Motto selected by an Oslo artist —

Illustration selected by The Boston Globe —

Notes on perspective selected at Log24 —

* I.e. , those who hunt witches scientifically,
   or those who hunt scientific witches —
   a matter of, as it were, perspective.

* Title of a story by Fritz Leiber.

(Continued)

“Continue a search for thirty-three and three.
Veiled forever is the secret door.”

— Katherine Neville, aka Cat Velis, in The Eight,
Ballantine Books, January 1989, page 140

"Close enough for government work."
— Stephen King in Doctor Sleep

From this  journal on the date of the above Freud lecture —

The following is an excerpt from
"Tummelplatz: Exploring playgrounds for creative
collaborations — A qualitative study of generative
dynamics within temporary work contexts,"
by Emily Moren Aanes and Dragana Trifunović.
(Master's thesis, Oslo, 2013).

Related material: Josefine Lyche in this journal.

"… ein Buch muß die Axt sein für das gefrorene Meer in uns." — Franz Kafka

"Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker." — Ogden Nash

The previous two posts touched on two academic 
pursuits, mathematics and football.  These are united
in the vesica piscis  symbol. See posts tagged
"Universe of Discourse."

Synchronicity check —

* See bottom of previous post, A Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
** Danish film director.

"On the threshold of heaven, the figures in the street…."

On an artist who reportedly died last Thursday, October 15 —

See yesterday's post Liminal for a different sort of figure.

The New York Times  has a readable, if not informative,
review of a recent controversial account of history —

"For many, it exists in a kind of liminal state,
floating somewhere between fact and mythology."

— Jonathan Mahler, online Times  on Oct. 15, 2015

[See Wikipedia on Liminality.]

Mahler begins his review with a statement by the President
on the night of May 1, 2011.

A more easily checked statement quoted here  on that date:

"The positional meaning of a symbol derives from
its relationship to other symbols in a totality, a Gestalt,
whose elements acquire their significance from the
system as a whole."

— Victor Turner, The Forest of Symbols , Ithaca, NY,
Cornell University Press, 1967, p. 51, quoted by
Beth Barrie in "Victor Turner."

A Gestalt  from "Verhexung ," the previous post —

Guitart's statement that the above figure is a "Boolean logical cube"
seems, in the words of the Times , to be "floating somewhere
between fact and mythology."  Discuss.

(My apologies to those who feel that attempting to make sense
of Guitart makes them feel like Vin Diesel in the Dreamworld.)

Story the First,
Which Describes a Looking-Glass
and the Broken Fragments

"You must attend to the commencement
of this story, for when we get to the end
we shall know more than we do now about
a very wicked hobgoblin; he was one of the
very worst, for he was a real demon." 

Houghton Mifflin edition of 1880, Riverside Press, Cambridge

See as well Shard in this journal.

For more about the coordinatization problem
of the previous post, see Ballet Blanc .

From "Class of 64 continues… " (March 18, 2014) —

"To see a difficult uncompromising material
take living shape and meaning
is to be Pygmalion…." — Ex-Prodigy

No, you are not the only.

(Continued from day before yesterday.)

"Sondheim's story is a dense contrapuntal interweaving
of four main fairy-tale stories…."

— Vladimir V. Zelevinsky, 1998 review
     in The Tech  at MIT

Related material: "Weaver's Tale" last Sunday,
and the novel Weaveworld  in this journal.

This post was suggested in  part by an illustration from Tuesday's
"The Tombstone Source" —

Politically, if not grammatically, correct Columbus Day history
comes from the Word of Life Church in St. Joseph, Missouri —

"But armed with guns, steel, and germs,
and driven by the conquistador’s lust for
gold and slaves, the population of the
Americas was decimated."

— Oct. 12 blog post by the church's pastor

The Missouri church should not be confused with other
"Word of Life" churches… esp. not any now in the news  for
their activities on Monday, Oct. 12, Columbus Day, 2015.

For a related ungrammatical remark, see Schoolboy Problem.

Readings from this afternoon's online New York Times :

THE SOURCE:

STYLE CODE:

(Continued from Monday afternoon's "Con Vocation" link.)

From The Harvard Crimson  this morning —

"David Black, author and scholar-in-residence
at Kirkland House, entertained a small group
of attendees with a reading of his latest novel
Fast Shuffle  Monday evening in Kirkland’s
Senior Common Room."

From a  Kirkus Reviews  review of Fast Shuffle  last July —

" 'My heritage is of Jewish socialists on one side,' 
Black explains, 'and of Jewish gangsters on the
other side. My great aunt was Polly Adler [the
(in)famous Manhattan madam of the '20s, '30s
and early '40s whose girls entertained some of
the guys from the Algonquin roundtable]. It's a
mix of idealism and gritty practicality. I delight
in both.' "

Non-entertainment from the publication date of Fast Shuffle :

The title refers to the 1998 film "Dark City," whose protagonist
seeks an escape to "Shell Beach."

Shell Beach —

Another postcard, in memory of album cover art director
John Berg, who reportedly died at 83 on Sunday —

Click album cover for a background story.

See also the Log24 post "Hits" (January 5, 2014).

"Well, she was blinded by the light…"

Cool Mystery:

Detective Cruz enters Planck's Constant Café in "The Big Bang."

The above images are from a Log24 post of October 5, 2011.

Related material for fans of recreational math and Manil Suri —

A book that Amazon.com says was published on that same date —
October 5, 2011 —

Space, Time and Matter 

by Ashay Dharwadker (Author), Vinay Dharwadker  (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 98 pages
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing
                     Platform (October 5, 2011)
• Language: English
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,605,448 in Books 

See as well …

Con Vocation  (Log24, Sept. 2, 2014).

"The Tesseract is where it belongs: out of our reach."

 — Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury,
      quoted here on Epiphany 2013

Earlier … (See Jan. 27, 2012) …

"And the Führer digs for trinkets in the desert."

From "Pitch Perfect 2," Hailee Steinfeld as Emily Junk-Hardon —

"I know what nothing means." — Joan Didion

Click for related material.

On a professor of literature who reportedly
died on Michaelmas 2015, a remark by his daughter —

“He was really an artist,” she said.

That’s evident in the 60 years Raffel spent contemplating 
how to translate the terza rima  style of Dante Alighieri’s 
The Divine Comedy — speaking of the three-line rhyme 
scheme first used by the author — before he published
a translation of which he was “most proud” in 2010,
his wife said.

It was his final work.

— Lanie Lee Cook, Baton Rouge Advocate

(Continued)

Review of a post from August 29th last year:

(A sequel to Letters)

See Page 181 in Source of the Finite (St. Augustine's Day, 2014)

and Page 305 in Lost in Translation (50th Reunion Day, Harvard '64).

See a search for Bogus Source in this journal.

That search yields a quotation from poet Wallace Stevens,
whose birthday is today —

"The poet finds that as between these two sources:
the imagination and reality, the imagination is false,
whatever else may be said of it, and reality is true;
and being concerned that poetry should be a thing
of vital and virile importance, he commits himself to
reality, which then becomes his inescapable and
ever-present difficulty and innamorata."

The late Brian Friel on Derry —

"… every going away was a wrench 
and every return a fulfilment."

Related material —

Wrench in this journal
and Circle Unbroken.

See as well Hymn (August 30, 2013).

See Trevanian's Meadow in this journal as well as…

"Off the Florida Keys, there's a place called Kokomo."
— The Beach Boys, 1988

Utopia or Dystopia?  Discuss.

Related scenes for storyboarders —
See the city in the Amy Adams film "Her."

See "Number 23" in this journal.