From Oscars La La —
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Chevron Space
I prefer a different chevron space . . .
Thursday, September 8, 2022 —
“Great Unconscious Gravity” *
"Right through hell there is a path" — Malcolm Lowry
An illustration from a post of April 13, 2009 —
That date was suggested by . . .
The "Amen Corner" tune was suggested by the life of
a Bee Gees drummer who died recently, by the title of
a book he wrote — You Should Be Dancing — and by
a scene (S1E2) in the Max miniseries "The Penguin" —
"Shit like this, the pain of it, you gotta be careful…
'cause it'll eat you alive if you let it.
It's a helluva lot more fun to dance."
* Phrase from a passage by Chesterton that led, in a
post of April 13, 2009, to the above image of Reba.
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Featured
A Facebook post from this afternoon . . .
Log Cabin Republicans may prefer the SNL snark of . . .
See a post of December 4, 2011 — Code Wars.
For Log Cabin Republicans: Life of Brian
The update to this morning's "Skin in the Game" post suggests . . .
See also Michael York's "The Omega Code."
I prefer my own version of that title.
A Mosaic for Megiddo
Skin in the Game: Real or Fake?
"Here was finality indeed, and cleavage!"
— Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
Update of 1:28 PM ET on November 19, 2024 —
"The decadent legacy of Berlin between the World Wars,
and that of the American speak-easy era, have left their marks
on fashion, of course. At the Golden Globes on Sunday night,
Nicole Kidman incarnated the steamy eroticism of the Weimar
years in a clingy 20's-style gold-spangled dress by Tom Ford for
YSL Rive Gauche. Ms. Kidman's illusion top, with its suggestion
of nudity, set tongues wagging well into the next day."
— By Ruth La Ferla, The New York Times, Jan. 27, 2004
Baptismal Font: Times New Roman
Click the Dies Natalis metadata for supplemental reading.
Monday, November 18, 2024
The Purloined Letter*
See as well . . .
* Q.V. — " 'There is a game of puzzles,' he resumed, 'which is
played upon a map. One party playing requires another to find
a given word — the name of town, river, state, or empire —
any word, in short, upon the motley and perplexed
surface of the chart.' " — Edgar Allan Poe
Sunday, November 17, 2024
A Belgian’s Balcony Scene
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Weyl, Symmetry, and the MOG
(HTML version of an earlier post)
Some historical background for a new book by Robert T. Curtis,
The Art of Working with the Mathieu Group M24 —
"Space is another example of an entity endowed with a structure.
Here the elements are points, and the structure is established
in terms of certain basic relations between points such as:
A, B, C lie on a straight line, AB is congruent CD, and the like.
What we learn from our whole discussion and what has indeed
become a guiding principle in modern mathematics is this lesson:
Whenever you have to do with a structure endowed entity Σ
try to determine its group of automorphisms, the group of those
element-wise transformations which leave all structural relations
undisturbed. You can expect to gain a deep insight into the
constitution of Σ in this way. After that you may start to investigate
symmetric configurations of elements, i.e. configurations which are
invariant under a certain subgroup of the group of all automorphisms;
and it may be advisable, before looking for such configurations,
to study the subgroups themselves, e.g. the subgroup of those
automorphisms which leave one element fixed, or leave two distinct
elements fixed, and investigate what discontinuous or finite subgroups
there exist, and so forth."
— Hermann Weyl, Symmetry, Princeton University Press, 1952.
(Page 144 in the Princeton Science Library edition of 1989.)
This square's automorphism group
has 322,560 transformations.
— The diamond theorem of Steven H. Cullinane.
This rectangle's automorphism group
has 244,823,040 transformations.
— The Miracle Octad Generator (MOG) of Robert T. Curtis.
The rectangle's automorphism group contains the
square's as a subgroup. The square's automorphism
group leaves invariant a set of 30 eight-subsquare sets
called affine hyperplanes. The rectangle's automorphism
group leaves invariant a set of 759 eight-subsquare sets
called octads.
