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Monday, August 8, 2022

The Rimshot Muse

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Related philosophical reflections . . .

Waxing poetic . . .

"In the Garden of Adding live Even and Odd" — E. L. Doctorow

To wit:

1/2 + 1/3 = 5/6, since the LCM of 2 and 3 is 6.

See as well . . .

Sunday, August 7, 2022

For the Church of the Wicked Stepmother:

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Progressive Matrices

A sample Raven's Progressive Matrices  test item —

IMAGE- Raven's Progressive Matrices item with symbols from Cullinane's box-style I Ching

IMAGE- Charlize Theron as Ravenna with raven in poster for 'Snow White and the Huntsman'

Update of 10 AM ET Sunday, August 7, 2022 —

See as well Siobhan Roberts on geometry in The New York Times
on March 22, 2022, and a Log24 post on geometry on that date.

From Coxeter’s Nutshell: Points and Marks

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Saturday, August 6, 2022

Atman

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Bob and Carol

… And then there is the Jack Carr version of Snuggles.

Myth Space Date Note

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The above obituary reports a death that happened on July 23.
Also on that date . . . Myth Space and Date Note.

Metadata

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Also on Aug. 2, 2019 —

Later that August —

Also on Aug. 6, 2019 —

The Story of Q:  Quantity/Quality

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"“Quantity has a quality all its own.”
James Stavridis, quoted on Aug. 5, 2022.

Friday, August 5, 2022

A Lockscreen for Sunrise

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Thursday, August 4, 2022

Motif

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The New York Times  today reports a July 18 death —

Skully*

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Click image to enlarge.

* An instance of ambiguation, as opposed to dis   ambiguation.

Wednesday, August 3, 2022

From the “Shifting Phantasmagoria” of Joan Didion

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Also on July 30 . . .

Scully Disambiguation

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In order, approximately, of increasing popularity:

Sean Scully, artist, whose work is the subject of 
the recent book and exhibition, "The Shape of Ideas."

Vincent Scully, architectural historian at Yale.

Vincent Edward ("Vin") Scully, "Voice of the Dodgers"

Tuesday, August 2, 2022

Recent Reading List

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A Separatrix for Kipnis*

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8/2 

 

* See Kipnis in this journal. For instance . . .

The trait  of Derrida is mentioned also in
the paper from yesterday's Gefüge  post.

Monday, August 1, 2022

Enowning

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Related material — The Eightfold Cube.

See also . . .

"… Mathematics may be art, but to the general public it is
a black art, more akin to magic and mystery. This presents
a constant challenge to the mathematical community: to 
explain how art fits into our subject and what we mean by beauty."

— Sir Michael Atiyah, “The Art of Mathematics”
in the AMS Notices , January 2010

Interality Again: The Art of the Gefüge

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"Schufreider shows that a network of linguistic relations
is set up between Gestalt, Ge-stell,  and Gefüge, on the
one hand, and Streit, Riß,  and Fuge, on the other . . . ."

— From p. 14 of French Interpretations of Heidegger ,
edited by David Pettigrew and François Raffoul.
State U. of New York Press, Albany, 2008. (Links added.)

One such "network of linguistic relations" might arise from
a non-mathematician's attempt to describe the diamond theorem.

(The phrase "network of linguistic relations" appears also in 
Derrida's remarks on Husserl's Origin of Geometry .)

For more about "a system of slots," see interality in this journal.

The source of the above prefatory remarks by editors Pettigrew and Raffoul —

"If there is a specific network that is set up in 'The Origin of the Work of Art,'
a set of structural relations framed in linguistic terms, it is between
Gestalt, Ge-stell and Gefüge, on the one hand, and Streit, Riß and Fuge
on the other; between (as we might try to translate it)  
configuration, frame-work and structure (system), on the one hand, and
strife, split (slit) and slot, on the other. On our view, these two sets go
hand in hand; which means, to connect them to one another, we will
have to think of the configuration of the rift (Gestalt/Riß) as taking place
in a frame-work of strife (Ge-stell/Streit) that is composed through a system
of slots (Gefüge/Fuge) or structured openings." 

— Quotation from page 197 of Schufreider, Gregory (2008):
"Sticking Heidegger with a Stela: Lacoue-Labarthe, art and politics."
Pp. 187-214 in David Pettigrew & François Raffoul (eds.), 
French Interpretations of Heidegger: An Exceptional Reception.
State University of New York Press, 2008.

