Secular viewers during the writers' strike must rely on AI . . .

From this journal on 4/01, 2009:

The Cruelest Month —

"Langdon sensed she was toying with him…."  — Dan Brown

Less playfully . . .

See also the show tune from the end of "Second Tree from the Corner,"
a classic New Yorker  short story by E. B. White.  (And related posts.)

"You got your demons and you got desires
 Well, I got a few of my own" — Song lyric

Click the above box for a related New Yorker  article.

See also, in this  journal, Baudelaire and Psychonauts.

The reference to metaphysics in today's previous post
suggests a review of the phrase "logical point of view."

"Many of these same characters wonder whether
they are creating these special places anew, or
are merely finding places which already exist
(very much like 'the problem of universals' in
classical metaphysics)."

— Wikipedia article on author Roger Zelazny

Related material —

* For the title, see a story by Zelazny.

레몬타워

Related narrative: Bosch by Snaith.

"Thank you for your service."

— Betty Gilpin (as Crystal May, not Sister Simone)

(Title suggested by recent episodes of "The Blacklist.")

"It's the system  that matters.
How the data arrange
themselves inside it."

— Gravity's Rainbow  

The Pynchon quote is from posts now tagged Map Systems.

“She never looked up while her mind rotated the facts,
trying to see them from all sides, trying to piece them
together into theory. All she could think was that she
was flunking an IQ test.”

— Steve Martin, An Object of Beauty

Maybe Cosby knows.

A Stitch in Time:

Nine:

Demystifying Alpha Delta, the original 'Animal House' —

"Dartmouth officially recognized its chapter of
the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity in 1846."

Harvard, on the other hand . . .

All the Way to the Bank

— Olga Raggio, a graduate of the Vatican library school
and the University of Rome

This quote is from posts tagged The Positive.

A review of those posts was suggested by the date of a different quote,
from a "Timeless" episode that aired on January 16, 2017 —

In memory of an East Village journalist who reportedly
died at 68 on April 1, a link to posts now tagged East Village.

Other April-1-related material —

“I had a nose for news,” he said, “and the news
I had a nose for was 10 years ahead.”

For some posts from 10 years behind  the above death date,
see the tag April 1 in 2013.

Religious remarks in the Times Literary Supplement
issue dated April 7, 2023 (Good Friday) suggest a
review of other remarks — from July 1, 2019 —now
tagged The Exploded Cube.  Some will prefer more useful
types of explosions.

Data:

"The rockers said via their record label:

'It is with the deepest sadness that we must
announce the passing of the lyricist Keith Reid,
who died suddenly on 23 March 2023,
in hospital in London. He had been receiving
cancer treatment for the past couple of years.

Keith was the co-founder and lyricist for the band
Procol Harum, notably penning their biggest hit
A Whiter Shade of Pale, which contains some of
the most enigmatic lyrics of all time.' " 

— https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/
breaking-procol-harums-keith-reid-29586101

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A note from Log24 on the above March 23 date —

The above Del Shannon upload date
was November 1, 2021 — All Saints' Day.

Synchronicity check —