See also Tiger in this journal, esp. —
other "Death and the Spirit" posts.
A broken link found in the search results of
the previous post suggests a review . . .
Photo Opportunity , courtesy of Leni Riefenstahl — Click to enlarge.
From Paul Simon's dreaded Cartoon Graveyard —
The Riefenstahl publication above was suggested by . . .
See as well the firsts of Sophia Lillis (Saturday, August 24).
"Look at what you've done
Why, you've become a grown-up girl"
See also September Morn in this journal.
"Mein Führer… Steiner…"
See Hitler Plans and Quadruple System.
"There is such a thing as a quadruple system."
— Saying adapted from a 1962 young-adult novel
See as well posts now tagged Helsinki Math in this journal.
* See Kane in this journal.
* See the previous post. Related material:
The Lolita Express and Magic Carpet Ride.
(The title refers to the previous post.)
"There is a house in New Orleans…
Not the one you've heard about,
I'm talking about another house.
They spoke of gold in the cellar
That a Spanish gentleman had left…"
— Song lyric by David Berman suggested by
his New Yorker elegy
"Reddington and Vesco are watching the opera,
and the plan begins."
In reply to a post by David Justice this afternoon,
"Wardrobe Malfunction."
From a three-part meditation on Sept. 30, 2008:
For less high-minded meditations, see Tony Stark in today's
previous post —
"Tony Stark: That's how I wished it happened.
Binarily Augmented Retro-Framing, or BARF.
God, I gotta work on that acronym.
An extremely costly method of hijacking the
hippocampus to . . . clear traumatic memories. Huh."
Working on that acronym . . .
The "Real Presences" title is from the Aug. 20 post "Inception."
See also the real presences in a recent book by J. D. Vance —
"Mom was, everyone told me, the smartest person
they knew. And I believed it. She was definitely the
smartest person I knew."
— Vance, J. D., Hillbilly Elegy (pp. 65-66).
Harper Paperbacks. Kindle Edition.
And not so real . . .
(Oneworld Publications, Jan. 3, 2011)
Compare and contrast with an illustration
from "Time Fold," a webpage of Oct. 10, 2003 —
See also the Squarespace logo:
From my reading Monday morning —
From the online New York Times this afternoon —
Related literature —
For the Church of Synchronology —
The Gigantomachia page above is dated September 20, 2003.
See as well my own webpage from that date: "The Form, the Pattern."
"The inception of critical thought, of a philosophic
anthropology, is contained in the archaic Greek definition
of man as a 'language-animal'…."
— George Steiner, Real Presences
A schoolgirl in 1961 —
"Non, rien de rien…"
— Edith Piaf
"I get a kick though it's clear to see,
You obviously don't adore me."
— Cole Porter
The title is from the post "Child's Play" of May 21, 2012 . . .
"It seems that only one course is open to the philosopher
who values knowledge and truth above all else. He must
refuse to accept from the champions of the forms the
doctrine that all reality is changeless [and exclusively
immaterial], and he must turn a deaf ear to the other party
who represent reality as everywhere changing [and as only
material]. Like a child begging for 'both', he must declare
that reality or the sum of things is both at once [το όν τε και
το παν συναμφότερα] (Sophist 246a-249d)."
Related material —
"Schoolgirl Space: 1984 Revisited" (July 9, 2019) and
posts tagged Tetrahedron vs. Square.
Some background for The Epstein Chronicles —
“What modern painters — James J. Gibson, Leonardo, |
See also Robert Maxwell,
Frank Oppenheimer,
and the history of Leonardo .
Click the above Pergamon Press image
for Pergamon-related material.
Burroway on Hustvedt in The New York Times ,
Sunday, March 9, 2003 —
See as well "Putting the Structure in Structuralism."
For those who prefer greater clarity than is offered by Stevens . . .
The A section —
The B section —
"A paper from Helsinki in 2005 says there are more than a million
3-(16,4,1) block designs, of which only one has an automorphism
group of order 322,560. This is the affine 4-space over GF(2)."
A revision of the above diagram showing
the Galois-addition-table structure —
Related tables from August 10 —
See "Schoolgirl Space Revisited."
