See as well Time Enough for Countin’.
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Imperial Requiem
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The Screwtape Bishop
“Patrick Joseph McKinney is the 10th Bishop of Nottingham.
His appointment was announced on 14 May 2015 by Pope Francis.”
— Wikipedia
Related material from this journal on the date the Pope
appointed the Screwtape Bishop —
Obit et Orbit continues.
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Monday, March 30, 2020
More Academic Ugliness
The Boston Globe on the dead architect of the previous post —
"Mr. McKinnell, who was a fellow of the American Institute of Architects
and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the
Royal Institute of British Architects, taught for many years at the
Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology School of Architecture and Planning."
Some ugly rhetoric to go with the ugly architecture —
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Annals of Ugly Design
The Boston Globe Saturday on Friday's death of one of
the two architects of Boston City Hall —
A gifted storyteller, Mr. McKinnell liked to recount
the response of renowned architect Philip Johnson to
City Hall. “ ‘Absolutely marvelous. … I think it’s wonderful.
… And it’s so ugly!’ ” Mr. McKinnell told Pasnik, adding:
“We thought that was the greatest praise we could get.”
See more ugliness from this journal on Friday —
See also this journal on the death of the other City Hall architect.
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Sunday, March 29, 2020
Metatextuality at Yale
See also this journal on the date — February 19, 2009 —
of the above Ibsen opening, as well as today’s previous post.
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Plan 9 from Yale
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Saturday, March 28, 2020
Notes towards the Definition of Dylan
From yesterday morning —
“Play the numbers, play the odds
Play ‘Cry Me a River’ for the Lord of the gods”
— Bob Dylan at
https://genius.com/Bob-dylan-murder-most-foul-lyrics
This suggests . . .
Polydor 2001 566 —
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Friday, March 27, 2020
Nobel Literature Lyrics
“Play the numbers, play the odds
Play ‘Cry Me a River’ for the Lord of the gods”
— Bob Dylan at
https://genius.com/Bob-dylan-murder-most-foul-lyrics
See also “Cry Me a River” in this journal.
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Annals of Literature
Recent posts now tagged Paycheck suggest . . .
Related material —
See too “The Bond with Reality” in posts tagged Voids.
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The Lottery Midrash
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Thursday, March 26, 2020
Line for a National Comedy Center
Log24 last Sunday:
Two years earlier —
Saturday Night Live on March 24, 2018 (a repeat) —
Related literature: The 1953 Philip K. Dick story
“Paycheck” —
A punchline for Saoirse —
“Manly, yes, but I like it too.”
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Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Spectral Evidence
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Sunday in the Park
Some notes suggested by recent posts now also tagged Three Days —
Sporkin in 1975, according to his obituary in this morning’s print edition
of The New York Times —
He reportedly died at 88 of natural causes on Monday, March 23.
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Tuesday, March 24, 2020
The Amsterdam Connection
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No Ordinary Venue
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Sunday, March 22, 2020
Three Days of the Breakthrough Institute
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Sermon
See also, for a child of Hell’s Kitchen, a New York Times
quote from this morning’s print edition:
“A version of this article appears in print
on , Section SR, Page 6 of
the New York edition with the headline:
My Grandma on Art and Sex.” —
“Above all, she was unfailingly true to herself.”
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Putting the “Arch” in Architecture:
An 1132 for James Joyce — (Click to enlarge)
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Eightfold Site
A brief summary of the eightfold cube is now at octad.us.
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Saturday, March 21, 2020
Friday, March 20, 2020
Father Flynn’s Walpurgisnacht
Father Flynn in this morning’s post “Hollywood Interpretation
of Quantum Mechanics” suggests a flashback to Tron: Legacy —
A search for the above blogger “hilbertthm90”
yields some of his remarks from April 30, 2008
in his weblog “A Mind for Madness.” See as well
this journal on Walpurgisnacht 2008.
