In memory of a Harvard professor who reportedly died on
St. Peter's Day, 2021 (June 29).
"You may be flying through the air
Wrapped up in how high you can go
And no one will be there to bring you down
Just stop — take a look around"
— Patti LaBelle, "Space Children"
(No. 204 on Cara Delevingne's Wall of Sound)
* See also St. Peter's College in "His Dark Materials."
The "eschaton" phrase above is from the works of Robert Anton Wilson.
That Robert A. Wilson should not be confused with
the Robert A. Wilson who is a GL(2,3) enthusiast.
Nor should immanentizing be confused with coordinatizing . . .
"Coordinatizing the Deathly Hallows" —
Related geometric remarks — Hashtag as Well —
* A phrase from Disney in a July 30 film:
See as well other examples of form, and of "Page 194," in this journal.
See too "Page 293" in this journal.
Cover illustration:
Spies returning from the land of
Canaan with a cluster of grapes.
This journal on May 27, 2021 —
Downstream:
Upriver:
"There grows a tree in Paradise
And the pilgrims call it the Tree of Life"
The "secret, subterranean river" of Shulevitz is
a flow of thought favorable to the cause of feminism,
but not necessarily to other "revolutionary" ideas.
Compare and contrast:
"Where Alph, the sacred river, ran"
— Coleridge, Kubla Khan
"Where Aleph the sacred symbol ran"
— Cullinane, "The Coxeter Aleph"
For group discussion:
How (if at all) is the "finitude" of Heidegger related to
mathematical finitude and The King of Infinite Space ?
"Go away — I'm asleep."
— Epitaph of the late Joan Hackett.
Hackett is at top center
in the poster below.
“… Which makes it a gilt-edged priority that one of us
gets into that Krell lab and takes that brain boost.”
— American adaptation of Shakespeare’s Tempest , 1956
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“Propriation1 gathers the rift-design2 of the saying
— p. 415 of Heidegger‘s Basic Writings ,
“Das Ereignis versammelt den Aufriß der Sage — Heidegger, Weg zur Sprache 1. “Mirror-Play of the Fourfold” |
The two previous posts suggest a review.
And then there is the perspective of the above date — May 22, 2017 —
in this journal:
". . . and just as God defeats the devil . . . ."
— André Weil to his sister.
Accompanied by Elton John music?
Instagram screenshot with added note.
Easy E for an Accountant:
Not So Easy: E-Operators
"A great many other properties of E-operators
have been found, which I have not space
to examine in detail."
— Sir Arthur Eddington, New Pathways in Science ,
Cambridge University Press, 1935, page 271.
(This book also presents Eddington's unfortunate
speculations on the fine-structure constant.)
Update of 4:04 AM ET:
Here is the not-so-tiny-dancer in
the above Instagram screenshot.
"Like a child in wild anticipation . . ." — Song lyric
"The Algebra Project was born.
The project was a five-step philosophy of teaching
that can be applied to any concept, he wrote,
including physical experience, pictorial representation,
people talk (explain it in your own words), feature talk
(put it into proper English) and symbolic representation."
"He wrote" —
See pages 120-122 in . . .
In memory of Ed Wood:
"Such a brilliant director, a fucking powerhouse…."
— Recent Instagram comment
"Twilight was theatrically released on November 21, 2008;
it grossed over US$393 million worldwide. It was released
on DVD March 21, 2009 and became the most purchased
DVD of the year." — Wikipedia
See also November 21, 2008, in posts tagged Olaf Gate.
Related material —
As inquisitions go, I prefer the Holy Office of Philip Pullman.
Before thir eyes in sudden view appear The secrets of the hoarie deep, a dark Illimitable Ocean without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and highth, And time and place are lost; where eldest Night And Chaos, Ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal Anarchie, amidst the noise Of endless warrs and by confusion stand. For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four Champions fierce Strive here for Maistrie, and to Battel bring amidst the noise Thir embryon Atoms.... ... Into this wilde Abyss, The Womb of nature and perhaps her Grave, Of neither Sea, nor Shore, nor Air, nor Fire, But all these in thir pregnant causes mixt Confus'dly, and which thus must ever fight, Unless th' Almighty Maker them ordain His dark materials to create more Worlds, Into this wilde Abyss the warie fiend Stood on the brink of Hell and look'd a while, Pondering his Voyage.... -- John Milton, Paradise Lost , Book II
“Suck any sense from that who can” — Gerard Manley Hopkins
Related architecture:
From posts tagged Marfa Day —
"Den Kopf benützen ist besser als ihn verlieren."
Cover illustration:
Spies returning from the land of
Canaan with a cluster of grapes.
