Click Nina for the above film from Good Friday, 2019.
Sunday, February 28, 2021
Factional Group
Related tune suggested yesterday by Peter J. Cameron —
The Beatles, “I Me Mine,” from the “Let It Be” album.
Related imagery —
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Saturday, February 27, 2021
The Pencil Case
Clue
Here is a midrash on “desmic,” a term derived from the Greek desmé
( δέσμη: bundle, sheaf , or, in the mathematical sense, pencil —
French faisceau ), which is related to the term desmos , bond …
(The term “desmic,” as noted earlier, is relevant to the structure of
Heidegger’s Sternwürfel .)
“Gadzooks, I’ve done it again!” — Sherlock Hemlock
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Quarters
From posts tagged “The Empty Quarter” —
Related tune suggested today by Peter J. Cameron —
The Beatles, “I Me Mine,” from the “Let It Be” album.
That album, and an image from Log24 on Feb. 23 —
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Friday, February 26, 2021
“Only Connect”
Twelves (in memory of Robert de Marrais) —
Receipt date for the above article —
Synchronicity check —
Related reading —
http://www.universityreaders.com/pdf/
Incarnations-of-the-Blaring-Bluesblinger_sneak_preview.pdf
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Non-Chaos Non-Magic
For fans of “WandaVision” —
“1978 was perhaps the seminal year in the origin of chaos magic. . . .”
— Wikipedia article on Chaos Magic
Non-Chaos Non-Magic from Halloween 1978 —
Related material —
A doctoral student of a different Peter Cameron —
( Not to be confused with The Tin Man’s Hat. )
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Thursday, February 25, 2021
Compare and Contrast
“… What is your dream—your ideal? What is your News from Nowhere,
or, rather, What is the result of the little shake your hand has given to
the old pasteboard toy with a dozen bits of colored glass for contents?
And, most important of all, can you present it in a narrative or romance
which will enable me to pass an idle hour not disagreeably? How, for instance,
does it compare in this respect with other prophetic books on the shelf?”
— Hudson, W. H.. A Crystal Age (p. 2). Open Road Media. Kindle Edition.
See as well . . .
The lexicographic Golay code
contains, embedded within it,
the Miracle Octad Generator.
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Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Cards of Identity Continues.
For a different sort of dazzle, and of seeing beneath,
vide Square Space. “Leave a space.” — Stoppard, Jumpers
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Annals of Dim Antiquity
“Twenty-four glyphs, each one representing not a letter, not a word,
but a concept, arranged into four groups, written in Boris’s own hand,
an artifact that seemed to have resurrected him from the dead. It was
as if he were sitting across from Bourne now, in the dim antiquity of
the museum library.
This was what Bourne was staring at now, written on the unfolded
bit of onionskin.”
— The Bourne Enigma , published on June 21, 2016
Passing, on June 21, 2016, into a higher dimension —
For those who prefer Borges to Bourne —
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Surrealistic Pillow Continues.
Suggested tune for Emma Brown —
“Send me the pillow
that you dream on”
“At the still point . . . .” — T. S. Eliot
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Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Death at a Center of Revolution
. . . And what rough beast . . . . ?
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Monday, February 22, 2021
Design Theory
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For “the Supreme Fascist” (a phrase of Paul Erdős)
The above author reportedly died on August 22, 2009.
A check of that date in this journal yields . . .
A passage from the “Assumption” link target above, with a title
suggested by the preceding “Making Mathematics” piece —
Making Money: The Communist Connection
“He and his fellow monks were cut off from the rest of the world
during the second Sino-Japanese War, which lasted from 1937 to
1945. When hostilities ended, the monastery relocated to the
provincial capital of Chengdu, where the monks opened the
Institute of Chinese and Western Cultural Studies with a library
that eventually had 10,000 volumes.
Chengdu, the last stronghold of the Nationalist Party, was overrun
by Mao’s army on Christmas Day 1949. The Communists closed the
institute, confiscated the books and forced Winance and the other
monks to attend indoctrination sessions on Marxism.”
Another article by Wieschenberg might, to some, actually be worth $49 —
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Sunday, February 21, 2021
Cube Woo
"Before time began, there was the Cube."
— Hassenfeld Brothers merchandising slogan
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Saturday, February 20, 2021
Storm News
Epigraph from Google —
Related narratives — the recent film Fast Color * and
a not-so-recent** film . . .
* “Parents need to know that Fast Color is a sci-fi drama
about a family of women who have the ability to deconstruct
objects with their minds.”
** See the not-so-recent writer.
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Wechsler Puzzle
Books by George Steiner at
https://openroadmedia.com/contributor/george-steiner —
Related language —
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Friday, February 19, 2021
Autistic Enchantment . . .
Valentine’s Day, the date of the above post, this year was also
Autism Sunday. Here is a flashback to the Autism Sunday of 2015
and two related links —
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Thursday, February 18, 2021
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Raiders of the Lost Coordinates . . .
From other posts tagged Tetrahedron vs. Square —
"There is such a thing as a 4-set."
— Saying adapted from a 1962 young-adult novel.
Illustration (central detail a from the above tetrahedral figure) —
A Harvard Variation
from Timothy Leary —
The topics of Harvard and Leary suggest some other cultural
history, from The Coasters — "Poison Ivy" and "Yakety Yak."
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Eins und Einheit
“The number one , then, has become Husserl’s touchstone
for discriminating between psychological processes and
logical laws. It is his reality detector. What is
psychological (or empirical) comes on in discrete
individual instances– ones– and you can examine their
edges. What is logical (or ideal) comes on as a
seamless oceanic unity without temporal edges….”
