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Friday, January 26, 2018

Shadows and Reflections

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:27 am

From the post "For Guy Noir" of Wednesday morning, January 24 —

"as privileged viewers of the shadows and reflections"

Related material —

The death on January 24 of a famed ski film maker,
and the Sun Valley icon below (one of a pair of ski
location icons by Wink, a Minneapolis design firm).

Thursday, January 25, 2018

Our Class

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:01 pm

See earlier posts now also tagged O.C.D. .

Related material —

Acme Book Shop  and The Philosophy Section .

Beware of Analogical Extension

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 11:29 am

"By an archetype  I mean a systematic repertoire
of ideas by means of which a given thinker describes,
by analogical extension , some domain to which
those ideas do not immediately and literally apply."

— Max Black in Models and Metaphors 
    (Cornell, 1962, p. 241)

"Others … spoke of 'ultimate frames of reference' …."
Ibid.

A "frame of reference" for the concept  four quartets

A less reputable analogical extension  of the same
frame of reference

Madeleine L'Engle in A Swiftly Tilting Planet :

"… deep in concentration, bent over the model
they were building of a tesseract:
the square squared, and squared again…."

See also the phrase Galois tesseract .

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

The Pentagram Papers

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 12:40 pm

(Continued)

From a Log24 post of March 4, 2008 —

SINGER, ISAAC:
"Are Children the Ultimate Literary Critics?"
— Top of the News 29 (Nov. 1972): 32-36.

"Sets forth his own aims in writing for children and laments
'slice of life' and chaos in children's literature. Maintains that
children like good plots, logic, and clarity, and that they
have a concern for 'so-called eternal questions.'"

— An Annotated Listing of Criticism
by Linnea Hendrickson

"She returned the smile, then looked across the room to
her youngest brother, Charles Wallace, and to their father,
who were deep in concentration, bent over the model
they were building of a tesseract: the square squared,
and squared again: a construction of the dimension of time."

— A Swiftly Tilting Planet,
by Madeleine L'Engle

Cover of 'A Swiftly Tilting Planet' and picture of tesseract

For "the dimension of time," see A Fold in TimeTime Fold,
and Diamond Theory in 1937

A Swiftly Tilting Planet  is a fantasy for children 
set partly in Vespugia, a fictional country bordered by
Chile and Argentina.

Ibid.

The pen's point:

Wm. F. Buckley as Archimedes, moving the world with a giant pen as lever. The pen's point is applied to southern South America.
John Trever, Albuquerque Journal, 2/29/08

Note the figure on the cover of National Review  above —

A related figure from Pentagram Design

See, more generally,  Isaac Singer  in this  journal.

Stages

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 4:37 am

The five stages of grief meet
the four stages of design:

For Guy Noir

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 4:00 am

From a search for Limerick in this journal —

"C A V E S  is an exhibition of three large scale works,
each designed to immerse the viewer, and then to
confront the audience with a question regarding how far
they, as privileged viewers of the shadows and reflections
being played out upon the walls, are willing to allow
themselves to believe what they know to be a false reality."

Occupy Space art exhibitions, Limerick, Ireland

Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Le Guin

Filed under: General — m759 @ 5:55 pm

Reportedly.

Chilean poet Nicanor Parra

Nieve

Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:18 pm

"I need a photo opportunity . . . ." — Paul Simon

Spielfeld

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:27 pm

For the original Davos icon by Wink-Minneapolis,
see the previous post.  

For related geometry, see posts tagged Barth Art.

Graphic Design

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:00 pm

By Wink-Minneapolis

Monday, January 22, 2018

Hollywood Moment

Matt B. Roscoe and Joe Zephyrs, both of Missoula, Montana, authors of article on quilt block symmetries

A death on the date of the above symmetry chat,
Wednesday, August 17, 2016

'Love Story' director dies

An Hispanic Hollywood moment:

Ojo de Dios —

Click for related material.

For further Hispanic entertainment,
see Ben Affleck sing 
"Aquellos Ojos Verdes "
in "Hollywoodland."

