* See the previous post

and . . .

In memory of an actor who in films played Bilbo Baggins,
but on the stage was most closely identified with works by
Harold Pinter, especially “The Homecoming.”

A search for Pinter in this journal yields, as well as the playwright,
some posts tagged The Pinterest Directive.  These include . . .

Related image — The square and circle pictured here yesterday —

Related graphic design:

Feb. 20 square and June 17 Circle.

Related entertainment: “The Foreigner” (2017 film) and . . .

https://www.w3schools.com/code/tryit.asp?filename=GFX2IP0RMJR7

The New York Times  reports a May 24 death —

“Arriving in Harlem, he worked as a painter and carpenter,
earning a high school equivalency diploma and enrolling at
Columbia University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree
in mathematics. He was on his way.”

— John Leland

Betty Gilpin as Crystal in The Hunt —

Orange as the new black —

One effect of Jewish humor:

See also, in Ulysses , “agenbite of inwit.”

See as well the Log24 post “In the Labyrinth of Memory”
(January 8, 2003).

The title refers to the previous post  and to a Log24 post of
March 24, 2016 —  the date of creation of the Steem blockchain.*

* This blockchain led to the Steemit social networking platform. See a sample
page from that platform. That page suggests a related discussion… Was it
“Looney Toons” or “Looney Tunes”?

“Magic mirror on the wall. . .”

Related material on amnesia —
The Mandela Effect in a 2020 film. . .

. . . and in a web page from 9/15/2016.

Benchley reportedly died on Feb. 11, 2006.  See Log24 on that date.

Candle from Sense8 ,  Season 1,  Episode 1: “Limbic Resonance” —

“At the still point….” — T. S. Eliot

This post was suggested by the date — Jan. 2, 2019 —
of a YouTube video —

. . . and by a Log24 post, “Wolf as Lamb,” on that date.

A street view for the late William Sessions.

Some may prefer the Count to X street view. See as well . . .

The X-File Marks the Spot

Click the above image for some related history.

See also An Epic for Kristen .

From a search in this journal for Angel Eyes —

From a 2020 film directed by Tony Leech —

(to that of the previous post) —

Click the image for
      the source.

Related literature —

From the same film — the Digital Rights Management (DRM) variant —

As am I.

The above images are from a film  directed by Tony Leech.

I prefer the version of Ashlynn Yennie  directed by Jacky St. James.

“Where past and future are gathered” — T. S. Eliot

From a recent film —

From the Museum of Modern Art —

From this journal 10 years ago today —

“X marks the spot” — Indiana Jones.

Indiana Jones’s love interest in “The Last Crusade” was Alison Doody.

See as well . . .

  Howdy, Doody.

* For the title, see Wikipedia (not Billie Holiday).

“For us, it’s no joke.” — The Pointer Sisters

    Kristen Stewart?

From a search in this journal for Florence King —

Related images —

The animated version —

See as well “The Aristocrats.“

Related image —

“Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.”

A film not unrelated to the screen career
of Sophia Lillis:  Inside Daisy Clover.

I prefer Inside the White Cube.

“When men and women pour so much alcohol into themselves
that they destroy their lives, they commit a most unnatural act.”

— Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions , Step Six

From the New York Times  obituary  this afternoon
of a talented French comic  —

“They performed in notorious sketches
like ‘The Flirt,’ a slow dance with a
back-and-forth inner dialogue….”

The site of another slow dance . . .

A related meme —

Miss Cream Jeans*

* See “The Beckinsale Letter.”

From a short story by Stephen King (Harper’s , March 2020) —

“ ‘Admit to God, to ourselves, and to another human being
the exact nature of our wrongs,’ ” Jack said, making quote marks
with his fingers.

Quote marks I prefer —

See as well the short story  “The Beckinsale Letter.”

Some remarks in the current  Times Literary Supplement
related to the Pythagoreans were linked to in the previous post.

Related remarks —

Related picture —

Philosophy is the talk on a cereal box
Religion is the smile on a dog

— Edie Brickell,  1986

See also mentions of Justin E. H. Smith in this  journal, including . . .

Monday, June 4, 2012

The party line —

“We are proud to be part of an international community
dedicated to learning, teaching, and to the search for solutions.”

— Jill Pipher, President of the American Mathematical Society,
Tuesday, June 2, 2020

The theme song —

See Dayton.

See also “720 in the Book”
in this  journal.

“In my little town….” — Song lyric

From  IACSCW Journal ,  Issue 1,  Winter 2013 ,
Published on Mar 14, 2014  —
http://chinaandthewest.org/ —

Related material —

“The Valley Spirit never dies.”

See also Boogie Nights of the Golden Circle —

Continues.

In memoriam —

Related material —

“The message was clear: having a finite frame of reference
creates the illusion of a world, but even the reference frame itself
is an illusion. Observers create reality, but observers aren’t real.
There is nothing ontologically distinct about an observer, because
you can always find a frame in which that observer disappears:
the frame of the frame itself, the boundary of the boundary.”

— Amanda Gefter in 2014, quoted here on Mayday 2020.

See as well, in a post from the date of Hunter Thompson’s death :

“Today, February 20, is the 19th anniversary of my note
The Relativity Problem in Finite Geometry.”

A Stony Brook —

The New York Times  reports an April 7 death —

Click the image below for some related material.

In remembrance of Else Blangsted and Nancy Stark Smith,
who each reportedly died on May 1, 2020 —

Posts tagged Mayday 2020.

“Gotta work on that acronym.” — Tony Stark

Duke University Press states above that …

“You do not currently have access to this content.”

But see…

https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/71970/1/_
The_Difficultest_Rigor_Writing_about_Wallace_Stevens.pdf .

Some less  difficult rigor —

For some less  sombre figurations, see the category in which Google
has placed (as above) a book by the late Harold Bloom —

Click the box to perform the indicated search.