Update at 5:14 AM ET Wednesday, August 3, 2022 —

See also "six-set" in this journal.

"There is  such a thing as a six-set."
— Saying adapted from a 1962 young-adult novel.

Review

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From Log24 posts tagged Art Space —

From a paper on Kummer varieties,
arXiv:1208.1229v3 [math.AG] 12 Jun 2013,
The Universal Kummer Threefold,” by
Qingchun Ren, Steven V Sam, Gus Schrader,
and Bernd Sturmfels —

IMAGE- 'Consider the 6-dimensional vector space over the 2-element field,' from 'The Universal Kummer Threefold'

Two such considerations —

IMAGE- 'American Hustle' and Art Cube

IMAGE- Cube for study of I Ching group actions, with Jackie Chan and Nicole Kidman 

Sunday, July 31, 2022

The Space Joker: A Shiva for Star Trek

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"Show me all  the Natalie Portmans!"

Domingo for Ramos*

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The reference to Vallega-Neu in posts that last night were tagged
The Ereignis Sanction leads to . . .

Heidegger’s ‘Contributions to Philosophy.’ An Introduction
(Indiana University Press, 2003).

That book is about . . .

Martin Heidegger, Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning) ,
trans. Parvis Emad and Kenneth Maly (Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1999). German edition:
Beiträge zur Philosophie (vom Ereignis) ,
ed. F.-W. von Herrmann, Gesamtausgabe, vol. 65
(Frankfurt a. M.: Klostermann, 1989).

* See today's news and a Log24 search for "Philippine."

For Camp Sontag*

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"We need the word 'metaphor' for the whole double unit, and to use it sometimes for one of the two components in separation from the other is as injudicious as that other trick by which we use 'the meaning' here sometimes for the work that the whole double unit does and sometimes for the other component–the tenor, as I am calling it–the underlying idea or principal subject which the vehicle or figure means. It is not surprising that the detailed analysis of metaphors, if we attempt it with such slippery terms as these, sometimes feels like extracting cube-roots in the head."​

— I. A. Richards, The Philosophy of Rhetoric .
Oxford University Press, 1936.

The above quotation was appropriated  from
https://www.thoughtco.com/tenor-metaphors-1692531 .

* See yesterday's post Summer Camp.

The Ereignis Sanction: Traumlogik Continued.

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The posts of February 1, 2, and 3, 2020, have now 
been tagged "The Ereignis Sanction."

Saturday, July 30, 2022

Literary Figures

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"… the tesseract, identified with a figure too inclusive,
contradictory, and all-pervasive to be seen as a character,
connects multiple dimensions in a manner counter to
ordinary thought…."

— Catherine Flynn, "From Dowel to Tesseract" (2016)

As does the I Ching .

Modal Diamond Box

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A  mnemonic  from a course titled
Galois Connections and Modal Logics“—

“Traditionally, there are two modalities, namely,
possibility and necessity. The basic modal operators
are usually written box (square) for necessarily
and diamond (diamond) for possibly.
Then, for example, diamondP  can be read as
‘it is possibly the case that P .'”

See also Intensional Semantics , lecture notes
by Kai von Fintel and Irene Heim, MIT,
Spring 2007 edition—

“The diamond  symbol for possibility is due to C.I. Lewis, first introduced in Lewis & Langford (1932), but he made no use of a symbol for the dual combination ¬¬. The dual symbol  was later devised by F.B. Fitch and first appeared in print in 1946 in a paper by his doctoral student Barcan (1946). See footnote 425 of Hughes & Cresswell (1968). Another notation one finds is L for necessity and M for possibility, the latter from the German möglich  ‘possible.’”

Barcan, Ruth C.: 1946. “A Functional Calculus of First Order Based on Strict Implication.” Journal of Symbolic Logic, 11(1): 1–16. URL http://www.jstor.org/pss/2269159.

Hughes, G.E. & Cresswell, M.J.: 1968. An Introduction to Modal Logic. London: Methuen.

Lewis, Clarence Irving & Langford, Cooper Harold: 1932. Symbolic Logic. New York: Century.

For less rigorous remarks, search Log24 for Modal Diamond Box.

Summer Camp

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Or: The Sontag Puzzlement

Wikipedia on "Heavenly Creatures"

"Juliet introduces Pauline to the idea of 'the Fourth World',
a Heaven without Christians where music and art are
celebrated. Juliet believes she will go there when she dies.
Certain actors and musicians have the status of saints in
this afterlife, such as singer Mario Lanza, with whom
both girls are obsessed."

