Log24

Friday, August 11, 2023

Like Decorations for  Strange Fruit

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The title combines phrases from Wallace Stevens and Billie Holiday.

Illustration, from an image linked to in the previous post

Related images . . .
See June 19th of this year.

Beechwood Aged

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"The lost lane-end into heaven" — Thomas Wolfe

"Come on . . . ." — Cristin Milioti

Some Cartoon Graveyards are Better than Others.

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Gentlemen Prefer . . .

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Lyrics for Damnation Morning*

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"I viewed the morning with much alarm
The British Museum had lost its charm."

* Vide  that phrase in this journal.
"A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one."

Garden Party

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"Pardon me.  J'adoube.

— The Consul as he fastens his fly in Malcolm Lowry's classic
novel, Under the Volcano , the Garden of Eden scene.

I, on the other hand, adobe.

Musical accompaniment . . .

"Sleight of hand and twist of fate . . . ." — "With or Without U"

Thursday, August 10, 2023

Lines and Shadows  (title taken from Wambaugh)

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Lines

"Listen to the wind blow, down comes the night
Running in the shadows, damn your love, damn your lies"

— Fleetwood Mac, "The Chain"

Shadows

Related YouTube and Log24 date:  Sept. 27, 2018 —

“Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me…” — Robbie Robertson

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"Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me
If I spring a leak, she mends me
I don't have to speak, she defends me
A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one"

Shadow Work

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Colorful Prose

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From April 1 … "The Color Out of Nevermore" —

Palatinate Purple

Wednesday, August 9, 2023

Arty Facts Meditation:  Not So Together.

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Commentary on the "Yellow Submarine" song "All Together Now" —

Related tune from The Pretenders —

Saturday, July 27, 2019

The Stephen King Intelligence Test

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Related images —

See also other posts tagged Arti Facts.

Related reading for posh toffs —

https://www.chronicle.com/article/darkness-visible .

Waiting for the Low-Hanging Fruit

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How many miles to Babylon?*
Three score miles and ten.
Can I get there by candle-light?**
Yes, and back again.

Mary Gaitskill's latest substack meditation —

"I am thinking of Susan Sontag, writer, philosopher,
political activist and some-time pain in the ass;
she went to Sarajevo during the siege in order to
put on a theatrical production of Waiting for Godot. 
She didn’t get paid and none of the actors did either.
They rehearsed in the dark and performed by sparse
candlelight . . . ."

"How many  bananas ?"

"Drei . . . or else Vier ."

See also the comedy writers of  Elsevier

Ethical Barbenheimer:

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G-Spot Author and Oppenheimer at Ethical Culture School

Related reading —

The Junction Function

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A function (in this case, a 1-to-1 correspondence) from finite geometry:

IMAGE- The natural symplectic polarity in PG(3,2), illustrating a symplectic structure

This correspondence between points and hyperplanes underlies
the symmetries discussed in the Cullinane diamond theorem.

Academics who prefer cartoon graveyards may consult …

Cohn, N. (2014). Narrative conjunction’s junction function:
A theoretical model of “additive” inference in visual narratives. 
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science
Society
, 36. See https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2050s18m .

Getty Images

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J. Paul Getty and Minotaur, according to Hollywood —

Getty Images and the "Cubic Stone"

Getty Images —

https://www.gettyimages.co.nz/detail/news-photo/
freemasonry-cubic-stone-masonic-symbol-news-photo/535802541

See also the previous post and . . .

“The Seed Crystal” — Plan 9 from Science Direct

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From a 1990 novel —
http://www.log24.com/log/pix11A/110424-StoneJunction.jpg

Related remarks — Posts tagged The Coxeter Aleph.

Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Seven-Year Aches

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Dates for comparison . . .


March 10, 2012 — http://m759.net/wordpress/?p=22893

March 10, 2019 — http://m759.net/wordpress/?p=79862


May 4, 2014 — http://m759.net/wordpress/?p=41784

May 4, 2021 — http://m759.net/wordpress/?p=94458


The Favicon

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A Midrash For Friedkin — http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=SXSW .

