Found on Google today:
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Monday, November 30, 2009
Sunday, November 29, 2009
“A Structured Sacrifice”
Today's homily– from The New York Times–
Related art–
Black Friday,
Midnight in Dostoevsky, and
A Cross for the Goat Men.
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Saturday, November 28, 2009
Field Notes
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Annals of Intelligence:
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In Other News…
Saturday, November 28, Reuters
Moscow:
"Russian television showed grainy footage of rescue workers working under flood lights near debris on the side of the train tracks.
'There are 25 dead and 87 injured,' Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu told a heated video conference during which he barked out orders to local rescuers in the early hours of Saturday morning.
He said the fate of 41 other people was still unclear.
A spokesman for Russia's main domestic intelligence service, the FSB, declined to comment on whether an attack was suspected…."
Elsewhere:
"The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) (Russian: ФСБ, Федеральная служба безопасности Российской Федерации; Federal'naya sluzhba bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Federatsii) is the main domestic security service of the Russian Federation and the main successor agency of the Soviet-era Cheka, NKVD and KGB." —Wikipedia
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Friday, November 27, 2009
Black Friday
Black Square,
Black Cross,
Malevich
Related material:
Eid al-Adha,
The Social Aspect of Eid, and
Homage to Malevich
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Thursday, November 26, 2009
Thanksgiving
"So thou beholdest the contingent things
Ere in themselves they are, fixing thine eyes
Upon the point in which all times are present."
Related material:
This journal, November 20, 2009:
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Metaphysics of Quality
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Divine Comedy
The Story Theory of Truth
“We have a need to tell ourselves stories
that explain it all. We use these stories to
supply the metaphysics, without which
life seems pointless and empty.”
– David Brooks, NY Times of Nov. 10
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein's website has quotes on her soon-to-be-published novel 36 Arguments for the Existence of God—
"Hilarious"
"Savagely funny"
"Supremely witty"
"Rollicking"
Description of the novel–
"At the center: Cass Seltzer, a professor of psychology…."
Not to be confused with Professor Seltzer in Wanted or characters in the films of Matt Damon–
Related material–
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Monday, November 23, 2009
Entertainment
American Music Awards
Finale
| "Oooh, I bet you thought that I was soft and sweet Your fallen angel swept ya off ya feet But I’m about to…." |
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Sunday, November 22, 2009
Saturday, November 21, 2009
The Curve of Beauty
Solomons Dance
Bridge caption from Flickr —
"William Hogarth theorized a perfect curve– his 'curve of beauty'– in the 18th century. I'm not sure the designer of this bridge took that into account, but Hogarth's curve is definitely there…."
Dance caption from Brooklyn Academy of Music —
"Elegant and uncompromising"
Friday, November 20, 2009
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Eight is a Gate, continued
Jeanne-Claude, Collaborator With Christo, Dies at 74
See Feb. 13, 2005, and Feb. 16, 2005:
Click the above for source (pdf).
A part of the installation by
Christo and Jeanne-Claude,
“The Gates.” Photo by
Nicole Bengiveno in
The New York Times.
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Walden for Jews
"Orthodox Jews are disappearing from Jerusalem. One moment they are praying at the Western Wall, and in the blink of an eye, they seem to evaporate…. In order to build the Third Temple while being respectful of the Islamic structures on the Temple Mount, the Jews have discovered a way to access a fourth spatial dimension. They will build the Third Temple invisibly 'above' the Temple Mount and 'above' the Mosque in the direction of the fourth dimension."
— Clifford Pickover, description of his novel Jews in Hyperspace
"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, conclusion of Walden
Related material: Log24 entries, morning and evening of June 11, 2009, "Text" (June 22, 2009), and Salomon Bochner's remarks on space in "Eight is a Gate" (Feb. 26, 2008).
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
A Wrinkle in Dimensions…
An educated consumer
is our best customer!
“Acme Klein Bottles — where
yesterday’s future is here today!”
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Monday, November 16, 2009
A Wrinkle in Dimensions
Clifford Pickover now seems to be trying to catch up with Christian fantasists Madeleine L’Engle and Charles Williams. Click on the images below for further details.
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Sunday, November 15, 2009
A Sermon for Hogwarts
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The Dead Shepherd and…
Chinese Boxes
Continued from “The Dead Shepherd,” Jan. 24, 2007…
“James R. Lilley, 81, a longtime CIA operative in Asia who served as ambassador to China during the Tiananmen Square crackdown… died Nov. 12.”
James R. Lilley
From a page linked to here on the date of Lilley’s death:
“… the extraordinary set of nested Chinese boxes that we introduced earlier in this series….”