Colored woodcut from
Biblia Sacra Germanica ,
Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1483.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
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MICHENER: Returning in the dark from a routine mission my pilot kept missing the poorly lit New Caledonia air strip. We braced for a crash landing, just made it, and were badly shaken. If I had died, I would have left nothing behind. I was approaching 40, mind you. That near crash prompted me to draft South Pacific stories running through my mind. QUESTIONER: Your first draft was written on the island of Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, south of Guadalcanal, in a Quonset hut, by pecking at a typewriter with your two index fingers. What was the story line? MICHENER: Tales of the South Pacific consisted of 18 loosely connected stories about the comedy, boredom, shenanigans of Navy life on a Pacific island between military battles. The stories showed the interplay of Navy men, Navy nurses, and conniving natives; the funny aspects of military planes, jeeps, bulldozers, canned goods imposed on simple people living on beautiful islands. |
Comedy and Boredom —
Shenanigans —
The author of remarks on Frisette in the previous post —
Other South Pacific material —
"If you try, you'll find me
Where the sky meets the sea."
— Song lyic inspired by James Michener,
quoted here yesterday afternoon
Tréguer Today —
(Suggested by a recent Instagram post.)
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https://wordhistories.net/2017/07/10/ Box and Cox is largely based on Frisette , a one-act vaudeville by the French playwrights Eugène Labiche (1815-88) and Auguste Lefranc (1814-78), first staged at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Paris, on Tuesday 28th April 1846. In this play, Madame Ménachet, the housekeeper, rents out, without their knowledge, the same room to Gabriel Gaudrion, a baker’s assistant, who uses it during the day, and to Frisette, a lace-maker, who uses it during the night. . . . . |
A scene from Frisette —
"If you try, you'll find me
Where the sky meets the sea."
— Song lyic inspired by James Michener
Who can pick up the weight of Britain, Who can move the German load Or say to the French here is France again? Imago. Imago. Imago. — Wallace Stevens
Lunchtime update —
Real quiche for Wallace Stevens ( i.e., an imaginary man )—
The above ball date — April 14, 2018 — suggests a review
of Log24 posts from that date that are now tagged
The Jerusalem Transformation .
The title refers to a recent Ariana Grande video.
Academics may prefer . . .
For a purely mathematical approach to switching the positions see . . .
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For related philosophical remarks, see "Arrowy, Still Strings."
This afternoon's online New York Times reports a July 9
death at a memory-care facility —
Requiem for a Wechsler —
"Lighting for the Met is particularly challenging because —
unlike on Broadway, for instance — the shows change
on a weekly or even daily basis. One of Mr. Wechsler’s
accomplishments, Mr. Sardo said, was to develop
accurate records of the lighting schemes for each production,
so that one show could be swapped for another more efficiently.
“Before Gil was involved, there were no reference manuals as to
how that should be done,” Mr. Sardo said.
“Someone kinda remembered how the lighting was supposed to be.”
— Neil Genzlinger
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https://terebess.hu/zen/mesterek/dtsuzuki.html —
From Larry A. Fader, “D. T. Suzuki's Contribution to the West,” In contrast to Jung's approach is the humanistic psychology of Erich Fromm. Fromm was also influenced by Suzuki, but in different ways. Whereas Jung dealt with Zen Buddhism as an aspect of his psychological thought, Suzuki's influence touches closer to the core of Fromm's thought. Fromm organized an influential workshop on Zen Buddhism and psychoanalysis in Cuernavaca, Mexico, and incorporated many concepts which resemble Suzuki's interpretation of Zen into his psychoanalytic writings. The Cuernavaca workshop of 1957, held at Fromm's Mexico home, brought together eminent psychologists expressly for the purpose of exploring Zen Buddhism and psychoanalysis. As such, it marks an important point of contact between thinkers in the field of psychology and D. T. Suzuki's interpretation of Zen. Suzuki addressed the gathering, and his speeches were later published as “Lectures in Zen Buddhism” together with Fromm's address entitled “Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism” and that of Richard DeMartino entitled “The Human Situation and Zen Buddhism,” in a volume which Fromm edited and called Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis. Fromm organized the Mexico meeting and issued the invitations to its participants as a result of his feeling that psychotherapists—and in particular, psychoanalysts—were at that time “not just interested, but deeply concerned” with Zen. This “concern,” Fromm believed, was a new and potentially important development in the attitude of psychologists. His own address to the workshop, reformulated, as he says, because of “the stimulation of the conference,” includes language and ideas that may be traced to Dr. Suzuki's Cuernavaca lectures. |
See as well Fromm and Frère Jacques, Cuernavaca in this journal.
