Continued from Nov. 21, 2010:
“They always print… the lottery.”
The reader may interpret the lottery numbers
as he or she pleases.
Related material: Jersey City in Log24 posts
of April 25 and April 28, and today’s NY Times
image of another Jersey City landmark.
Some background for a recent photo
by Josefine Lyche:
The Boys from Uruguay and Witch Ball.
The photo:
“… it offers the comfort of a community of other players
all stuck in the same hellish quagmire.”
— Review of a video game that was in the news today.
A tweet from the game’s developer last Christmas:
From this journal, also on Christmas Day last year:
“She never looked up while her mind rotated the facts,
trying to see them from all sides, trying to piece them
together into theory. All she could think was that she
was flunking an IQ test.”
— Steve Martin, An Object of Beauty
(Orlin Wagner/Associated Press) – A vehicle tops a hill along
U.S. Route 56 as a severe thunderstorm moves through the area
near Baldwin City, Kansas, on Sunday, April 27, 2014.
See a related news story.
Galois and Abel vs. Rubik
"Abel was done to death by poverty, Galois by stupidity.
In all the history of science there is no completer example
of the triumph of crass stupidity…."
— Eric Temple Bell, Men of Mathematics
Gray Space (Continued)
… For The Church of Plan 9.
See also LYNX 760 , Rubik vs. Abel, and Toying.
For John Milton at the Cervecería XX —
Related material: Peter J. Cameron on Bertrand Russell
in A Midnight Exorcism.
See also “Six Cuban Families Celebrate Kids’ Law Degrees.”
Feliz Cumpleaños to Al Pacino.
* “The Lighthouse,” in Spanish. See Under the Volcano .
Quoted here on April 11 —
“…direct access to the godhead, which
in this case was Creativity.”
— Tom Wolfe, From Bauhaus to Our House
From “Today in History: April 25, 2014,” by The Associated Press:
“Five years ago… University of Georgia professor
George Zinkhan, 57, shot and killed his wife
and two men outside a community theater in Athens
before taking his own life.”
Related material:
A Google Scholar search for Zinkhan’s 1993 paper,
“Creativity in Advertising,” Journal of Advertising 22,2: 1-3 —
Obiter Dicta:
“Dour wit” — Obituary of a Scots herald who died on Palm Sunday
“Remember me to Herald Square.” — Song lyric
“Welcome to Scotland.” — Kincade in Skyfall
“The more intellectual, less physical, the spell of contemplation
the more complex must be the object, the more close and elaborate
must be the comparison the mind has to keep making between
the whole and the parts, the parts and the whole.”
— The Journals and Papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins ,
edited by Humphry House, 2nd ed. (London: Oxford
University Press, 1959), p. 126, as quoted by Philip A.
Ballinger in The Poem as Sacrament
Related material from All Saints’ Day in 2012:
In memory of Peter Drummond-Murray, two readings:
The Beauty that Saves and The Trials of Device.
Drummond-Murray reportedly died at 84 on April 13,
Palm Sunday. The Telegraph describes him:
“A big, grim-faced man with a dour wit,
Drummond-Murray resembled some rugged
Jacobite from a novel by Sir Walter Scott.”
Or Sydney Greenstreet.
“The stuff that dreams are made of.” — The Maltese Falcon
(Continued from Palm Sunday)
From Richard Wilbur’s “Walking to Sleep” —
Try to remember this: what you project
Is what you will perceive; what you perceive
With any passion, be it love or terror,
May take on whims and powers of its own.
Therefore a numb and grudging circumspection
Will serve you best, unless you overdo it,
Watching your step too narrowly, refusing
To specify a world, shrinking your purview
To a tight vision of your inching shoes—
Which may, as soon you come to think, be crossing
An unseen gorge upon a rotten trestle.
What you must manage is to bring to mind
A landscape not worth looking at, some bleak
Champaign at dead November’s end, its grass
As dry as lichen, and its lichens grey….
See also —
For the first word of the title, see The Harrowing of Hell.
For the second, see Pater and Hopkins.
This post was suggested by yesterday’s Symmetry and by…
“Kilimanjaro is a snow covered mountain 19,710 feet high,
and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western
summit is called the Masai ‘Ngàje Ngài,’ the House of God.
