A problem not only at Harvard.
For instance… A Hollywood anticlerical classic:
Schoolgirl Problem —
(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."
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) —
"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."
From the subtitles of "Our Brand is Crisis" (2015) —
1357
01:07:58,242 –> 01:08:01,537
Uh, if you should feel something
during the interview, like an emotion…
1358
01:08:03,164 –> 01:08:07,251
If you have some tears,
could you just turn towards
1359
01:08:07,501 –> 01:08:08,836
the camera?
"Our Brand is Crisis" is set in La Paz, Bolivia. Related material —
L'Heureux* Meets Les Misérables
The above theater is named for a soldier who died on May 14, 2006.
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!”
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."
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" —
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. |
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 . . .
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 . . .
Easter last year fell on April Fools' Day.
Midrash — The Log24 posts for April 2018.
Related material —
See also "Press Agent" in this journal and a post from Maundy Thursday,
the date of Sabinson's reported death . . .
Berlekamp reportedly died on Tuesday, April 9, 2019.
See as well this journal on that date, in posts now tagged
Berlekamp’s Game.
” There is a pleasantly discursive treatment
of Pontius Pilate’s unanswered question
‘What is truth?’ ”
— Coxeter, 1987, introduction to Trudeau’s
The Non-Euclidean Revolution
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 .
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 —
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?"
The interested reader can easily find the source of the above prose.
From yesterday's post Misère Play —
See as well a New York Times book review of the novel Point Omega .
(The Times 's "Wrinkle in Time" is the title of the review, not of the novel.)
Related material suggested by the publication date — March 27, 2014 —
of a novel titled Zero Sum Game —
The Crosswicks Curse Continues . . .
"There is such a thing as geometry."
— Saying adapted from a 1962 young-adult novel.
David Brooks in The New York Times Sunday Review today —
" 'In the deeps are the violence and terror of which psychology
has warned us,' Annie Dillard writes in 'Teaching a Stone to Talk.'
'But if you ride these monsters deeper down, if you drop with them
farther over the world’s rim, you find what our sciences cannot locate
or name, the substrate, the ocean or matrix or ether which buoys
the rest, which gives goodness its power for good, and evil its power
for evil, the unified field: our complex and inexplicable caring for
each other.' "
Annie Dillard on the legendary philosopher's stone —
“… if Holy the Firm is matter at its dullest, Aristotle’s materia prima ,
absolute zero, and since Holy the Firm is in touch with the Absolute
at base, then the circle is unbroken. And it is…. Holy the Firm is
in short the philosopher’s stone.”
See also "The Thing and I."
See too "Desperately Seeking Resonance"
and, for the Church of Synchronology, posts
on the above date — April 3, 2017.
See Karl Gerstner in this journal and posts from
the date of Gerstner's reported death —
New Year's Day, 2017.
Gerstner seems to have been forgotten in the
current Programmed Art exhibition at the Whitney.
Related material — See More Glass.
Details from the previous post —
"Some point in a high corner of the room" —
See as well Mysteries of Faith (Feb. 16, 2010).
From posts tagged Number Art —
From the novel Point Omega —
Related material for
Mathematics Awareness Month —
Also on 07/18/2015 —
"We render the compulsion harmless, and indeed useful,
by giving it the right to assert itself in a definite field.
We admit it into the transference as a playground…."
— Sigmund Freud, 1914, "Remembering, Repeating,
and Working-Through" (See "Expanding the Spielraum,"
Oct. 26, 2015, in this journal.)
An indefinite field —
A definite field —
See also "The Unfolding" in this journal.
"The architect, Peter Eisenman, was against
the information center. 'The world is too full of
information and here is a place without information.
That is what I wanted,' he told Spiegel Online.
'But as an architect you win some and you lose some.'"
See also Winsome Tribute (March 25, 2019) and
Gravedigger's Handbook (March 19, 2017).
* See as well a related phrase.
A later article about this same William Boyd —
"In the end, it’s this indifference on the part of the tastemakers
that makes Boyd’s project a worthy one, pointing as it does to
their ability to treat as real whatever they choose, and to deny
the reality of other things simply by redirecting their gaze."
Also on November 14, 2011 —
"It never occurred to me that someone could so explicitly reject
the core experience of something like Chartres."
— Christopher Alexander to Peter Eisenman, 1982
For a less dramatic core experience , see Hitchcock.
"If this weren't a public situation, I'd be tempted to get into this on a
psychiatric level." — Christopher Alexander to Peter Eisenman, 1982
Scene from the sequel to Unbreakable and Split —
Not to mention elevation .
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