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"What of the night
That lights and dims the stars?
Do you know, Hans Christian,
Now that you see the night?"

— The concluding lines of
"Sonatina to Hans Christian,"
by Wallace Stevens
(in Harmonium  (second edition, 1931))

". . . in the end the space itself is the star. . . ."

Related material — The death Tuesday night
of Prince Consort Henrik of Denmark, and the
New Year's Eve speech on Dec. 31, 2015, of
Queen Margrethe II of Denmark.

Distantly  related material — Yesterday morning's
post The Search for Child's Play.

Yesterday morning's post "Child's  Play" suggests . . .

"Jinx! Jinx again!"

— "Love is an Open Door," from Disney's "Frozen"

For the late Anne M. Treisman, who reportedly died Friday, Feb. 9:

From "A Feature-Integration Theory of Attention" —

"The controversy between analytic and synthetic theories
of perception goes back many years: the Associationists
asserted that the experience of complex wholes is built
by combining more elementary sensations, while the
Gestalt psychologists claimed that the whole precedes
its parts, that we initially register unitary objects and
relationships, and only later, if necessary, analyze these
objects into their component parts or properties. This view 
is still active now . . . ."

— Anne M. Treisman, University of British Columbia,
and Garry Gelade, Oxford University, in
Cognitive Psychology  12, 97-136 (1980)

"Before time began, there was the Cube." — Optimus Prime

In memory of  a Manhattan art figure
who reportedly died on
Wednesday, February Seventh, 2018 —

ABOUT 'ASCENSION VARIATIONS'

“Ascension Variations is a magical adventure
woven from grand and pedestrian touches, and
in the end the space itself is the star —
or Ms. Monk's transformation of it.
For an hour, we've lived in a spiral,
where up is down and down is up.
It's a sacred place.”

— Gia Kourlas, The New York Times , March 6, 2009

See also the previous post — yesterday's Into the Upside Down —
and two posts of February Seventh:

Conceptual Art  and  Conceptual Minimalism.

For some related artistic remarks, see this  journal on March 6-7, 2009.

(Title suggested by the TV series Stranger Things )

" 'Untitled' (2016) is the most recent painting in the show
and includes one of Mr. Johns’s recurring images of a ruler."

— Image caption in an article by Deborah Solomon
     in The New York Times  online, Feb. 7, 2018
 

From a Log24 search for "Ruler" —

Related art —

See also, in this journal, Magic Mountain and Davos.

Einstein and Thomas Mann, Princeton, 1938

It Takes a Village 

Cutting-Edge Research

See as well The Prisoner of the Village —

Related conceptual  art —

Tom Wolfe in The Painted Word :

Click the automat image above to enlarge.

See as well a new retrospective at Facebook.

Reportedly.

Chilean poet Nicanor Parra

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

By Wink-Minneapolis

"In 'Sophistry,' a new play by Jonathan Marc Sherman
at the Playwrights Horizons Studio, a popular tenured
professor stands accused of sexual harassment
by a male student."

— Frank Rich in The New York Times , theater review
on October 12, 1993

"At which point another play, inchoate but arresting,
edges into view." — Rich, ibid.

"Johansson began acting during childhood,
after her mother started taking her to auditions.
She made her professional acting debut
at the age of eight in the off-Broadway production
of 'Sophistry' with Ethan Hawke, at New York's
Playwrights Horizons."

— IMDb Mini Biography by: Pedro Borges 

" 'Suddenly, I was 19 again and I started to remember
all the men I'd known who had taken advantage of
the fact that I was a young woman who didn't yet have
the tools to say no, or to understand the value of
my own self-worth,' the Avengers star described. 
'I had many relationships both personal and professional
where the power dynamic was so off that I had to create
a narrative in which I was the cool girl who could hang in
and hang out, and that sometimes meant compromising
what felt right for me . . . . ' "

— Scarlett Johansson yesterday at the 2018 Women's March
in Los Angeles, as reported in E! News .

Image in a Log24 post
of March 12, 2009.