The exercise in the previous post was suggested by a passage
purporting to "use standard block design theory" that was written
by some anonymous author at Wikipedia on March 1, 2019:
Here "rm OR" apparently means "remove original research."
Before the March 1 revision . . .
The "original research" objected to and removed was the paragraph
beginning "To explain this further." That paragraph was put into the
article earlier on Feb. 28 by yet another anonymous author (not by me).
An account of my own (1976 and later) original research on this subject
is pictured below, in a note from Feb. 20, 1986 —
An image from a Log24 post of March 5, 2019 —
The following paragraph from the above image remains unchanged
as of this morning at Wikipedia:
"A 3-(16,4,1) block design has 140 blocks of size 4 on 16 points,
such that each triplet of points is covered exactly once. Pick any
single point, take only the 35 blocks containing that point, and
delete that point. The 35 blocks of size 3 that remain comprise
a PG(3,2) on the 15 remaining points."
Exercise —
Prove or disprove the above assertion about a general "3-(16,4,1)
block design," a structure also known as a Steiner quadruple system
(as I pointed out in the March 5 post).
Relevant literature —
A paper from Helsinki in 2005* says there are more than a million
3-(16,4,1) block designs, of which only one has an automorphism
group of order 322,560. This is the affine 4-space over GF(2),
from which PG(3,2) can be derived using the well-known process
from finite geometry described in the above Wikipedia paragraph.
* "The Steiner quadruple systems of order 16," by Kaski et al.,
Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A Volume 113, Issue 8,
November 2006, pages 1764-1770.
* The title refers to The Institute , by Stephen King, a novel
to be published on September 10, 2019.
"If you want to win, you need to know just one thing and not to waste your time
on anything else: the pleasures of erudition are reserved for losers. The more
a person knows, the more things have gone wrong."
— Eco, Umberto. Numero Zero (p. 9). HMH Books. Kindle Edition.
"All this notwithstanding, I dreamed what all losers dream, about one day writing
a book that would bring me fame and fortune. To learn how to become a great
writer, I became what in the last century was called the nègre (or ghostwriter,
as they say today, to be politically correct) for an author of detective stories who
gave himself an American name to improve sales, like the actors in spaghetti
westerns. But I enjoyed working in the shadows, hidden behind a double veil
(the Other’s and the Other’s other name)."
— Eco, Umberto. Numero Zero (pp. 9-10). HMH Books. Kindle Edition.
How's this for a double veil, Umberto? —
Boeing/Being Meets the Flying Spaghetti Monster . . .
For the title, see Zero: Both Real and Imaginary (a Log24 search).
The title was suggested by the previous post, by Zorro Ranch,
by the classic 1967 film The Producers , and by . . .
Related material —
Vanity Fair on Sept. 8, 2017, celebrated the young actress
who played Beverly Marsh in the 2017 film version of
Stephen King's IT . See a post from her 12th birthday —
"Winter's Game" — that touches upon Maori themes.
More generally, see Bester + Deceivers in this journal.
And for the Church of Synchronology . . .
See posts related to the above Vanity Fair date.
(From his “Structure and Form: Reflections on a Work by Vladimir Propp.”
Translated from a 1960 work in French. It appeared in English as
Chapter VIII of Structural Anthropology, Volume 2 (U. of Chicago Press, 1976).
Chapter VIII was originally published in Cahiers de l’Institut de Science
Économique Appliquée , No. 9 (Series M, No. 7) (Paris: ISEA, March 1960).)
The structure of the matrix of Lévi-Strauss —
Illustration from Diamond Theory , by Steven H. Cullinane (1976).
The relevant field of mathematics is not Boolean algebra, but rather
Galois geometry.
The article below suggests a review of other posts now tagged E-Girls.
* The title is that of a 1958 novel by John O'Hara.
See as well other instances of the title in this journal.
Wikipedia on film producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura
(Harvard AB (1980) in Intellectual History*) —
“His tenure at Warner Bros. included discovering and
shepherding The Matrix into production, and the
purchase of the rights to the Harry Potter books by
J. K. Rowling.”
From the previous post —
“But he enters into the central myth of
this book at another, higher level as well;
for he is an artist, a potter . . . .“
— Wendy Doniger O’Flaherty on
Claude Lévi-Strauss, author of
The Jealous Potter
* See as well “What is Intellectual History?” and
Magic for Liars .