   Related material — Sontag + Camp .

Friday, July 29, 2022

… From the Stadium

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(A sequel to the previous post — "To the Lighthouse")

From that same date . . .

Log24 on August 5, 2002 —

"To really know a subject you've got to learn a bit of its history."

— John Baez, August 4, 2002

"We both know what memories can bring;
They bring diamonds and rust."

—  Joan Baez, April 1975 

"Venn considered three discs R, S, and T as typical subsets of a set U. The intersections of these discs and their complements divide U into 8 nonoverlapping regions."

— History of Mathematics at St. Andrews

"Who would not be rapt by the thought of such marvels?"

— Saint Bonaventure on the Trinity

"Who would not be rapt?" . . . Cristin Milioti? —

'The Resort' S1E1 - The 2007 Razr

To the Lighthouse Continues.

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Midrash on Woolf for Reiner —

Illustrated! —

Christmas in July: The Milioti Version

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From a review of "The Resort" at another website

"The phrase 'The attempt to recall your past
is a waste of time' is repeated throughout the series."

A waste of time? …  Perhaps.  In "The Resort," Milioti is drawn
into an investigation of fictional events from December 2007.

A check of my own memories from that December
may or may not be a waste of time, but it yields a
page from a book that I fondly recall . . .

Thursday, July 28, 2022

Familiar Quotation

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The artist Jennifer Bartlett reportedly died at 81 on July 25.

An image excerpted from Log24 posts that were tagged 
"Butterfly Song" on that date, with an added quotation from
a 1918 poem by Wallace Stevens —

The Gibson Gambit

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OPINION DYNAMICS ON DISCOURSE SHEAVES

By  JAKOB HANSEN AND ROBERT GHRIST

arXiv:2005.12798 (math)  [Submitted on 26 May 2020]

Funding: This work was funded by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense Research & Engineering through a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship, ONR N00014-16-1-2010.

HANSEN — Department of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (jhansen@math.upenn.edu)

GHRIST — Department of Mathematics and Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (ghrist@math.upenn.edu)

See as well this  journal on the above date (26 May 2020) —

Wednesday, July 27, 2022

The Narratives Nutshell

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Related literary notes — On April 28 The New York Times
reported a death from the above date (Tuesday, April 26, 2022).
See a followup in the Times  today on "New York literary royalty."

Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Dog Day in the Multiverse of Madness

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Meanwhile . . .

Where's Waldo  Meets  Where's Logan :

The Titanic Omen

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"So we beat on, boats against the current…" — F. Scott Fitzgerald

Monday, July 25, 2022

The Oslo Prize

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The Quiet Man

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What’s your story?

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Plan 9 Continues:

Salinger's 'Nine Stories,' paperback with 3x3 array of titles on cover, adapted in a Jan. 2, 2009, Log24 post on Nabokov's 1948 'Signs and Symbols'

Homage to Patagonia

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In memory of a political figure who reportedly died on Sunday —

Wm. F. Buckley as Archimedes, moving the world with a giant pen as lever. The pen's point is applied to southern South America.

Note the approximate target of the holy nib.

Narratives in the Multiverse of Madness

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Modernism, Fiction and Mathematics
by Nina Engelhardt
(Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture)

From a review by Johann A. Makowsky in
Notices of the American Mathematical Society,
November 2020, pp. 1589-1595 —

"Engelhardt’s goal in this study is to put the interplay
between fiction and mathematical conceptualizations
of the world into its historical context. She sees her work
as a beginning for further studies on the role of mathematics,
not only modern, in fiction in the wider field of literature and
science. It is fair to say that in her book Nina Engelhardt does
succeed in giving us an inspiring tour d’horizon of this interplay."

Another such tour —


 

On the title of Westworld Season 4 Episode 5, "Zhuangzi" —

A song for Teddy: "Across my dreams, with nets of wonder . . ."

See Zhuangzi also in the 2022 Black Rock CIty manifesto, "Waking Dreams" . . . 

Midnight Clear

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See the title in this journal.

Related material — A Log24 search for "in 1937."

Sunday, July 24, 2022

Pianist Dreams

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The Manifestation Manifesto

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Some may prefer their own, less collective, manifestations.

Magic Mikes Continues:

"I get no kick from champagne…." — Cole Porter

But . . .

See too another item with the BRC "Waking Dreams" date —

The editor/author in that  Oct. 14, 2021, post is Russ Kick.

