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… Continues.

"OK Baby, let's go dancing."
— Amy Adams in "American Hustle"

Click image below for some backstory.

Happy birthday to Uma Thurman.

(Continued from 9:23 PM ET yesterday)

For the rube himself, see the previous post.

See also Cruz and the Coeur d'Alene Manifesto —

In memory of a culture jammer *—

* "Mr. Lyons … made a living partly by buying,
reconditioning and selling used cars." —
— Ben Ratliff in The New York Times  this evening.

See also the previous post and, from Feb. 14 in
this  journal, the phrase "more global than local."

Quine, Pursuit of Truth , Harvard
University Press, 1990,  epigraphs:

For another quote from Sherwin-Williams,
see the April 21 post  Purple Requiem.

"I could a tale unfold …"

The prominent display of an ad for Elixir Vitae in
today's 11:02 AM post suggests a review of that concept.

See also Raiders of the Lost Crucible in this journal.

Guy Hamilton, director of "Diamonds are Forever" 
and "Goldfinger," reportedly died at 93 on Wednesday, 
April 20, 2016. In his memory, here is a link to the
posts of All Souls' Day, 2015.

Detail of illustration by Frederick Alfred Rhead of Vanity Fair,
page 96 in the John Bunyan classic Pilgrim's Progress 
(New York, The Century Co., 1912)

Yesterday's posts Legend and Purple Requiem suggest a review
of John Bunyan.  A search for "Vanity Fair" + "Temple of Art" yields…

The above Vanity Fair  article was linked to here previously.

See as well "The Stars My Destination" in this journal.

See also White Mischief (Feb. 23, 2016).

Google News this evening —

See also Feng Shui  in this journal.

Happy birthday to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.

Today is Kelli O'Hara's last Saturday matinee in "The King and I."

A show that some may prefer —

Related to the plot of Dante's film —

In memory of a Toledo Presbyterian who reportedly
died at 96 on April 11, 2016 — Log24 on that day.

A post reproduced here on April 11 —

See also some lyrics from the following day:

"Try the grey stuff, it's delicious
Don't believe me? Ask the dishes"

— Disney's "Beauty and the Beast"

A search in Log24 for Wallace Stevens's phrase
"the A B C of Being" suggests a related search, for
"Happy Birthday, Wallace Stevens." That search
in turn suggests a search for "Maori."

“Literature begins with geography.”

— Attributed to Robert Frost

A  1960  analogy by Max Black —

"Those who see a model as a mere crutch
are like those who consider metaphor
a mere decoration or ornament."

This suggests a search for "Analogies between Analogies" —

“A mathematician is a person who can find analogies
between theorems; a better mathematician is one who
can see analogies between proofs and the best
mathematician can notice analogies between theories.
One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one
who can see analogies between analogies.”

— Stefan Banach, according to MacTutor.

Anne Jackson's obituary in yesterday's online New York Times
mentioned her appearance in "Down the Garden Paths,"
a play by Anne Meara. 

Some may prefer to  picture Jackson and her late husband,
Eli Wallach, on a garden path pictured here in a post of 
January 17, 2003, "The Walk to Paradise Garden."

For the above title, see today's 1 PM post Black List.

Click for a related film.

In memory of a producer — Black Trinity.

See also a phrase from an image* in today's earlier post
For Non -Charlatans:

"Let us make a small example. . . ."

* Page 149 of "Groups and Symmetries," by F. Oggier
& A. M. Bruckstein. "These notes were designed to fit
the syllabus of the course 'Groups and Symmetries',
taught at Nanyang Technological University in autumn
2012, and 2013."

"Try the grey stuff, it's delicious
Don't believe me? Ask the dishes"

— Disney's "Beauty and the Beast"

Related material —

Happy birthday to Saoirse Ronan.

The previous post, Charlatans 101, was on a book whose author
is associated rather closely with an Alabama institution called
"Samford University" (not to be confused with Stanford University).

A photo from Samford —

Related material for non-charlatans, not  from Samford —

See as well A Wrinkle in Terms in this journal.

Thanks to Chris Matthews, who last night recommended
the book quoted below —

“I dislike the charlatan class, even if it is they who pay me,”
he said as we drove to my house. “To whom do you refer?”
I asked. He tapped his cigarette out of the cracked window
and looked at me with a sardonic smile: “The sort who
subscribe to Vanity Fair .”

— Taunton, Larry Alex (2016-04-12).
The Faith of Christopher Hitchens: The Restless Soul
of the World's Most Notorious Atheist  (p. 115).
Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition. 

See also Orson Welles in this journal.

A remark by New Yorker  editor David Remnick
at Princeton on June 3, 2013 —

"Finally, speaking of fabric design. . . ."