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Going Viral with Doctor WHO
“After consulting with medical experts and receiving guidance from
the World Health Organization, CNN has determined that the term
‘Chinese virus’ is both inaccurate and considered stigmatizing.”
— March 19 coronavirus news
By Jessie Yeung, Helen Regan,
Adam Renton, Emma Reynolds and
Fernando Alfonso III, CNN,
Updated 10:42 p.m. ET, March 19, 2020
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The Hollywood Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
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Thursday, March 19, 2020
Class
In memory of Stephen Schwartz, a member of
the Harvard College class of 1963 —
Synchronology check —
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Spring Awakening
In memory of a University of Washington pathologist
who reportedly died on Tuesday, March 17 —
Cezanne’s Greetings.
See as well . . .
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Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Arch vs. Pyramid
This morning’s online New York Times has news of Glastonbury:
Glastonbury Woo in this journal features the arch, not the pyramid.
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Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Geometric Theology
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Monday, March 16, 2020
Principles Before Personalities
For some personalities , see the previous post.
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The Lindbergh Plot
Philip Roth's 2004 paranoid classic premieres on TV tonight.
I prefer an alternative Lindbergh plot. See Peter Lindbergh in this journal.
At right below, a work of art that the fashion photographer Lindbergh
made when he was young and known as "Sultan."
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Models and Monuments
". . . recognizing the bias in your models
and sharing it with clients, users, and engineers
is monumental . . . ."
— Made Lapuerta, Sept. 23, 2019, on AI
"Is this an obelisk I see before me?"
— m759, from a Log24 search for Obelisk
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Mathematics and Narrative* Continues:
Mathematics: See Tetrahedron vs. Square in this journal
(Notes on two different models of schoolgirl space ).
Narrative: Replacing the square from the above posts by
a related cube …
… yields a merchandising inspiration —
Dueling Holocrons:
Jedi Cube vs. Sith Tetrahedron —
.* See also earlier posts on Mathematics and Narrative.
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Sunday, March 15, 2020
The “Octad Group”
The phrase “octad group” discussed here in a post
of March 7 is now a domain name, “octad.group,”
that leads to that post. Remarks by Conway and
Sloane now quoted there indicate how the group
that I defined in 1979 is embedded in the large
Mathieu group M24.
Related literary notes — Watson + Embedding.
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Moriarty Songs
In memory of mathematician Richard K. Guy
and of songwriter Eric Taylor,
who each reportedly died on March 9.
For Guy, some small numbers:
For Taylor, a link to the lyrics of his song "Dean Moriarty."
See as well this journal on March 9.
(More backstory — Posts on Nanci Griffith.)
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Saturday, March 14, 2020
Richard K. Guy Has Died at 103.
Related material in this journal — Posts tagged Berlekamp's Game.
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News for Josefine Lyche
Artnet.com yesterday on "previously unsung or undersung
female artists working in esoteric or occult traditions" —
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Possession
Click the above image for details.
There was, however, a challenge by Cozzens himself:
The apparent source:
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Friday, March 13, 2020
Missa Brevis
In memory of a composer who reportedly died on Wednesday,
March 11, 2020 —
From a synchronology check —
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Thursday, March 12, 2020
Play Date
Today's 4:02 AM ET post, "Steinfeld as Rose the Hat,"
suggests a review —
A more impressive woman in white —
Update of 8 PM ET —
Beckinsale gives Oct. 5, 2001, as the date of the New York
premiere of the film "Serendipity." Synchronology check:
Beckinsale's premiere date — Oct. 5, 2001 — is incorrect.
The film was released on that date, but its New York premiere
was actually on Oct. 3, 2001. See Getty Images.
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Steinfeld as Rose the Hat
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Language Games: Reflection
The conclusion of an elegy for George Steiner
in th Times Literary Supplement issue dated
March 13, 2020 —
"What distinguishes humans from other animals, Johann Gottfried Herder
suggested in his essay On the Origin of Language (1772), is not so much
their capacity for language as their capacity for arriving at general reflection
(Besonnenheit ) through language. Few thinkers of the postwar era can be
said to have pursued this reflection with as much range and rigour as George
Steiner.
