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Tuesday, September 9, 2025

California Logic:  Every Gold Mine Has Its Shaft

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'Under the Volcano,' Burton, and 'Right through hell there is a path.'

Burton dialogue for Letterman —

"John, Tim … Tim, John."

Gravity’s Rainbow Adapted . . .
Vegas Pot of Gold

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Showing more . . .

Monday, September 8, 2025

Winning Combination

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Cinematic Offering for Toronto Film Festival . . .

Guitar Case Study 

Stiff competition . . .

Double Bass and a Nudie Suit

Awards Season Red Dot

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Related vocabulary —
"As above, so below," and  Labia.

For My Dear Watson —
Elementary Deep Blue Magic

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From There to Eternity

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A fashion statement I prefer —

At Toronto International Film Festival (Sept. 4-14)

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‘Nuremberg’ Wows TIFF

Related material from the script of "Miller's Girl" —

INT. JONATHAN MILLER'S CLASSROOM - MORNING

Inspirational posters line the walls. 
A VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY banner hangs 
above a dry erase board, on which is 
written MR. MILLER - CREATIVE WRITING . . . .

For Abbey Drucker . . . and Manic Pixie Monday

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Flashbacks —

Sunday, August 13, 2023

Before, Behind

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Wikipedia Curriculum Recommendation:
Add Languages

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For Letterman:  "Joseph, Charlie . . . Charlie, Joseph."

Black Mirror

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"… the worlds of van Gogh, da Vinci, and Rivera . . . ."

That's Diego, not Chita.

Annals of Interality: That’s Amore!

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Sunday, September 7, 2025

Venice for Mann: Allusions to Illusions

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Summer Reading

The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil, by Heinrich Zimmer

Subtitle:
Tales of the Soul's
Conquest of Evil

Some stories within the above "unending net" of nonsensical narratives
suggested a post related to earlier work of the actor who plays Principal Dort 
in Wednesday Season 2  and to the Venetian Ball in that Netflix series . . .
and, slightly more seriously, to the Venice Film Festival of 2025 —

Numberland:  Watson Gets Her Groove Back

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Daily Mail  headline yesterday . . .

Emma Watson dazzles in TWO
jaw-dropping designer looks 
on the final day of Venice Film Festival
as she swaps a green Emilia Wickstead
mini dress for a Gucci number

The swap reportedly took place at
"the luxurious Hotel Excelsior."

Annals of interality

Excelsior!

Venice Backstory Continues.

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Saturday, September 6, 2025

Where Credit Is Due:
Nina Not in Sauna

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Soundtrack from Walpurgisnacht 2008

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9:22 PM  Saturday, September 6, 2025 (GMT+2)
Time in Venice, Metropolitan City of Venice, Italy

Related reading . . .

"Jarmusch lulls us into thinking this part will be the exception
to the theme of virtual estrangement, just through the bond
between the twins that seems to return instantly after an
unspecified but seemingly considerable amount of time apart.
But the increasing evidence of how much they didn’t know
about their unconventional parents ties the film together in
an elegant full circle. As does Anika’s nonchalant cover of the
Dusty Springfield classic, 'Spooky,' their mother’s favorite song."

— David Rooney,  August 31, 2025,10:30 AM review of 
"Father Mother Sister Brother," winner of the Golden Lion
at this evening's awards ceremony in Venice.  

For Peggy Noonan:  Entering Weimar

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A Letterman intro — "Franklin, Sally . . . Sally, Franklin."

Surprise Popup: Ella’s Neighborhood

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Tool News: An Uneven Break

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        ♫  "I see by your outfit . . . " — Song lyric

Related metadata . . . Guitar Case Study :

Shaped Ideas

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A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.
If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because 
they are made with ideas.

G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology  (1940).
 

Overlapping Ideas 

Pythagorean theorem proof by overlapping similar figures

5:39 PM  Saturday, September 6, 2025 (GMT+2)
Time in Venice, Metropolitan City of Venice, Italy

Friday, September 5, 2025

Tool Teaser’s Tune

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Art Tools

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The "art world power broker" of the previous post and a favorite artist
"often dined together, she driving downtown to meet him in her yellow
Volkswagen Beetle, after which she would drop him off at one of his
late-night haunts…." — The New York Times

Related art tales . . .

