— Kastalia Medrano, "The Art of Space Art," Sept. 14, 2017

Ghost in the Shell

Rex Reed yesterday —

"Tilda Swinton is Zelda, the undertaker who worships a gold statue
of Buddha and collects samurai swords. She seems to know
what’s going on, but she’s too busy acting weird to tell." 

Al Gore on May 29 —

“We have to restore the role of reason and logic and rational debate,”
Gore said. “Every night on the news is like a nature hike through the
Book of Revelation.” — Harvard Gazette  reporting Class Day 2019

Doctor Strange on Mount Everest —

Click on the book cover below for posts tagged "Haiku."

"This was a real nice clam house."
— Adapted from lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein

See also William Boyd in this  journal.

See also a note of Dec. 4, 1986.

The opening lines of Eliot's Four Quartets —

"Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past."

Perhaps.

Those who prefer geometry to rhetoric may also prefer
to Eliot's lines the immortal opening of the Transformers  saga —

"Before time began, there was the Cube."

One version of the Cube —

Art suggested by a search in this journal for Bennington, by the Kurt Vonnegut
novel Timequake , and by the works of Eric Temple Bell.

See as well a Log24 search for "FInite Relativity."

For Radu Surdulescu, who . . .

"participated in the 1956 reclamatory movements 
of the students in Bucharest. He was among the
organizers of the demonstration to be held in
the University Square on November 5, 1956."
— Wikipedia (Google translation from Romanian)

See also squares and Surdulescu in "From Tate to Plato"
(Log24, November 19, 2004).

Those who prefer fiction  may consult William Boyd and
Terry Gilliam.

See as well, in this journal, Deathly Hallows, Relativity Problem, and Space Cross.

A related quote:  "This is not mathematics; this is theology."

(Continued … See “Is Fiction the Art of Lying?” by Mario Vargas Llosa, 
a New York Times  essay of October 7, 1984.)

"A non-fiction writer must have the freedom
to imagine the facts they [sic ] use."

Sure they must.

The title is from a search in this journal — 
http://www.m759.net/wordpress/?s=1982+Janine .

"And all the clocks were striking thirteen."

Click to enlarge.

In memory of June Havoc . . .

"In 1960, Havoc was honored with two stars
on the Hollywood Walk of Fame—one at
6618 Hollywood Boulevard for her contributions
to the motion picture industry, and the other at
6413 Hollywood Boulevard for television."

"Bustin' Out All Over"

"Points all her own" — Bob Seger

Jeff Nichols, director of Midnight Special  (2016) —

"When asked about the film's similarities to the 2015 Disney
movie Tomorrowland , which also posits a futuristic world
that exists in an alternative dimension, Nichols sighed.
'I was a little bummed, I guess,' he said of when he first
learned about the project. . . . 'Our die was cast.
Sometimes this kind of collective unconscious that
we're all dabbling in, sometimes you're not the first one
out of the gate.' "

See also Jung's four-diamond figure and the previous post.

"The stiffest material around is diamond.
The strength and lightness of a material
depends on the number and strength of
the bonds that hold its atoms together,
and on the lightness of the atoms.
The element that best fits both criteria
is carbon, which is lightweight and forms
stronger bonds than any other atom.
The carbon-carbon bond is especially
strong; each carbon atom can bond to
four neighboring atoms. In diamond,
then, a dense network of strong bonds
creates a strong, light, and stiff material.
Indeed, just as we named the Stone Age,
the Bronze Age, and the Steel Age after
the materials that humans could make,
we might call the new technological epoch
we are entering the Diamond Age."
[Link added.]

— "It's a Small, Small, Small, Small World,"
by Ralph C. Merkle, 
MIT Technology Review , Feb./Mar. 1997

"In this way the eight quaternions came into being."

— Legend adapted from Richard Wilhelm.

See as well The Bond with Reality (20th of May, 2019).