— Marianne Sawicki, “Edmund Husserl (1859—1938),”
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
See also Roman Numeral in this journal.
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Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Buffalo Logic
From a post of January 8, 2021 —
“Lord Arglay had a suspicion that the Stone would be
purely logical. Yes, he thought, but what, in that sense,
were the rules of its pure logic?”
—Many Dimensions (1931), by Charles Williams
A Midrash for Emma —
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Monday, February 15, 2021
Philosophy for Emma Stone
From a post of August 30, 2015 —
“… recall the words of author Norman Mailer
that summarized his Harvard education —
‘At times, bullshit can only be countered
with superior bullshit.’ “
And at times, non-bullshit is required.
BS from The New York Times Friday on the mathematical fields
known as topology and analysis in the 1960s —
“The two fields seemed to be nearly irremediably divided,
because topology twists objects around, and analysis
needs them to be rigid.”
Some less ignorant remarks from 1986:
The above Gauss-Bonnet theorem (ca. 1848) is explained in a talk titled
“Analysis Meets Topology” labeled with the above Emma Stone date —
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Raiders of the Lost Building Blocks
In memory of a Dead Sea Scrolls scholar who
reportedly died on December 29, 2020, here are
links to two Log24 posts from that date:
I Ching Geometry and Raiders of the Lost Coordinates.
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Sunday, February 14, 2021
The Wickedly Difficult Tango
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Saturday, February 13, 2021
Das Nichts Nichtet
Also on February Seventh —
Sunday, February 7, 2021
Transformers Continues.“Before time began, there was the Cube.”
Et cetera . |
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Bullshit Studies . . .
Background reading — Math’s Big Lies and, more generally, Mazur.
Related news for fans of Language Games —
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Friday, February 12, 2021
What I Mean . . .
The title is adapted from a recent book by Joan Didion.
That book now appears among others in my Kindle library —
A Midrash for Singer
Vide "Bereshit" in Wikipedia and in this journal.
Related material —
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Root
A star figure and the Galois quaternion.
The square root of the former is the latter.
(This post was suggested by the definition of
the Dirac operator as a square root.)
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Thursday, February 11, 2021
An Interzone Tale for William S. Burroughs
The above book on Husserl was reportedly published on July 28, 2011.
See also this journal on that date.
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Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Nexus
Midrash
The adding machine, a reference to William S. Burroughs,
links to a web page based on a 1938 passage by John O’Hara.
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Multiversity News
“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
See also Lawrence, Kansas, in a Log24 search for August 2, 2002.
Related material: Text Tiles posts and, also from Lawrence, Kansas . . .
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Tuesday, February 9, 2021
On Location
Above: a 1965 film.
A setting for Daisy Clover:
Room 15 at the Grope ’n’ Feel Motel —
“Five miles north of Big Snake“
Above: a 1970 novel.
Above: a 1991 film.
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The Vision Thing
“It could have been worse.” — James Bond to M in “Spectre.”
“ . . . a nightmare vision of hell-on-earth . . . .“
— R. Crumb on the work of artist S. Clay Wilson, 79,
who reportedly died Sunday at his home in
San Francisco.
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Monday, February 8, 2021
Folklore
Wendy Derleth
|
https://moviedatabase.fandom.com/ wiki/Wendy_Derleth —
Wendy Derleth is a fictional teacher and a supporting character featured in the Wishmaster film series. Played by actress Jenny O'Hara, she appeared in the first installment of the series, Wishmaster in 1997. Biography Wendy Derleth was a professor of folklore at a university in California. Occasionally, she was called upon to lend her expertise to projects going on with the drama department, but admitted that such a thing was not really in her wheelhouse. In 1997, a woman named Alexandra Amberson came to Professor Derleth for advice under the recommendation of art collector Raymond Beaumont. Derleth had history with Beaumont and saw Amberson's apparent disinterest in the man as a sign of good judgment. Alex had been suffering from recent nightmares and prophetic visions relating to the presence of a Djinn. Without revealing too much, she picked Derleth's brain about the true nature of such creatures. Wendy was quite knowledgeable about Djinn and was quick to point out that these creatures were not cute and funny as one would expect from the likes of Barbara Eden or Robin Williams. They were dangerous and ruthless monsters born from the shadows cast by the first light of creation. |
Related material —
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Sunday, February 7, 2021
Transformers Continues.
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For WandaVision Fans
See also posts from Jan. 31, 2003, and Jan. 5, 2005.
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Saturday, February 6, 2021
Star Brick Memories
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Really Simple Syndication
He reportedly died on Jan. 31 at a hospital in Jerusalem.
See also “Deutsche Ordnung ,” the phrase (and film) “Triple Cross,”
and “Circle of Positivity” (Christmas Day, 2020).
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Friday, February 5, 2021
Imagery
“As you read, watch for patterns. Pay special attention to
imagery that is geometric….” — “Pattern in The Defense”
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ABC Art Code
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Thursday, February 4, 2021
Prayer Breakfast Day
See as well the previous post
and Psychoshop.
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Tales of Hoffman: Photo ID
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Wednesday, February 3, 2021
Art of the Possible
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Tuesday, February 2, 2021
Channeling Twain, or: The Records Have Two Sides
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Monday, February 1, 2021
Hexagrams for Georginas
The Georginas of the title are from yesterday’s posts tagged Poetics.
The hexagrams of the title, shown below, are from
http://finitegeometry.org/sc/64/iching.html .
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Bleak Midwinter Continues.
From a search for “Studio 60” in this journal —
| Tagline:
The drama. The passion. The intrigue… Plot Summary: Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try and save “… were it not that |
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