection of storytelling and visual arts"
suggests a review . . .
Storytelling —
Visual arts —
"This pattern is a square divided into nine equal parts.
It has been called the 'Holy Field' division and
was used throughout Chinese history for many
different purposes, most of which were connected
with things religious, political, or philosophical."
– The Magic Square: Cities in Ancient China,
by Alfred Schinz, Edition Axel Menges, 1996, p. 71
A Midrash for Michener —
For a connection of the above "Holy Field"
with pure mathematics, see Coxeter's Aleph.
From Number and Time ,
by Marie-Louise von Franz,
Northwestern U. Press paperback,
December 31, 1974 —
Star Wars Chess:
Originally chess seems to have represented an earthly mirror-image of "the stars' battles in Heaven,"22 an outline of those battles from which man's destiny proceeded. 22. See Joseph Needham, Science and Civilization in China (Cambridge, 1959), III, 540ff., 303ff.; see also IV, pt. 1, 230, 265, 327 ff.
From the recent film The New Mutants —
Anya Taylor-Joy plays in a pool:
"Roll credits."
The above title is from Wallace Stevens.
Related meditations — This journal on March 9, 2021, and . . .
See as well recent posts in this journal
now tagged The Chinese Room Experiment.
For the source of the above Wallace Stevens phrase, see (for instance) . . .
The above weblog post on Stevens is dated November 17, 2010.
Posts in this weblog on that same date and its eve are now tagged . . .
Related Scholarly Remarks:
* I.e., for Philip Pullman, author of His Dark Materials .
Those who prefer fiction to reality may consult
a Baja-related search in this journal for "Sea of Cortez."
That search in turn suggests a Fandom webpage related
to yesterday's post "Perspective" —
https://davidmitchell.fandom.com/wiki/Luisa_Rey.
"Luisa Rey is played by Halle Berry in the Wachowski siblings'
2012 adaptation of Cloud Atlas . . . . Her name is based on
The Bridge of San Luis Rey . . . ."
"Similarities and parallels can be drawn between alebrijes
and various supernatural creatures from Mexico's indigenous
and European past." — Wikipedia on the subject of today's
Google Doodle.
"Today’s Doodle celebrates the 115th birthday of
a Mexican artist who turned his dreams into reality…."
Not always a good idea. See the novel in the previous post.
"The ability to imagine is the largest part of what you call intelligence.
You think the ability to imagine is merely a useful step on the way to
solving a problem or making something happen. But imagining it is
what makes it happen.
This is the gift of your species and this is the danger, because you
do not choose to control your imaginings. You imagine wonderful things
and you imagine terrible things, and you take no responsibility for the
choice. You say you have inside you both the power of good and the
power of evil, the angel and the devil, but in truth you have just one
thing inside you—the ability to imagine."
— Michael Crichton, Sphere
I prefer a different tune . . . Number 117 on
Cara Delevingne's Wall of Sound (click to enlarge):
From the Wikipedia Manual of Style —
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Writing About Fiction . . .
An in-universe perspective describes the narrative |
Scholium:
Related art:
Some background:
See as well Klarwein in this journal.
I prefer Cara Delevingne's Wall of Sound (click to enlarge):
See as well the Kree vs. the Skrulls.
"… an abundance of types of spaces
can be an extremely confusing situation
to a beginner." — The late Martin Schechter
As can an abundance of types of races.
See as well . . .
April 11, 2020, was the dies natalis ,
in the Catholic sense,
of John Horton Conway.
"Mr. Meislin was in Mexico City in 1985
when it was devastated by earthquakes,
killing thousands."
See also posts now tagged Timequake .
Note of 10:44 AM ET, Friday, June 25, 2021 —
"Stephen Elliot Dunn was born on June 24,
1939, in Forest Hills, Queens . . . ."
— https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/25/
books/stephen-dunn-poet-dead.html
Update of 11:07 AM ET the same day —
From Dunn's obituary —
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Whether writing about matters small or large,
“Even your most serious problem,” he said,
— By Neil Genzlinger, New York Times , |
"We have much to discover." — Saying attributed to
Christopher Marlowe in a TV series. See posts now tagged 4X.
Midrash for Doctorow —
Scholium for Pullman —
"We have much to discover." — Actor portraying
Christopher Marlowe to actress Elaine Cassidy in a TV series.
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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. |
Punch Line . . .
Wrap Party!
"There's a concert hall in Vienna
Where your mouth had a thousand reviews"
— Leonard Cohen lyric, "Take This Waltz" *
From the June 22 Architectural Digest video of
Cara Delevingne's home —
"I went to a garden party to reminisce with my old friends:
A chance to share old memories and play our songs again.