Revolutionizing the Public Image

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See as well . . .

Saturday, July 23, 2022

Myth Space

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From the new URL mythspace.org, which forwards to . . .

http://m759.net/wordpress/?tag=mythspace

From Middlemarch  (1871-2), by George Eliot, Ch. III —

"Dorothea by this time had looked deep into the ungauged reservoir of Mr. Casaubon's mind, seeing reflected there in vague labyrinthine extension every quality she herself brought; had opened much of her own experience to him, and had understood from him the scope of his great work, also of attractively labyrinthine extent. For he had been as instructive as Milton's 'affable archangel;' and with something of the archangelic manner he told her how he had undertaken to show (what indeed had been attempted before, but not with that thoroughness, justice of comparison, and effectiveness of arrangement at which Mr. Casaubon aimed) that all the mythical systems or erratic mythical fragments in the world were corruptions of a tradition originally revealed. Having once mastered the true position and taken a firm footing there, the vast field of mythical constructions became intelligible, nay, luminous with the reflected light of correspondences. But to gather in this great harvest of truth was no light or speedy work."

See also the term correspondence  in this journal.

Date Note: An Oxford Puzzlement

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Oxford University Press Blog

On Hammerstein and Sondheim

Geoffrey Block, Distinguished Professor of Music History at the University of Puget Sound, is the author of Enchanted Evenings: The Broadway Musical From Show Boat  to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber.  The book offers theater lovers an illuminating behind-the-scenes tour of some of America’s best loved, most admired, and most enduring musicals, as well as a riveting history.  In the excerpt below we learn about how Hammerstein mentored Sondheim.

Sondheim, a native New Yorker whose father could play harmonized show tunes by ear after hearing them once or twice, was the beneficiary of a precocious, suitably specialized musical education.  While still a teenager and shortly after the premiere of Carousel ,  Sondheim had the opportunity to be critiqued at length by the legendary Hammerstein, who, by a fortuitous coincidence that would be the envy of Show Boat’s second act, happened to be a neighbor and the father of Sondheim’s friend and contemporary, James Hammerstein. Sondheim’s unique apprenticeship with the first of his three great mentors, Oscar Hammerstein 2nd, one of the giants of the Broadway musical from the 1920s until long after his death in 1960, might serve as a Hegelian metaphor for Sondheim’s thesis, antithesis, and synthesis of modernism and traditionalism, high-brow and low-brow. 

Note the above Oxford University Press date. Also on that date —

Tuesday September 29, 2009

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From Harper’s Magazine
for the Feast of
St. Michael and All Angels:

Note on a poem by Rilke

"Is a puzzlement." — Oscar Hammerstein II

“Not games. Puzzles. Big difference. That’s a whole other matter.
All art — symphonies, architecture, novels — it’s all puzzles.
The fitting together of notes, the fitting together of words have
by their very nature a puzzle aspect. It’s the creation of form
out of chaos. And I believe in form.”

— Stephen Sondheim, in Stephen Schiff,
    “Deconstructing Sondheim,” 
    The New Yorker,  issue of March 8, 1993, p. 76

Friday, July 22, 2022

A Fork for Yogi

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"When you come to a fork in the road, take it." — Yogi Berra

The Story Game
Two players of interest . . .

Jack Carr:

Author Jack Carr with some of his reading list books.

David Morrell:

Author David Morrell.

Thursday, July 21, 2022

Siamese Combinatorial Remarks

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Further combinatorial properties* of 24261120 may 
be investigated with the aid of a 9×9 square grid, and
perhaps (eventually) also with its triangular counterpart

.

* Cap sets, gerechte designs, etc.

Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Lampoon Elegy

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"Sean Kelly, a wry master of literary and musical parodies
who helped infuse National Lampoon with the sharp-edged
and often crude humor it became known for, died on July 11
in Manhattan. He was 81."

— Richard Sandomir in the online New York Times  today

This  journal on July 11 —

Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard, May 25, 2017 —

"No one writes math formulas on glass. That’s not a thing."

Tuesday, July 19, 2022

For 7/20 Eve

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Mosses from an Old Manse   (Hawthorne Recycled)

Click the above image to enlarge it.

This lockscreen suggests happy memories of J3 . . .

Two for the Undercroft

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From The New York Times  this afternoon —

Transylvania III, a 1973 tapestry made of horsehair and goat hair.

