The Dickinson poem quoted above is numbered 373 at
the Poetry Foundation.
See also Eternity + 373 in this journal.
Monday, December 31, 2018
Eve’s Riddle
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Sunday, December 30, 2018
Mechanical Parable
Raiders of the Lost Crucible and Bee Season continue …
"Walter Kerr, in his 1953 review in the New York Herald Tribune ,
wrote, 'The Crucible , which opened at the Martin Beck Thursday,
…seems to me to be taking a step backward into mechanical parable,
into the sort of play which lives not in the warmth of humbly observed
souls but in the ideological heat of polemic.' For Kerr, Miller’s play is
an analytical argument, a treatise, rather than a heartfelt play about
human lives."
— http://www.americanpopularculture.com/
archive/bestsellers/authur_miller.htm
A more heartfelt approach —
" … this beautiful love story . . . ."
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Also Sprach Aitchison
The New Yorker reviewing "Bumblebee" —
"There is one reliable source for superhero sublimity,
and it’s all the more surprising that it’s a franchise with
no sacred inspiration whatsoever but, rather, of purely
and unabashedly mercantile origins: the 'Transformers'
series, based on a set of toys, in which Michael Bay’s
exhilarating filmmaking offers phantasmagorical textures
of an uncanny unconscious resonance."
— Richard Brody on December 29, 2018
"Before time began, there was the Cube."
— Optimus Prime
Some backstory — A Riddle for Davos, Jan. 22, 2014.
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Meanwhile, in a different New Yorker department…
From Annals of Technology —
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Saturday, December 29, 2018
Annals of Style: Perfecting the New Yorker Sneer
See also the Verwandlungslehre link from the previous post
and The Hassenfeld Legacy (for Harlan Kane).
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To the Lighthouse
The release date of "Annihilation" was February 23, 2018.
See also "Snow Games" in this journal on that date
and, more generally, posts tagged Verwandlungslehre .
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Winter Tree
The title is that of a 1977 poem by Jon Lang.
A different sort of narrative tree, from The Onion on the
date Friday, July 1, 2016, was illustrated in the previous post.
Material from this journal related to July 1, 2016,
and the following day, a Saturday, is now tagged
"Saturday Night in the Labyrinth."
"A Damned Serious Business." — Rex Harrison on comedy
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Friday, December 28, 2018
Phenomenology of Viewing
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Blackline Master
From a Log24 post of September 4, 2018, "Identity Crisis" —
From the 2011 Spanish film "Verbo" — (Click to enlarge) —
From a Blackline Master —
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Thursday, December 27, 2018
A Candle for Lily
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Wednesday, December 26, 2018
Mathematical Labyrinth
See as well Stein in posts tagged Narrative Labyrinth.
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Tuesday, December 25, 2018
Simply
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"So to obtain the isomorphism from L2(7) onto L3(2) we simply
— Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups , |
Compare and contrast —
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This post was suggested by a New York Times headline today —
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Sunday, December 23, 2018
Winter Fire
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Saturday, December 22, 2018
The Hat Tip
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“It’s a war every day.”
The title is from a New York Times story online this afternoon.
A recent pop-culture use of the word "war" —
The six "infinity stones" sought in the above war
suggest a review of the "six points of general position
in real projective 4-space" mentioned in today's earlier
post "Cremona-Richmond." See as well Ron Shaw
in that post and in the infinity-related book below —
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British Pottery
An introduction to the previous post, "Cremona-Richmond" —
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Cremona-Richmond
The following are some notes on the history of Clifford algebras
and finite geometry suggested by the "Clifford Modules" link in a
Log24 post of March 12, 2005 —
A more recent appearance of the configuration —
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Friday, December 21, 2018
Crisis Focus
"Crisis" and "focus," two words prominent in recent Log24 posts,
recur in a New York Times story this morning —
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Thursday, December 20, 2018
Slow
Some images suggested by the previous post and by the date
of the documentary below — March 12, 2005 —
See also Slow Art.
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Dreamstime
Office scene from "Spotlight," a 2015 film about The Boston Globe.
The "Spotlight" office picture is apparently this image of
Mount Illimani and La Paz, Bolivia, from dreamstime.com.
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Wednesday, December 19, 2018
Focus
http://m759.net/wordpress/?tag=ruthless-focus
Related material —
Some backstory —
Freeman Dyson on ruthlessness and …
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Tuesday, December 18, 2018
CV
The title abbreviates* that of a collection of Wittgenstein's remarks:
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Ludwig Wittgenstein — Culture and Value Showing 20 results for spirit — page 18, rubble & finally a heap of ashes; but spirits will hover over the ashes. MS 107 229: page 18, Page 5 Only something supernatural can expre page 20, contemplating it from above in its†c flight.† page 21, spirit in which it is written.†f This spirit is, I believe, different from that of t page 21, and American civilization. The spirit of this civilization the expression of page 21, day†h fascism & socialism, is a spirit that is alien & uncongenial†i to the au page 21, he Page Break 9 can work in the spirit of the whole, and his strength can with page 21, straight for what is concrete. Which is chara page 22, danger in a long foreword is that the spirit of a book has to be evident in the book page 22, It is all one to me whether the typical weste page 23, a great temptation to want to make the spirit explicit. MS 109 204: 6-7.11.1930 Page page 23, readers that will be clear just from the fact page 28, Foggy day. Grey autumn haunts us. Laughter se page 42, If one wanted to characterize the essence of page 51, attention from what matters.) The Spirit puts what is essential, essential for y page 51, how far all this is exactly in the spirit of Kierkegaard.) MS 119 151: 22.10.1937 page 51, something feminine about this outlook?) MS 11 page 100, comfortable, clearer expression, but cannot b page 106, act otherwise."–Perhaps, though, one might s page 210, Page 7 †b function Page 7 †c from its Page **************************************************************** |
The above "spirit guide" was suggested by yesterday's post
on Knuth as Yoda and by the paper in today's previous post,
"Shadowhunter Tales."
This post's title, "CV," is from . . .
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Shadowhunter Tales
The recent post "Tales from Story Space," about the 18th birthday
of the protagonist in the TV series "Shadowhunters" (2016-),
suggests a review of the actual 18th birthday of actress Lily Collins.
Collins is shown below warding off evil with a magical rune as
a shadowhunter in the 2013 film "City of Bones" —
She turned 18 on March 18, 2007. A paper on symmetry and logic
referenced here on that date displays the following "runes" of
philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce —
See also Adamantine Meditation (Log24, Oct. 3, 2018)
and the webpage Geometry of the I Ching.
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Monday, December 17, 2018
The Cleft*
From this journal on October 18, 2018 —
"Show all" — Yes!
*Update to the above post from the morning after:
The title uses "cleft" rather than Gaitskill's term for the
pictured bifurcation, "crotch." This is in part because
the former yielded search results in this journal, while
the latter did not.
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Dick and Yoda
The New York Times this afternoon —
“What do we believe in?” Dick asks his Yoda
at one point, provoking a gale of laughter in response.
— A. O. Scott reviewing "Vice"
See as well Log24 on April 1, 2017 —
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