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The young actress of the previous post in a music video —

The late Richard Burton
in Exorcist 2 : The Heretic —

"Been there, done that."

Related Things —

The obituary of a psychoanalyst,
a website, yoism.org, that discusses his method,
and a young actress who stars in both Stranger Things
and the earlier BBC series Intruders —

Not to put too fine a point on it,
here is an illustration
from the website that discusses 
the dead psychoanalyst —

See also a Log24 post,
"Inarticulate Image,"
from the date of
the psychoanalyst's death.

Quotations by and for an artist who reportedly died
on Sunday, January 15, 2017 —

"What drives my vision is a need to locate
a 'genetically felt' devotional space
in which a simultaneous multiplicity
of disparate realities coexists."

— The late Ciel Bergman, in her webpage
     "Artist's Statement"

"Once a registered nurse who worked in a hospital
psychiatric ward, Ms. Bergman was a struggling
single mom of two when she couldn’t resist the pull
of her art. In 1969, she entered a painting in the
Jack London Invitational, an art contest in Oakland,
and won first prize. This compelled her to enroll at
the San Francisco Art Institute, where she earned
her master of fine arts with honors in painting."

— Sam Whiting in the San Francisco Chronicle

See also Oakland in this journal and
"Only a peculiar can enter a time loop."

"The peculiar kind of 'identity' that is attributed to
apparently altogether heterogeneous figures
in virtue of their being transformable into one another
by means of certain operations defining a group,
is thus seen to exist also in the domain of perception."

— Ernst Cassirer, quoted here on
     Midsummer Eve (St. John's Eve), 2010

This page was suggested by some lottery numbers from yesterday.

From "Core," a post of St. Lucia's Day, Dec. 13, 2016 —

In related news yesterday —

California yoga mogul’s mysterious death:
Trevor Tice’s drunken last hours detailed

"Police found Tice dead on the floor in his home office,
blood puddled around his head. They also found blood
on walls, furniture, on a sofa and on sheets in a nearby
bedroom, where there was a large bottle of Grey Goose
vodka under several blood-stained pillows on the floor."

See as well an image from "The Stone," a post of March 18, 2016 —

Some backstory —

“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

In memory of a photographer —

Click on the above image to search for Jazz in this journal.

From the American Mathematical Society (AMS) today,
an obituary of Hans Witsenhausen —

The obituary mentioned by the AMS (from Legacy.com) says …

"Donations in his memory may be made to the
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum,
American Society for Yad Vashem or
the American Technion Society."

From an image in this journal on Nov. 19, 2016, the date of
Witsenhausen's death, that reviewed earlier posts —

See also posts from this date, January 27, in 2005.

From a recent column by Reuters Global Affairs Columnist Peter Apps —

"There may, of course, be a strategy behind beginning
the Trump administration with an attack on the media
and even reality itself. One of the principles long used
by both unpleasant governments and individuals over
time is to try and assert their will by questioning people’s
sense of reality and morality. If you can’t trust anyone,
the thinking goes, then it becomes more difficult to
question those in authority.
. . . .

There’s even a term for when it happens within intimate
human relationships – 'gaslighting'. It means to try and
drive one’s partner mad – or at least, force them to
question their sanity – in order to exert one’s will.
(The phrase was popularized by the 1944 film Gaslight,
in which a manipulative husband drives his wife mad by
turning gaslighting in a house up and down –
while denying doing so.)"

Earlier in the same column —

"It was bordering on insanity for Trump, his White House
and press secretary to try and maintain the false claim
that Trump’s inauguration had record turnout."

Fact check —

The White House press secretary Sean Spicer last Saturday :

"This was the largest audience to ever witness
an inauguration — period — both in person and
around the globe."

Despite some ambiguity, this is clearly not the same as Apps's
phrase "record turnout," i.e., in-person attendance.

For comparison with another deplorable journalist in the
previous post, here is Apps at Muck Rack :

Click image to enlarge.

"I have often walked down this street before . . . ."

Suggested by a Jan. 24 American Mathematical Society obituary :

See also Texaco in this journal.

