See the circle of keys.

Related material: The links in a Log24 search for Doctor Sax.

* For the title, see posts tagged Dante Time.

For a religion writer who reportedly died Sept. 22,
a tune from a sax player who reportedly died today.

Part I — Donjon

(Notices of the American Mathematical Society , October 2015)

Part II — Curvitas!

(Detail from yesterday afternoon)

Related material: Digital Member.

"Intruders" star Mira Sorvino in "The Last Templar" —

Happy birthday.

Meanwhile …

A passage suggested by the previous post, Box Office:

The dateline from a slide at a string-theory conference:

See also this journal on that date.

A related "string theory," for those who like to compare and contrast:

A paper on the late Michael Weinstein by Robert L. Oprisko —

"Strings: A Political Theory of Multi-Dimensional Reality."*

From the abstract:

"An 'unfaithful' interpretation of Michael Weinstein's oeuvre
illuminates a complex, interpenetrative system of realities
that reflects the lived experience of his vitalist ontology."

* Theoria & Praxis: International Journal of Interdisciplinary Thought ,
   Vol 2, No 2 (2014): On the Concept of Globality.

The above book, a tribute by admirers of the late Michael Weinstein
(not, as a campus obituary states, by Weinstein himself),
was reportedly published by Routledge on December 19, 2014.

This journal on that date had a post on an early Greek philosopher who
supposedly was killed because he discovered irrational numbers.

A later approach to academic life —

Emma Stone being directed by Woody Allen in the recent "Irrational Man":

Fans of Allen and Stone may also enjoy Magic in the Moonlight.

On an incident in Sparks, Nevada, on
Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2015:

"Reno and Sparks police then approached the apartment
just before 11 a.m. and knocked on the door in an effort
to check on Debra Constantino’s welfare, Sparks police
said. That’s when officers heard gunshots."

— Marcella Corona, Reno Gazette-Journal

(Tuesday 11 a.m. PDT in Sparks was Tuesday 2 p.m. EDT.)

"A file photo of Mark and Debby Constantino taken on
Oct. 24, 2011 near their home in northwest Reno.
The couple worked as paranormal investigators
specializing in EVP voice recordings and were often
featured in the Travel Channel series Ghost Adventures ."
(Photo: Reno Gazette-Journal  file)

Synchronicity check: Log24 on the date of the above photo.

"… a bee for the remembering of happiness" — Wallace Stevens

The previous post honored Maurice, one of yesterday's
saints. A note on another —

See Log24 searches for Villanova and Villanueva.
The latter search leads to a link to some posts tagged 922, 
from St. Thomas of Villanova's feast day, Sept. 22.

"In the Latin language, pompatus  is an actual word
meaning 'done with pomp or splendor.'
It is the masculine perfect participle of the Latin
root word pompo ." — Wikipedia 

St. Thomas of Villanova, Sts. Maurice and Companions.

See CatholicCulture.org.

"Charles Kenneth Williams was born on Nov. 4, 1936,
in Newark. His father, Paul, sold office machines,
and, as he prospered, moved with his wife, the former
Dossie Kasdin, and his two sons to suburban South Orange.
Mr. Williams’s conflicted relationship with his parents
takes up much of his 2000 memoir, Misgivings: My Mother,
My Father, Myself . " — NY Times  obituary this evening

Near the Haunted Castle
A poem by C. K. Williams

"This is a story. You don't have to think about it,
it's make-believe. / It's like a lie, maybe not quite a lie
but I don't want you to worry about it. . . . ."

For a more interesting cinematic haunting, see the new film "Pay the Ghost."

From related literary remarks linked to here yesterday —

"Sloane’s writing is drum-tight, but his approach
is looser; he pulls the reader in and then begins
turning up the heat. He understood that before
a pot can boil, it must simmer." — Stephen King

From this journal last July —

"O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell
and count myself a king of infinite space,
were it not that I have bad dreams." — Hamlet

The New York Review of Books , in a review
of two books on video games today, quotes an author
who says that the Vikings believed the sky to be 
“the blue skull of a giant.”

See as well posts tagged The Nutshell.

"I am thy father's spirit,
Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night…."

