Saturday, August 9, 2025
Up the Alley
As is the similarly named scifi author Theodore Sturgeon
in fictional events at a real Whanganui alley.
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Gap Gambit
"Life has a gap in it." — Sarah Silverman in "Take This Waltz."
See also . . .
http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=Gap .
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Coloring Book: Tempting Newton
"Hypotheses non fingo." — Newton
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Friday, August 8, 2025
Johns Hopkins University obituary for Jack Morava
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Thursday, August 7, 2025
Patterns and Relationships, Part Deux
Megan Fox in "Transformers" (2007) —
Addendum: Where credit is due . . .
See also posts from the above Emma Watson Prada date — 15 Dec. 2022.
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Patterns and Relationships
See as well Eichler's Reciprocity Law.
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Points
"What do you get with that card?"
"Big Top points."
Cicero, In Verrem II. 1. 46 —
He reached Delos. There one night he secretly 46 carried off, from the much-revered sanctuary of Apollo, several ancient and beautiful statues, and had them put on board his own transport. Next day, when the inhabitants of Delos saw their sanc- tuary stripped of its treasures, they were much distressed . . . .
Delum venit. Ibi ex fano Apollinis religiosissimo noctu clam sustulit signa pulcherrima atque anti- quissima, eaque in onerariam navem suam conicienda curavit. Postridie cum fanum spoliatum viderent ii
Ex Fano
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Wednesday, August 6, 2025
For Wednesday Fans: Grade 8 Date
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Riff Design
The above flashback was suggested by a cartoon detail in
the January 24, 2018, posts now tagged Logic Points —
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Syntax and Semantics
Synchronology check: This journal on the above Lurie date —
January 24, 2018 — in posts now tagged Logic Points.
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Cubes
From a post on the Feast of St. Nicholas, 2018,
"The Mathieu Cube of Iain Aitchison" —
Compare and contrast . . .
The Supercube of Solomon Golomb.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Heisenberg’s “Geometry and Kinematics” —
Arrangements and Movements
The title is from remarks by Heisenberg in the previous post.
Illustrated below are some classic arrangements . . .
The simplex at left is rather static, while the 4×4 array
at right is surprisingly dynamic, giving rise to a group
of 322,560 movements.
Static Simplex vs. Dynamic Array —
Related Disney artifacts —
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Arrangements and Movements
Arrangements and Movements
Heisenberg for Turin
In memory of a writer on mathematics and logic
who reportedly died on January 13, 2025 —
From posts now tagged Heisenberg Letters . . .
"Just as both tragedy and comedy can be written
by using the same letters of the alphabet, the vast
variety of events in this world can be realized by
the same atoms through their different arrangements
and movements. Geometry and kinematics, which
were made possible by the void, proved to be still
more important in some way than pure being."
— Werner Heisenberg in Physics and Philosophy
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Monday, August 4, 2025
For the Boys in the Kitchen* —
Yin-Yang Man** at Ninefold Window of Opportunity
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Yin-Yang Man** at Ninefold Window of Opportunity
Yin-Yang Man** at Ninefold Window of Opportunity
Copenhagen Drafts
Midrash —
Scholium —
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"… die Schönheit… [ist] die
"Beauty is the proper conformity |
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Tesseract Art
Some background for the NotebookLM video "Tiles to Deep Space" —
See posts tagged Quantum Tesseract Theorem, Multiplane Structure,
and March 26-29, 2006.
(The diamond theorem on a 4×4 square array involves arbitrary
permutations of rows, columns, and quadrants. These structures
correspond to sets of four parallel hypercube faces, and other such
sets, though less easily pictured, might be used instead.)
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Commedia dell’Arte: Comedy vs. Art
Thanks for the warning. Other news for Thursday, August 7th —
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Beattys for Letterman: “Warren, Ned … Ned, Warren.”
The original name of actor Warren Beatty was Beaty , as in the name
of my own* Warren, PA, junior high school.
The Ned Beatty character in "Stroker Ace" (1983, see previous post)
suggests a flashback to a post of Devil's Night 2021.