When I got to the garden party, they all knew my name…
No one recognized me, I didn't look the same."
From a June 21 Instagram story —
From Ernest Hemingway's The Garden of Eden —
She slipped out of bed and stood straight with her long brown legs
and her beautiful body tanned evenly from the far beach where they
swam without suits. She held her shoulders back and her chin up
and she shook her head so her heavy tawny hair slapped around
her cheeks and then bowed forward so it all fell forward and covered
her face. She pulled the striped shirt over her head and then shook
her hair back and then sat in the chair in front of the mirror on the
dresser and brushed it back looking at it critically. It fell to the top of
her shoulders. She shook her head at the mirror. Then she pulled on
her slacks and belted them and put on her faded blue rope-soled shoes.
"I have to ride up to Aigues Mortes," she said.
"Good," he said. "I'll come too."
"No. I have to go alone. It's about the surprise."
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Why the Playboy pinball backglass art flashed briefly into the video
at 2:03, I do not know. It appears in full later in the video.
* See (for instance) https://www.ulyssesguide.com/15-circe.
The title is a phrase by Wallace Stevens suggested by
the time of the previous post, 10:06, as a date .
From a search in this journal for Nocturnal —
"But it's the pelvic thrust
That really drives you insane
Let's do the Time Warp again"
"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
Here is the source of an image from the "tour a book"
link target in the previous post —
Note the time and date: Midnight on the morning of Oct. 26, 2015.
Synchronology check: From that date, posts now tagged Critical Space Theory.
* The fictional Claire Randall of the above song, and the real
Claire Randall, murdered by her father on December 8, 2016.
Resonant Date
The above image is from a post of Dec. 14, 2016, titled "Outer Sanctum."
See as well an Esquire magazine, UK, article in the Jan/Feb 2017 issue
. . . with the issuu.com date Dec. 14, 2016 (pp. 140-141 ff.) —
* Title from a scene in "The Net."
From the previous post:
"Words are events, happenings, not things,
as letters make them appear to be."
— Walter J. Ong, S.J., page 2 in
"Writing and the Evolution of Consciousness,"
". . . originally delivered by Walter J. Ong
as the 7th Annual 'Sidney Warhaft Memorial Lecture',
January 26, 1984, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg."
A different Sidney Warhaft memorial —
Photographs are also events.
See this journal on the above photo date — Sept. 17, 2014.
Lest the title of the TV series in the previous post, "The Chi,"
be mistaken for a reference to the Greek letter chi …
"Words are events, happenings, not things,
as letters make them appear to be."
— Walter J. Ong, S.J., page 2 in
"Writing and the Evolution of Consciousness,"
in Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal ,
Vol. 18, No. 1 (Winter 1985), pp. 1-10 (11 pages,
counting the prefatory page with a photo of Ong).
Published by: University of Manitoba.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24777620
". . . originally delivered by Walter J. Ong
as the 7th Annual 'Sidney Warhaft Memorial Lecture',
January 26, 1984, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg."
See as well . . .
This post was suggested by the repeated occurrences of
the word "syntactic" in . . .
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John F. Fleischauer
Last Updated on May 6, 2015, by eNotes Editorial.
SOURCE: “John Updike's Prose Style:
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“Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels . . . .” — Song lyric quoted in
the post Searching for the May Queen: The Amsterdam Windows .
"Ready on the left . . . Ready on the right . . . "
— Military expression
"O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon"
— John Milton, Samson Agonistes
"O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark"
— T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
Continues.
Lyrics from Bruce Springsteen and
the Pointer Sisters —
Well, Romeo and Juliet, Samson and Delilah
Baby you can bet a love they couldn't deny
My words say split, but my words they lie
Cause when we kiss, ooh, fire
{Bridge}
Oh fire
Kisses like fire…
Burn me up with fire
I like what you're doin now, fire
Touchin' me, fire
Touchin' me, burnin me, fire
Take me home
Related remarks (suggested by Emma Stone's appearance
in the "Drop Me a Line" post of August 30, 2015) —
The title is from the previous post,
J. Hillis Miller paraphrasing Milton.
See "Darkness Visible" in this journal.
"Pray for the grace of accuracy." — Robert Lowell
What is wrong with this picture?
Related material from November 22, 2018 —
Sir Laurence Olivier, in "Term of Trial" (1962), dangles
a participle in front of schoolboy Terence Stamp:
"Walking to school today
my arithmetic book
fell into the gutter"
"… a difficult novel just sits there on your shelf unread —
unless you happen to be a student, in which case you're
obliged to turn the pages of Woolf and Beckett."
