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Tuesday, May 31, 2022

A Serious Pursuit

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A Mad Night’s Work*

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Last night's posts on triangles, and today's anniversary of the
death of Evariste Galois, suggest a review . . .

"Take triangles, perhaps" . . . as a category.

And then . . . take squares, perhaps, as another category, 
and then . . . find a suitable "translation machine."

See "Square Triangles."

* Title adapted from a 2001 essay by Pierre Cartier.

Art School Theology

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"See triune.space."

Monday, May 30, 2022

Triangle Lo Shu

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For Trinity Test fans.

Storyboard

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Oppenheimer homecoming, with ad for 'Pussy-Footer' alarm clock

Decoration Day (In Memory of a Dead Poet)

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A story in The Art Newspaper  today suggests a review —

And then there is the motto "Principles before  personalities."

Sunday, May 29, 2022

Memorial for Ronnie Hawkins

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 8:04 pm

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/
ronnie-hawkins-obituary-1360442/

See also other posts now tagged Night Hunt.

“Code and Theory” Image

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220529-Logo-like-image-codeandtheory.jpg (449×640)

For some material much more on the theory  side,
see a Log24 post from the above IG date — Nov. 18, 2020 —
in posts tagged Qubes

220529-Qubes-tab-Log24.jpg (500×256).

Lost in Deep Space Translation

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"Black art"  "Black magic"

https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2022-05-28/
samella-lewis-godmother-of-black-art-dies-at-99

Keasha Dumas Heath, executive director at
the Museum of African American Art,
the L.A. institution Lewis helped found,
describes Lewis as a “soft-spoken powerhouse”
who is “rightly regarded as the center of the universe
for scholarship around Black art and artists.”

https://newsme24.com/world-news/
samella-lewis-godmother-of-black-magic-
that-aided-maintain-its-background-passes-away-at-99/

Keasha Dumas Health, executive supervisor at
the Gallery of African American Art,
the L.A. organization Lewis aided discovered,
explains Lewis as a “soft-spoken giant”
that is “appropriately considered the facility of deep space
for scholarship around Black magic as well as musicians.”

Consider the source.

Morning Song

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[Verse 1]
Oh, I could hide 'neath the wings
Of the bluebird as she sings
The six o'clock alarm would never ring
But it rings and I rise
Wipe the sleep out of my eyes
My shavin' razor's cold and it stings

Night Hunt

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Good question.

Saturday, May 28, 2022

Nine Stories

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Art based on a cover of Salinger's 'Nine Stories'

Related material — Turning Nine and A Mad Day's Work.

Grothendieck at Chapman …

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Last two days of the conference, May 27 and 28, 2022 —

27th Friday

9:00 – 10:00 Andrés Villaveces (Univ. Nacional de Colombia):
Galoisian model theory:
the role(s) of Grothendieck (à son insu! )

10:00 – 11:00 Olivia Caramello (Univ. of Insubria; by Zoom):
The “unifying notion” of topos 1

1:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break

1:15 – 12:15 Mike Shulman (Univ. of San Diego):
Lifting Grothendieck universes to Grothendieck toposes 

12:15 – 1:15 José Gil-Ferez (Chapman Univ.)
The Isomorphism Theorem of Algebraic Logic:
a Categorical  Perspective

1:15 – 2:30 Lunch

2:30 – 3:30 Oumar Wone (Chapman) :
Vector bundles on Riemann surfaces according to
Grothendieck and his followers

3:30 – 4:30 Claudio Bartocci (Univ. of Genova):
The inception of the theory of moduli spaces:
Grothendieck's Quot scheme

4:30 – 5:30 Christian Houzel (IUFM de Paris):
Riemann surfaces after Grothendieck
[presented by J.J. Szczeciniarz]

28th Saturday

9:00 – 10:00 Silvio Ghilardi (Univ. degli Studi, Milano):
Investigating definability in propositional logic
via Grothendieck topologies and sheaves

10:00 – 11:00 Matteo Viale (Univ. of Turin; by zoom):
The duality between Boolean valuated models and 
topological presheaves

11:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 – 12:15 Benjamin Collas (RIMS, Kyoto Univ.):
Galois-Teichmüller: arithmetic geometric principles

12:15 – 1:15 Closing: general discussion
animated by Alex Kurz (Chapman)

Wine Country

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I order the gin martini I’ve been anticipating
for the last  twenty-four hours.

