See the three dead Solomons in a Log24 post of May 8, 2016.
See also two posts from July on the day Solomon Feferman died —
A sample of the work of Feferman —
See also a tribute to Feferman respectively .
See the three dead Solomons in a Log24 post of May 8, 2016.
See also two posts from July on the day Solomon Feferman died —
A sample of the work of Feferman —
See also a tribute to Feferman respectively .
For Mrs. Hyman, see the October Atlantic.
The previous post discussed the parametrization of
the 4×4 array as a vector 4-space over the 2-element
Galois field GF(2).
The 4×4 array may also be parametrized by the symbol
0 along with the fifteen 2-subsets of a 6-set, as in Hudson's
1905 classic Kummer's Quartic Surface —
Hudson in 1905:
These two ways of parametrizing the 4×4 array — as a finite space
and as an array of 2-element sets — were related to one another
by Cullinane in 1986 in describing, in connection with the Curtis
"Miracle Octad Generator," what turned out to be 15 of Hudson's
1905 "Göpel tetrads":
A recap by Cullinane in 2013:
Click images for further details.
The previous post quoted Tom Wolfe on Chomsky's use of
the word "array."
An example of particular interest is the 4×4 array
(whether of dots or of unit squares) —
.
Some context for the 4×4 array —
The following definition indicates that the 4×4 array, when
suitably coordinatized, underlies the Kummer lattice .
Further background on the Kummer lattice:
Alice Garbagnati and Alessandra Sarti,
"Kummer Surfaces and K3 surfaces
with $(Z/2Z)^4$ symplectic action."
To appear in Rocky Mountain J. Math. —
The above article is written from the viewpoint of traditional
algebraic geometry. For a less traditional view of the underlying
affine 4-space from finite geometry, see the website
Finite Geometry of the Square and Cube.
Some further context …
"To our knowledge, the relation of the Golay code
to the Kummer lattice … is a new observation."
— Anne Taormina and Katrin Wendland,
"The overarching finite symmetry group of
Kummer surfaces in the Mathieu group M24 "
As noted earlier, Taormina and Wendland seem not to be aware of
R. W. H. T. Hudson's use of the (uncoordinatized*) 4×4 array in his
1905 book Kummer's Quartic Surface. The array was coordinatized,
i.e. given a "vector space structure," by Cullinane eight years prior to
the cited remarks of Curtis.
* Update of Sept. 14: "Uncoordinatized," but parametrized by 0 and
the 15 two-subsets of a six-set. See the post of Sept. 13.
(C. K. Williams and Crazy Eddie)
Todd Gitlin on C. K. Williams, dead on 9/20, 2015 —
"He is unabashed about soul-search, as here (“Brain,” from Wait ) :
'I was traversing the maze of my brain;
corridors, corners, strange, narrow caverns, dead ends.
Then all at once my being like this in my brain,
this sense of being my brain, became unbearable to me.
I began to wonder in dismay if the conclusion
I’d long ago come to that there can be nothing
that might reasonably be postulated as
the soul apart from body and mind
was entirely valid.' "
Times Square on Crazy Eddie, reportedly dead on Sept. 10, 2016 —
His prices …
Or: Elegy for Wiener Neustadt
That town outside Vienna was rather different in 1924,
the reported year of birth there of a woman whose obituary
appears in this evening's New York Times .
For the woman's later life, see the obituary.
See also a Log24 search for Times Square Church.
From the woman's reported date of death —
The New Yorker , issue dated Feb. 9, 2015 —
"After trying magic mushrooms in Cuernavaca, in 1960,
Leary conceived the Harvard Psilocybin Project, to study
the therapeutic potential of hallucinogens. His involvement
with LSD came a few years later."
Related viewing —
For the cocktail, see the following illustration, taken from
The New Yorker issue dated Sept. 12, 2016.
(The article accompanying the illustration is not recommended.)
