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Continued from Halloween Manifestos 2013 and from Poster —

" 'Hear what he says,' the speaker concludes,
'The dauntless master, as he starts the human tale.' "

— B. J. Leggett on page 66 of 
The Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens

(See "An Ordinary Evening on Page 66,"
this journal on Monday, June 20, 2016.)

See also "Dauntless" in the Divergent  saga
and a character from that saga in the previous post.

The title is a reference to the Chicago character named "Four"
in Veronica Roth's Divergent  series.

"In July 2014, Roth revealed that she initially wrote 
Divergent  from Four's point of view . . . ." — Wikipedia

Other Chicago-related stories — "Raiders of the Lost Code" 
(on the recent murder-suicide of two Chicago Jungians)
and the following —

See also Jungian narrative art in

https://redice.tv/news/
on-the-nature-of-four-jung-s-quarternity-mandalas-the-stone-and-the-self .

From a work cited in the previous post —

"… representation of hell and the horrors
of the burial ground are missing."

— Page 384 of Joseph Campbell's The Mythic Image ,
    Princeton University Press, 1981
    (First published in 1974)

For those who regret the above omission …

A review of a book published in 1977 —

"Its materials are fear and death, hallucination
and the burning of souls." 

The book's author reportedly died Thursday, June 23, 2016.

See also, from 11 AM ET that day, "Raiders of the Lost Code."

The above Mythic Image  quote is from page  384.

See also "Order  384" in this journal.

The previous post suggests a review of the phrase
" symbol of the self " in this journal.

See posts now tagged Starbursts,
and a search for Nabokov + Starflight.

(Continued from December 19, 2007)

http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/
colleagues-shocked-as-noted-psychologists-die-in-murder-suicide/

Another tutelary figure —

"You got to know when to hold 'em …"

"I need a photo opportunity … " — Paul Simon

Click image to enlarge.

"He attended the Trinity School in Manhattan
before enrolling in the Lawrenceville School
in New Jersey, where he began writing poetry.
He graduated in 1957. Under his yearbook
photograph appeared the motto:

'Plato or comic books, I’m versatile.' "

He reportedly died on Bloomsday, June 16.
See also this journal on that date —

… of a paper town —

1. "Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read"
2. "Alpha Dog"
3. "B. J. Leggett is professor emeritus at UT Knoxville"
4. "Seven is Heaven, Eight is a Gate, Nine is a Vine"

Update of about 6:40 AM ET on June 22, 2016 —

"Que cantaba el rey David."  Happy birthday to Kris Kristofferson.

For those who prefer the red pill to the blue pill —

See as well this afternoon's related Vanity Fair  piece.

From a poet discussed in Plato's Meno  —

Click the above image for an animated version of Feb. 12, 2008.

See also this journal on Feb. 12, 2008.

"He grew up near Stratford-upon-Avon
and went to school on a small scholarship."

— NY Times  obit this afternoon for
    a theatre designer who reportedly died 
    on June 10.  See also this  journal 
    on that date.

See also the previous post.

Click to enlarge.

The Hypertime  post from 11 PM yesterday suggests
a review of one sort of narrative sequence —

Here the aleph may be regarded as a sort of 
glass slipper (see last midnight's post) found by
Alan Moore. (Moore​, mentioned in last night's
Hypertime post, is the author of Lost Girls .)

See Three Approaches to The World as Myth
(Log24, September 16, 2015).

For Megyn Kelly

The following animation is
by Robert Foote:

For some philosophical background, see (for instance) Jeremy Butterfield,
"Some Aspects of Modality in Analytical Mechanics," and …

 .

For those who prefer entertainment —

"The poem on its own is negligible,
instructing a human 'intelligence /
So late dredged up' to master
the primordial stone,
which 'may have contempt /
For too-familiar hands.' 
The stone is language,
the diamond is a poem:
as in a model kit,
all the pieces come labelled
and the instructions are easy to follow."

Dan Chiasson in The New Yorker ,
issue dated June 20, 2016, on a
1955 Adrienne Rich poem,
"The Diamond Cutters"

A post linked to here at 9 AM on May 27, 2016 —

In memory of philosopher Morton White,
who reportedly died at 99 on May 27.

See Lowry + Razor and Joyce + Razor.

(Continued)

Orwell Meets Waugh

See a commencement address from Friday, May 22, 2015,
and a post from this journal on that date.

Continues.

Riverrun.