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Wiig Case Study
This journal at 12:11 AM EDT Sunday, August 3, 2025 —
Image suggested by a New York Times obituary later that same Sunday —
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Sunday, August 3, 2025
Science Q and A
Q
A
"O Brave New World with Such Games" — Science, Aug. 23, 2013 —
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For Fellow Wiig Fans
A film illustrating the classic book title
The Celery Stalks at Midnight.
Addendum : A love song for Wiig . . .
Related images . . .
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Saturday, August 2, 2025
Tomorrow Today* — Sontag and the San Diego Reader
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In Memory of Wallace Stevens on His Dies Natalis:
Evolutionary Games at Harvard
"O Brave New World with Such Games" — Science, Aug. 23, 2013 —
Related reading from the Science date —
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Evolutionary Games at Harvard
Evolutionary Games at Harvard
Deep Mythspace: Crystallizing the Dialectics
Today's hearsay report that mathematician Jack Morava
died yesterday suggests a review: Morava in this journal —
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Logic for a Frabjous Day
The Frabjous Part — Caillou Calais . . .
Caillou
. . . and, for conspiracy theorists . . .
Calais
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Friday, August 1, 2025
“Tiles to Deep Space” — A NotebookLM video
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Thursday, July 31, 2025
Philosophy for Language Animals:
Quantized Canonical Crystal!
This post was suggested by yesterday's "Kyoto Meditation."
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Quantized Canonical Crystal!
Quantized Canonical Crystal!
Obit headline: “Provocative!”*
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“Maybe a little pool room” *
From a search in this journal for alt+key —
Vide Klein himself.
* Phrase from a post of January 26, 2003.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2025
From St. Cecilia’s Day 2013
"The impossible possible philosophers' man,
The man who has had the time to think enough,
The central man, the human globe, responsive
As a mirror with a voice, the man of glass,
Who in a million diamonds sums us up."
— Wallace Stevens, "Asides on the Oboe"
Related reading . . .
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In Memory of Tom Lehrer on July XXX
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Tuesday, July 29, 2025
“Only by the form, the pattern . . . .” — Four Quartets*
Related reading — http://m759.net/wordpress/?s="The+form,+the+pattern"
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T. S. Eliot and Time-Motion Studies*
"Words move, music moves
Only in time . . . ." — Eliot, "Four Quartets"
* Related reading — http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=Static+Dynamic .
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Monday, July 28, 2025
Annals of Academia
This journal exactly eight years ago today . . .
"Thus we have found" . . .
Another deceased Pomona College professor —
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Saturday, July 26, was Jung’s birthday . . . .
♫ “By the time I get to Phoenix . . . . ” *
* Tune from the July 18 post "Eddington Mean Girl."
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♫ “By the time I get to Phoenix . . . . ” *
♫ “By the time I get to Phoenix . . . . ” *
Sunday, July 27, 2025
Planes of Reality
"You meet people on their plane of reality"
— White Lotus posture teacher, 2025
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Saturday, July 26, 2025
A Hessian Story
"Their immediate source was a Hessian* story . . . ."
— On the Brothers Grimm story "The Golden Key"
(https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm200.html).
Related fashion statement . . .
* See as well a technical, not ethnic, meaning of "Hessian."
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Friday, July 25, 2025
Simple Space, Complex Narrative
"I'm in with the in grid, I go where the in grid goes."
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Puzzles and Ideas: Sawyer Factoring
Cosmic Dippiness:
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Thursday, July 24, 2025
The Octothorpe on Memory Lane
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Screen Chrome
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Crystal Day Poetizing
To the seven chapter epigraphs by T. S. Eliot in Cameron's
Parallelisms of Complete Designs there might be added . . .
"You can ponder perpetual motion
Fix your mind on a crystal day
Always time for a good conversation
There's an ear for what you say"
— "Up Around the Bend" lyrics
(Quoted here on the feast of St. Francis, October 4, 2023.)
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Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Annals of Edgelord School:
An Obelisk for Asterisk🟎
🟎 See as well Asterix and Cleopatra .
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An Obelisk for Asterisk🟎
An Obelisk for Asterisk🟎
Para los Muertos
From Plato, Pegasus, and the Evening Star (11/11/99) :
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"Nonbeing must in some sense be, otherwise what is it that there is not? This tangled doctrine might be nicknamed Plato's beard ; historically it has proved tough, frequently dulling the edge of Occam's razor…. I have dwelt at length on the inconvenience of putting up with it. It is time to think about taking steps."
"The Consul could feel his glance at Hugh becoming a cold look of hatred. Keeping his eyes fixed gimlet-like upon him he saw him as he had appeared that morning, smiling, the razor edge keen in sunlight. But now he was advancing as if to decapitate him." |
See also Plato's Beard —
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For a Language Animal:
“A Frequency Greater than Chance”
Related "grave breach" illustration . . .
Flores para los muertos
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“A Frequency Greater than Chance”
“A Frequency Greater than Chance”
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
In Memoriam Ozzy O.
Sunday, May 5, 2013
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Related vocabulary:
Nick Tosches on the German word “Quell “
* The title is from Heidegger.
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Poetizing Heidegger
"… things become relevant and thus meaningful insofar as they are 'poetized'
(gedichtet ) or configured within a framework."
— Pol Vandevelde, “Poetry (Dichtung )” in Cambridge Heidegger Lexicon,
ed. Mark Wrathall (Cambridge: Cambridge. University Press, 2021,
pp. 582-588)
See also, from a Log24 post of October 14, 2006 . . .
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Monday, July 21, 2025
Deep Gold
Source: "https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/advanced-version-of-
gemini-with-deep-think-officially-achieves-gold-medal-standard-at-the-
international-mathematical-olympiad/" —
Compare and contrast . . . From this journal yesterday . . .
"Hypotheses non fingo." — Newton
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Poetry as Configuration: “Fundamentally a Response”🟎
Pol Vandevelde, “Poetry (Dichtung)” in Cambridge Heidegger Lexicon,
ed. Mark Wrathall (Cambridge: Cambridge. University Press, 2021,
pp. 582-588) —
Excerpts from the Vandevelde article:
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“Poetry” can name: (1) literary composition – what he calls “great poetry”
(grosse Dichtung), (2) art in general, (3) the genuine character of language,
before it is used as a natural language, and (4) a “configuration” in the sense
that things become relevant and thus meaningful insofar as they are “poetized”
(gedichtet) or configured within a framework.
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This differentiation or this composition consists of a configuration that takes
the form of a “thought” or an “insight.”
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The fourth meaning of “configuration” is the broadest and the most powerful
sense to the extent that poetry does something that traditionally “thinking”
alone is supposed to do: to draw distinctions, to make connections, to carve
out a chunk of meaningfulness into a recognizable entity such as a judgment
or a thought or a proposition.
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This sense of poetry as configuration and thus as a competitor to thinking is
linked to the second sense of poetry as characterizing art in general.
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If “configuration” is the broadest sense of poetry, the link to language –
the third sense of poetry as original saying – is the most crucial aspect . . . .
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… language is the means of the configuration and what “gives” things their
being in the sense that it lets them enter into being.
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Poetry names the very configuration of thinking, the fact that thinking itself is
“made” and produced, historically situated, thus not rigid and fixed in a logic or
set of valid reasonings.
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This productive use of language in order to describe what made possible our
normal use of concepts and language is very close to a literary invention and
is a form of poetry as “configuration.”
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Poetry cannot thus simply be configuration. It is more fundamentally a response.
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Thus, the specificity of poetry is precisely to be this in-between, between
productive configuration and productive reception.
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The second contribution of Hölderlin is the fact that poetry as a configuration is
a process or activity within language and thought.
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Our understanding of ourselves is eventful, in the sense of being the result of
an event, and it represents our response to a givenness, as a being fundamentally
affected, as a productive configuration or poetry.
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These three contributions coming from Hölderlin allow Heidegger to articulate
the thickness of poetry in the multiple senses mentioned at the beginning:
literature, art, genuine language, and configuration.
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Language is thus at the origin of poetry as literature, art, and configuration,
but fundamentally language itself is poetry: poetry is an “invention,” halfway
between mere discovery and sheer fabrication.
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Language as poetry is productive-receptive, configuration, art, and literature.
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There is no contradiction because neither poetry nor language names an entity.
They are rather descriptions of processes and these two processes are each
diverse in their manifestations: language is linguistic and a configuration of
thinking, thus a form of poetry.
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Dichtung is poetry as a literary genre or activity and a configuration that is
most striking in poems or art in general, but poetry is also at work in thinking
and speaking.
