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For Greta Gerwig and Saoirse Ronan —

See also a Log24 post from the above Cube Theory date —
April 12, 2016 — Lyrics for a Cartoon Graveyard — as well as . . .

See also this journal on the above publication date.

A detail from the previous post —

A song lyric —

From a personal Kindle library —

From the world of mass entertainment —

See also a search in this journal for Compulsion.

For Andrew Cusack.

A flashback from this  journal on the above remaking-myths date —

See too The Crosswicks Curse.

(Motto of Los Amigos High School, Fountain Valley, CA)

. . . With intolerable disrespect for the word …
In particular, the word "theorem."  

See also "Quantum Tesseract Theorem" in this  journal.

See also the undefined phrase "projective model" in a 2012 MIT thesis,
and the following book —

Update of 4:30 AM —

The New York Times  today on a philosopher of
history who reportedly died on Monday, March 5 —

“Perhaps White’s most controversial idea,
and one for which he was so often shunned
by his fellow historians, is that ‘all stories
are fictions,’ ” Robert Doran, a professor at
the University of Rochester … said by email.
"White held that while historical facts are
scientifically verifiable, stories are not.
Stories are made, not found in the historical data;
historical meaning is imposed on historical facts
by means of the choice of plot-type, and this choice
is inevitably ethical and political at bottom.

"This is what White called 'emplotment,' a term
he coined," Dr. Doran continued. "Even the most basic
beginning-middle-end structure of a story represents
an imposition: The historian chooses where to begin,
where to end, and what points are important in the middle.
There is no scientific test for 'historical significance.' "

From this  journal on Monday, White's reported date of death —

Plan 9  continues.

Search this journal for the three words of the title.

"At the heart of the trial was the question of
whether the complainant could have agreed
to have sex with the defendant . . .
on Halloween night in 2015 . . . ."

— Vivian Wang in The New York Times  this evening

This  journal on Halloween night in 2015 —

"We tell ourselves stories . . . ." — Joan Didion

New York Times Wire, 6:40 PM ET Thursday, March 8, 2018 

3h ago
GRAY MATTER
How Lies Spread Online

They diffuse farther, faster and more broadly than the truth does.

4h ago
It’s True: False News Spreads Faster and Wider.
And Humans Are to Blame.

False claims posted on Twitter were 70 percent more likely
to be shared than the truth, researchers at M.I.T. found.
And people appear to prefer false news.

— From Katherine Neville's novel The Eight  (1988)

Related logic —

Enlarge the above.  Detail:

"Russell M. Solomon’s story was a Sacramento legend . . . ."

"What of the night
That lights and dims the stars?
Do you know, Hans Christian,
Now that you see the night?"

— The concluding lines of "Sonatina to Hans Christian,"
by Wallace Stevens (in Harmonium  (second edition, 1931))

For the Marvel Comics surgeon  Dr. Stephen Strange —

For a real-life surgeon who reportedly died on Feb. 24,
a quotation from this journal on that date —

"What of the night
That lights and dims the stars?
Do you know, Hans Christian,
Now that you see the night?"

— The concluding lines of "Sonatina to Hans Christian,"
by Wallace Stevens (in Harmonium  (second edition, 1931))

Related material —

A scholium on the previous post, "Mother Ship Meets Mother Church" —

"Consider Saint Hedwig of Silesia (1174–1243), for example,
who is elegantly depicted in this catalogue, striking a pose
with her prayer book, rosary, and Virgin and child statue
(a reminder of the legitimacy of her sex), along with boots
slung over her elbow so she could walk barefoot like
the apostles. Between miracles, she was also known to 
supervise con­struction of new convents. Hedwig is but
a snowflake on the iceberg  of the extra­ordinary role of
actual women in the Middle Ages, to which more evidence
is added continually thanks the Feminae database."

— From "Wonder Women," by Matthew J. Milliner

See posts tagged Tsimtsum and, more specifically, Mother Church.

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