"In the planes that tilt hard revelations on
The eye, a geometric glitter, tiltings …."
— Wallace Stevens, "Someone Puts a Pineapple Together" (1947)
"In the planes that tilt hard revelations on
The eye, a geometric glitter, tiltings …."
— Wallace Stevens, "Someone Puts a Pineapple Together" (1947)
See "Behind the Glitter" (a recent magazine article
on Oslo artist Josefine Lyche), and the much more
informative web page Contact (from Noplace, Oslo).
From the latter —
"Semiotics is a game of ascribing meaning, or content, to mere surface."
"Euclid's edifice loomed in my consciousness as a marvel among
sciences, unique in its clarity and unquestionable validity."
—Richard J. Trudeau in The Non-Euclidean Revolution (1986)
See also Edifice in this journal and last night's architectural post.
"So, there is one place
where modernism triumphs.
As in the cases of the pyramids
and the Taj Mahal, the Siegfried line
and the Atlantic wall, death always
calls on the very best architects."
– J. G. Ballard,
"A Handful of Dust"
"Dreams can easily and unexpectedly turn into nightmares."
— Oscar speech by J. J. Abrams last night
Related material —
"The static boxes were an invention of Grandfather Horn. They generated a tiny cloud of meaningless brain waves. Without such individual thought-screens, there was too much danger of complete loss of individual personality— once Grandfather Horn had 'become' his infant daughter as well as himself for several hours and the unfledged mind had come close to being permanently lost in its own subconscious. The static boxes provided a mental wall behind which a mind could safely grow and function, similar to the wall by which ordinary minds are apparently always enclosed." — "The Mind Spider," by Fritz Leiber |
Daily Globe Meets Daily PlaNet
Office scene from "Spotlight," a 2015 film about The Boston Globe
Detail of the above office scene
A photo from the Web of Mount Baker and Bellingham WA
that may or may not match the "Spotlight" picture's location.
Update of 1 AM on March 3, 2016 —
A much better match for the "Spotlight" office picture is this image of
Mount Illimani and La Paz, Bolivia, from dreamstime.com.
From the screenplay for the 2015 film "Spotlight" —
Related material —
The death today of an Irish actor noted for a British sitcom:
Frank Kelly, Father Ted's foul-mouthed priest, dies aged 77.
This time it's personal.
"Mr. Clark's designs built a bridge … ."
— The New York Times today on a computer designer
who reportedly died on Monday, Feb. 22, 2016.
From Log24 on the reported date of Mr. Clark's death —
The previous three posts —
— suggest a review of a post from April 11, 2015:
Michael Starbird on Mathematics —
In Starbird's philosophical fable, the "fifth element" is change .
See also the recent post White Mischief.
From the February 2016 article in the previous post —
"Over a century has passed since the publication,
in the Paris newspaper Le Figaro on 20 February 1909,
of a frontpage article by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti which
came to be known as the Manifesto of Futurism ."
This suggests a review of the 20 February 2009 posts now tagged
"The Manifesto of Futurism Revisited" —
Related material — "Manifesto" in this journal —
more specifically, "Manifest O."
The phrase GET SPIKED BY EMAIL* above suggests a review of
"Something in the Way She Moves" and "Marissa and the Dropbox."
See also …
Marissa Mayer, not amused —
"The study of social memory allows scholars to
understand how different memories form within
a collective group, thus exploring the societal
and ideological elements of disparate groups
that form the over-arching memory of Melkisedeq."
— The Melkisedeq Memoirs , by Cale Staley,
2015 master's thesis at the University of Iowa
Elements of groups that I prefer —
"Right through hell
there is a path…."
— Malcolm Lowry,
Under the Volcano
See a link referencing The Gutenberg Galaxy (a Catholic's 1962 view of literacy)
in a Log24 post yesterday suggested by a New York Times obituary.
A different obituary this evening in that newspaper describes a Jew's 1979 view
of literacy. See "Elizabeth Eisenstein, Historian of Movable Type, Dies at 92."
Related material — McLuhan in Eisenstein's The Printing Press as an Agent
of Change , Cambridge University Press, 1979.
Eisenstein reportedly died on January 31, 2016. Synchronologists may
consult some media-related material reposted here on that date —
Fittingly, the Times concludes Eisenstein's obituary as follows —
"This article will be set in 8.7 point Imperial and printed on
one of several presses, including the Goss Colorliner."
