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(A sequel to the previous post, Up to Date) 

"Dr. Sekler lectured around the world, but one trip proved life-changing.
In 1962, the year he married, Dr. Sekler made his first trip to Nepal.
'It was the way it had been for centuries — a beautiful valley filled with
happy, peaceful people. It seemed like Shangri-La,' he told the Harvard
Gazette  in 2004."

— Bryan Marquard in The Boston Globe  today

See also "Eight is a gate" in this  journal.

The obituary for Sekler is somewhat surprising, given that he
reportedly died on May 1, 2017. His burial is also rather late,
according to the Globe  —

"A service has been held for Dr. Sekler . . . .
 He will be buried Sept. 29 in a cemetery
 in Vienna, in his family’s plot."

"A memorial lecture in his honor is planned for November
at the Harvard Graduate School of Design." — The Globe

"All in good time, my little pretty."

Another design note related to May Day 2017 —

Related material —

A Vanderbilt University article titled "The significance of Sheriff Bell’s
dreams at the end of No Country for Old Men," and an obituary from
a Log24 post, "Extreme Aesthetic Distance," of August 27, 2017 . . .

Search for Stone Logic in this journal.

“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

While you're waiting …

Click the above illustration for
some remarks on mosaics.

(A prequel to an Ursula K. Le Guin story
in Fantastic  magazine, September 1962)

Cover art by Lloyd Birmingham for "Plane Jane"

On Ursula K. Le Guin's short story
"The Rock That Changed Things"
(in A Fisherman of the Inland Sea ) —

For an alternative to the Rectoress, see the Abbess of the previous post.

A detail from the previous post —

See as well Ursula in this journal.

http://deadline.com/2017/08/
harvey-weinstein-on-the-challenge-
of-growing-tulip-fever-
guest-column-1202158947/

Related material from Log24:

Illustration from the post Rota on Beauty (May 21, 2017).

(Continued)

The actor  who played Chief Engineer Quinn in the classic
1956 film Forbidden Planet reportedly died today at 91.

In his memory, here is a link from the previous post —

July 15, 2004.  Excerpts from that 2004 post —

An image in memory of a publisher* who reportedly died
on Saturday, August 26, 2017.  

He and his wife wrote a novel, The Twelve , that has been compared to
the classic film "Village of the Damned." (See a sequel in this journal.)

For more on the image, see posts now tagged The Finkelstein Talisman.

*
 

The previous post, together with the New York Times Wire  and the
life in Trieste of the James Joyce family, suggests a review of …

1. Lucia + Crossword in this journal

2. The following Times  items —

Discuss.

The New York Times  online today —

Taylor Swift's new video —

For Taylor, news from St. Lucia's Day (Dec. 13) 2016 —

"Analysis." — Dr. Robert Ford in "Westworld."  See related posts.

This  journal on August 18, 2017 —

See Captain America's special  breakfast
in posts tagged Aesthetic Distance.

See as well Taylor Swift in the previous post and
The School of the New York Times on creating
great branded content:

“I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
 Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.”

 — Paul Simon

See also John Collier's short story "The Lady on the Grey."

Note that the title of the previous post was "Black Well,"
almost the same as that of Tanner's graphic novel above.

Or:  The Confines of Reason

"The confines of reason" vs. the confines of time —

The previous post noted that …

Schorske mentioned hopefully "the fresh light of
the present" in 1971.

Some later light [came] from Brian Aldiss in his novel
Frankenstein Unbound , first published in 1973.

Between these two years, in 1972, the band Looking Glass
released what has been called 

"one of Earth's greatest musical compositions, perhaps the greatest."

The Seventh Function of Language  A novel by Laurent Binet The New York Times   online Aug. 16, 2017,  in a book review — "What if . . . Barthes was murdered? . . . in order to procure a document that Barthes possessed . . . . That document explained that, beyond the six functions of language proposed by the Russian linguist Roman Jakobson, there was a seventh secret one:  an occult kind of language-use guaranteed to persuade, a 'magic' power of control over a listener."

Schorske mentioned hopefully "the fresh light of
the present" in 1971.

Some later light from Brian Aldiss in his novel
Frankenstein Unbound , first published in 1973 —

From Frankenstein Unbound  by Brian Aldiss —

See also tonight's New York Times  obituaries.

http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=Gaitskill

The above link was suggested by the essay
of the previous post.

