See as well a recent post in memory of “Chariots of Fire” actor Ben Cross.
From a Chrome Browser announcement today —
Compare and contrast “The Ghost and the Darkness” (Constellation, 1996)
and the new film “Rogue” (Lionsgate, 2020).
“Elijah?… Elijah?!” — Megan Fox in “Rogue” (00:41:47)
“Careful. Evil has a way of making friends with the good
and dragging them into the darkness.” — CSI, Feb. 24, 2011
A related meditation —
All 4096 vectors in the code are at . . .
http://neilsloane.com/oadir/oa.4096.12.2.7.txt.
Sloane’s list* contains the 12 generating vectors
listed in 2011 by Adlam —
As noted by Conway in Sphere Packings, Lattices and Groups ,
these 4096 vectors, constructed lexicographically, are exactly
the same vectors produced by using the Conway-Sloane version
of the Curtis Miracle Octad Generator (MOG). Conway says this
lexico-MOG equivalence was first discovered by M. J. T. Guy.
(Of course, any permutation of the 24 columns above produces
a version of the code qua code. But because the lexicographic and
the MOG constructions yield the same result, that result is in
some sense canonical.)
See my post of July 13, 2020 —
The lexicographic Golay code
contains, embedded within it,
the Miracle Octad Generator.
For some related results, Google the twelfth generator:
* Sloane’s list is of the codewords as the rows of an orthogonal array —
See also http://neilsloane.com/oadir/.
“Plan 9 deals with the resurrection of the dead.”
* See the previous post‘s link to the phrase
“Turn on, tune in, drop dead.”
Sheehy reportedly died on Monday, August 24, 2020.
YouTube has the Vermont speech:
From this journal on that date —
Summary: “Turn on, tune in, drop dead.“
The title is adapted from T. S. Eliot.
See Jung, Psychology and Religion , p. 72
(Princeton University Press, second ed., 1969).
“It is a strange, melancholy feeling to turn sixty-five, and realize
that what you have spent a good portion of your life working
for and toward was not only meritless but also destructive.”
— A new book on politics quoted by Sean Illing at vox.com this morning
For some 65th-birthday-related reflections of my own, see my posts
of August 2007.
For those who prefer entertainment to melancholy, an image
from one of those posts —
Also Dick-related —
Jung's phrase "'four-square' Heavenly City" in the previous post
suggests a geometric object… the 4×4 square —
The "twelve gates" at the sides of the above figure suggest a song —
The Baez date above suggests in turn a review of
the Jan. 4, 2014, post "Heaven's Gate,"
on the death of film producer Saul Zaentz.
Related material —
The "Heavenly City" is perhaps not Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Recall as well Jean Simmons preaching the Foursquare Gospel
in the 1960 film classic "Elmer Gantry" —
Or: "1, 2, 3 , 4, who are we for?"
Related material —
From yesterday morning’s post “An Object Lesson” —
A search for the origin of a photo in yesterday’s New York Times
obituary of linguist Geoffrey Nunberg yields . . .
“Words are not things, but activities,” observed Dwight Bolinger,
a revered linguist who taught at Harvard before retiring to Palo Alto,
and he might have been describing Nunberg. Early this morning—
about 2:30 a.m.—he called Bolinger’s words “my favorite linguistic
epigram” in his posting on the Language Log, where blogging linguists
“chew the electronic fat,” as Nunberg puts it.
— Ann Hurst, undated article in Stanford Magazine , March/April 2005
In reality, Nunberg said something slightly different —
Meanwhile, elsewhere . . .
Scholium —
From Log24’s Language Game, Jan. 14, 2004 —
“Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations :
373. Grammar tells what kind of object anything is. (Theology as grammar.)”
From a web page —
From YouTube, for the Church of Synchronology —
Meanwhile, elsewhere . . .
* See that book title in this journal.
Posts tagged Plato's Video continue.
Related literary remarks from this journal on Oct. 1, 2016 —
— A Heart for the Gods of Mexico , Conrad Aiken, 1939
Related imagery this morning from the Gulf of Mexico —
Meanwhile, also on Oct. 1, 2016, related imagery from Star Wars Rebels —
Click here for the video.
“What is your aim in philosophy?—To show the fly
the way out of the fly-bottle.”
