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Related material:  The Guy Embedding.

Recent posts on hotels and education suggest a review.
See “Child Buyer” in this journal.

From John Hersey’s The Child Buyer  (1960):

“I was wondering about that this morning…
About forgetting. I’ve always had an idea that
each memory was a kind of picture,
an insubstantial picture. I’ve thought of it as
suddenly coming into your mind when you need it,
something you’ve seen, something you’ve heard,
then it may stay awhile, or else it flies out, then
maybe it comes back another time….
If all the pictures went out, if I forgot everything,
where would they go? Just out into the air? Into the sky?
Back home around my bed, where my dreams stay?”

“We keep coming back and coming back
To the real: to the hotel instead of the hymns….”

— Wallace Stevens

— Postcard from eBay 

For Timeless  fans, a flashback to April 8, 2016 —

See as well the above Rittenhouse date — April 8, 2016 —
in posts tagged April 8-11 2016.

Ever Witch Way

This post was suggested by a recent American Mathematical Society essay:

“My goal here is to make the results of one such collaboration,
by Branko Grünbaum (1929-2018) and Geoffrey Shephard (1927-2016)
in the area of discrete geometry more widely known.”

Grünbaum reportedly died on Sept. 14, 2018 — Holy Cross Day.

As for Shephard . . .

“… incessant need to crack the detail ….”  Or vice-versa.

“… But it’s all right now
I learned my lesson well
You see, you can’t please everyone
So you got to please yourself… ”

Everybody comes to Rick’s.

For the above title, see Berlekamp Garden vs. Kinder Garten .

Posts tagged Ministry of Culture.

These include . . .

(From “Raiders of the Lost Coordinates,” Feb. 17, 2021.)

“What kind of person bokehs an inscape?“

Perhaps the same kind that would bokeh Gugu:

See as well the Log24 posts from the date of Dickstein’s death.
These are now tagged “The Cornfield Hallows.”

In memory of George Segal.

“That must be the corpse.”

Jersey girls are tough.

“So, tell me about your most recent nightmare.”

— Dr. Raynor in “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier”

Update of 2:07 PM ET on March 20 —

Flashback to a different Quinn —

I prefer Octavio Paz on the Monkey God.

See Figaro’s Passover.

“But perhaps its most iconic reinvention came with the longstanding
Marlboro Man campaign, which ran from 1963 to 1971. In an article
by Denver Post journalist Jim Carrier, who spent six months traveling
across the American West to meet former Marlboro Men, we’re told
that the campaign began in late 1954, when ad exec Leo Burnett asked
his top creatives, ‘What is the most masculine image in the U.S. today?’

According to Carrier, ‘Philip Morris, the fourth-largest American tobacco
company, wanted to create a filter cigarette to deal with the rising problem
of smoker’s cough and lung disease. But they had to overcome the early
image of filters as being for sissies.'”

Related story from The New York Times  on Monday, March 1  —

Related flashback from this  journal on Sunday, February 28 —

    Click Nina for the above film from Good Friday, 2019.

For a different sort of dazzle, and of seeing beneath,
vide  Square Space.    “Leave a space.” — Stoppard,  Jumpers