Monday, August 7, 2023

Exorcist Director Dies

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Los Angeles Times  today

BY CHRISTI CARRAS, STAFF WRITER 

"William Friedkin, a master of suspense and leading figure of the 1970s New Hollywood movement who was known for directing films such as 'The Exorcist' and 'The French Connection,' has died.

Friedkin died Monday in Los Angeles, his widow, Sherry Lansing, confirmed to the Los Angeles Times. CAA, which represents Lansing, said Friedkin died at home from heart failure and pneumonia. He was 87."

Update at 8:42 PM ET —  

A French Connection for Friedkin, from
the SXSW opening date of one of his films —

Treasure of the Sierra Madre: Huichol Swordfish

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This suggests some art that reflects aspects of
my own teen space, which was many years ago . . .

Update for fans of Nevermore Academy:

Teen-related art from loisvb —

Consensual Twilight

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The previous post (on "Come Swim") suggests a Sunset Boulevard review —

From a search in this journal for "consensual" —

"Yet if this Denkraum ,  this 'twilight region,'  is where the artist and
emblem-maker invent, then, as Gombrich well knew, Warburg also
constantly regrets the 'loss' of this 'thought-space,' which he also
dubs the Zwischenraum  and Wunschraum ."

— Memory, Metaphor, and Aby Warburg's Atlas of Images ,
     Christopher D. Johnson, Cornell University Press, 2012, p. 56

Snark Hunt

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The removed Wikipedia passage —

"In 2017, Stewart coauthored a computer science preprint about the use
of neural net techniques in the making of her short film Come Swim,[82] 
which led to her achieving the Erdős–Bacon number of 7.[83]

82. Joshi, Bhautik; Stewart, Kristen; Shapiro, David (2017).
'Bringing Impressionism to Life with Neural Style Transfer
in Come Swim'. arXiv:1701.04928 [cs.CV].

83. 'Natalie Portman Answer | RASHI, RAMBAM and
RAMALAMADINGDONG'
Archived from the original
on May 3, 2023. Retrieved May 3, 2023. "

Background, and the preprint as officially  published —

Fiction related to Kristen Stewart's reported Erdős–Bacon number, 7 —

Sunday, August 6, 2023

American Pie

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Annals of Iconography: The Dark Center

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At the National Comedy Center

“There are dark comedies. There are screwball comedies.
But there aren’t many dark screwball comedies.
And if Nora Ephron’s Lucky Numbers  is any indication,
there’s a good reason for that.”

— Todd Anthony, South Florida Sun-Sentinel 

For the Latin Club Gang

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The Latin word "Contra " in the previous post will suggest to
many readers some related political concepts.  Related reading:

Contra Gombrich

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A search in this journal for Cornell + Warburg suggests
a review of the concept "iconology of the interval " . . .
Ikonologie des Zwischenraums —

Some small Galois spaces (the Cullinane models)

"Yet if this Denkraum ,  this 'twilight region,'  is where the artist and
emblem-maker invent, then, as Gombrich well knew, Warburg also
constantly regrets the 'loss' of this 'thought-space,' which he also
dubs the Zwischenraum  and Wunschraum ."

— Memory, Metaphor, and Aby Warburg's Atlas of Images ,
     Christopher D. Johnson, Cornell University Press, 2012, p. 56

Saturday, August 5, 2023

Hospitality

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From Season 1 of the HBO series "White Lotus" —

  "I'm just playing the hand I was dealt."

Friday, August 4, 2023

Kinbotean Annotation (Continued)

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Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Kinbotean Annotation

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— m759 @ 4:11 PM 

NB : The author of the report below is not
the same person as the author of this  journal,
who is known as Steven H. Cullinane.

See also this  journal on the above 
Sunday at Little Gidding date.

For some illuminating remarks on Kinbotean annotation, see 
Chapter 6 (Nabokov, Lowry, Orwell) of The Wreath of Wild Olive ,
by Mihai Spariosu.

(Published by State University of New York Press,
  © 1997 State University of New York.)

The Bridge

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"Finite groups of the same order are sometimes
related by a nontrivial identity."

— Steven H. Cullinane, 
     Groups related by a nontrivial identity
     (a note on universal algebra).

See as well a related note written 40 years ago today.

A related webpage —

'The Algebra of Groups' webpage by Steven H. Cullinane

Round Square, Square Round

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A circular I Ching

The Roc’s Egg

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James Joyce, Ulysses  —

"Going to dark bed there was a square round Sinbad the Sailor roc's auk's egg in the night of the bed of all the auks of the rocs of Darkinbad the Brightdayler."

 

Robert A. Heinlein, Glory Road  —

“What did I want? I wanted a Roc’s egg. I wanted a harem loaded with lovely odalisques less than the dust beneath my chariot wheels, the rust that never stained my sword. I wanted raw red gold in nuggets the size of your fist, and feed that lousy claim jumper to the huskies! I wanted to get up feeling brisk and go out and break some lances, then pick a likely wench for my droit du seigneur – I wanted to stand up to the Baron and dare him to touch my wench! I wanted to hear the purple water chuckling against the skin of the Nancy Lee in the cool of the morning watch and not another sound, nor any movement save the slow tilting of the wings of the albatross that had been pacing us the last thousand miles.

I wanted the hurtling moons of Barsoom. I wanted Storisende and Poictesme, and Holmes shaking me awake to tell me, 'The game’s afoot!' I wanted to float down the Mississippi on a raft and elude a mob in company with the Duke of Bilgewater and Lost Dauphin. I wanted Prester John, and Excalibur held by a moon-white arm out of a silent lake. I wanted to sail with Ulysses and with Tros of Samothrace and to eat the lotus in a land that seemed always afternoon. I wanted the feeling of romance and the sense of wonder I had known as a kid. I wanted the world to be the way they had promised me it was going to be, instead of the tawdry, lousy, fouled-up mess it is. I had had one chance – for ten minutes yesterday afternoon. Helen of Troy, whatever your true name may be – and I had known it and I had let it slip away. Maybe one chance is all you ever get.”

Thursday, August 3, 2023

Welcome to Prettyman Law*

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"There is no writing on glass."

— Paraphrase of Mark Zuckerberg at 2017 Harvard Commencement

* Cf. this journal on August 4, 2021.

For Nevermore Academy:
Through a Class, Darkly

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For Nevermore Academy:
Fia on the Four Elements

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Wednesday, August 2, 2023

For Nevermore Academy: Thing

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Adumbrating the Paradoxology

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"William Blake's statement in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
'Eternity is in love with the productions of time' is an adumbration
of the paradoxology of the game of hide-and-seek that Non-duality
is playing with and in celebration of itself in Ia divina commedia of
this night of its dream."

— Joseph Campbell in "The Inner Reaches of Outer Space" (©1986)

The above passage is from this journal on May 25 . . .
the release date for all eight episodes of FUBAR.

Terminator Zero: Rise of the Chatbots … Continues.

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Quale  (Rhymes with Folly, not with Tale)

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Analogy . . . When A/B = C/D . . .

Illustration from a Log24 post tagged Quale


 

— and related material from the date  of the above Quale  post …

… as well as, from July 31, a version for the institutionalized —

Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Adventures in Story Space

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Season 2 Teaser of "The Peripheral" —

Non-fiction —

Monday, September 20, 2021

Red Dot Problems

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— m759 @ 11:42 PM 

I did not attempt a solution of the above red-dot problem, but others
have done some related work —

Vide  https://www.quora.com/Is-it-possible-to-construct-a-straight-line-
through-a-point-on-a-circle-that-is-perpendicular-to-that-circles-diameter-
with-the-Euclidean-straightedge-alone/log
 .