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
“Philosophical Investigations”
Related philosophical investigations —
This morning’s post Gap Dance and a 2012 film . . .
“Three magazine employees head out on an assignment
to interview a guy who placed a classified advertisement
seeking a companion for time travel.” — IMDb
The finished film does not follow the script exactly. (The above
dialogue is rendered more in the spirit of Hunter Thompson.)
From remarks in this journal on Aug. 7 —
“You’ve got to pick up every stitch.” — Donovan
“Looking carefully at Golay’s code
is like staring into the sun.”
“What would the pavement of the universe be
if there were gaps between the paving stones,
inaccessible and filled with nothing?”
— “Concerning Time,” by Iannis Xenakis and
Roberta Brown, on page 85, Perspectives of New Music ,
Vol. 27, No. 1 (Winter, 1989, pp. 84-92).
This post was suggested by the Aug. 19 remarks of
Karmela Padavic-Callaghan in Scientific American .
Music for The Bowler and Casanova Frankenstein —
Image from the website of the Scientific American author.
“In the main belly cabin he discovered the reason
for the tropical heat; a naked woman was sweating
and swearing over the maintenance gear surrounding
a transparent incubator. She was tinkering and crawling
over and under the complications like an octopus.
It was his assistant, Dr. Cluny Decco, and Krupp had
never seen her nude before, but his controlled voice
did not betray his delighted amazement.”
— Alfred Bester, The Deceivers . Kindle Edition.
From a post, Dharma Fabric , of January 7, 2020 —
“Ann Syrdal, a psychologist and computer science researcher
who helped develop synthetic voices that sounded like women,
laying the groundwork for such modern digital assistants as
Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa, died on July 24 at her home
in San Jose, Calif. She was 74.” — Cade Metz, NY Times, today
Related rhetoric:
See Corinne Wahl in an adaptation of Schnitzler’s La Ronde.
Compare and contrast the 4×4 square of the Wahl presentation
with that of the July 26 post Dirty Dancing Disco.
* A reference to the previous post.
For the title, see the Aug. 17 post Vampire Workday.
Scholium for Beckinsale —
“For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.” — Gravity’s Rainbow
The title refers to a Paris Review article dated August 18, 2020.
Detail of poet Donald Hall’s home in a photo accompanying the article —
A synchronology check of Hall’s date of death — Midsummer Eve
in 2018 — yields, in this journal —
Related images I prefer to Hall’s —
See Cross at IMDb. He reportedly died yesterday.
“For decades, Mr. Cross worked steadily
in television and film. He had just completed
shooting for the coming film ‘The Devil’s Light,’
about an exorcism, according to a statement from
his representative, Tracy Mapes.”
Also by Azi Paybarah —
See as well Sunset Boulevard Revisited and . . .
“Do not block intersection.” — City of Los Angeles
From Devil’s Night 2017 —
Harvard fans, August 2019 —
“Fabricated from three tons of Cor-Ten steel . . . .”
For further fabrications, see Neville + Labrys.
The title is a phrase by Robert Hughes from the previous post.
The image below explains the origin of Kate Beckinsale’s
“Big Duck Energy” Instagram post from last night.
See also Vox Lux in this journal.
See Grammaton Cleric in this journal.
This phrase describes a character in the 2002 film “Equilibrium.”
See also . . .
Context —
Accompanying dialogue —
Nina Kate is, among other things, a latex designer:
Latex design suggested by a recent Jaime King meditation
on the AA phrase Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired: HALT —
“Gotta work on that acronym.” — Tony Stark —
This post was suggested last night by Kate Beckinsale’s
pussy, Willow. Another Willow —
Willow’s dance in “The Wicker Man” is memorable.
Another dance by the same actress —
“What of the night
That lights and dims the stars?
Do you know, Hans Christian,
Now that you see the night?”
— The concluding lines of “Sonatina to Hans Christian,”
by Wallace Stevens (in Harmonium (second edition, 1931))
“Never a little tea-party of white young lady foxes”
— The Snow Queen , by Hans Christian Andersen
" Once he opens these gates, Harry will flood his audience
with his redemptive epiphanic impression that ‘the world
was saturated with love.’ ”
— Liesl Schillinger, review of Mark Helprin’s novel
In Sunlight and in Shadow
Not to mention the MILF of human kindness.
“Don’t forget the portcullis, Dutch Boy!”