"Sorry. We only have wine.”

“You’re kidding me, right?”

He shrugs, reaching for a laminated pamphlet
that lists the bottles at his disposal.
It’s wine country, after all.
I start to read through the vineyards,
but the compound names quickly blur—
I don’t know a thing about wine.
I shut the menu.
“Something very cold and strong.”

— Steinhauer, Olen. All the Old Knives  (p. 22).
St. Martin's Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. 

Friday, May 27, 2022

Popup Memories

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Annals of Seductive Branding

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:52 pm

Also on May 19 —

Great Escapes

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The above scene from "Hanna" comes from a webpage
dated August 29, 2011. See also

this journal on that date  —

Galois space of six dimensions represented in Euclidean spaces of three and of two dimensions

and today's previous "Escape" post.

At the Hub

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Weapons of Mass Distraction

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Plan 9 from Disney

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 "With the Tablet of Ahkmenrah and the Cube of Rubik,
my power will know no bounds!"
— Kahmunrah in a novelization of Night at the Museum:
Battle of the Smithsonian , Barron's Educational Series

Scholium

Abstracting from narrative to structure, and from structure
to pure number, the Tablet of Ahkmenrah represents the
number 9 and the Cube of Rubik represents the number 27.

Returning from pure abstract numbers to concrete representations,
9 yields the structures in Log24 posts tagged Triangle.graphics,
and 27 yields a Galois  cube .

Thursday, May 26, 2022

A Mad Day’s Work*

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Some images from 16 May 2022 —

Language Game — A Mad Day's Work

* Title from a 2001 essay by Pierre Cartier.

Mystical Mathematicks

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Affine transformation of 'magic' squares and triangles: the triangle Lo Shu

Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Cargo Cult

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From the Amazon.com description of Colin Cantwell's space novel Corefires

"Of the cargo, the data Crystals are the most important.
Necessary to life in space, they have to be protected at all costs."

Related merchandise — Disney Holocrons:

Corefire Temple

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The words in the above title were suggested by

  • the title, Corefires , of a novel by the late
    Colin Cantwell (see previous post).
  • the place-name Temple, Texas , in the gas station
    scene of "No Country for Old Men,"
  • Log24 posts on the fictional cinematic Fire Temple,
    and by
  • a folk etymology for the word "pyramid" —

Mexico City Blues

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The New York Times  yesterday  ("2022-05-24T21:54:19.000Z")
on a Saturday, May 21, death —

"Colin Cantwell, an animator, conceptual artist and computer expert
who played significant production roles in seminal science fiction films
like '2001: A Space Odyssey,' 'Star Wars' and 'WarGames,' died
on May 21 at his home in Colorado Springs, Colo. He was 90."

Cantwell at Teotihuacan pyramid, September 26, 2019

A different image, also from September 26, 2019,
in other Log24 posts tagged Pyramid Game —

The letter labels, but not the tetrahedron, are from Whitehead’s
The Axioms of Projective Geometry  (Cambridge U. Press, 1906),
page 13.

Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Hometown Blues . . .

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Continued from Saturday afternoon.

Playing the Palace

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From a Jamestown (NY) Post-Journal  article yesterday on
"the sold-out 10,000 Maniacs 40th anniversary concert at
The Reg Lenna Center Saturday" —

" 'The theater has a special place in our hearts. It’s played
a big part in my life,' Gustafson said.

Before being known as The Reg Lenna Center for The Arts,
it was formerly known as The Palace Theater. He recalled
watching movies there as a child…."

This, and the band's name, suggest some memories perhaps
better suited to the cinematic philosophy behind "Plan 9 from
Outer Space."

