Voilà!
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Stone Logic . . . Revisited
Flashback to April 20, 2017 —
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Tuesday, July 30, 2024
The Dropped Line
"Drop me a line" — Request attributed to Emma Stone.
Meditation on the dropped line —
Stone herself might prefer the not-so-mean shapes
of "A Quiet Weekend in Mykonos."
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Annals of Ominous Music:
Zauberflöte für Kundera
Related reading: "Ominous" in this journal.
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Zauberflöte für Kundera
Zauberflöte für Kundera
Annals of Ominous Music:
A Dance to the Ocarina of Time
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A Dance to the Ocarina of Time
A Dance to the Ocarina of Time
Monday, July 29, 2024
The Twilight Bride
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Taking the Bull by the Nose . . .
Continues . See other posts now tagged
The Emmanuel Bride.
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
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Logos
A hat tip to . . .
That post suggested . . .
The Source —
https://depositphotos.com/vectors/am.html?qview=157300120
and
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Sunday, July 28, 2024
For Gigi — With Chill and Irony
Today's Google Doodle, honoring soccer at the Paris games,
suggests a review of Hillman's "acorn theory" of the soul in
a Log24 post of September 10, 2022 . . .
"… I loved Gigi. It fed directly into my Francophilia.
I was convinced that at some future date, I, like
Gigi, would be trained as a courtesan. I, too, would
cause some hard case, experienced roué to abandon
his chill and irony." — Jessica Kardon
Related reading:
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Saturday, July 27, 2024
Laurel Canyon Twilight Zone
From this journal on Bastille Day 2021 —
On that same date this year . . .
Related reading: other posts tagged Laurel, and
"The Generous Gambler," by Baudelaire.
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Friday, July 26, 2024
For Harlan Kane:
The Chinatown Omega Continues.
A post in this journal from July 3, 2024 — see The Chinatown Omega —
suggests a look at a death in Paris on that date . . .
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The Chinatown Omega Continues.
The Chinatown Omega Continues.
San Joaquin Flashback
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
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The Boone Dogma
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This year's April –
For my own views on this theme as it applies
For some other views, see this year's
One of the authors at that site,
"'The discovery of non-Euclidean geometries
contradicted the "absolute truth" view
of the Platonists.'"
— Sarah J. Greenwald,
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
Damned nonsense. See Math16.com.
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This post was suggested by a mention of Boone
in an Atlantic article yesterday, "OopsGPT."
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Thursday, July 25, 2024
In Memory of “Joe Cool” — Hat Tip
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Fourth
One of Carl Jung's favorite quotations —
"One, two, three . . . but where is the fourth?" (Plato, Timaeus)
Related reading —
This post was suggested by the Lewis Lapham 2005 documentary
"The American Ruling Class."
Update of 7:54 AM EDT —
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Desk Sets
"I associate many things with many things."
— "Desk Set" (1957 film).
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Brick Space
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Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Self Story
"… always self-discovery and self-defniiton"
— Jill Schary Robinson at the end of the previous post
In memory of Lewis Lapham, who reportedly died yesterday —
Self-Discovery:
Self-Definition (from 11/27/2019):
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Laurel Canyon Blues
For a British blues pioneer who reportedly died on Monday, July 22, 2024 —
"Got the sun and trees and silence
I'm in my Laurel Canyon home"
— Song lyric by John Mayall
Update of 11 AM EDT Wednesday, July 24, 2024 —
From a 2023 novel by Jill Schary Robinson —
"Introduction: A Canyon of the Heart" — An excerpt:
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Tuesday, July 23, 2024
“You say AEON, I say Aion” . . .
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Madison
"Wisconsin is a home state of sorts for the presumptive
Democratic presidential nominee, who briefly lived in Madison
as a young child."
Say "cheese."
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In the Arena
"Today, Teddy Roosevelt’s man in the arena has a name. . . ."
— Speaker at the Republican National Convention, 2024
And then there is woman in the arena . . . .
See as well a related YouTube video —
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In Memoriam: Duke Fakir,
Last Surviving Member of the Four Tops
See "Four Tops" in this journal.