* For more on the concept of "cocktail," search this journal for
Casablanca + Cocktail.
** For more on the concept of "damned," see Wikipedia on
the French group of writers and mathematicians that calls
itself Oulipo, and a recent novel by a member of that group.
The New York Times interviews Alan Moore —
“A version of this article appears in print on September 11, 2016,
on page BR9 of the Sunday Book Review ….”
“What genres do you prefer? And which do you avoid?”
“To be honest, having worked in genre for so long, I’m happiest
when I’m outside it altogether, or perhaps more accurately,
when I can conjure multiple genres all at once, in accordance
with my theory (now available, I believe, as a greeting card and
fridge magnet) that human life as we experience it is a
simultaneous multiplicity of genres. I put it much more elegantly
on the magnet.”
( Sequel to the post of 12 AM Wednesday )
The following highlighted phrase was found, with a different spelling,
in The New Yorker issue dated Sept. 12, 2016.
The article in which the phrase was embedded is not recommended.
Neither is the book (which the foolhardy explorer may easily find)
from which the above snippet was taken.
* That of Fields of the Lord .
(Continued )
A 1984 master's thesis (PDF, 8+ MB) —
"Language, Linguistics, and Philosophy:
A Comparison of the Work of Roman Jakobson
and the Later Wittgenstein, with Some Attention
to the Philosophy of Charles Saunders Peirce,"
by Miles Spencer Kimball.
Two pages from that thesis —
http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/APPLETS/29/NonSimple4E.gif
See also Dueling Formulas, Sinner or Saint?, and The Zero Obit.
The previous post deals with the theory, now becoming widely known,
that the musical "Grease" is really about Sandy's dying dream of heaven.
Another such dream in Oslo, described by the Vigeland Museum —
The Monolith "The Monolith was carved from one single granite block, hence the name (mono: one, litho: stone). Whereas the melancholy theme in the fountain is the eternal life cycle, the column gives room to a totally different interpretation: Man's longing and yearning for the spiritual and divine. Is the column to be understood as man's resurrection? The people are drawn towards heaven, not only characterised by sadness and controlled despair, but also delight and hope, next to a feeling of togetherness, carefully holding one another tight in this strange sense of salvation." |
I prefer a different monolith.
The notation "O" in the previous post suggests
a review of the new "Grease" theory in light of
a phrase from a May 2014 Oslo art exhibition —
"a desperate sense of imagined community."
Illustration (click for a video) —
"I'll have what she's having."
See as well Olivia Newton-John in this journal as the Muse of Dance.
A Log24 noon post of June 29, 2016, The Mystery of O ,
links to the following passage —
This use of "O" is not a notation I recommend.
Online Vogue today —
"For the first time, an exhibition at the Kunsthal Rotterdam—
'Peter Lindbergh: A Different Vision on Fashion Photography'—
will offer a robust survey of the photographer’s opus."
I find Lindbergh's early work as "Sultan" more interesting.
"May, / The months [sic ] of understanding" — Wallace Stevens
Saturday, May 21, 2016
|
"If pure mathematics does spring from sub-conscious intuitions— already deep-structured as are grammatical patterns in the transformational-generative theory of language?— if the algebraic operation arises from wholly internalized pattern-weaving, how then can it, at so many points, mesh with, correspond to, the material forms of the world?"
— Steiner, George. Grammars of Creation |
Good question.
See Bedtime Story (Sept. 1, 2016).
… For those taken aback by the tone of midnight's report
on the death of a 1960's counterculture figure.
See Didion's view of the counterculture in her classic
Slouching Towards Bethlehem .