Close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcass
of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking
at that altitude.” — Ernest Hemingway, epigraph to a story
Some background —
Kristen Wiig and a mountain in the recent film “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”
and Wiig in a Log24 post of Sunday, March 6, 2011.
Todd Leopold at CNN today on a novel by
the late Gabriel García Márquez —
“…a tapestry of almost biblical proportions….”
See also Sermon (Sunday, March 6. 2011).
“For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.” — Gravity’s Rainbow
“I don’t write exclusively on Jewish themes or about Jewish characters.
My collection of short stories, Strange Attractors , contained nine pieces,
five of which were, to some degree, Jewish, and this ratio has provided me
with a precise mathematical answer (for me, still the best kind of answer)
to the question of whether I am a Jewish writer. I am five-ninths a Jewish writer.”
— Rebecca Goldstein, “Against Logic”
Midrashim for Rebecca:
The Diamond Theory vs. the Story Theory (of truth)
Story Theory and the Number of the Beast
The Palm Sunday post “Gray Space”
For those who prefer the diamond theory of truth,
a “precise mathematical” view of a Gray code —
For those who prefer the story theory of truth,
Thursday with the Nashes —
The actors who portrayed Mr. and Mrs. John Nash in
‘A Beautiful Mind’ now portray Mr. and Mrs. Noah…
Art Wars view —
image from a post at noon on Saturday, April 12:
Kansas City view:
Review of Seeing Gray , a book by pastor Adam Hamilton
of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection
in Leawood, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City—
“Adam Hamilton invites us to soulful gray space
between polarities, glorious gray space that is holy,
mysterious, complex, and true. Let us find within
our spirits the courage and humility to live and learn
in this faithful space, to see gray, to discern a more
excellent way.”
—Review by United Methodist Bishop Hope Morgan Ward
The above quotation was suggested by the following from today’s
online Kansas City Star :
“Two of the victims were 14-year-old Reat Griffin Underwood
and his grandfather, William Lewis Corporon, who attended the
United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood.
The Rev. Adam Hamilton, the church’s senior pastor, shared
the news with church members at the beginning of the evening
Palm Sunday service.”
Update of 10:48 PM — A related photo:
“What both cases illustrate, with their fuzzy rhetoric
masking ideological pressure, is a serious moral defect
at the heart of elite culture in America.”
— Ross Douthat in today’s online NY Times
More clarity:
Thanks to John Baez at Google+ for relaying this.
(Continued from June 9, 2009)
“The craziness is receding but no clarity is taking its place.”
— Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking
A possible source of clarity:
For the late Allen E. Puckett, Hughes Aircraft engineer and CEO,
who reportedly died at 94 on March 31 (the birthday of René Descartes) —
Tom Cruise at the Vatican in MI3
Other descents of change:
Sacred Space and Cube Descending.
Context— Last night’s post Change Arises,
on Walter Gropius, Wolfe’s “Silver Prince.”
In memory of Lucia Eames, who reportedly died
on April 1, 2014:
“… Walter Gropius was her professor ….”
See also in this journal Gropius and the April 1 posts.
Related material: “As a little child.”
The New York Times yesterday on Chloë Grace Moretz:
“The public may see her in a certain, put-together way, she said:
‘But when I go home, I’m like, “Let’s turn on ‘Little Mermaid’!”‘”
See also A Word from Our Sponsa and the following:
From Between Two Worlds (Feb. 25, 2007) —
Nicolas Cage as Ghost Rider (2007):
More recently, Nicolas Cage as Big Daddy (2010):
The New York Times as a guide for the perplexed:
“Go back to the flaming skull, Dad.”
It’s 10 PM. Do you know where your childen are?
A post from March 28, 2014 —
Art School ConfidentialFiled under: Uncategorized — m759 @ 4:01 AM |
March 28 was reportedly the date of death for a public figure:
Edwin Kagin, Atheist Who Battled Religion
in Public Sphere, Dies at 73.
Related material — the link Complex Reflection from March 28,
and a post on “The Sunset Limited.”
The “Sunset” post was suggested by the contrast between Kagin’s
views and those in a book by his son Stephen, a minister.
