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Related material — “Prime Cut” in this  journal.

Lee Marvin, Sissy Spacek in “Prime Cut”

Heller: I'm a weapons designer. (grabs Shoveler's collar) I've got 
what you need.
Shoveler: A--All right. We'll--we'll come back. We'll visit all of you 
people, later. Thank you, sir.
Heller: No no no no no. I--I don't live here. I'm here for the ladies. 
You know. Here, take my card. 

+------------------------------------------------+
|Aromatherapy                  Laser Hair Removal|
|               Doctor A. Heller                 |
|               Weapons Designer                 |
|              Innovator, Inventor               |
|                 World Changer                  |
|                                                |
|                 Old Funhouse                   |
|              Heller Fairgrounds                |
|              Test Site Number 7                |
|Carnival Rides                   Chicken Rentals|
+------------------------------------------------+

My name's Heller. Say it with me.
Heller&Shoveler: Heller.
Shoveler: All right. Thank you. (he absently puts Heller's card in his 
pocket)

The stock image of a compass in this morning’s post
“For Bookmakers” is from a webpage by the author below.

” ‘I became enraptured with the idea
that there is another world around us
that we don’t see,’ Dr. Rose told the Scientist
earlier this year.”

For another invisible world, see this  journal on July 30.

Note, on the map of  Wyoming, Devil’s Gate.

Click to enlarge.

A selection from the
Stephen King Hymnal

Continues.

Meanwhile, elsewhere . . .

The New York Times  eulogizes a man who died Friday —

“Rabbi Steinsaltz was a prolific and wide-ranging writer
and a sharp observer of humanity who wrote more than
60 books on philosophy, mysticism, theology, even zoology.
His study of kabbalah, ‘The Thirteen Petalled Rose,’ is
considered a classic and has been translated into eight languages.”

Another classic of Jewish thought:

Thoughts of the young Carl Reiner as rendered above in 1967 —

“Somewhere, someplace… there must be a lost horizon…
A Shangri-La where a man can find peace, happiness,
and lots of naked ladies.”

Voilà.

From the sort of reliquary I prefer —

See posts resulting from a search for “Lost Time” in this journal.

“It’s 2184 pages long.”

A related tale — Systems Programming  in this  journal.

Of greater interest to mathematicians —
The work of a man to whom Frances Allen was once married —

“Schwartz’s early work with his thesis advisor Nelson Dunford
led to the two of them collaborating on a famous book Linear Operators
which quickly became known simply as ‘Dunford and Schwartz’.”

— https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Schwartz_Jacob/.

Schwartz reportedly died on March 2, 2009. For related religious remarks,
see this journal on that date.

Bruce Willis as Easter Bunny in North  (1994)

See as well the other  posts of April 2007.

In memory of New York personality Pete Hamill ,
who reportedly died yesterday —

Seven years ago yesterday —

In memory of another New York  personality, a parking-garage mogul
who reportedly died on August 9, 2005 —

Icon Parking  posts and . . .

AMS.org  today:

See also Hamill in this  journal.

Meanwhile, here —

A flashback from Log24 posts of July 9-11, 2020,
now tagged Structure and Mutability —

For such temptation, see
Dwarves named “Durin.”

Attraction 2:  The Digital Rights Management version —

The “Huh?” is from the character Google, at 0:13:07. Click to enlarge.

* See the title phrase in this journal.

The title is from a 2006 pedagogic address.

Related material from the post “White Mischief” (Feb. 23, 2016) —

“It’s solution, dissolution. Just over and over and over.

It is growth, then decay, then transformation! .

It is fascinating, really.”

— Walter White, Season 1, Ep. 1, “Pilot”
more or less as quoted in huffingtonpost.com

The Rowberry date appears to be, specifically, 8  June 2011:

A Kinbote note — See also this  journal on 8 June 2011.

Update of 3:03 PM ET the same day —

In keeping with Kinbote’s character as an unreliable narrator . . .
Rowberry’s Eindhoven slides  indicate he spoke on 9  June 2011.

See as well the Log24 post  “Historical Fiction” from 9  June 2011.

* For the meaning of the title, see an obituary by Roberta Smith
in this morning’s New York Times , and Today’s Sermon.

“Are you a social worker?”

— Cinematic query in LA at Sunset and Selma
(Mojave , released 3 December 2015 (USA))

Related fiction —

“Then he realized why she looked familiar. He’d seen her just
a few hours before, at the job fair for social workers. They’d both
stood at the edge of a crowd that had gathered around a man
handing out applications for jobs at the Children’s Aid Society.
The demand was so great, he ran out of applications; John didn’t
get one, and neither did the redhead. Looking more resigned than
disappointed, the girl had sighed, ‘Oh well,’ to no one in particular
and then headed for the other end of the conference center.”

— Alpert, Mark. The Furies  (p. 11), April 22, 2014.
(St. Martin’s Publishing Group. Kindle Edition)

See also Kripke  in this  journal.

This leads to . . .

Related images from Log24 on June 8, 2020 —

The animated version —

A related quotation:

“By far the most important structure in design theory
is the Steiner system S(5, 8, 24).”

— “Block Designs,” by Andries E. Brouwer
(Ch. 14 (pp. 693-746) of Handbook of Combinatorics,
Vol. I, MIT Press, 1995, edited by Ronald L. Graham,
Martin Grötschel, and László Lovász, Section 16 (p. 716))

See also the webpage Block Designs in Art and Mathematics
and Log24 posts tagged Plastic Elements.

The above reported death date suggested a Log24  update this morning.

See that update in The Maxwell Enticement , July 2, 2020.

Graham reportedly died yesterday, Monday, July 6, 2020.

          His AMS obituary says “he created the Erdős number.”

See also the tag in the previous post.

(That tag was created and added to several posts
just before I saw the above news of Graham’s death.
The tag, Erdős number, was suggested by an earlier post from
June 30 — the cartoonist’s death date in today’s 8:45 PM post.)

“When Death tells a story, you really have to listen.”

Magnificent.

Death by Ventilator

Related reading —

“As doctors got a crash course in the new disease,
their stance on ventilators began to evolve.“

“…problems can be solved by manipulating just two symbols, 1 and 0….”
— George Johnson, obituary of Claude Shannon

“The female and the male continue this charming dance, populating
the world with all living beings.”
— Leonard Shlain, The Alphabet Versus the Goddess,
Penguin Arkana paperback, 1999, Chapter 17,
“Lingam/Yoni”