A search in this journal for Didion + Nihilism yields …
From Wallace Stevens: A World of Transforming Shapes, by Alan D. Perlis, Bucknell University Press, 1976, p. 117: … in 'The Pediment of Appearance,' a slight narrative poem in Transport to Summer … A group of young men enter some woods 'Hunting for the great ornament, The pediment of appearance.' Though moving through the natural world, the young men seek the artificial, or pure form, believing that in discovering this pediment, this distillation of the real, they will also discover the 'savage transparence,' the rude source of human life. In Stevens's world, such a search is futile, since it is only through observing nature that one reaches beyond it to pure form. As if to demonstrate the degree to which the young men's search is misaligned, Stevens says of them that 'they go crying/The world is myself, life is myself,' believing that what surrounds them is immaterial. Such a proclamation is a cardinal violation of Stevens's principles of the imagination. |
Detail from the cover of the 1967 first issue of London's OZ magazine —
Other OZ news in Tuesday evening's online New York Times —
"Well, I tried to make it Sunday …" — America lyrics
"Lévi-Strauss is an infatuated aesthetician."
— Boris Wiseman, Lévi-Strauss, Anthropology and Aesthetics ,
Cambridge University Press, 2007, p. 27
Last night's link from the Piper Laurie image leads to …
Related theoretical material — See Hudson + Tetrahedra.
The previous post suggests a Log24 search for
Stevens + Sorbonne. This yields …
Michael Bryson in an essay on Stevens’s The Quest for the Fiction of the Absolute: Canto nine considers the movement of the poem between the particular and the general, the immanent and the transcendent: “The poem goes from the poet’s gibberish to / The gibberish of the vulgate and back again. / Does it move to and fro or is it of both / At once?” The poet, the creator-figure, the shadowy god-figure, is elided, evading us, “as in a senseless element.” The poet seeks to find the transcendent in the immanent, the general in the particular, trying “by a peculiar speech to speak / The peculiar potency of the general.” In playing on the senses of “peculiar” as particular and strange or uncanny , these lines play on the mystical relation of one and many, of concrete and abstract. |
"The poem goes from the poet’s gibberish to
The gibberish of the vulgate and back again.
Does it move to and fro or is it of both
At once?”
— Stevens, “Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction" (1942)
Par exemple , the previous post's title: "Space Case."
The New York Times yesterday evening —
Butor reportedly died on August 24.
This journal on that date —
From Butor's obituary —
"He studied philosophy at the Sorbonne
under the phenomenologist
Gaston Bachelard, writing a thesis on
mathematics and the idea of necessity."
"In 2013 the Académie Française awarded
Mr. Butor its Grand Prix for his life’s work.
Explaining his philosophy in an interview
with the critic and television producer
Georges Charbonnier in 1965, Mr. Butor said,
'Every written word is a victory over death.' "
A search for Bachelard in this journal yields remarks
related to Bachelard's Poetics of Space and to the above
phrase by Wallace Stevens.
The Lévi-Strauss “canonic formula” of myth in its original 1955 context,
described as that of permutation groups —
Related material in this journal —
Dueling Formulas and Symmetry.
Quoted here at 10 PM Pacific Time on Friday night —
"If I should die before I wake,
All my bone and sinew take
Put me in the compost pile
To decompose me for a while . . . ."
— Poem by Lee Hays
For the Church of Synchronology, a correction of
a recent New York Times obituary by Daniel Lewis —
Actor Gene Wilder died early Monday, Aug. 29, not, as
earlier reported, late Sunday, Aug. 28.
See also the last Log24 post of Sunday night, Aug. 28 (Angles of Vision)
and the first post of Monday morning, Aug. 29, 2016 (Roll Credits).
* For some reading related to the title, see an Evil Genius page
by the late David Lavery mentioning Colin Wilson's novel
The Mind Parasites . Great entertainment for the tinfoil-hat crowd —
"More and more I feel like the narrator of Colin Wilson's
The Mind Parasites , a phenomenologist who, along with
a dedicated group of compatriots, struggles clandestinely
to overthrow alien invaders that have secretly
taken captive the 'deep structure' of the human mind."
CERN COURIER May 28, 1999:
In hot pursuit of CP violation
"CP was a consolation prize for physicists.