"Hum a few bars."

Dobell reportedly died on Saturday, January 21, 2017.

From a film poster linked to in the previous post —

Voilà —

Happy birthday to Piper Laurie.

A search for the title in this journal yields a phrase,
"unassigned syntactical symbol."

A Google image  search for this phrase yields …

Click the above image search for a larger (1.5 MB) version.
Other searchers will not obtain the same results; the above
is an idiosyncratic collage produced by Google acting as
my own personalized Galatea.

Cover art: "Still Life with Rock and Leaf,"
by David Ligare, oil on canvas, 1994

"Remembering speechlessly we seek
the great forgotten language,
the lost lane-end into heaven,
a stone, a leaf, an unfound door.
Where? When?" — Thomas Wolfe 

David Brooks in The New York Times  today
(on the Times Wire at 3:21 AM ET) —

This suggests …

Schaft!

The above Schaft  dates suggest in turn a review of this journal's
remarks on April 8 through April 11, 2016, which include…

The Schaft robot's world is, like the new whitehouse.gov website,
admirably "impersonal, rule based, abstract, indirect and formal."

The New York Times , on the other hand, offers the sort of
aesthetic experience so aptly described in the above William
Hamilton New Yorker  cartoon.

The Silvia of the title is from the previous post.

For the Time Cube, see …

• Silvia herself remarking on Mahler's Second Symphony
• Claudio Abbado
• Abbado in this journal

Quoted here on December 16, 2006 —

See also …

• "Ryan Reynolds Named Hasty Pudding’s
  2017 Man of the Year"

• Reviews of Reynolds' 2015 film "Self/Less" and of
  the earlier similar film "Seconds" —

  Point/Less Thriller

  4 July 2015 9:00 AM, PDT | The Wrap | 

  "Ben Kingsley plays a New York real estate mogul who
  pays big bucks to have his consciousness microwaved
  into Ryan Reynolds' body in 'Self/less,' but the real
  reheating of leftovers has already occurred: this new
  science-fiction thriller borrows the foundation of a much
  better film — John Frankenheimer’s 1966 'Seconds' —
  and strips it of any larger meaning." 

  

The date  of the "Seconds" review above, 16 Dec. 2006, was 
the reason for the requotation in the first paragraph above.

See also related remarks.

"Do you like puzzles?" — J. K. Simmons

See also Sunday's post "A Theory of Everything"
and an obituary in this evening's New York Times .

From Models and Metaphors , by Max Black,
Cornell University Press, 1962 —

I do not recommend the work of Lewin, nor that of a later
science groupie, Keith Devlin. 

In September 2014, Devlin wrote an ignorant column about
a sort of bad mathematical joke based on a divergent infinite series.

He has now returned to the topic, this time writing more about
its proper mathematical background: analytic continuation .

Lewin is to Devlin as Lévi-Strauss is to Chomsky.
None of these four should be taken very seriously.

Max Black, however, should .

The reported death today at 105 of an admirable war correspondent,
"a perennial fixture at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Hong Kong," 
suggested a search in this journal for that city.

The search recalled to mind a notable quotation from
a Montreal philosopher —

“… the object sets up a kind of
 frame or space or field
 within which there can be epiphany.”

Charles Taylor, "Epiphanies of Modernism,"
Chapter 24 of Sources of the Self
(Cambridge U. Press, 1989, p. 477)

For some context, see St. Lucia's Day, 2012.
See also Epiphany 2017 —

From "Night Moves," by Bob Seger —

And oh, the wonder
Felt the lightning
Yeah, and we waited on the thunder
Waited on the thunder

I woke last night to the sound of thunder
How far-off, I sat and wondered
Started humming a song from 1962
Ain't it funny* how the night moves?

See as well Johnny Thunder on Diamond Records in 1962 —

* Funny peculiar, not funny ha-ha.

See Log24 posts of January 7, 2012.

That was the date of death for mathematician Herbert S. Wilf.

For some related narrative, see posts tagged Consciousness Growth.