Backstory —

Record-Breaking Enrollment

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IMAGE- Richard Kiley in 'Blackboard Jungle,' with grids and broken records

Tommy Tucker’s Song

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Related material — "Put on your red dress, baby."

The Lost Message

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“Somehow, a message had been lost on me. Groups act .
The elements of a group do not have to just sit there,
abstract and implacable; they can do  things, they can
‘produce changes.’ In particular, groups arise
naturally as the symmetries of a set with structure.”

— Thomas W. Tucker, review of Lyndon’s Groups and Geometry
in The American Mathematical Monthly , Vol. 94, No. 4
(April 1987), pp. 392-394.

"…groups are invariably best studied through their action on some structure…."

— R. T. Curtis, “Symmetric Generation of the Higman-Sims Group” in
Journal of Algebra  171 (1995), pp. 567-586.

Related material — Other posts now tagged Groups Act.

Monday, July 18, 2022

The Big Shuttlecock

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"Oldenburg … died on Monday at his home and studio in
the Soho section of Manhattan." —  Martha Schwendener, NYT 

“The Shape of Ideas”

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Some may prefer other concepts of shape. For instance

and, from Log24 on the above Yalebooks date —

Related material:

From "Higman- Sims Graph," a webpage by A. E. Brouwer —

"Similar to the 15+35 construction of the Hoffman-Singleton graph is the 30+70 construction of the Higman-Sims graph. In the former the starting point was that the lines of PG(3,2) can be labeled with the triples in a 7-set such that lines meet when the corresponding triples have 1 element in common. This time we label the lines of PG(3,2) with the 4+4 splits of an 8-set, where intersecting lines correspond to splits with common refinement 2+2+2+2. Clearly, both descriptions of the lines of PG(3,2) are isomorphic. Take as vertices of the Higman-Sims graph the 15 points and 15 planes of PG(3,2) together with the 70 4-subsets of an 8-set. Join two 4-sets when they have 1 element in common. A 4-set determines a 4+4 split and hence a line in PG(3,2), and is adjacent to the points and planes incident with that line. A plane is adjacent to the nonincident points. This yields the Higman-Sims graph."

See also PG(3,2) in this  journal.

Sunday, July 17, 2022

Debriefing Ava

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Her lips are pips
I call her hips
“Twirly” and “Whirly.” 

Song lyric

(Pips are the dots on dice. The above "choose us" image in the form of a
St. Bridget's cross is from Twirly Industries, a sportswear maker in Pakistan.)

See as well a Polish poet's meditation
quoted here on St. Bridget's Day, 2012:

In Memory of “the Gilded Lily”

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For the Lily of the title, see The New York Times  online tonight
on the life of a socialite-philanthropist who reportedly died on
July 9, 2022.

Related art

 

Saturday, July 16, 2022

The Social Logic of Space

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Annals of Marketing

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Somewhat more tastefully . . .

See Santa also in a Log24 search for Dyslexic.

Friday, July 15, 2022

The Bearable Weight

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This post was suggested by a Hollywood script from 7/15/19.

Levels —

Il faut cultiver . . .

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The Cubes  continues.

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From a Toronto Star  video on the Langlands program —

From a review of the 2017 film "Justice League" —

"Now all they need is to resurrect Superman (Henry Cavill),
stop Steppenwolf from reuniting his three Mother Cubes
(sure, whatever) and wrap things up in under two cinematic
hours (God bless)."

See also the 2018 film "Avengers of Justice: Farce Wars."

Thursday, July 14, 2022

For Dark Jokester*

Also on April 1, 2015 —

From the essay cited above —

For the formula of building blocks , see Walsh series.

* See Google.

Blue Pill or Red Pill?

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“Use the Farce, Raya!”

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See as well Box and Cox.

Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Annals of Comparative Linguistics

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"Devil Horns" or
 

"I Love You" ?


A New Yorker Child’s Progress

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A New Yorker  writer on why he wanted to
learn mathematics at an advanced age —

"The challenge, of course, especially in light of the collapsing horizon, since I was sixty-five when I started. Also, I wanted especially to study calculus because I never had. I didn’t even know what it was—I quit math after feeling that with Algebra II I had pressed my luck as far as I dared. Moreover, I wanted to study calculus because Amie told me that when she was a girl William Maxwell had asked her what she was studying, and when she said calculus he said, 'I loved calculus.' Maxwell would have been about the age I am now. He would have recently retired after forty years as an editor of fiction at The New Yorker , where he had handled such writers as Vladimir Nabokov, Eudora Welty, John Cheever, John Updike, Shirley Hazzard, and J. D. Salinger. When Salinger finished Catcher in the Rye , he drove to the Maxwells’ country house and read it to them on their porch. I grew up in a house on the same country road that Maxwell and his wife, Emily, lived on, and Maxwell was my father’s closest friend."