“Harry decides his chief peacetime duty is to use his
gift for gab to further his ‘overriding purpose,’ namely:
‘By recalling the past and freezing the present he could
open the gates of time and through them see all
allegedly sequential things as a single masterwork
with neither boundaries nor divisions.’ Once he opens
these gates, Harry will flood his audience with his
redemptive epiphanic impression that ‘the world was
saturated with love.’ ”
— Liesl Schillinger, review of Mark Helprin’s novel
In Sunlight and in Shadow in The New York Times ,
Oct. 5, 2012
Prelude to a Mattress Dance
From “Take This Waltz” (2011)
Related architecture —
“And I’ll bury my soul in a scrapbook
With the photographs there, and the moss”
— Leonard Cohen, “Take This Waltz” lyrics
“Oh I want to take you down to Kokomo,
we’ll get there fast and then we’ll take it slow
That’s where we want to go, way down in Kokomo”
— Beach Boys (1988), with images in memory of Jeffrey Epstein:
“A Passion that Kills,” by Markus Pierson (wood sculpture, 1988)
Midrash for the Fockers —
“I like to watch.” — Chauncey Gardiner
“I had a little drink about an hour ago,
and it’s gone right to my head.” — Old song
This suggests a review:
I.e. . . . 
| New Woke Stance
“The new Playboy claims to have moved away from the male gaze, but no matter how tasteful it may be, it is still relying on nudity. ‘We talk a lot about when something is objectification versus when it is consensual objectification versus when it is art,’ Singh said. ‘I think objectification removes the agency of the subject. ‘Consensual objectification is the idea of someone feeling good about themselves and wanting someone to look at them. Art means, O.K., we can hang this on a wall. And if it’s both, for us, that’s the major win.’ ” — Erica Tempesta for DailyMail.com, 2 Aug. 2019 |
Heller: I'm a weapons designer. (grabs Shoveler's collar) I've got what you need. Shoveler: A--All right. We'll--we'll come back. We'll visit all of you people, later. Thank you, sir. Heller: No no no no no. I--I don't live here. I'm here for the ladies. You know. Here, take my card. +------------------------------------------------+ |Aromatherapy Laser Hair Removal| | Doctor A. Heller | | Weapons Designer | | Innovator, Inventor | | World Changer | | | | Old Funhouse | | Heller Fairgrounds | | Test Site Number 7 | |Carnival Rides Chicken Rentals| +------------------------------------------------+ My name's Heller. Say it with me. Heller&Shoveler: Heller. Shoveler: All right. Thank you. (he absently puts Heller's card in his pocket)
“Somewhere, someplace… there must be a lost horizon…
A Shangri-La where a man can find peace, happiness,
and lots of naked ladies.” — Carl Reiner
The stock image of a compass in this morning’s post
“For Bookmakers” is from a webpage by the author below.
” ‘I became enraptured with the idea
that there is another world around us
that we don’t see,’ Dr. Rose told the Scientist
earlier this year.”
For another invisible world, see this journal on July 30.
“Sometimes a wind comes before the rain
and sends birds sailing past the window,
spirit birds that ride the night,
stranger than dreams.”
— The end of DeLillo’s Point Omega
The New York Times eulogizes a man who died Friday —
“Rabbi Steinsaltz was a prolific and wide-ranging writer
and a sharp observer of humanity who wrote more than
60 books on philosophy, mysticism, theology, even zoology.
His study of kabbalah, ‘The Thirteen Petalled Rose,’ is
considered a classic and has been translated into eight languages.”
Another classic of Jewish thought:
Thoughts of the young Carl Reiner as rendered above in 1967 —
“Somewhere, someplace… there must be a lost horizon…
A Shangri-La where a man can find peace, happiness,
and lots of naked ladies.”
“If Scott Fitzgerald were to return to life,
he would feel at home in a Whit Stillman movie.”
— Roger Ebert reviewing “The Last Days of Disco”
on May 29, 1998 (link added)
But not, perhaps, in Boogie Nights of the Golden Circle.
From an email this morning with a fake spam user address:
If this were the actress Jessy Holtermann . . .
Aooo.
See posts resulting from a search for “Lost Time” in this journal.
In memory of Wilford Brimley:
“The polymorphic Thing, capable of absorbing the human
as but one among other morphological possibilities in its
seemingly infinite repertoire, can be understood, that is,
as the embodiment of evolution.”