IMAGE- The Tablet of Ahkmenrah, from 'Night at the Museum'

 "With the Tablet of Ahkmenrah and the Cube of Rubik,
my power will know no bounds!"
— Kahmunrah in a novelization of Night at the Museum:
Battle of the Smithsonian , Barron's Educational Series

The above 3×3 Tablet of Ahkmenrah  image comes from
a Log24 search for the finite (i.e., Galois) field GF(3) that 
was, in turn, suggested by last night's post "Making Space."

See as well a mysterious document from a website in Slovenia
that mentions a 3×3 array "relating to nine halls of a mythical
palace where rites were performed in the 1st century AD" —

“Making Space”

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Flashback to April 13, 2017 —

See also the post "Making Space"
in this  journal on that date.

Related cinematic  art:

A new film at Cannes has a character
named "Caprice" —

'Crimes of the Future' characters Saul Tenser and Caprice

I prefer a different  Caprice . . .

Monday, May 23, 2022

Church Socials: Class Act*

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 8:38 pm

* Alternate title:
  "Time Is a Weapon
  or 4:45 Meets 8:38."

A Long March

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"'Night Sky' is an absorbing series with an interesting premise
that marches to its own drummer…."  — NY Post , May 18.

See as well posts tagged "Bedrock" in this  journal.

"I need a photo opportunity . . . " — Paul Simon

Past month … Triangle theorem”?

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:00 pm

Center Field

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This leads to . . .

Sunday, May 22, 2022

“Church Socials”* Continues . . .

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Social Geometry, Social Physics . . .
and now Social Class

* See other posts so tagged.

Social Physics

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From The Washington Post  yesterday

"Ben Roy Mottelson, an American-born physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for a groundbreaking explanation of the structure and behavior of the atomic nucleus, including its shape, its rotations and its oscillations, died May 13. He was 95. . . . .

Knowledge of nuclear structure is regarded as vital in weapons research, power generation and in solving the problems of astrophysics and the history of the universe.

In what is still regarded as one of the crowning achievements of nuclear physics, Dr. Mottelson helped show, using arguments and techniques from quantum theory, how each individual constituent of the nucleus — each proton and each neutron — exerted an effect on the properties and character of the nucleus as a whole. And vice versa." . . . . 

—  By Martin Weil, May 21, 2022, at 4:04 p.m. EDT

From this  journal on Friday the 13th of May —

"In magic, the will unites with the intellect in an
impassioned desire for supersensible knowledge.
This is the intellectual, aggressive, and scientific
temperament trying to extend its field of consciousness
[…] (Underhill 84; see also 178ff.)"

The reference above is to Underhill, Evelyn:
Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development
of Man’s Spiritual Consciousness
.
New York: Dutton, 1911.

Social Geometry

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Cannes Film Festival news in Variety  yesterday — 

"Östlund was last at Cannes with “The Square” in 2017, which
won the Palme d’Or. While there are many films left in competition
to screen, the reaction to “Triangle of Sadness” hints that
it could be a contender for one of the Cannes prizes."

Triangle of Sadness takes its name from a fashion-world term for
the deep-V crease that appears between one’s eyebrows with stress
or age. Nothing a little Botox can’t fix."

For geometry of less social interest, see Friday's post "Squares to Triangles."

Saturday, May 21, 2022

Hometown Blues

Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:38 pm

For the late actor Kenneth Welsh, who reportedly died at 80
on May 5, 2022

A Log24 search — Edmonton.

“A Room Somewhere”

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:40 pm

Continued from yesterday, Eliza Doolittle Day.

Analysis, Real and Complex*

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Jason Kehe at WIRED today —

"The Real Reason Matrix Resurrections  Bombed"

. . . .

"Lana Wachowski’s film practically burns with mirrors, with self-scrutiny. The very first shot is of an upside-down someone walking toward us. It’s a reflection, it turns out, in a puddle. We’re in for inversions and reversals, Wachowski is signaling, and not just cinematographically. The first third of the movie or so recapitulates the events of the first Matrix, but badly, unconvincingly. 'Why use old code,' one character asks, 'to mirror something new?' The movie critiques, even hates on, itself. It looks in the mirror and doesn’t like what it sees."

. . . .


Dr. Robert Ford — "Analysis."

* Title suggested by a textbook.

Friday, May 20, 2022

Squares to Triangles

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(Continued)

Related concepts: Steiner system, Affine transformation, Square triangle.

“A Room Somewhere” — Eliza Doolittle

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See "High Life" in this journal.

Thursday, May 19, 2022

True Confessions! … 8!

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A literary note by the author of The Eight  published on April 8, 2022 —

Schoolgirl.space

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See also a Log24 post from 2010, "Class of 64."

Wednesday, May 18, 2022

“The form, the pattern”

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An image from Slovenia missed earlier* in the search above —

"Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera." — Oscar Hammerstein

* See "Robin Wilson" in the Design Grammar post of
19 Oct. 2017. The author of the above document may
or may not be the Robin Wilson of Gresham College.

Sounds of Music: Compare and Contrast

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The New York Times  this afternoon —

From Log24 on the Catholic dies natalis  of
the von Trapp daughter above  —

“Make it new.”

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"Literature is not demography, nor is it politics, even if it is quite often political. Progress, at least when it comes to cultural production, becomes lasting not  when one is trying to join the reigning establishment, or lamenting how exclusionary it is (it so often is!), but, to quote that anti-Semite Ezra Pound, when one seeks, in the first place, to make it new ."

— Mordechai Levy-Eichel and Daniel Scheinerman on 
May 17, 2022, in The Chronicle of Higher Education
"Digital humanists need to learn how to count: 
A prominent recent book in the field
suffers serious methodological pitfalls."

And then there are methodological sinkholes

See Log24 posts tagged Sinkhole and . . .

Tuesday, May 17, 2022

As If Searching . . .

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'As if searching for prisms of light'quote

See also . . .

http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=Prism .

Further searching, on the wider Web, yields . . .

"Blair has multiple sclerosis, a condition Didion shared."
— Susan Burton, review of Mean Baby , NY Times 15 May 2022

Another recent narrative about Didion and MS —

March 3rd, 2022

A Fraying Narrative:

Multiple Sclerosis, The White Album, and how Didion’s seminal work became—to one writer—a bible for losing one's mind.

by Emily Carmichael

Harry Potter and the Crown of Fire

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Daniel Radcliffe in the recent film "The Lost City" —

301
00:15:51,476 –> 00:15:54,513
Um, some might call me
a collector.

302
00:15:54,617 –> 00:15:58,310
But there is one obsession
in particular

303
00:15:58,414 –> 00:16:00,519
that has held me captive.

304
00:16:01,693 –> 00:16:03,177
The Crown of Fire

From the Log24 post "Fish Babel" —

The final page, 759, of the Harry Potter saga —

Sunday, July 14, 2013

Working Backwards

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"Warming to the question of what it means to read a poem backward…."

— Essayist in a New Yorker  weblog on July 11, 2013

“Death itself would start working backwards.”

— Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia , 1950

"I twisted my mind like a bright ribbon, folded it, 
and tied the crazy Christmas knots I love so well."
— Roger Zelazny, A Rose for Ecclesiastes , 1963

"All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flame are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one."
— T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets , 1942

See also some context for these quotations.

Gogol Dotwork

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The new URL gogol.work forwards to . . .

http://m759.net/wordpress/?tag=logos-and-branding .

For Monuments Men

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Monday, May 16, 2022

Bedlam Song

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"By a knight of lines and shadows
I summoned am to tourney"
— Adapted from "Tom O' Bedlam's Song"

Sketch for a Magic Triangle

'Magic Triangle' by Steven H. Cullinane, 16 May 2022

Updates from later the same day —

Related affine structures —

'Magic Triangle' affine structure

See also "Square+Triangles" in this journal.

 

The fishlike shapes within three of the above
ninefold colored triangles suggest some . . .

Related Entertainment —

Sunday, May 15, 2022

Chapman U.