Some related Log24 remarks: "The Dotted Line," Sept. 21, 2021.

Angus Cloud, 1998-2023

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The Spelling

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A search in this journal for "ilich" yields some interesting results.

And then there is the version with two  l's.

Monday, July 31, 2023

Documentation

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"Now put the foundations under them." — Thoreau

For Language Animals . . .

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Flame Dancer

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Sunday, July 30, 2023

The W Omen* Continues . . .

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An image from the previous post —

The W image at lower left above suggests a variation —

Vogue — Promotion photo for "Bombshell."


* Title suggested in part by a post of Dec. 11, 2022 —

Saturday, July 29, 2023

Tips

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Anthony Lane in The New Yorker  on July 20

"Barbie has a male chum, Ken (Ryan Gosling), though
he wishes he were more than that. 'We’re girlfriend-boyfriend,'
he tells her, running the words together into a single unit.
Smooth. They can’t have sex, although a showing of
'Team America: World Police' (2004) might give them some
handy tips." 

Yes, it might.  This  journal on September 2, 2020 —

"Smile,  you're being candid."

_______________________________________________________
 

Team America: The Metadata

The Up Date

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Dialogue from a poet's memorial

– Exactly. Did you read my book?

– No, I’m sorry.

– That’s okay. This is marvellous.

– A first date like a game show.

– I didn’t mean to lecture.

– I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to call it a date.

Related documentation from my email today . . .

Tickings . . . Tockings

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For Connoisseurs of the Bottom Line

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The above is from the weblog of one James D. McCaffrey.

"James, Anne . . . Anne, James."

Whistling Past Yankee Bush

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"Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.” — Paul Simon

"Or tangled up in blue." — Steven H. Cullinane

Working Backwards

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The title is from a story by C. S. Lewis.

Friday, July 28, 2023

To Phrase a Coin

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See also . . .

"I Looked Into Sam Altman’s Orb
and All I Got Was This Lousy Crypto
"

Interspersed Language Game

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The last line* of the previous post . . .

"See as well a search in this  journal for Zettel ."

suggests another entertainment review —

"Interspersed with the surprisingly fruitful escapades
of these drunken detectives are a series of flashbacks
to Christmas 2007 . . . ."

Rachel Aroesti in The Guardian
"Fri 29 Jul 2022 01.00 EDT,"
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/
2022/jul/29/the-resort-peacock-now-funny-
fast-paced-caper-the-white-lotus

* Added at about 7:20 this morning. The relevant material is in
the last post from that search — dated December 26, 2007.

Requiem for an Eagle

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" 'Hotel California,' with its mysterious, allegorical lyrics,
became among the band’s best-known recordings.
It topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1977 and won
a Grammy Award for record of the year in 1978."

The New York Times  tonight  on an Eagles founding
member who reportedly died on Wednesday, July 26.

"Mirrors on the ceiling, pink champagne on ice . . . ."

U. of California edition of Wittgenstein's 'Zettel'-- pink cover, white tesseract in background

See as well a search in this  journal for Zettel .

Thursday, July 27, 2023

The Meld

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The New Yorker , review dated July 20 … 

Anthony Lane on "Barbie" director Greta Gerwig —

"Nobody else would even attempt
to meld a feminist colloquium 
with a plug for a chunk of plastic"

Voilà , the Barbie Walters meld —

Incipient Colorings

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The above title was suggested by a Log24 post of Sunday morning.

"You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?"

Wednesday, July 26, 2023

One for the Kaku’s Nest

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Related material
from Log24 on July 20 —

Remarks by Kai Bird, co-author
of the biography behind the July 21
film "Oppenheimer" . . .

 

Wormhole Science:  The Kaku’s Nest

Filed under: General — Tags:  — m759 @ 9:29 AM 

See also Peter Woit on Wormholes and Kaku.