A mysterious Google Search result from this evening —

A check of Marshall's announcement reveals an apparent
contradiction to the reported May 24 date of death. Although the
announcement says  that Gell-Mann died on May 24, the announcement
itself is timestamped midnight (00:00) at the beginning  of May 24 
according to Greenwich Mean Time, i.e., at 6 pm May 23 in Santa Fe —

This may or may not help to illustrate the Gell-Mann amnesia effect.

"Mirror,  Mirror . . ."

The Unix timestamp above is from the HarperCollins piece below.

An image posted here two years earlier, on May the Fourth, 2017 —

From Betty and Veronica Double Digest #229 —

           You are not alone.

* A title for Harlan Kane, suggested by obituaries
from The New York Times  (this afternoon) and from
CBC News (on May 14, below) . . .

. . . as well as by illustrations shown here on May 13 and by
a screenwriter quoted here on May 12 —

“When I die,” he liked to say, “I’m going to have written
on my tombstone, ‘Finally, a plot!’”

— Robert D. McFadden in The New York Times

Another quote that seems relevant —

“I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
 Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.”
 — Paul Simon

Related remarks on language —

"I need a photo opportunity . . . ." — Paul Simon

Lines from the 2013 Jim Jarmusch film
"Only Lovers Left Alive" —

Eve:  “… So what is this then? Can’t you tell your wife
what your problem is?”

Adam:  “It’s the zombies and the way they treat the world.
I just feel like all the sand's at the bottom of the hourglass
or something.”

Eve:  “Time to turn it over then.”

Related entertainment  —

and . . .

Two items from November 24, 2015 —

Related material —

 David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve star in "The Hunger" (1983).

Vampira and Loki at Cannes

The previous post suggests a review:

See as well . . .

Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst
in "Spider-Man 2" (2004) —

Spoilers for another Kirsten Dunst film,
"Midnight Special" (2016) —

"When they all finally reach their destination —
a deserted field in the Florida Panhandle…." 

" When asked about the film's similarities to the 2015 Disney movie 
Tomorrowland , which also posits a futuristic world that exists in an
alternative dimension, Nichols sighed. 'I was a little bummed, I guess,'
he said of when he first learned about the project. . . . 'Our die was cast.
Sometimes this kind of collective unconscious that we're all dabbling in,
sometimes you're not the first one out of the gate.' "

From another obituary for
the "Spider-Man" screenwriter —

“When I die,” he liked to say, “I’m going to have written
on my tombstone, ‘Finally, a plot!’”

— Robert D. McFadden in The New York Times

See as well "Art Wars for Trotsky's Birthday"
and some historical background.

" Alan Watts wrote of The Making of a Counter Culture 
in the San Francisco Chronicle  in 1969, 'If you want to
know what is happening among your intelligent and
mysteriously rebellious children, this is the book. . . .' "

— The University of California Press

" 'I count a lot of things that there’s no need to count,'
Cameron said. 'Just because that’s the way I am.
But I count all the things that need to be counted.' "

— Richard Brautigan, The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western ,
Simon & Schuster, 1974

See as well Hawkline in this  journal.

The previous post suggests a search for Buber in this journal
that yields a passage from New Year's Eve 2017 —

" As for 'that you in which the lines of relation, though parallel,
intersect,' and 'intimations of eternity,' see Log24 posts on
the concept 'line at infinity' as well as 'Lost Horizon.' "

Related illustrations — 

From Pi Day 2017 —

"Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard."

From April 20, 2019 —

From "A History of Violence" —

"The style of Ich und Du  is anything but sparse and unpretentious,
lean or economical. It represents a late flowering of romanticism
and tends to blur all contours in the twilight of suggestive but
extremely unclear language. Most of Buber’s German readers
would be quite incapable of saying what any number of passages
probably mean. 

The obscurity of the book does not seem objectionable to them:
it seems palpable proof of profundity. Sloth meets with awe
in the refusal to unravel mysteries."

— Walter Kaufmann, 1970 prologue to I and Thou

A problem not only at Harvard.

For instance… A Hollywood anticlerical classic:

Schoolgirl Problem —

See also Good Friday 2003 … Continued .

See as well . . .

http://www.walterkaufmann.com/articles/1970_Prologu_Ich_Du.pdf .