Wikipedia on a soccer-wear company —
"The Hummel logo is a stylized bumblebee,
as Hummel  is German for "bumblebee".

In Memory of an “Art World Power Broker” *

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* Phrase from a New York Times  headline today

For T. S. Eliot — Intersection Theory

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For Pilgrim World* — A 9/11 Quote

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"The visitors are steered away from shamanism’s dark undercurrents…."

London Review of Books, Vol. 47 No. 16 · 11 September 2025 ·
Review of Shamanism: The Timeless Religion  by Manvir Singh.

* Vide  a scene from Season 2 of "Wednesday" —

For Go-cart Mozart — Abduction from the Academy

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2:02  PM  Friday, September 5, 2025 (GMT+2) . . . 
Time in Venice, Metropolitan City of Venice, Italy

"Spirit birds that ride the night, stranger than dreams" — Point Omega

Annals of Nevermore Academy:
For Principal Dort

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"Always with a little humor." — Dr. Yen Lo

     Some cartoon graveyards are better than others.

Thursday, September 4, 2025

Poetic Art

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From today's previous post . . .

"How about the same sound in an O-word ?"

Bartender Art

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Art, being bartender, is never drunk.” — Peter Viereck

Today is reportedly Lifton's day of death —
in sacerdotal jargon, his dies natalis.

7/11 Flashback* for Cairo Sweet

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* Suggested by the 7/11 birthday of a recently deceased fashion designer
and by the opening of Wednesday, Season 2, Episode 7 —

Meditation in Deep Blue

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"Das Nichts nichtet." — Heidegger.

Channel

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Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Bar Exam: Elements and Qualities

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Related artistic concepts . . .


Buddhist —

Wikipedia —

" The Four Elements are used in Buddhist texts to both elucidate the concept of suffering (dukkha) and as an object of meditation. The earliest Buddhist texts explain that the four primary material elements are the sensory qualities solidity, fluidity, temperature, and mobility; their characterisation as earth, water, fire, and air, respectively, is declared an abstraction – instead of concentrating on the fact of material existence, one observes how a physical thing is sensed, felt, perceived.[24] " 

24. Dan Lusthaus, "What is and isn't Yogacara." He specifically discusses early Buddhism as well as Yogacara. "What is and isn't Yogacara". Archived from the original on 31 March 2010. Retrieved 12 January 2016..

Christian —

Milton’s Paradise Lost :

Into this wilde Abyss,
The Womb of nature and perhaps her Grave,
Of neither Sea, nor Shore, nor Air, nor Fire,
But all these in their pregnant causes mixt
Confus’dly, and which thus must ever fight,
Unless th’ Almighty Maker them ordain
His dark materials to create more Worlds . . .

Graphic —

Zen and the Art

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Lyrics for Megan

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"He rides the ridge between dark and light
Without partners or friends"

—  "Ridge Rider" – Russ Giguere's 1971 solo LP, Hexagram 16

"In between the dark and the light"

— Eagles, "One of These Nights" – released on June 10, 1975,
by Asylum Records.  

Related lyrics — "Players only love you when they're playing."

Related backstory — http://m759.net/wordpress/?p=916
dark and light in a post featuring a younger Megan Follows.

Narratives for Letterman:
“Julian, Tony . . . Tony, Julian.”

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"A satellite image captures an unknown object
sitting on the Antarctic snow. Cryptologist
Julian Rome, a teacher at the University of
California, Berkeley, is invited to investigate
the mystery." — Wikipedia

"Tony Rome is an ex-cop turned private investigator
who lives on a powerboat in Miami, Florida, called
‘Straight Pass’. This is a reference to the fact that
Tony also has a gambling problem." — Wikipedia

To some, more interesting narratives might include
"Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning" as a
narrative elaboration of a Howard Hughes favorite,
"Ice Station Zebra."

Petition for the Sainthood of Simone Weil

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"Don't solicit for your sister, it's not nice . . ." — The late Tom Lehrer.

