An attempt to clear up confusion sown by a Christian witch.

The above OED quotations omit a notable instance of the phrase in
T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" drawn from a Jacobean dramatist —

The Log24 date above, September 7, recurs in recent mathematics —

See as well a post on the so-called Hungarian Algorithm.

https://www.christophermellevold.com/#/handball/

suggests . . .

"Link in bio" in the above April 12 Instagram post is to
thebaremagazine.com/home/sophia-lillis .

See as well "In Search of Beauty Bare" and
a different  site, also created on April 12 . . .

Augustine Confessiones 3 3.1.1

Related meditations —

A more straightforward image —

"I need a photo opportunity . . ." — Song lyric, Paul Simon

For those who are
less than thrilled
by St. Augustine:

See also Margaret Qualley's "Kenzo World" dance.

Those less than thrilled by Qualley's highly energetic,
but very unclassical, dance may review the Log24 post
Raiders of the Lost Images (Feb. 27, 2018).

"No Time To Die marks the culmination of an over-arching storyline
that began with Craig's first Bond film Casino Royale, released in 2006."

—https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-58718299,
   datetime="2021-09-29T15:25:55.000Z"

In front of the former Hotel Bella Vista, Cuernavaca, Mexico:
Google Street View, August 2019.  Click to enlarge.

Related material from the above date of death —

Class  Entertainment.

See as well . . .

See Capstone and Einheit .

From Ragtime , by E. L. Doctorow, a 1975 novel:

"Walker decided to put the Ford into reverse gear,
back up to the corner and go another way."

Some dreamers may prefer a different Ford:

Arwen Undómiel confronts
the servants of Mordor
at the Ford of Bruinen —

A space fan in Tomorrowland  knocks on one door-panel of a 3×3 array —

Related image from Hereafter —

Matt Damon with his  3×3 door-panel array.

* See the title, "Code Girl," in this  journal.

"Sign (Just sign) the dotted line (The dotted line)"

— Song lyric by Labrinth

See as well "Child Buyer" in this journal.

Addendum for Mean Girls —

The "dotted line" lyric by Labrinth was suggested by 
last night's post Red Dot Problems —

From the post Introibo for Buck Mulligan (August 26, 2021) —

Speedway and Washington, Venice, California:

A somewhat different intersection, in New Orleans —

Related reading:

"Bulldozed but not forgotten, the infamous Storyville red-light district
flourished in the Treme’s upper stretches while St. Augustine Church 
remains the centerpiece for the oldest African-American Catholic parish
in the country." —https://www.neworleans.com/plan/neighborhoods/treme/

"I found this statement to be at the intersection of disingenuous and hilarious."

— Maureen Dowd, Sept. 18, 2021, 10:04 a.m. ET

— Um, there's supposed to be a Smithsonian event in there.

— Nothing on the schedule. Maybe it got moved to another room.

— I-I'm supposed to give a speech.

— I doubt it. But don't let that stop you. I'm a real good listener.

Read more at: https://tvshowtranscripts.ourboard.org/
viewtopic.php?f=1054&t=46169

It is often good to remember that writers of headlines (and subheadlines)
are usually not the same people as the authors of the following texts.

In particular, in the above example, neither the word "touchstone" nor
the use of "enquires" to mean "enquiries" appears in the text proper.

Still, the mixed metaphor of "razor" as "touchstone" is not without interest.

See The Eightfold Cube and Modernist Cuts.

From a review on Schicksalstag  (Nov. 9), 2019, of Jon Fosse's
The Other Name: Septology I-II  —

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/09/
the-other-name-septology-i-ii-jon-fosse-review —

Related art —

Continues.  (In memory of a Music Master.)

https://www.google.com/search?q=
%22ihre+Achtel+und+Sechzehntel%22+Glasperlenspiel&tbm=bks

Edwin Muir — Merlin

O Merlin in your crystal cave
Deep in the diamond of the day,
Will there ever be a singer
Whose music will smooth away
The furrow drawn by Adam's finger
Across the memory and the wave?
Or a runner who'll outrun
Man's long shadow driving on,
Break through the gate of memory
And hang the apple on the tree?

Will your magic ever show
The sleeping bride shut in her bower,
The day wreathed in its mound of snow
and Time locked in his tower?

Click the chessboard for some Chinese hermeneutics.

Q — "How do you get to Carnegie Hall?"
A —  "Practice, man, practice."

Another Q-and-A, with a jazz D.J. who reportedly died yesterday —

Q — "Did you ever practice a religion?"
A — "I’m mixed heritage. I was bar mitzvah-ed.
My mother’s side of family is Protestant. I was
rejected as a witness at a wedding of one of
Benny Goodman's cousins because I wasn't Jewish
because of my mother. I'm still mad about that.
If you really go back, my mother’s father was
a church organist."

Update of 6:23 PM ET —

Bar mitzvah :  See Two-Bar Hook.

"Over the years, she’s had key roles on
'Mad Men,' 'Rectify,' 'True Blood' and 'Timeless.'
Spencer is repped by Untitled Entertainment
and United Talent." — Kate Aurthur in Variety ,
Sept. 7, 2021, 11:15 am PT.

In the Variety  story, "True Blood" may be an error.
Spencer was  in "True Detective" (Season 2).

A Log24 search for "Watercourse" leads to . . .

("Watercourse" is in the Customer review link.)

The "five years ago" link leads to . . .

* See that title in this journal.

* Line from a poem, as interpreted by Cailee Spaeny and Josefine Lyche.

"Eight miles from charred front lines of the fire, a cluster
of Vegas-style hotels on the California-Nevada border
has morphed into a base camp for emergency workers."

—  Jack Healy in The New York Times ,
      Sept. 6, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET

* See also Expanding the Spielraum ,
   starring Javier Bardem as Q :

For Snopes —

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/
brooke-shields-nude-child-photo/

" The lawsuit was dismissed in a 4-3 decision 
by the New York State Supreme Court.
Justice Edward Greenfield stated that
the pictures were 'not erotic or pornographic' 
except to 'possibly perverse minds….' "

For Greenfield —

"… flights of rhetoric were a hallmark of the thousands
of opinions Justice Greenfield crafted during his three
decades on the trial bench. He died on Aug. 26 at his home
in Manhattan, his son Mark said. He was 98."

 — Katharine Q. Seelye of The New York Times  online today

Also on Aug. 26 —

Introibo for Buck Mulligan
in posts tagged Bar Exam.

From the Field of Manifestation link above —

"The number 9, that is to say, relates traditionally
to the Great Goddess of Many Names (Devi, 
Inanna, Ishtar, Astarte, Artemis, Venus, etc.)
as matrix of the cosmic process, whether in the
macrocosm or in a microcosmic field of manifestation."

— Joseph Campbell,
     The Inner Reaches of Outer Space

For Stephen King:

"I held my nose, I closed my eyes, I took a drink."

— "Love Potion Number 9" 

A title adaptation for Drunkspeare:

"Only the Dead Know Brooklyn Square."

From a Harvardwood page footer —

. . . Should we choose to accept it . . .