For a perhaps more interesting printing press related to change,
see Despedida in this journal.
For Crimson Jill
The graveyard of the title is from a song by Paul Simon.
Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY "By popular demand, Facebook is going beyond the ubiquitous thumbs-up button with a new shorthand to express your thoughts and feelings. Acknowledging that 'like' isn't the right sentiment for every occasion, the giant social network is offering new options. Reactions, five emoting emojis, are rolling out to Facebook's more than 1.5 billion users around the globe starting Wednesday. With a click of a button, you can choose from new emotions when commenting on a status update. Hold the 'like' button on mobile or hover over the like button on desktop and five animated emoji pop up. Tap on love, haha, wow, sad or angry to express your reaction. …" |
The "remarks" of the title —
The "Crimson Jill" link above leads to a Harvard Gazette
article dated March 24, 2015. A meditation from the
Church of Synchronology appeared here on that date.
From a New York Times obituary today —
"The Rev. Fernando Cardenal, a son of privilege
who embraced Latin America’s poor as a revolutionary
priest and brazenly defied Pope John Paul II’s order to
quit Nicaragua’s leftist cabinet in the 1980s, died on
Saturday in Managua. He was 82."
Photo caption from the same obituary —
"Fernando Cardenal in 1990. As education minister of
Nicaragua under the Sandinistas in the 1980s, he
oversaw a sweeping campaign credited with reducing
illiteracy to 13 percent from 51 percent."
This alleged literacy improvement makes him sound like
a Protestant revolutionary.
For a Catholic view of literacy, see The Gutenberg Galaxy .
See also the post Being Interpreted (Aug. 14, 2015) —
An interview in Smashpipe today
deserves a Smiley award.
Related material: "Paul Winchell" in this journal.
From a post of Christmas Eve, 2012 —
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Recorded and edited By Aniela Jaffé, From pages 195-196:
“Only gradually did I discover what the mandala really is:
* Faust , Part Two, trans. by Philip Wayne (Harmondsworth,
… Gestaltung, Umgestaltung,
Jung’s “Formation, Transformation” quote is from The speaker is Mephistopheles. |
"Mephistopheles is not your name…" — Sting lyric
"You see, technically, chemistry is the study of matter,
but I prefer to see it as the study of change :
Electrons change their energy levels.
Molecules change their bonds.
Elements combine and change into compounds.
But that's all of life, right? It's the constant, it's the cycle.
It's solution, dissolution. Just over and over and over.
It is growth, then decay, then transformation! .
It is fascinating, really."
— Walter White, Season 1, Ep. 1, "Pilot"
more or less as quoted in huffingtonpost.com
See also Gestaltung in this journal.
(Continued from the link in the previous post to
a Feb. 20 NY Times essay on the brain's two sides)
From a webpage on Galois geometry —
Postscript From a 2002 review by Stacy G. Langton of Sherman Stein's book on mathematics, How the Other Half Thinks : "The title of Stein's book (perhaps chosen by the publisher?) seems to refer to the popular left brain/right brain dichotomy. As Stein writes (p. ix): 'I hope this book will help bridge that notorious gap that separates the two cultures: the humanities and the sciences, or should I say the right brain (intuitive, holistic) and the left brain (analytical, numerical). As the chapters will illustrate, mathematics is not restricted to the analytical and numerical; intuition plays a significant role.' Stein does well to avoid identifying mathematics with the activity of just one side of the brain. He would have done better, however, not to have endorsed the left brain/right brain ideology. While it does indeed appear to be the case that the two sides of our brain act in rather different ways, the idea that the right brain is 'intuitive, holistic,' while the left brain is 'analytical, numerical,' is a vast oversimplification, and goes far beyond the actual evidence." |
and versions of "Both Sides Now"
See a New York Times version of "Both Sides Now."
I prefer a version by Umberto Eco.
Related material for storytellers and the Church of Synchronology —
This journal on the date of the above shooting script, 03/19/15.
" 'This is a new category (of device) we’re talking about,'
said Andy Nuttall, HP’s director of mobility strategy.
HP introduced the device Sunday ahead of this week’s
Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, Spain."
— Matt Day in The Seattle Times today
See also the previous post and the recent film "The Intern."