In her new spiritual memoir . . . .

Armies of the Night —

Armies of the Day —

Cole Porter —

Night and Day —

The online New York Times  reports this afternoon
the death of a production designer on January 9th —

"In addition to the two Oscars Mr. Marsh won
(which he shared with others), he was nominated
for two more: for 'Scrooge' (1970), with Albert Finney and
Alex [sic ] Guinness, and 'Mary, Queen of Scots' (1971),
with Vanessa Redgrave and Glenda Jackson."

"… The Little Broomstick  by  Mary Stewart,
illustrated by Shirley Hughes, published Brockhampton 1971.
The story is about Mary, staying at Great-Aunt Charlotte's house,
bored until she meets the black cat Tib and finds the purple flower
fly-by-night that makes the little broomstick fly. In chapter 10
'gay go up and gay go down' Mary hides in Endor College,
the witch school, after hours and finds Tib transformed into a frog
(Madame Mumblechook had taken him from her as her entry fee).
She recites the Master Spell to release him. ' It was a simple,
gay little rhyme, and it ended on a phrase that might have been
(but wasn't) "the dancing ring of days".'  "  

"Bah, humbug!" — A Christmas Carol

Continued from Zen and Language Games
(a post of May 2, 2003, written on March 1, 2002)

From The Harvard Crimson  on St. Andrew's Day 2017 —

See also a larger, clearer view of the titles in the above file photo.

Dialogue suggested by the above Harvard Crimson  line
"I am a book today . . . . I know it all." —

A problem child* of sorts in the 2017 film "Gifted" —

Mary- "Maybe this school isn't as great as you think it is."

Mary is returned to the place of her examination.

Professor- "Mary, you knew that the problem was incorrect, 
            why didn't you say anything?"

Mary- "Frank says I'm not supposed to correct older people. 
       Nobody likes a smart-ass."

* "Problem Child" was a working title related to a novel
    Heinlein wrote in 1941, Beyond This Horizon —

"There was a game we used to play . . . ."

— The Cranberries on "Charmed,"
Season 2, Episode 5 (aired Nov.  4, 1999)

See also posts tagged Systems Programming.

Related material in this  journal —

The final link in a post of 8:07 AM ET on Friday, June 27, 2008, 
pointed to http://www.gateofheavenparish.com. That 2008 link
now leads to a more recent, quite different, webpage.

The page that the link led to in 2008 is now archived at
https://web.archive.org/web/20080509125920/
http://www.gateofheavenparish.com/.

"Wer gab uns den Schwamm, um den ganzen Horizont wegzuwischen?"

— Nietzsche, "Der Tolle Mensch" 
 

From an obituary in this morning's online New York Times —

"John Tunney seemed to have a charmed political life until 1976,
when at age 42 he lost his Senate seat after just one term
to the unlikeliest of Republican challengers, a former Democrat
named Samuel I. Hayakawa."

Topology punchline —

"Sorry, but A is closed."

For more tasteless mathematical humor, see . . .

The butler did it.

Background —

From The New York Times  online last October —

"A version of this article appears in print on October 6, 2017,
on Page A1 of the New York edition with the headline:
Genre-Spanning Author of ‘The Remains of the Day’
Wins Nobel." 

From Log24 last October —

From The San Diego Union-Tribune  on that October 6th —

"October 6, 2017, 4:25 PM"

"UC San Diego is mourning the loss of mathematician Jeff Remmel,
who died unexpectedly on Sept. 29th."

From Log24 on that Sept. 29th —

Principles Before Personalities:
Some Remarks for Science Addicts.

From the Hannah Goldfield link in today's 7 AM ET
post "In the Bag" —

"… the bride . . . . is a daughter of Gaylord Bourne and
Carl Goldfield of New Haven."

— Wedding story, New York Times , Oct. 18, 2015

A search indicates that Bourne may be the person of that name 
associated with Achievement First charter schools.

