Motifs for Conway:
Later . . .
The above reposting was suggested in part by
the word "sevenfold" in Milton —
From the above nineteenth-century text, a verse by Spenser, adapted —
"Bodied, heard, souled, seen."
— might well be applied to a noted brother and sister, as in Petronius:
"… dum frater sororis suae automata per clostellum miratur …."
Detail from the Instagram of Emma Watson —
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Ratan Naval Tata was born on Dec. 28, 1937, in Bombay, now Mumbai, during the British Raj. His family belonged to the Parsi religion, a small Zoroastrian community that originated in Persia, fled persecution by the Muslim majority there centuries ago and found refuge in India. Mr. Tata became a leader of that community. — New York Times obituary on 9 October 2024 |
See also theta functions in this journal.
For those who prefer narratives to mathematics . . .
Tiger at the Fire Temple
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A Story That Works
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The above Leiber remarks appeared here on December 14, 2005.
They are reposted in memory of the author known as Trevanian,
who reportedly died on that date. He wrote about, and for a time
lived in, the Basque Country.
See also the Basque Country in this journal.
I particularly like this sonnet's "Before…behind" line . . .
Sunday, August 13, 2023
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"Some like it in the pot, nine days old." — Nursery rhyme
Today is Day 9 of October. This suggests a review of
images from posts tagged "Master Plan." For example —
Compare and contrast the "She and Her" of yesterday evening's
10:03 PM post with the "Her and She" of this morning's
11:53 AM post.
There are, of course, purely secular forms of prayer . . .
The above remarks were suggested by the award today of a Nobel Prize
for Hopfield networks, and by the Hebbian theory I learned
in a 1960-1961 Harvard Freshman Seminar on Prescott Street.
Updates:
For fans of associative memory …
There is also, for a mojo dojo casa house . . .
TX+
"Kercheval, Kesey . . . . Kesey, Kercheval."
And as the "Doing Dallas" musical score —
The article illustration above is Eric Fischl's "She and Her" (2017).
See also other posts in this journal now tagged Fischl.
Deep blue excerpt —
From part two of the recent film triptych "Kinds of Kindness" . . .
Window with Couch and Cat —
Related aesthetics —
Boris Karloff as a modernist architect in a 1934 horror film —
For a Hollywood version of Archimedes, see . . .
A related image from what Ray Bradbury called "October Country" —
"I have to guess on the spot
just what this play’s all about."
— Wisława Szymborska at . . .
"You are not alone." — Adapted AA saying.
From Dan Brown —
From one of my old schools —
From Milton —
Before thir eyes in sudden view appear The secrets of the hoarie deep, a dark Illimitable Ocean without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and highth, And time and place are lost; where eldest Night And Chaos, Ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal Anarchie, amidst the noise Of endless warrs and by confusion stand. For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four Champions fierce Strive here for Maistrie, and to Battel bring amidst the noise Thir embryon Atoms.... ... Into this wilde Abyss, The Womb of nature and perhaps her Grave, Of neither Sea, nor Shore, nor Air, nor Fire, But all these in thir pregnant causes mixt Confus'dly, and which thus must ever fight, Unless th' Almighty Maker them ordain His dark materials to create more Worlds, Into this wilde Abyss the warie fiend Stood on the brink of Hell and look'd a while, Pondering his Voyage.... -- John Milton, Paradise Lost , Book II
Related material —
This morning's post on witchcraft and reason, and related images —
Also from December 1982 —
Addendum for Art Gawkers . . . and P. T. Barnum —
The above review by Perl includes remarks on
Tricks of the Light: Essays on Art and Spectacle
Zone, 270 pp., $32.00.
NOT Crary and Perl —
Jonathan and Einstein in "Arsenic and Old Lace."
* See Fire Temple as well as the previous post and . . .
Letters to Goya, by James Magee, October 5, 2019.
(That 2019 Magee performance was at The Crowley Theater
in Marfa . . . NOT named for Aleister Crowley.)
The New York Times yesterday on an artist-poet who reportedly
died on September 14 at 79 — His work in a West Texas desert . . .
"… isn’t a paean to minimalism or a work of land art, exactly.
Mr. Magee described it as his own private existential exploration
and meditation, and as a container for his deeply personal work. . . ."
A deeply personal exploration and meditation of my own . . .
* See this morning's previous post.
