A problem not only at Harvard.
For instance… A Hollywood anticlerical classic:
Schoolgirl Problem —
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Heraldry for Walpurgisnacht
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Monday, April 29, 2019
Theology in a Cartoon Graveyard
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Like Decorations in a Cartoon Graveyard
(Continued.)
“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
A death on the date of the above New Yorker piece — Oct. 15, 2018 —
See as well the Pac-Man-like figures in today's previous post
as well as the Monday, Oct. 15, 2018, post "History at Bellevue."
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The Hustvedt Array
For Harlan Kane
"This time-defying preservation of selves,
this dream of plenitude without loss,
is like a snow globe from heaven,
a vision of Eden before the expulsion."
— Judith Shulevitz on Siri Hustvedt in
The New York Times Sunday Book Review
of March 31, 2019, under the headline
"The Time of Her Life."
Edenic-plenitude-related material —
"Self-Blazon… of Edenic Plenitude"
(The Issuu text is taken from Speaking about Godard , by Kaja Silverman
and Harun Farocki, New York University Press, 1998, page 34.)
Preservation-of-selves-related material —
Other Latin squares (from October 2018) —
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Sunday, April 28, 2019
Bauble
"This time-defying preservation of selves,
this dream of plenitude without loss,
is like a snow globe from heaven,
a vision of Eden before the expulsion.
Mathematically demonstrable
but emotionally impossible,
it’s dangled just in front of us
like a bauble we can’t have
but can’t stop reaching for."
— Judith Shulevitz on Siri Hustvedt in
The New York Times Sunday Book Review
of March 31, 2019, under the headline
"The Time of Her Life."
A different self-symbolizing bauble appeared in this journal on that Sunday.
A line for Letterman — "Bauble, Babel. Babel, Bauble."
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Saturday, April 27, 2019
Our Brand
From the subtitles of "Our Brand is Crisis" (2015) —
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01:07:58,242 –> 01:08:01,537
Uh, if you should feel something
during the interview, like an emotion…
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01:08:03,164 –> 01:08:07,251
If you have some tears,
could you just turn towards
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01:08:07,501 –> 01:08:08,836
the camera?
"Our Brand is Crisis" is set in La Paz, Bolivia. Related material —
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Friday, April 26, 2019
Thursday, April 25, 2019
For Battle-Epic Fans
L'Heureux* Meets Les Misérables
The above theater is named for a soldier who died on May 14, 2006.
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Today’s birthday: George Lucas,
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* "… whose novels wrestled with faith… " — NY Times obituary today
“Faith! Faith!” cried the husband.
“Look up to Heaven,
and resist the Wicked One!”
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Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Critical Visibility
Correction — "Death has 'the whole spirit sparkling…'"
should be "Peace after death has 'the whole spirit sparkling….'"
The page number, 373, is a reference to Wallace Stevens:
Collected Poetry and Prose , Library of America, 1997.
See also the previous post, "Critical Invisibility."
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Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Critical Invisibility
From Gotay and Isenberg, "The Symplectization of Science,"
Gazette des Mathématiciens 54, 59-79 (1992):
"… what is the origin of the unusual name 'symplectic'? ….
Its mathematical usage is due to Hermann Weyl who,
in an effort to avoid a certain semantic confusion, renamed
the then obscure 'line complex group' the 'symplectic group.'
… the adjective 'symplectic' means 'plaited together' or 'woven.'
This is wonderfully apt…."
On "The Emperor's New Clothes" —
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Andersen’s weavers, as one commentator points out, are merely insisting that “the value of their labor be recognized apart from its material embodiment.” The invisible cloth they weave may never manifest itself in material terms, but the description of its beauty (“as light as spiderwebs” and “exquisite”) turns it into one of the many wondrous objects found in Andersen’s fairy tales. It is that cloth that captivates us, making us do the imaginative work of seeing something beautiful even when it has no material reality. Deeply resonant with meaning and of rare aesthetic beauty—even if they never become real—the cloth and other wondrous objets d’art have attained a certain degree of critical invisibility. — Maria Tatar, The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen (W. W. Norton & Company, 2007). Kindle Edition. |
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Tree
A check of an author cited in the previous post yields —
The cover illustration above is by Kay Nielsen . . .
"FROM 'EAST OF THE SUN AND WEST OF THE MOON'
('AND FLITTED AWAY AS FAR AS THEY COULD … '), 1914."
(Paris Review , December 3, 2015.)
See as well the April 1977 poem "Winter Tree" by Jon Lang and . . .
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A Certain Dramatic Artfulness
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Boeing-Boeing!*
For Shakespeare's Birthday . . .
* Title from a 1960 French farce.
A miniature metaphoric midrash —
See the Snakes on a Plane image
from a post of March 15, 2019 . . .
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Monday, April 22, 2019
The Cruelest Month
Easter last year fell on April Fools' Day.
Midrash — The Log24 posts for April 2018.
Related material —
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Sunday, April 21, 2019
Easter for Harvey
See also "Press Agent" in this journal and a post from Maundy Thursday,
the date of Sabinson's reported death . . .
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Saturday, April 20, 2019
Meditation on St. Ursula’s Day
Edifice Complex
A Doll's House
Somebody Doesn't Like Sara Lee
Dialogue and Story Points —
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Friday, April 19, 2019
Math Death
Berlekamp reportedly died on Tuesday, April 9, 2019.
See as well thisĀ journal on that date, in posts now tagged
Berlekamp’s Game.
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Pleasantly Discursive Day
” There isĀ a pleasantly discursiveĀ treatment
of Pontius PilateāsĀ unanswered question
āWhat is truth?ā ”
ā Coxeter, 1987, introduction to Trudeauās
The Non-Euclidean Revolution
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Thursday, April 18, 2019
Expanding the Unfolding*
From a New York Times book review of a new novel about
Timothy Leary that was in the Times online on April 10 —
"Most of the novel resides in the perspective
of Fitzhugh Loney, one of Leary’s graduate students."
"A version of this article appears in print on ,
on Page 10 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline:
Strange Days."
For material about one of Leary's non -fictional grad students,
Ralph Metzner, see posts now tagged Metzner's Pi Day.
Related material —
The reported publication date of Searching for the Philosophers' Stone
was January 1, 2019.
A related search published here on that date:
* Title suggested by two of Ralph Metzner's titles,
The Expansion of Consciousness and The Unfolding Self .
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Wednesday, April 17, 2019
The Royal Society Diamond
The phrase "pattern recognition" in a news story about the
April 13 death of Princeton neuroscientist Charles Gross,
and yesterday's post about a fanciful "purloined diamond,"
suggest a review of a less fanciful diamond.
See also earlier posts tagged Fitch
and my own, much earlier and very
different, approach to such patterns —
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Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Metaphysical Detective Story
The date of an article by the late Charles Gross —Dec. 21, 2011 . . .
. . . suggests a review of a post from that date:
See as well this journal on Marc Hauser in a post of
August 5, 2004 — "In the beginning was… the recursion?"
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Monday, April 15, 2019
Sacerdotal Jargon
The interested reader can easily find the source of the above prose.
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