Jews on Style  continues …

From a Washington Post  obituary  this morning —

"For the past 30 years, while teaching at New York University’s
law school, Dr. Bruner explored the idea of storytelling as a
fundamental way of understanding the nature of the world
around us. He believed that the choices we make in telling
stories 'become so habitual that they finally become recipes
for structuring experience itself, for laying down routes into
memory,' he said in 1987.

'This is a mode of cognition,' Gardner said, 'at least as
important as STEM' — the science, technology, engineering
and mathematics model of instruction that has gained
currency in recent years.

'He made narrative a form of thinking,' Gardner added.

Jerome Seymour Bruner was born Oct. 1, 1915,
in New York City to Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe."

Related material —

(Continued)

In memory of CBS TV programmer Michael Dann,
who reportedly died at 94 on Friday, May 27 —

Don't Forget Hoss

Judy Carne and Hoss in NBC's "Bonanza,"  a nemesis
of CBS Sunday programming.

In other entertainment news …

Cartoonist Frank Modell reportedly died at 98, 
also on Friday, May 27.

In his  memory, part of a Weird Tale from 1948 that is
illustrated (sort of) by a more recent Modell drawing —

Wild Devising

"No one ever found out who the dead man was.
He had no luggage and no identification;
he had been hitchhiking, and he had
over ninety dollars in his pocket.
He might have been anybody—
someone from show business, or a writer perhaps,
on a haywire vacation of his own wild devising.
I suppose that doesn't matter either.
What does matter is that he died while
Grace was in a very close communion
with what he was doing, and her mind was
wide open for his fantasy. …. "

— Theodore Stugeon, "The Perfect Host,"
Weird Tales , November 1948, page 15

Some context:  This morning's post
"Entertainment in Plato's Cave," and
a few titles from my Kindle library —

"Plato's allegory of the cave describes prisoners,
inhabiting the cave since childhood, immobile,
facing an interior wall. A large fire burns behind
the prisoners, and as people pass this fire their
shadows are cast upon the cave's wall, and
these shadows of the activity being played out
behind the prisoner become the only version of
reality that the prisoner knows."

— From the Occupy Space gallery in Ireland

See also the number 6 in yesterday's posts,
Perfect Number and Perfect Universe.

http://m759.net/wordpress/?tag=holy-field-gf3

(Continued)

The physicist Hendrik van Dam was mentioned in recent posts.

He reportedly died at 78 on February 11, 2013.

A post from that date, and a followup —

Illustration by Javier Jaén

See also "Box of Nothing" in this journal.

"(CBS News) Two decades after Morley Safer took
a critical look at contemporary art in his 60 Minutes
story  'Yes…But is it Art?'  he has found the definitive
answer to his snide question . . . ."

— March 30, 2012, introduction to a "60 Minutes" piece 
dated April 1, 2012

Related material:  The Lindbergh Manifesto and The Leibniz Medal.

Three reflections suggested by the previous post —

1. A Whit Stillman film mentions favorably Scrooge McDuck —

2. A "promoted tweet" at the Twitter of the previous post's author leads to …

3. The above phrase "New Base" suggests a related literary note —

For Galatea 2.2 on Eliza Doolittle Day

My Google searches are set to ignore my own private
search history. Still, I am not sure whether others would
see the same results as those below, which do  seem to
reflect rather closely my own interests.  Google-as-Galatea
perhaps based the search results partly on associations
from this weblog. An exception: the "Family Circus " novel
in the list below. I have not heard of this book before, but
it seems to be a tale analogous to Stephen King's It ,
from which the searched-for quotation below is drawn.

I prefer a different Family Circus.

* A phrase coined by the late John Archibald Wheeler.

Click the tweets below for a related news story.

See also this  journal on the same weekend —

Friday, March 11, through Monday, March 14, 2016.

A sample —

From the Wikipedia article Bauhaus (band) —

"On 31 October 2013 (Halloween), 
David J and Jill Tracy released 
'Bela Lugosi's Dead (Undead Is Forever),' 
a cinematic piano-led rework of
'Bela Lugosi's Dead.'"

The title refers to Frederick Seidel and
to a post of April 29, "At the Still Point."

(Continued from Code Name Zero .)

Also on May 2, 2014 — Cross Quote .

* Here the "Ye" may be interpreted in light of the "Yi"
   of today's noon post. See also Ratner in this journal.

The tesseract in last night's post Game Theory
suggests a search in Log24 for "Jewel of Odin."

See also Trinkets.