At least it seemed so until 1964."
"James W. Cronin, who shared the Nobel Prize in physics
for discovering a startling breakdown in what was assumed
to be the immutable symmetry of physical law, thereby
helping to explain the behavior and evolution of the universe
as a whole, died Aug. 25 in St. Paul, Minn. He was 84.
Dr. Cronin’s death was announced by the University of Chicago,
where he was a professor emeritus of physics as well as of
astronomy and astrophysics. No cause was reported."
— Martin Weil in The Washington Post , August 28, 2016
(Poem by Lee Hays, performed by Pete Seeger)
If I should die before I wake,
All my bone and sinew take
Put me in the compost pile
To decompose me for a while . . . .
For a different sort of decomposition, see the previous post.
"Now a little trivial heuresis is in order."
— The late Waclaw Szymanski on p. 279 of
"Decompositions of operator-valued functions
in Hilbert spaces" (Studia Mathematica 50.3
(1974): 265-280.)
See "A Talisman for Finkelstein," from midnight
on the reported date of Szymanski's death. That post
refers to "the correspondence in the previous post
between Figures A and B" … as does this post.
Some images from the posts of last July 13
(Harrison Ford's birthday) may serve as funeral
ornaments for the late Prof. David Lavery.
See as well posts on "Silent Snow" and "Starlight Like Intuition."
The professor of the title is David Lavery,
who reportedly died Tuesday, August 30.
Lavery is the author of, among other things, the website
Evil Genius, which contains notes toward a fiction based
on a concept by Descartes.
In memoriam —
The Guardian ‘s summary today of the new film “Arrival” —
“I have been agnostic about this kind of movie recently,
after the overwrought disappointments of Christopher
Nolan’s Interstellar and Jeff Nichols’s Midnight Special.
But Villeneuve’s Arrival is both heartfelt and very entertaining.”
— Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian today
As is Amy’s.
Yesterday's post The Eightfold Cube in Oslo suggests a review of
posts that mention The Lost Crucible.
(The crucible in question is from a book by Katherine Neville,
The Eight . Any connection with Arthur Miller's play "The Crucible"
is purely coincidental.)
A detail from the previous post —
"Last thing I remember,
I was running for the door . . . ."
— Eagles, "Hotel California"
A KUNSTforum.as article online today (translation by Google) —
Update of Sept. 7, 2016: The corrections have been made,
except for the misspelling "Cullinan," which was caused by
Google translation, not by KUNSTforum.
"The quotes create the illusion
that the dead are still speaking
to the reader. Faust writes about
the efforts of spiritualists to believe
in an afterlife for their slain kin, but
she’s the one summoning spirits."
— April Yee, Harvard Crimson
staff writer, February 7, 2008
"0! = 1"
See also yesterday's Into the Woods
and posts now tagged Willow and Mandorla.
This afternoon's online New York Times on the late
Gene Wilder, who reportedly died Sunday night —
"Mr. Wilder’s rule for comedy was simple:
Don’t try to make it funny; try to make it real.
'I’m an actor, not a clown,' he said more than once."
— Daniel Lewis
Update of Sept. 3, 2016 —
See the Chautauqua Season post of June 25
and a search for Notation in this journal.
See as well the previous post and Bullshit Studies .
(A sequel to "Folk Question ," the previous post)
See also Alexandra Bellow's "Flashbacks of a Mathematical Life"
in the September 2016 Notices of the American Mathematical Society .
A figure from Dec. 27, 2003 —
Quoted here on that date —
“If little else, the brain is an educational toy."
— Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
"What else did you get for Christmas?"
— Folk question
See a search for the title in this journal.
Related material:
The incarnation of three permutations,
named A, B, and C,
on the 7-set of digits {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7}
as permutations on the eightfold cube.
See Minimal ABC Art, a post of August 22, 2016.
A star figure and the Galois quaternion.
The square root of the former is the latter.
See also a search in this journal for "Set a Structure."