A post from January 21, 2003, now also tagged Big Sur,
suggested a search for the source of that post's
Shih Te poem. The result of the search —
Related Fredonia material, from posts tagged Church and Temple —
Update, from six minutes later, on related entertainment —
Update of 12:38 PM ET on the next day — July 20, 2021 —
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Crystal Poem by Shide (Shih Te, etc.)
at https://terebess.hu/zen/chang/shide.html
from "Comparative List of Shide's Poems" —
Traditional Chinese:
無去無來本湛然，
不居內外及中間。
一顆水精絕瑕翳，
光明透滿出人天。
Simplified Chinese:
无去无来本湛然，
不居内外及中间。
一颗水精绝瑕翳，
光明透满出人天。
Romanization:
wú qù wú lái běn zhàn rán ，
bù jū nèi wài jí zhōng jiān 。
yī kē shuǐ jīng jué xiá yì ，
guāng míng tòu mǎn chū rén tiān 。
English Translation by Paul Rouzer:
No goings, no comings, originally tranquil;
No dwelling within or without, or at the point between.
A single crystal of purity without flaw or crack;
Its light penetrates and fills up the worlds of men and gods.
English Translation by Red Pine:
Not waxing or waning essentially still
not inside or outside and nowhere between
a single flawless crystal
whose light shines through to gods and men
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Or: Dreaming of Dinner-Party-Gate
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An Ordinary Evening in New Haven, XXII
Professor Eucalyptus said, “The search
For an interior made exterior
With the Inhalations of original cold
Not the predicate of bright origin.
The cold and earliness and bright origin
That it is wholly an inner light, that it shines — Wallace Stevens |
For those who prefer not-so-sleepy bosoms, here are two
interior/exterior design notes suggested by the previous post —
Interior:
Exterior:
An advertisement in the online New York Times this evening:
The black rectangle refers to a floor mat —
.
"… you say goodbye I say hello" — Song lyric
From Ulysses , by James Joyce —
| Strong curtain. He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible. Maeterlinck says: If Socrates leave his house today he will find the sage seated on his doorstep, If Judas go forth tonight it is to Judas his steps will tend . Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves. The playwright who wrote the folio of this world and wrote it badly (He gave us light first and the sun two days later), the lord of things as they are whom the most Roman of catholics call dio boia , hangman god, is doubtless all in all in all of us…. |
The title is from Sir Thomas Browne:
"To enlarge this contemplation unto all the mysteries and secrets,
accomodable unto this number, were inexcusable Pythagorisme,
yet cannot omit the ancient conceit of five surnamed the number
of justice; as justly dividing between the digits, and hanging in
the centre of Nine . . . ."
"Separately." — Ben Franklin
"To demonstrate standing, a claimant must first show
he has incurred concrete, particularized and actual
or imminent injury; that the injury can be fairly traced
back to what is being challenged in court and that
the remedy sought can redress the issue."
— https://yaledailynews.com/
blog/2018/02/27/law-clinic-pushes-for-
fisa-court-transparency/
The above Yale date suggests a review of . . .
Raiders of the Lost Images . . .
which in turn suggests a review of Square Space.
Soundtrack (condensed) —
.
The above links are to . . .
https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/
pessimistic-art-world-novels-1234598728/ and
See also the previous post.
From Twilight Zone , Season 1, Episode 9, "Perchance to Dream " . . .
Other entertainment that is more up to date:
Destiny . . .
"Maybe one night driving over Laurel Canyon
I'd look up in the rearview mirror, and I'd see
somebody or something coming up out of the darkness.
I had to drive the Canyon twice a day. It's a rough road.
One slip and you're over the edge."
— Actor Richard Conte in "Perchance to Dream " (1959)
For more on Laurel Canyon and the number 47
(the length in minutes of the above Loki finale),
see The Beckinsale Letter.
As for "Shadow Play " . . . See last night's The Intimate Monad.
At the still point… from the film "Absolute Power" :
Photo credit – Graham Kuhn
I’ve heard of affairs that are strictly plutonic,
But diamonds are a girl’s best friend!
A search in this journal for the above book leads to . . .
and its link to . . .
https://web.archive.org/web/20020408031913/
http://m759.freeservers.com/coord.html —
That page, "…20020408…," is a webpage, "Binary Coordinate Systems,"
archived on April 8, 2002.
For a sequel of sorts introducing Ternary Coordinate Systems ,
see yesterday's post Educational Series.
For a related philosophical remark, see Slow Art (June 15, 2015).
See Ninety-Three* in this journal.
See also a sequel that might have been titled Ninety-Four —
* A novel by Victor Hugo about the year 1793 and the French Revolution.
From my RSS feed today —
A related image from this journal on the date of Kaufman's death —
* The quantization discussed by Woit is a technical term from
theoretical physics. It is not related to more naive notions of
"building blocks," a phrase greatly overused by science writers.
See Log24 posts tagged The Building-Block Metaphor.