Sunday, January 21, 2018

At Which Point

Filed under: General — m759 @ 6:06 pm

"In 'Sophistry,' a new play by Jonathan Marc Sherman
at the Playwrights Horizons Studio, a popular tenured
professor stands accused of sexual harassment
by a male student."

— Frank Rich in The New York Times , theater review
on October 12, 1993

"At which point another play, inchoate but arresting,
edges into view." — Rich, ibid.

"Johansson began acting during childhood,
after her mother started taking her to auditions.
She made her professional acting debut
at the age of eight in the off-Broadway production
of 'Sophistry' with Ethan Hawke, at New York's
Playwrights Horizons."

— IMDb Mini Biography by: Pedro Borges 

" 'Suddenly, I was 19 again and I started to remember
all the men I'd known who had taken advantage of
the fact that I was a young woman who didn't yet have
the tools to say no, or to understand the value of
my own self-worth,' the Avengers star described. 
'I had many relationships both personal and professional
where the power dynamic was so off that I had to create
a narrative in which I was the cool girl who could hang in
and hang out, and that sometimes meant compromising
what felt right for me . . . . ' "

— Scarlett Johansson yesterday at the 2018 Women's March
in Los Angeles, as reported in E! News .

Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson in 'Lost in Translation'

Image in a Log24 post
of March 12, 2009.

Spiritual Memoir

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:09 am

In her new spiritual memoir . . . .

Armies of the Night —

Armies of the Day —

Cole Porter —

Night and Day —

Saturday, January 20, 2018

Closed Set

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:00 am

From "Charmed," a Log24 post of Jan. 13, 2018 :

'The World of A-bar' by A. E. van Vogt, first published as a serial in 1945

The Chaos Symbol of Dan Brown

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 1:30 am

In the following passage, Dan Brown claims that an eight-ray star
with arrowheads at the rays’ ends is “the mathematical symbol for
entropy.”  Brown may have first encountered this symbol at a
questionable “Sacred Science” website.  Wikipedia discusses
some even less  respectable uses of the symbol.

Related news —

Related symbolism —

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11/110219-SquareRootQuaternion.jpg

A star figure and the Galois quaternion.

The square root of the former is the latter.

Friday, January 19, 2018

The Pentagram Papers

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:45 am

(Continued)

Jodie Foster in  a Dec. 15, 2017, sketch  with Stephen Colbert —

"People invest in and take ownership of brands,
and they wonder why the brand didn’t
ask their permission to change."

— Michael Bierut of Pentagram Design
in  a Design Week  article  of Jan. 17, 2018

Details

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 4:04 am

Thursday, January 18, 2018

A Phrase That Might Have Been

Filed under: General — m759 @ 5:12 pm

The online New York Times  reports this afternoon
the death of a production designer on January 9th —

"In addition to the two Oscars Mr. Marsh won
(which he shared with others), he was nominated
for two more: for 'Scrooge' (1970), with Albert Finney and
Alex [sic ] Guinness, and 'Mary, Queen of Scots' (1971),
with Vanessa Redgrave and Glenda Jackson."

" The Little Broomstick  by  Mary Stewart,
illustrated by Shirley Hughes, published Brockhampton 1971.
The story is about Mary, staying at Great-Aunt Charlotte's house,
bored until she meets the black cat Tib and finds the purple flower
fly-by-night that makes the little broomstick fly. In chapter 10
'gay go up and gay go down' Mary hides in Endor College,
the witch school, after hours and finds Tib transformed into a frog
(Madame Mumblechook had taken him from her as her entry fee).
She recites the Master Spell to release him. ' It was a simple,
gay little rhyme, and it ended on a phrase that might have been
(but wasn't) "the dancing ring of days".'  
"  

"Bah, humbug!" — A Christmas Carol

Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Language Game

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:30 am

Continued from Zen and Language Games
(a post of May 2, 2003, written on March 1, 2002)

From The Harvard Crimson  on St. Andrew's Day 2017 —

See also a larger, clearer view of the titles in the above file photo.

Dialogue suggested by the above Harvard Crimson  line
"I am a book today . . . . I know it all." —

A problem child* of sorts in the 2017 film "Gifted"

Mary- "Maybe this school isn't as great as you think it is."

Mary is returned to the place of her examination.

Professor- "Mary, you knew that the problem was incorrect, 
            why didn't you say anything?"

Mary- "Frank says I'm not supposed to correct older people. 
       Nobody likes a smart-ass."

* "Problem Child" was a working title related to a novel
    Heinlein wrote in 1941, Beyond This Horizon —

“Before Time Began, There Was the Cube”

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 8:00 am

See Eightfold Froebel.

The Paradise of Childhood'-- Froebel's Third Gift

At Heaven’s Gate

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 7:30 am

(Continued from September 12, 2005)

The previous post contrasted the number-triple 11-7-8 below
with number triples 12-9-5 and 12-5-9.

Magic cube and corresponding hexagram, or Star of David, with faces mapped to lines and edges mapped to points

A perhaps more logical counterpart of the triple 11-7-8, based
on opposite  locations of star-points or cube-edges, is
the triple 9-12-5. For a theological interpretation, see 9/12/05.

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

An Orison for Ha-Why

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:00 pm

'Cloud Atlas' book cover illustrating the film

Lines from characters played in the film by Tom Hanks and Halle Berry —

— Cloud Atlas , by David Mitchell (2004).

An orison of sorts from a post on Martin Scorsese's
birthday, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2007 —

BlackBerry with pictures from Log24

Displayed on the BlackBerry are parts
of Log24 posts from October 25, 2007,
and October 24, 2007.

Related pattern geometry 

From a Log24 search for Angleton + Brotherhood:
A photo of Angleton in a post from 12/9/5

The image “http://www.log24.com/log/pix05B/051209-Angleton.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.

From a post of 11/7/8

http://www.log24.com/log/pix08A/081107-Tilespuzzle.jpg

A cryptic note for Dan Brown:

The above dates 11/7/8 and 12/9/5 correspond to the corner-labels
(read clockwise and counter-clockwise) of the two large triangles
in the Finkelstein Talisman

Magic cube and corresponding hexagram, or Star of David, with faces mapped to lines and edges mapped to points

Above: More symbology for Tom Hanks from
this morning's post The Pentagram Papers.

The above symbology is perhaps better suited to Hanks in his
role as Forrest Gump than in his current role as Ben Bradlee.

The image “http://www.log24.com/log/pix05B/051211-gump.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.

For Hanks as Dan Brown's Harvard symbologist 
Robert Langdon, see the interpretation 12/5/9, rather
than 12/9/5, of the above triangle/cube-corner label.

A Moriarty for Sherlock

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:01 am

The Pentagram Papers

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 9:16 am

Other intersection-points-counting material —

The Finkelstein Talisman:

Magic cube and corresponding hexagram, or Star of David, with faces mapped to lines and edges mapped to points

See also Hanks + Cube in this journal —

Robert Langdon (played by Tom Hanks) and a corner of Solomon's Cube.

Game

Filed under: General — m759 @ 2:00 am

"There was a game we used to play . . . ."

— The Cranberries on "Charmed,"
Season 2, Episode 5 (aired Nov.  4, 1999)

Monday, January 15, 2018

IT Strategy

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:06 pm

See also posts tagged Systems Programming.

Boston News

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:14 am

Related material in this  journal —

The final link in a post of 8:07 AM ET on Friday, June 27, 2008, 
pointed to http://www.gateofheavenparish.com. That 2008 link
now leads to a more recent, quite different, webpage.

The page that the link led to in 2008 is now archived at
https://web.archive.org/web/20080509125920/
http://www.gateofheavenparish.com/
.

Sunday, January 14, 2018

Horizon

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:24 pm

"Wer gab uns den Schwamm, um den ganzen Horizont wegzuwischen?"

— Nietzsche, "Der Tolle Mensch
 

Plea

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 4:00 am

Ken Yuszkus, Salem News  staff photo

SALEM — The former MIT professor from Hamilton
accused of trying to swindle his son’s widow and children
out of nearly $5 million pleaded not guilty to the charges
on Friday in Salem Superior Court. 

