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Compare and contrast —

From 1989 . . .

From 2024 . . .

— https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/
2024/12/the-case-against-george-orwell

"Why drag in the stars?"  Good question . . .

The sincerest form of flattery  (BBC, Groundhog Day 2018) —

Related reading —

The Yellow Brick House (Not  the Commodores’ Version).

* See a Google search.

"This Unreadable Russian Novel Is Xi Jinping’s Spiritual Guide,"
A New York Times  opinion piece dated Dec. 15, 2024 —

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/opinion/
china-brics-xi-jinping-trump.html

"A Contrapuntal Theme" —

http://www.log24.com/log/jour/2001-03-05-contrapuntal.html

The author of the above "unreadable Russian novel" —

http://www.log24.com/log/pix24/241219-
Nicolai_Gavrilovich_Chernyshevski-search-results.jpg

Scholium on "A Contrapuntal Theme" —

http://www.log24.com/log/pix24/241219-
Nicolai_Gavrilovich_Chernyshevski-in-The_Gift-by-Nabokov.jpg

My own choice would be the southwest corner, which reminds me of . . .

Color Field Sex Dance

At the still point . . . Ballet Blanc.

"Each of the 64 subcubes is supposed to be marked identically,
with white caps on two opposite vertices and a black band
around the subcube that separates the two white caps."

The Source —

Related whitecap reading . . .

"Dice and the Eightfold Cube."

"We use cookies!" … As do Amazon MGM Studios —

A meditation suggested by yesterday's evening fashion news . . .

* A discussion of Stevens's late poem "The Rock" (1954) in
Wallace Stevens: A World of Transforming Shapes,
by Alan D. Perlis, Bucknell University Press, 1976, p. 120 —

"For Stevens, the poem 'makes meanings of the rock.'
In the mind, 'its barrenness becomes a thousand things/
And so exists no more.' In fact, in a peculiar irony that
only a poet with Stevens's particular notion of the imagination's
function could develop, the rock becomes the mind itself,
shattered into such diamond-faceted brilliance that it
encompasses all possibilities for human thought:

The rock is the gray particular of man's life,
The stone from which he rises, up—and—ho,
The step to the bleaker depths of his descents ...

The rock is the stern particular of the air,
The mirror of the planets, one by one,
But through man's eye, their silent rhapsodist,

Turquoise the rock, at odious evening bright
With redness that sticks fast to evil dreams;
The difficult rightness of half-risen day.

The rock is the habitation of the whole,
Its strength and measure, that which is near, point A
In a perspective that begins again

At B: the origin of the mango's rind.

                    (Collected Poems, 528)"

Related reading: "Back in Action."

A check for the meaning of "Cypress" in a post from Dec. 12 yields . . .

Amen.

https://www.instagram.com/stories/marcelanow/ and

https://www.flickr.com/photos/7501678@N03/8280958164.

Question from "Red One" that was used to tell if a character is
real or merely a shape-shifter —

1808
01:39:26,833 –> 01:39:30,000
If you could make any toy in the world
real right now, what would it be?

1809
01:39:31,375 –> 01:39:32,750
Wonder Woman.

Same question, different possible answer . . .

         "Bourgeois creature comfort (illustrated)."

Related entertainment — (Click to enlarge)

A 3D model of Solomon's Cube —

The Warner Brothers version —

Further details:  The Harmony Problem.

Adapted from a poem by Yeats . . .

"And what rare beast, its time come round at last …"

From today's previous post —

See as well …

"Comments Off" —

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/nyregion/
saint-anns-winston-nguyen-crime.html

and …

"Poisoned by these fairy tales" song lyrics —

https://genius.com/Don-henley-the-end-of-
the-innocence-lyrics .

"Training models to incorporate a chain of thought before answering
has the potential to unlock substantial benefits, while also increasing
potential risks that stem from heightened intelligence."

— OpenAI o1 System Card (OpenAI, December 5, 2024),
https://cdn.openai.com/o1-system-card-20241205.pdf

Some will prefer Damascus  steel . . .

Some observe the feast of this  St. Simon (there are others) on January 5.

Related entertainment . . .

"Looney Tunes: Back in Action"

"El Mono Gramático "

"Monkey Man"

http://log24.com/log/pix24/241201-Krell_Door-pre-production-design-Forbidden_Planet.jpg

http://m759.net/wordpress/?p=68168

Current events suggest revisiting Koreatown —

Koreatown (Los Angeles) photo by Marcela Nowak.

A different, digital, rewind … back 10 years in this journal … yields —

Click the above geometry image to enlarge it.

Related narratives . . .

Vide  the Disney tale of Sith tetrahedron and Jedi cube, and, in this  journal,
posts tagged "Congregated Light."

  * See the previous post. Some prefer their eggs hardboiled . . .

Ms. Watson recently updated her Instagram page
with a holiday ad for her family's gin that very nicely
displays her artistic skills … in the manner of Matisse.

Hence this Black Friday greeting for her, which illustrates
the phrase "Behind the Black Door." —

Just uphill from Robert A. Heinlein's former home in Laurel Canyon —

♫ "Slow down, you move too fast . . ."

See also a related aerial view —

A song for the Academy —

♫  In those big city nights
     In those high rolling hills
     Above all the lights
     With a passion that kills

The domain bitcube.space has now been renewed for another year.
It leads to — among other things — the following remarks . . .

* See that phrase in this journal.