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"What on earth is
— Said to be an annotation |
In the spirit of the late Thomas Guinzburg…
See also "Concrete Universal" in this journal.
Related material— From a Bloomsday reply
to a Diamond Theory reader's comment, an excerpt—
The reader's comment suggests the following passages from
the book by Stirling quoted above—
Here Stirling plays a role analogous to that of Professor Irwin Corey
accepting the National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974.
Continued from the previous post (June 27),
about the death of the founder of the
Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) at Oxford…
From Oxford Today , June 26, 2013—
(See also a June 11 Independent story on the same topic.)
Update of 6:42 PM ET June 29:
Any similarity between the FHI logo and Plato's diamond
is of course purely coincidental—
The body of James Martin, 79, founder of the Oxford Martin School,
was reportedly found floating in the sea near his private island
off Bermuda on Monday, June 24, 2013.
In his memory— A Log24 post from last December.
"These are death's own supremest images,
The pure perfections of parental space"
— Wallace Stevens,
"The Owl in the Sarcophagus"
From O Marks the Spot, Jill St. John's birthday, 2012:
"Row, row, row your boat…"
"A kind of liturgical singsong" — John Leonard on Didion
“I could a tale unfold whose lightest word
Would harrow up thy soul….“
— Hamlet’s Father’s Ghost
The results of a search in this journal for “a tale unfold” suggest
a review of the following passage from Donna Tartt’s Secret History…
A math weblog discussed this passage on January 24, 2013.
For related alliances, see this weblog on that same date.
Sunset in Manhattan today is at 8:31 PM.
Connoisseurs of ambiguity may consult the
date 8/31 in this journal.
Online biography of author Cormac McCarthy—
"… he left America on the liner Sylvania, intending to visit
the home of his Irish ancestors (a King Cormac McCarthy
built Blarney Castle)."
Two Years Ago:
Blarney in The Harvard Crimson—
Melissa C. Wong, illustration for "Atlas to the Text,"
by Nicholas T. Rinehart:
Thirty Years Ago:
Non-Blarney from a rural outpost—
Illustration for the generalized diamond theorem,
by Steven H. Cullinane:
"Maybe birthdays are dangerous. Like Christmas."
— Cormac McCarthy, The Sunset Limited
From the LA Times online obituaries today:
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Michael Feran Baigent was born in Nelson, New Zealand,
From 1998 he lectured on and led tours of the temples and Elliott Reid Longtime film, TV actor with a comic touch
Elliott "Ted" Reid, 93, a longtime character actor in films |
From a post last Saturday, June 22, and the earlier
post last Friday, June 21, that preceded it:
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The Eliade passage was quoted in a 1971 Ph.D. thesis Some context— Stevens's Rock in this journal. Friday, June 21, 2013
Lexicon
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"… a fundamental language
"… the questions raised by R. Lowell |
See also, in this journal, Big Rock.
“For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause.” — Hamlet
Sleep well, Mr. Matheson.
Here is the link to an MIT Scratch project from the above comment.
See also a comment by a Random Norwegian Dude:
For related art, see
"4D AMBASSADOR (HYPERCUBE)" for Steven H. Cullinane
by the Norwegian artist Josefine Lyche.
From today's earlier post, Stevens and the Rock—
"Rock shows him something that transcends
the precariousness of his humanity:
an absolute mode of being.
Its strength, its motionlessness, its size
and its strange outlines
are none of them human;
they indicate the presence of something
that fascinates, terrifies, attracts and threatens,
all at once."
— Mircea Eliade, Patterns in Comparative Religion (1958)
An object with such an "absolute mode of being"
is the plot center of a new novel discussed here previously—
Max Barry's Lexicon . From a perceptive review:
I believe he’s hit on something special here.
It’s really no surprise that Matthew Vaughn
of Kick-Ass and X-Men: First Class fame
has bought the rights to maybe make the movie;
Lexicon certainly has the makings of a fine film.