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A flashback from posts of Feb. 14, 2013 — 

More hype from Chapman —

“Ready on the Left… Ready on the Right…”

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See also posts tagged "Will the Circle" and a Carter family song.
(The YouTube upload date on that song is not without interest.)

Saturday, May 14, 2022

Signs of the Times

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Click the image for a related news story.

For Grothendieck’s “Mutants”* —

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https://webusers.imj-prg.fr/~leila.schneps/
grothendieckcircle/Spirituality/Spirituality26.pdf

For Rivka Galchen

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"Turn on, tune in"

https://webusers.imj-prg.fr/~leila.schneps/
grothendieckcircle/Spirituality/Spirituality19.pdf

Friday, May 13, 2022

Basque Song

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Fred Ward, an actor, reportedly died on Sunday, May 8, 2022.

Music that was used on the soundtrack of one of his films —

In memory of Ward and Nin-Culmell — See Jan. 14, 2004, in this journal.

Annals of Numerology: Zero Dark 56

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The above title is a reference to the time  of the previous post.

Nightmare Alley  fans may enjoy . . .

Those who prefer pure mathematics to entertainments of this sort
may meditate on the geometric  properties of the number 56.

“Program or Be Programmed” continues . . .

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Byron Gogol's "Dutton" remark suggests a search for that term
in this journal.  That search, and tonight's previous post, suggest
a passage on magic and mysticism published by Dutton in 1911 —

"The fundamental difference between the two is this:
magic wants to get, mysticism wants to give […]
In mysticism the will is united with the emotions in
an impassioned desire to transcend the sense-world
in order that the self may be joined by love to
the one eternal and ultimate Object of love […]
In magic, the will unites with the intellect in an
impassioned desire for supersensible knowledge.
This is the intellectual, aggressive, and scientific
temperament trying to extend its field of consciousness
[…] (Underhill 84; see also 178ff.)"

The reference above is to Underhill, Evelyn:
Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development
of Man’s Spiritual Consciousness
.
New York: Dutton, 1911.

Lyche in Norwegian Wikipedia

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A new article on Norwegian artist Josefine Lyche was added
to the Norwegian Wikipedia on May the Fourth, 2022.

Meanwhile . . .

Thursday, May 12, 2022

Asteras Eisathreis (Straight Version)

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:38 pm

“All the Old Knives” for Doctor Strange Fans

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:46 pm

Border Station

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USA Today —  "Finland shares an 830-mile border with Russia."

Also bordering Russia Norway. See the art of Josefine Lyche
at the only legal land Russia-Norway border crossing.

Dark Ride Design

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In memory of an actor who reportedly died on May 7 —

"Mr. Jenkin's play aspires to a Borgesian take on
American cultural rubble (pulp novels, films noir,
diner menus, pop songs, etc.), here assembled into
a labyrinthine, coincidence-driven and self-consciously
artificial plot." — Ben Brantley, New York Times ,1996

Compare and Contrast

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Related reading:
 Shibumi: A N
ovel 
and
"The Diamond Theorem
  in Basque Country."

Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Zen and the Art . . .

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    … in the Multiverse of Madness

Bartley's Gourmet Burgers, the former Harvard Spa


 

Para los muertos —


 

"Where's my Bible?"

North by …

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A Story for the TENET Director

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IMAGE- Donna Reed and Montgomery Clift in 'From Here to Eternity'

A Story That Works

“There is the dark, eternally silent, unknown universe;
there are the friend-enemy minds shouting and whispering
their tales and always seeking the three miracles —

  • that minds should really touch, or
  • that the silent universe should speak, tell minds a story,
  • or (perhaps the same thing) that there should be a story
    that works, that is all hard facts, all reality, with
    no illusions and no fantasy;

and lastly, there is lonely, story-telling, wonder-questing,
mortal me.”

– Fritz Leiber in “The Button Molder

"Will the record be unbroken . . . ?"

— Adapted song lyric

Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Inscrutable Art

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A link to 

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/
2022/05/16/how-queer-was-ludwig-wittgenstein

appeared today in my RSS feed as . . .

