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Hat tip to University Diaries  for today's link to…

O Lost   (Thomas Wolfe in The Paris Review , Winter 1999).

See as well —

The previous post's link to posts tagged March 8, 2018,
suggests a look at recent thoughts by a Melbourne academic:

Manifesto in Green and Red

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-long-death-of-product-19-
the-most-beloved-cereal-youve-never-heard-of —

See also Riddle (April 21, 2003).

Related material: This  journal on the above date — 11/27/2019.

A search for "deep space" in this journal yields
the following meditation:

In Memoriam:

See also, from posts now tagged Abyssus, a quote from Simone Weil —

"Adam and Eve sought for divinity in vital energy —
in a tree, a fruit. But it is prepared for us on some
dead wood, geometrically squared, upon which
hangs a corpse."

Related material: The song "Underneath the Arches" in
a post of December 1, 2019, and . . .

A search result gives what is apparently the original date for
a story that Ars Technica  republished yesterday for Black Friday
(see previous post) —

Another story, also from November 25, 2013 —

* See Stephanies in this journal.
   See also Best Picture and, more generally, The Accountant.

(A title for Harlan Kane.)

Cartoon caption from The New Yorker  issue dated Dec. 2, 2019 —

“Someday I’ll buy a little place in the country
and take my finger off the Zeitgeist.”

This (along with the previous post) suggests a Log24 search for Zeitgeist.

That search concludes, appropriately for today, with a meditation 
on giving thanks.

Yesterday's post on a recent sci-fi film suggests a look at LA news . . .

As opposed to an unsuccessful  model —

See also "High Life" (from a post of April 1 this year) —

Peter Parker : How could you do all of this?
Quentin Beck : You'll see, Peter. People… need to believe.

From Sunday morning, a "green vault" hyperbolic paraboloid —

"A characteristic property of hyperbolic geometry
is that the angles of a triangle add to less
than a straight angle (half circle)." — Wikipedia

A related image —

See Bester + Stars.

For Harlan Kane —

“… We found,
If we found the central evil, the central good….
… we and the diamond globe at last were one.”

— "Asides on the Oboe," by Wallace Stevens

This post was suggested by a death on the night of
Friday, November 22 — St. Cecilia's Day.

For the oboe connection, see an obituary.

In memory of Gahan Wilson, "too cool for  school" —

Porsche.com on Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, who reportedly
died at 76 in Salzburg on 5 April 2012 —

"The credo of his design work was:

'Design must be functional and functionality has to 
be translated visually into aesthetics, without gags
that have to be explained first.' 

F.A. Porsche:
'A coherently designed product requires no adornment;
it should be enhanced by its form alone.'

The design’s appearance should be readily comprehensible
and not detract from the product and its function.
His conviction was: 'Good design should be honest.' "

See also last night's 11:32 PM post, and posts tagged Structural Logic.

The German mathematician Wolf Barth in the above post is not the
same person as the Swiss artist Wolf Barth in today's previous post.

An untitled, undated, picture by the latter —

Compare and contrast with an "elements" picture of my own —

— and with . . .

“Lord Arglay had a suspicion that the Stone would be
purely logical.  Yes, he thought, but what, in that sense,
were the rules of its pure logic?”

—Many Dimensions  (1931), by Charles Williams

A sequel to yesterday morning's Lit for Brats —