"The pleasure comes from the illusion"

—  André Weil in 1940, quoted here on the dies natalis of Elizabeth II.

From the Viper Room

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The previous post contained a link to Dogma Part II: Amores Perros.

That 2001 compilation contrasted the cultural approach of John O'Hara
(whose title From the Terrace  appeared in today's previous post) with
that of Nathanael West (author of The Day of the Locust).

Some further cultural notes more in the spirit of West than of O'Hara —

From the Terrace . . . Continues.

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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

Last night on Wednesday Season 2 , Episode 5 of 8 —

Coming Attraction — “Tiles to Deep Space”

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Tuesday, September 2, 2025

In Memory of Charles Grodin:
New Dog, Old Tricks

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Instagram's Lilahlore today . . .

"Fancy dress in bathtub, why not"

Instagram's Lilyjcollins on May 2, 2022 . . .

"Happy Met Ball Monday!"

Link (for Castle Fontainebleau)

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IMAGE- Miami/Dade County schools page

The indicated link is to…

"Es muss sein!"

Back-to-School Supplies for Nevermore Academy

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"The Accountant 3" —

Bonnie and Clyde with the Purloined Letter

Monday, September 1, 2025

Non-AI Theology

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For different  slants, see Hexagrams 14 and 43 in the figure below.

For more backstory, see a post from Eliza Doolittle Day, 2025.

 

AI Theology

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Agents Date

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On that same date . . .

Labor Day Meditation

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'The Power Of The Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts,' by Rudolf Arnheim

Cover illustration:

Spies returning from the land of
Canaan with a cluster of grapes.

Colored woodcut from
Biblia Sacra Germanica ,
Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1483.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Sunday, August 31, 2025

Chinatown Story

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  Minority Report:

Brick  Space .

Annals of Associative Logic
von Franz on Pauli’s dream: “A dance* results.”

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See as well Dirty Dancing (1987)  and . . .

Related cinematic quotation —

"She's like the wind."

Related minimalist illustration —

Note the "357" central row in the figure at right above.

* Related posts:  http://m759.net/wordpress/?s="A+dance+results" .

“Back to the Old AI Overview”

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Prelude:  Project Hail Gaitskill . . .

The opening sentences of "The Parrot in the Machine," by James Gleick
in The New York Review of Books  of July 24, 2025 —

"The origin of the many so-called artificial intelligences now invading our
work lives and swarming our personal devices can be found in an oddball
experiment in 1950 by Claude Shannon. Shannon is known now as the
creator of information theory, but then he was an obscure mathematician
at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York’s West Village."

Why Gaitskill? . . . See 

"The House We Lived In," by Mary Gaitskill
in her Substack on May 02, 2025.

More recently . . .

Going from Bad to Verse . . . Illustrated

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Saturday, August 30, 2025

“An Interface of Paradox”

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More Cultural Guidance* from AI Overview!

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For an earlier confused AI Overview that suggested, through
the use of associative logic, the above misleading search,
vide  yesterday's post on the four-color decomposition theorem.

* For some cultural guidance that seems actually helpful ,
vide  https://aiching.app/iching/hexagram-29/
(Some may question to what extent this "AI Ching" app
actually uses  AI, but its remarks on Hexagram 29  seem
at least harmless, compared to some other AI oracles.)

In Search of . . . The Little Red King

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From the previous post, a result of playing around
with associative logic —

By Stephen King

Kohs Block Design Test illustrating four-color decomposition theorem

Kohs Block Design Test figure
illustrating the four-color decomposition theorem

Some backstory — Kohs himself.

Friday, August 29, 2025

Associations Galore

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The name " Link " in an earlier post from today suggests a search . . .

Related material from the search-associated dates above . . .

  • July  10, 2013 —  See the post Diagon Alley.
  • July  12, 2017 —  See the post Visor.
  • June 17, 2019 —  See posts tagged Master Plan.

The Four-Color Decomposition Theorem: An AI Overview

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For Honey West*

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Instagram version of actress Anne Francis in a 1960 Serling episode:

* Partly a product of writers Levinson and Link.

“Now put the foundation under it” — Adapted from Thoreau

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The Moon Side of the Dark

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C. S. Lewis, according to David Justice,
"surveys the spectrum of plot-outlines."

A related image —

Safka for Kafka

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Heaven's Gate

Susanne K. Langer,'Philosophy in a New Key'

Thursday, August 28, 2025

History Activity

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Signs

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Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Map News

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Semitism for St. Cecilia

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Time in Venice, Italy: 10:44  AM  Wednesday, August 27, 2025 (GMT+2)

'The Power Of The Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts,' by Rudolf Arnheim

Cover illustration:

Spies returning from the land of
Canaan with a cluster of grapes.

Colored woodcut from
Biblia Sacra Germanica ,
Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1483.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

The AllSpark as Agent 13

Springsteen to a possible  Agent 13

"Is that you baby or just a brilliant disguise?"

 

Updates the same day . . .

Time in Venice, Italy: 8:35 PM  Wednesday, August 27, 2025 (GMT+2)

Related art from the dies natalis  of Rudolf Arnheim —

 

Time in Venice, Italy: 10:10 PM  Wednesday, August 27, 2025 (GMT+2)

In the end the space itself is the star

Tuesday, August 26, 2025

For Fans of the Coen Brothers’ “Hail, Caesar!”

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Related Platonic imagery . . .

"Red sky at night . . ."

Backstories

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The previous post suggests a flashback . . .

Vide  http://m759.net/wordpress/?tag=on120410.

Not your grandfather's Appian Way.

See as well . . .

The Mystery of the Vanishing Heinleins.

Overview AI

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Zuckerberg for Salinger:  Roofbeams and AI Girls

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A view some may prefer . . .

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

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

At the Glass Asylum:  Together Again!

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Symptoms of Cultural Breakdown

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Using AI for Search:
Combinatorial Partitions as Projective Lines …
Within the Klein Quadric

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Some backstory: yesterday's post "Using AI: Search vs. Chat."

Vide  a PDF of the complete Grok report —

In its five-and-a-half-minute research and reasoning process
Grok was able to reference a post from this weblog, but it missed
the correct  answer to the prompt — Cullinane's "four-color
decomposition theorem
" in the following weblog image:

Monday, August 25, 2025

Using AI: Search vs. Chat

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Adapted song lyric —
"I used Chat, Chat used me, neither one cared."

What if we read the above machine-boilerplate "Comments Off"
remark ending a May 6 Log24 post as a dramatist's note? 

Related reading — 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/
ai-chatbots-delusions-chatgpt.html
 —

"Over 21 days of talking with ChatGPT, an otherwise
perfectly sane man became convinced that he was
a real-life superhero. We analyzed the conversation.

. . . We received a full export of all of Allan Brooks’s conversations
with an OpenAI chatbot and analyzed a subset of the conversations
starting from May 6, 2025, when he began the chat about pi." 

Thrust

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A Song for Lily

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"I'm an elevator operator . . . ."

This post is in part to avoid confusion between the above artist
and an artist whose similar work is featured in the previous post.

Animation

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"Gödel, Escher . . . Lyche ?"

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11A/110505-ThemeAndVariations-Hofstadter.jpg

The Dream of the Spinning Dancer

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Friday, October 12, 2012

Columbus Day Dream 

— m759 @ 6:00 pm
 

"… At the hour of vespers
in a sudden blinding snow,
they entered the harbor…."

— Jorie Graham,
"The Dream of the Unified Field"

Other snow dreams—

Master Class and

Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities.

This flashback was suggested by Cristi Stoica's "Spinning Dancer" post
on an earlier Columbus day.

Fans of Aldous Huxley may enjoy other posts tagged Petri Pictoris.

Sunday, August 24, 2025

Box Office

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Annals of Obit Humor

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“City of Bones” Shadow Work

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The musical introduction to today's "CBS Sunday Morning" suggests . . . 

. . . and therefore also . . .

 

Music from the above Bach portrait:

  Fans of XORschism may consult this  journal on
  the above YouTube Bach date — May 29, 2024.

For Red One

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Also on November 11, 2005, a figure from this  journal —

Students of myth may regard this hexagonal figure as a
snowflake . . . or, with a seventh dot added at the center,
a cube. For a religious interpretation of the snowflake,
see Thomas Mann's novel The Magic Mountain. For a
more secular, but still miraculous, interpretation of the
cube, see the oeuvre  of R. T. Curtis . . . and Octad Space

"Before time began . . . ." — Optimus Prime

Backstory

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Lily Collins in City of Bones  (2013) —

Saturday, August 23, 2025

“Yes, Celine”

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Lily Collins in City of Bones  (2013) —

More recently . . .

Venice for Screenwriters: “The Thomas Mann Script”

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The Making of … Box 808?

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Friday, August 22, 2025

Geometry: Points All Her Own

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For Transformer fans, some
more abstract  geometry . . .

"Before time began . . . ." — Optimus Prime

Flaming Coattails Department: Impact Statement

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Iles wrote about other things as well . . .

Biplane Stunts

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Other biplanes . . .

Related material —

The Kummer-configuration biplane

New Tumblr Community: Octad Space

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N-41

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From a novelist's account in yesterday's post "May 29 Bunker Bingo" —

"Ibrahim delivered this information with the excitement of a man
reading bingo numbers in a nursing home."

Thursday, August 21, 2025

The In Grid

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May 29 Bunker Bingo

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From a May 29 review of "Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning"

"Ethan Hunt is sealed in an unreality bunker* of his own."

Related art

Related narrative

From a novel, The Footprints of God , published August 12, 2003

A tour guide describes stations of the cross in Jerusalem:

"Ibrahim pointed down the cobbled street to a half circle of bricks
set in the street.  'There is where Jesus began to carry the cross. 
Down the street is the Chapel of Flagellation, where the Roman
soldiers whipped Jesus, set on him a crown of thorns, and said,
"Hail, King of the Jews!" Then Pilate led him to the crowd and cried,
"Ecce homo!  Behold the man!" '

Ibrahim delivered this information with the excitement of a man
reading bingo numbers in a nursing home."

* Hunt's unreality bunker is not unlike that of the Footprints of God  hero.

Fall Guy: “Coattails Aflame”

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From a review in Christianity Today  on May 29, 2025 —

From a post of Monday, August 18, 2025

Backstory —

“It is written.” — The Entity

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Some other writing —

“Do Things with Words”* . . . Or Not.

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Related Art:

'Galois Additions of Space Partitions'

Click the above space partitions for related material.

*  Vide  the origin of the :"Do Things" phrase in Google AI Mode.

Requiem for a Programmer: Dammed?

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An obituary yesterday for feminist programming pioneer Stephanie Shirley,
who in her early career presented herself in correspondence as "Steve,"
together with a CHE article on Milton, suggests a review of material
related to the fictional  dramatic death of a programmer and the real  death
of John Conway.

Dam

'Moth-eaten musical brocade' quote

April 11, 2020, was the dies natalis ,
in the Catholic sense,
of John Horton Conway.

  Don't call him Shirley!
 

The above-mentioned related material:

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Ex Fano: Dots and Lines . . . Revisited

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Partitions  of an 8-set into four 2-sets are related to
lines in projective geometry as follows . . .

Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Awfulness Revisited

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 “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

See also posts tagged Faustus Music and posts now tagged
Little Hours Release Date.

Boustrophedonic* Elegy and Moonshine Lullaby

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The 16 Puzzle: transformations of a 4x4 square

This post, with its image from March 16, 2009, was suggested by
the Patty Loveless video "You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive" and by
the dies natalis  of a noted Appalachian moonshiner.

We saved a seat for you.

* A term that aids an understanding of  finite  time-and-space relativity.

