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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.

(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 …

"Every Story Has a Deadline"

— Cover of a novel,  Graveland

Quivering Antennae

This  journal on that date —

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 —

(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 —

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.

… 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 …

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

In memory of the founder of the Eagle Forum 

The previous post suggests a Log24 search for
Stevens + Sorbonne.  This yields …

"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.

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

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

In Dead Earnest

(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.

Big Birds

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 —

Click images for some backstories.

Related material: The Wet Hot Summa.

See also Grid + System in this  journal.

See also a post of July 16, 2016.

Who you gonna call?

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 the Igor of the title, see the previous post.

Grosses Treffen

See also Log24 on the above Berlin date — April 16, 2016 —

For some historical background, see
the post ABC Art of November 8, 2015.

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.

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 —

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 .​
 

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.

See Binary Shema.

From Wikipedia —

"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."

2:3 :: 4:6

Midrash —

Notes and frequency ratios

From "A Piece of the Storm,"
by the late poet Mark Strand —

"A snowflake, a blizzard of one…."

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."

"Her hair is Harlow gold …"

Clark Gable and Jean Harlow in
"Wife vs. Secretary" (Feb. 28, 1936)

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 —

"Confusion is nothing new." 
 

Illustrations —

Alethiometer from "The Golden Compass"

Do you know where your Olympics are?

Update of a half-hour later, 10:27 PM ET —

Hints

Recent amateur psychological profiles of Trump 
suggest a review of Cliff Gorman as Goebbels
in "The Bunker" (1981) —

"Well … That's their problem now."

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

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 —

Related theater — Child's Play.

Note —

See also the previous post, Notes towards the Inarticulate.

See the search for an Inarticulate Square in this journal.

Or:  Shema, SXSW

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.