"Let me say this about that." — Richard Nixon
Red and black are accountants' colors. Blue, as in the above text
highlight, suggests Henry Miller and the keyhole of Opus Pistorum.
… And then there is Pullman, with his "Dust." Perhaps the most
appropriate color for Pullman's account is white , as in the following
photo annotation —
Some painters, not inkers, may enjoy studio background
music from Dusty Springfield's album "White Heat."
https://miapensa.com/pages/about —
"… using her documented past work as a means to
revisit and expand on the themes and motifs…."
See also Patterning.
A check in this journal for the above script date — Nov. 21, 2011 —
yields posts tagged . . .
The review suggested above contained an excerpt from the
April 1994 Dartmouth Magazine —
I encountered this some time ago in a search related to
Ripon College and math. The Poe-and-Finite-Math
combination from Dartmouth was memorable.
"Against Dryness" —
"Against the consolations of form, the clean crystalline
work, the simplified fantasy-myth, we must pit the
destructive power of the now so unfashionable naturalistic
idea of character.
Real people are destructive of myth, contingency is
destructive of fantasy and opens the way for imagination."
— Iris Murdoch, January 1961
"the now so unfashionable naturalistic idea of character" —
"Thunder only happens when it's raining,
Players only love you when they're playing."
— Song lyric. See as well the previous post.
Thesis —
A 1911 essay by T. E. Hulme,
"Romanticism and Classicism" —
"There is a general tendency to think that verse means
little else than the expression of unsatisfied emotion.
People say: 'But how can you have verse without sentiment?'
You see what it is: the prospect alarms them. A classical revival
to them would mean the prospect of an arid desert and the death
of poetry as they understand it, and could only come to fill the gap
caused by that death. Exactly why this dry classical spirit should
have a positive and legitimate necessity to express itself in poetry
is utterly inconceivable to them."
Antithesis —
A 1961 reaction against Hulme,
"Against Dryness" —
"Against the consolations of form, the clean crystalline
work, the simplified fantasy-myth, we must pit the
destructive power of the now so unfashionable naturalistic
idea of character.
Real people are destructive of myth, contingency is
destructive of fantasy and opens the way for imagination."
— Iris Murdoch, January 1961
Synthesis —
A New York Times Monday, Sept. 30, theater review by Jesse Green —
"… a story, set in 'the very near future,' in which computer-mediated
interactions — predictive chatbots, large language models, generative
intelligence — are pitted against their analog forebears. What creative
opportunities does such technology afford the artist? What human
opportunities does it squander? Forget the sword: It’s the pen vs. the pixel.
I’m afraid, alas, the pixel wins, because the play, which opened on Monday,
in a stylish Lincoln Center Theater production directed by Bartlett Sher,
works only as provocation."
"… the sets (by Michael Yeargan and Jake Barton) and the projections
(by Barton) — along with Sher’s typically expressive manipulation
of them — are the production’s most successfully integrated elements,
especially the squircle panels, pop-up rooms and torrential digital imagery."
Squircle-related imagery —
From a Facebook reel by Sara Aiello Studio
(Excerpted as "The See Saw" in Log24 on Oct. 1, 2024) —
In memory of American author Ella Leffland,* who reportedly
died on September 18, 2024 —
* Leffland wrote, notably, The Knight, Death, and the Devil .
In memory of British author Clive Sinclair,* who reportedly
died on March 5, 2018 —
* Sinclair was "born into a Jewish family originally named Smolensky."
— Wikipedia
"… the tip of a horribly large and scary iceberg…."
— Harvard Law emeritus professor Laurence Tribe talking with
Erin Burnett tonight about a newly unsealed Jack Smith document.
* Quod vide.
A scene from "Nell" —
Related philosophy — "The valley spirit never dies . . . ."
Related song for fans of the TV series "The Resort" —
"Down in the valley, the valley so low,
Hang your head over, hear the wind blow"
Photography related to "The Resort" —
The added Valéry emblem above seemed a fitting remembrance.
See as well . . .
* The city block in Warren, PA, containing the former Crary residence,
Crary Art Gallery, and the former Kopf residence.
For Orson and Kane . . .
One year ago here . . .
From this journal on September 24, 2012—
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"A single self-transcendence" — Aldous Huxley
From an anonymous author at the website
"This little story… has that climactic moment of Kill Devil Hills also appears in a 1983 film—
"Suppose it were possible to transfer
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"… that 'good' threshold . . . ." — See Threshold in this journal.
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