John Donovan Sr., 75, was clutching a set of rosary beads
as he entered his plea before Judge Timothy Feeley. 

Donovan was indicted last month by an Essex County grand jury
on 13 counts, including larceny, forgery and witness intimidation. 

. . . .


— Julie Manganis, Salem News  staff writer, Jan. 13, 2018

See also other posts tagged Systems Programming.

Saturday, January 13, 2018

Charmed

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:00 am

From an obituary in this morning's online New York Times

"John Tunney seemed to have a charmed political life until 1976,
when at age 42 he lost his Senate seat after just one term
to the unlikeliest of Republican challengers, a former Democrat
named Samuel I. Hayakawa."

Topology punchline —

"Sorry, but A is closed."

For more tasteless mathematical humor, see . . .

'Mathemati-Con: A day of free events open to the public

Friday, January 12, 2018

Cold Case

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:00 pm

The butler did it.

Twelfth Tradition for San Diego

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:24 am

Background

AMS-MAA Joint Mathematics Meetings, Jan. 10-13, 2018, San Diego

From The New York Times  online last October —

"A version of this article appears in print on October 6, 2017,
on Page A1 of the New York edition with the headline:
Genre-Spanning Author of ‘The Remains of the Day’
Wins Nobel
." 

From Log24 last October

From The San Diego Union-Tribune  on that October 6th —

"October 6, 2017, 4:25 PM"

"UC San Diego is mourning the loss of mathematician Jeff Remmel,
who died unexpectedly on Sept. 29th."

From Log24 on that Sept. 29th —

Principles Before Personalities:
Some Remarks for Science Addicts.

Thursday, January 11, 2018

The Bourne Report

Filed under: General — m759 @ 5:06 pm

From the Hannah Goldfield link in today's 7 AM ET
post "In the Bag" —

"… the bride . . . . is a daughter of Gaylord Bourne and
Carl Goldfield of New Haven."

— Wedding story, New York Times , Oct. 18, 2015

A search indicates that Bourne may be the person of that name 
associated with Achievement First charter schools.

Here is a related story from today's online New York Times —

"Can a ‘No Excuses’ Charter Teach Students
to Think for Themselves?
(11:40 AM ET)

Upper West Side Story Continues

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:33 pm

In memory of a resident of the Upper West Side
who reportedly died on Twelfth Night 2018

“… the horizon is not the limit of meaning,
but that which extends meaning
from what is directly given
to the whole context in which it is given,
including a sense of a world.”

— David Vessey, Department of Philosophy,
Grand Valley State University,
Gadamer and the Fusion of Horizons,
International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 
17/4 (2009), 531-42.

In the Bag

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 7:00 am

See as well Hannah Goldfield as Pennywise the Dancing Clown
in this morning's online New York Times —

<meta property="og:description" content="Life doesn’t present us
with many opportunities to put to use the facts that we know
for no other reason than that we know them." />

<meta property="article:published" itemprop="datePublished"
content="2018-01-11T05:00:26-05:00" />

Grab-Bag

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 6:18 am

In a new film, "The Commuter," Liam Neeson fights
a conspiracy

"so vast and preposterous that it becomes
nothing more than a grab-bag of plot twists."

A. O. Scott in The New York Times , 5 AM Jan. 11

Update of 6:29 AM —

"What's purple and commutes?"

Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Logos

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 8:35 pm

(Continued)

New logo of the American Mathematical Society, Jan. 10, 2018

Updates of 9:40 PM ET Jan. 10
to 5:45 AM ET the next day:

See a letter from the AMS on their new logo.

      Recent revision (pre-2018) of the former AMS logo

The Society's letter describes perceptions of the pre-2018 logo —

"… market research on our current logo revealed that
the connection between a Greek temple and
a mathematical society has become increasingly tenuous
among non-members and younger mathematicians, who
associate the Greek temple with a financial institution."