— Eric White, Science Fiction Studies #61 (Vol. 20, Part 3, Nov. 1993),
“The Erotics of Becoming: XENOGENESIS and The Thing“
| “Frances Allen, a former high school math teacher who became one of the leading computer scientists of her generation and, in 2006, was the first woman to win the A.M. Turing Award, considered the Nobel Prize in computing, died in Schenectady, N.Y., on Aug. 4, her 88th birthday. . . .
Ms. Allen, after being introduced to the FORTRAN programming language when it was released in 1957, was fascinated with compiler optimization early in her career and became one of the leading visionaries in the field. Because of its compiler program, FORTRAN enabled a manner of communication with the computer that was closer to human understanding. With that as her model, Ms. Allen was inspired to make compilers more efficient. Her work, which set the tone for how people in the field think about compiler optimization, bridged the gap between how computers communicate and how people communicate, thus opening up the use of computers to scientists and engineers and others outside the glass-enclosed data center fortresses.” — Glenn Rifkin, Washington Post |
A related tale — Systems Programming in this journal.
Of greater interest to mathematicians —
The work of a man to whom Frances Allen was once married —
“Schwartz’s early work with his thesis advisor Nelson Dunford
led to the two of them collaborating on a famous book Linear Operators
which quickly became known simply as ‘Dunford and Schwartz’.”
— https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Schwartz_Jacob/.
Schwartz reportedly died on March 2, 2009. For related religious remarks,
see this journal on that date.
Carver reportedly died on Tuesday, August 4, 2020.
“This is Maggie the Cat” —
“This is not.”
From a Log24 search for Schwartz + “The Sun” —
“Looking carefully at Golay’s code
is like staring into the sun.”
See a Log24 search for Beadgame Space.
This post might be regarded as a sort of “checked cell”
for the above concepts listed as tags . . .
Related material from a Log24 search for Structuralism —
In memory of New York personality Pete Hamill ,
who reportedly died yesterday —
Seven years ago yesterday —
In memory of another New York personality, a parking-garage mogul
who reportedly died on August 9, 2005 —
Icon Parking posts and . . .
The New York Times obituary for Eric Bentley,
drama critic and playwright, who reportedly died today
at 103, says that . . .
“He took up the causes of the left in
‘Are You Now or Have You Ever Been:
The Investigation of Show Business
by the Un-American Activities Committee,
1947-1958,’ first produced in 1972. . . .”
For that title phrase in this journal, see other posts
now tagged Ekô.
Published today —
Related quotation —
Cover art published today —
Some mathematics related to the The Fixed Stars cover art,
from a post of May 1, 2020 —
The Escape from Plato’s Cave to . . .
See also Numberland and Walpurgisnacht Geometry.
From an obituary in today’s Boston Globe —
“His father, meanwhile, had retired and hoped
to open a liquor store in Brooklyn.
When bureaucratic hurdles made his goal seem unreachable,
an old friend, Anthony Paterno, who ran a grocery and bottling
business in Chicago, persuaded him to try opening a shop there,
where fewer obstacles existed.
Salvatore Terlato enlisted Anthony to help him, and together
they opened the shop, Leading Liquor Marts, in 1955.”
See also Sunset Boulevard Revisited and . . .
“Do not block intersection.” — City of Los Angeles
A post of May 26, 2005, displays, if not the sword,
a place for it —
"The beautiful in mathematics resides in contradiction.
Incommensurability, logoi alogoi, was the first splendor
in mathematics." — Simone Weil, Oeuvres Choisies,
éd. Quarto , Gallimard, 1999, p. 100
Logos Alogos by S. H. Cullinane
"To a mathematician, mathematical entities have their own existence,
they habitate spaces created by their intention. They do things,
things happen to them, they relate to one another. We can imagine
on their behalf all sorts of stories, providing they don't contradict
what we know of them. The drama of the diagonal, of the square…"
— Dennis Guedj, abstract of "The Drama of Mathematics," a talk
to be given this July at the Mykonos conference on mathematics and
narrative. For the drama of the diagonal of the square, see
See also Joseph Malkevitch's memorial essay on Richard K. Guy,
who reportedly died on March 9, 2020, and Log24 on that date.
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