— Wilkinson, Alec. A Divine Language  (p. 5). Published
July 12, 2022, by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Kindle Edition. 

See as well two versions of
a very short story, "Turning Nine."

Wilkinson's title is of course deplorable.
Related material: "Night Hunt" in a
Log24 search for the phrase "Good Question."

Wilderness Tale

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"He feels responsible for her, and he can’t shake
the sense that she’s in danger and is out there in
the wilderness of the world."

— Rachel Kushner in New Yorker  interview 
dated July 4, 2022, discussing a short story she wrote.

Some background for Kushner's phrase —

Art for a Redneck Wannabe

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Operation Enduring Clusterfuck:

Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Musical Interlude

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In memory of an artist who reportedly died
on July 2, 2022, a tune has been added to
an image that was posted here on that date:

Object Lesson: The Quelling

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"The successful artist shares with the politician
a recurrent temptation to indulge in emotional claptrap.
Bernard Bosanquet in Three Lectures on Aesthetic  (1915)
proposed that this urge to chase after tears or laughter
could be quelled by attaching the art-emotion to a particular object
and not a set of reactions. His consequent definition of art was
'feeling expressed for expression’s sake.' Notice, however, that
this is something only the deranged would dream of wanting in
real life. Our everyday expressions of feeling are spontaneous and
practical; they are never 'for expression’s sake.' By contrast,
aesthetic feeling is self-sufficient."

— David Bromwich in The Nation, July 11, 2022

A Particular Object —

The Sanfilippo Cube

"Tell it Skewb." — Motto adapted from Emily Dickinson.

Monday, July 11, 2022

Lip Service

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The Buttoning:

The Un-buttoning:

Narrative Templates

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The above title is from a July 1 review by Brent Simon of
the recent film "Code Name: Banshee."

Example of a narrative template —

The "He's a mad scientist and I'm his beautiful daughter" plot,
as in "Ant-Man" (2015) and in . . .

Plot twist —

Forevermore

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From New York Times  obituary today —

By Robert D. McFadden

Francis X. Clines, a reporter, columnist and foreign correspondent
for The New York Times whose commentaries on the news and
lyrical profiles of ordinary New Yorkers were widely admired as a
stylish, literary form of journalism, died on Sunday at his home in
Manhattan. He was 84.

. . . . 

As a national correspondent … he tracked political campaigns
and the Washington scene, taking occasional trips through the
hills and hollows of Appalachia to write of a largely hidden
Other America. 

. . . .

From an Editorial Notebook piece by Clines in 2010 —

The sound of that student’s holler tale remains — how to say? — precious or cool or awesome, worthy of preserving. A good phrase was offered by Kathy Williams, the teacher who invited Dr. Hazen to deal with her students’ inferiority complex. She quoted her 93-year-old grandmother’s version of “cool!” “Grandma Glenna always says, ‘Forever more !’ ” “Forever more !” she shouted, offering the youngsters something old that sounded new.

"A version of this article appears in print on Aug. 23, 2010, Section A, Page 22 of the New York edition with the headline: Say It Loud." 

From Piligrimage: The Book of the People  by Zenna Henderson
(a 1961 collection, published by Doubleday, of earlier stories) —

But all things have to end, and I sat one May afternoon, 
staring into my top desk drawer, the last to be cleaned out, 
wondering what to do with the accumulation of useless 
things in it. But I wasn’t really seeing the contents of the 
drawer, I was concentrating on the great weary emptiness 
that pressed my shoulders down and weighted my mind. 
“It’s not fair,” I muttered aloud and illogically, "to show 
me Heaven and then snatch it away.” 

“That’s about what happened to Moses, too, you know.” 

My surprised start spilled an assortment of paper clips 
and thumb tacks from the battered box I had just picked up. 

“Well forevermore!” I said, righting the box. "Dr. Curtis! 
What are you doing here?” 

"Returning to the scene of my crime,” he smiled, coming 
through the open door.

This is from Henderson's "Pottage," a story first published in 1955.

Glamour Meets Grammar

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Hymn

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See as well the Fishies hymn.

“Weirdly Muted”

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"Button your lip, baby, button your coat" — Song lyric

On St. Benedict’s Day . . .