The omission of the alleged motto of Plato's Academy,
AGEOMETRETOS ME EISITO, in the recent (pre-2018)
revision of the logo was part of the Society's ongoing
process of politically correct dumbing-down. That omission
may have influenced the perception of the logo as picturing
a Greek temple rather than the Academy.

Some related remarks from 2005 —

Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Unpleasantly Discursive

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:12 pm

Background for the remarks of Koen Thas in the previous post —
Schumacher and Westmoreland, "Modal Quantum Theory" (2010).

Related material —

" There is a pleasantly discursive treatment 
of Pontius Pilate’s unanswered question
‘What is truth?’ "

— Coxeter, 1987, introduction to Trudeau’s
     The Non-Euclidean Revolution

The whole  truth may require an unpleasantly  discursive treatment.

Example —

1. The reported death on Friday, Jan. 5, 2018, of a dancer
     closely associated with George Balanchine

2. This journal on Friday, Jan. 5, 2018:

3. Illustration from a search related to the above dancer:

4. "Per Mare Per Terras" — Clan slogan above, illustrated with
     what looks like a cross-dagger.

    "Unsheathe your dagger definitions." — James Joyce.

5. Discursive remarks on quantum theory by the above
    Schumacher and Westmoreland:

6. "How much story do you want?" — George Balanchine

Koen Thas and Quantum Theory

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:23 am

'General Quantum Theory,' by Koen Thas, Dec. 13, 2017, preprint

This post supplies some background for earlier posts tagged
Quantum Tesseract Theorem.

Monday, January 8, 2018

Raiders of the Lost Theorem

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 11:15 pm
 

The Quantum Tesseract Theorem 

 


 

Raiders —

A Wrinkle in Time
starring Storm Reid,
Reese Witherspoon,
Oprah Winfrey &
Mindy Kaling

 

Time Magazine  December 25, 2017 – January 1, 2018

The Overnight Case

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:45 pm

The previous post suggests a look at a baggage tale
from this evening's New York Times —

"Domestic airlines hoped to reunite all bags at the airport
with their owners by the end of Monday."


Yana Paskova for The New York Times

Time

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Sunday, January 7, 2018

Clueless:

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:00 am

Peter Zhang and Eric McLuhan on Interality

Space Program

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Or:  Interality Illustrated

See also Seven Seals.

Saturday, January 6, 2018

Report from Red Mountain

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 4:00 pm

Tom Wolfe in The Painted Word  (1975):

“It is important to repeat that Greenberg and Rosenberg
did not create their theories in a vacuum or simply turn up
with them one day like tablets brought down from atop
Green Mountain or Red Mountain (as B. H. Friedman once
called the two men). As tout le monde  understood, they
were not only theories but … hot news,
straight from the studios, from the scene.”

Harold Rosenberg in The New Yorker  (click to enlarge)

See also Interality  and the Eightfold Cube .

Yale News

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 5:24 am

The Yale of the title is not the university, but rather the
mathematician Paul B. Yale. Yale's illustration of the Fano
plane is below.

IMAGE- Triangular models of the 4-point affine plane A and 7-point projective plane PA

A different illustration from a mathematician named Greenberg —

This illustration of the ominous phrase "line at infinity"
may serve as a sort of Deathly Hallows  for Greenberg.
According to the AMS website yesterday, he died on
December 12, 2017:

A search of this  journal for Greenberg yields no mention of
the dead mathematician, but does yield some remarks
on art that are pehaps less bleak than the above illustration.

For instance —

Art adapted from the Google search screen. Discuss.

Friday, January 5, 2018

Tamagawa

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:45 pm

Wikipedia — "Tamagawa's doctoral students included 
Doris Schattschneider and Audrey Terras."

See also Schattschneider and Terras in this  journal.

Subway Art for Plato’s Ghost

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:00 pm

Suggested by the previous post

See also the post Plato's Ghost of March 3, 2010.

Subway Art Continues

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Subway art related to an event of January 3, 2018

Monday, November 7, 2016

Subway Art for Times Square Church

Filed under: Uncategorized — m759 @ 9:11 PM 

Click images for related material.

