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
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