Related remarks: Art Space, a Log24 post of 7 May 2017.

The art above is by one Alexis Beauclair. See as well
an earlier illustration, also credited to Beauclair —

Record-Breaking Enrollment . . .

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Continues .

"Wittgenstein’s last words were:

Tell them I’ve had a wonderful life!’"

At the Center

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From the Centre de recherches mathématiques  (CRM) —

Related remarks —

"The form, the pattern"  — T. S. Eliot — and . . .

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11B/110712-ObjectOfBeauty.jpg

See as well the new URLs  ternary.space and ternary.group.

Monday, May 9, 2022

An Old Amazon Tale

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From The DIadem of Death (May 29, 2008) —

Wonder Woman and the Secret of the Magic Tiara

Wonder Woman and the Secret of the Magic Tiara-- The End

Entertainment

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Click to enlarge.

Warsaw Concerto

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Form vs. Content

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From the Log24 search Form + MLA 

IMAGE- MLA session, 'Defining Form,' chaired by Colleen Rosenfeld of Pomona College
 

See . . . 

Bartley's Gourmet Burgers, the former Harvard Spa


 

    as well as . . .

 

Will the Circle

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A tune from the conclusion of Episode 1 of Season 3,
"A Discovery of Witches" —

I prefer the Carter Family version and, from the YouTube upload date
of the above British version . . .

Sunday, May 8, 2022

Tamen Usque  Hazel

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Cullinane, Epiphany 1989, I Ching chessboard, lower right'

(Image from Vieux Carré ,  Jan. 20, 2022)

A Recurring Theme

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From a Wikipedia article suggested by the previous post

"A recurring theme among these characters
is that a dead human has been reanimated 
with cybernetic technology."

"Tamen usque recurret . . . ." (Phrase originally from Horace.)

In Memory of a Comic-Book Artist . . .

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… who reportedly died on Friday, May 6, 2022.

See as well Wonder Woman in this  journal.

Saturday, May 7, 2022

Interality Meets the Seven Seals

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 8:41 pm

Related material — Posts tagged Interality and Seven Seals.

From Hermann Weyl's 1952 classic Symmetry —

"Galois' ideas, which for several decades remained
a book with seven seals  but later exerted a more
and more profound influence upon the whole
development of mathematics, are contained in
a farewell letter written to a friend on the eve of
his death, which he met in a silly duel at the age of
twenty-one. This letter, if judged by the novelty and
profundity of ideas it contains, is perhaps the most
substantial piece of writing in the whole literature
of mankind."

“Use Your Noodle” Update

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 3:33 am

Update to yesterday's "Use Your Noodle" post . . . 

Click the above image to enlarge.

Update of 2:40 AM May 7, 2022 —

Flusser's seven "pillars" appear to be the main sections of the Tractatus
— numbered 1 through 7, with many intermediate numbered passages.

For a more geometric meditation on "the shape of things," see other
posts tagged "Shape Constant" in this  journal.

Friday, May 6, 2022

The Hat Tip

Filed under: General — m759 @ 5:50 pm

https://www.spotern.com/en/spot/tv/the-blacklist/7939/
the-borsalino-raymond-reddington-james-spader-in-the-blacklist

Related material —

"A good, involving mystery featuring strong characters and
prose as smooth as the brim of a fedora, this novel makes
smart points about writing, publishing and the cult of mysteries."

Review of A Smile on the Face of the Tiger 

See also . . .

Use Your Noodle (For Byron Gogol*)

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 4:46 pm
 
An essay from . . .