See also posts now tagged The Tenor Metaphor.
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Last Surviving Member of the Four Tops
Last Surviving Member of the Four Tops
Monday, July 22, 2024
Iconology for Pullman
See as well . . .
Fans of hallucinatory fiction might recall a saying of Philip Pullman:
"The meaning of a story emerges in the meeting
between the words on the page
and the thoughts in the reader's mind.
So when people ask me what I meant by this story,
or what was the message I was trying to convey in that one,
I have to explain that I'm not going to explain.
Anyway, I'm not in the message business;
I'm in the 'Once upon a time' business."
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Sunday, July 21, 2024
“Accentuate the Positive” — Song Lyric
— "Who can turn the world on with her smile?"
— Good question.
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Art Note
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Venice has always been accommodating sexually, catering to all tastes, like the great hotel it is, with signs in French, German, English, and Italian (‘Petit déjeuner ,’ ‘Frühstück ,’ ‘Breakfast ,’ ‘Prima colazione ’) advertising the mixture-as-before. The Italian institution of the cicisbeo (sometimes a lover, sometimes a gigolo, sometimes a mere escort, to a married woman) was perfected, if not invented, in Venice. Here again was Venetian rationality . . . . McCarthy, Mary. Venice Observed (p. 103). Warbler Classics. Kindle Edition. |
Update of 8:09 AM EDT Sunday, July 21, 2024 — In context . . .
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Meta vs. Data: “All politics is local.”
Click for a related elegy.
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For Jack and Jill:
Vinegar and Brown Acid
Vinegar and Brown Acid.
Click to enlarge —
Midrash adapted from T. S. Eliot —
"In his end is his beginning."
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Vinegar and Brown Acid
Vinegar and Brown Acid
Saturday, July 20, 2024
Annals of Western Philosophy:
Blue Opera Meets Blue Magic
For the "Blue Opera" part, see other posts so tagged.
The above may, if one likes, be regarded as ekphrasis for . . .
(For the part played by "six" and "nine" above, see Lo Shu.)
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Blue Opera Meets Blue Magic
Blue Opera Meets Blue Magic
Hillbilly Geometry
For Captain Maybelline*
"Your life, little girl, is an empty page . . . ." — Song lyric
* A reference to a New Yorker cartoon of July 18, 2024.
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For Captain Maybelline*
For Captain Maybelline*
Conspiracy Theory: NOT the Hollywood Version
Wikipedia — In the original Tom Clancy novel of "The Sum of All Fears"
"The East Germans hope that the war will eliminate both superpowers
and punish the Soviets for betraying World Socialism . . . ."
In the film, the villainy originates NOT with communist East Germans,
but instead with an international conspiracy of neo-fascists.
(LA premiere — May 29, 2002).
The Puccini song "Nessun Dorma" played at the end of the film
is, in the film plot, a favorite of the fascists. It was also featured
at the balloon-drop ending of the Republican National Convention
after midnight on Friday morning, July 19, 2024.
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Opera for The Village People . . .
. . . And politics for Bridget —
Click Bridget for the operatic "Nessun Dorma"
at the end of the May 2002 film "The Sum of All Fears."
See also the recent Log24 posts
Not so recent —
Some remarks from the date of the LA premiere
of "The Sum of All Fears," ending with . . .
"By groping toward the light we are made to realize
how deep the darkness is around us."
— Arthur Koestler, The Call Girls: A Tragi-Comedy ,
Random House, 1973, page 118.
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Culture Clash
New Yorker Eyeliner meets NY Times Headliner . . .
Deep Blue song (adapted) —
"I've been terribly alone and forgotten in Rehoboth . . . ."
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Roots Rising: The Charlottesville Posts
See Charlottesville in this journal.
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Friday, July 19, 2024
Traumnovelle
See as well last night's post
"Rogues Prefer Brunettes"
in this journal.
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Thursday, July 18, 2024
Rogues Prefer Brunettes
A scene I prefer . . .
Click the album above for a video uploaded on June 17, 2021.
For the Church of Synchronology: This journal on that date.
Metadata —
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Continuity vs. Change
More recently . . .