" … this beautiful love story . . . ."
An image from the previous post:
The above line "From the producer of Transformers " suggests
a story from March 18, 2019 . . .
Misreading the words of di Bonaventura
yields a phrase that might be applied to
the Church of Rome . . .
"A franchise based on release dates."
See dies natalis in this journal.
For the Church of Synchronology, see
the above di Bonaventura date, March 18.
Then there is the Church of Cubism . . .
"Before time began, there was the Cube."
— Optimus Prime, Transformers , 2007
An illustration (slightly revised) from All Souls' Day 2010 —
Click to enlarge.
An illustration from a post of January 11, 2019 —
Advertisement for another January 11, 2019, event —
For related cinematic remarks, see Dabbling in this journal.
American Songwriters (the Petrusich versions)
The New Yorker Culture Desk online yesterday —
The New Yorker Culture Desk onine July 16 —
Related aesthetic meditation from this journal on July 16 —
(From the post "Schoolgirl Space for Quantum Mystics")
The Square "Inscape" Model of
the Generalized Quadrangle W(2)
Click image to enlarge.
* The title refers to the role of PG (3,2) in Kirkman's schoolgirl problem.
For some backstory, see my post Anticommuting Dirac Matrices as Skew Lines
and, more generally, posts tagged Dirac and Geometry.
From posts tagged The Next Thing —
… an apt illustration can be found on the cover of
See also Stevens's use of the phrase "heaven-haven"
… Todo lo sé por el lucero puro – Rubén Darío
An academic work from 2003 discusses Stevens's "Notes" Note that "perfect" means "complete, finished, done." |
That university, in Dayton, Ohio, appeared in the previous post.
A curious recent wardrobe choice in Dayton suggests a review
of posts tagged Mathmagic Land.
Bylsma reportedly died on July 25. This journal on that date —
* See an article dated 11 April 2014 in Physics Today .
Recent posts now tagged Black Fire suggest some context . . .
Meditations on the Portals of the Imagination
by Grace Dane Mazur, A K Peters/CRC Press;
first edition November 8, 2010
Interviewer's questions to the author (Feb. 4, 2011) —
"This book fuses together literature, art, science, history,
certainly the underworld–so many different points of obsession
for you, and you move so swiftly among them. It feels like a
magnum opus in that way. Where do you go from here?
After the hinges of hell, what comes next?"
The reviews?
Exploring Schoolgirl Space (July 8) continues.
"Eh Fatty Boom-Boom
Hit me with the Ching-Ching"
— Song lyric
* See Crichton's Rising Sun in this journal.
"There is such a thing as a desktop."
— Saying adapted from a 1962 young-adult novel.
“What did he fear? It was not a fear or dread, It was a nothing that he knew too well. It was all a nothing and a man was a nothing too. It was only that and light was all it needed and a certain cleanness and order. Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada. Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee. He smiled and stood before a bar with a shining steam pressure coffee machine.”
— From Ernest Hemingway, |
Sanskrit (transliterated) —
nada:
“So Nada Brahma means not only: God the Creator
— Joachim-Ernst Berendt, |
Grace under Pressure meets Phonons under Strain .
This flashback was suggested by the following date —
February 26, 2014 —
Related material — The Church of Synchronology.
(Continued from a post of Pi Day 2009, "Flowers for Barry,"
and from a post of July 5, 2019, "Darkly Enchanting") —
From this journal on 5 juillet 2019 —
Related material —
Grace Dane ("Gretchen") Mazur on Black Fire —
An image from "Blackboard Jungle," 1955 —
"Through the unknown, remembered gate . . . ."
From the previous post —
"We live in a constellation
Of patches and of pitches,
Not in a single world,
In things said well in music,
On the piano and in speech. . . ."
— Wallace Stevens, "July Mountain"
What, exactly, is the phrase "exact intonation" supposed to mean?
A possible clue —
" Casals is adamant about intonation. He has had his pupils repeat passages
until there is absolute accuracy of intonation. To a pupil playing a sonata with
piano, he recommends, 'do not be afraid to be out of tune with the piano.
It is the piano that is out of tune. The piano with its tempered scale is
a compromise in intonation.' "
July Mountain
We live in a constellation
Of patches and of pitches,
Not in a single world,
In things said well in music,
On the piano and in speech,
As in a page of poetry—
Thinkers without final thoughts
In an always incipient cosmos.
The way, when we climb a mountain,
Vermont throws itself together.
— Wallace Stevens, from
Opus Posthumous (1957)
Or Pennsylvania:
The geometry of the 15 point-pairs in the previous post suggests a review:
From "Exploring Schoolgirl Space," July 8 —
The date in the previous post — Oct. 9, 2018 — also suggests a review
of posts from that date now tagged Gen-Z:
"In the fantasy, Owen is still working on his Rubik’s Cube.
Finally, he finishes — he’s put together all 6 sides."
— "Maniac" Season 1, Episode 9 recap: ‘Utangatta’
by Cynthia Vinney at showsnob.com, Oct. 9, 2018
Related material —
See also Exploded in this journal.
See the above title in this journal. See also . . .
From a news article featured on the American Mathematical Society
home page today —
A joint Vietnam-USA mathematical meeting in Vietnam on
June 10-13, 2019:
This journal on June 12, 2019:
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
|
See also the Twentieth of May, 2008 —
Suggested by the previous post, "The Swarm" —
“‘Oracle, why did you write
The Grasshopper Lies Heavy?
What are we supposed to learn?'”
— Philip K. Dick
“She began throwing the coins.“
Related images —
See also other posts tagged Arti Facts.
This post was suggested by those posts and by the following
attempt at humor —
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=22045 . . . the ancient Chinese made music the pinnacle of wisdom. There was a Classic of Music (Yuè jīng 樂經), but it was lost already by the Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD). Yet we know the esteem in which music was held by the ancient Chinese from passages in the classics like the following: The Master heard the Shao in Qi and for three months did not notice the taste of the meat he ate. He said, 'I never dreamt the joys of music could reach such heights.'(D.C. Lau) Analects 7.14 Shao is the music of the mythical emperor, Shun 舜. Qi one of the Warring States. Extensive commentary here. Another instance of the sublimity of music in ancient China is the description of the performance of the Yellow Emperor's "The Pond of Totality" in chapter 14 of the Zhuang Zi (see Victor H. Mair, tr., Wandering on the Way [Bantam, 1994; University of Hawaii Press, 1998], pp. 132-136, available here). Conversely, language studies in traditional China were referred to as "minor learning" (xiǎoxué 小學). November 5, 2015 @ 4:05 pm · Filed by Victor Mair under Language and music, Language and philosophy |
See also Ervin Wilson in Wikipedia, and a Log24 post from
the date of his death — December 8, 2016.
See also Just Intonation.
“For the Renaissance musician, a sharp multiplied a musical frequency
by the fraction 25/24 – and so does it in Ben’s music.”
— “Regarding Ben: A Keynote Address for the Microtonal Conference
[2010] at Wright State University,” by Kyle Gann
See too my own note from 2001: Harmony, Schoenberg, and The Last Samurai .
From "110 in the Shade" —
A quote from "Marshall, Meet Bagger," July 29, 2011:
"Time for you to see the field."
_________________________________________________________
From a Log24 search for "To See the Field" —
For further details, see the 1985 note
"Generating the Octad Generator."
See "The Batty Farewell" (yesterday's eulogy for Rutger Hauer) and . . .
Click the above fake seal for a related story.
For Harlan Kane . . .
A related word in this journal: Irvine.
Adam Rogers today on "Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner , playing
the artificial* person Roy Batty in his death scene."
* See the word "Artifice" in this journal,
as well as Tears in Rain . . .
"Games provide frameworks that miniaturize
and represent idealized realities; so do narratives."
— Adam Rogers, Sunday, July 21, 2019, at Wired
Reviewing yesterday's post Word Magic —
See also a technological framework (the microwave at left) vs. a
purely mathematical framework (the pattern on the towel at right)
in the image below:
For some backstory about the purely mathematical framework,
see Octad Generator in this journal.
https://www.cnet.com/news/first-time-comic-con-cosplay-is-
terrifying-complicated-and-exhilarating/ —
"San Diego Comic-Con 2019 [July 18-21] will witness my plunge
into cosplay. Here's how I tackled my Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
costume."
