Monday, August 1, 2016
From this journal —
See (for instance) Sacred Order, July 18, 2006 —
From a novel published July 26, 2016, and reviewed
in yesterday's (print) New York Times Book Review —
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
(Kindle Locations 2004-2010).
Crown/Archetype. Kindle Edition.
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See also Log24 on the publication date of Dark Matter .
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Review of "Criminal," a recent Tommy Lee Jones film:
"The only problem is that the procedure requires
a certain type of mind, the mind of a psychopath."
Skip Hollandsworth in Texas Monthly, Feb. 2006,
discussing an interview wtih Texas actor Jones, mentions …
"Jones’ strangely mesmerizing performance as
a vicious psychopath who hijacks a battleship."
A sample of that performance suitable for Manic Monday —
"You have to reconsider your entire philosophy."
— Tommy Lee Jones in "Under Siege"
The New York Times Book Review yesterday advertised
such a reconsideration, for sale by a Smith College Buddhist —
(Click image to enlarge.)
For your consideration —
"And there’s a lot of humor in the collision between Easter [sic ]
mysticism and Western scientific, sort of logical binary."
— Benedict Cumberbatch on his new film "Doctor Strange."
Lead-balloon humor:
"Funny, you don't look Buddhist."
Jay L. Garfield
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Saturday, July 30, 2016
The title refers to the previous post.
Recommended reading:
From the above review —
"His book is the box; he himself is Maxwell's demon."
See also "Outside the Box" in this journal.
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"Benedict Cumberbatch Says a Journey
From Fact to Faith Is at the Heart of Doctor Strange"
— io9 yesterday
" 'This man comes from a binary universe where it’s all about logic,'
the actor told us at San Diego Comic-Con . . . .
'And there’s a lot of humor in the collision between Easter [sic ]
mysticism and Western scientific, sort of logical binary.' "
Related material — Strange Awards, April 14, 2016.
I prefer a different sort of journey. See Boole vs. Galois.
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Andrew O'Hehir on July 22 —
— and on July 27 —
"Unless th' Almighty Maker them ordain
His dark materials to create more Worlds …
Into this wilde Abyss the warie fiend
Stood on the brink of Hell and look'd a while,
Pondering his Voyage…."
— John Milton, Paradise Lost , Book II
For Benedict Cumberbatch as a "warie fiend,"
see posts now tagged Both Hands.
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"I implore you, teach me more about Maya."
— from a novel by Hermann Hesse —
This suggests a review —
See also posts now tagged Both Hands.
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Friday, July 29, 2016
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Darkness at Noon …
… meets Midnight Special —
— and the result is …
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Or: ♫ Are You Going to Vanity Fair ?
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See also Embedding the Stone (March 23, 2012).
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Thursday, July 28, 2016
Yesterday was the dies natalis , in the Catholic sense,
of the great cartoonist Jack Davis.
From an obituary —
From this journal yesterday afternoon and morning—
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Giglmayr's transformations (a), (c), and (e) convert
his starting pattern
1 2 5 6
3 4 7 8
9 10 13 14
11 12 15 16
to three length-16 sequences. Putting these resulting
sequences back into the 4×4 array in normal reading
order, we have
1 2 3 4 1 2 4 3 1 4 2 3
5 6 7 8 5 6 8 7 7 6 8 5
9 10 11 12 13 14 16 15 15 14 16 13
13 14 15 16 9 10 12 11 9 12 10 11
(a) (c) (e)
Four length-16 basis vectors for a Galois 4-space consisting
of the origin and 15 weight-8 vectors over GF(2):
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1
0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1
1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 .
(See "Finite Relativity" at finitegeometry.org/sc.)
The actions of Giglmayr's transformations on the above
four basis vectors indicate the transformations are part of
the affine group (of order 322,560) on the affine space
corresponding to the above vector space.
For a description of such transformations as "foldings,"
see a search for Zarin + Folded in this journal.
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Wednesday, July 27, 2016
"By the time Forrest Mars Jr. retired from active management
in 1999, it was an $18 billion-a-year company selling Snickers,
Uncle Ben’s Rice and Pedigree pet food."
— NY Times obituary by Sam Roberts for a business figure who
reportedly died yesterday (Uncle Ben's link added)
This, in light of the previous post, suggests a different passage
from yesterday's online New York Times —
* Spelling in honor of Max Bialystock —
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See …
Click image to use links. The backstory link —
Christmas Eve, 2012.