In memory of an author who
reportedly died Tuesday —

See also "Sausage Party" in this journal.

The previous post is about two Princeton-related deaths
on March 12, 2016. See Log24 posts on that date.

Two deaths on March 12, 2016
(for the first-listed, see the previous post) 

From the American Mathematical Society today —

See also Huber-Dyson in this  journal.

Seymour Lazar, Flamboyant Entertainment Lawyer, Dies at 88

The New York Times  this evening has an obituary for Seymour Lazar, 
"Seymour the Head in Supermoney , George Goodman’s 1972 account
of the global financial game, written under the pen name Adam Smith."

From that obituary —

"It was in Cuernavaca that Mr. Goodman, quite skeptical of the Lazar lore
he had heard so much of, met the man behind the myth. 'Seymour was
real,' he wrote…."

As is the Hungarian algorithm.

Mr. Lazar reportedly died on March 30. This journal on that date —

"Will the circle be unbroken?" — Funeral hymn

"Like a forgotten dream" — Merle Haggard

"Like Shakespeare, Ingrid Bergman was born and died
on the same date… In her case, August 29."

"Then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
checked her Blackberry inside a C-17 military plane
upon her departure from Malta bound for Tripoli, Libya,
in October 2011. (Kevin Lamarque/AP)"

— Washington Post, 11:13 AM today

See as well …

“It was only in retrospect
 that the silliness became profound."

The Washington Post  pictures an event from
the evening of Sunday, November 1, 2015:

All Saints' Day —

See as well Ay Que Bonito .

Meanwhile …

The previous post was about the death of a figure
from the world of entertainment.

I prefer the work of a figure with the same last name
but from a different world —

"Spiel ist nicht Spielerei." — Friedrich Fröbel

(A sequel to today's earlier posts Cube for Berlin and Midnight for Paris.)

See London in this journal.

That search yields …

“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 , 
ed. by Humphry House (London: Oxford University Press, 1959),
as quoted by Philip A. Ballinger in The Poem as Sacrament 

(From the post The Inscape of 24, April 24, 2014. The 14 blocks in
the design S(3, 4, 8) of today's previous post are analogous to the 759
blocks in the design S(5, 8, 24).)

Illustration for Florence King's 1989 review of The Eight , a  novel 
by Katherine Neville that features prominently the date April 4.

A check on the source of the Wittgenstein quotations
in the previous post yields …

   Sounds like Verhexung  to me. See also Plotnitsky in this journal.

The previous post suggests a review of Wittgenstein's
Verhexung  remark in context.

Backstory:  Verhexung  and Ein Kampf .

Prequel: The Verhexung  quote above is from Wittgenstein's section 109 
in Philosophical Investigations . The search result shown links to a page
containing part of the preceding  Wittgenstein section —

For another look at "crystalline purity" and language, see the previous
two posts, Logic and Fruit Loom.

Wallace Stevens, “Country Words” —

“What is it that my feeling seeks?
I know from all the things it touched
And left beside and left behind.
It wants the diamond pivot bright.”

"This area is called Silicon Valley and it was not always
called Silicon Valley. When I grew up here from seven
years old on, it was called Santa Clara Valley and as far
as you could see it was fruit trees — one of the greatest
fruit-producing areas in the world."

— Steve Wozniak at mashable.com today

See also Just Desserts and The Looming.

See also Stone Logical Dimensions …

“Lord Arglay had a suspicion that the Stone
would be purely logical.  Yes, he thought,
but what, in that sense, were the rules of its pure logic?”

—Many Dimensions  (1931), by Charles Williams

… at The Restaurant Quarré in Berlin,
   with a view of the Brandenburg Gate:

See also versions of the title more suited to 2 AM .

Continued from the April 1 posts
Apple Gate and Wonders of the Invisible World

Background music: "Like a rose under the April snow…." — Streisand

The Emergence of Harlan Kane  continues from yesterday —

Publisher's description of a book about everything —

"When the whole is greater than the sum of the parts—
indeed, so great that the sum far transcends the parts
and represents something utterly new and different—
we call that phenomenon emergence."

— Oxford University Press

Titles for Harlan Kane, from the date that
the above book's author reportedly died —

• The Toronto Problem
• The Barth Spielfeld
• The Zero Obit
• The Green Night.

Continued from Easter Sunday 2016 —

A favicon for Princeton:

256×256 pixels, enlarged from 16×16

Related reporting from this evening's New York Times  —

Clicking the above favicon will yield the cited Federation webpage.

Related four-dimensional figure from 1976 —

See as well "Or Only Die."

See also The Play's the Thing and Rivalry.

See also Wall Power and Moonshine and Lion.

See also the previous post and the usual suspects.