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For Rivka Galchen, who discussed Benedict
in The New Yorker  on Wednesday, July 6, 2022.

Sunday, July 10, 2022

Into the West  Music

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See Horses in this journal then listen to Reba.

Annals of Strange Fiction: Words and Games

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Alice  illustration by Lily Padula . . .

   Related material —

    Category theory at The New Yorker
 

    /science/elements


/science 

"To the undercroft, Rivka!"

 

The Osterman/Brosterman Weekend

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See Osterman and Brosterman.

Logline for Osterman Meets Brosterman! — See Super-8.

Midnight in the Garden

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Today's date — "10" or one-zero — suggests a review of base-16
(hexadecimal) notation. In hexadecimal, "10" means 16.

See as well some other Geek Lore.

Saturday, July 9, 2022

Design Dates

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NY Times  news with Google  date
of May 30, 2022 (a Monday) —

(Forbes's actual  date of death was Sunday, May 22, 2022.
 See that date here  in light of the May 30 remarks below.)
 

Also on May 30 —

Strange Fiction

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"You can work in the undercroft." — Doctor Strange

A related geographical note —

See also "Swiftly Tilting Planet" in this journal.

Annals of Symbology

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See as well Oct. 12, 2018 (and, more generally, Volvo) in this journal.

Related material:

It is not clear whether the above acronym
should be pronounced "psycho" or "sicko."

Observation

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From the Terrace

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From Dogma Part II: Amores Perros

"It is night on the fourth of the curving terraces, high above the sea.
The stars are full out, known and unknown. Dante is halfway up the mountain….
It is half through the poem; half the whole is seen and said: hell, where grace
is not known but as a punishment; purgatory where grace and punishment are
two manners of one fact."

— Charles Williams, The Figure of Beatrice, Faber and Faber, 1943

See also Shining Forth.

Friday, July 8, 2022

“I need a photo opportunity” — Paul Simon

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Signature

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See also . . .

http://m759.net/wordpress/?s="Zero+System" .

Art and Stories

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"Sean Scully's Abstract Paintings Have Stories to Tell."

As do some Log24 posts on Vincent  Scully.

“Wakey, wakey!” — Doctor Sleep (the movie)

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A Companion Volume —

See as well this  journal on the above publication date —

The First of May, 2004.

Thursday, July 7, 2022

Symmetry

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In memory of D. W. Crowe, dead on the Fourth of July.

Crowe's obituary describes him as . . .

"a geometer specializing in the study of symmetry
and patterns in primitive art."

See also Crowe in this journal.

Elite

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Some will prefer his work with Peckinpah.

Square-Triangle Geometry

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Each of the above mappings is, in some sense, "natural."

Is there any general  order-n natural square-to-triangle mapping?

Wednesday, July 6, 2022

Geometry for the Turtle Clan

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Magic Mikes of the Lost Cities

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See as well Shea Vassar on indigenous representation.

In memory of Alfred Bester, author of The Deceivers:

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“You, Too, Can Become a Comedy Critic”

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See as well this  journal
on the above tweet date — Oct. 1, 2020.

Tuesday, July 5, 2022

Fourth of July, 7:01 PM ET

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For Ron Howard, Tom Hanks, and Dan Brown — Symbology!

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Monday, July 4, 2022

Theatrical Hiroshimas

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Easter Eigg

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The Feast of St. Donnán is on April 17.

I’ll be seeing you . . .

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This post was suggested by a Hollywood script date — 7/15/19.

Sunday, July 3, 2022

More Entertainment at the Laughing Academy

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Saturday, July 2, 2022

Interspace.art

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The above new URL forwards to . . .

http://m759.net/wordpress/?tag=abstract-signature .

Lancelot, Fellow of the Royal Society

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Royalist poetry —

Not so royalist —

"Can you imagine the mathematical possibilities?"

— Line from "Annie Hall"
 

Illustration of the not-so-royalist line —

"Carey and Chad Hayes
are successful screenwriters now."

Thursday, June 30, 2022

Arbitrator Elegy

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Browser Elegy

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The previous post, and a New York Times  report today
of a June 15 death, suggest a review . . .

Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Techie Wordplay: “Lynx”

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On the  Lynx  web browser

"As of 2022, it is the oldest web browser still being maintained,,,,"

"The speed benefits of text-only browsing are most apparent
when using low bandwidth internet connections, or older computer
hardware that may be slow to render image-heavy content."
— Wikipedia [“Older” link added.]

