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For the late actor Kenneth Welsh, who reportedly died at 80
on May 5, 2022 …

A Log24 search — Edmonton.

Continued from yesterday, Eliza Doolittle Day.

Dr. Robert Ford — "Analysis."

* Title suggested by a textbook.

Click the image for a related news story.

Fred Ward, an actor, reportedly died on Sunday, May 8, 2022.

Music that was used on the soundtrack of one of his films —

In memory of Ward and Nin-Culmell — See Jan. 14, 2004, in this journal.

USA Today —  "Finland shares an 830-mile border with Russia."

Also bordering Russia … Norway. See the art of Josefine Lyche
at the only legal land Russia-Norway border crossing.

In memory of an actor who reportedly died on May 7 —

"Mr. Jenkin's play aspires to a Borgesian take on
American cultural rubble (pulp novels, films noir,
diner menus, pop songs, etc.), here assembled into
a labyrinthine, coincidence-driven and self-consciously
artificial plot." — Ben Brantley, New York Times ,1996

Click to enlarge.

https://www.spotern.com/en/spot/tv/the-blacklist/7939/
the-borsalino-raymond-reddington-james-spader-in-the-blacklist

Related material —

"A good, involving mystery featuring strong characters and
prose as smooth as the brim of a fedora, this novel makes
smart points about writing, publishing and the cult of mysteries."

— Review of A Smile on the Face of the Tiger 

See also . . .

In memory of a comic-book artist —

His views on physics at

http://web.archive.org/web/20060805085915/
http://nealadams.com/PhysicsOfGrow.html

… and a New Yorker  cartoon from
his reported date of death — April 28 —

A different sort of scourge —

The Source:

An image from the Web on Monday evening —

Also on February 10, 2022 —

"Moon Knight" will conclude at 3 AM ET Wednesday.

Related art  —

Related cinematic art — ("Tomb Raider," 2018) —

An image that some — perhaps even Uncle Walt himself —
might prefer to the above depiction of Lara Croft —

" While quantum theory has proven to be supremely successful
since its development a century ago, physicists have struggled to
unify it with gravity to create one overarching ‘theory of everything.’ "

— News release 1-May-2022 from
Foundational Ouestions Institute, FQXi

See as well the new URL "overarching.group."

From a 2017 Kate Mara film —

For a rather different vision of perfection, see Mara in "Morgan" (2016).

The pane number of interest —  15 or 14 ? —
depends on your perspective.

Related cinematic art of Oscar Isaac —

"Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
What heart heard of, ghost guessed:"

— Two lines from a Gerard Manley Hopkins poem
as quoted by Caleb Murdock at . . .

https://www.ablemuse.com/erato/showthread.php?t=5356 .

From that same URL —

"And, Caleb, yes, 'sprung rhythm' has made it into dictionaries,
though even there, the association is with Hopkins."

For guess-ghosts —

"Spring is sprung, the grass is riz,
I wonder where the flowers is."

And for an able muse —

Continues.

"Leslie Jamison has written an honest and important book….
All in all, vivid writing and required reading." ―Stephen King

Meanwhile, also on April 5, 2018… See posts tagged D8.

More recently, in a conspicuously un-dated new literary magazine …

See as well Freud on the Tummelplatz .

From a post titled "Sermon," August 20, 2017 —

October 2, 2016, was, in the Catholic sense, the dies natalis
of a philosopher of science, Mary Hesse.

October 2 was also the day of birth, in the non-Catholic sense,
of philosopher-poet Wallace Stevens.

Cf.  remarks in this  journal on October 2, 2016.

See as well Morse in Log24 posts on the Go chip.

"Spirits rise . . . ." — Streisand

Related material —

A 1920 play by J. M. Barrie, recreated on stage and now in film.

Draft of a letter to FDR written by Leo Szilard
and signed by Albert Einstein —

For the letter as sent  , see a webpage on the Manhattan Project.

This post was suggested by a New York Times obituary today that
contained the following misleading description — 

"a 1939 letter from Albert Einstein to President Franklin D. Roosevelt
encouraging the American effort to build the atomic bomb."

There was apparently no such effort until after the letter was received.

The previous post was in memory of one Eleanor  Munro.

A different literary Munro —

And then there is Hector Hugh  Munro, pen name Saki . . .

See lumber room  in this journal (Nov. 30 – Dec. 3, 2016), and
later Ghost Ship  tales in a post of December 22, 2016.

The author of the above title is featured in
a New York Times  obituary today. Another 
book by the same author, On Glory Roads,
appears in some related readings here .

Also on the above publication date —

A related noun —

The Conrad coinage —

Conrad K. Die beginnende Schizophrenie. 
Stuttgart, Germany: Thieme Verlag; 1958. 

Conrad K. Gestaltanalyse und Daseinsanalytik. 
Nervenarzt. 1959; 30: 405–410. 

"Reviewing Ms. Allen’s staging of Ibsen’s
'When We Dead Awaken'
at Stage West in 1977, Mr. Barnes wrote that
it had 'speed, conviction and perception.'"

— Richard Sandomir today reviewing the life of Rae Allen.

From the conclusion of that Ibsen play —

"Pax vobiscum."

See as well the YouTube comments below, on Allen
in the film version (1958) of "Damn Yankees" —