Saturday, November 16, 2024
Analytic Continuation: The Kayak Thief
From a post of 7 AM November 15 —
Related art —
" I just like saying 'intake manifold.' " — Emma Watson
MORA for Lucy (A Memorable Watson)
Another interesting role for Liu — Head of MORA . . .
As for Mythological Oversight and Restoration . . .
Kaleidoscope, continued (August 11, 2005).
Related mythological material from August 11, 2005 —
Automorphism Groups: Examples for Weyl
Keywords: Weyl, symmetry, group, automorphism,
octad, MOG, Curtis, Cullinane.
Friday, November 15, 2024
Art Tales
From a search in this journal for Arkani-Hamed —
This post was suggested by the title
"Visualizing a sacred city: London, art, and religion"
from today's 7 AM post.
Art for Stephen King: The Swirling
Related cinematic art … the 2022 TV series "The Resort"
and the 2022 film "Stars at Noon."
"Swirls of red radiate a symphony of joy, love, and passion,
inviting observers to delve into the depth of human emotions."
— Marcela Nowak at Medium.com, August 12, 2023.
Thursday, November 14, 2024
Mimesis: The Auerbach Variations
Vide an Auerbach Bacchus and Ariadne .
As damned nightmares go, I prefer a more literary Auerbach.
A Certain Character
"What we do may be small, but it has
a certain character of permanence."
— G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
For Those Who Like to Watch
Kiernan Shipka in "Swimming with Sharks."
"Get in the pool!" — Indiana Jones, "The Dial of Destiny."
Group Theory: The Romance of Alias and Alibi*
Alias:
Victor at 194 Tower Avenue in "The Penguin"
Alibi:
Marcela_234 at Likewise.com
Romance in Numberland:
* Technical terms from pure mathematics —
For scholia on "the cube is being moved around," vide . . .
http://m759.net/wordpress/?s="Stack+Exchange" .
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Color Tray
Image credit: The singer of "Deep Blue," Sara Arlene,
in a Facebook story of November 12, 2024.
"Swirls of red radiate a symphony of joy, love, and passion,
inviting observers to delve into the depth of human emotions."
— Marcela Nowak at Medium.com, August 12, 2023.
Snow White . . . Bachelorette
For the Duke of York's Theatre —
Marrific Repost
https://www.tiktok.com/@_moon_fire/video/7415613178983353632 .
Update —
The piñata scene in the above "moon fire" video suggests a search
for today's birthdays that yields one "Moonlight Graham" —
St. Beryl’s Day
Beryl Bainbridge, author of the novel An Awfully Big Adventure ,
reportedly died in England on Friday,* July 2, 2010. See that date
in this journal.
Related entertainment —
* The New York Times says she died on Thursday, July 1, 2010.
The discrepancy in these reports may be due to the transatlantic
time difference.
Monday, November 11, 2024
Echo Chamber: “The Room Outside of Time”*
"… as Gombrich well knew, Warburg also
constantly regrets the 'loss' of this 'thought-space' …"
Echo from the Pasaje Bella Vista in Cuernavaca —
“We keep coming back and coming back
To the real: to the hotel instead of the hymns….”
— Wallace Stevens
— Postcard from eBay
|
From Under the Volcano, by Malcolm Lowry, 1947, Chapter I:
Faustus is gone: regard his hellish fall —
Shaken, M. Laruelle replaced the book on the table… he reached to the floor for a folded sheet of paper that had fluttered out of it. He picked the paper up between two fingers and unfolded it, turning it over. Hotel Bella Vista, he read. There were really two sheets of uncommonly thin hotel notepaper…. I sit now in a little room off the bar at four-thirty in the morning drinking ochas and then mescal and writing this on some Bella Vista notepaper I filched the other night…. But this is worst of all, to feel your soul dying. I wonder if it is because to-night my soul has really died that I feel at the moment something like peace. Or is it because right through hell there is a path, as Blake well knew, and though I may not take it, sometimes lately in dreams I have been able to see it? …And this is how I sometimes think of myself, as a great explorer who has discovered some extraordinary land from which he can never return to give his knowledge to the world: but the name of this land is hell. It is not Mexico of course but in the heart. |
* "The room outside of time" is a recurring theme in "The Resort."