The Midnight Guardian:  Hepworth’s Harpstrings

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Monday, August 18, 2025

For Funk & Wagnalls’ Porch —
Pivotal Moment! *

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* From Faith Hill song lyrics

Not-So-Hip Gnosis

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From the Log24 post Occult Logic (June 4, 2025) —

"The Game in the Ship cannot be approached as a job, a vocation, a career, or a recreation. To the contrary, it is Life and Death itself at work there. In the Inner Game, we call the Game Dhum Welur, the Mind of God. And that Mind is a terrible mind, that one may not face directly and remain whole. Some of the forerunners guessed it long ago — first the Hebrews far back in time, others along the way, and they wisely left it alone, left the Arcana alone. That is why those who studied the occult arts were either fools or doomed. Fools if they were wrong, and most were; doomed if right. The forerunners know, and stay away."

The Gameplayers of Zan

 


 

See as well this  journal on the above TIME date — Jan. 25. 2005.

Hip Gnosis: Shine On

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Design Project

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  — Graphic film poster design by the late Joe Caroff
 

   Related Real Estate —

Sunday, August 17, 2025

Narrative for Nevermore

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From a post on Friday the Thirteenth (of July, 2018) —

"Wishin' on a falling star, waitin' for the early train
Sorry boy, but I've been hit by a purple rain
Aw, come on Joe, you can always change your name
Thanks a lot son, just the same"

Ventura Highway  lyrics

A candidate for the lyrics' "Joe" . . .

Joe Caroff in his obituary today — "I always meet my deadlines."

Some cartoon graveyards are better than others.

Annals of Narrative: A Wielder of the Subtle Knife
Deserves Better than a Cartoon Graveyard.

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:59 pm

Getting Past the First Slide:
Ventura Highway Name Change?

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From the above Reddit date, a scifi segue —

Friday, July 13th, 2018.

Harmonielehre

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:39 am

"The feeling is one of tonality rising from the dead."
— Alex Ross, "The Harmonist," profile of composer John Adams,
The New Yorker, January 8, 2001.

See also http://log24.com/log/jour/2001-03-10-harmony.html.

June Teenth

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Saturday, August 16, 2025

Narratives: Lolli Pop and an Alternative

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Contra Steiner

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Friday, August 15, 2025

Castle in the Air
from the Sept Tours Foundation

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Pinterest suggests that an image of the CGI castle Sept Tours
should be saved to the board "Binary Galois Spaces" —

Already there.

  Partitions  of an 8-set into four 2-sets are related to
lines in projective geometry as follows . . .

A related castle from a Groundhog Day Depth Haiku  post —

Search History — 105 lines in PG(5,2)

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A search from August 15 —

Note:  Partitions of an 8-set into four 2-sets are related to
           lines  in projective geometry as follows . . .

Thursday, August 14, 2025

The Klein Quadric and 105 Lines

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 7:20 pm

Earlier Log24 posts tagged 105 Partitions suggest a look at . . .

Version 4 of the above paper is at https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.13798.

See also this  journal on the Version 2 date — April 9, 2022 —
a post titled Academic Rhetoric on visual diagrams in mathematics.

The Perspective That Passeth Understanding

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“Ah.”

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Emily in Paris,  Season 1, Episode 1 The final scene:

Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Vibrations

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From a review of Teilhard de Chardin’s The Phenomenon of Man :

“It would have been a great disappointment to me
if Vibration did not somewhere make itself felt,
for all scientific mystics either vibrate in person or
find themselves resonant with cosmic vibrations….”

Sir Peter Brian Medawar

"Particularly mathematics and music" . . .

See as well . . .

An illustration of a title by George Mackey

The American Scholar  date above — Nov. 9, 2015 — suggests 
a review of posts now tagged Schicksalstag 2015.

AI Mode . . . “Particularly”

Filed under: General — m759 @ 5:59 am

Plan 13 from Inner Space

IMAGE- The 13 symmetry axes of the cube

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

Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Generations:
Schicksalstag for Zelig”

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A made-up book title featured in the previous post, The Hashtag Generation,
suggests some remarks related to Nov. 9 — Schicksalstag — 2019 . . .

Related reading:  Posts in this  journal tagged Schicksalstag 2019.

Generations

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Earlier . . . 

The Octothorpe Generation

Tesseract Art . . . Continues.

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On magic hypercube  "slippabilities" —

As the crow flies  . . .

Or as the ant walks . . .

As usual, beware of the word "magic" —

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