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Riddle

"Midnight in the Garden continued," a post of 12:00 AM July 20, posed the riddle of what the previous day's NY Lottery midday "440" might mean.

A jocular answer was given. Some background for a more serious answer—

Paul Newall, “Kieślowski’s Three Colours Trilogy”—

“Julie recognises the music of the busker outside playing a recorder as that of her husband’s. When she asks him where he heard it, he replies that he makes up all sorts of things. This is an instance of a theory of Kieślowski’s that ‘different people, in different places, are thinking the same thing but for different reasons.’ With regard to music in particular, he held what might be characterised as a Platonic view according to which notes pre-exist and are picked out and assembled by people. That these can accord with one another is a sign of what connects people, or so he believed.”

In honor of Wye Jamison Allanbrook, author of Rhythmic Gesture in Mozart, we note that 440 is Concert A.

Allanbrook died on July 15. See this journal on that date—

Angels in the Architecture,
Happy Birthday, and
Brightness at Noon.

A link in the previous post to the Harvard Foundation led to a screenshot
of a long-neglected Harvard web page. That page stated yesterday that
"the Harvard Foundation 2008 Artist of the Year has not yet been announced."

It turns out to be jazz artist Herbie Hancock, who was honored at
Harvard's Sanders Theatre on Saturday, March 1, 2008.

Related material from this journal—

Call and Response

For a response from the next day,
March 1, click on the professor.

From the 7/20 Harvard Crimson—

"The scholarly expeditions undertaken by modern-day explorer and Harvard Foundation Director S. Allen Counter will be featured in a biopic produced by actor Will Smith.

…. Debbie Allen is also producing the film, and Farhad Safinia will be penning the script, Variety  magazine reported.

…. Counter said that Debbie Allen described his character as 'a mixture of Indiana Jones and Robert Langdon,' the fictional Harvard professor of symbology in Dan Brown’s novels."

Farhad Safinia is co-writer and co-producer, with Mel Gibson, of "Apocalypto."

From "The Envelope: The Awards Insider" at the LA Times, a review of the film based on Dan Brown's "Angels & Demons"—

"The script tips its hand too early, and can't quite turn Langdon into Indiana Langdon on his Last Crusade."

—  Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel  movie critic, May 15, 2009

Related material:

The Robert Jones Code—

(Click for video.)

The protagonist of the new film Inception  is named Dom Cobb.

The name Dom may come from "Dominic." (I have not yet seen the film.)
If it does not, see Wiktionary for other possible meanings.

(See also the 1958 Polish short film "Dom.")

The name "Cobb" may have come from a previous film, Following,
by Inception director Christopher Nolan.

My own preference is for Rachel  Cobb.

Lottery hermeneutics for yesterday's numbers—

PA— Midday 711, Evening 039.

NY— Midday 440, Evening 704.

Simple interpretive methods— numbers as dates and as hexagram numbers— yield 7/11, hexagram 39, and 7/04.

The reader may supply his own interpretations of 7/11 and 7/04; for hexagram 39, see Wilhelm's commentary—

"The hexagram pictures a dangerous abyss lying before us
  and a steep, inaccessible mountain rising behind us."

— and the cover of Cold Mountain—

Adapted from cover of
German edition of Cold Mountain

This suggests revisiting The Edge of Eternity (July 5, 2005).

The hermeneutics of the NY midday 440 is more difficult. A Google search suggests that a Log24 post for Epiphany 2004, "720 in the Book," might yield a clue to the 440 riddle.

By all means, let us 440.

Ross Douthat in The New York Times of July 19—

"The Roots of White Anxiety"—

"…while most extracurricular activities increase your odds of admission to an elite school, holding a leadership role or winning awards in organizations like high school R.O.T.C., 4-H clubs and Future Farmers of America actually works against your chances. Consciously or unconsciously, the gatekeepers of elite education seem to incline against candidates who seem too stereotypically rural or right-wing or 'Red America.'"

So much the worse for the elite schools.

For a more adult approach to the 2008 ACM Awards,
see "Happy May 18, Reba."

New York Lottery on Saturday, July 17, 2010—

Midday 049, Evening 613.

Related material:

Hexagram 49 and 6/13.

A quotation from this journal on 6/13—

"Christianity offers the critic a privileged ontological window…."

— Aaron Urbanczyk's 2005 review of Christ and Apollo 
    by William Lynch, S.J., a book first published in 1960

Picture from today's New York Times  (page ST1 in New York edition)—

Madrid

Junco died on Bastille Day.

Paris

An artist's view —

The above Gracia Lam illustration was suggested
 by her work in a New York Times  piece on the Sabbath
(Sunday, July 18, 2010, on page ST1 of the New York edition).

"Accentuate the Positive." — Clint Eastwood

"List, list, O, list!"
— Hamlet's father's ghost

"Ordering and patterning are not wholly narrative activities."
— James E. Giles, 1986

"See also… the true  story 0, 1, 2, 3…" 
— Log24, January 9, 2009

  For some non-narrative patterning of this list, see (for instance)
         Apostol's Modular Functions and Dirichlet Series in Number Theory.

In the Details

This afternoon's post, Point Omega continued, concerned the New York Lottery numbers for yesterday evening and midday today.

A footnote to that post—

Today's evening New York Lottery number was 664.

In the spirit of the theological content of this afternoon's post—

Today's evening NY number 664 may or may not refer to the year of the Synod of Whitby.

That Synod was about reconciling the customs of Rome with the customs of Iona.

A somewhat relevant link from the Language Game post referred to in this afternoon's post was on the word "selving." This link, now broken, referred to a paper hosted by, as it happens, Iona College. The following is a link to a cached copy of that paper—

"The Story of the Self: The Self of the Story," by James E. Giles (Religion and Intellectual Life, Fall 1986— Volume 4, Number 1, pages 105-112)

"We tried to create new realities overnight…."
— Point Omega, quoted here in the post
Devising Entities (July 3, 2010)

See also last night's Meditation as well as the earlier posts
Language Game and The Subject Par Excellence.

Linda Ronstadt.

Related material— Today's previous posts
Happy Bastille Day, The Lotus Gate, and Only Connect.

"Every city has its gates…." —Winter's Tale

Janet Maslin, book review of One Day  in today's online New York Times—

"Emma is demonstrably the smarter of the two in ways that Dexter finds intimidating. While he roams the world, she sends him books that he doesn’t enjoy or understand. Dexter on Howards End : 'It’s like they’ve been drinking the same cup of tea for 200 pages, and I keep waiting for someone to pull a knife or an alien invasion or something, but that’s not going to happen is it?'"

Related material: LiLo in "Machete."

To the leftist philosophers of Villanova

From "Make a Différance"
(Women's History Month, 2005)—

Frida Saal's 

Lacan Derrida: