"Now put the foundations under them." — Thoreau
An image from the previous post —
The W image at lower left above suggests a variation —
Vogue — Promotion photo for "Bombshell."
* Title suggested in part by a post of Dec. 11, 2022 —
Anthony Lane in The New Yorker on July 20 —
"Barbie has a male chum, Ken (Ryan Gosling), though
he wishes he were more than that. 'We’re girlfriend-boyfriend,'
he tells her, running the words together into a single unit.
Smooth. They can’t have sex, although a showing of
'Team America: World Police' (2004) might give them some
handy tips."
Yes, it might. This journal on September 2, 2020 —
"Smile, you're being candid."
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Team America: The Metadata
Dialogue from a poet's memorial —
– Exactly. Did you read my book?
– No, I’m sorry.
– That’s okay. This is marvellous.
– A first date like a game show.
– I didn’t mean to lecture.
– I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to call it a date.
Related documentation from my email today . . .
"Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.” — Paul Simon
"Or tangled up in blue." — Steven H. Cullinane
The last line* of the previous post . . .
"See as well a search in this journal for Zettel ."
suggests another entertainment review —
"Interspersed with the surprisingly fruitful escapades
of these drunken detectives are a series of flashbacks
to Christmas 2007 . . . ."
— Rachel Aroesti in The Guardian ,
"Fri 29 Jul 2022 01.00 EDT,"
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/
2022/jul/29/the-resort-peacock-now-funny-
fast-paced-caper-the-white-lotus
* Added at about 7:20 this morning. The relevant material is in
the last post from that search — dated December 26, 2007.
" 'Hotel California,' with its mysterious, allegorical lyrics,
became among the band’s best-known recordings.
It topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1977 and won
a Grammy Award for record of the year in 1978."
— The New York Times tonight on an Eagles founding
member who reportedly died on Wednesday, July 26.
"Mirrors on the ceiling, pink champagne on ice . . . ."
See as well a search in this journal for Zettel .
The New Yorker , review dated July 20 …
Anthony Lane on "Barbie" director Greta Gerwig —
"Nobody else would even attempt
to meld a feminist colloquium
with a plug for a chunk of plastic"
Voilà , the Barbie Walters meld —
The above title was suggested by a Log24 post of Sunday morning.
"You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?"
Related material
from Log24 on July 20 —
Remarks by Kai Bird, co-author
of the biography behind the July 21
film "Oppenheimer" . . .
Wormhole Science: The Kaku’s Nest
Filed under: General — Tags: Bullshit Studies — m759 @ 9:29 AM
See posts now tagged Kevin Kate Carl.
"His is a language that is highly charged with
a harmonic resonance and a certain distancing
and abstracting which makes the reference
more universal, less specifically personal."
— Durham University, 1999 Ph.D. thesis
As verse . . .
A harmonic resonance
And a certain distancing
And abstracting which
"Do you remember All Souls' Day two years ago?"
"For ten years, we've been on our own . . ." — American Pie
In the spirit of "Boogie Nights" (1997), a scene from March 17, 2022 —
Related rhetoric from Harvard —
The Harvard math department's pie-eating contest—
The new URL topdot.art refers to depictions of
the top dot (or point, or vertex) in a vertex-edge diagram
of a square, cube, or hypercube that has been rotated
so that the bottom dot (or point, or vertex), represented by
all-zero coordinates in a labeling, is at the bottom …
and the top dot (or point, or vertex), represented by
all-one coordinates in a labeling, is at the top.
See (for instance) the Log24 post Physicality (Oct. 5, 2022).
Related philosophical remarks: Einheit .
"It is not enough to cover the rock with leaves.
We must be cured of it by a cure of the ground
Or a cure of ourselves, that is equal to a cure
Of the ground, a cure beyond forgetfulness.
And yet the leaves, if they broke into bud,
If they broke into bloom, if they bore fruit,
And if we ate the incipient colorings
Of their fresh culls might be a cure of the ground."
— "The Rock," a poem by Wallace Stevens from
a section with the same title in the Collected Poems .
Email Metadata —
Created at: | Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 12:25 AM |
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From: | Mary Gaitskill's Substack site |
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Email Excerpt —
"The interview starts out with a discussion of 'the weird,' and all of the meanings
contained in that word, from the uncanny to the easily dismissed . . . ."