Ben Hutchinson is Professor of European Literature at the University of Kent
and Director of the Paris School of Arts and Culture. His most recent book is
Comparative Literature: A very short introduction, 2018 ."
See as well . . .
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Wednesday, March 11, 2020
Hunger Game for a “Pop Culture Star”
"A hunger to be more serious"
— Arts & Letters Daily on the late
George Steiner, who reportedly
died on February 3, 2020
The New York Times on a Sunday death —
A Midrash —
Serious —
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Visualizing Mathieu Group Generators
Update of March 17, 2020 —
The graphic images illustrate nicely Conder's six 4-cycles, but
their relationship, if any, to his eight 2-cycles is a mystery —
The Conder paper is at
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/82622574.pdf.
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Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Labeling a Cuboctahedron
The above arrangement of graphic images on cube faces is purely
decorative and static, and of little mathematical interest.
(A less static, but structurally chaotic, artifact might be made by
pasting the above 24 graphic images in the "Cosets in S4" picture
above onto the 24 faces of a 2x2x2 Rubik cube. This suggests the
reflection below on the poet Wallace Stevens, whose "Connoisseur
of Chaos" first appeared on page 90 of Twentieth Century Verse ,
Numbers 12-13, October 1938.)
If mathematically interesting permutations of the graphic images
are to be done, the images should be imagined as situated on
parallel planes, as in the permutahedron below —
Click the above permutahedron for an analysis of its structure.
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Monday, March 9, 2020
“Archimedes at Hiroshima” Continues.
The title is from a post of January 10, 2019.
A figure from this journal on June 1, 2019 —
The following figure may help relate labelings of the
truncated octahedron ("permutahedron") to labelings
of its fellow Archimedean solid, the cuboctahedron.
See as well other posts tagged Aitchison.
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The Bucharest Wheel
From the Bucharest author in last night's 12:12 AM post —
From this journal on the above date, Feb. 16, 2011 —
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The Bucharest Cross
For fans of "The Zero Theorem" —
The 24 permutations of S4 arranged on a cube
by Cristi Stoica of Bucharest at
http://www.unitaryflow.com/2009/06/polyhedra-and-groups.html:
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Sunday, March 8, 2020
Joyce and Einstein on the Beach
"Hello! Kinch here. Put me on to Edenville.
Aleph, alpha: nought, nought, one."
"A very short space of time through very short times of space….
Am I walking into eternity along Sandymount strand?"
— James Joyce, Ulysses , Proteus chapter
See also the previous post and Masks of the Illuminati .
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Saturday, March 7, 2020
The “Octad Group” as Symmetries of the 4×4 Square
From "Mathieu Moonshine and Symmetry Surfing" —
(Submitted on 29 Sep 2016, last revised 22 Jan 2018)
by Matthias R. Gaberdiel (1), Christoph A. Keller (2),
and Hynek Paul (1)
(1) Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zurich
(2) Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich
https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.09302v2 —
"This presentation of the symmetry groups Gi is
particularly well-adapted for the symmetry surfing
philosophy. In particular it is straightforward to
combine them into an overarching symmetry group G
by combining all the generators. The resulting group is
the so-called octad group
G = (Z2)4 ⋊ A8 .
It can be described as a maximal subgroup of M24
obtained by the setwise stabilizer of a particular
'reference octad' in the Golay code, which we take
to be O9 = {3,5,6,9,15,19,23,24} ∈ 𝒢24. The octad
subgroup is of order 322560, and its index in M24
is 759, which is precisely the number of
different reference octads one can choose."