— Jonathan Franzen in The New Yorker , 30 September 2002
"Fiction is storytelling, and our reality arguably consists of
the stories we tell about ourselves."
For Kristen Breitweiser
"Daisy, when she comes to tea at Nick's house,
refers to the flowers brought by Gatsby as being
appropriate for a funeral and asks 'Where's the corpse?'
Gatsby enters immediately thereafter. This foreshadows
what will happen to Gatsby. The dialogue is not in the novel…."
— Discussion of the 2000 TV movie version in
Learning Guide to The Great Gatsby
Correction to the midrash:
Sorvino actually says, when there is a knock at the door,
"That must be the corpse."
The number 24 may be studied via various geometrical models.
Here is one such model* —
— From a book published in 1999 by Harvard University Press:
* Note for pedagogues: Latour's "three ranks" should be "three files."
Ranks are horizontal, files vertical. Also, there may be more than 24
compartments in the cabinet, but Latour discusses only those shown.
Items from the Dark Matter Research Unit office in
the recent HBO version of His Dark Materials —
Closeup of the I Ching book:
Closeup of parquet-style patterns in a 4x4x2 array —
From "A Four-Color Theorem:
Function Decomposition Over a Finite Field" —
Related material —
An image from Monday's post
"Scholastic Observation" —
Miller died on February 7, 2021.
See that date in this journal —
“Before time began, there was the Cube.”
— Hassenfeld Brothers cinematic merchandising slogan.
Update at noon on Wednesday, June 9, 2021 —
Related material on Frye and deconstruction —
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From "The First Major Theoretician? Northrop Frye Towards the end of his career, when it was clear that literary theory had taken hold in the academy, Frye began to reflect on literary theory. In an interview with Deanne Bogdan, Frye laments, “I am feeling out of the great critical trends today”…. Northrop Frye was right that he was “out of fashion,” both in terms of his own theories and his place in literary theory; however, he did seek to reverse the course. Frye hoped to reclaim literary studies from deconstruction, which had become, in a sense, his chief opponent …. |
In memory of the U.S. publisher of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone ,*
who, The New York Times reports this evening, died Saturday (June 5, 2021) —
* Original British title: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone .
On the above BBC One date — "Sun 15 Nov 2020" —
Good question. From Philip Pullman's recent HBO version of
"His Dark Materials," The University of Oxford’s St. Peter’s College:
From today's New York Times obituary of a pioneering filmmaker —
"In 1948, he enrolled at the University of Toronto
to study political science and economics.
The avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren taught
a workshop at the university one semester and
he became her lighting assistant. She encouraged
him to abandon economics and make movies instead."
Deren previously appeared here on Sunday, March 31, 2019:
For some wide-screen non-illusion, see . . .
Related material —
From my search history tonight —
11:11 PM
Number Theory – BSB Catalog opacplus.bsb-muenchen.de
11:13 PM
Klein's paradox, the icosahedron, and ring class fields | SpringerLink
A resulting quotation —
"Our attempt to explain and motivate is not merely a matter of historical whimsy."
— Harvey Cohn. See also Cohn in the previous post's link to 9/11, 2014.
The title is a phrase by Wallace Stevens.
See Staats-Oper , a post of Thursday, June 3.
See as well posts of 9/11, 2014 . . . a date suggested by the song lyric
"Oh, moon of Alabama" in one of those posts. The song lyric was in turn
suggested by a New York Times obituary this evening.
For other suggestive remarks, see Bowie in this journal.
Dialogue from Season 1, Episode 8 of "His Dark Materials" —
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Asriel: And the serpent said, "You shall not surely die, for the Authority doth know that on that day that ye eat thereof, your eyes shall be opened, your daemons shall assume their true form and ye shall be as…" Both: "… gods, knowing good and…" Lyra: "… evil." Asriel: "… Dust ." You see? They have been trying to convince us for centuries that we are born guilty. And that we have to spend a lifetime atoning for the crime of eating an apple. Is there any proof for this heinous stain, this shame, this guilt? No, not at all. We are to take it on faith, and on the word of the Authority. But Dust… Dust is an elementary particle that we can record, measure, study.
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Related material: Times Square Logic. Log24 posts now tagged
"Times Square Logic" include two from April 7, 2015, the date of
Geoffrey Lewis's death.
Lewis played, notably, "Hard Case Williams" in Lust in the Dust (1984).