Here is a related story from today's online New York Times —

"Can a ‘No Excuses’ Charter Teach Students
to Think for Themselves?"  (11:40 AM ET)

In memory of a resident of the Upper West Side
who reportedly died on Twelfth Night 2018 —

“… the horizon is not the limit of meaning,
but that which extends meaning
from what is directly given
to the whole context in which it is given,
including a sense of a world.”

— David Vessey, Department of Philosophy,
Grand Valley State University,
Gadamer and the Fusion of Horizons,
International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 
17/4 (2009), 531-42.

Background for the remarks of Koen Thas in the previous post —
Schumacher and Westmoreland, "Modal Quantum Theory" (2010).

Related material —

" There is a pleasantly discursive treatment 
of Pontius Pilate’s unanswered question
‘What is truth?’ "

— Coxeter, 1987, introduction to Trudeau’s
     The Non-Euclidean Revolution

The whole  truth may require an unpleasantly  discursive treatment.

Example —

1. The reported death on Friday, Jan. 5, 2018, of a dancer
     closely associated with George Balanchine

2. This journal on Friday, Jan. 5, 2018:

3. Illustration from a search related to the above dancer:

4. "Per Mare Per Terras" — Clan slogan above, illustrated with
     what looks like a cross-dagger.

    "Unsheathe your dagger definitions." — James Joyce.

5. Discursive remarks on quantum theory by the above
    Schumacher and Westmoreland:

6. "How much story do you want?" — George Balanchine

The previous post, together with a New York Times  report on
an Upper West Side figure's  death on Friday, suggests a review . . .

Related material —

Illustrations from  a post of Oct. 11, 2010 —

Recent posts involving the English pronoun IT referred to
classic tales of horror by Madeleine L'Engle and Stephen King.

Those posts suggest some further remarks by Martin Buber: 

THE WORLD IS TWOFOLD for man
     in accordance with his twofold attitude.
The attitude of man is twofold
     in accordance with the two basic words he can speak.
The basic words are not single words but word pairs.
One basic word is the word pair I-You.
The other basic word is the word pair I-It;
     but this basic word is not changed when
     He or She takes the place of It.
Thus the I of man is also twofold.
For the I of the basic word I-You is different from
     that in the basic word I-It.

— Buber, Martin. I and Thou, Trans. Kaufmann
     (p. 53). Kindle Edition. 

Four German pronouns from the above passage
by Martin Buber lead to six pronoun pairs:

ich-du, ich-es, ich-sie, du-es, du-sie, es-sie.

This is in accordance with some 1974 remarks by
Marie-Louise von Franz —

The following passage by Buber may confuse readers of
L'Engle and King with its use, in translation, of "it" instead of
the original German "sie" ("she," corresponding to "die Welt") —

Here, for comparison, are the original German and the translation.

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."

"It was a dark and stormy night . . ."

* See also other posts using this word.

For those who prefer Becket to Beckett —
See a Log24 search for True Grid.

Update of 1:37 PM —

The above prose suggests a musical alternative to the Dec. 21
Camazotz song in the posts tagged Quantum Tesseract Theorem . . .

See as well Faustus in this  journal.

Harrison Ford in "Blade Runner 2049" —

Click the above quote for a scholium.

See also the previous post and . . .

See also posts now tagged Weintraub.

See also posts tagged Root Circle.

(Tuesday, Boston time; early Wednesday, Rome time.)

"The metaphor for metamorphosis no keys unlock."

From the 1968 "new and revised edition" —

See also the previous post.

For the phrase "burning fountain," see Shelley's "Adonais,"
as well as Logos (a post of Dec. 4) and The Crimson Abyss.

The previous post, "Mind," suggests a search for "n+1" in this journal.
From that search —

The above psychoanalytic remarks suggest . . .

See also "Transformers" (2007).

"Before time began, there was the Cube."

— Optimus Prime

— Justin E. H. Smith

Detail from a Log24 post of last Sunday —

The above reading was suggested by a post of
New Year's Day, Jan. 1, 2013 — The Simplest Situation.

See also Ahem (Sunday morning, Dec. 10, 2017).