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/18/
us/politics/trump-biden-election.html —
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Hillbilly Baseball
"Hittin' sticks and stones together makes the windshield break"
— Adapted song lyric suggested by the film "The Hill" (2023).
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Brick Space
Compare and Contrast
A rearranged illustration from . . .
R. T. Curtis, "A New Combinatorial Approach to M24 ,"
Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society ,
Volume 79 , Issue 1 , January 1976 , pp. 25 – 42
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305004100052075 —
The "Brick Space" model of PG(5,2) —
Background: See "Conwell heptads" on the Web.
See as well Nocciolo in this journal and . . .
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Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Picture Grammars, Congruent Subarrays, and Azriel Rosenfeld
From the date of Rosenfeld's death —
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Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Monday, July 15, 2024
Whiteboard Jungle:
“Spiel ist nicht Spielerei” — Fröbel
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“Spiel ist nicht Spielerei” — Fröbel
“Spiel ist nicht Spielerei” — Fröbel
Sunday, July 14, 2024
Saturday, July 13, 2024
The Plane of Time
The ninefold square in the previous post suggests a review
of posts now tagged Plane of Time.
See as well . . .
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Plato For Those Ignorant of Geometry
The digits at right are not without geometric significance.
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In Memory of Anthea Sylbert (who reportedly died on June 18) —
“Turn Around, Bright Eyes”
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“Turn Around, Bright Eyes”
“Turn Around, Bright Eyes”
Friday, July 12, 2024
“A Range of Spaces” — Hotel Ad
The above architecture, and the above phrase "a range of spaces"
(from a hotel ad in the previous post), suggest some philosophical remarks:
That Christian Scholar date — April 15, 2015 — appeared in this
journal as the date of a movie review in The New York Post .
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Thursday, July 11, 2024
“I want to wake up in a city that doesn’t sleep” — Sinatra
A New York Times obituary today suggests a look at West 56th Street . . .
"If you are looking for an exclusive space to host
an intimate gathering, we have a range of spaces
to suit your requirements." — Whitby Hotel
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“One of those crazy riddles” — Stephen King
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Gin-Soaked Love Song
From the family playlist of Emma Watson and her brother,
producers of Renais gin . . .
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Wednesday, July 10, 2024
Hexagram 52: Ken
Today's description of Dartmouth College as a "gin-soaked gutter"
by Margaret Soltan (i.e., University Diaries) suggests a review:
Monday, November 14, 2022
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See also "KenKen" and today's previous post.
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Tuesday, July 9, 2024
For Stephen King (and Harlan Kane):
The Halloran Shining
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The Halloran Shining
The Halloran Shining
Monday, July 8, 2024
Lit Note
Flashback to Sept. 22, 2011 —
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Robert De Niro as Irving Thalberg in "The Last Tycoon." A possible acceptance speech for the Thalberg Award—
"Let me put you in this unit." |
A possible unit —
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Sunday, July 7, 2024
The Penthouse Area
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The Titanic Avatar
See also Avatar in this journal . . .
. . . and a post of March 29, 2024 . . .
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In the March 21 Netflix series "3 Body Problem,"
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The Rune Muse
For the title, search for Rune Muse in this journal.
An excerpt from that search . . .
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From Rune Meanings: Dagaz means "breakthrough, awakening, awareness. Daylight clarity as opposed to nighttime uncertainty. A time to plan or embark upon an enterprise. The power of change directed by your own will, transformation. Hope/happiness, the ideal. Security and certainty. Growth and release. Balance point, the place where opposites meet." Also known as "the rune of transformation." |
Dagaz: (
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Saturday, July 6, 2024
Gathering . . .
Memorial links for the National Comedy Center at Jamestown, NY —
The Bricklayer, Scent of a Hot Tin Roof, and The Nutshell Miracle.
Memorial art —
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A Date with Jaime
A fan tribute in Jaime King's Instagram this evening suggests
a look at the date October 22, 2010 … as well as the old joke
"What am I here after?"
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Song of the Whanganui Sex Worker*
"People in power rely on a deference to the status quo.
