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A Harvard student* attempts to summarize Nabokov’s aesthetics —

“Take ‘Pale Fire,’ his 1962 poem-as-novel
bursting with butterfly as theme:

‘I can do what only a true artist can do —
pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation …
see the web of the world,
and the warp and the weft of that web.’ “

“True artist” here refers to Kinbote, not Nabokov.

* Tessa K.J. Haining, Harvard Crimson  Contributing Opinion Writer.
Tessa K.J. Haining ’23 lives in Adams House. Her column appears on
alternate Fridays. December 11, 2020.

The previous post suggests a look at The New Yorker  today —

Another “core claim” —

“Change arises from the structure of the object.“

See also Wiener Kreis  and Schlick.

“A colour is eternal.
It haunts time like a spirit.”
— Alfred North Whitehead

Vide —

http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=”Ein+Kampf”

http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=”Verhexung”

” There’s a line from the movie ‘The Paper Chase’, in which
the fearsome Professor Kingsfield tells a room of first-year
law-school students ‘You come in here with a skull full of mush …
and you leave thinking like a lawyer.’ “

— James Propp on December 14, 2020, in . . .

Children of the Labyrinth.

Related material — Japanese Bed.

Another name for the Fano plane design — The Ghostly  Hallows.
From a search in this journal  for Ghostly  —

Related material — Digital Theology  in a search for Dyson Bits.

“A quick note on terminology. Members of the Circle
were logical empiricists, sometimes called logical positivists.
Positivism is the view that our knowledge derives from
the natural world and includes the idea that we can have
positive knowledge of it. The Circle combined this position
with the use of modern logic; the aim was to build a new
philosophy.”

— Edmonds, David. The Murder of Professor Schlick  (p. vii).
Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition.

For aficionados of associative logic —

See Triple Cross  in this journal and the Fano-plane circle
in the illustration below.

See as well Simple Tune and Variation.

“… and the song of love’s recision is the music of the spheres.”
— E. L. Doctorow, City of God

Doctorow’s remark was quoted here earlier, on February 5, 2009 —

"Each of us has something to offer the Creator...
the bridging of
 masculine and feminine,
 life and death.
It's redemption.... nothing else matters."
-- Martha Cooley in The Archivist (1998)

 Dualities of Pythagoras
 as reconstructed by Aristotle:
  Limited Unlimited
  Odd Even
  Male Female
  Light Dark
  Straight Curved
  ... and so on ....

Robert M. Pirsig,  Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ,
Ch. 6 (italics are mine):

“A classical understanding sees the world primarily as underlying form  itself.
A romantic understanding sees it primarily in terms of immediate appearance .”

Illustration —

* De Corpore  had a negative effect on Hobbes’s scholarly reputation.
The inclusion of a claimed solution for squaring the circle, an apparent
afterthought rather than a systematic development, led to an extended
pamphlet war in the Hobbes-Wallis controversy.  — Wikipedia

Another afterthought, in the style of Kinbote  —
A search in this   journal for Peter M. Neumann
yields a link to Transformations over a bridge (1983 Aug. 16).

In memory of Ralph Winter and Barbara Windsor.

See also . . .

Personally, I prefer  To Catch a Thief —

“Breast or Thigh”?

A speaker in Washington, D.C., yesterday —

“We are in a crucible moment in the history
of the United States of America,” he said at
the “Let the Church Roar” rally at the National Mall.

In other drama —

“It’s a gesture, dear, not a recipe.”
— Peggy (Vanessa Redgrave) in a 1987 film.

The above Emma Watson date — Oct. 28, 2014 — suggests
some DC-related remarks in a Log24 search for “The Lost Symbol.”

“He said, ‘It’s no coincidence that I study narcissistic leaders,
because it takes one to know one’”

— Obituary for a CIA psychologist

“Opus esse uno, unum cognoscendi,” the arch-narcissist Veidt
haughtily declares before he does this, which he translates to mean,
“It takes one to know one.”