A seemingly unrelated item in today’s New York Times obituaries index:
This suggests an article on temporal logic at IBM Developer Works, which contains a link to Time-Rover.com.
This in turn leads to…
Shing’s CV at the Naval Postgraduate School affirms the usefulness of temporal logic.
Those who prefer metaphysics may consult the novel Many Dimensions referred to in yesterday’s entries and in “Relativity Blues” (Feb. 20, 2005)–
From Many Dimensions:
“Lord Arglay had a suspicion that the Stone would be purely logical. Yes, he thought, but what, in that sense, were the rules of its pure logic?”
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Saturday, November 14, 2009
Mathematics and Narrative, continued:
A graphic novel reviewed in the current Washington Post features Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell–
Related material:
Whitehead on Fano's finite projective three-space:
"This is proved by the consideration of a three dimensional geometry in which there are only fifteen points."
—The Axioms of Projective Geometry , Cambridge University Press, 1906
Further reading:
See Solomon's Cube and the link at the end of today's previous entry, then compare and contrast the above portraits of Whitehead and Russell with Charles Williams's portraits of Sir Giles Tumulty and Lord Arglay in the novel Many Dimensions .
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For St. Lawrence O’Toole’s Day
“We have a need to tell ourselves stories
that explain it all. We use these stories to
supply the metaphysics,* without which
life seems pointless and empty.”
— David Brooks, NY Times of Nov. 10
“The story-teller of hell”
— Publisher’s promotional quotation
for The Nick Tosches Reader
* “the metaphysics“– This link leads to a web page at the Archdiocese of Dublin whose relevance to metaphysics is not obvious. Of course, from the point of view popular with viXra authors (see Thursday), everything is related to metaphysics. The link is to a homily that mentions Sr. Joan Chittester, O.S.B. A search on her works at Amazon.com leads to Welcome to the Wisdom of the World And Its Meaning for You: Universal Spiritual Insights Distilled from Five Religious Traditions. The title indicates that despite Chittester’s personal virtues, her book is, unlike the Tosches book above, less than first-rate. Still, a “meaning for you” is, in my case, not lacking. Continuing the search for a Joycean epiphany related to metaphysics, I found that the Chittester book‘s date of publication (by Eerdmans, the Grand Rapids Calvinist publisher) was July 24, 2007. For a metaphysical phrase on that date– “the Platonic ‘source of all images,'” see The Church of St. Frank. For metaphysics and the Church of some other saints, see the essay on the “metaphysics of goodness” linked to on the publication date of Chittester’s book.
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Friday, November 13, 2009
Jokers
 |
Vincent Price |
Click on images for further details.
“I started a joke….”
See also yesterday’s entry.
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
A Puzzlement
“In part viXra.org is a parody of arXiv.org….”
Related material:
- Humpty Dumpty, Part I:
Puzzles - Humpty Dumpty, Part II:
Annotated Alice - Humpty Dumpty, Part III:
“We Need the Eggs.”
Update of 9 PM for James Joyce:
Henneagram
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Triptych
Related material:
"Harrowing cuteness,"* The Eden Express, and a search on "harrowing" in this journal
* Perhaps a typo, but still a memorable phrase.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Infantilizing the Audience
“Public commentators assumed the air of kindergarten teachers who had to protect their children from thinking certain impermissible and intolerant thoughts.”
— David Brooks in today’s New York Times
What else is new?
I prefer the impermissible
and intolerant Stan Lee
(author of novels, not comic books):
Dunn’s Conundrum is reportedly
the basis of a screenplay titled,
after the novel’s main character,
“The Garbageman.”
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Out of Inland
Epigraphs at
Peter Cameron’s home page:
See also the epigraphs in Cameron’s
Parallelisms of Complete Designs,
entries on this date three years ago,
Russell Hoban in this journal,
and
The Hawkline Monster in this journal.
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Monday, November 9, 2009
Traumnovelle
"This passage… equates the big Other
with the impenetrability of another subject
beyond the 'wall of language'…."
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Sunday, November 8, 2009
H is for Hogwarts, continued
A Sequel to Koestler's
The Call Girls
Gilles Deleuze, Negotiations 1972-1990,
Columbia University Press paperback, 1997, p. 137–
"Academics' lives are seldom interesting."
But then there is Matt Lee of the University of Greenwich.
See his weblog subtitled "notes and thoughts on philosophy"… particularly his post "Diamond time, daimon time," of August 20, 2009.
See also my own post of August 20, 2009– "Sophists"– and my earlier post "Daimon Theory" of March 12, 2003:
More about Lee:
"Chaos majik is a form of modern witchcraft."
More about magick:
Noetic Symbology
(Log24 on October 25, 2009)
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