In remembrance of Else Blangsted and Nancy Stark Smith,
who each reportedly died on May 1, 2020 —

Posts tagged Mayday 2020.

“Gotta work on that acronym.” — Tony Stark

Duke University Press states above that …

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But see…

https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/71970/1/_
The_Difficultest_Rigor_Writing_about_Wallace_Stevens.pdf .

Some less  difficult rigor —

For some less  sombre figurations, see the category in which Google
has placed (as above) a book by the late Harold Bloom —

Click the box to perform the indicated search.

Lifetime Achievement —

“Eugene Telemachus Rossides (his middle name was for the son of
Odysseus and Penelope in the Odyssey ) was born in Brooklyn on
Oct. 23, 1927.” — Richard Goldstein in today’s New York Times

Click the horse to search this journal for Trojan .

A pitch at the Stephen King Ad Agency —

“Mathematics may be art, but to the general public it is
a black art, more akin to magic and mystery. This presents
a constant challenge to the mathematical community: to explain
how art fits into our subject and what we mean by beauty.”

— Sir Michael Atiyah, quoted here on April 4, 2016

For  Ben and Jerry

Now at https://dataverse.harvard.edu —

Archived copy of finitegeometry.org/sc .

For some related remarks in a more literary vein,
see posts now tagged Beadgame Space.

In memory of an architect who reportedly died yesterday at 88,
a search in this journal  for capilla  (Spanish for chapel).

From April 2, 2019 —

For the Garbage Pail Kids:

From this  journal  yesterday afternoon —

“The default sound for any new tweet is a whistle,
somewhere between a neighbourly ‘yoo-hoo’
and a dog-walker’s call to heel.” — The Economist

Suggested by the previous post —

“Everybody, here comes the life of the party
Everybody, here comes the life of the party, yeah, she is.”

Songwriters: Ben Hayslip / Rhett Akins / Jason Sellers

See as well Life of the Party  in this  journal.

Synchronologists  may consult posts of March 2015.

* ” This was Language herself , as she first sprang at Maleldil’s bidding
out of the molten quicksilver  of the first star called Mercury on Earth,
but Viritrilbia in Deep Heaven.” ―  C.S. Lewis,  That Hideous Strength .

See also earlier posts mentioning Shrikhande in this  journal.
He reportedly died on April 21, 2020.
Synchronologists  may consult posts now tagged with that date.

“The holiday goes by dozens of names — but many countries unofficially
refer to it as Buddha’s Birthday or Buddha Day. It celebrates three
important events of Buddha’s life: birth, enlightenment, and death —
said to have occurred on the same calendar day, albeit many years apart.”
— CNN

“H is for Hogwarts.“

See as well Exploring Schoolgirl Space.

* See the previous post.

“Well, I’ve helped to wind up the clock —
I might as well hear it strike!”

— Said to be a quotation from the grandfather
of a “pirate radio” founder who reportedly died
at 79 on April 20.

See as well this journal on the night of April 20 —

Wheel Turnin’ ’Round and ’Round —

and a search for “Wheel of Time.”

The title is of course from an old joke about mystic philosophies.

Related remarks by John Archibald Wheeler —

“Remarkable issues connected with the puzzle of existence
confront us today in Hermann Weyl’s domain of thought.
Four among them I bring before you here as especially interesting:
(1) What is the machinery of existence?
(2) What is deeper foundation of the quantum principle?
(3) What is the proper position to take about the existence of
the “continuum” of the natural numbers? And
(4) What can we do to understand time as an entity, not precise and
supplied free of charge from outside physics, but approximate and
yet to be derived from within a new and deeper time-free physics?
In brief, how come time?
What about the continuum?
How come the quantum?
What is existence?”

Click here to enlarge. See also  Hexagram 59, Feng Shui.

See as well Shrikhande in this  journal.

For some mathematical background, see Deep + Hardy.

Related entertainment —

Related non-entertainment —

The Tesseract Timeline:
Where The Cube Has Been In The …
www.cinemablend.com › news › the-tesseract-timeline-…
Mar 13, 2019 – With HYDRA. In 1942, Johann Schmidt, a.k.a.
the Red Skull, arrived in Tønsberg to procure the Tesseract
from an ancient church. While he …

Related material from posts tagged Aqua
(suggested by a name in the previous post) —

Lene from Tønsberg —

See also …

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/
arts/music/richard-teitelbaum-dead.html

See also the previous post.
The above date “4 avril 2016”
suggests a review of that date
in this journal: “Cube for Berlin.”

“But while Camus was writing for the moment,
he was also writing for the future. He was making art
out of what happens between antibodies and germs,
expanding metaphors from the molecular level.”

— Laura Marris on translating The Plague

Another remark on dramatic irony —

See as well “two-way mirror” in this  journal.