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For seekers of a "crazy Christmas knot" —

The commercial logo below may be viewed as
three in-folded Y-shaped orange forked tongues.

See also a Log24 post from Dec. 5, the lawyer's dies natalis.

A koan for the real  Lumberton . . .

"What was your original face before you were born?"

The "Cottage Industry" of the title is the "Modernism" racket
of today's 1 AM post — a subsidiary of Academia that
uses some of the same marketing techniques as Hollywood . . .

See also "Plato's Ghost" in this journal.

("Efficient Packing," continued)

The above date of a letter from Kurt Gödel — 7 January 1954 —
appears also in an instance of the word "artified" that seems* to be
outside the usual realms of English usage —

    * Related "artified" references — Try a Google Books search and . . .

    Morf Vandewalt might enjoy the bibliography from Dreon's article.

From this  journal on Dec. 2 —

"Please wait as your operating system is initiated."

Update of 2:30 PM ET:
"You can't make this stuff up."

Hallmark: "When you care enough . . ."

Followup for the American  nomenklatura —

… Suggested by, among other things,  a Saturday evening post.

See as well the concluding paragraphs of . . .

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/03/books/john-prados-dead.html .

"… in the marketplace of ideas, a good story
often outsells mere facts."

— Library of Congress webpage arguing against the popular
legend that "Ring Around the Rosie" is about the Black Plague

* The second tab above is from today's obituary of a woman whose
flower shop, “Ring Around a Rosy,” adjoined the Library Theatre
in Warren, Pennsylvania.

See also Turyn in this  journal.

A Log24 post from the above date —
October 24, 2022 — suggests 
a related cinematic image:

"Please wait as your operating system is initiated."

The above remarks from 2010 were suggested by
a weblog post by Peter Woit yesterday and by tonight's
Season 2 Teaser of "The Peripheral."

The title is a phrase from a 2010 Guardian  book review.
The book under review was by one Hans Magnus Enzensberger,
who reportedly died at 93 on Nov. 24 in Munich.

Also on Nov. 24 —

Pa-rum-pa-pum-pum.

See Whiteboard in this journal.

… Continues.

A literary note for Ho, from this journal on October 27, 2008 —

A day earlier — October 26, 2008 — was the date of a very
informative, but deeply tasteless, introduction to . . .

That introduction need not be quoted here.

"Nietzsche in Basel studied the deep pool
Of these discolorations, mastering

The moving and the moving of their forms
In the much-mottled motion of blank time."

— Wallace Stevens, "Description Without Place"

Also in Basel, a mathematics professor contemplated the Lo Shu —

… and a little night music —

There was no Log24 post for the above Jacky Klein date,
July 6, 2016, but the posts of that month contain a flashback
to an earlier July 6 —

See as well . . .

… and some Log24 posts from the above Dec. 1, 2014, date 
now tagged Red Dawn.

The New York Times  this morning:

"Michael Butler, Who Brought ‘Hair’ to Broadway, Dies at 95"

See as well . . .

R. Pierson Eaton at a Warren Co. School Board meeting
in the late 1960s — " Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? "

Cohen on Kiefer's art site:

" La Ribaute is hard to classify. It is now controlled by
a foundation for which Kiefer chose the name 'Eschaton,' 
meaning the final event in the divine plan, or the end of
the world. 'You can say it’s the end of the beginning,' 
Kiefer said. 'Eschaton means that something comes after.' 
So why, I asked, did he pick this name? 'Because it’s the 
beginning.' "

I prefer T. S. Eliot on ends and beginnings, as well as
R. A. Wilson on the Eschaton.

   "Like a pendulum do" — Roger Miller, not E. A. Poe

See posts now tagged A Song Is Born.
(The song is not  Oh, Susannah. See related remarks.)