Related material:
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The previous post, on the July 13 death of computer scientist Robert Fano,
suggests a review of "Deathly Hallows" posts in this journal. From that review —
Mathematics
The Fano plane block design
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Magic
The Deathly Hallows symbol—
Two blocks short of a design.
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For further information, click the image below —
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Tuesday, July 26, 2016
"Robert Fano, an electrical engineer who was instrumental
in creating a world of instantly responsive computers, died
on July 13 in Naples, Fla. He was 98."
— John Markoff in this evening's online New York Times
Wikipedia on Robert Fano —
"Fano's father was the mathematician Gino Fano . . . ."
A mnemonic I associate with the Fano plane — "Seven is Heaven . . . ."
Log24 on the date of Robert Fano's death —
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Ben Lerner on Judd's art at Marfa —
"as if the installation were waiting to be visited
by an alien or god" — 10:04: A Novel
Oslo artist Josefine Lyche's public Instagram today —
See also Space (May 13, 2015).
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"Den Kopf benützen ist besser als ihn verlieren."
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From A. Trehub's remarks on the "space-like retinoid system"
mentioned by Bernd Schmeikal in his masterpiece of bullshit,
"Four Forms Make a Universe" —
The Self Locus
For a different grounding of the self, see the previous post.
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"Pinpoint high note"
— Phrase by Margalit Fox in yesterday
morning's online NY Times
For a pinpoint low note, see …
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Monday, July 25, 2016
"… which grounds the self" . . .
Popular Mechanics online today —
"Verizon exec Marni Walden seemed to
indicate Mayer's future may still be up in the air."
See also 5×5 in this journal —
"If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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"Now vee may perhaps to begin. Yes?" — Philip Roth
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Popular Mechanics today —
"Per the New York Times , embattled CEO Marissa Mayer
will not be joining the company, but is expected to receive
a $40 million severance package—as always, it pays to be
the boss. But Mayer said in a Tumblr post that she planned
to stay on—while Verizon exec Marni Walden seemed to
indicate Meyer's future may still be up in the air."
— Jake Swearingen
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Sunday, July 24, 2016
The contents page in the previous post is from a novel
by a Los Angeles screenwriter, Robert J. Avrech.
Avrech's story —
LA stories I prefer —
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The previous post mentioned the late film publicist David Horowitz.
This post is more in the spirit of a different David Horowitz.
From a digital copy of The Hebrew Kid and the Apache Maiden —
Detail from lower right — the date 9/29/04 —
See also Log24 on that date (Michaelmas 2004).
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"Sometime in the wee hours Linda wakes me up
after a troubled sleep and she said, ‘Look, he’s
got to go on the Carson show to make this right.’"
— The late David Horowitz,
according to an obituary
A different Carson show —
Horowitz reportedly died on Sunday, July 17, 2016.
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Continues .
In this post, "Omega" denotes a generic 4-element set.
For instance … Cullinane's
or Schmeikal's
.
The mathematics appropriate for describing
group actions on such a set is not Schmeikal's
Clifford algebra, but rather Galois's finite fields.
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Saturday, July 23, 2016
From a University of Vienna researcher
quoted in yesterday's 11 AM ET post —
For further University of Vienna meditations, see Fitch.
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Those who want a serious approach to the mathematics
of Clifford algebras — via finite geometry, the natural setting
of the four-group of the previous post — should consult
"Finite Geometry, Dirac Groups and the Table of
Real Clifford Algebras," by Ron Shaw (1995).
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Friday, July 22, 2016
"The four base units commute and satisfy
the multiplication table of the Klein 4 group."
— Bernd Schmeikal, article accepted
for publication on 11 April 2015
See also Log24 on 11 April 2015 (Orthodox Holy Saturday).
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An image from Log24 on Sunday —
An image from Log24 on Monday —
A death on Monday —
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Thursday, July 21, 2016
See also, from that same day, "24-Part Invention."
* The title is a reference to a 2001 article by Cartier on
"the evolution of concepts of space and symmetry" —
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Click to enlarge.
See also the word "contrapuntal" in this journal.
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Part I
From this journal in September 2012 —
Part II
See "The Shining (Norwegian Version)" from December 2011.
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Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Somewhere Over the Rainbow …
"What I'm aiming for are moments of strong sensation —
moments of total physical experience of the landscape,
when weather just reaches out and sucks you in."