The Shape of Things: A Philosophy of Design
by Vilem Flusser

Wittgenstein’s Architecture

The universe of texts can be seen as a landscape. In it one can make out mountains and valleys, rivers and lakes, castles, farmyards and inner-city slums. On the horizon of the scene visualized in this way, the Bible and Homer appear as gigantic ice-covered mountains. The vast, tranquil lake of Aristotle’s texts, where fishermen idly throw their nets and philologists row their boats, occupies a part of the valley bottom. There, the tumbling waterfall of Nietzsche is captured by the broad river of modern pragmatism. Towering above everything, the Gothic cathedral of St Thomas Aquinas’s Summae dominates the cathedral square of the city, in which the roofs and gables of Baroque speculations jostle one another. In the suburbs of this city, one catches sight of the Romantic, Realist and Modernist housing-blocks and factories of more recent litera¬ ture; somewhat apart from all these stands a small, apparently insignificant house resembling scaffolding more than a finished building: Wittgenstein’s building.

This little house is called the Tractatus. This name isn’t the product of a one-track mind. For when one enters the house, one notices immediately that this is not a place that has lost track of things. Quite the opposite: It is a place of mirror- images. The house stands on six foundation pillars which support one another by means of cross-beams organized in a hierarchy. In the middle, however, there rises a seventh pillar whose function it is to cut through the building and free it from the ground. So the house with all its corners, angles and joints is protected, armoured and impregnable. And yet, and for that very reason, it is threatened with collapse and disappearance without trace – condemned in advance and from the outset.

The building is set out: It consists of propositions. Every proposition presupposes all the preceding ones and is itself the 76 presupposition of all the following propositions. Proposition by proposition, anyone who enters progresses through the prescribed rooms, and his step is supported by consistencies. Suddenly, with one proposition, one single proposition, the ground gives way beneath his feet. He falls head first into the abyss.

Wittgenstein’s house is situated in a suburb of that city whose cathedral square is dominated by the towers of Thomas Aquinas’s cathedral. The small, modest pillars of Wittgenstein’s house support one another according to the same logico- philosophical method as the pillars of the cathedral support one another. But there appears to be a world of difference between the cathedral and the little house: The cathedral is a ship pointing in the direction of heaven, and the little house is a trap-door pointing in the direction of a bottomless abyss. But be careful: May Thomas Aquinas not have been right in saying after his revelation that everything he had written before was like straw? May not the heaven above the cathedral be the same black hole as the abyss beneath the little house? May not Wittgenstein’s little house be the cathedral of today? And those mirrors whose images simultaneously mirror one another, may they not be our equivalent of stained-glass windows?

The landscape portrayed in this essay, it goes without saying, is a metaphor. Is it possible to identify it as Vienna? And is it possible for anyone entering Wittgenstein’s little house in that unlikely place to make out a hint of the unsayable? What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence. 77

Click the above image to enlarge.

See as well . . .

Update of 2:40 AM May 7, 2022 —

Flusser's seven "pillars" appear to be the main sections of the Tractatus
— numbered 1 through 7, with many intermediate numbered passages.

For a more geometric meditation on "the shape of things," see other
posts tagged "Shape Constant" in this  journal.
 

*Byron Gogol is a tech magnate in the HBO series "Made for Love."
 

Interality and the Bead Game

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 3:00 pm

WIkipedia on the URL suffix ".io" —

"In computer science, "IO" or "I/O" is commonly used
as an abbreviation for input/output, which makes the
.io domain desirable for services that want to be
associated with technology. .io domains are often used
for open source projects, application programming
interfaces ("APIs"), startup companiesbrowser games,
and other online services."

An association with the Bead Game from a post of April 7, 2018

IMAGE- 'Solomon's Cube'

Glasperlenspiel  passage quoted here in Summa Mythologica 

“"I suddenly realized that in the language, or at any rate
in the spirit of the Glass Bead Game, everything actually
was all-meaningful, that every symbol and combination of
symbols led not hither and yon, not to single examples,
experiments, and proofs, but into the center, the mystery
and innermost heart of the world, into primal knowledge.
Every transition from major to minor in a sonata, every
transformation of a myth or a religious cult, every classical
or artistic formulation was, I realized in that flashing moment,
if seen with a truly meditative mind, nothing but a direct route
into the interior of the cosmic mystery, where in the alternation
between inhaling and exhaling, between heaven and earth,
between Yin and Yang, holiness is forever being created.”