1. Tom Wolfe has a new book on Chomsky, "The Kingdom of Speech."
2. This suggests a review of a post of Aug. 11, 2014, Syntactic/Symplectic.
To paraphrase Wittgenstein, sentence 1 above is about "correlating in real life"
(cf. Crooked House and Wolfe's From Bauhaus to Our House ), and may be
compared to sentence 2 above, which links to a sort of "correlating in
mathematics" that is a particular example of the more general sort of
mathematical correlating mentioned by Wittgenstein in 1939.
The previous post dealt with a talk by Cora Diamond
on April 3, 2015, at 32 Vassar St., Cambridge, Mass.
The MIT building at that address suggests a review
of the phrase "Crooked House" in this journal.
A check of Cora Diamond, editor of the 1976 Wittgenstein
book shown in the previous post, yields …
The date of the above talk was April 3, 2015.
For this journal on that date, see a link, "by Steven H. Cullinane,"
in yesterday's post Core Statements.
(Continued from April 29, Uma Thurman's birthday )
April 29, 2016, was the opening date for a film
about Ramanujan, "The Man Who Knew Infinity,"
as well as Uma Thurman's birthday. (Uma is
named for a Hindu goddess.)
"That in which space itself is contained" — Wallace Stevens
An image by Steven H. Cullinane from April 1, 2013:
The large Desargues configuration of Euclidean 3-space can be
mapped canonically to the 4×4 square of Galois geometry —
On an Auckland University of Technology thesis by Kate Cullinane —
The thesis reportedly won an Art Directors Club award on April 5, 2013.
Today is said to be the 25th anniversary of the
opening to the public of the World Wide Web.
Related material: Click on the above icon for
posts mentioning "Spider Woman."
For an authority on Japanese art —
Text Tiles*
Compare to and contrast with …
Remarks on art, contemplation. and Puritanism
from a recent Princeton University Press book —
“Lucy Lippard distinguished Asian art
(ego-less and contemplative)
from New York Minimalism
(moralistic and puritanical).”
— Mathematics and Art ,
Princeton U. Press, Fall 2015
* Update of Aug. 24, 2016 — See also Nov. 2, 2014.
For the Igor of the title, see the previous post.
See also Log24 on the above Berlin date — April 16, 2016 —
For some historical background, see
the post ABC Art of November 8, 2015.
Fugue No. 21
B-Flat Major
Well-Tempered Clavier Book II
Johann Sebastian Bach
by Timothy A. Smith
Theme and Variations
by Steven H. Cullinane
The beginning of each —
Some context —
See also an obit for Robert Stone by Ashley Southall
rewritten by Bruce Weber.
* The title refers to a Saturday night post of 11:29 PM ET,
"Stone Cold Open," from January 10, 2015.
1. e4 |
See also Geometry of the I Ching and "Miracle on 34th Street." |
From a review, in the context of Hollywood, of a Princeton
University Press book on William Blake from 1947 —
The orange and black Princeton colors in the previous post
suggest a review of Halloween 2013 —
The above clickbait was "Recommended by Outbrain." The photo
shown does not appear on the site linked to. Background on the photo —
See also Brainstorm in this journal.
Or, "An Education Continued"
This journal on May 29, 2010, had a followup to
the previous day's post "Multispeech for Oxford"—
An Oxford workshop, "Quantum Physics and Logic," began
on the date of the above Log24 "Packed" post, May 29, 2010.
The first talk was by John Baez —
Baez's notes on his talk begin …
"Duality has many manifestations in logic and physics." —
Yes, it does.
"Brutal choreography and dramatic intelligence"
— Phrase from the subtitle of a review
in The New Yorker , issue dated Aug. 22, 2016
A Midrash for Edmonton
Choreography — Sister Act —
Judy Carne and Hoss in NBC's "Bonanza," a nemesis
of CBS Sunday programming.
