Click medal for some background. The medal may be regarded
as illustrating the 16-point Galois space.

See also Vernissage.

Continued.

The above phrase “neurolinguistic hacker” does not do justice to
Neal Stephenson’s remarks on “Ba’al Shem.”

This post was suggested by  an  Oct. 12  Wired  book review.

From the previous post —

Lily Collins in a more recent mattress meditation —

See as well Plaid in this journal.

Illustration for a New York Times  July 15  “Tech Fix” piece:
“You’re Doomscrolling Again.“

One possible antidote:

Related fiction:  “Quarantine Story.“

“Show me all  the blueprints.” — Attributed to Howard Hughes

See posts so tagged.

Those posts mark the end of Yom Kippur 2006
and the death of the father of James R. Swartz,
Harvard ’64, for whom the central building of
Harvard Divinity School was renamed in 2019.

See as well last night’s post, “With Shields Emblazoned,”
on the death of a notable Divinity School leader.

Continued.

“Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
One seeks the most general ideas of operation which will
bring together in simple, logical and unified form the largest
possible circle of formal relationships.”

— Albert Einstein, May 1, 1935, obituary for Emmy Noether

From a midrash by Bloom —

A web search for “Wallace Stevens” + Virtuoso  yields . . .

A thousand crystals’ chiming voices,
Like the shiddow-shaddow of lights revolving
To momentary ones, are blended,
In hymns, through iridescent changes,
Of the apprehending of the hero.
These hymns are like a stubborn brightness
Approaching in the dark approaches
Of time and place, becoming certain,
The organic centre of responses,
Naked of hindrance, a thousand crystals.
To meditate the highest man, not
The highest supposed in him and over,
Creates, in the blissfuller perceptions,
What unisons create in music.

— “Examination of the Hero in a Time of War,” XIV

” Another leading Irish poet, Paul Muldoon,
compared Mr. Mahon to a renowned American writer.
‘A technician to rival Richard Wilbur, by whom he was
deeply influenced both as a poet and translator. . . .’ “

A search in this  journal for Wilbur yields . . .

“The Square Inch Space: A Brief History.”

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See also a search in this  journal for instances of the following image —

By Jonathan Hemlock, for Yurasis Dragon —

Click to enlarge the above browsing history.

“A very varnished green . . . .” —

https://slate.com/technology/2020/09/
qanon-identity-revealed-explained.html

The ghost of Peter Benchley?

Related material on division in this  journal — See Kipnis.

The “card tricks” link above, now expired, is to …

http://www.spelman.edu/~colm/cards.html .

That webpage is now on the Internet Archive.

Earlier . . .

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.