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Meanwhile, elsewhere . . .

The New York Times  eulogizes a man who died Friday —

“Rabbi Steinsaltz was a prolific and wide-ranging writer
and a sharp observer of humanity who wrote more than
60 books on philosophy, mysticism, theology, even zoology.
His study of kabbalah, ‘The Thirteen Petalled Rose,’ is
considered a classic and has been translated into eight languages.”

Another classic of Jewish thought:

Thoughts of the young Carl Reiner as rendered above in 1967 —

“Somewhere, someplace… there must be a lost horizon…
A Shangri-La where a man can find peace, happiness,
and lots of naked ladies.”

Voilà.

From the sort of reliquary I prefer —

See posts resulting from a search for “Lost Time” in this journal.

“It’s 2184 pages long.”

A related tale — Systems Programming  in this  journal.

Of greater interest to mathematicians —
The work of a man to whom Frances Allen was once married —

“Schwartz’s early work with his thesis advisor Nelson Dunford
led to the two of them collaborating on a famous book Linear Operators
which quickly became known simply as ‘Dunford and Schwartz’.”

— https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Schwartz_Jacob/.

Schwartz reportedly died on March 2, 2009. For related religious remarks,
see this journal on that date.

Bruce Willis as Easter Bunny in North  (1994)

See as well the other  posts of April 2007.

In memory of New York personality Pete Hamill ,
who reportedly died yesterday —

Seven years ago yesterday —

In memory of another New York  personality, a parking-garage mogul
who reportedly died on August 9, 2005 —

Icon Parking  posts and . . .

AMS.org  today:

See also Hamill in this  journal.

Meanwhile, here —

A flashback from Log24 posts of July 9-11, 2020,
now tagged Structure and Mutability —

For such temptation, see
Dwarves named “Durin.”

Attraction 2:  The Digital Rights Management version —

The “Huh?” is from the character Google, at 0:13:07. Click to enlarge.

* See the title phrase in this journal.

The title is from a 2006 pedagogic address.

Related material from the post “White Mischief” (Feb. 23, 2016) —

“It’s solution, dissolution. Just over and over and over.

It is growth, then decay, then transformation! .

It is fascinating, really.”

— Walter White, Season 1, Ep. 1, “Pilot”
more or less as quoted in huffingtonpost.com

The Rowberry date appears to be, specifically, 8  June 2011:

A Kinbote note — See also this  journal on 8 June 2011.

Update of 3:03 PM ET the same day —

In keeping with Kinbote’s character as an unreliable narrator . . .
Rowberry’s Eindhoven slides  indicate he spoke on 9  June 2011.

See as well the Log24 post  “Historical Fiction” from 9  June 2011.

* For the meaning of the title, see an obituary by Roberta Smith
in this morning’s New York Times , and Today’s Sermon.

“Are you a social worker?”

— Cinematic query in LA at Sunset and Selma
(Mojave , released 3 December 2015 (USA))

Related fiction —

“Then he realized why she looked familiar. He’d seen her just
a few hours before, at the job fair for social workers. They’d both
stood at the edge of a crowd that had gathered around a man
handing out applications for jobs at the Children’s Aid Society.
The demand was so great, he ran out of applications; John didn’t
get one, and neither did the redhead. Looking more resigned than
disappointed, the girl had sighed, ‘Oh well,’ to no one in particular
and then headed for the other end of the conference center.”

— Alpert, Mark. The Furies  (p. 11), April 22, 2014.
(St. Martin’s Publishing Group. Kindle Edition)

See also Kripke  in this  journal.

This leads to . . .

Related images from Log24 on June 8, 2020 —

The animated version —

A related quotation:

“By far the most important structure in design theory
is the Steiner system S(5, 8, 24).”

— “Block Designs,” by Andries E. Brouwer
(Ch. 14 (pp. 693-746) of Handbook of Combinatorics,
Vol. I, MIT Press, 1995, edited by Ronald L. Graham,
Martin Grötschel, and László Lovász, Section 16 (p. 716))

See also the webpage Block Designs in Art and Mathematics
and Log24 posts tagged Plastic Elements.

The above reported death date suggested a Log24  update this morning.

See that update in The Maxwell Enticement , July 2, 2020.

Graham reportedly died yesterday, Monday, July 6, 2020.

          His AMS obituary says “he created the Erdős number.”

See also the tag in the previous post.

(That tag was created and added to several posts
just before I saw the above news of Graham’s death.
The tag, Erdős number, was suggested by an earlier post from
June 30 — the cartoonist’s death date in today’s 8:45 PM post.)

“When Death tells a story, you really have to listen.”

Magnificent.

Death by Ventilator

Related reading —

“As doctors got a crash course in the new disease,
their stance on ventilators began to evolve.“

“…problems can be solved by manipulating just two symbols, 1 and 0….”
— George Johnson, obituary of Claude Shannon

“The female and the male continue this charming dance, populating
the world with all living beings.”
— Leonard Shlain, The Alphabet Versus the Goddess,
Penguin Arkana paperback, 1999, Chapter 17,
“Lingam/Yoni” 

Uh-Oh.

For the shirt, see Norwegian artist Josefine Lyche in

A Search for Cobain.

Related material — A pyramid by Lyche and erotic Picasso:

Those who enjoy the occult may be entertained by the number 347 in
“Pablo Picasso. Suite 347.”  That number appeared in this  journal,
notably, on Christmas Eve 2005 as a page number from the classic
The Club Dumas , a novel by Arturo Perez-Reverte.

Or: Kipling and the Temple of Doom

See also Kipling and The Temple.

This post was suggested by a remark of Holland Cotter in The New York Times
on April 19, 2012 —

“An 18th-century Jain diagram of the cosmos turns the universe
into a kind of salvational board game. “

Hence . . .

The previous post, and Wallace Stevens, suggest a search
in this journal for “The Trials of Device.” That search yields,
among other images, the following —

The Mephisto Waltz  author, Fred Mustard Stewart, reportedly died
on February 7, 2007.  A check of that date in this journal yields . . .

This is not John Belushi, whose cover of
Frankie Laine’s “Rawhide” was memorable,
but Laine himself.

Some Frankie Laine lyrics quoted here on Stewart’s death date:

“Times when I know you’ll be lonesome,
times when I know you’ll be sad
Don’t let temptation surround you,
don’t let the blues make you bad”

— “We’ll Be Together Again,”
Frankie Laine,
March 30, 1913 —
February 6, 2007

Mephisto  fans may prefer Sting’s version of the phrase
“we’ll be together.” See Complex Reflection,  April 20, 2012.

This is a continuation of the “just seventeen” posts.

“There she stood in the doorway; I heard the mission bell….”