Intelligence — These Little Town Blues —
Carey Mulligan and Michael Fassbender in "Shame" (2011).
The New York Times on a film director who reportedly died today —
"Mr. Hiller was born on Nov. 13, 1923, in Edmonton, Alberta,
one of three children of Harry Hiller and the former Rose Garfin,
Jewish immigrants from Poland. His father ran a secondhand
musical instrument store in Edmonton.
His first contact with show business came through his parents,
who formed a community theater in Edmonton to present plays
in Yiddish. He helped his parents build and paint sets, and made
his acting debut at age 11."
Other news from Edmonton —
The images in the previous post do not lend themselves
to any straightforward narrative. Two portions of the
large image search are, however, suggestive —
Cross and Boolean lattice.
The improvised cross in the second pair of images
is perhaps being wielded to counteract the
Boole of the first pair of images. See the heading
of the webpage that is the source of the lattice
diagram toward which the cross is directed —
Update of 10 am on August 16, 2016 —
See also Atiyah on the theology of
(Boolean) algebra vs. (Galois) geometry:
Today Reviews the Concept of "Göpel Inscape ."
Shown below is a condensed version of
Google-as-Galatea's full 11.7 MB image search
based on the two words Göpel inscape .
Continued from earlier posts on Boole vs. Galois.
From a Google image search today for “Galois Boole.”
Click the image to enlarge it.
The previous post dealt with a death on August 6.
On that date nine years earlier —
"Atle Selberg, who had a major influence in mathematics
and especially in analytic number theory during the 20th century,
died on August 6 [2007]. Born on June 14, 1917, in Langesund,
Norway, he received his Ph.D. in 1943 from the University of Oslo. . . ."
— American Mathematical Society, 2007
See also Selberg in this journal —
Click image for the full version of the above post
and some remarks from the date of Selberg's death.
See this evening's online New York Times for
a notable death on August 6, 2016.
Related material: This journal on that date.
Below: The NY Times "Summer Thrills" Sunday Book Review
of July 31, 2016. Click image to enlarge.
Verrückt genug?
The previous post suggests a review of posts tagged Wheeler in this journal.
See also a post from the date of Wheeler's death, The Echo in Plato's Cave.
Peter Galison, a Harvard professor, is a defender of
the Vienna Circle and the religion of Scientism.
From Galison's “Structure of Crystal, Bucket of Dust,” in
Circles Disturbed: The Interplay of Mathematics and Narrative ,
edited by Apostolos Doxiadis and Barry Mazur, pp. 52-78
(Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 2012) …
Galison's final paragraph —
"Perhaps, then, it should not surprise us too much if,
as Wheeler approaches the beginning-end of all things,
there is a bucket of Borelian dust. Out of this filth,
through the proposition machine of quantum mechanics
comes pregeometry; pregeometry makes geometry;
geometry gives rise to matter and the physical laws
and constants of the universe. At once close to and far
from the crystalline story that Bourbaki invoked,
Wheeler’s genesis puts one in mind of Genesis 3:19:
'In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou
return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken:
for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.' "
For fans of Scientism who prefer more colorful narratives —
(Continued from April 2013 and later)
This is what I called "the large Desargues configuration"
in posts of April 2013 and later.
"Emily Eden … a hardened New York City homicide detective,
goes undercover to investigate the murder of a Hasidic
diamond-cutter."
Midrash — See "Diamond + Dust + Glitter."
"Dust is a fictional elementary particle that is of
fundamental importance within the story."
— Wikipedia on Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy
A review of posts tagged Kabbalah yields —
"If all that 'matters' are fundamentally mathematical relationships, then there ceases to be any important difference between the actual and the possible. (Even if you aren't a mathematical Platonist, you can always find some collection of particles of dust to fit any required pattern. In Permutation City this is called the 'logic of the dust' theory.)….
— Danny Yee, review of Permutation City , |
See also in this journal a search for Dark Matter.