"Buckle up!" — Harlan Kane
A post for Tom Hanks and Dan Brown
Yahoo! President and CEO Marissa Mayer delivers a keynote
during the Yahoo Mobile Developers Conference on February 18,
2016, at Nob Hill Masonic Center in San Francisco, California.
Credit: Stephen Lam
The title is from the name of a character in a new novel.
The title is also the name of a noted author.
Related material from April 2, 2009 —
"It seems, as one becomes older, — T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
"Note that at first, you can see the 'arrow of time.' — "The Ehrenfest Chains," by Kyle Siegrist, ex. 16 |
For a different Orson, click on "the direction of time."
Reposted from an excellent weblog —
A blog on the nature of note-taking. Thursday, April 2, 2009 I came across a recent post on Nabokov's Index Cards by Michael Leddy, which I found interesting. Nabokov wrote with Index Cards not so much because they allowed associative progression (or because they were somehow like precursors of hypertext for him), but rather because he had such a clear vision of what he meant to create that he could start anywhere in describing it: "The pattern of the thing precedes the thing. I fill in the gaps of the crossword at any spot I happen to choose. These bits I write on index cards until the novel is done. My schedule is flexible but I am rather particular about my instruments: lined Bristol cards and well-sharpened, not too hard, pencils capped with erasers." "… Since this entire structure, dimly illumined in one's mind, can be compared to a painting, and since you do not have to work gradually from left to right for its proper perception, I may direct my flashlight at any part or particle of the picture when setting it down in writing. I do not begin my novel at the beginning I do not reach chapter three before I reach chapter four… This is why I like writing my stories and novels on index cards, numbering them later when the whole set is complete. Every card is rewritten many times …" "find a quiet spot (pace the booming surf and rattling wind) where to write. This I do on scrambled index cards (my text existing already there in invisible lead) which I gradually fill in and sort out, using up in the process more pencil sharpeners than pencils; but I have spoken of this in several earlier questionnaires" Posted by MK at 8:52 PM Labels: Index cards, Writing |
From the date of the above Taking Note post, a post from this weblog
seems a suitable sermon for the Church of Synchronology.
"Everything clear so far?"
— Review by Anthony Burgess of the 1989 translation
by William Weaver** of Umberto Eco's 1988 novel
Il Pendolo di Foucault
* A fictional institution in a just-published novel
** Weaver reportedly died on Nov. 12, 2013.
Synchronologists may consult that date
in this journal.
The title refers to the Watchman Rorschach in "Go Set a Structure"
and to Christopher Nolan, director of the 2014 film "Interstellar."
"Watchmen"-like art in next Sunday's NY Times Book Review —
"Have you ever thought about
the properties of numbers?"
— "The Maiden" in Shaw's
Back to Methuselah , quoted in
the Fritz Leiber Changewar story
“No Great Magic” (1963), Part V
See a Log24 search for Leiber + Properties.
A post in memory of British theatre director Peter Wood,
who reportedly died on February 11, 2016.
From the date of the director's death —
"Leave a space." — Tom Stoppard
"I could a tale unfold…" — Hamlet's father's ghost
Or not.
The following Log24 excerpts are from a noted mathematician's
recent date of death, and the preceding date.
From Malcolm Lowry's reply in 1947 to a hostile review
by Jacques Barzun of Lowry's novel Under the Volcano —
"The end, I suppose, is intended to crush one completely.
'Mr. Lowry has other moments, borrowed from
other styles in fashion, Henry James, Thomas Wolfe,
the thought-streamers, the surrealists. His novel can
be recommended only as an anthology held together
by earnestness.'
Whatever your larger motive–which I incidentally believe
to be extremely sound–do you not seem to have heard this
passage or something like it before? I certainly do. I seem
to recognize the voice, slightly disguised, that greeted Mr.
Wolfe himself, not to say Mr. Faulkner, Mr. Melville and Mr.
James–an immortal voice indeed that once addressed Keats
in the same terms that it informed Mr. Whitman that he knew
less about poetry than a hog about mathematics."
See as well the Log24 posts from the date of Barzun's death.
"And I know that she's capable of anything, it's riveting
But when you wake up she's always gone, gone, gone"
A midrash for Rosenberg from 7/21 (2015) —
(The title is a reference to the previous post.)
"Pope Reminds Us The Devil Is Real"
— Catholic Online , Oct. 14, 2013
Related material:
The reported death of Justice Scalia …
… and posts on Scalia in this journal.
Johnny Cash* Meets Fritz Leiber**
* "You can run on for a long time…"
** See Spider + Snake in this journal.
"Le silence éternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie." — Pascal
(Quoted here in The Search for Finite Space on Mon., Feb. 8, 2016.)
Accolades poured in from across the science world, as experts hailed a discovery that will help mankind better understand the universe. "This expands hugely the way we can observe the cosmos, and the kinds of physics and astrophysics we can do," said professor Sheila Rowan, Director of the University of Glasgow's Institute for Gravitational Research. Abhay Ashtekar, director of the Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos at Penn State University, described the discovery as "breathtaking" and said it "will stand out among the major achievements of the 21st-century science." "We can now listen to the universe rather than just look at it," said Professor B S Sathyaprakash of Cardiff University. "This window turns on the soundtrack for the universe." |
"You can run on for a long time." — Johnny Cash
"Arnold H. Lubasch, who covered crime and the courts
for The New York Times for more than 30 years and
later wrote a biography of the actor and civil rights
activist Paul Robeson, died on Friday [Feb. 5, 2016]
in Scottsdale, Ariz. He was 83."
— Daniel E. Slotnik in The New York Times tonight
Related soundtrack lyric —
Air date: January 14, 2016.
The hexagons above appear also in Gary W. Gibbons,
"The Kummer Configuration and the Geometry of Majorana Spinors,"
1993, in a cube model of the Kummer 166 configuration —
Related material — The Religion of Cubism (May 9, 2003).
See also "The Martian" posts and a post from
the reported date of Cooper's death.
Backstory: Posts tagged Space Writer.
Related material — Posts tagged Dirac and Geometry.
For an example of what Eddington calls "an open mind,"
see the 1958 letters of Nanavira Thera.
(Among the "Early Letters" in Seeking the Path ).
"Sports may be the place in contemporary life
where Americans find sacred community most easily."
— All Things Shining , the conclusion
Or Bolivia —
Backstories — Natural Hustlers.
"Nature generally wins in the end."
— Wikipedia on Saki
For a related story, search the news.
See also Greek mythology in a post of Jan. 31, 2016,
and Upsilon in this journal.
* For the relevance of the title to the
above spaces, see Seven-Cycles.
Wikipedia on a George Clooney film released yesterday —
"The studio's major production is Hail, Caesar! ,
an epic set in ancient Rome and starring Baird Whitlock
(Clooney). During a shoot, Whitlock drinks from a goblet
of wine drugged by an extra; he passes out behind the
soundstage and is abducted. A ransom note soon arrives,
written by a group calling itself 'The Future' and demanding
$100,000, which Mannix arranges to have paid. Whitlock
awakens in a beach house and finds his way into a meeting
of The Future, a Communist cell. The members explain their
doctrine to him, and he begins to sympathize with their cause."
See also this morning's post Space Program:
"Bad news on the doorstep…." — American Pie
X Marks the Spot scene, "The Last Crusade"
For those who prefer the T in SPOT —
Knock, Knock, Knockin' —
A Scene from "Tomorrowland" —
A fan of the declining US space program
knocks on George Clooney's door
For related remarks on the decline of NASA,
see an essay at the World Socialist Web Site
from August 19, 2011.
From the American Mathematical Society today —
Jean Pedersen (1934-2016)
Friday February 5th 2016
Jean Pedersen died January 1 at the age of 81.
She was a longtime member of the faculty at
Santa Clara University. Pedersen and Peter Hilton
co-authored A Mathematical Tapestry: Demonstrating
the Beautiful Unity of Mathematics , which used paper
folding to show connections between geometry,
number theory, and group theory. Pedersen was an
AMS member since 1979.
Related art —
"Spiel ist nicht Spielerei" — Friedrich Fröbel
An article yesterday at Re/code was titled
Why Google’s Artificial Intelligence Boss
Is Taking Over the Search Empire.
Related material from Log24 a year ago today —
(Continued from Jan. 29)
For a literary tigress —
The image reproduced below was
revisited here on January 27, 2016.
That date was the reported date of death
for another literary tigress.
Continued from January 18, 2005 —
See Lili Anolik, "Tiger of the Week," in Princeton Alumni Weekly
on April 29, 2015, and this journal on that date.
(This post was suggested by the following sentence
by Anolik in Vanity Fair 's current Hollywood issue —
"I think that for the city of Los Angeles,
Didion is the Ángel de la Muerte.")
An originally French-Canadian professor of mathematics
at Villanova University reportedly died at 91 on Dec. 28, 2015.
See a eulogy from Legacy.com.
See also The French Mathematician and the following image,
related to the architectural philosophy of Christopher Alexander,
from this journal on the above date.
Related material:
From yesterday's 2 PM post —
From "Inception" —
Paraphrase of remarks by "Inception" director Christopher Nolan
at Princeton on June 1, 2015 —
"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
This morning at 11:44 I happened upon …
This was published as …
Toshiyuki Katsura, Shigeyuki Kondo, Ichiro Shimada,
"On the supersingular K3 surface in characteristic 5 with Artin invariant 1,"
Michigan Mathematical Journal , vol. 63, issue 4 (Dec. 2014), 803–844.
Related material from later today —
See also earlier Log24 remarks on the Hoffman-Singleton graph
and a remark on geometry for Princeton.
Possible title:
A new graphic approach
to an old geometric approach
to a new combinatorial approach
to an old algebraic approach
to M24
Continued from Sunday, January 24, 2016
Wikipedia on Io in Greek mythology
(a precursor to Marvel Comics) —
"Walter Burkert [18] notes that the story of Io was told
in the ancient epic tradition at least four times….
18. Burkert, Homo Necans (1974) 1983:
164 note 14, giving bibliography."
An "io" story I prefer — m24.io.
In memory of Father John Romas, a Greek Orthodox priest who
reportedly died on Sunday, January 24, 2016.
This is from a post on Greek philosophy on that date.
From page 56 of The Science Fiction of Mark Clifton ,
Southern Illinois University Press, 1980 —
See also the following image in this journal —
.
For Evangeline
(Some background — See Limerick in this journal.
See also "He's a mad scientist and I'm his beautiful daughter.")
"There was a young lady named Bright…."
"You read too slow, Daddy," she complained. She was childishly irritable about it. "You say a word. Then I think a long time. Then you say another word." I knew what she meant. I remember, when I was a child, my thoughts used to dart in and out among the slowly droning words of any adult. Whole patterns of universes would appear and disappear in those brief moments. "So?" I asked. "So," she mocked me impishly. "You teach me to read. Then I can think quick as I want." "Quickly," I corrected in a weak voice. "The word is 'quickly,' an adverb." She looked at me impatiently, as if she saw through this allegedly adult device to show up a youngster's ignorance. I felt like the dope! |
Related material — The Quick and the Dead
* For example, from the Marvel Comics realm
(Continued from Dec. 9, 2013)
"…it would be quite a long walk
Swiftly Mrs. Who brought her hands… together.
"Now, you see," Mrs. Whatsit said,
– A Wrinkle in Time , |
From a media weblog yesterday, a quote from the video below —
"At 12:03 PM Eastern Standard Time, January 12th, 2016…."
This weblog on the previous day (January 11th, 2016) —
"There is such a thing as harmonic analysis of switching functions."
— Saying adapted from a young-adult novel
* For some backstory, see a Caltech page.
On a stage character named Pascal —
"… the mathematics professor implores Minnie to take
full advantage of her own intelligence and talents,
usually capped off with a non sequitur gift of some kind…."
— Sean T. Collins, " 'I’m better than you, you son of a bitch':
a review of The Diary of a Teenage Girl: The Play ,"
Comic Book Resources , March 30, 2010
The title refers to a line by Louis Menand quoted
at the end of the previous post.
There "a6!" refers to the chessboard square in
column a, row 6. In Geometry of the I Ching,
this square represents Hexagram 61, "Inner Truth."
See also "inner truth" in this journal.
After Menand
This subtitle refers to the previous post, Game Theory for Steiner.
That post suggested a search that led to a New Yorker piece
by Louis Menand, "Game Theory," excerpted below.
"The definition of easy to learn, hard to master"
— Alex Hern in The Guardian today on the game of Go
Not unlike music, mathematics, and chess.
For the title, see "Accomplished in Steps" in this journal.
"In U.S. criminal law, means, motive, and opportunity is
a common summation of the three aspects of a crime
that must be established before guilt can be determined
in a criminal proceeding." — Wikipedia
See also "Motive for Metaphor" in this journal.
"I'm in with the in crowd,
I go where the in crowd goes"
— Musical motif of the recent film "Irrational Man"
From a piece in The Harvard Crimson today:
"The refrain of one of my favorite songs goes,
'Tension is to be loved when it is like a passing note
to a beautiful, beautiful chord.' I don’t want to seek
the allusion [sic ] of finding balance anymore:
It can’t be found."
Allusion —
"No angel born in Hell
Could break that Satan's spell"
— "American Pie"
A passing note —
"The name diabolus in musica ("the Devil in music")
has been applied to the interval from at least the
early 18th century…."
— Wikipedia on the tritone
See also Music & Noise at a physics site and the square root
of two on page 56 of Barry Mazur's Imagining Numbers
(Picador imprint, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003) —
— The New Yorker , May 19, 1997 issue, page 52
See also Hollander in this journal.
(This post was suggested by a search for
"Barry Mazur" + "Two-Faced.")
The New York Times , reporting yesterday on the death of
a distinguished expert in the field of artificial intelligence,
said that he “laid the foundation for the field.”
Related material:
“A Bad Case of Mixed Metaphors:
Psychiatry, Law, Politics, Society,
and Ezra Pound”
by Arnold M. Ludwig,
American Journal of Psychotherapy
2000 Winter; 54(1): 116-117
From that paper —
“… the conceptual foundation for the field
continues to be primitive.”
See also, in this journal, The Source (Oct. 4, 2014).
An image from that post —
Ground plan for a game of
Noughts and Crosses
In this journal, see Syntactic/Symplectic and Raiding Minsky’s.
IMAGE- Kristen Wiig in 'Cock and Bull Story' —
See also some Saturday Night Live comedy in
"The Sound of Music" (a post from March 6, 2011)
and Kristen Wiig in a new "Zoolander 2" promotion.
For Mel Gibson
The book in the previous post, "A Hateful Eight," was
reportedly published on February 25, 2004. See also
this journal on that date —
In memory of physicist David Ritz Finkelstein,
who reportedly died yesterday —
"His sense of irony and precision was appreciated" ….
Precision
Irony
An illustration of the song "Stuck in the Middle with You"
(from the Tarantino film "Reservoir Dogs") was posted by
an academic at Christmas 2015 —
See also, in this journal,
The Jewel in the Lotus Meets the Kernel in the Nutshell
(December 16, 2015).
"The ideal of a complete mathematical theory of beauty
lies on the same long line of distinguished fantasies of
mathematical wisdom as the number mysticism of
Pythagoras and Plato, the Ars Magna of Ramon Llull
(whom Agrippa studied) and Giordano Bruno
(who studied Llull and Agrippa), the vision of Mathesis
Universalis that Descartes and Leibniz shared, and the
Ars Combinatoria of Leibniz. Dürer does not deny the
existence of absolute beauty but despairs of knowing it."
— The late David Ritz Finkelstein in 2007.
He reportedly died today.
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore…."
— Edgar Allan Poe, 1845 (link added)
"The infamous pseudohistorian Eric Temple Bell
begins his book 'The Magic of Numbers' as follows:
The hero of our story is Pythagoras…."
Related material —
See also "Temple Bell" in this journal.
"Hard Science Fiction in the era of short attention spans,
crowd-sourcing, and rapid obsolescence"
— May 26, 2012, Dragon Press Bookstore symposium
Related material: Posts now tagged Black Diamond.
A search from Easter 2013 for "Cremona synthemes" * —
For some strictly mathematical background, see
Classical Geometry in Light of Galois Geometry.
* For more about Cremona and synthemes,
see a 1975 paper by W. L. Edge,
"A Footnote on the Mystic Hexagram."
Or: High White Noon (continued from previous episodes)
"… taking a traditional piece of music with some culturally
relevant connection and using it as the central motif of the
broader arrangement. In this case, it was the Irish ballad
'Limerick’s Lamentation.' (It’s usually played on a fiddle,
I think, but here’s an interesting version on a
hammered dulcimer.)"
