Roll Credits —

Maureen Dowd in The New York Times  yesterday, describing an interview
with former Google top executive Eric Schmidt —

"Schmidt said an Oxford student told him, about social media poison,
'The union of boredom and anonymity is dangerous.' 
Especially at the intersection of addiction and envy."

A related street scene —

"Show all your work."

"No problema."

My response to an Instagram story on Michaelmas 2021 —

An ad page you might like — "The epitome of multipurpose,
these balms can be used for lips, hands and any other bits
of skin that need a little extra TLC." —

https://www.petitvour.com/products/
vegan-lip-balm-sweet-orange-tangerine

Related material —

See as well Joseph Wambaugh's classic novel The Golden Orange .

*

“There she stood in the doorway; I heard the mission bell….”

Background:

The above image is from a Log24 post of Saturday, June 27, 2020.
That is also the date of version 3 of . . .

The 4-Dimensional Light Bulb Theorem .

See too . . .

Space People Lightbulb Puzzle

From a post of June 28, 2020 —

"David Solomon Katz was born in Brooklyn to Jewish immigrant parents from
Eastern Europe on Oct. 23, 1916, and grew up in a neighborhood famous for
the gangsters of Murder Inc. …."

Further context —

"His early movie credits include 'The Lusty Men' (1952), a western, directed by
Nicholas Ray and starring Susan Hayward and Robert Mitchum…."

—  Bruce Weber in The New York Times , Sept. 9, 2010

Not His First Rodeo —

See also other posts tagged Rough Night.

From a Thursday morning, Oct. 21, Instagram post —

Related cinematic meditation —

The above scene is from Babylon A.D.  (August 2008).

Related question from an early edition of Trivial Pursuit —

"Does Uranus have an aurora?"

Related drama for Brechtians —  Branded , The Zero Theorem ,
and, from my own efforts of August 2008 . . .

In search of Frye's "powder-room of the Muses" — See 3×3.

From an Instagram post today:

As for SIX — the non-musical —

For further details, see Lost in the Matrix.

Clue:

The clue leads to . . .

The above Spratt date leads to . . .

The above snark from this  journal leads to . . .

… as well as …

"On September 2, 2020, at the age of 59, 
David Graeber died of necrotizing pancreatitis
while on vacation in Venice. The news hit me
like a blow. How many books have we lost,
I thought, that will never get written now?
How many insights, how much wisdom,
will remain forever unexpressed? The appearance of
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity 
is thus bittersweet, at once a final, unexpected gift
and a reminder of what might have been."
— William Deresiewicz

This is from The Atlantic  on St. Luke's Day, 2021.
Note the article's illustration, and related material from
this  journal on the date of the death described above:

(Continued)

Yesterday morning's post "First Step" quoted an essay by Michael Spitzer
published online in Aeon  on October 18 —

https://aeon.co/essays/
can-music-give-you-an-orgasm-the-short-answer-is-yes .

A look at earlier essays in that publication reveals . . .

Related material — From a search for Wertheim in this  journal —
 

“Space: what you
damn well have to see.”

— James Joyce, Ulysses  

Midrash —

"He was born David Finkelstein in New York
on Aug. 30, 1921. His father, Jonathan, was
a writer who used Finn as a pen name and
then legally changed the family name to Finn
when David was in high school."

Sometimes way  behind.

"The Dark Past," 1948

Related material — From Log24 on April 10, 2011 —

Christoph Niemann, cover artist of the Oct. 18, 2021, New Yorker:    

"I love the New York City grid. My favorite thing about
Central Park is the shape—a perfect, large rectangle." 

See Leiber in this journal.

"Before time began, there was the Cube." — Optimus Prime

See also Design Cube.

* According to The Wall Street Journal … and possibly also
    dead on October 11th,  according to The New York Times .

"Remarkable in the collection–and indeed in contemporary short fiction–
is the title story, whose tequila-sodden and heart-heavy protagonist,
Bernard Corunna Coote, is a lapsed Ulster Protestant seeking traces of
a lost Celtic civilization in South America."

— Publishers Weekly  on Death of a Chieftain  by John Montague 

See as well a related obituary.

The title is that of a novel by John le Carré — apparently his last —
reviewed this morning in the online New York Times  by Joseph Finder:

" The great Graham Greene didn’t quite take his own
spy novels seriously, labeling them 'entertainments,' 
but le Carré revamped the genre to fit his considerable
ambitions. 'Out of the secret world I once knew,' he wrote,
'I have tried to make a theater for the larger worlds we inhabit.' "

The title suggests an image related to another novel …
Under the Volcano , by Malcolm Lowry (1947) —

The PLATA on the sign at right means "silver." The car in the foreground
is turning left onto Jardín Juárez, a street named for the plaza it adjoins
in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.

As for "to make a theater" . . .

My own modest efforts along those lines include a Log24 post
from le Carré's date of death:

See as well Joyce and  Einstein on the Beach  (Log24, March 8, 2020).

Related material — Diamond Pivot.

From the previous post —

For the connection between His Dark Materials  and The Four Elements ,
see Darkness at Noon (Log24, Jan. 31, 2011).

"The UK will host the 26th UN Climate Change Conference
of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow on 31 Oct. – 12 Nov. 2021."

UK mathematician Peter J. Cameron today —

"If I could send a message to the world leaders
who will soon assemble…."

Cameron quotes a number of phrases from Bob Dylan's 1963 song
"A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall."

A line from the song that I  particularly like:

"I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it."

A more popular thoroughfare: The Giant's Causeway.

From Dancing in the Moonlight  (Log24, July 27) —

For those who prefer really tiny  dancers (Humbert Humbert, etc.) —

The balero  in an Oct. 3 post  suggests a search for the feminine form
of that term. The result:

Click to enlarge the balera  image.

Related viewing — The portrayal of a very young dancer in 
the 2015 film "A Beautiful Now." I find the film's older version
of that dancer, played by Abigail Spencer, of greater interest.

Komansky reportedly died on Sept. 27. See other
global-minded news on that date in this  journal.

See as well Timeless  and Before Time Began .

"A Little Tidier" —
 

 ^Versus 

This morning on Instagram, before it went down —

Sophia Lillis puts her best foot forward :

Related reading for fiction fans —

In search of lost time …

"A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Woman"
in The New Yorker , issue dated October 4, 2021,
contains diary and notebook writings from 1948 through 1950
by Patricia Highsmith, who has appeared here previously.

Another (undated) portrait, from the Web —

The above photographic  portrait is undated, but it was
posted  on 21 February 2006.  This  journal's posts
on that date have been tagged, in Highsmith's honor …

 Now Lens .

The New York Times  reports  a Sept. 20 death —

See also Red Dot Problems from the date of Codevilla's death.

Not to be confused with . . .

 "It was the first expression of
the first global-minded generation
born on the planet."

— Richie Havens on Woodstock

Related material —

An attempt to clear up confusion sown by a Christian witch.

The above OED quotations omit a notable instance of the phrase in
T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" drawn from a Jacobean dramatist —

The Log24 date above, September 7, recurs in recent mathematics —

See as well a post on the so-called Hungarian Algorithm.

https://www.christophermellevold.com/#/handball/

suggests . . .