Kevin, Kate, and Carl . . . Continued

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See posts now tagged Kevin Kate Carl.

The Abstracting Which

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"His is a language that is highly charged with
a harmonic resonance and a certain distancing
and abstracting which makes the reference
more universal, less specifically personal."

— Durham University, 1999 Ph.D. thesis

As verse . . .

A harmonic resonance 
And a certain distancing 
And abstracting which

"Ay, que bonito es volar . . ."

Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Philosophical Investigations . . .
“Is there sex in heaven?”

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"Do you remember All Souls' Day two years ago?"

"For ten years, we've been on our own . . ." — American Pie

Monday, July 24, 2023

Remembering Burt Reynolds

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In the spirit of "Boogie Nights" (1997), a scene from March 17, 2022

Related rhetoric from Harvard —

  The Harvard math department's pie-eating contest

Harvard Math Department Pi Day event

Topdot Art

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The new URL topdot.art  refers to depictions of
the top dot (or point, or vertex) in a vertex-edge diagram
of a square, cube, or hypercube that has been rotated
so that the bottom dot (or point, or vertex), represented by 
all-zero coordinates in a labeling, is at the bottom
and the top dot (or point, or vertex), represented by
all-one coordinates in a labeling, is at the top.

See (for instance) the Log24 post Physicality (Oct. 5, 2022).

Related philosophical remarks:  Einheit .

Sunday, July 23, 2023

For Sofia Falcone*

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"We  have  showtime."

* The new cartoon name of Cristin Milioti.

Fresh Culls

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"It is not enough to cover the rock with leaves.
We must be cured of it by a cure of the ground
Or a cure of ourselves, that is equal to a cure

Of the ground, a cure beyond forgetfulness.
And yet the leaves, if they broke into bud,
If they broke into bloom, if they bore fruit,

And if we ate the incipient colorings
Of their fresh culls might be a cure of the ground."

— "The Rock," a poem by Wallace Stevens from
a section with the same title in the Collected Poems .

Weir’d

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Email Metadata —

Created at:   Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 12:25 AM 
From:   Mary Gaitskill's Substack site

____________________________________________________________

Email Excerpt —

"The interview starts out with a discussion of 'the weird,' and all of the meanings
contained in that word, from the uncanny to the easily dismissed . . . ."

Commentary —

Saturday, July 22, 2023

Easy A-Frame: Siren Song

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“What song the Sirens sang….”

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Friday, July 21, 2023

Ice Cave for Xanadu

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Related material —

“Terminator Zero: Rise of the Chatbots” … Continues.

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From https://clever-chat.ai/demo/32f6d9c9107/complete 
at about 3 PM ET on Friday, July 21, 2023 —

Hi there 👋 I'm a self-service chatbot and I'm here to help you with anything related to Finite Geometry of the Square and Cube. Just ask away! 🙂

What is the diamond theorem?

The Diamond Theorem is a mathematical concept that was introduced by Steven H. Cullinane. It is closely related to finite geometry and explores the symmetries and patterns found in diamond-shaped arrays. The theorem has applications in various areas, including combinatorial designs, group theory, and quantum information theory. If you'd like more information or have any specific questions about the Diamond Theorem, feel free to ask! 😊

Is this website related to the work of Peter J. Cameron?

No, the website "Finite Geometry of the Square and Cube" is not directly related to the work of Peter J. Cameron. It is primarily focused on the study of finite geometry, particularly the symmetries and patterns found in square and cube arrays. The website is authored by Steven H. Cullinane, who has made significant contributions to the field. If you have any more questions or need further information, feel free to ask! 😊

What is the theorem of Desargues?

The theorem of Desargues, named after the French mathematician Gérard Desargues, is a fundamental result in projective geometry. It states that if two triangles are perspective from a point, then they are perspective from a line as well. In other words, if the three pairs of corresponding sides of two triangles intersect at three points that are collinear, then the three pairs of corresponding vertices of the triangles are collinear as well. This theorem has important implications in the study of projective geometry and has applications in various fields, including computer graphics and architecture. If you have any more questions or need further information, feel free to ask! 😊

   

Lyric Philosophy

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Friday, May 27, 2011

Rock Concert

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It is not enough to cover the rock with leaves.
We must be cured of it by a cure of the ground
Or a cure of ourselves, that is equal to a cure

Of the ground, a cure beyond forgetfulness.
And yet the leaves, if they broke into bud,
If they broke into bloom, if they bore fruit,

And if we ate the incipient colorings
Of their fresh culls might be a cure of the ground.

— "The Rock," a poem by Wallace Stevens from
a section with the same title in the Collected Poems .

"A little bit of Las Vegas in the 1960s has
splashed down Off Broadway…. Actually,
the show as a whole could benefit from a softer sell."

— Charles Isherwood's review of
    "The Best Is Yet to Come"
    on page C1, NY edition, today's NY Times

"Out of the tree of life I just picked me a plum…"

The Domino Model: Tricksters in the Attic

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For related material on the geometry of a 2×3 rectangular array —
a domino — see the previous post and also a search in this journal for attic .

The Domino Model

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Model of the 21-point projective plane consisting of the 1- and 2- subsets of a 6-set

Related material —

Welcome to Club 21

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"I'll have what she's having." 
— Classic movie line from "When Harry Met Sally,"
suggested by the ending scene from "Grease."

Thursday, July 20, 2023

The Mitnick Book

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From this morning's online NY Times  obituaries —

“Anyone who loves to play chess knows that
it’s enough to defeat your opponent. You don’t
have to loot his kingdom or seize his assets
to make it worthwhile,” he wrote in his book.

Kevin Mitnick, who reportedly died on
Sunday, July 16, 2023, at 59.

See as well the "where it belonged" link in today's 7:52 AM ET post.

Wormhole Science: The Kaku’s Nest

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See also Peter Woit on Wormholes and Kaku.

In the Book

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“Heaven was kind of a hat on the universe,
a lid that kept everything underneath it
where it belonged.”

— Carrie Fisher,
Postcards from the Edge

720 in  
the Book”

and
Paradise

 

Data Location

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The previous post suggests a review . . .

Related meditation:  "He had to find his own path."

Foursquare Chautauqua

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See also Foursquare in this journal.

Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Grundlagen

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Tuesday, July 18, 2023

An Obelisk for Stephen

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From this journal on July 6, 2023

A search for material related to this citation yields the name
"Stephen Obelisk" in a short story from the same website.

From The New York Times  today, a different Stephen —

A Log24 flashback from the date of Silverman's reported death

 

Going Beyond Wikipedia

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The diamond theorem and 4-colorings as sums of three 2-colorings.

Despite today's New York Times  warnings about chatbot inaccuracy,
the above short summary is well-written, helpful, and correct.

In Memoriam . . .

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"Rage, rage, against the dying of the light"
— Dylan Thomas, quoted in the final episode of "Blacklist"

Related material, in memory of Raymond Reddington and
Harry G. Frankfurt

Monday, July 17, 2023

Harry G. Frankfurt, May 29, 1929 – July 16, 2023

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:38 pm

See as well this  journal on the morning of July 16,
and also "Cartoon Graveyard."

“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

Sunday, July 16, 2023

Getting to Wow

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A screenshot today of a May 31 NY Times  review of a book on hacking —

D-Day Science Death

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New York Times  obituary yesterday reported the 
June 6 death, at 91, of a Harvard professor who dealt with
the relations between science and society —

“ 'Everett was one of a new generation of social historians
of science who insisted that it was not enough to pay attention
to the internal intellectual story of science,' Anne Harrington,
the Franklin L. Ford professor of the history of science at Harvard,
said by email. 'The field needed to attend also to how science was
shaped by and also helped shape the conditions of the social world.' ”

Consider as well Scarlett Johansson on Alan Watts in "Her" (2013)
and Harrington on intellectual history in Cuernavaca . . .