🟎 See as well The Ninth Configuration .
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Sunday, July 20, 2025
The Meno Mystery
Continuing today's earlier remarks . . .
One approach to the mystery —
IF one could inscribe in a semicircle, upon the diameter of the circle,
a right triangle whose hypotenuse is the diameter of the circle and
whose area is exactly half of the semicircle's area
THEN clearly one could do the same on the diametrically opposite side
of the circle and form a rectangle whose area is half that of the circle . . .
AND then convert that rectangle to a square, as below . . .
. . . and finally , as in the first geometric problem in the Meno , one
could use the new square (green in the figure above) to easily construct
a square with double the area.
That square — from the matrix of "Plato's diamond" —
would thus have the same area as the circle.
Thus, granted the hypothesis that the first triangle pictured
above has half the area of the semicircle in which it is inscribed . . .
One would have achieved the seemingly impossible, and squared the circle.
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Circle and Square: The Impossible Dream
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Meno 86e for the Turkish Breakfast Club
Update of 12:36 PM EDT July 20, 2025 —
Could the second geometry problem in Plato's Meno illustrate
one tentative approach to the classical problem of squaring
the circle ?
If so, the following remarks seem relevant . . .
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Eddington Elegy
The properties of the mathematical structures in yesterday's post
"Philosophy for Eddington" are those of the Dirac matrices discussed
by Arfken. An elegy for Arfken —
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Saturday, July 19, 2025
Philosophy for Eddington
Tuesday, September 13, 2022
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Traumnovelle: ZZZ Accounting
The "Barth Art" tag in the previous post, a reference to
a visual artist, suggests a check of the dies natalis of
mathematician Wolf Barth — December 30, 2016.
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Friday, July 18, 2025
Eddington Mean Girl
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After the Fall
Meanwhile . . . The Roswell, N.M., photo below is also from Oct. 14, 2012.
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Hohenstaufen Phantasmagoria
Vide https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burgruine_Hohenstaufen_(2).jpg.
(Suggested by a chess cartoon in The New Yorker, a castle in Italy,
and a Log24 post.)
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Thursday, July 17, 2025
“Eddington” for Media Bots
The previous post suggests a look at . . .
Related cartoon —
"Some cartoon graveyards are better than others."
As a boundary object,
some may prefer . . .
Cara Delevingne's Wall of Sound
(click to enlarge):
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Entity Song
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Wednesday, July 16, 2025
From Christian’s Maelstrom
Christian Lorentzen in The New York Times yesterday —
"We may be … passing into an era of disembodied media entities —
an unholy maelstrom of websites, YouTube channels and,
worst of all, podcasts."
Midrash —
"… this book centers on the division of Quality
into the Static and the Dynamic." — Wikipedia
Examples of such division —
Static Simplex vs. Dynamic Array —
For the dynamics of the array, see the diamond theorem group
of 322,560 permutations and its generalization to the dynamics
of a 4x4x4 cube.
For the Whitehead labels on the static simplex, vide . . .
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Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Core Perspectives
"… it is important to bring different perspectives to core disciplines…."
— New York Times culture editor Sia Michel, quoted in Variety today
from a reported Times memo.
A more abstract approach to that statement . . . Desargues via Galois.
Update of 1:09 PM EDT Wednesday, July 16, 2025 —
The pyramid-with-circles shape in the image above is from mathematics
popularizer Burkard Polster, who named it . . .
"God's fingerprint" .
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High Concept: Lilla Meets Lila
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Saving the Appearances: Plato’s Underview
For a correction of Quine's attribution to Plato,
vide The Appearances (Log24, Sept. 20, 2009).
Related literary remarks on New York water . . .
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Monday, July 14, 2025
Rosenhain and Göpel in 1950
See also Rosenhain and Göpel in this journal.