"Logos and logic, crystal hypothesis,
Incipit and a form to speak the word
And every latent double in the word…."
— Wallace Stevens,
"Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction,"
Section I, Canto VIII
The novel Blood on Snow , set in Oslo, was published
by Knopf on April 7, 2015. This journal on that date —
Log24 on Tuesday, April 7, 2015 Filed under: Uncategorized — m759 @ 7:00 PM Seven years ago in this journal — |
A related image —
Obituary for Wilford Stanton Miller, author in 1926
of the Miller Analogies Test —
Marshall McLuhan writing to Ezra Pound on Dec. 21, 1948—
"The American mind is not even close to being amenable
to the ideogram principle as yet. The reason is simply this.
America is 100% 18th Century. The 18th century had
chucked out the principle of metaphor and analogy—
the basic fact that as A is to B so is C to D. AB:CD.
It can see AB relations. But relations in four terms are still
verboten. This amounts to deep occultation of nearly all
human thought for the U.S.A.
I am trying to devise a way of stating this difficulty as it exists.
Until stated and publicly recognized for what it is, poetry and
the arts can’t exist in America."
A line for W. S. Miller, taken from "Annie Hall" —
"You know nothing of my work."
2:3 :: 4:6
Midrash —
Notes and frequency ratios
For a Monkey Grammarian (Viennese Version)
"At the point of convergence by Octavio Paz, translated by Helen Lane
|
A logo that may be interpreted as one-eighth of a 2x2x2 array
of cubes —
The figure in white above may be viewed as a subcube representing,
when the eight-cube array is coordinatized, the identity (i.e., (0, 0, 0)).
Shown below are a few variations on the figure by VCQ,
the Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology —
(Click image to enlarge.)
A search for Finkelstein in this journal yields an image …
Notes and frequency ratios
See also the remarks of a character in Martin Cruz Smith's
novel Stallion Gate on piano keys —
"I hate arguments. I'm a coward. Arguments are full of words,
and each person is sure he's the only one who knows
what the words mean. Each word is a basket of eels,
as far as I'm concerned. Everybody gets to grab just one eel
and that's his interpretation and he'll fight to the death for it….
Which is why I love music. You hit a C and it's a C and that's all it is.
Like speaking clearly for the first time. Like being intelligent.
Like understanding. A Mozart or an Art Tatum sits at the piano
and picks out the undeniable truth."
A metaphysical book search from about 10 PM ET 48 hours ago —
An earlier search from July 1, 2016, may serve as a companion piece —
The late physicist David Ritz Finkelstein on the magic square
in Dürer's "Melencolia I" —
"As a child I wondered why such a square was called magic.
The Occult Philosophy [of Agrippa] answers this question
at least. They were used as magical talismans."
The correspondence in the previous post between
Figures A and B may serve as a devotional talisman
in memory of Finkelstein, a physicist who, in the sort of
magical thinking enjoyed by traditional Catholics, might
still be lingering in Purgatory.
See also this journal on the date of Finkelstein's death —
The Cube and the Hexagram
The above illustration, by the late Harvey D. Heinz,
shows a magic cube* and a corresponding magic
hexagram, or Star of David, with the six cube faces
mapped to the six hexagram lines and the twelve
cube edges mapped to the twelve hexagram points.
The eight cube vertices correspond to eight triangles
in the hexagram (six small and two large).
Exercise: Is this noteworthy mapping** of faces to lines,
edges to points, and vertices to triangles an isolated
phenomenon, or can it be viewed in a larger context?
* See the discussion at magic-squares.net of
"perimeter-magic cubes"
** Apparently derived from the Cube + Hexagon figure
discussed here in various earlier posts. See also
"Diamonds and Whirls," a note from 1984.
From an earlier Log24 post —
Friday, July 11, 2014
|
From a post of the next day, July 12, 2014 —
"So there are several different genres and tones
jostling for prominence within Lexicon :
a conspiracy thriller, an almost abstract debate
about what language can do, and an ironic
questioning of some of the things it’s currently used for."