 

Types of Ambiguity

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:56 am

From "The Principle of Sufficient Reason," by George David Birkhoff
in "Three Public Lectures on Scientific Subjects,"
delivered at the Rice Institute, March 6, 7, and 8, 1940 —

From the same lecture —

Up to the present point my aim has been to consider a variety of applications of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, without attempting any precise formulation of the Principle itself. With these applications in mind I will venture to formulate the Principle and a related Heuristic Conjecture in quasi-mathematical form as follows:

PRINCIPLE OF SUFFICIENT REASON. If there appears in any theory T a set of ambiguously  determined ( i e . symmetrically entering) variables, then these variables can themselves be determined only to the extent allowed by the corresponding group G. Consequently any problem concerning these variables which has a uniquely determined solution, must itself be formulated so as to be unchanged by the operations of the group G ( i e . must involve the variables symmetrically).

HEURISTIC CONJECTURE. The final form of any scientific theory T is: (1) based on a few simple postulates; and (2) contains an extensive ambiguity, associated symmetry, and underlying group G, in such wise that, if the language and laws of the theory of groups be taken for granted, the whole theory T appears as nearly self-evident in virtue of the above Principle.

The Principle of Sufficient Reason and the Heuristic Conjecture, as just formulated, have the advantage of not involving excessively subjective ideas, while at the same time retaining the essential kernel of the matter.

In my opinion it is essentially this principle and this conjecture which are destined always to operate as the basic criteria for the scientist in extending our knowledge and understanding of the world.

It is also my belief that, in so far as there is anything definite in the realm of Metaphysics, it will consist in further applications of the same general type. This general conclusion may be given the following suggestive symbolic form:

Image-- Birkhoff diagram relating Galois's theory of ambiguity to metaphysics

While the skillful metaphysical use of the Principle must always be regarded as of dubious logical status, nevertheless I believe it will remain the most important weapon of the philosopher.

Related remarks by a founding member of the Metaphysical Club:

See also the previous post, "Seven Types of Interality."

Seven Types of Interality*

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'Paradise of CHildhood'— on Froebel's Third Gift

* See the term interality  in this journal.
For many synonyms, see
The Human Seriousness of Interality,”
by Peter Zhang, Grand Valley State University,
China Media Research  11(2), 2015, 93-103.

Thursday, January 4, 2018

Perspectives from a Chinese Jar

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 4:40 pm

" . . . Only by the form, the pattern,
Can words or music reach
The stillness, as a Chinese jar still
Moves perpetually in its stillness."

— T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

"The Grand Valley spirit never dies."

— Adapted from the Tao Te Ching

For T. S. Eliot

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 5:01 am

“I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
 Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.”

 — Paul Simon

For a Cartoon Graveyard

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 4:56 am

“… the horizon is not the limit of meaning,
but that which extends meaning
from what is directly given
to the whole context in which it is given,
including a sense of a world.”

— David Vessey,
Gadamer and the Fusion of Horizons

(Quoted here on Saturday, June 4, 2005.)

Tuesday, January 2, 2018

Hell and Easter

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:22 pm

This post was suggested by the reported Monday, Jan. 1, 2018,
death of the Juilliard String Quartet founding violinist and by the
reported Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016 death of his brother, a
biotech entrepreneur.

Details from Feb. 25-26, 2016

Related material from this evening's New York Times

The archaeologist above reportedly died on Friday, Dec. 29, 2016. 
See too a Log24 post from that date, On Becket's Day.

Debs and Redhead

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:15 pm

Or:  Schoolgirl Problems

The above images were suggested in part by the birthdays
on Sept. 21, 2011, of Bill Murray and Stephen King.

More seriously, also in this journal on that date, from a post
titled Symmetric Generation —

Monday, January 1, 2018

Diamond Theory 1976

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 8:26 pm

The first 12 pages of my 1976 preprint "Diamond Theory" are 
now scanned and uploaded.  See a slideshow.

For downloading, all 12 pages are combined in a PDF.

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