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Logo of the Santa Fe Institute —

* See posts tagged The Malkovich Pictures.

"Leibniz … could also be called the first digerati."
— The Guardian , May 10, 2013

"Digerati" is a term modeled after "literati"  —

Example —

See also this  journal on the above
Guardian  date:  10 May 2013.

See also Hard Candy.

See as well Bloomsday in this  journal.

"And Windy has stormy eyes…"

"Goin' to the candidates' debate" — Paul Simon

* Gesundheit .

Vinnie Mancuso, in an article now dated December 25, 2018 —

Not so useless —

The caption in fine print below says
"Download Blender and install it.
I won't show you how to do that 
because I don't want to insult your
intelligence…."

From a New Yorker  theatre review posted at 5 AM ET today —

“A Strange Loop” takes its title from a concept pioneered by
Douglas Hofstadter, the cognitive-science professor who
wrote the book “Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid”
and, later, the more focussed study “I Am a Strange Loop”;
both were premised upon the impossibly complex, hopelessly
circular means by which each of us composes a self, an “I.”

See as well "Strange Loop" and "Loop de Loop" in this  journal.

See also Boorstin in this journal.

The phrase "various other activities" in the previous post, and a poem
by Yeats, suggest an image that appeared here in miniature on June 7:

See as well some related artistic images from January 4, 2007.

See also posts now tagged The Loosening Center (June 8 – June 11).

"When they all finally reach their destination —
a deserted field in the Florida Panhandle…." 

" When asked about the film's similarities to the 2015 Disney movie 
Tomorrowland , which also posits a futuristic world that exists in an
alternative dimension, Nichols sighed. 'I was a little bummed, I guess,'
he said of when he first learned about the project. . . . 'Our die was cast.
Sometimes this kind of collective unconscious that we're all dabbling in,
sometimes you're not the first one out of the gate.' "

— Kastalia Medrano, "The Art of Space Art," Sept. 14, 2017

Ghost in the Shell

Rex Reed yesterday —

"Tilda Swinton is Zelda, the undertaker who worships a gold statue
of Buddha and collects samurai swords. She seems to know
what’s going on, but she’s too busy acting weird to tell." 

Al Gore on May 29 —

“We have to restore the role of reason and logic and rational debate,”
Gore said. “Every night on the news is like a nature hike through the
Book of Revelation.” — Harvard Gazette  reporting Class Day 2019

Doctor Strange on Mount Everest —

Click on the book cover below for posts tagged "Haiku."

"This was a real nice clam house."
— Adapted from lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein

See also William Boyd in this  journal.

See also a note of Dec. 4, 1986.

The opening lines of Eliot's Four Quartets —

"Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past."

Perhaps.

Those who prefer geometry to rhetoric may also prefer
to Eliot's lines the immortal opening of the Transformers  saga —

"Before time began, there was the Cube."

One version of the Cube —

Art suggested by a search in this journal for Bennington, by the Kurt Vonnegut
novel Timequake , and by the works of Eric Temple Bell.

See as well a Log24 search for "FInite Relativity."

For Radu Surdulescu, who . . .

"participated in the 1956 reclamatory movements 
of the students in Bucharest. He was among the
organizers of the demonstration to be held in
the University Square on November 5, 1956."
— Wikipedia (Google translation from Romanian)

See also squares and Surdulescu in "From Tate to Plato"
(Log24, November 19, 2004).

Those who prefer fiction  may consult William Boyd and
Terry Gilliam.

See as well, in this journal, Deathly Hallows, Relativity Problem, and Space Cross.

A related quote:  "This is not mathematics; this is theology."

(Continued … See “Is Fiction the Art of Lying?” by Mario Vargas Llosa, 
a New York Times  essay of October 7, 1984.)

"A non-fiction writer must have the freedom
to imagine the facts they [sic ] use."

Sure they must.

The title is from a search in this journal — 
http://www.m759.net/wordpress/?s=1982+Janine .

"And all the clocks were striking thirteen."

Click to enlarge.

In memory of June Havoc . . .

"In 1960, Havoc was honored with two stars
on the Hollywood Walk of Fame—one at
6618 Hollywood Boulevard for her contributions
to the motion picture industry, and the other at
6413 Hollywood Boulevard for television."

"Bustin' Out All Over"

"Points all her own" — Bob Seger