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A search result gives what is apparently the original date for
a story that Ars Technica  republished yesterday for Black Friday
(see previous post) —

Another story, also from November 25, 2013 —

* See Stephanies in this journal.
   See also Best Picture and, more generally, The Accountant.

(A title for Harlan Kane.)

Cartoon caption from The New Yorker  issue dated Dec. 2, 2019 —

“Someday I’ll buy a little place in the country
and take my finger off the Zeitgeist.”

This (along with the previous post) suggests a Log24 search for Zeitgeist.

That search concludes, appropriately for today, with a meditation 
on giving thanks.

Yesterday's post on a recent sci-fi film suggests a look at LA news . . .

As opposed to an unsuccessful  model —

See also "High Life" (from a post of April 1 this year) —

Peter Parker : How could you do all of this?
Quentin Beck : You'll see, Peter. People… need to believe.

From Sunday morning, a "green vault" hyperbolic paraboloid —

"A characteristic property of hyperbolic geometry
is that the angles of a triangle add to less
than a straight angle (half circle)." — Wikipedia

A related image —

See Bester + Stars.

For Harlan Kane —

“… We found,
If we found the central evil, the central good….
… we and the diamond globe at last were one.”

— "Asides on the Oboe," by Wallace Stevens

This post was suggested by a death on the night of
Friday, November 22 — St. Cecilia's Day.

For the oboe connection, see an obituary.

In memory of Gahan Wilson, "too cool for  school" —

Porsche.com on Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, who reportedly
died at 76 in Salzburg on 5 April 2012 —

"The credo of his design work was:

'Design must be functional and functionality has to 
be translated visually into aesthetics, without gags
that have to be explained first.' 

F.A. Porsche:
'A coherently designed product requires no adornment;
it should be enhanced by its form alone.'

The design’s appearance should be readily comprehensible
and not detract from the product and its function.
His conviction was: 'Good design should be honest.' "

See also last night's 11:32 PM post, and posts tagged Structural Logic.

This flashback was suggested by today's essay
"The Lamentation of Doctor Faustus," by Andrew Marzoni.

The German mathematician Wolf Barth in the above post is not the
same person as the Swiss artist Wolf Barth in today's previous post.

An untitled, undated, picture by the latter —

Compare and contrast with an "elements" picture of my own —

— and with . . .

“Lord Arglay had a suspicion that the Stone would be
purely logical.  Yes, he thought, but what, in that sense,
were the rules of its pure logic?”

—Many Dimensions  (1931), by Charles Williams

A sequel to yesterday morning's Lit for Brats —

For Karl Ove Knausgaard and Stephen King —

See the late fellow of All Souls in this journal.

From All Souls' Day 2015 —

Related entertainment —

Invasion of the Soul Snatchers (Wild Palms  review, 1993).

See Harlan Kane and Guilfoile in this journal.

Cloak and dagger —

For the title, see Mnemonic and April 7, 2005.

From Director's Cut (Saturday morning, Oct. 26) —

A related death on Saturday, Oct. 26  —

Entertaining Mr. Slade —

" The subject is justified by its usefulness
rather than as a 'rite of passage.' ”.

— The late Martin Muldoon reviewing a book,
From Vector Spaces to Function Spaces:
Introduction to Functional Analysis with Applications ,
by Yutaka Yamamoto (SIAM, 2012)

Such an introduction is properly a rite of pure mathematics —
the passage in the title from vector spaces to function spaces.

That passage is one of mathematical beauty.
Usefulness is Hiroshima.

Muldoon reportedly died on August 1, 2019.

This journal on that date had a post titled 

Different Meanings:  For Whom the Bell .

The "Bell" in that post was the author of a New York Times  book review.
I prefer a Stephen King bell —

Fans of non-Christian religions ( like Robert Thurman
in Too Cool for School? ) may enjoy the vampire
oeuvre  of Kate Beckinsale —

The above is an image from a Log24
search for Square Inch Space.

See also Harvard ex-president Faust on Hogwarts
and (like the above photo, also on Aug. 13) …

* See previous instances of the title in this journal.

The New York Times  reports this evening the
death of a Conceptual artist on October 19 —

Conceptual art from October 19 —

The Stuff of Legend —

Stronger Stuff —

For a third stuff — that which dreams are made of — see Mantilla.

“There has never since been any serious question
that the event from which to date the founding of 
Harvard College is this vote on October 28, 1636.”

— Samuel Eliot Morison, The Founding of Harvard College

See also D8ing the Joystick (4/04 2018).

From an article on cybersecurity in today's new New Yorker —

Boback and Hopkins formed a corporation.
Hopkins came up with its name, Tiversa ,
a portmanteau of “time” and “universe.”
It was also an anagram of veritas :  Latin for
“truth,” but scrambled.

Then there is …
vastier veritas —

The Harvard Crimson  yesterday —

* See also last night's post Cipher in this  journal.

"The postwar self became a cipher to be decoded."

— Nathaniel Comfort in Nature , PDF dated 10 October 2019

From a Log24 search for Temple of Doom —

Entertainment from NBC on Friday night —

The above question, and Saturday morning's post on a film director
from Melbourne, suggest an image from December's Melbourne Noir —

 (March 8, 2018, was the date of death for Melbourne author Peter Temple.)

* For the title, see Saturday morning's post
"Popular Mechanics: Midnight Upgrade."

The above scenes are from an imaginary sequel to
“Topological Quantum Field Theory for Vampires.” —

From the end credits for a 2016 TV mini-series 
based on the Stephen King novel 11/22/63 —

This post was suggested by the Oct. 22 post
Logos, by  the Oct. 11 post Dick Date, and by
the Oct. 11 death of an MIT robotics professor.

Related tasteless humor —
A headline from the print version of the recent
technology issue of The New Yorker :