Arthur Staats, the very influential psychologist who
established the practice of "time out" for naughty
children, reportedly "died at 97 on April 26
at his home in Oahu, Hawaii."
The New York Times says this evening that
"Dr. Staats’s legacy was reflected by
the license plate of his silver BMW —
TYM-OUT . . . ."
Related material —
"I love those Bavarians … So meticulous."
— The Devil, according to Don Henley
"My little horse must think it queer" — Robert Frost.
This is from a poem mentioned here on December 22, 2004,
in a post titled "The Longest Night."
Related material from December 21, 2004 —
And then there is the Timeless Square . . .
See "Framed" (May 30) and "In Memory of Ernst Eduard Kummer" (May 14).
Related reading: "Frame Analysis" in this journal.
Update of Monday, May 31, 2021 —
For connoisseurs of bullshit —
"… it would have made for a memorable
photograph, the image preserved within
he confines of a four-by-six-inch print."
— Lincoln Perry on a remembered scene
in "If You Frame It Like That," an essay in
The American Scholar dated March 2, 2020,
linked to today at Arts & Letters Daily
(A website whose motto is VERITAS ODIT
MORAS , "Truth hates delay").
And then there is non-bullshit about a
four-by-six frame —
Bullshit addicts pondering the meaning of the letter "Q" may consult
"Q is for Quelle ," "Q is for Quality," and this journal on the above
American Scholar date — March 2, 2020.
The full last name of Yves Saint-Laurent was Mathieu-Saint-Laurent.
See as well Mystery Box and Box759.
The conduits of the previous post suggest a review —
Ars Technica , Lee Hutchinson —
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We represent things in the world with words, and once you know that words represent concrete things, it's a short jump to realizing that words can represent abstract things, too. Symbolic representation isn't necessarily straightforward, either. "A philosopher named Quine had this notion," she said. "If you're out in the field with somebody, and they point and say 'Gavagai!' and you look and you see a rabbit running through the field, you assume that gavagai in their language means rabbit . But how do you know it doesn't mean 'brown,' or 'tail,' or 'leg,' or 'fur'—" "Or, 'Look at that!'" I said. "Yeah, all of this other stuff is present, but we have this whole object notion," she said. "We have a notion of what constitutes a distinct object, and we assume that the word corresponds to that whole object as a default. Would the alien have that notion?" |
See as well posts tagged Books as Objects.
BuzzFeed News: "Posted on May 27, 2021, at 12:01 p.m. ET" —
"… to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them."
Earlier posts that are also tagged "Points Omega" suggest some
context for a May 19 New Republic illustration.
x → -1/x
See as well
"Flowers and Brown."
From the above obituary —
"A debonair Virginian, Mr. Warner was sometimes called
the senator from central casting; his ramrod military posture,
distinguished gray hair and occasionally overblown
speaking style fit the Hollywood model." — Carl Hulse
Related material — The previous post and . . .
An upload from Good Friday, 2019 —
"Daisy, when she comes to tea at Nick's house,
refers to the flowers brought by Gatsby as being
appropriate for a funeral and asks 'Where's the corpse?'
Gatsby enters immediately thereafter. This foreshadows
what will happen to Gatsby. The dialogue is not in the novel…."
— Discussion of the 2000 TV movie version in
Learning Guide to The Great Gatsby
Correction to the midrash:
Sorvino actually says, when there is a knock at the door,
"That must be the corpse."
The McCormack of the title is the current owner
and editor-in-chief of The New Republic .
Note the separatrix between
Stoppard and Nichols.
Related cleavage art —
Alternate title: Art for Suckers.
"… Denis fashioned a minimalist chamber
that derives eroticism from its sparseness."
That remark describes a film, "High Life,"
that stars Juliette Binoche.
Binoche, along with other minimalist art, appeared here
in the post "The Triangle Induction" on May 11, 2021 —
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The logo of a news site that yesterday
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Related material:
From a 2014 review, remarks by a noted minimalist sculptor
who reportedly died at 85 on the above date … May 11, 2021.
I personally prefer remarks by Munari —
For the Church of Synchronology:
This journal on the above HuffPost date — April 11, 2019.
"Omega is as real as we need it to be." — The Osterman Weekend
See also related material in The New Yorker and the National Review .
From the cover of a 1971 book of stories by Zenna Henderson —
From Frame Tale (Oct. 1, 2013) —
From Log24 posts tagged Aitchison —
"Has time rewritten every line?" — Streisand
(Continued from the previous two posts.)
“Something in your eyes I see
Soon begins bewitching me”
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