Or graphic novel… Whatever.
Passage quoted in A Philosopher's Stone (April 4, 2013)—
This passage from Heidegger suggested the lexicon excerpt on
to hypokeimenon (the underlying) in yesterday's post Lexicon.
A related passage:
The Eliade passage was quoted in a 1971 Ph.D. thesis
on Wallace Stevens.
Some context— Stevens's Rock in this journal.
From the final pages of the new novel
Lexicon , by Max Barry:
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"… a fundamental language
"… the questions raised by R. Lowell |
"… the clocks were striking thirteen." — 1984
The New York Times philosophy column "The Stone"
last evening had an essay on art by a sarcastic anarchist,
one Crispin Sartwell—
"… whole generations of art lovers have been
trained in modernist dogma, and arts institutions’
access to various forms of state or foundation
support depend on it completely. One goes to
the museum to gasp at stunning works of
incomparable, super-human genius by beings
who are infinitely more exalted and important
than the mere humans staring at their paintings.
That’s why ordinary people staring at a Picasso
(allegedly) experience a kind of transcendence
or re-articulation of their lives and world."
Cubism Re-Articulated:
Click image for some backstory.
(IMAGE: Walter Gropius and Froebel's Third Gift,
from a Google image search today)
Background: Cubism in this journal and
Pilate Goes to Kindergarten.
Related material: Chesterton + Thursday in this journal.
See Juneteenth in this journal.
For related meditations, see last October 27th.
"Da hats ein Eck" —
"you've/she's (etc.) got problems there"
St. Galluskirche:
St. Gallus's Day, 2012:
Click image for a St. Gallus's Day post.
A related problem:
Discuss the structure of the 4x4x4 "magic" cube
sent by Pierre de Fermat to Father Marin Mersenne
on April 1, 1640, in light of the above post.
This journal on May 14, 2013:
"And let us finally, then, observe the
parallel progress of the formations of thought
across the species of psychical onomatopoeia
of the primitives, and elementary symmetries
and contrasts, to the ideas of substances,
to metaphors, the faltering beginnings of logic,
formalisms, entities, metaphysical existences."
— Paul Valéry, Introduction to the Method of
Leonardo da Vinci
But first, a word from our sponsor…
For those who prefer Trudeau's
"Story Theory" of truth to his "Diamond Theory"
Related material: Click images below for the original posts.
See as well the novel "Lexicon" at Amazon.com
and the word "lexicon" in this journal.
"Man of Steel is subversive mythology for atheists
that exalts a Superman who behaves the way they
think God should but doesn’t."
— Jeff Jensen, "Why the Superman of 'Man of Steel'
is the Jesus we wish Jesus would be,"
Entertainment Weekly this afternoon
"He's a bird, he's a plane… He's our savior?"
— Nicole Sperling, "'Man of Steel's' Christian link,"
Los Angeles Times this afternoon
Elsewhere on the Web today:
See also Baez in this journal.
"Everything's coming up Snow White."
For Charlize:
"Snow, Glass, Apples," by Neil Gaiman
* See Saturday's post At the Still Point
From a weblog post on June 11, 2013, by one Pete Trbovich:
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Here again, I don't think Steven Cullinane is really unhinged per se. At the very least, his geometric study is fun to play with, particularly when you find this toy. And I'm not really sure that anything he says is wrong per se. But you might find yourself asking "So what?" or more to the point, "Why is this supposed to be the central theory to explaining life, the universe, and everything?" |
It isn't supposed to be such a theory.
I do not know why Trbovich thinks it is .
— Steven H. Cullinane
Update of 11 PM June 16:
For one such central theory of everything, see
the I Ching . Diamond theory is, unlike that
Chinese classic, pure mathematics, but the larger
of the binary-coordinate structures it is based on
are clearly isomorphic, simply as structures , to
the I Ching 's 64 hexagrams.
Make of this what you will.
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