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“Dive Deeper”
Google AI links the "Number of Symmetries" illustration at bottom right
above to http://m759.net/wordpress/?p=20339. Also at m759.net —
Diving deeper … Not in AI Mode —
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Sunday, July 13, 2025
Art Shenanigans: “Color, Texture, Process and Space”
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Brick House* Lit Tip
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“The best thriller I've read in years! At once a heart-pounding mystery and a profound take on the dangers of our confessional age.” — Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year “Welcome to the memoir workshop from hell. In dual timelines, a young writer looks for creative inspiration in a dangerous paradise and a mother searches for answers about her daughter's last days. I relished this insider's look at the glittering, intimate, and sometimes toxic world of writing retreats. The Deepest Lake is a gripping yet thoughtful novel about overcoming trauma, meeting our inheritance, and what happens when we seize the power to rewrite our own stories.” — Alison B. Hart, author of The Work Wife
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Booting the System*
The Painted Tongue — Detail of a July 12, 2025, photo by Marcela Nowak.
Compare and contrast — The Photographed Tongue , from today.
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For Harlan Kane — Space Devs!
Selected sneak previews . . .
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Saturday, July 12, 2025
The Painted Tongue
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Que Calor
A version of the song from the end of "Nine Perfect Strangers," Season 2:
See as well this journal on the above YouTube date — March 26, 2010.
The song version that was actually played during that "Strangers" finale —
See also the Log24 post "The Leonardo Code" from that date.
"Show me all the blueprints."
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Dilworth
I do not recommend as a role model the Dilworth
of the previous post. A rather different Dilworth —
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On Screenwriters Spinning Their Wheels …
From a Language Animal
(A sequel to the previous post,
"For a Language Animal")
From Nine Perfect Strangers
Season 2 Episode 4 — The Major Lift
12:25 Imogen has three graduate degrees.
12:27 Really?
12:28 Wow.
12:30 In what?
12:31 Psychology, linguistics and linguistic psychology.
12:34 So, um, psycholinguistics?
12:37 Uh, no.
12:38 Psycholinguistics is the study of how human psychology
allows us to develop and learn language.
12:44 Linguistic psychology is, it's, that's different.
12:46 Oh, how so?
12:48 Well, it's the study of how our patterns of speech
affect our emotional life.
12:54 You know?
12:55 You know how some people say words are violence?
12:58 As opposed to literal violence?
12:59 I don't think she means it in that sense.
13:01 Oh, no.
13:01 That is.
13:02 Oh, it is?
13:02 No, that is what I'm trying to say.
13:04 Yeah.
13:05 Right.
13:05 Sorry.
13:06 Um.
13:07 So, linguistic psychology is the study of how and why
language can sometimes have the same,
13:13 same effect on your body as physical assault.
13:17 So, I was the first person to just start that solo study.
13:22 Does that mean you made it up?
13:24 Uh, I pioneered it.
13:25 I didn't think they let you do that.
13:27 They basically let you do anything you want at NYU.
13:31 On that note, uh, cheers.
13:33 Cheers.
13:35 Cheers.
A possible musical accompaniment . . .
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From a Language Animal
From a Language Animal
Friday, July 11, 2025
For the Gorge: “Look Homeward, Gergen.”
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2001: An Art Odyssey
Also varying the triangle theme in a grid format . . . Triangle Graphics —
http://m759.net/wordpress/?tag=triangle-graphics .
See as well a Log24 post on the Eve of the above March 18 date.
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Doppelganger Tale . . .
NOT by Peter Craig the Blood Father Author*
See as well this journal on the above publication date.
* For the the Peter Craig who wrote Blood Father ,
reportedly a son of actress Sally Field, see . . .
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NOT by Peter Craig the Blood Father Author*
NOT by Peter Craig the Blood Father Author*
Jungle Box :
Where the Blackboard Meets the Asphalt
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Where the Blackboard Meets the Asphalt
Where the Blackboard Meets the Asphalt
Thursday, July 10, 2025
A Muralist’s Tune
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For Fans of the Color Scheme Rouge et Noir
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Meanwhile, at The New York Times*
New York Times metadata — July 10, 2025, 5:42 p.m. ET.
The artist's reported date of death was June 15, 2025.
For more on that date, see other posts now tagged Art Endgame.
Update of 7:29 PM EDT July 10 —
The photo above of the artist and his art is dated in Wikimedia as
taken on Jan. 31, 2013. Related material in this journal —
* For a more complete picture of Willis, see Wikipedia.
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Structures in Myth Space
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Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Plato’s Thunderdome
For a Slane Castle Dies Natalis
The New York Times this afternoon —
"Lord Mount Charles, an Anglo-Irish peer
turned rock ’n’ roll promoter,
died on June 18 in a hospital in Dublin at 74."
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For a Slane Castle Dies Natalis
For a Slane Castle Dies Natalis
Cameron and the Line
Epilogue by Peter J. Cameron —
"There is a line between the abstract and the concrete,
and any particular piece of mathematics can be positioned
somewhere on that line.
And more seriously, there may be room for considerable
disagreement about where to put it."
— "Semper abstracta?" Conference on Theoretical and
Computational Algebra, Évora, Portugal, 3 July 2025: slides,
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Plan 9 from Toronto
This 1950 use of Galois coordinates on a grid
foreshadows their later use by Cullinane to construct
the Miracle Octad Generator of R. T. Curtis and to
illustrate, as below, point-line duality in the Fano plane.
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Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Epigraphy*
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Superfluous Drama
The dies natalis in a playwright's online New York Times obituary
from this afternoon suggests a review of July 4 posts. That review
in turn suggests the Wikipedia article "Superfluous man."
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For a Language Animal: The Barcelona Morphing
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From Harlan Kane’s “Wicked: The Stepmother Chronicles”
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On Today’s Music Menu . . .
In memory of composer Mark Snow, who reportedly died
on July 4, 2025 — Music he wrote for the 2020 film
"The New Mutants" … and metadata on the film itself:
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For Harlan Kane — The Heidegger Experiment
The previous post was, in part, about a famous experiment in
molecular biology. From posts now tagged The Heidegger Experiment,
a post from Walpurgisnacht 2015 contains the following passage . . .
See as well other posts with the phrase "shining through" in this journal . . .
“Schon in der Antike gab es zwei Definitionen der Schönheit . . . ."
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Monday, July 7, 2025
Double Helix Art: “Something Old, Something New”
The title was suggested by the previous post and by a scientist's
obituary (The New York Times, 5:26 PM EDT today.)
"The experiment demonstrated that after DNA unwinds and is replicated,
each new DNA molecule contains one original, or parental, strand and
one newly copied strand.
. . . .
That finding was considered a landmark discovery.
. . . .
'Watson and Crick had produced a pretty model, but had no hard data,'
Andy Stahl said. 'But that’s what the Meselson-Stahl Experiment did:
It proved how DNA replicates.' "
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The scientist's dies natalis was reportedly April 2, 2025.
This journal on that date . . .
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Archimedean Compare and Contrast
From this journal earlier . . .
Metaverse art — "View to a Screw"
From Instagram today . . .
Not so meta . . . Denmark Benchmark.
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Beyond Ping Pong
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Rift Designs*
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The title of this post, "Rift Designs," … is taken from Heidegger. From a 2010 New Yorker review of Absence of Mind by Marilynne Robinson— "Robinson is eloquent in her defense of the mind’s prerogatives, but her call for a renewed metaphysics might be better served by rereading Heidegger than by dusting off the Psalms." Following this advice, we find— "Propriation1 gathers the rift-design2 of the saying and unfolds it3 in such a way that it becomes the well-joined structure4 of a manifold showing." — p. 415 of Heidegger's Basic Writings , edited by David Farrell Krell, HarperCollins paperback, 1993 "Das Ereignis versammelt den Aufriß der Sage und entfaltet ihn zum Gefüge des vielfältigen Zeigens." — Heidegger, Weg zur Sprache 1. "Mirror-Play of the Fourfold" 2. "Christ descending into the abyss" 3. Barrancas of Cuernavaca 4. Combinatorics, Philosophy, Geometry |
* Vide April 10, 2017.
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Sunday, July 6, 2025
Meanwhile, Back at Screen Rant . . .
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The Importance of Answering Earnestly
Max Eastman, 1931 — The Literary Mind —
Compare and contrast —
“At that instant he saw, in one blaze of light,
an image of unutterable conviction,
the reason why the artist works and lives
and has his being — the reward he seeks —
the only reward he really cares about,
without which there is nothing. It is to snare
the spirits of mankind in nets of magic,
to make his life prevail through his creation,
to wreak the vision of his life, the rude and painful
substance of his own experience, into the congruence
of blazing and enchanted images that are themselves
the core of life, the essential pattern whence
all other things proceed, the kernel of eternity.”
— Thomas Wolfe, Of Time and the River
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