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The title is from a Beatles song. See a link to 2008 in the previous post.

Harmonic Analysis for Illiterates —

Notes and Frequency Ratios

The second editor mentioned below reportedly died
on June 21, 2017.  A page in his memory —

See also "Detail for Hopkins" in this journal on June 21.
For a Maori finale, see "De Haut en Bas " (July 11, 2008).

"Do do that voodoo . . . ." — Cole Porter

This post's title was suggested by a new novel,
"The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O." . . . .

. . .  and by the concepts of

synchronicity  and  diachronicity  

in music.

Related reading for Harvard Summer School (click to enlarge) —

Joke question from the 2013 film "Her" —

"What does a baby computer call its father?"

Answer for Harvard Summer School —

"Department of Diachronic Operations."

Imagekind —

Seerkind —

This post may be regarded as a sequel to the post Dream Girls (Oct. 5, 2013).

* Title suggested by my viewing last night "Revenge of the Fallen,"
   no. 2 in the Transformers  series.  That film reportedly opened
   on this date eight years ago.

Click image for a midrash.

* See previous post.

(Continued)

Excerpt from the above story —

"The project could also be a new frontier for Mr. Koons.
'It’s superconceptual,' said Judith Benhamou-Huet,
a French art critic and blogger, in that 'he’s giving
the concept but not the realization.' She compared
the approach to that of Sol LeWitt, who sold wall drawings
that buyers then executed on their own."

— Rachel Donadio

See also the previous post and Rota on Beauty.

* A reference to Truly Tasteless Jokes , by Blanche Knott
  (Book 1 of 11, Ballantine Books paperback, May 1985, page 50).

Today’s New York Times  on a character in a 1978 film —

“Cluelessly upbeat and charmingly idiotic.”

Related material from a post Saturday —

Coda —

See as well this  journal on the above date — Sept. 24, 2015.

The diamond theorem in Denmark —

From the current New Yorker —

I prefer Wallace Stevens. See posts tagged Thomas Jensen Hines.

Actually, that should be sister  (so Leopardi).

Related material —

Exercise — Translate "cardinal interplay."

Related material — Language animal in this journal.

In memory of a mathematics professor —

Posts now tagged Montana Quality.

Two readings —

On the director of "The Zero Theorem" —

Terry Gilliam Finally Wraps on ‘Don Quixote’ Film After 17 Years.

More seriously —

On a Spanish author who reportedly died at 86 on Sunday, June 4.

Tom Hiddleston stars in
the action packed Kong: Skull Island

Related material — (update of 8:04 PM ET) —

This post's title is that of a book in the 1958 film
"Bell Book and Candle." 

See also …

The Cube

CodePen logo, pictured here on May 28, 2017 —

From YouTube, "The Cube," published on April 6, 2016 —

Meanwhile, also on April 6, 2016, at 2:01 AM ET …

* See The Pinterest Directive and Expanding the Spielraum.

"In the story, Ali Baba is a poor woodcutter who discovers the secret
of a thieves' den, entered with the phrase 'Open Sesame'.
The thieves learn this and try to kill Ali Baba, but Ali Baba's
faithful slave-girl foils their plots." — Wikipedia

Related material —

"Mr. Loeb was particularly interested in finding a way to unlock the value
of Yahoo’s stake in Alibaba, which was already shaping up to be one of
China’s leading internet companies. He pushed the board to recruit a star
like Ms. Mayer to get people excited about a company that had been
stumbling for years."

— Vindu Goel in today's online New York Times

Click to enlarge.

See also Transformers in this journal.

"This essay and exhibition might well be dedicated
to those painters of squares and circles
(and the architects influenced by them)
who have suffered at the hands of
philistines with political power."

— Alfred H. Barr, Jr. in Cubism and Abstract Art ,
    The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1936,
    page 18