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* See that title in this journal.

For Harlan Kane

Image from a New York Times  story this afternoon.

Down the Up Ladder

From this journal on All Hallows' Eve 2007 —

"God demands scrutiny beyond his menacingly comic aspects."

— Harold Bloom on José Saramago's The Gospel According to
Jesus Christ  (1991). Saramago was awarded the Nobel Prize 
in Literature in 1998. 

The Hamilton watch from "Interstellar" (2014) —

Those who prefer entertainment may consult Bright Club (August 4).

"From an early age she aspired to be a ballet dancer,
and, though never the sveltest girl en point, at 16
she landed a job in the corps de ballet at Radio City Music Hall."

— From a New York Times  obituary this evening

See as well posts tagged Go Set.

A broken link found in the search results of 
the previous post suggests a review . . .

See the title in this journal.

See Nov. 22, 2009.

Burning Man and Sugar Labs logos

See as well posts now tagged Helsinki Math in this journal.

"And you think parallel parking is hard?"

"Show me all  the blueprints."

* See Kane in this  journal.

Every picture tells a story .

The A Team —

The Z Team —

* See the previous post.  Related material:
The Lolita Express  and Magic Carpet Ride.

(The title refers to the previous post.)

"There is a house in New Orleans…
Not the one you've heard about,
I'm talking about another house.
They spoke of gold in the cellar
That a Spanish gentleman had left…"

— Song lyric by David Berman suggested by
his New Yorker  elegy

"Reddington and Vesco are watching the opera,
and the plan begins."

I prefer Show.

In reply to a post by David Justice this afternoon,
"Wardrobe Malfunction."

From a three-part meditation on Sept. 30, 2008:

For less high-minded meditations, see Tony Stark in today's
previous post —

"Tony Stark: That's how I wished it happened.
Binarily Augmented Retro-Framing, or BARF.
God, I gotta work on that acronym.
An extremely costly method of hijacking the
hippocampus to . . . clear traumatic memories. Huh."

Working on that acronym . . .

The "Real Presences" title is from the Aug. 20 post "Inception."
See also the real presences in a recent book by J. D. Vance —

"Mom was, everyone told me, the smartest person
they knew. And I believed it. She was definitely the
smartest person I knew."

— Vance, J. D., Hillbilly Elegy  (pp. 65-66).
Harper Paperbacks. Kindle Edition. 

And not so real . . .

See the title in this journal.

See too .  .  .

and, exploring Burroway's "nature of identity" …

(Oneworld Publications, Jan. 3, 2011)

Compare and contrast with an illustration
from "Time Fold," a webpage of Oct. 10, 2003 —

See also the Squarespace logo:

 "The inception  of critical thought, of a philosophic
anthropology, is contained in the archaic Greek definition
of man as a 'language-animal'…."

— George Steiner, Real Presences

A schoolgirl in 1961 —

"Non, rien de rien…"

— Edith Piaf

"I get a kick though it's clear to see,
You obviously don't adore me."

— Cole Porter

In memory of De Niro's gallerist —

Settings and Tools ,  pixels, 2019

See also Jar Story.

See a Log24 search for "solid.html."

Annals of Self-Medication

(Click for a related post.)

* The title refers to The Institute , by Stephen King, a novel
   to be published on September 10, 2019.

* The title is that of a 1958 novel by John O'Hara.
   See as well other instances of the title in this journal.

American Songwriters (the Petrusich versions)

The New Yorker  Culture Desk online yesterday —

The New Yorker  Culture Desk onine July 16 —

Related aesthetic meditation from  this  journal on July 16 —

(From the post "Schoolgirl Space for Quantum Mystics")

See also Formaggio  in this journal.

That university, in Dayton, Ohio, appeared in the previous post.

A curious recent wardrobe choice in Dayton suggests a review
of posts tagged Mathmagic Land.

Bylsma reportedly died on July 25.  This  journal on that date —

* See an article dated 11 April 2014 in Physics Today .

Representing Hellfire — CNN, as above.

Representing Truth —

(Continued from Nov. 28, 2010)

Exploring  Schoolgirl  Space  (July 8) continues.

"Eh Fatty Boom-Boom
Hit me with the Ching-Ching"

— Song lyric

* See Crichton's Rising Sun  in this  journal.

"There is  such a thing as a desktop."

— Saying adapted from a 1962 young-adult novel.

An image from "Blackboard Jungle," 1955 —

"Through the unknown, remembered gate . . . ."

— T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

Worldcon 2019

* See Marginalia in this journal.

From the previous post —

"We live in a constellation
Of patches and of pitches,
Not in a single world,
In things said well in music,
On the piano and in speech. . . ."

— Wallace Stevens, "July Mountain"

What, exactly, is the phrase "exact intonation" supposed to mean?

A possible clue —

" Casals is adamant about intonation. He has had his pupils repeat passages
until there is absolute accuracy of intonation. To a pupil playing a sonata with
piano, he recommends, 'do not be afraid to be out of tune with the piano.
It is the piano that is out of tune. The piano with its tempered scale is
a compromise in intonation.' "

— http://www.cello.org/heaven/bios/casalsap.htm

July Mountain

We live in a constellation
Of patches and of pitches,
Not in a single world,
In things said well in music,
On the piano and in speech,
As in a page of poetry—
Thinkers without final thoughts
In an always incipient cosmos.
The way, when we climb a mountain,
Vermont throws itself together.

— Wallace Stevens, from
    Opus Posthumous  (1957)

Or Pennsylvania: 

See the above title in this journal.  See also . . .

From an earlier post, "Lost in Quantum Space" —

Encountered today  —

From a news article featured on the American Mathematical Society
home page today —

A joint Vietnam-USA mathematical meeting in Vietnam on
June 10-13, 2019:

This  journal on June 12, 2019:

See also the Twentieth of May, 2008 —

Welcome to the Garden Club, Pilgrim.

From a post of Dec., 20, 2014 —

From "X-Men: First Class" —