— Graham Sleight in The Washington Post
a year earlier, on July 15, 2013
For the Church of Synchronology, from Log24 on the next day —
From a post titled Circles on the date of Marc Simont's death —
See as well Verhexung in this journal.
Recent amateur psychological profiles of Trump
suggest a review of Cliff Gorman as Goebbels
in "The Bunker" (1981) —
"Well … That's their problem now."
Peter Gelzinis in the Boston Herald today —
"What has become painfully clear this week
is that there is no Republican campaign for
the presidency. There is only The Donald,
his
reflex tweets, the folded pieces of paper
he pulls out of his coat pocket and a crazy
stand-up routine that is part Lenny Bruce
and part professor Irwin Corey."
Professor Soltan, a fan of James Joyce, would do well
to apply her diagnostic powers to Finnegans Wake ,
a word salad if ever there was one.
Related recommended reading:
Compare and contrast the recent films
"The Diary of a Teenage Girl" and "Strangerland."
(This post was suggested by yesterday's
"How Deep the Rabbit Hole Goes.")
"Mathematics is a process of making your metaphors ever more precise."
— Dave Carter, quoted at AmericanSongwriter.com today
"Meticulously mapped" — Ben Brantley, review of the play "Rabbit Hole"
in The New York Times , February 3, 2006
Dave Carter, quoted in "Dave Carter's Final Class," "Eyes closed, you will feel your body traveling at great speed over the landscape. Somewhere there will be a hole down into the ground. As you go down into that tunnel, there may be creatures that try to stop you, stand in your path. You have to go right through them. Finally you will come to something down there in the ground, a new place with some kind of gift for you. You just look around for it there, and you will find it." |
Carter reportedly died on July 19, 2002.
The next day …
"And should you glimpse my wandering form out on the borderline
Between death and resurrection and the council of the pines
Do not worry for my comfort, do not sorrow for me so
All your diamond tears will rise up and adorn the sky beside me
when I go"
— Dave Carter, song lyric, "When I Go"
From the online New York Times this afternoon —
James Houghton, the founder and, until recently, the artistic director of the Signature Theater Company, one of Off Broadway’s essential nonprofit theaters and perhaps the nation’s leading safe house for playwrights, died on Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 57. …. From 2006 until his death, he was director of the drama division at the Juilliard School, which was founded in 1968 … by John Houseman. Like Professor Kingsfield, the Harvard law scholar famously played by Houseman in the 1973 film “The Paper Chase,” the drama division was long known for its emphasis on discipline and for upholding rigorous standards that kept the pressure on the small number of students who were admitted after auditions. (In 2016 there 2,000 applicants for 18 spots.) Mr. Houghton altered the Juilliard audition process and is credited with relaxing the atmosphere of the program. …. “I don’t think there was anyone in the theater community more beloved than Jim,” the playwright Tony Kushner… wrote in an email …. — Bruce Weber |
Related theater — Child's Play.
See the search for an Inarticulate Square in this journal.
Or: Shema, SXSW
The doors open slowly. I step into a hangar. From the rafters high above, lights blaze down, illuminating a twelve-foot cube the color of gunmetal. My pulse rate kicks up. I can’t believe what I’m looking at. Leighton must sense my awe, because he says, “Beautiful, isn’t it?” It is exquisitely beautiful. At first, I think the hum inside the hangar is coming from the lights, but it can’t be. It’s so deep I can feel it at the base of my spine, like the ultralow-frequency vibration of a massive engine. I drift toward the box, mesmerized.
— Crouch, Blake. Dark Matter: A Novel |
Related reading —
"Do you know there is a deliberate sinister conspiracy at work?"
"No, but hum a few bars and I'll fake it."
A few bars —
* Not the Dark Tower of Stephen King, but that of the
University of Texas at Austin, back in time 50 years and a day.
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