See Wang Wei: Journey to the Source of the Peach Blossom River .
Related Hollywood remark:
"You've blown communication
…as we've known it… right out of
the water. You know that, don't you?"
— Cliff Robertson in Brainstorm (1983)
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Robert A. Wilson on symmetries of the ninefold square —
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"All of these ideas have shown promise at some time or other, and some are still under active investigation. But my conclusion after all this work is that the part of algebra that shows the most promise for genuinely useful applications to fundamental physics is the representation theory, real, complex, integral and modular, of the group GL(2, 3). There is, of course, no guarantee that a viable theory can be built on this foundation. But it appears to be the only part of algebra that both has a reasonable chance of success and has not already been exhaustively explored in the physics literature. It is therefore worth serious consideration." — "Potential applications of modular representation theory to quantum mechanics," arXiv, May 28, 2021, revised June 7, 2021. |
See as well GL(2,3) in this journal .
Related material: Christmas Eve 2012.
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Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Recorded and edited By Aniela Jaffé, From pages 195-196:
“Only gradually did I discover what the mandala really is:
* Faust , Part Two, trans. by Philip Wayne (Harmondsworth,
… Gestaltung, Umgestaltung,
Jung’s “Formation, Transformation” quote is from The speaker is Mephistopheles. |
"I have too much backstory" — Bryan Cranston, 2012
Or not enough.
For more about the Sacred Timeline, see other posts tagged Social Calendar.
"Only poets and schizophrenics communicate in language
that defies rational analysis, and poets do not normally
do so in ordinary conversation . . . . They also do it with
a certain elegance, lacking in this case, and usually with
some kind of rhythm and sonority."
— Robert Anton Wilson, Quantum Psychology ,
discussing the following situation in a mental hospital:
"A strange man had approached and said, 'I'm not Slavic.'
Many paranoids begin a conversation with such assertions,
vitally important to them, but sounding a bit strange to
the rest of us."
See as well the previous two posts and a web page that
discusses whether Romania is a Slavic country.
Related material: Heidegger on "the night of lunacy."
Robert A. Wilson on symmetries of the ninefold square —
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"All of these ideas have shown promise at some time or other, and some are still under active investigation. But my conclusion after all this work is that the part of algebra that shows the most promise for genuinely useful applications to fundamental physics is the representation theory, real, complex, integral and modular, of the group GL(2, 3). There is, of course, no guarantee that a viable theory can be built on this foundation. But it appears to be the only part of algebra that both has a reasonable chance of success and has not already been exhaustively explored in the physics literature. It is therefore worth serious consideration." — "Potential applications of modular representation theory to quantum mechanics," arXiv, May 28, 2021, revised June 7, 2021. |
See as well GL(2,3) in this journal .
Some may consider more relevant the remarks of a different Robert A. Wilson —
The title was suggested by a New Yorker photo caption
about Yale on June 19, 2021 —
"Amy Chua, a celebrity professor at the top-ranked
law school in the country, is at the center of a
campus-wide fracas known as 'Dinner Party-gate.' "
Other recent Yale material —
Remarks related to New Haven and geometry —
From the author in the previous post:
See as well Annals of Experimental Theology and Relativity Blues.
See as well a search in this journal for Feng Shui.
The above phrase "the intersection of storytelling and visual arts"
suggests a review . . .
Storytelling —
Visual arts —
"This pattern is a square divided into nine equal parts.
It has been called the 'Holy Field' division and
was used throughout Chinese history for many
different purposes, most of which were connected
with things religious, political, or philosophical."
– The Magic Square: Cities in Ancient China,
by Alfred Schinz, Edition Axel Menges, 1996, p. 71
A Midrash for Michener —
For a connection of the above "Holy Field"
with pure mathematics, see Coxeter's Aleph.
From Number and Time ,
by Marie-Louise von Franz,
Northwestern U. Press paperback,
December 31, 1974 —
Star Wars Chess:
Originally chess seems to have represented an earthly mirror-image of "the stars' battles in Heaven,"22 an outline of those battles from which man's destiny proceeded. 22. See Joseph Needham, Science and Civilization in China (Cambridge, 1959), III, 540ff., 303ff.; see also IV, pt. 1, 230, 265, 327 ff.
From the recent film The New Mutants —
Anya Taylor-Joy plays in a pool:
"Roll credits."
The above title is from Wallace Stevens.
Related meditations — This journal on March 9, 2021, and . . .
See as well recent posts in this journal
now tagged The Chinese Room Experiment.
For the source of the above Wallace Stevens phrase, see (for instance) . . .
The above weblog post on Stevens is dated November 17, 2010.
Posts in this weblog on that same date and its eve are now tagged . . .
Related Scholarly Remarks:
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