Commentary —
Friday, May 27, 2011
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For related material on the geometry of a 2×3 rectangular array —
a domino — see the previous post and also a search in this journal for attic .
"I'll have what she's having."
— Classic movie line from "When Harry Met Sally,"
suggested by the ending scene from "Grease."
From this morning's online NY Times obituaries —
“Anyone who loves to play chess knows that
it’s enough to defeat your opponent. You don’t
have to loot his kingdom or seize his assets
to make it worthwhile,” he wrote in his book.
— Kevin Mitnick, who reportedly died on
Sunday, July 16, 2023, at 59.
See as well the "where it belonged" link in today's 7:52 AM ET post.
“Heaven was kind of a hat on the universe,
a lid that kept everything underneath it
where it belonged.”
— Carrie Fisher,
Postcards from the Edge
“720 in
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From this journal on July 6, 2023 —
A search for material related to this citation yields the name
"Stephen Obelisk" in a short story from the same website.
From The New York Times today, a different Stephen —
A Log24 flashback from the date of Silverman's reported death —
Despite today's New York Times warnings about chatbot inaccuracy,
the above short summary is well-written, helpful, and correct.
"Rage, rage, against the dying of the light"
— Dylan Thomas, quoted in the final episode of "Blacklist"
Related material, in memory of Raymond Reddington and
Harry G. Frankfurt —
See as well this journal on the morning of July 16,
and also "Cartoon Graveyard."
“I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.”
— Paul Simon
A New York Times obituary yesterday reported the
June 6 death, at 91, of a Harvard professor who dealt with
the relations between science and society —
“ 'Everett was one of a new generation of social historians
of science who insisted that it was not enough to pay attention
to the internal intellectual story of science,' Anne Harrington,
the Franklin L. Ford professor of the history of science at Harvard,
said by email. 'The field needed to attend also to how science was
shaped by and also helped shape the conditions of the social world.' ”
Consider as well Scarlett Johansson on Alan Watts in "Her" (2013)
and Harrington on intellectual history in Cuernavaca . . .
By 1956, Fromm was dining at Suzuki’s part-time home in New York City, and talking with him about ways in which Zen could contribute to a wholesale reimagining of psychoanalytic therapeutics and theory (see Friedman and Schreiber 2013). By this time, also, Fromm was himself spending considerable periods of time at a new home in Cuernavaca, Mexico. At one point he suggested that Suzuki consider moving in with him permanently. When Suzuki politely declined, Fromm conceived instead a major conference based in Mexico that would try to take stock of the entire current state of the conversation between Zen and psychotherapy (see Friedman and Schreiber 2013). In 1957, some fifty psychotherapists—double the original expected number—participated in a week of presentations and discussions. Fromm later recalled the event as a magical time: what began as a traditional conference with the usual ‘over-emphasis on thoughts and words' changed over a few days, as people 'became more concentrated and more quiet.' |
A search in this journal for D-Day related material yields
posts tagged "Shadow Hacking."
"Please wait as your operating system is initiated."
The artwork in an IG ad today caught my eye —
Related material in this journal — Magister Ludi and The Unity.
From a New York Times report of a July 7 death —
My time has come. The water’s wide.
I’ll see you on the other side.
Related material —
See as well today's previous post and its excerpt from the
story "Pottage," by Zenna Henderson, first published in
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Sept. 1955 —
"Before time began . . ." — Optimus Prime
Structures from pure mathematics, by Plato and R. T. Curtis —
* See other "Preform" posts in this journal.
Dwight Garner today on the late Milan Kundera:
"Kundera’s novels, especially his later ones, could be abstract and
heavy-handed. His characters, at times, were little more than chess pieces.
Their author could be pretentious. His work is filled with observations such as:
'In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia,
even the guillotine.' But his best fiction retains its moments of sweep and power."
Illustration for Florence King's 1989 review of The Eight , a novel
by Katherine Neville that features prominently the date April 4.
See also "Dissolution" in this journal.
"Mr. Kundera told The Paris Review in 1983:
'My lifetime ambition has been to unite
the utmost seriousness of question with
the utmost lightness of form. The combination of
a frivolous form and a serious subject
immediately unmasks the truth about our dramas
(those that occur in our beds as well as those that
we play out on the great stage of History) and their
awful insignificance. We experience the unbearable
lightness of being.' "
The above is from The New York Times this morning.