— The late Jane Wilson —
See also the previous post and, from the date of Wilson's death,
Geometry for Jews (Continued) —
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Tuesday, July 19, 2016
For further details, click the box.
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The post Outer, Inner of July 16, 2016, contained the following
illustration of a quote from "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven" —
An image from yesterday morning pictured a link to the
Feb. 10, 2014, post Mystery Box III: Inside, Outside.
That post, shown below, offers a deeper interpretation of the
Stevens quote "an interior made exterior."
(Click image below to use the post's links.)
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From this morning's online New York Times —
Ms. Trump, Monday night:
“From a young age, my parents impressed on me the values that you work hard for what you want in life, that your word is your bond and you do what you say and keep your promise, that you treat people with respect. They taught and showed me values and morals in their daily lives. That is a lesson that I continue to pass along to our son. And we need to pass those lessons on to the many generations to follow. Because we want our children in this nation to know that the only limit to your achievements is the strength of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.”
Mrs. Obama, in her 2008 speech:
“Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values: that you work hard for what you want in life; that your word is your bond and you do what you say you’re going to do; that you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them, and even if you don’t agree with them. And Barack and I set out to build lives guided by these values, and pass them on to the next generation. Because we want our children — and all children in this nation — to know that the only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.”
Red for Republican,
Blue for Democrat —
the values that you work hard for
what you want in life
same values: that you work hard for
what you want in life
that your word is your bond
that your word is your bond
and you do what you say
and you do what you say
that you treat people with respect
that you treat people with dignity and respect
pass those lessons on
to the many generations to follow
pass them on
to the next generation
Because we want our children
in this nation
Because we want our children —
and all children in this nation
to know that the only limit
to your achievements
to know that the only limit
to the height of your achievements
is the strength of your dreams
is the reach of your dreams
and your willingness to work for them.
and your willingness to work for them.
Thanks for sharing.
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Monday, July 18, 2016
Ghostwriters!
(This post was suggested by a New Yorker piece online
today about Donald Trump's ghostwriter Tony Schwartz.)
The "ghost writer" link above leads to …
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The two wheel-like circles in this morning's previous post
suggest a review of some related (fictional) art —
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An artist mentioned in a NY Times obituary this morning —
(Click for the source.)
I prefer some not-so-magic circles —
Click for related posts tagged root circle.
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Sunday, July 17, 2016
For the late Boruch Alan Bermowitz (June 23, 1938 – July 16, 2016).
From this journal at 11 pm ET yesterday, the day Bermowitz died —
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Continued from July 14, 2016 —
Symmetries and Correspondences in 1879 —
Cyparissos Stephanos
Sur les systèmes desmiques de trois tétraèdres
Bulletin des sciences mathématiques
et astronomiques 2e série,
Tome 3, No. 1 (1879), pp. 424-456.
<http://www.numdam.org/item?id=BSMA_1879_2_3_1_424_1>
© Gauthier-Villars, 1879, tous droits réservés.
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Symmetries and Correspondences in 1905 —
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Saturday, July 16, 2016
A detail from this morning's 6 AM post —
An Ordinary Evening in New Haven, XXII
Professor Eucalyptus said, “The search
For reality is as momentous as
The search for god.” It is the philosopher’s search
For an interior made exterior
And the poet’s search for the same exterior made
Interior: breathless things broodingly abreath
With the Inhalations of original cold
And of original earliness. Yet the sense
Of cold and earliness is a daily sense,
Not the predicate of bright origin.
Creation is not renewed by images
Of lone wanderers. To re-create, to use
The cold and earliness and bright origin
Is to search. Likewise to say of the evening star,
The most ancient light in the most ancient sky,
That it is wholly an inner light, that it shines
From the sleepy bosom of the real, re-creates,
Searches a possible for its possibleness.
— Wallace Stevens
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See also Bloomsday 2007, "Obituaries in the News."
This morning's 6 AM post linked to a more recent obituary in the news —
"… while Jules and Judy were still living in Brooklyn Heights …
Jules collaborated with his former roommate, Norton Juster,
by illustrating what was to become the children’s classic
The Phantom Tollbooth . Neither author or illustrator had
a clue as to how to get this unlikely work published, and it
was Judy’s idea to take it to a mutual friend . . . ."
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From the midnight beginning June 27, 2016 —
This review of the above post was suggested by the
Galois-related footnote in the previous post and by
an obituary in this morning's online New York Times .