He “…believed the art to be real….”
— Lawyer for Mosaic Miami Church pastor
accused of trying to sell forged Damien Hirst art
A Miami mosaic from this journal last Dec. 21—
The indicated link is to…
See also St. Ursula’s Day, 2010, and Emil Artin’s dies natalis in 2003.
Amy Adams in the recent film “Her” —
“You’re dating an OS? What is that like?”
eXPired
From Log24 on Feb. 26, 2008 —
|
“Many dreams have been The Return of the Author, On Sartre’s Les Mots – “Writing helps him find his own place within this vast comedy. He does not take to writing seriously yet, but he is eager to write books in order to escape the comedy he has been compelled to take part in.” |
Related material: A Harvard Crimson story on a student who died
this morning from injuries he received in a fall from a building
near the New England Aquarium in Boston. He reportedly fell around
midnight on the night of April 5-6, Saturday-Sunday.
Here are links to two posts from The Fish Tank blog in The
Harvard Ichthus — from 2013 March 9 and 2013 March 16—
that are apparently by this same student.
See also the link to a Harvard-related psychiatrists’ paper in
The View from Lone Pine, a Log24 post from Saturday evening.
“…in 1959… I stepped out alone, walked into the streets
of Lone Pine, Calif., and saw the world— the mountains,
the sky, the low scattered buildings— suddenly flame into life.
There were no visions, no prophetic voices or visits by
totemic animals, just this blazing everywhere.”
— Barbara Ehrenreich in today’s NY Times Sunday Review ,
“A Rationalist’s Mystical Moment”
A less credible account —
Barbara Ehrenreich in today's online New York Times :
"…in 1959… I stepped out alone, walked into the streets of Lone Pine, Calif., and saw the world— the mountains, the sky, the low scattered buildings— suddenly flame into life.
There were no visions, no prophetic voices or visits by totemic animals, just this blazing everywhere. Something poured into me and I poured out into it. This was not the passive beatific merger with 'the All,' as promised by the Eastern mystics. It was a furious encounter with a living substance that was coming at me through all things at once, too vast and violent to hold on to, too heartbreakingly beautiful to let go of."
Ehrenreich mentions a psychiatrists' paper, "The Role of Psychotic Disorders in Religious History Considered," that was published on September 1, 2012.
See also Log24 posts of September 1 and September 2, 2012.
"May you be in heaven a full half-hour
before the devil knows you're dead ."
Related material:
Yesterday's posts of 12 PM and 8 PM,
and the life of Philip Seymour Hoffman.
“His daughter, the poet Jorie Graham, confirmed the death.”
From an artist on Oct. 3, 2013:
“‘This is St. Francis country,’ she says of Umbria.”
The Surreal Meets the Real
“Place Vendôme” (1998)
Odilon Redon, L’Oeil
FILM REVIEW
For Deneuve, a Setting In Which She Sparkles
By DAVE KEHR
Published: August 18, 2000 in The New York Times
“Named after the Parisian square that is home
to the Ritz Hotel, several haute couture boutiques
and some of the world’s most expensive jewelry shops,
‘Place Vendôme’ provides a perfect setting for
Catherine Deneuve, herself one of the French cinema’s
most precious gems.”
From a Huffington Post discussion of aesthetics by Colm Mulcahy
of Spelman College, Atlanta:
"The image below on the left… is… overly simplistic, and lacks reality:
It's all a matter of perspective: the problem here is that opposite sides
of the cube, which are parallel in real life, actually look parallel in the
left image! The image on the right is better…."
A related discussion: Eight is a Gate.
Last Sunday’s sermon from Princeton’s Nassau Presbyterian
Church is now online. It reveals the answer to the “One Thing”
riddle posted at the church site Sunday:
The online sermon has been retitled “One Thing I Do Know.”
A related search yields a relevant example of the original
Yoda-like word order:
From the online sermon —
“What comes into view is the bombarding cynicism,
the barrage of mistrust and questions, and the
flat out trial of the man born blind. The
interrogation coming not because of the miracle
that gave the man sight….”
Related material — “Then a miracle occurs.”
For a different view of change arising, click on the tag above.
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