Log24

A recent New York Times  piece on novelist Jonathan Franzen concludes
with a reference to the Rodney Crowell song "I Don’t Care Anymore.”

Two lines near the end of that song —

"If indeed I do get lonesome in my mansion on the hill
There's this neighbor's wife I covet for her beauty and her skill"

Related material —

Publicity still for "Lost in Space" —

More recently …

Log24 on the release date of "Sin City" — April First, 2005 —

Literary Meditation for the Feast of  SS Peter and Paul

Background:  McLuhan on analogy.

See a publication offering facsimiles of the original 4×6 cards
of John Shade's "Pale Fire," as Nabokov described them.

Regarding these card proportions, note that 4/6 = 333/500, approximately —
the proportions of the text box in a post from yesterday.

"Continue a search for thirty-three and three" — Katherine Neville.

These rather pointless, but vaguely poetic, analogies were suggested by …

• Yesterday morning's "The Corrections," a post
  featuring spider ballooning and a dead poet, and
   
• "Blue Dream," a post of Feb. 11, 2006.

See  Klein Quartic  and  Klein Quadric.

"It's all in Plato" — C. S. Lewis

See too Platonic in this journal —

"Reverend, Reverend,
Is this some conspiracy?"

— Pantera

Click George for a meditation on Albee.

Photo caption —

"Vinnie Paul of the band Hellyeah performs in concert
during Day 2 of the Rock Allegiance Festival at
Talen Energy Stadium on Sunday, Sept. 18, 2016, in
Chester, Pa. (Photo by Owen Sweeney/Invision/AP)"

News report —

"Former SKID ROW singer Sebastian Bach played
a cover version of the PANTERA classic 
"Cemetery Gates" as a tribute to Vinnie Paul Abbott 
during his June 24 concert at The Pyramid Cabaret in
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada."

Some backstory —

Novel  Engineering

See Borges + Aleph in this journal.

* Phrase from a poem by Wallace Stevens

See as well Octavia Butler in this  journal.

Continues .

An etymology check of the "dia" in "diagnostics" —

From the University of Notre Dame in an obituary dated June 17 —

Related material (update of 9:20 PM ET on June 19) —

The previous post suggests . . .

Also on Nov. 12, 2016 —

See too other posts tagged  "on160713."

"There is a structure theory for bull-free graphs
  modulo the structure of triangle-free graphs
  and their complements, which again is not easy.
  (The bull has a triangular face, with horns or
  pendant edges at two of its three vertices.)"

— Peter J. Cameron today

For example —

The bull graph in a book by Clarence R. Wylie, Jr.
(author of the poem "Paradox" (1948)). See no. 6 below —

See also Wikipedia.

Related material —

J. Paul Getty and Minotaur, according to Hollywood —

Midrash by Scholem —

New version of the above "Fullness of Time" link —

Page by Page .

"How frail the wand, but how profound the spell !"

— Clarence R. Wylie, Jr., "Paradox" (1948)

The above fanciful PlayStation symbols suggest an etymology —

See also Kipnis.

"I just found me a brand new box of matches …"

— Soundtrack of the  trailer for "Ocean's 8"

"… matchwood, immortal diamond …." —

Click the above definitions for further information.

See as well Blue Diamond in this journal.

(Continued)

Two visions of happy neurons:

This post was suggested by a link in today's New York Times —

"Simon Denny, the New Zealand artist whose work incorporates
board games, intervenes by introducing his own pieces into an attic of
the late-18th-century Haus zum Kirschgarten, already filled with
'old historical dollhouses, board games, chess games' and the like …."

See John Ganz and Das Finstere Lachen .

From June 8 —

 “There are dark comedies. There are screwball comedies.
But there aren’t many dark screwball comedies.
And if Nora Ephron’s Lucky Numbers  is any indication,
there’s a good reason for that.”
— Todd Anthony, South Florida Sun-Sentinel

"Particularly if a person thinks of himself as clever,
he will often have a hard time admitting his own ignorance."

— John Ganz in the online New York Times  today.

"One model for what I’m trying to accomplish is the writings of
Martin Gardner. Some other models are … well, actually, I’m not
going [to] tell you; I’d much rather imitate these writers in hope that
you’ll notice the resemblance and figure it out. That’s a game
I’ll be playing with you over the next few years."

— James Propp, Mathematical Enchantments, June 17, 2015.

A check of my own ignorance of synchronology . . .

http://m759.net/wordpress/?p=50955,
a post of June 17, 2015.

See Glory Road in this journal.

See also Road to Hell.

Click the above for "Cloak and Dagger" in this  journal.

 “There are dark comedies. There are screwball comedies.
But there aren’t many dark screwball comedies.
And if Nora Ephron’s Lucky Numbers  is any indication,
there’s a good reason for that.”
— Todd Anthony, South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Flashback —

In memory of David Douglas Duncan

"Marissa, we picked up an unencrypted signal
below the Arctic Circle." — Hanna  (2011)

Two posts from different websites on the same day —
Saturday, June 2, 2018 — at 1 PM and 11:07 PM:

Or:  "What Dreams May Come"

(For the foxtail girl)

"Most religious beliefs are not true. But here’s the crux.
The emotional brain doesn’t care. It doesn’t operate on
the grounds of true and false. Emotions are not true or false.
Even a terrible fear inside a dream is still a terrible fear."

— Stephen T. Asma in the New York Times  philosophy
column "The Stone" today

See also Triple Cross. 

In greater depth:

Posts tagged on131004, a tag derived from a date in
a Google search today …

For enthusiasts of symbology, a webpage illustrated here this morning —

.

This morning's review of this Ajna webpage was suggested by posts from 
the Oct. 4, 2013, date  in the Google crux  search above.

See as well Kipnis.

I.e. ,  Enough Freeman or Enough CNN?

Also from Google —

From a 2003 obituary of author Neil Postman —

"In Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse
in the Age of Show Business  (Viking, 1985; Penguin, 1986),
he indicted the television industry on the charge of making
entertainment out of the world's most serious problems.
The book was translated into eight languages and sold
200,000 copies worldwide, according to N.Y.U."

Postman reportedly died on Sunday, Oct. 5, 2003.

Log24 on that date —

Art Theory for Yom Kippur and Ado.

See also today's obituary reporting the May 21 death of Postman's
erstwhile agent Elaine Markson.

This  journal on May 21, in a post titled "Crux" —

"Chance became tied to the liberties
of U.S. democracy, whereas its eradication
or denial became symptomatic of Soviet tyranny."

— Google Books description of No Accident, Comrade:
Chance and Design in Cold War American Narrative,
by Steven Belletto, Oxford U. Press (first published
in hardcover on Dec. 28, 2011) 

Midrash —

Click the image for related posts.