— Shakespeare, "Hamlet"

Related imagery —

Detail:

Closer detail:

Exegesis:

A Certain Term:  Not English, Not Chinese —

The current issue (dated Oct. 8, 2015) of
The New York Review of Books  has two
(at least) items related to philosophy —

• "Was Plato ‘Churlish’?", a letter on Joyce Carol Oates's
  recent NYRB essay, and a response by Oates
   
• "What Philosophers Really Know," a review by
  Rebecca Newberger Goldstein of a new book
  by Colin McGinn, Philosophy of Language:
  The Classics Explained

See also Backstory, a Log24 post of Nov. 22, 2010:

"He said, 'I wrote a piece of code
 that they just can’t seem to do without.'
 He was a symbolic logician.
 That was his career…."

Public —

Private —

Continues.

Today's AP history notes …

The above image suggests a search for Missing Art.

The actor who portrayed the angel Uriel in the TV series
"Supernatural," Robert Wisdom.

See also the angel Uriel in the novel Weaveworld .

The title was suggested by that of a 2013 conference at Harvard,
"When Earth Meets Sky," in an image posted here at 8:48 PM EDT
on Sunday, Sept. 13, 2015.

Also at 8:48 PM EDT on Sunday …

Mount Aso Volcano Erupts in Southern Japan

By Brian Lada, Meteorologist, at AccuWeather.com

September 14, 2015; 1:50 AM EDT

Mount Aso, a volcano located on Japan's
southernmost main island of Kyushu, erupted
on Monday morning, local time, sending a
plethora of smoke and ash 2000 meters
(6560 feet) into the sky.

The eruption began at 8:49 p.m. EDT,
or 9:49 a.m. local time, according to the 
Japan Meteorological Agency.

There have been no reports of injuries
from the eruption.

The eruption at 08:48:45 EDT —

(Click for an image in motion.)

From Alejandro Alvarez @aletweetsnews —

From a time-lapse of Mount #Aso, #Japan's
largest active volcano, erupting Sunday
evening (Eastern Daylight Time). The time in
Japan, shown in the photo, was 13 hours later.
(via @kumamoto_rkk)
pic.twitter.com/nMeHBQvBTN

10:18 PM – 13 Sep 2015

* See Wikipedia.

See also the footnote to this morning's post 
Chinese New Year 2013
and its link to posts now tagged Trophy.

Charles Matthews's question summarizing the Erlangen Program,
Current Validity for Erlangen…?  (March 28, 2011)
has been removed from mathoverflow.net.

A cached copy is available at Log24.com. Enjoy.

Item from the New Orleans Times-Picayune 
in January 2013:

See also this  journal on the reported* date
of the above celebration, Feb. 6, 2013:

* The reported celebration date was later changed to Feb. 3 , 2013.
   For a New-Orleans-related Log24 post from that  date, plus backstory,
   see posts now tagged Trophy.

A Phrase That Haunts

From this journal on August 23, 2013 —

Illustration from a New York Times  review 
of the novel Point Omega —

From the print version of The New York Times Sunday Book Review
dated Sept. 13, 2015 —

The online version, dated Sept. 11, 2015 —

From the conclusion of the online version —

On the above print  headline, "Wrinkles in Time,"
that vanished in the online version —

"Now you see it, now you don't"
is not a motto one likes to see demonstrated
by a reputable news firm.

Related material:  Jews Telling Stories.

Oh, would you like to swing on a star…?

(Continued)

Santa Fe Institute logo (see previous post) —

Symmetry , by Hermann Weyl —

Continued from a post of August 20, 2015 —

The death link above leads to an obituary for one
"John Henry Holland, Who Computerized Evolution."

A book by Holland published July 13, 2012, by The MIT Press —

How nice to have an overarching framework.

(Continued)

For Annie Kinsella …

Build It and They Will Come. 
 

Another "Four Big Ideas" —

EVOLOUTION!  INFORMATTION!

Illustration from The New York Times  of the
book discussed in today's noon post , subtitled

Four Big Ideas and How
They Made the Modern World  —

Related enumerative rhetoric:  The Starbird Manifesto.

Fareed Zakaria in an online Aug. 21
New York Times  book review —

" Most intellectuals think ideas matter.
In one of his most famous and oft-­quoted lines,
John Maynard Keynes declared, 'Practical men
who believe themselves to be quite exempt from
any intellectual influence are usually the slaves
of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority,
who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy
from some academic scribbler of a few years back.'

