See also Alec Baldwin in "The Aviator" . . .
" '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
The Klein quadric as background for the Miracle Octad Generator of R. T. Curtis —
See also Saniga on heptads in this journal.
The phrase "smallest perfect universe" is by Burkard Polster.
It refers to the smallest finite projective space of three dimensions.
As a sort of memorial to mathematics during the first 100 years
since the 1910 publication of Conwell's classic study of that space,
see a Log24 search for Space 2010 .
My Windows 11 lockscreen tonight —
"Tulip mania swept this land way back in the 17th century . . . ."
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Some historical background —
"Die Philosophie ist ein Kampf gegen die Verhexung
unsres Verstandes durch die Mittel unserer Sprache."
— Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations (1953),
Section 109
"The newly redesigned Museum of Modern art
bracketed a rectangular open space."
— Photo caption in a Dec. 23 New York Times obituary
"The literature is replete with explanations of the benefits of
bracketing, not only in phenomenological studies but in other
types of qualitative research."
— Thomas, S. P., & Sohn, B. K. (2023).
From Uncomfortable Squirm to Self-Discovery:
A Phenomenological Analysis of the Bracketing Experience.
International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 22.
https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069231191635
An application of the Husserl approach to Verhexung —
Bracketing the phrase "Galois space" in the literature yields different
mathematical concepts, some derived from "Galois geometry," some
from "topological space."
The former relates to structures with a finite number of points, the latter
to structures with an infinite number of points. Sometimes the two sorts
of structure are related to one another. For example . . .
— Photo by Marcela Nowak
Compare and contrast —
Saturday, May 7, 2022
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A quotation from this journal yesterday —
"… the voice was distant but the tone was theatrically gay . . . ."
An email I received today —
(As for the Mexico City part of yesterday's quote,
see the new Daniel Craig movie set there.)
From http://m759.net/wordpress/?s="The+Thing+and+I" —
See also a somewhat earlier November 21 — "Words, Down and Across."
"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
From The Queen's Gambit , by Walter Tevis (1983) —
"She stopped and turned to Beth. 'There is no hint of a
Protestant ethic in Mexico. They are all Latin Catholics,
and they all live in the here and now.' Mrs. Wheatley
had been reading Alan Watts. 'I think I’ll have just one
margarita before I go out. Would you call for one, honey?'
Back in Lexington, Mrs. Wheatley’s voice would sometimes
have a distance to it, as though she were speaking from
some lonely reach of an interior childhood. Here in Mexico City
the voice was distant but the tone was theatrically gay, as though
Alma Wheatley were savoring an incommunicable private mirth.
It made Beth uneasy. For a moment she wanted to say something
about the expensiveness of room service, even measured in pesos,
but she didn’t. She picked up the phone and dialed six. The man
answered in English. She told him to send a margarita and a large
Coke to 713."
Related art —
From "Random Thoughts on December 25" —
See too . . . http://m759.net/wordpress/?tag=story-of-n and . . .
Some earlier work of the above star, Radha Mitchell —
Contra the above gingerbread house, vide Breadcrumbs for Gretel.
"The Water Is Wide" — Song title.
"See you on the other side." — Mary Ann Hoberman.
From "Jungle Cruise" —
LILY — I hope you know what
you’re getting yourself into here, Frank.
A reader's midrash —
FRANK — "Your fun drawers ?"
From a news story I encountered today —
Hurlbut Church in Chautauqua Institution presents their annual
'Yes, It’s Still Christmas' concert celebrating the journey into
the Christmas season. Saturday at 4 p.m., the Hurlbut sanctuary
will host a Chautauqua Big Band Christmas under the direction of
John Cross."
The phrase "Hurlbut Church" suggests an historical check . . .
A rather different historical check, based on the phrase "Hurlbut Hall,"
the name of my residence at Harvard in the academic year 1960-1961 . . .
My own version of a holiday "Fun Drawer" —
For the assignment of zero-one coordinates (over GF(2)), the earlier
layout of the space posted here yesterday is less convenient than
the layout begun below (a work in progress with different basis vectors) —
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