From a Log24 search for "Strand" —

Related literary remarks —

From Didion’s Play It As It Lays :

Everything goes.  I am working very hard at
not thinking about how everything goes. 
I watch a hummingbird, throw the I Ching
but never read the coins, keep my mind in the now.
— Page 8

From Joni Mitchell —

"Don't it always seem to go . . . ."

From Wallace Stevens:

"Let be be finale of seem."

A film referenced at the end of the May 10, 2020, post

Film Theory Love Call —

* Illustration from a related 2003 Log24 post —

Da Capo

“The story bent and climbed and went into weird areas.
For instance, at one time Simon Peter was a cave-dweller;
at another, he only appeared in other characters’ dreams….”

— Keri Hulme on The Bone People

"Redgrave proceeded to focus on the end of Blue Nights ,
and Didion’s determination to maintain momentum after
the death of Quintana, when she and Redgrave mounted
their production of The Year of Magical Thinking . Here,
St John the Divine became a setting in the narrative of
Blue Nights  yet again – this time, as Quintana’s final resting
place in St Ansgar’s Chapel within the cathedral."

The feast of St. Ansgar is Feb. 3. See that date this year.

Related song lyric from "Finian's Rainbow" —

Necessity,
That's the maximum that a minimum thing could be,
There's nothing lower than less unless it's Necessity.

"Jean-Marc Vallée has died suddenly at age 58." 

See as well a post from Joan Didion's Dec. 5th birthday.

"You look in her eyes, the music begins to play" 
— Eagles, "New Kid in Town"

Related material — Postman.

"If so much information is needed
to identify their expressive content,
then it’s obvious that the pictures don’t
effectively communicate on their own."

— An article selected for
Arts & Letters Daily today:

"Sense of Place" —

"Place" —

http://m759.net/wordpress/?s="Plan+9"+Resurrection

Related reading:

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Grid Language —

Grid Logic —

Tesseract  in this journal and "The Unmagicking."

A stupid Jungle Cruise joke for Bergen —

Why  are  mathematicians  a  simple  group?
No  nontrivial  normal  subgroups.

Some background from St. Olaf —

My own sympathies are with Veblen.

See as well posts tagged May the Fourth.

Six uses of "overarching" in an Aeon  essay today —

• "an overarching story of life"
• "the overarching themes of thresholds and energy flows"
• "the overarching stages of human history"
• "an overarching evolutionary perspective"
• "overarching directional development"
• "the overarching laws of science"

See also "overarching" in this  journal.

"I've heard of affairs that are strictly Platonic…" — Song lyric

From a photo story by Marcela Nowak, Dec. 15, 2021 —

Asteras eisathreis, Aster emos.
Eithe genoimen ouranos,
‘os pollois ommasin eis se blepo.

Quoted on New Year's Eve, 2002.

This post was suggested by Chapter Two, "The Sprite and the Synergist,"
of Alfred Bester's The Deceivers , and by . . .

Louche hymn, to the tune of "One For My Baby" —

"It's ten thirty-one . . ."

— and a (very slightly) related prose passage:

"Enthusiasts of group theory or incidence structures may enjoy reading about Tits'
work, such as Tits buildings, the Tits alternative, the Tits group, and the Tits metric."

— Annie Rauwerda, Boing Boing  reporter.  See also Tits in this  journal.

Related material: Smallfield.

Yesterday —

Today —

Flashback:

Detail of Instagram story last night by marrific:

Quoted here on today's date — Joan Didion's birthday — 

15 years ago:

Joan Didion, The White Album :

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live….

We interpret what we see, select the most workable
of multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we
are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon
disparate images, by the ‘ideas’ with which we have
learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which
is our actual experience.

Or at least we do for a while. I am talking here about
a time when I began to doubt the premises of all the
stories I had ever told myself, a common condition
but one I found troubling.”

"As Above, So Below"

Click for the soundscape "Nothing Is Real."

Related material — See KenKen in this journal.

As for BarbieBarbie . . .