See as well a July 6 obituary for the same person in
The Martha's Vineyard Times .
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The "I" of "I Am that I Am" has been described as a creation of
an "ur-unity" (see the Anderson passage below) and this ur-unity,
denoted by "O," has been described elsewhere as "a primary reality"
(see the Sullivan passage below). These descriptions are of course
much less clear than those usually given for the similar purely
mathematical * notations "0" and "1."
See also Quine's Shema in "Is Nothing Sacred?" —
0! = 1.
Quoted here on July 30, 2015 —
Linked to here on June 29, 2016 —
* Note for mathematicians: Here characteristic 0 is assumed .
Quine's Shema does not apply to Galois.
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Friday, July 15, 2016
Ms. Beauman's second husband was Shakespearean actor
Alan Howard, who reportedly died on Valentine's Day 2015.
Beauman herself reportedly died on July 7, 2016.
See, from that date, posts now tagged "The Nothing That Is."
For some remarks related, if only theatrically, to Ms. Beauman's lucrative
novel Destiny and to Mr. Howard, see posts tagged "One Ring."
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For the Church of Synchronology —
A post from the upload date of the above Log Lady video:
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Robert Nye, author of the novel Falstaff , reportedly died
at 77 on July 2, 2016.
Harvey D. Heinz, expert on magic squares, cubes,
tesseracts, etc., reportedly died at 82 on July 6, 2013.
In memoriam —
From the date of Nye's death:
From Nye's book:
From the date of Heinz's death:
* See also a search for the title in this journal.
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Thursday, July 14, 2016
The title is that of a large-scale British research project
in mathematics. On a more modest scale …
"Hanks + Cube" in this journal —
Block That Metaphor —
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Film Director Hector Babenco Dies in Brazil
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JULY 14, 2016, 10:39 A.M. E.D.T.
SAO PAULO — The Argentine-born Brazilian director
nominated for an Oscar for his 1985 film "Kiss of the
Spider Woman" has died. Hector Babenco was 70.
Denise Winther of Babenco's HB Films says the director
died Wednesday night of a heart attack at Sao Paulo's
Sirio-Libanes Hospital.
See also "Only Connect" and "Tombstones in Her Eyes."
Click image for a related post.
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Related material from the same day —
See also …
Cube Bricks 1984 —
The above bricks appeared in some earlier Log24 posts.
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(Continued)
"Poincaré said that science is no more a collection of facts than a house is a collection of bricks. The facts have to be ordered or structured, they have to fit a theory, a construct (often mathematical) in the human mind.
… Mathematics may be art, but to the general public it is a black art, more akin to magic and mystery. This presents a constant challenge to the mathematical community: to explain how art fits into our subject and what we mean by beauty.
In attempting to bridge this divide I have always found that architecture is the best of the arts to compare with mathematics. The analogy between the two subjects is not hard to describe and enables abstract ideas to be exemplified by bricks and mortar, in the spirit of the Poincaré quotation I used earlier."
— Sir Michael Atiyah, "The Art of Mathematics"
in the AMS Notices , January 2010
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A post from this journal later in 2010 —
The above post's date — May 20, 2010 — was
the date of death for mathematician Walter Rudin.
The above post from that date has a link to the
Heinlein story "And He Built a Crooked House."
A not-so-crooked house —
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Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Another sort of design luminosity —
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For one meaning of the title, see The Faustian Merry-Go-Round.
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See a search in this journal for "Look, Buster."
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Happy dies natalis to the late Frida Kahlo.
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Wil S. Hylton today in the online New York Times —
"It seems to me now, with greater reflection,
that the value of experiencing another person’s art
is not merely the work itself, but the opportunity
it presents to connect with the interior impulse of another.
The arts occupy a vanishing space in modern life:
They offer one of the last lingering places to seek out
empathy for its own sake, and to the extent that
an artist’s work is frustrating or difficult or awful,
you could say this allows greater opportunity to try to
meet it. I am not saying there is no room for discriminating
taste and judgment, just that there is also, I think,
this other portal through which to experience creative work
and to access a different kind of beauty, which might be
called communion."
Or damnation.
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“It is always
Nice to see you”
Says the man
Behind the counter
— Suzanne Vega. "Tom's Diner"
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Tuesday, July 12, 2016
Further details from Edmund Hess in 1889* related to
last night's remarks on the Klein 6015 configuration
and the Kummer 166 configuration —
* Edmund Hess, "Beiträge zur Theorie der räumlichen Configurationen.