And then there is . . .

See as well the LYNX of Oslo artist Josefine Lyche.

Update of June 30, 2022 —

Lyche, whose art often incorporates mathematical notions,
has not yet, as far as I know, explored the Borromean  link
(three rings, linked mutually but not pairwise) in her art.

Remarks by a different math fan, Evelyn Lamb

"I have had a thing for the Borromean rings for years now.
There’s something so poetic about them. The three rings
are strong together, but they fall apart if any one of them
is removed. Alternatively, the three rings are trapped together
until one of them leaves and sets the others free. I’m kind of
surprised there isn’t a Wisława Szymborska poem or 
Tom Stoppard play that explores the metaphorical possibilities
in the Borromean rings." — Scientific American , Sept. 30, 2016.

See also the Lamb date Sept. 30, 2016, as well as work 
by Lyche, in Log24 posts tagged Star Cube.

Related material — The Log24 post Borromean Generators.

Shibumi  Continues . . .

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Mathematical Plays*

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A song whose melody was used in
Westworld, Season 4, Episode 1 —

"Singin' in the old bars
Swingin' with the old stars
Livin' for the fame

Kissin' in the blue dark
Playin' pool and wild darts
Video games"

Lana Del Rey

In memory of a video game executive 
who reportedly died on June 22, 2022

Schoolgirl Space.

* Adapted from a book  title.

The Battle of Pergamon Press

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See as well Buranyi in the previous post and Pergamon in this  journal.

Science Poetry

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"One of the most fascinating recent areas of research
is known as plasticity, which has shown that some
organisms have the potential to adapt more rapidly
and more radically than was once thought.
Descriptions of plasticity are startling, bringing to mind
the kinds of wild transformations you might expect to find
in comic books and science fiction movies."

— "Do we need a new theory of evolution?,"
The Guardian, June 28, 2022, by Stephen Buranyi

Tuesday, June 28, 2022

A Data Cube for Casaubon

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Cartoon version of George Eliot, author of Middlemarch 
and Ada Lovelace, programming pioneer —

See as well an earlier vision of a data cube for mythologies
by Claude Lévi-Strauss

The 1955 Levi-Strauss 'canonic formula' in its original context of permutation groups

Monday, June 27, 2022

Dealing With Cubism

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Continued from April 12, 2022.

"It’s important, as art historian Reinhard Spieler has noted,
that after a brief, unproductive stay in Paris, circa 1907,
Kandinsky chose to paint in Munich. That’s where he formed
the Expressionist art group Der Blaue Reiter  (The Blue Rider) —
and where he avoided having to deal with cubism."

— David Carrier, 

Remarks by Louis Menand in The New Yorker  today —

"The art world isn’t a fixed entity.
It’s continually being reconstituted
as new artistic styles emerge." 

IMAGE- The 13 symmetry axes of the cube

(Adapted from Encyclopaedia Britannica,
Eleventh Edition (1911), Crystallography .)

"Before time began, there was the Cube."
— Optimus Prime

See as well Verbum  (February 18, 2017).

Related dramatic music

"Westworld Season 4 begins at Hoover Dam,
with William looking to buy the famous landmark.
What does he consider to be 'stolen' data that is inside?" 

The Plotlines

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"Westworld Season 4 begins at Hoover Dam, with William
looking to buy the famous landmark. What does he consider
to be 'stolen' data that is inside?" 

For further details, see Log24 on May 16,
Sketch for a Magic Triangle.

Sunday, June 26, 2022

For Whit Stillman (and Anita Hill)

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Mockery Day

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For Monty Python —

"Glastonbury has been described as having a New Age community[6] 
and possibly being where New Age beliefs originated at the turn of
the twentieth century.[7] It is notable for myths and legends often
related to Glastonbury Tor, concerning Joseph of Arimathea, the 
Holy Grail and King Arthur." — Wikipedia
 

For American Democracy —

Related mockery from 2012

'If Triangles Are Square' book


See also "Triangles Are Square" in 1984

Twin Sixteens

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"Can you imagine the mathematical possibilities?"

— Line from "Annie Hall"

Lexicon

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Sunday, May 24, 2020

A Lexicon of Operators

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“If we ended Part 1 proud of our accomplishment—
perhaps even a little smug—then we will get reacquainted
with our humility in this article.” — Robert Jacobson

Related to the grammar  of operators —

Group Identity Algebras and Transformations over a Bridge.

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