The Ukulele Lesson
1037
01:25:41,200 –> 01:25:43,200
I'm beginning to get
the hang of fucking.
1038
01:25:46,200 –> 01:25:47,700
Yes.
1039
01:25:50,200 –> 01:25:53,800
It's no different from learning
to play the ukulele.
1040
01:25:53,900 –> 01:25:55,800
You just need practice.
Further details at . . .
http://www.littlereview.com/getcritical/greenman/peterpan.htm .
Update (November 11, 2024 @ 23:30:59) —
Also on August 6, 2023 … Metaphysics Lesson.
Sunday, November 10, 2024
Numberland: The Talladega Craftsman
Monday, October 17, 2011
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From Summer Solstice 2023 —
Related tunes — "Hot Rod Lincoln" and
"Junk in the Trunk" (Planet Booty, YouTube, Feb. 27, 2019)
Saturday, November 9, 2024
Invariance: The Seventh Footnote
"We are freed from one enchantment, only to be ensorcelled by another.7
7. Imagine, say, a boy forming the icy shards of reason into
a picture of eternity. The metaphor is not inadequate."
— Yu, E. Lily. The Time Invariance of Snow .
Tor Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
Friday, November 8, 2024
AI on Aion
For a less artificial approach . . . See "Aion" in this journal.
Related reading: Halloween night's "Trick and Treat."
Fake News — News about Fakes
The date of the above post was apparently the date of death
for a noted architectural historian. Related material —
"The almond tree flourisheth" — Ecclesiastes … and …
Thursday, November 7, 2024
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Minding the Gap: A Surrealist’s Dies Natalis
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Cleft
Some uploads to Log24.com/log/pix24/ on the Fifth of November 2024 —
241105-Allegheny_Hotel-at-Glade_Bridge-1895.jpg
241105-F.O.E.-Warren-PA-metadata.jpg
241105-F.O.E.-Warren-PA-Google-maps-bus-at-former-Allegheny_Hotel.jpg
241104-Shipman's_Eddy-hillside-cleft-wildfire-site-Nov-4-2024.jpg
Earlier . . .
Related — The previous post and Commentaries on Hexagram 43.
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Stage and Screen
. . . and the screen to . . . "Grace Penn?"
Related material . . .
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Monday, November 4, 2024
Alternative to the new film “Here” —
THERE!
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THERE!
THERE!
Sunday, November 3, 2024
Today’s Science Sermon
"Before time began . . ." — Optimus Prime
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Saturday, November 2, 2024
For Julia Cicero: Ex Fano Apollinis
Cicero, In Verrem II. 1. 46 —
He reached Delos. There one night he secretly 46 carried off, from the much-revered sanctuary of Apollo, several ancient and beautiful statues, and had them put on board his own transport. Next day, when the inhabitants of Delos saw their sanc- tuary stripped of its treasures, they were much distressed . . . .
Delum venit. Ibi ex fano Apollinis religiosissimo noctu clam sustulit signa pulcherrima atque anti- quissima, eaque in onerariam navem suam conicienda curavit. Postridie cum fanum spoliatum viderent ii
See also "Ex Fano" in this journal.
For more crazed gravitas, vide . . .
Addendum:
The above New Yorker passage is dated Sept. 26, 2024.
Also on that date . . .
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The Art Racket
Art for today — All Souls' Day, also known as the Day of the Dead —
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The Hellman-McCarthy Vocabulary Lesson
Related art notes —
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Technology Entertainment: “Icon Parking”
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Friday, November 1, 2024
The Aida Recode: Volano al raggio dell’eterno dì
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Los Angeles
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