Ueber die Klein'sche Configuration Cf. (60₁₅, 30₆) und einige
bemerkenswerthe aus dieser ableitbare räumliche Configurationen."
Verhandlungen der Kaiserlichen Leopoldinisch-Carolinischen
Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher, Vol.55, No. 2, pp. 98-167
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Yesterday was reportedly the dies natalis (in the Catholic sense)
of a former president of New York University.
From the conclusion of The Chronicles of Narnia —
"The term is over: the holidays have begun.
The dream is ended: this is the morning."
Linda Hamilton's related hymn in the 1984 film "Children of the Corn" —
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpHeTcisyRo .
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The following passage by Igor Dolgachev (Good Friday, 2003)
seems somewhat relevant (via its connection to Kummer's 166 )
to previous remarks here on Dirac matrices and geometry —
Note related remarks from E. M. Bruins in 1959 —
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Monday, July 11, 2016
To Stephen King …
From the Crimson King …
See as well "Dark Fields" in this journal —
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Sunday, July 10, 2016
“At St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan
spoke of a country ‘worried, frustrated and fatigued over senseless
violence.’ ‘From Minnesota to Louisiana and Texas, one nation
under God examines its soul,’ he said.”
— Richard Fausset, Campbell Robertson, and
Nikole Hannah-Jones in this evening’s online New York Times
Nations, of course, do not have souls. See May 6, 2015.
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Continued from June 8, 2016.
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Saturday, July 9, 2016
For the Church of Synchronology, some Log24 posts from
the date of King's tweet, on a not-so-dark tower —
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See as well some related posts.
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Thursday, July 7, 2016
"For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is."
— Wallace Stevens
See as well A Riddle for Davos.
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(Continued)
Erica Goode in the online New York Times tonight —
"Irving Gottesman, a pioneer in the field of behavioral genetics
whose work on the role of heredity in schizophrenia helped
transform the way people thought about the origins of serious
mental illness, died on June 29 at his home in Edina, Minn., a
suburb of Minneapolis. He was 85.
His wife, Carol, said he died while taking an afternoon nap.
Although Dr. Gottesman had some health problems, she said,
his death was unexpected, and several of his colleagues said
they received emails from him earlier that day."
A note from noon (EDT) on that day, June 29, for the Church of Synchronology —
A detail from the page mentioned in the June 29 post above —
A passage related to the word "soul" discussed by Sullivan —
See as well a related biblical passage, better known at the time of Royce (ca. 1892)
than today, that would probably mean nothing to the late Dr. Gottesman.
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Tuesday, July 5, 2016
The title, translated as "Change and Variety," is from a webpage.
See versions in German and in English.
See as well "Night at the Museum" in this journal.
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On The Passion of the Christ —
" I went with a Jewish pal, who tried to stay sanguine.
‘The Jews may have killed Jesus,’ he said.
‘But they also gave us "Easter Parade." ’ "
— The New York Times , Feb. 26, 2004,
quoted here on that same date
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(See previous posts now tagged Apple Tree Children.)
See as well the comic book in "Midnight Special" —
(Image previously posted in "Common Core vs. Central Structure")
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Monday, July 4, 2016
For the Church of Synchronology
From the literary journal ELH , Winter 1973 —
See as well …
"The explosion panicked parkgoers and could be heard nearby
at the Orthodox Fifth Avenue Synagogue, where the funeral for
Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel was underway.
Police said they do not think the blast was targeting the funeral."
— Justin Jouvenal in The Washington Post , 7:01 PM ET
on July 3, 2016
Also, from Mark Helprin's In Sunlight and in Shadow ,
a passage linked to here on August 30, 2013 —
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Sunday, July 3, 2016
The title is a reference to Four Quartets .
See a search for Apple Tree in this journal.
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Notes for a monkey grammarian —
"Visual forms— lines, colors, proportions, etc.—
are just as capable of articulation ,
i.e. of complex combination, as words.
But the laws that govern this sort of articulation
are altogether different from the laws of syntax
that govern language. The most radical difference
is that visual forms are not discursive .
They do not present their constituents successively,
but simultaneously, so the relations determining
a visual structure are grasped in one act of vision."
— Susanne K. Langer, Philosophy in a New Key
See also Langer's New Key in this journal.
Related material —
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Saturday, July 2, 2016
Click to enlarge.
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British film director Robin Hardy reportedly
died yesterday. In his memory —
Hardy's film "The Wicker Tree" reportedly opened in the USA on
January 27, 2012. See also narratives in this journal on that date.
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"Search for the title."
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A book by Northrop Frye pictured in the previous post
suggests a Log24 search for "The Great Code."
That search yields …
See as well Ice 9 and Plan 9.
"Icy white and crystalline"
— Johnny Mercer
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Friday, July 1, 2016
"… identity alone may shine forth" — Octavio Paz
Well … Perhaps not quite alone.
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BBC News today ("4 hours ago" at 2:50 PM ET) —
British poet Sir Geoffrey Hill has died aged 84,
his wife has confirmed.
Alice Goodman said her husband died "suddenly,
and without pain or dread" on Thursday evening.
Sir Geoffrey was the Professor of Poetry at
Oxford University until last year, and best known for
Mercian Hymns , his 1971 collection of prose poems. . . .
Poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy told The Guardian :
"He was, in poetry, a saint and a warrior
who never gave an inch in his crusade to reach poetic truth."
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See also Geoffrey Hill at Poetry Foundation and in this journal.
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"At the point of convergence the play of similarities and differences
cancels itself out in order that identity alone may shine forth.
The illusion of motionlessness, the play of mirrors of the one:
identity is completely empty; it is a crystallization and
in its transparent core the movement of analogy begins all over
once again." — The Monkey Grammarian by Octavio Paz,
translated by Helen Lane
A more specific "transparent core" —
See all references to this figure
in this journal.
For a more specific "monkey grammarian,"
see W. Tecumseh Fitch in this journal.
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Revisiting August 31, 2006 —
"It's not the twilight zone no,
it's not the twilight zone
Yes it's just a party phone,
pure
honeycomb,
honeycomb,
honeycomb"
— Van Morrison, "Twilight Zone,"
in The Philosopher's Stone
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Thursday, June 30, 2016
The Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles, on December 8, 2012 —
See also this journal on that date.
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Peter Woit today —
"At CERN the LHC has reached design luminosity,* and is
breaking records with a fast pace of new collisions. This may
have something to do with the report that the LHC is also
about to tear open a portal to another dimension."
See also the following figure from the Log24 Bion posts —
— and Greg Egan's short story "Luminous":
"The theory was, we’d located part of the boundary
between two incompatible systems of mathematics –
both of which were physically true, in their respective
domains. Any sequence of deductions which stayed
entirely on one side of the defect – whether it was the
'near side', where conventional arithmetic applied, or
the 'far side', where the alternative took over – would
be free from contradictions. But any sequence which
crossed the border would give rise to absurdities –
hence S could lead to not-S."
— Greg Egan, Luminous
(Kindle Locations 1284-1288).
* See a definition.
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From Psychoanalytic Aesthetics: The British School ,
by Nicola Glover, Chapter 4 —
In his last theoretical book, Attention and Interpretation (1970), Bion has clearly cast off the mathematical and scientific scaffolding of his earlier writings and moved into the aesthetic and mystical domain. He builds upon the central role of aesthetic intuition and the Keats's notion of the 'Language of Achievement', which
… includes language that is both
a prelude to action and itself a kind of action;
the meeting of psycho-analyst and analysand
is itself an example of this language.29.
Bion distinguishes it from the kind of language which is a substitute for thought and action, a blocking of achievement which is lies [sic ] in the realm of 'preconception' – mindlessness as opposed to mindfulness. The articulation of this language is possible only through love and gratitude; the forces of envy and greed are inimical to it..
This language is expressed only by one who has cast off the 'bondage of memory and desire'. He advised analysts (and this has caused a certain amount of controversy) to free themselves from the tyranny of the past and the future; for Bion believed that in order to make deep contact with the patient's unconscious the analyst must rid himself of all preconceptions about his patient – this superhuman task means abandoning even the desire to cure . The analyst should suspend memories of past experiences with his patient which could act as restricting the evolution of truth. The task of the analyst is to patiently 'wait for a pattern to emerge'. For as T.S. Eliot recognised in Four Quartets , 'only by the form, the pattern / Can words or music reach/ The stillness'.30. The poet also understood that 'knowledge' (in Bion's sense of it designating a 'preconception' which blocks thought, as opposed to his designation of a 'pre -conception' which awaits its sensory realisation), 'imposes a pattern and falsifies'
For the pattern is new in every moment
And every moment is a new and shocking
Valuation of all we have ever been.31.