— https://www.salon.com/2019/12/16/
watchmen-finale-one-last-reveal-explains-all-those-eggs-
and-the-crushing-weight-of-legacy/

Dr. Post reportedly died on November 22.

From a review of the new game Cyberpunk 2077 —

“Oh, you also find out the chip has meshed with
your nervous system, so you can’t take it out, and
that Silverhand’s consciousness will eventually
overtake yours, meaning your body will live on
but not your mind, soul or spirit.

Damn computers.”

— Daniel Van Boom at cnet.com,
Dec. 7, 2020 4:19 p.m. PT
(and under a different title later)

See also the similar plot of “Upgrade” (2018) , a film featured in the
Log24 post Popular Mechanics: Midnight Upgrade (Oct. 26, 2019).

STEM Education —

For an earlier form of the plot,
see “Go Chip” in this  journal.

See a Log24 search that includes earlier posts on “Redactedentity.”

Recent activity by that entity at the Encyclopedia of Mathematics:

As the above “recent changes” list notes, Redactedentity added
a new favicon section to Talk:EoM on December 7, 2020.  Details —

The new section as it appeared later, with “Redactedentity”
replaced by “Mihir Narayanan” —

Update at 5:35 PM ET on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020 —

User “Redactedentity” at Wikipedia is now user “Mihir Narayanan.”

From the Net on December 7, 2020 —

Some background for academics:

“The Self Regained”: Cyberpunk’s Retreat
to the Imperium  by Sharon Stockton (1995)

A review dated December 7:

See the previous post and Butcher’s Clay (March 29, 2014).

* The title refers to a film starring Jessica Chastain.

See also Chastain in Annals of Subliminal Typography.

The title is a phrase I encountered today in a search for background
on the anonymous Wikipedia user whose first “user talk” page is as
follows —

See also CrazyMinecart88 at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:CrazyMinecart88 .

“… the disclosure of knowledge as it is
intimately bound up with identity work”

— “Awarding the self in Wikipedia : Identity work
and the disclosure of knowledge,” by Daniel Ashton.
First Monday, Volume 16, Number 1 – 3 January 2011.

Some mine cart  “identity work” of my own —

Today’s earlier post “Binary Coordinates” discussed a Dec. 6
revision to the Wikipedia article on PG(3,2), the projective
geometry of 3 dimensions over the 2-element field GF(2).

The revision, which improved the article, was undone later today
by a clueless retired academic, one William “Bill” Cherowitzo,
a professor emeritus of mathematics at U. of Colorado at Denver.
(See his article “Adventures of a Mathematician in Wikipedia-land,”
MAA Focus , December 2014/January 2015.)

See my earlier remarks on this topic . . . specifically, on this passage —

“A 3-(16,4,1) block design has 140 blocks
of size 4 on 16 points, such that each triplet
of points is covered exactly once. Pick any
single point, take only the 35 blocks
containing that point, and delete that point.
The 35 blocks of size 3 that remain comprise
a PG(3,2) on the 15 remaining points.”

As I noted on November 17, this is bullshit. Apparently Cherowitzo
never bothered to find out that an arbitrary  “3-(16,4,1) block design”
(an example of a Steiner quadruple system ) does not  yield a PG(3,2).

PG(3,2) is derived from the classical  3-(16,4,1) block design formed by the affine
space of 4 dimensions over GF(2).  That  design has 322,560 automorphisms.
In contrast, see a 3-(16,4,1) block design that is  automorphism-free.

The photo of Lauren German from “Standing Still” (2005) in the
previous post suggests some related material for comedians:

The above character-creator name “Neil Gaiman” occurs here
in a post from June 2013 —

The above footnote refers to . . .

More merriment:  Lauren German in a video of the related song
“Another One Bites the Dust.”

“The Devil Likes Metamorphoses.“

A reported death on November 22 —

An image reproduced in this  journal on November 22 —