The Times says that Kundera died yesterday in Paris at 94.
For another meeting of form and subject, see The Grid.
A midrash on the current New Yorker "therapy issue" —
NB : The author of the report below is not the same person as
the author of this journal, who is known as Steven H. Cullinane.
See also this journal on the above Sunday at Little Gidding date.
From the August 2023 Notices of the American Mathematical Society —
"He worked tirelessly towards a more egalitarian world…."
"Chandler’s egalitarian spirit infused the workshops."
— Memorial Tribute: Remembrances of Chandler Davis
* See yesterday's Log24 post "Egalitarian Plan 9."
Remarks by John Baez today suggest a flashback…
Update at 9:06 PM ET . . .
Windows lockscreen this evening —
Related material in this journal: Weaveworld.
"I am what I am. You made a devil's bargain.
Did you really expect me to stop being the devil?"
Read more at: https://tvshowtranscripts.ourboard.org/
viewtopic.php?f=194&t=64076
See as well yesterday's post CORE and Faustus in this journal.
"Isn't it pretty to think so?"
— The Sun Also Rises
This post was suggested by the following passage of prose:
The "CORE" reference in the previous post yields, via a search . . .
Within this thesis there are 19 references to the name "Cullinane"
and to my own work, cited as . . .
Cullinane, Steven H., ‘The Diamond Theorem’ (1979)
<http://diamondtheorem.com>
[accessed 6 May 2019]
––– ‘Geometry of the I Ching’ (1989)
<http://finitegeometry.org/sc/64/iching.html>
[accessed 6 May 2019].
A check of the Springer publication date —November 15, 2006 — of the
above 1981 conference proceedings yields, in this journal — Stone 588 :
A search for material related to this citation yields the name
"Stephen Obelisk" in a short story from the same website.
In this website, a search for "Obelisk" yields . . .
Among fictional Stephens, I prefer Dedalus.
From the end of a story by Vladimir Nabokov in
The New Yorker of May 15, 1948:
"You have the incorrect number. I will
tell you what you are doing: you are
turning the letter O instead of the zero."
The previous post featured Anya Taylor-Joy playing chess.
A search for the name "Pickman" in this journal yields a
more entertaining view of Taylor-Joy.
June 27, 2016, in YouTube and in life —
Today's date, July 4, was also, in 1826, the dies natalis of
former U.S. presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams.
Background from this morning's news:
Suggested by two June 13 deaths — those of
Cormac McCarthy (89) and Edward Fredkin (88) —
excerpts from this journal on the night of June 13-14:
See also Frindle at the author's
website and in this journal.
This is the first colored version of
the Diamond Theory cover
that I have done since 1976.
" Video killed the radio star . . ."
This tune concludes "Take This Waltz,"
a 2011 film starring Michelle Williams.
Related material —
A New York Times obituary from this afternoon
and a video from the 2011 Williams film.
The Times report is of a "radio star" death on Tuesday, June 27.
Related philosophy from Sarah Silverman . . .
This afternoon's Windows lockscreen is Badlands National Park —
From this morning's post, a phrase from Schopenhauer —
"Apparent Design in the Fate of the Individual."
An apparent design in the philosophy of Optimus Prime —
"Before time began, there was the Cube" —
Click the image for further remarks.
"Denn um zu wiederholen, was ich anfangs sagte:
in dem Geheimnis der Einheit von Ich und Welt,
Sein und Geschehen, in der Durchschauung des
scheinbar Objectiven und Akzidentellen als
Veranstaltung der Seele glaube ich den innersten Kern
der analytischen Lehre zu erkennen." (GW IX 488)
Thomas Mann died in Zurich on 12 Aug., 1955.
"The author left his works in his will
to the Thomas Mann archive at the ETH Zurich."
Related meditation from Lexington, Kentucky, on
the date of Mann's death —
Or not.
Related literature —
"On 14 November 2019 Polaris announced their second full length
titled The Death of Me , released on 21 February 2020 . . . ."
See also Log24 on the former and latter dates.
* See a check.
"Infinity Cube" … hinged plaything, for sale —
"Eightfold Cube" … un hinged concept, not for sale—
See as well yesterday's Trickster Fuge ,
and a 1906 discussion of the eightfold cube:
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