The analyst, by freeing himself from the 'enchainment to past and future', casts off the arbitrary pattern and waits for new aesthetic form to emerge, which will (it is hoped) transform the content of the analytic encounter.
29. Attention and Interpretation (Tavistock, 1970), p. 125
30. Collected Poems (Faber, 1985), p. 194.
31. Ibid., p. 199.
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See also the previous posts now tagged Bion.
Preconception as mindlessness is illustrated by Rubik's cube, and
"pre -conception" as mindfulness is illustrated by n×n×n Froebel cubes
for n= 1, 2, 3, 4.
Suitably coordinatized, the Froebel cubes become Galois cubes,
and illustrate a new approach to the mathematics of space .
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Wednesday, June 29, 2016
For the Feast of SS. Peter and Paul —
In memory of Alvin Toffler and Simon Ramo,
a review of figures from the midnight that began
the date of their deaths, June 27, 2016 —
The 3×3×3 Galois Cube
See also Rubik in this journal.
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"The domain of O has been explored by philosophers and mystics
under titles like the Absolute, Ultimate Reality or Ultimate Truth,
the Ground of Being, God or the godhead. O is the world of Plato’s
ideal forms, Kant’s things-in-themselves, Bion’s pre-conceptions,
Klein’s inborn phantasies and Jung’s archetypes."
— Barbara Stevens Sullivan on page 38 of her book
The Mystery of Analytical Work: Weavings from Jung and Bion ,
Routledge first edition, 2010
See also Bion in The Search for Charles Wallace, and …
Click on the image for some context.
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Tuesday, June 28, 2016
For Paul Simon and the late Scotty Moore —
Click image to play.
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From the Hyde Park Herald , June 22, 2016 —
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See November 9, 2006.
Related material:
Click image for further details.
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"Don't bother, they're here."
— "Send in the Clowns"
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Monday, June 27, 2016
Slowly, with a beat —
Meanwhile, back in 1947 —
"Put on your high-heel sneakers …"
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See also an adapted AA saying in this evening's previous post,
and Mary Karr in a "Damnation Morning" post.
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“The experience of my films is a little like daydreaming.”
— Peter Hutton, Filmmaker With Austerely Romantic Worldview, Dies at 71,
in The New York Times this evening
"Real estate before personalities"
— Adapted AA motto
(Suggested by posts tagged Getcha.)
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Outside the Box (as opposed to the Eve of "Interiors").
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Hollywood ending —
"The film ends with the family silently attending Eve's funeral,
each placing a single white rose, Eve's favourite flower and a
symbol of hope to her, on Eve's wooden, perfectly polished coffin."
— Wikipedia article on Woody Allen's 1978 film "Interiors"
"The story of our lives is written in interiors . . . ."
— A "Defender of Notable New York City Interiors"
(NY Times headline today) who reportedly died at 78
on June 16, 2016, a date known as Bloomsday.
See also posts now tagged Bloomsday Eve 2016.
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From a search in this journal for Euclid + Galois + Interplay —
The 3×3×3 Galois Cube
A tune suggested by the first image above —
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Sunday, June 26, 2016
Continues .
A more recent remark on "the odd behaviour of 4" —
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Some like it hot.
Google — Sacramento temperature —
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Rubik's Cube Core Assembly — Swarthmore Cube Project, 2008 —
"Children of the Common Core" —
There is also a central structure within Solomon's Cube —
For a more elaborate entertainment along these lines, see the recent film
"Midnight Special" —
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See the May 2013 Interview cover.
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Saturday, June 25, 2016
(Continued)
From a requiem for a fashion photographer who reportedly
died today at 87 —
"Although he sometimes photographed upward of 20
gala events a week, he never sat down for dinner at
any of them and would wave away people who walked
up to him to inquire whether he would at least like
a glass of water.
Instead, he stood off to the side photographing women
like Annette de la Renta and Mercedes Bass
in their beaded gowns and tweed suits.
As Anna Wintour put it in the documentary about
Mr. Cunningham,
'I’ve said many times, "We all get dressed for Bill." ' "
And un dressed for · · · · ?
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See October 20, 2008 — "Me and My Shadow."
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Detail —
See also a search in this journal for Notation .
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