They rely on the difficulty of imagining change, of plotting
a path to a better outcome. They rely on making you feel
like you have to accept the hand you’re given."
Jerusalem Demsas, a staff writer at The Atlantic,
July 5, 2024, 9:35 AM ET
"I've been afraid of changes . . . ." — Adapted "Landslide" lyric
* See a post of April 26, 2024.
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Charly go round the sun,
Charly go round the moon
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Charly go round the moon
Charly go round the moon
Ovid.group
The above new URL forwards to "Metamorphosis" in this journal.
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Friday, July 5, 2024
De Bruyn on the Klein Quadric
— De Bruyn, Bart. “Quadratic Sets on the Klein Quadric.”
JOURNAL OF COMBINATORIAL THEORY SERIES A,
vol. 190, 2022, doi:10.1016/j.jcta.2022.105635.
Related material —
Log24 on Wednesday, July 3, 2024: "The Nutshell Miracle" . . .
In particular, within that post, my own 2019 "nutshell" diagram of PG(5,2):
PG(5,2)
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Desperately Seeking Harmonious Resonance
From a search in this journal for "harmonious" —
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Jung —
“Only gradually did I discover what the mandala really is:
* Faust , Part Two, trans. by Philip Wayne (Harmondsworth,
… Gestaltung, Umgestaltung,
Jung’s “Formation, Transformation” quote is from The speaker is Mephistopheles. |
Update, at 12:23 PM ET, to the above 11:29 AM post —
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Darkness at Noonan
Peggy Noonan in The Wall Street Journal ,
ET —
"To me it feels like August 1974."
An image from this journal on Wednesday, July 3 —
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Thursday, July 4, 2024
The First Test
"Beauty is the first test." — G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
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Wednesday, July 3, 2024
The Nutshell Miracle
From a search in this journal for nocciolo —
From a search in this journal for PG(5,2) —
From a search in this journal for Curtis MOG —
Shown above is a rearranged version of the
Miracle Octad Generator (MOG) of R. T. Curtis
("A new combinatorial approach to M24,"
Math. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc., 79 (1976), 25-42.)
From a search in this journal for Klein Correspondence —
The picture of PG(5,2) above as an expanded nocciolo
shows that the Miracle Octad Generator illustrates
the Klein correspondence.
Update of 10:33 PM ET Friday, July 5, 2024 —
See the July 5 post "De Bruyn on the Klein Quadric."
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Mathematics for Tricksters:
“Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained!”
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“Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained!”
“Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained!”
Vedic Carnival: “Hey Rubik!” *
The Moolakaprithi Cube (as opposed to Rubik's Moola Cube ) —
"The key to these connections lies in a 3 x 3 x 3 cube, which
in Vedic Physics, forms the Moolaprakriti, a key component of
the Substratum, the invisible black hole form of matter."
— viXra.org, "Clifford Clock and the Moolakaprithi Cube"
* See Wikipedia.
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Tuesday, July 2, 2024
Chinatown
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Updated 8:18 PM EDT, Tue July 2, 2024 "Robert Towne, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of a number of acclaimed movies, including the classic 1974 noir thriller 'Chinatown' starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway, has died. He was 89 years old. The news was confirmed by Towne’s publicist Carri McClure, who said he died on Monday 'peacefully at home surrounded by his loving family.' No cause of death was provided. Towne won the Academy Award for best original screenplay for 'Chinatown,' which last month celebrated 50 years since being released." |
Related imagery . . .
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Arrière-garde
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In memory of artist June Leaf —
Avant-Garde: The Usual Suspects
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Avant-Garde: The Usual Suspects
Avant-Garde: The Usual Suspects
Monday, July 1, 2024
The Coin
"Quizá yo acabe por gastar el Zahir a fuerza de pensarlo
y de repensarlo, quizá detrás de la moneda esté Dios."
Related images . . .
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The Powered Woman (Not Jessica Jones)
An article by Olga Holtz at the American Mathematical Society
website suggests . . .
"Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera."
See also other instances of "Zahir" in this journal.
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“Thinking Inside the Box” Prize
Magazine cover bearing the date July 1, 2024 —
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Cargo Cult
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