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* In honor of Sondheim, recent posts are now
  tagged with a phrase from a different show — 
  Send in the Clowns.

  Speaking of which . . .

Personally, I prefer  To Catch a Thief —

“Breast or Thigh”?

"Faced with a larger surface than he had ever provided with facets,
in his desperation he had divided the diamond with imaginary lines,
treating each section as if it were a single small stone and arranging
the clusters of facets so they would interact with one another, as if they
were single facets in a smaller stone.  What if the final result lacked fire?"

— Novel* by Noah Gordon, who reportedly died on Monday, Nov. 22.

*

German translation of an April 1, 1979, novel.

Two images from a Log24 post of April 14, 2015 —

Image from an marcelanow Instagram story on November 23, 2021 —

Image from marrific (=marcelanow) on November 25, 2021 —

Marcela . . .

Continues . . .

My Education . . .

Art candle by Camille Vivier that
suggests the title Waxing Roth
(with apologies to Groucho, who
would likely not  recommend most
of the other @structuredmag posts.)
The candle's actual  title is lovers.

Click for College of the Desert  in Log24.

Reading The Human Stain —

But wait, there's more! 

The book , unlike the movie, doesn't have …

See Peplowski and The Human Stain  in  a post of Sept. 15, 2007.

Related material:  "In the desert, you can remember your name" and …

Click image to enlarge.

Addendum of 10:30 PM ET November 22 —

The caption was inadvertently omitted from the above Black Rock City image. 
It was as follows:

From the online New York Times  today —

A related cinematic fiction —

Jake, it could be worse . . .

Details from yesterday's "Ities" image —

Some less abstract imagery —

* For James Joyce fans, a phrase suggested by the "ities" of the title —

Itty Bitty Titty Ditty.

Google reveals that this phrase was used as a poem title on 
September 3, 2011 . . .

Some may enjoy seeking the significance of the poem's date .

  1 2  3  4
   who are    we      for?

The title is from yesterday's 8:19 PM post.
An image from yesterday's 12:31 PM post —

What happens when the Logies  meet the Ities ?

A clue . . .

Some context:  A search in this journal for Lovelace.

The previous post suggests a followup . . .

The Times's obnoxious phrase "compelling options" suggests a review of . . .

The Birth of the Blues

From the above Rock obituary —

"One friend, whom he had met early in his time
at Cambridge, was Syd Barrett of the band Pink Floyd."

See as well "Crazy Diamond" in this  journal.

Or maybe Lucy.

♫   "Amazing Space . . ."

“We tell ourselves stories 
  in order to live.” — Joan Didion

See as well Match Tip and Multispeech.

"… let’s stick to the math that gets our hot dogs to match our buns."

— https://www.quantamagazine.org/
the-secret-math-of-hot-dogs-and-buns-20211118/

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“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” — Joan Didion

Yes, we do.

" 'Desertion' is the perfect story to make my case
that 1940s science fiction was often about the next
evolutionary step for our species." — James Wallace Harris, 9/18/21

From https://classicsofsciencefiction.com on Sept. 18, 2021 —

In “Paradise,” the mutants are that superior species,
ones who are waiting for normal humans to get their
act together. Mutants arrange for Tyler Webster 
to get a kaleidoscope that will trick his brain into
opening its higher functionality. The kaleidoscope
is like the toys from the future in “Mimsy Were the
Borogoves” that trigger evolution in normal human
children. 

See as well Mimsy and Kaleidoscope in this  journal.

For some less Meta  material from Marcela, see her Facebook site at

https://m.facebook.com/marrific/photos/?ref=page_internal&mt_nav=0 .

Related material from the Web —

". . . coming back to the real . . . ." — Wallace Stevens

— and from this journal —

 "Coming Back" .

From a thank-you-to-my-25K-followers 
Instagram story today:

"The southwest furthers." — Hexagram 40

The story was by Marcela Nowak,
LA-LA Art Director:

A footnote to history about St. Andrew's Day 2020 —

Related note —

Art Date:

"The serpent's eyes shine
As he wraps around the vine"
— Don Henley, The Garden of Allah

♫  "Make me a palette on your floor . . . ."

Above: Instagram profile image,
Georgia O’Keeffe with Pelvis Series, Red with Yellow, 1945. 

Below: Instagram image of art by the late Etel Adnan.

Α, ϴ, Ω 

Alpha,    Theta,    Omega

Related line: 

"Falls  the  Shadow."
 

Also from a Culture Desk  of sorts:

Related art — Background colors for the letters in the NPR logo —

"I just found me a brand new box of matches …"

… Smart Set .
 

Related detective story . . .

A Cosmic Nod 
 

Related aesthetic puzzle —

What's black and white and red all over?

Santa Fe.

Click for some related music.

“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”
— Saying attributed to Harvard linguist Anthony Oettinger

"I walked all the way through the park over to
the Museum of Natural History. I knew that was
the museum the kid with the skate key meant.”

— The Catcher in the Rye

Fermata.

From a New York Times  online obituary today
by Bill Friskics-Warren —

"a role fulfilled with preternatural command"

The same meter in the Wikipedia article Alexandrine —

"Ye sacred Bards, that to your harps' melodious strings…"

From posts in a search for Aurora —

We put the ass  in class .

The image is from a marrific Instagram post of July 27, 2018.
Earlier, it was uploaded to behance.net on Sept. 5, 2016.

See as well my own remarks on the above keynote date — Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012.

* See images from the film's Berlin premiere on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2015 as well as
Log24 posts tagged Autism Sunday 2015 .

"Spiel ist nicht Spielerei." — Fröbel.

"… thinking starts with a problem, a difficulty, a contradiction."
— The late Arthur Mattuck of MIT in last night's post Gestalt .

"The 'technical support' is an underlying ground for aesthetic practice
that supports the work of art as canvas supported oil paint."

— MIT Press on the book by Rosalind Krauss titled Under Blue Cup .

From Grid View and List View (Log24, 15 April 2021) —

In memory of an emeritus MIT professor who reportedly
died on October 8, 2021 —

"Thinking starts with a problem
Located somewhere between behaviorism and introspection,
the school of gestalt psychology  teaches that thinking starts
with a problem, a difficulty, a contradiction. It sounds like a truism,
yet is widely ignored in practice. Teachers say their aim is to get
their students to think, yet in classroom after classroom they
violate this psychological principle by giving the solution before
there is any problem."

— Arthur Mattuck in . . .

https://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-18-004-the-torch-or-the-firehose-
a-guide-to-section-teaching-spring-2009/online-publication/chapter4.pdf

This is a sequel to yesterday's post Query .

Along with Pawbeats, I'd rather look at Little Caprice.

From the Los Angeles Review of Books  today —

But did he ever find the church  basement of Western philosophy?

See http://narthex.site.

Pomona .