BY ERIN CARSON JULY 18, 2019 8:20 PM PDT
"Sabrina, now played by Kiernan Shipka, still speaks to me.
Modern-day Sabrina isn't just trying to make it to the dance
on time, she's questioning the unquestioned gender roles of
her belief system, raising the dead and taking on the Devil himself.
May every teenage girl have that kind of confidence."
Or not. See this journal on July 18 and a related passage . . .
"Business-wise, Magic is working—Bloomberg reported
that the game brought in $500 million in revenue last year.
Hasbro owns Monopoly and Scrabble, but Magic is its top
game brand. . . .
The idea of using a card mechanic to generate story has
precedent—the Italian postmodern writer Italo Calvino
generated an entire novel based on drawing from a
tarot card deck. Games provide frameworks that miniaturize
and represent idealized realities; so do narratives."
— Adam Rogers, Sunday, July 21, 2019, at Wired
"The Esper party began . . ." —
Life of the Party From Stephen King's Dreamcatcher :
From Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man :
From Anne McCaffrey's To Ride Pegasus :
"… it's going to be accomplished in steps, this |
Adam Rogers at Wired as quoted above —
"The idea of using a card mechanic to generate story
has precedent. . . ."
See The Greater Trumps .
"The Tian'anmen (also Tiananmen or Tienanmen)
([tʰjɛ́n.án.mə̌n]), or the Gate of Heavenly Peace, is
a monumental gate in the centre of Beijing, widely
used as a national symbol of China. First built during
the Ming dynasty in 1420, Tiananmen was the entrance
to the Imperial City . . . ."
A related article on Chinese history, The Critical Moment,
suggests an associated (if only by title) webpage —
See as well The Painted Word .
“All right, Jessshica. It’s time to open the boxsssschhh.” “Gahh,” she said. She began to walk toward the box, but her heart failed her and she retreated back to the chair. “Fuck. Fuck.” Something mechanical purred. The seam she had found cracked open and the top of the box began to rise. She squeezed shut her eyes and groped her way into a corner, curling up against the concrete and plugging her ears with her fingers. That song she’d heard the busker playing on the train platform with Eliot, “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”; she used to sing that. Back in San Francisco, before she learned card tricks. It was how she’d met Benny: He played guitar. Lucy was the best earner, Benny said, so that was mainly what she sang. She must have sung it five times an hour, day after day. At first she liked it but then it was like an infection, and there was nothing she could do and nowhere she could go without it running across her brain or humming on her lips, and God knew she tried; she was smashing herself with sex and drugs but the song began to find its way even there. One day, Benny played the opening chord and she just couldn’t do it. She could not sing that fucking song. Not again. She broke down, because she was only fifteen, and Benny took her behind the mall and told her it would be okay. But she had to sing. It was the biggest earner. She kind of lost it and then so did Benny and that was the first time he hit her. She ran away for a while. But she came back to him, because she had nothing else, and it seemed okay. It seemed like they had a truce: She would not complain about her bruised face and he would not ask her to sing “Lucy.” She had been all right with this. She had thought that was a pretty good deal. Now there was something coming out of a box, and she reached for the most virulent meme she knew. “Lucy in the sky!” she sang. “With diamonds!” • • •
Barry, Max. Lexicon: A Novel (pp. 247-248). |
From this journal on September 16, 2013 —
"La modernité, c’est le transitoire, le fugitif, le contingent, la moitié de l’art, dont l’autre moitié est l’éternel et l’immuable." — Baudelaire, "Le Peintre de la Vie Moderne," IV (1863) "By 'modernity' I mean the ephemeral, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art whose other half is the eternal and the immutable." — Baudelaire, "The Painter of Modern Life," IV (1863), translated by Jonathan Mayne (in 1964 Phaidon Press book of same title) |
Also on September 16, 2013 —
* See that term in this journal.
Lord Peter Wimsey (Balliol 1912) on the Balliol-Trinity rivalry at Oxford:
See also Balliol College in the post subtitled Spidey Goes to Church.
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