This "octad group" is in fact the symmetry group of the affine 4-space over GF(2),
so described in 1979 in connection not with the Golay code but with the geometry
of the 4×4 square.* Its nature as an affine group acting on the Golay code was
known long before 1979, but its description as an affine group acting on
the 4×4 square may first have been published in connection with the
Cullinane diamond theorem and Abstract 79T-A37, "Symmetry invariance in a
diamond ring," by Steven H. Cullinane in Notices of the American Mathematical
Society , February 1979, pages A-193, 194.
* The Galois tesseract .
Update of March 15, 2020 —
Conway and Sloane on the "octad group" in 1993 —
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Thursday, March 5, 2020
“Generated by Reflections”
See the title in this journal.
Such generation occurs both in Euclidean space …
… and in some Galois spaces —
.
In Galois spaces, some care must be taken in defining "reflection."
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Architect
Suggested by the previous post: "Garland is an architect of complicated stories and actual spaces."
— Adam Rogers, 7 AM March 4th, 2020,
https://www.wired.com/story/
inside-devs-dreamy-silicon-valley-quantum-thriller/.
See also The Reality Blocks.
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Pythagorean Letter Meets Box of Chocolates
Friday, July 11, 2014Spiegel-Spiel des GeviertsFiled under: Uncategorized — m759 @ 12:00 PM See Cube Symbology.
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Wednesday, March 4, 2020
What Part of NO Don’t You Understand?
The previous post addressed the "N" part.
For the "O" part, see Juliette Binoche in "High Life,"
a sequel to Kristen Stewart as bait in "Clouds of
Sils Maria" (2014) —
The Tackle —
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Review
The minute in the previous post's timestamp
suggests a review —
See also Post-It Aesthetics
and posts tagged Story of N.
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Architect’s Elegy
On Boston's Hancock Tower:
"I reflect that all art, all beauty, is reflection."
— Fictional character by John Updike (July 1976)
The architect of the tower reportedly died Monday.
See as well "Reflections: Disturbing the Universe I"
by the late Freeman Dyson in The New Yorker
issue dated August 6, 1979.
A reflection I prefer:
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Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Corner
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Ljubljana
Last night's 11:59 PM post linked to some news from Slovenia —
"Ulay, the performance artist whose provocative collaborations with
Marina Abramovic often led them to push each other to extremes,
died on Monday at his home in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He was 76."
— Alex Marshall in The New York Times
Ljubljana last appeared in this journal on August 10, 2011, in a post
titled "Objectivity."
A number related to that concept —
Euclid's Elements, Book I, Proposition 47.
Less objectively —
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Monday, March 2, 2020
Key
— Performance artist who reportedly died today. See . . .
See also https://www.li-ma.nl/lima/sites/default/files/
Concept%20programme%20Transformation%20Digital%20Art%20Symposium
%2019%2620%20March%2C%202020%20-%20LIMA%20%283%29.pdf.
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In Memoriam: Jack Welch, 1935-2020
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What Are You?
What are you, 12?
I'm 8. What are you reading?
Just a Western.
What does that mean? Is it good?
Pretty good.
What's the story?
I haven't finished it yet.
[Link added.]
Read more: https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/
movie_script.php?movie=once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood
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Sunday, March 1, 2020
Same Staircase, Different Day
Freeman Dyson on his staircase at Trinity College
(University of Cambridge) and on Ludwig Wittgenstein:
“I held him in the highest respect and was delighted
to find him living in a room above mine on the same
staircase. I frequently met him walking up or down
the stairs, but I was too shy to start a conversation.”
Frank Close on Ron Shaw:
“Shaw arrived there in 1949 and moved into room K9,
overlooking Jesus Lane. There is nothing particularly
special about this room other than the coincidence that
its previous occupant was Freeman Dyson.”
— Close, Frank. The Infinity Puzzle (p. 78).
Basic Books. Kindle Edition.
See also other posts now tagged Trinity Staircase.
Illuminati enthusiasts may enjoy the following image:
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