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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

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:

See as well Kipnis.

I.e. ,  Enough Freeman or Enough CNN?

Also from Google —