Adam Gopnik in
The New Yorker of
August 20, 2007–
"… the kind of guy who can't drink one cup of coffee without drinking six, and then stays up all night to tell you what Schopenhauer really said and how it affects your understanding of Hitchcock and what that had to do with Christopher Marlowe."
Modernity: A Film by
Alfred Hitchcock:
"… the most thoroughgoing modernist design element in Hitchcock's films arises out of geometry, as Francois Regnault has argued, identifying 'a global movement for each one, or a "principal geometric or dynamic form," which can appear in the pure state in the credits….'" –Peter J. Hutchings (my italics)
Epilogue:
Adam Gopnik is also the author
of The King in the Window, a tale
of the Christian feast of Epiphany
and a sinister quantum computer.
For more on Epiphany, see
the Log24 entries of August 1.
For more on quantum computing,
see What is Quantum Computation?.
See also
the previous entry.