Scott L. Montgomery and Daniel Chirot concur,
arguing that ideas 'do not merely matter; they matter
immensely, as they have been the source for decisions
and actions that have structured the modern world.' 
In The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How
They Made the Modern World , Montgomery and
Chirot make the case for the importance of four
­powerful ideas, rooted in the European Enlightenment,
that have created the world as we know it.
'Invading armies can be resisted,' they quote
Victor Hugo. 'Invading ideas cannot be.' "

* Related material: Point Omega , a book
   by Don DeLillo, in this journal.

The title pun is from a letter about Google's new parent
company, named "Alphabet" by its founders.

Related material:  Alpha and Omega in this journal.

"Sister Mary Kathleen is a beginner."

As are many of us.

Our Gang, 1922… In memory of an actress
born on August 23 of that year.

See June 7, 2015.

(Continued from August 14, 2015)

The Buffalo News —

Demolition of the Amphitheater
will cost Chautauqua Institution part of its soul

By Donn Esmonde | News Senior Metro Columnist | 
on September 5, 2015 – 2:45 PM

" It’s only September, but the American Wrecking Ball Association
already has its Man of the Year.

Tom Becker, president of the Chautauqua Institution,
will add his name to a grim list of destructionists by
unleashing the bulldozers on an irreplaceable icon
in the name – as these mindless demolitions always are –
of 'progress.' " . . . .

In memory of the late Claus Adolf Moser,
Baron Moser, who reportedly died at 92  
on Friday, September 4, 2015.

Moser, a statistician, later became an arts
administrator as well. (He was chairman of the
Royal Opera House, 1974-1987).

Arts for Moser:

From the current New Yorker  (Sept. 7, 2015) —

From this journal last year —

But Is It Art? and Diamond Star
(Feb. 1 and Jan. 31, 2014): 

A followup to the previous post, Delft Speaks  —

Manohla Dargis, film reviewer, on illusionist Penn Jillette:

“It’s as if Vermeer,” Mr. Jillette says, “were
some unfathomable genius who could just
walk up to a canvas and magically paint
with light.” And everyone knows — perhaps
professional illusionists most of all — that
magic doesn’t exist.

"Tell it to the hand."

Items suggested by yesterday's 7:20 AM EDT post on Intel
and by an August 24, 2015, New York Times  piece —

(Waldman was quoted here on Aug. 26 and on Aug. 31.)

"September 03, 2015 07:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

DELFT, Netherlands–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
Today Intel Corporation announced a 10-year collaborative
relationship with the Delft University of Technology and
TNO, the Dutch Organisation for Applied Research, to
accelerate advancements in quantum computing.
To achieve this goal, Intel will invest US$50 million and
will provide significant engineering resources both on-site
and at Intel, as well as technical support."

A background search for Delft in this journal yields a link
(from "But Is It Art?") to the Vermeer described by Waldman —

(Continued)

See The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics ,
Vol. 23, No. 42 (2012), pp. 14-31, 
"Art in an Expanded Field: Wittgenstein and Aesthetics,"
by Noël Carroll.

Abstract:

"This article reviews the various ways in which the later writings
of Ludwig Wittgenstein have been employed to address the question
'What is Art?' These include the family resemblance model, the
cluster concept model and the form of life model. The article defends
a version of the form of life approach. Also, addressed the charge that
it would have been more profitable had aestheticians explored what
Wittgenstein actually said about art instead of trying to extrapolate from
his writings an approach to what Nigel Warburton calls the art question."

Harvard Gazette  yesterday:

“Your work for the next four years is about discovery:
discovery of the world and its past and future;
discovery of one another and discovery of yourself,”
President Drew Faust told the 1,664 students who have
come to Cambridge from 79 countries — everywhere
from Algeria to Zimbabwe — and from 49 of the 50
states (sorry, Wyoming!).

Click image for a related post from August 3, 2013.

From Charles Kingsley's At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies 
(London and New York, Macmillan and Co., 1872 edition, p. 13) —

The title of this post, "The Virgin's Island," suggests one possible answer
to the following question…

Philosopher Jerry Fodor parodied Wittgenstein with
a page of elaborations on Michael Frayn’s own parody,
'Wittgenstein on Fog-like Sensations,' of which this
is the best:

'I can’t see a thing in this fog.'  Which  thing?

— David Auerbach at Slate.com yesterday
 

The Virgin's Island:

Two frames from the Jodie Foster film "Contact"—

Related material — Welcome to Noplace (Log24 on June 10, 2015).