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Readings for Rosh Hashanah from this journal on April 5, 2005 —

Compare the following two passages from Holy Scripture:

Genesis 22:13 —

“…behold behind him
a ram caught in a thicket by his horns”

I Ching Hexagram 34 —

“A goat butts against a hedge
And gets its horns entangled.”

The title is from James Joyce.

Then there is the 1988 Bantam paperback by Philip  Caputo —

“You’re reading me,” she murmurs.

“Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved;
tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.”

Update of 7 PM ET Sept. 14, 2020 —

A sequel to Creamy and Sweaty —

“Stop loading this page.” . . . “Too late.”

“As for amateur detective Lucie, she meets Viva and
begins to realize that both Viva and her client, Leni,
are after the same jewel. Her brother reluctantly reveals
their true natures: Viva is the daughter of the Sun, and
Leni the daughter of the Moon. They can stay on Earth
for only 40 days between the last full moon of winter
and the first full moon of spring. The magic jewel can
allow them to stay.”

The title is that of a book of poems by James Merrill
that includes “The Emerald.”

“As above, so below.” —  The Emerald Tablet

“The Emerald Tablet … is a compact and cryptic piece of
the Hermetica   reputed to contain the secret of the prima materia
and its transmutation. It was highly regarded by European alchemists
as the foundation of their art and its Hermetic tradition.” — Wikipedia

Animated version of Book I, Proposition 47, Euclid’s Elements —

Braucht´s noch Text?

On a mathematician, a knot theorist, who reportedly died
on Sunday, September 6, 2020 —

Another death on that same date — that of an actor from
“Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac” . . .

A related quote, courtesy of University Diaries —

“The ship. I stared down at the great black shape lying almost at my feet.”

— Alistair MacLean

The abstract arrows below in an image from yesterday’s Design post . . .

. . . are a background feature of the Castello Sforzesco website generally,
and not specifically of Corraini’s 2016 graphic design presentation.

The arrows apparently come from repetitions of this motif —

Similar arrow motifs appear at the castle’s main page —

Illustration by Pietro Corraini

Corraini design lecture on June 29, 2016 —

This journal on the same day —

See also Archimedes at Hiroshima
and, more generally, Aitchison.

This post was suggested by my Feedly tonight —

“Add note” — A constant Feedly suggestion.

OK . . .

— Images from The Hogwash Papers

The title is from a poem by Robert Lowell.

The title is from a post of July 27.

From earlier posts (Feb. 20, 2009) —

Midrash for LA —

Part I — From a TV series released in the UK on Sept. 14, 2018 —

Pages scattered by the wind magically reassemble
at an Oxford witch’s command:

Part II — Images on a book cover from a Log24 search for “Dominus” —

Part III — From Log24 on the “Witches” release date —

In this Cornell page, Gombrich discusses images symbolizing sin.

What sort of sin is symbolized by the above time-reversal scene
in “Discovery of Witches” and by such scenes in the new film “Tenet,”
the reader may decide.

(A sequel to the previous post, “Smile.“)

The above image links to a New York Times  opinion piece.
“Michael J. Sandel is a professor of government at Harvard
and the author of the forthcoming  The Tyranny of Merit :
What’s Become of the Common Good? , from which this
essay is adapted.” — NY Times .

Seal of the Bollingen Series 

“Seal of the League“

The Four-Diamond Seal

“Careful. Evil has a way of making friends with the good
and dragging them into the darkness.” — CSI, Feb. 24, 2011

A related meditation —

The title is adapted from T. S. Eliot.

See Jung, Psychology and Religion ,  p. 72
(Princeton University Press, second ed., 1969).

Elsewhere . . .

See also Higman-Sims and 5×5 in this  journal.

“It is a strange, melancholy feeling to turn sixty-five, and realize
that what you have spent a good portion of your life working
for and toward was not only meritless but also destructive.”

— A new book on politics quoted by Sean Illing at vox.com this morning

For some 65th-birthday-related reflections of my own, see my posts
of August 2007.

For those who prefer entertainment to melancholy, an image
from one of those posts —

Also Dick-related —

From yesterday morning’s post “An Object Lesson” —

A search for the origin of a photo in yesterday’s New York Times
obituary of linguist Geoffrey Nunberg yields . . .

“Words are not things, but activities,” observed Dwight Bolinger,
a revered linguist who taught at Harvard before retiring to Palo Alto,
and he might have been describing Nunberg. Early this morning—
about 2:30 a.m.—he called Bolinger’s words “my favorite linguistic
epigram” in his posting on the Language Log, where blogging linguists
“chew the electronic fat,” as Nunberg puts it.

— Ann Hurst, undated article in Stanford Magazine , March/April 2005

In reality, Nunberg said something slightly different —

Meanwhile, elsewhere . . .

Scholium —

From Log24’s Language Game,  Jan. 14, 2004 —

“Ludwig Wittgenstein,  Philosophical Investigations :
373. Grammar tells what kind of object anything is. (Theology as grammar.)”

Meanwhile, elsewhere . . .

From remarks in  this  journal on Aug. 7 —

“You’ve got to pick up every stitch.” — Donovan

“Looking carefully at Golay’s code
is like staring into the sun.”

— Richard Evan Schwartz

“Ann Syrdal, a psychologist and computer science researcher
who helped develop synthetic voices that sounded like women,
laying the groundwork for such modern digital assistants as
Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa, died on July 24 at her home
in San Jose, Calif. She was 74.” — Cade Metz, NY Times, today

Ann Syrdal in 2001 —

“You say goodbye, I say hello.” — The Beatles

Recherche

Recherché

Related rhetoric:

From Devil’s Night 2017 —

Harvard fans, August 2019 —

See Grammaton Cleric in this journal.
This phrase describes a character in the 2002 film “Equilibrium.”

See also . . .

Continues.

This post was suggested last night by Kate Beckinsale’s
pussy, Willow. Another Willow —

Willow’s dance in “The Wicker Man” is memorable.
Another dance by the same actress —

“What of the night
That lights and dims the stars?
Do you know, Hans Christian,
Now that you see the night?”

— The concluding lines of “Sonatina to Hans Christian,”
by Wallace Stevens (in Harmonium  (second edition, 1931))

“Never a little tea-party of white young lady foxes”
— The Snow Queen , by Hans Christian Andersen

Related material: Vonnegut’s Star.

Not as well-known as Leonard’s Waltz, but my own.

Prelude to a Mattress Dance

From “Take This Waltz” (2011)

Related architecture —

“And I’ll bury my soul in a scrapbook
With the photographs there, and the moss”

— Leonard Cohen, “Take This Waltz” lyrics

Continued from Sunday, August 9.

🔥

“Oh I want to take you down to Kokomo,
we’ll get there fast and then we’ll take it slow
That’s where we want to go, way down in Kokomo”
— Beach Boys (1988), with images in memory of Jeffrey Epstein: