“Where past and future are gathered” — T. S. Eliot

From a recent film —

From the Museum of Modern Art —

From this journal 10 years ago today —

“X marks the spot” — Indiana Jones.

Indiana Jones’s love interest in “The Last Crusade” was Alison Doody.

See as well . . .

  Howdy, Doody.

* For the title, see Wikipedia (not Billie Holiday).

“For us, it’s no joke.” — The Pointer Sisters

    Kristen Stewart?

From a search in this journal for Florence King —

Related images —

The animated version —

See as well “The Aristocrats.“

Related image —

“Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.”

A film not unrelated to the screen career
of Sophia Lillis:  Inside Daisy Clover.

I prefer Inside the White Cube.

“When men and women pour so much alcohol into themselves
that they destroy their lives, they commit a most unnatural act.”

— Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions , Step Six

From the New York Times  obituary  this afternoon
of a talented French comic  —

“They performed in notorious sketches
like ‘The Flirt,’ a slow dance with a
back-and-forth inner dialogue….”

The site of another slow dance . . .

A related meme —

Miss Cream Jeans*

* See “The Beckinsale Letter.”

From a short story by Stephen King (Harper’s , March 2020) —

“ ‘Admit to God, to ourselves, and to another human being
the exact nature of our wrongs,’ ” Jack said, making quote marks
with his fingers.

Quote marks I prefer —

See as well the short story  “The Beckinsale Letter.”

Some remarks in the current  Times Literary Supplement
related to the Pythagoreans were linked to in the previous post.

Related remarks —

Related picture —

Philosophy is the talk on a cereal box
Religion is the smile on a dog

— Edie Brickell,  1986

See also mentions of Justin E. H. Smith in this  journal, including . . .

Monday, June 4, 2012

The party line —

“We are proud to be part of an international community
dedicated to learning, teaching, and to the search for solutions.”

— Jill Pipher, President of the American Mathematical Society,
Tuesday, June 2, 2020

The theme song —

See Dayton.

See also “720 in the Book”
in this  journal.

“In my little town….” — Song lyric

From  IACSCW Journal ,  Issue 1,  Winter 2013 ,
Published on Mar 14, 2014  —
http://chinaandthewest.org/ —

Related material —

“The Valley Spirit never dies.”

See also Boogie Nights of the Golden Circle —

Continues.

In memoriam —

Related material —

“The message was clear: having a finite frame of reference
creates the illusion of a world, but even the reference frame itself
is an illusion. Observers create reality, but observers aren’t real.
There is nothing ontologically distinct about an observer, because
you can always find a frame in which that observer disappears:
the frame of the frame itself, the boundary of the boundary.”

— Amanda Gefter in 2014, quoted here on Mayday 2020.

See as well, in a post from the date of Hunter Thompson’s death :

“Today, February 20, is the 19th anniversary of my note
The Relativity Problem in Finite Geometry.”

A Stony Brook —

The New York Times  reports an April 7 death —

Click the image below for some related material.

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 …

“You do not currently have access to this content.”

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