Part I —
Also in May 1986 —
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86-05-08… A linear complex related to M24 . Anatomy of the polarity pictured in the 86-04-26 note. 86-05-26… The 2-subsets of a 6-set are the points of a PG(3,2).
Beutelspacher's model of the 15 points of PG(3,2) |
Part II — (36 years later)
For fans of the fictional Transfiguration College, an institution
in the play "Heroes of the Fourth Turning" — now reportedly
featuring Sophia Lillis in an upcoming Washington, D.C., production…
See "theatrical Hiroshimas" and "Jolt" in this journal.
Related philosophy — Taiji.
In memory of a founder of MCC Theater:
A musical rendition of the ending of the classic
1947 E. B. White short story
"The Second Tree from the Corner."
"In my beginning is my end." — T. S. Eliot
Two readings from December 7, 2008 —
A related quotation, suggested by the now-deceased professor David Lavery
of Middle Tennessee State University —
Lavery, a professor of English, was born in 1949 in Oil CIty, Pa.
The Peacock series "The Resort" yesterday presented its concept
of "a room outside of time" (the Pasaje ) as a hole in the ground.
"I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand
Walking through the streets of Soho in the rain"
See other posts now tagged Structure Character.
See as well the Tolkien release date in Wondertale posts.
Season 1 of "The Resort" will end as "The Lord of the Rings:
The Rings of Power" begins.
For seekers of the Pasaje — "The Room Outside of Time" —
"The Vision is of what the transliteration of their collaborative
Great Music into a material reality would be like. They are
shown that the Music has a point, has a result and effect
beyond its composition and singing: it amounts to no less
than a highly detailed template commensurate with the entire
history – beginning to end – of a material, 'physical' Universe
that could exist inside 'time'."
See Ballet Blanc and Black Art in this journal.
From the former:
"A blank underlies the trials of device."
— Wallace Stevens
From the latter:
Separatrix:
From "Core Curriculum Vocabulary," Log24, July 5, 2014 . . .
Stephen King, Archimedes, and Daisy Buchanan —
Unitrix:
From the 2022 sequel to "365 Days" and "365 Days: This Day" —
Related literary symbolism —
From "A special configuration of 12 conics and generalized Kummer surfaces,"
by David Kohel, Xavier Roulleau, and Alessandra Sarti.
(arXiv:2004.11421 (math), submitted on 23 Apr 2020 (v1),
last revised 17 May 2021 (this version, v2)) —
"… we study the set C12 of conics that contain at least 6 points in P9. One has
Theorem 1. The set C12 has cardinality 12. Each conic in C12 contains exactly
6 points in P9 and through each point in P9 there are 8 conics. The sets (P9, C12)
form therefore a (98, 126)-configuration.
The configuration (P9, C12) has interesting symmetries, e.g. there are 8 conics
among the 12 passing through a fixed point q in P9 and the 8 points in P9 \ {q},
which form a 85 point-conic configuration. The freeness of the arrangement of
curves C12 is studied in [19], where we learned that this configuration has been
also independently discovered in [11]."
[11] Dolgachev I., Laface A., Persson U., Urzúa G.,
"Chilean configuration of conics, lines and points," preprint.
(arXiv:2008.09627 (math), submitted on 21 Aug 2020)
[19] Pokora P., Szemberg T.,
"Conic-line arrangements in the complex projective plane," preprint
(arXiv:2002.01760 (math), submitted on 5 Feb 2020 (v1),
last revised 10 Feb 2022 (this version, v3))
M. J. T. Guy discovered that the lexicographic version
of the Golay code contains, embedded within it, the
Miracle Octad Generator (MOG) of R. T. Curtis.
For 12 basis vectors of the lexicographic version, see below.
For some context, click the embedded guy.
For a closely related, but simpler, mathematical
structure, see posts tagged The Omega Matrix.
From the Stillwell remembrance, a Shenitzer quote —
"An English major may or may not be a novelist or a poet,
but would undoubtedly be expected to be able to evaluate
a novel or a poem. The term 'English major' implies some
historical, philosophical, and evaluative training and
competence. It is sad but true that the term 'mathematician'
does not imply corresponding training and competence."
Related material — The previous post, and posts tagged Super-8.
"… the new geometries … provide the best example of
the power of the human mind, for the mind had to defy
and overcome habit, intuition, and sense perceptions
to produce these geometries."
— Morris Kline, Mathematics in Western Culture ,
Oxford University Press, 1953, page 430.
Points as Cuts —
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"This discussion, intended to define the nature and the largest common denominator of all games, has at the same time the advantage of placing their diversity in relief and enlarging very meaningfully the universe ordinarily explored when games are studied. In particular, these remarks tend to add two new domains to this universe: that of wagers and games of chance, and that of mimicry and interpretation. Yet there remain a number of games and entertainments that still have imperfectly defined characteristics— for example, kite-flying and top-spinning, puzzles such as crossword puzzles, the game of patience, horsemanship, seesaws, and certain carnival attractions."
— Caillois, Roger. 1913-1978, in
Translated by Meyer Barash from Les jeux et les hommes . |
See also Caillois in the previous post.
See as well the discussion of
"the flag of the nude above the holiday hotel,"
on pages 108-109 in
Leon Surette, “Wallace Stevens, Roger Caillois and
‘The Pure Good of Theory',” Paideuma , Vol. 32,
Nos. 1-2-3 (Spring, Fall and Winter 2003), pp. 95-122
"And, as with all retold tales that are in people's hearts,
there are only good and bad things and black and white
things and good and evil things and no in-between anywhere."
— John Steinbeck, author's epigraph to The Pearl
From the Season 4 finale of Westworld :
uploading Dolores's pearl at Hoover Dam —
For those who prefer greater theological simplicity . . .
Optimus Prime on a different Hoover Dam figure, that of
the AllSpark: "Before time began, there was the Cube."
Simplifying even more . . .
“A set having three members is a single thing
wholly constituted by its members but distinct from them.
After this, the theological doctrine of the Trinity as
‘three in one’ should be child’s play.”
– Max Black, Caveats and Critiques: Philosophical Essays
in Language, Logic, and Art , Cornell U. Press, 1975
As above, Black's theology forms a cube.
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