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In related news . . .

See as well Pale Fire in this journal and . . .

In my long-ago high school days, the above title referred to
an imaginary local institution of higher education.

Memories of those days inspired the URL Scandia.tech.

See also the real  Scandia, about nine miles northeast of my old school . . .

A more sophisticated alpha and omega . . .

"Ostlund says that […] 'a lot of the topics in the film
are inspired by Marxist theories.' "

A rather differently inspired square-then-triangle saga . . .

Figurate Geometry.

See also http://m759.net/wordpress/?tag=tri-be.

See Borsalino, Miller's Crossing, and Road to Perdition.

As G. M. Conwell pointed out in a 1910 paper, the group of all
40,320 permutations of an 8-element set is the same, in an
abstract sense, as the group of all collineations and dualities
of PG(3,2), the projective 3-space over the 2-element field.

This suggests we study the geometry related to the above group's
actions on the 105 partitions of an 8-set into four separate 2-sets.

Note that 105 equals 15×7 and also 35×3.

In such a study, the 15 points of PG(3,2) might correspond (somehow)
to 15 pairwise-disjoint seven-element subsets of the set of 105 partitions,
and the 35 lines of PG(3,2) might correspond (somehow) to 35 pairwise-
disjoint three-element subsets of the set of 105 partitions.

Exercise:  Is this a mere pipe dream?

A search for such a study yields some useful background . . .

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Taylor's Index of Names  includes neither Conwell nor the
more recent, highly relevant, names Curtis  and Conway .

Related reading —

A search in this journal for "Wallace Stevens died" is
suggested by a New York Times  obituary this afternoon . . .

From an essay by Carson in London Review of Books,
Vol. 46 No. 16 · 15 August 2024 —

"Handwriting is a mark from inside me
that I put outside me, often with a view
to showing, telling, communicating.
It carries what Gerard Manley Hopkins
calls ‘the inscape’ out.
(Note: Hopkins meant several different things
by ‘inscape’, which I don’t know enough
about his psyche or his poetics to represent here,
but those Dublin notebooks – wow!)"

For a rather different use of "inscape," see a Log24 search.

Some related mathematics, via a beta version of ChatGPT Search —

More recently, some Opus Pistorum  news . . .

Eureka!

Click the art for the hotel source.

Log24 flashback —

"Death rules the domain of images
into which the heraldic poet is thrown."

This is from . . .

Attempted Escape from
the Domain of Images :

Scene from Wild Palms,
a work that features
the "image sickness."

Place-name from the Ojibwe language . . . Mackinac —

Ojibwa art — From a Dreamcatcher Log 24 search —

Related metadata —

Related comedy:  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083254/.
For DQ-related entertainment I  prefer:  Starr 80.

The above title may serve as a private memorial for a Harvard
scholar of Communist China whose work Nixon found helpful.

Related reading: 

A Log24 post from the scholar's reported date of death.

Emch.

The FUBAR Version —

Getty Images … Credit: LOIC VENANCE.

* "Atlantic City" (Sarandon)

** "The Hunger" (Deneuve)

*** "White Palace" (Spader)

An old web page . . .

Searching for updated information on the author yields . . .

Related reading:

m759.net/wordpress/?s=Swing+On

* https://www.colorado.edu/atlas/acme-lab

See Saddle in this journal. 
See also Szell Game.

In memory of writer-journalist Evan Wright,
who reportedly died on July 12, 2024 . . .

"Right through hell there is a path . . . ." — Malcolm Lowry

This quotation is from a Log24 search for "1966."

That search was suggested by the now-streaming film
"MaXXXine" and by . . .

* Title of a book by Nanavira Thera.

A search for the title phrase in this journal yields . . .

These locusts by day, these crickets by night 
Are the instruments on which to play 
Of an old and disused ambit of the soul 
Or of a new aspect, bright in discovery— 

A disused ambit of the spirit’s way,
The sort of thing that August crooners sing,
By a pure fountain, that was a ghost, and is, 
Under the sun-slides of a sloping mountain; 

Or else a new aspect, say the spirit's sex,
Its attitudes, its answers to attitudes 
And the sex of its voices, as the voice of one 
Meets nakedly another’s naked voice. 

From a 2003 "Plato's Caveman" post . . .

* Cf. San Joaquin Flashback .

https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/
how-maga-world-is-taking-on-its-new-opponent —

From a search in this  journal for "Second Billing" —

* https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20561-days-with-dr-yen-lo/

** See Woit's helpful links from the evening of July 31 —

"The second International Congress of Basic Science
ended a few days ago in Beijing. A huge number of
interesting talks, video and slides available here."

"I'm thinkin' of a clear frustration . . ."

— Adapted song lyric

Things of August*

Related narratives:

• The Dreaming Jewels
• Transfiguration College
• Archimedes at Hiroshima

Related mathematics:

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