A less poetic meditation on the above 4x4x4 design cube —

"I saw that in the alternation between front and back,
between top and bottom, between left and right,
symmetry is forever being created."

See also a related remark by Lévi-Strauss in 1955

"…three different readings become possible:
left to right, top to bottom, front to back."

The recent use by a startup company of the URL "interality.io" suggests
a fourth  reading for the 1955 list of Lévi-Strauss — in and out
i.e., inner and outer group automorphisms —  from a 2011 post
on the birthday of T. S. Eliot :

A transformation:

Inner and outer group automorphisms

Click on the picture for details.

Interality and the I Ching

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:57 am

See "Flusser and the I Ching," by Peter Zhang.

Zhang has written extensively on the concept of "interality,"
a term coined by his colleague Geling Shang.

For interality as the mathematics underlying the natural
automorphism group of the I Ching, see my own work.

Thursday, May 5, 2022

“Interality” as a Metaverse Term

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 11:01 pm

See also "Interality" in this  journal.

Update of 8:56 AM ET
Friday, May 6, 2022:

“You have to all have a shared language of all this stuff,
otherwise it can get pretty confusing,” Waldron said.

The Waldron quote is from . . .

"‘Doctor Strange 2’ Writer Michael Waldron Wishes
That He Didn’t Make So Many Multiverse Rules In ‘Loki’
 .

Later, at 9:29 AM ET . . .

See as well other posts now tagged Strange Change.

Annals of a Cartoon Graveyard

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:39 am

In memory of a comic-book artist —

His views on physics at

http://web.archive.org/web/20060805085915/
http://nealadams.com/PhysicsOfGrow.html

and a New Yorker  cartoon from
his reported date of death — April 28 —

Wednesday, May 4, 2022

A Sequel to WeaveworldTileworld!

Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:11 pm

The previous post and recent Morocco Instagram photos by marrific
suggest a pair of related images —

Related reading:
Pattern Groups and Mosaic.

For a Cartoon Graveyard . . . “Angels in the Architecture”

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:40 pm

A different sort of scourge


 

The Source:

Disney Wars

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 4:06 am

Click to enlarge the above Moon Knight country credits.

See as well Slovenia in this  journal.

Tuesday, May 3, 2022

Images Update

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:32 pm

"Los embaldosados" means the tilings .

The image referencing Robert M. Pirsig is
from "Classic Romantic," Dec. 19, 2020.

Plan 9  Continues.

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:27 pm

An image from the Web on Monday evening —

Also on February 10, 2022 —

Monday, May 2, 2022

Art Wars

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:31 pm

"Moon Knight" will conclude at 3 AM ET Wednesday.

Related art  —

Related cinematic art — ("Tomb Raider," 2018) —

An image that some — perhaps even Uncle Walt himself —
might prefer to the above depiction of Lara Croft —

Overarching Rhetoric

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:42 pm

" While quantum theory has proven to be supremely successful
since its development a century ago, physicists have struggled to
unify it with gravity to create one overarching ‘theory of everything.’ "

— News release 1-May-2022 from
Foundational Ouestions Institute, FQXi

See as well the new URL "overarching.group."

Plaid Dance

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:33 am

From a 2017 Kate Mara film

For a rather different vision of perfection, see Mara in "Morgan" (2016).

Sunday, May 1, 2022

Jailbait Puzzle for Moon Knight

Filed under: General — m759 @ 2:08 pm

The pane number of interest —  15 or 14 ?
depends on your perspective.

Related cinematic art of Oscar Isaac —

The Coming

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:15 am

"Edward Bulwer-Lytton (infamous author of the opening line,
'It was a dark and stormy night') was a Victorian-era writer.
In 1870, he published a science fiction novel, The Power of
the Coming Race,
 which describes an underground race of
superhuman angel-like creatures and their mysterious energy
force, Vril, an 'all-permeating fluid' of limitless power."

— From a source linked-to in the post Vril Chick.

"Credit where credit is due" . . .

Grasp the Stars* . . . Illustrated!

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:43 am

* See the previous two posts, now also tagged Play Room.

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