By 1956, Fromm was dining at Suzuki’s part-time home in New York City, and talking with him about ways in which Zen could contribute to a wholesale reimagining of psychoanalytic therapeutics and theory (see Friedman and Schreiber 2013). By this time, also, Fromm was himself spending considerable periods of time at a new home in Cuernavaca, Mexico. At one point he suggested that Suzuki consider moving in with him permanently. When Suzuki politely declined, Fromm conceived instead a major conference based in Mexico that would try to take stock of the entire current state of the conversation between Zen and psychotherapy (see Friedman and Schreiber 2013). In 1957, some fifty psychotherapists—double the original expected number—participated in a week of presentations and discussions. Fromm later recalled the event as a magical time: what began as a traditional conference with the usual ‘over-emphasis on thoughts and words' changed over a few days, as people 'became more concentrated and more quiet.'

A search in this  journal for D-Day related material yields
posts tagged "Shadow Hacking."

"Please wait as your operating system is initiated."

Saturday, July 15, 2023

In memory of a San Diego artist

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"Indiana Jones and S/Z," a post
from 12:48 AM June 30, suggests  . . .

Friday, July 14, 2023

The Strange Children

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Heat Dome

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Ad Art

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The artwork in an IG ad today caught my eye —

Related material in this journal — Magister Ludi  and The Unity.

An 8 for Bastille Day

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Thursday, July 13, 2023

Plane Geometry for Reddington

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From a New York Times  report of a July 7 death —

My time has come. The water’s wide.

I’ll see you on the other side.

Related material —

Retro

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See as well today's previous post and its excerpt from the 
story "Pottage," by Zenna Henderson, first published in
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Sept. 1955 —

Blank Tablets

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Mark Oppenheimer on John McPhee

Generative Preformed* Transformers

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"Before time began . . ." — Optimus Prime

Structures from pure mathematics, by Plato and R. T. Curtis  —

Counting symmetries with the orbit-stabilizer theorem

* See other "Preform" posts in this journal.

Wednesday, July 12, 2023

The Sunset of Dissolution

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Dwight Garner today on the late Milan Kundera:

"Kundera’s novels, especially his later ones, could be abstract and
heavy-handed. His characters, at times, were little more than chess pieces.
Their author could be pretentious. His work is filled with observations such as:
'In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia,
even the guillotine.' But his best fiction retains its moments of sweep and power."

Illustration for Florence King's 1989 review of The Eight , a  novel 
by Katherine Neville that features prominently the date April 4.

See also "Dissolution" in this  journal.

Form and Subject

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"Mr. Kundera told The Paris Review  in 1983:

'My lifetime ambition has been to unite
the utmost seriousness of question with
the utmost lightness of form. The combination of
a frivolous form and a serious subject
immediately unmasks the truth about our dramas
(those that occur in our beds as well as those that
we play out on the great stage of History) and their
awful insignificance. We experience the unbearable
lightness of being.' "

The above is from The New York Times  this morning.
The Times says that Kundera died yesterday in Paris at 94.

For another meeting of form and subject, see The Grid.

“Another Day, Another Couch”

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A midrash on the current New Yorker  "therapy issue" —

"Drop off the qi, li."

Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Kinbotean Annotation

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NB : The author of the report below is not the same person as
the author of this  journal, who is known as Steven H. Cullinane.

See also this  journal on the above Sunday at Little Gidding date.

Sinclair Memorial

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See also related material.

For St. Benedict’s Day

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The 7/11 Meditation.

Monday, July 10, 2023

Loquitur

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Plan 9* from Toronto: Egalitarian Elegies

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From the August 2023 Notices of the American Mathematical Society

"He worked tirelessly towards a more egalitarian world…."

