Log24

• Rachel Constantine: I assume you read the confidential findings
  report from the investigating committee.
• Michael Kitz: I flipped through it.
• Rachel Constantine: I was especially interested in the section
  on Arroway's video unit. The one that recorded the static?
• Michael Kitz: Continue.
• Rachel Constantine: The fact that it recorded static isn't
  what interests me.
• Michael Kitz: [pauses] Continue.
• Rachel Constantine: What interests me is that it recorded
  approximately eighteen hours of it.
• Michael Kitz: [leans forward so he is looking directly in the camera]
  That is interesting, isn't it?

See as well yesterday's 8:59 AM post.

Nico sings a Jackson Browne song.

Continues.

See also theta functions in this journal.

For those who prefer narratives to mathematics . . .

Tiger at the Fire Temple

For a Hollywood version of Archimedes, see . . .

A related image from what Ray Bradbury called "October Country" —

"I have to guess on the spot
just what this play’s all about."

— Wisława Szymborska at . . .

"You are not alone." — Adapted AA saying.

The New York Times  yesterday on an artist-poet who reportedly
died on September 14 at 79 — His work in a West Texas desert . . .

"… isn’t a paean to minimalism or a work of land art, exactly.
Mr. Magee described it as his own private existential exploration
and meditation, and as a container for his deeply personal work. . . ."

A deeply personal exploration and meditation of my own . . .

* See this morning's previous post.

Barnes Art .

* The Knight, Death, and the Devil

"Let me say this about that." — Richard Nixon

https://miapensa.com/pages/about —

"… using her documented past work as a means to
revisit and expand on the themes and motifs…."

See also Patterning.

Thesis —

A 1911 essay by T. E. Hulme,
"Romanticism and Classicism" —

"There is a general tendency to think that verse means
little else than the expression of unsatisfied emotion.
People say: 'But how can you have verse without sentiment?'
You see what it is: the prospect alarms them. A classical revival
to them would mean the prospect of an arid desert and the death
of poetry as they understand it, and could only come to fill the gap
caused by that death. Exactly why this dry classical spirit should
have a positive and legitimate necessity to express itself in poetry
is utterly inconceivable to them."

Antithesis —

A 1961 reaction against Hulme,
"Against Dryness" —

"Against the consolations of form, the clean crystalline
work, the simplified fantasy-myth, we must pit the
destructive power of the now so unfashionable naturalistic
idea of character.

Real people are destructive of myth, contingency is
destructive of fantasy and opens the way for imagination."

— Iris Murdoch, January 1961

Synthesis —