— 30 Years of Coens: Miller's Crossing ,
by Christopher Orr in The Atlantic ,
Sept. 10, 2014
Update of 11:40 AM —
"Share evidence via an online repository.
Working more effectively means accessing data at night,
at the courthouse, or wherever you are. More importantly,
you need to share evidence with the judge and opposing
parties without delay."
Related material:
“The Old Man’s still an artist with a Thompson.”
— Terry in the Coen brothers film “Miller’s Crossing”
See as well Apocalypse Wow and the sequel Chemistry 101.
My statement yesterday morning that the 15 points
of the finite projective space PG(3,2) are indivisible
was wrong. I was misled by quoting the powerful
rhetoric of Lincoln Barnett (LIFE magazine, 1949).
Points of Euclidean space are of course indivisible:
"A point is that which has no parts" (in some translations).
And the 15 points of PG(3,2) may be pictured as 15
Euclidean points in a square array (with one point removed)
or tetrahedral array (with 11 points added).
The geometry of PG(3,2) becomes more interesting,
however, when the 15 points are each divided into
several parts. For one approach to such a division,
see Mere Geometry. For another approach, click on the
image below.
"One day not long ago Oppenheimer stalked
up and down his office and divulged some
startling new discoveries about the 15 fundamental
particles of which the universe is made….
… physicists today are wondering if these particles
are themselves actually the final, stark, immutable
and indivisible foundation stones of the universe
that until now they have been thought to be."
—Lincoln Barnett in LIFE magazine,
Oct. 10, 1949, page 122
Fringe Physics —
"… astrophysics limits the number of fundamental particles to 15…."
— Franklin Potter at FQXi.org on Sep. 27, 2009
"I agree there can't be more than 15 fundamental particles."
— Lawrence B. Crowell at FQXi.org on Sep. 29, 2009
Beyond —
There are, at any rate, 15 "final, stark, immutable* and indivisible*
foundation stones" (namely, 15 points ) of the finite projective
space PG(3,2). See Symplectic in this journal.
For related physics, see posts tagged Dirac and Geometry.
* Update of Jan. 21, 2016 — I was carried away by Barnett's
powerful rhetoric. These adjectives are wrong.
Jeer yesterday by Sarah Palin —
“No more pussy-footin’ around!"
Sneer in The Washington Post this morning —
By Chris Cillizza* January 20 at 7:11 AM
"Sarah Palin endorsed Donald Trump's presidential campaign
on Tuesday in Iowa. You may have heard that — unless you
were hiding under a pile of coats for the day. But, what you
likely missed is the speech — and I use that word advisedly —
that Palin gave …."
Year by Don Henley —
* Cillizza is the author of The Gospel According to the Fix .
See also Sunday's post New York Values, with its quote from
a review of the new Coen brothers film "Hail, Caesar!" about
the world of the Hollywood "fixer."
A meditation suggested by yesterday evening's post
New York Values and by a musician's death today —
Update of 7 PM ET — Conspiracy theorists may enjoy the
interpretation of this post's time, 6:22, as a coded reference
to the date 6/22 — specifically, to 6/22/2003, "Trance of the
Red Queen," with its lyrics from the Eagles classic "Desperado."
"First and last, he was a skeptic …."
— Home page of Martin-Gardner.org
See also, in this journal, Alpha and Omega.
Related material from the last full day of Gardner's life —
See as well Symplectic in this journal.
This post was suggested by previous posts of
February 29, 2008, and of March 1, 2008.
The writer quoted in the latter, Ava Chitwood,
reportedly died on November 1, 2012 —
All Saints' Day. See a post from that date.
The phrase "experimental techniques" in the previous post
suggests the following words and images.
From The New York Times online this evening —
"Think 'Barton Fink' meets 'A Serious Man.'
With dancing."
Okay …
"When the truth is found to be lies
And all the joy within you dies…."
"We're entering Weimar, baby."
— Peggy Noonan
Suggested by a 7:11 AM post today at University Diaries:
"As a sequel to The Rainbow , the novel
develops experimental techniques…"
See also Arkie.
Some narrative for a ghost writer —
I prefer the following narrative —
Part I: Stevens’s verse from “The Rock” (1954) —
“That in which space itself is contained”
Part II: Mystery Box III: Inside, Outside (2014)
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