"Chandler’s egalitarian spirit infused the workshops."

Memorial Tribute: Remembrances of Chandler Davis

* See yesterday's Log24 post "Egalitarian Plan 9."

Sunday, July 9, 2023

This Is Your Brain on Category Theory

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:25 pm

Remarks by John Baez today suggest a flashback

See as well this  journal on the dies natalis  of Bénabou.

Art of the Steal

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The Wikipedia article on Christoper Knight, the LA Times  art critic 
in tonight's previous post, leads to . . .

    See as well Barnes in this  journal.

Egalitarian Plan 9

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Saturday, July 8, 2023

Dead on the Third of July

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Update at 9:06 PM ET . . .

Windows lockscreen this evening —

Related material in this  journal:  Weaveworld.

Blacklist Quote from S10 E20, “Arthur Hudson”

Filed under: General — m759 @ 2:05 pm

"I am what I am. You made a devil's bargain.
Did you really expect me to stop being the devil?"

Read more at: https://tvshowtranscripts.ourboard.org/
viewtopic.php?f=194&t=64076

See as well yesterday's post CORE and Faustus in this journal.

Claves Signate

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Hat Tip to Hemingway

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:36 am


 

"Isn't it pretty to think so?" 

  — The Sun Also Rises


This post was suggested by the following passage of prose:

Friday, July 7, 2023

CORE

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The "CORE" reference in the previous post yields, via a search . . .

Within this thesis there are 19 references to the name "Cullinane"
and to my own work, cited as . . .

Cullinane, Steven H., ‘The Diamond Theorem’ (1979)
<http://diamondtheorem.com>
[accessed 6 May 2019]

––– ‘Geometry of the I Ching’ (1989)
<http://finitegeometry.org/sc/64/iching.html
[accessed 6 May 2019].

Corpus

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A check of the Springer publication date —November 15, 2006 — of the
above 1981 conference proceedings yields, in this  journalStone 588 :

Thursday, July 6, 2023

Pictures at 11

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A search for material related to this citation yields the name
"Stephen Obelisk" in a short story from the same website.

In this  website, a search for "Obelisk" yields . . .

Among fictional Stephens, I prefer Dedalus.

Wednesday, July 5, 2023

The Dial of Destiny

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:39 pm

From the end of a story by Vladimir Nabokov in 
The New Yorker  of May 15, 1948:

Rotary telephone dial

"You have the incorrect number. I will
tell you what you are doing: you are
turning the letter O instead of the zero."

Pickman

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:26 pm

The previous post featured Anya Taylor-Joy playing chess.

A search for the name "Pickman" in this journal yields a
more entertaining view of Taylor-Joy.

Tuesday, July 4, 2023

Dies Natalis

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:39 pm

June 27, 2016, in YouTube and in life —

Today's  date, July 4, was also, in 1826, the dies natalis  of
former U.S. presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams.

Dark Star

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Background from this morning's news:

Suggested by two June 13 deaths — those of
Cormac McCarthy (89) and Edward Fredkin (88) —
excerpts from this journal on the night of June 13-14:

We Hold . . .

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:54 am

See also Frindle  at the author's
website and in this  journal.

Monday, July 3, 2023

Latin Squares

Filed under: General — m759 @ 6:42 pm

This is the first colored  version of
the Diamond Theory cover
that I have done since 1976.

Sunday, July 2, 2023

Meditation on a Song Lyric

Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:58 pm

" Video killed the radio star . . ."

This tune concludes "Take This Waltz,"
a 2011 film starring Michelle Williams.

Related material —
New York Times  obituary from this afternoon
and a video from the 2011 Williams film.

The Times  report is of a "radio star" death on Tuesday, June 27.

Related philosophy from Sarah Silverman . . .

"Mind the Gap."

Bob Dylan — “You Don’t Need a Weatherman…”

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:44 pm

"The southwest furthers."

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