“The interrupted flow of the new poetic language
initiates a discontinuous nature,
which is only revealed piecemeal." — Roland Barthes

From Le degré zéro de l'écriture , published in 1953 by Editions du Seuil ,
translated into English by Annette Lavers and Colin Smith as 
Writing Degree Zero  and published in 1967 by Jonathan Cape Ltd.

From a 2009-2016 exhibition by David Link

Related material —

Continued.  Alexander Pope —

"Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate,
All but the page prescribed, their present state:
From brutes what men, from men what spirits know:
Or who could suffer being here below?"

The New York Times  today —

"His parents, Danny and Rae Levitch, were entertainers —
his father a song-and-dance man, his mother a pianist —
who used the name Lewis when they appeared in
small-time vaudeville and at Catskills resort hotels."

The Coen brothers, 2007 screenplay —

(From a novel by Cormac McCarthy)

"Clog, therefore, purple Jack and crimson Jill." — Wallace Stevens

Decorations for a Cartoon Graveyard, Continued .

See also some remarks by Wallace Stevens
from a 2016 post "For Crimson Jill."

Related searches —

Enigmatic:

http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=170618

Circuitous:

http://m759.net/wordpress/?s="+271"

From a political kingmaker's online NY Times  obituary this evening —

" 'I have been criticized for 20 years for running
ideologically arched campaigns,' he told the National
Conservative Political Action Conference in 1991. 'I plead guilty.' "

To check the unfamiliar usage "ideologically arched," see minute 35:02 on
the linked video. The word may actually have been "harsh," not "arched."

For an arched  campaign, see the previous post,  App . Some background —

A Village Voice —

"Arthur Jay Finkelstein was born on May 18, 1945, in the East New York
section of Brooklyn, the son of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe.
His father, Morris, was a cabby. His mother was the former Zella Ordanksi.
The family moved to Levittown, on Long Island, when he was 11, then to
Queens, where he graduated from Forest Hills High School.

In 1967, Mr. Finkelstein earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and
political science from Queens College. As a student, he sometimes shared
a college radio program with Ayn Rand, the author and philosopher whose
laissez-faire capitalism he would fiercely defend in street-corner debates in
Greenwich Village." — Sam Roberts of The New York Times 

From a trailer for the 2013 Dutch film "App" —

From the online New York Times  yesterday —

See also Overarching + Symmetry  in this  journal.

Shermer, Thompson;  Thompson, Shermer.

"In this one book, Thompson’s muse
seems to have led him perfectly."

— Stephen King, 2011 foreword to a 1952 novel:

See also Shermer in this  journal.

Flashback in Genial, a post of March 6, 2017 —

From a New York Times  book review today by
James Ryerson, instructor at The School of The New York Times —

"Savvy philosophers distill their core insight into a short phrase."

"Let them eat cake."

This post was suggested by a detail, the number 777, on the cover of the
American edition of the novel discussed in yesterday morning's post Punctum.

See also Dark Tower in this  journal.

In memory of a Chess Records star who died on March 18, 2017 —

See also posts now tagged "Go Set."

"We have passed through the looking glass
and down the rabbit hole."

— Kurt Andersen in the Sept. 2017 Atlantic

See as well "the desert of the real" and, 
for comparison, College of the Desert in this  journal.

See also last night's post Logos .

"She wrote her doctoral thesis, which was supervised
by Friedrichs, on the stability of a spherical implosion
and was awarded her Ph.D. in 1951."

— MacTutor

See also a related Google Image Search.

For images from the reported date of Morawetz's death,
see Theology for Child Buyers.

Update of 2:56 PM ET Friday, August 11, 2017 —

Legacy.com and NYU now report that Morawetz died
on Tue., Aug. 8, not, as the AMS reported, on Mon., Aug. 7.
(The AMS has now corrected its error.)

For sloppiness about mathematics that echoes this
sloppiness about dates, see a post of Tue., Aug. 8.

Don't forget the apple.

See also Noon for London in this  journal on the
above "Starting to See Pictures" upload date in 2016.

For a tale about that date, April 4, see today's  noon post.

From Blockbuster, a post of Friday, August 4, 2017 —

The article suggests a look at  a July 3 Times  review of the life
of Jan Fontein, a former Boston Museum of Fine Arts director —

"Mr. Fontein’s time as director coincided with
the nationwide rise of the blockbuster exhibition,
and he embraced the concept. 'There was such a thing
as a contemplative museum, but I don’t think that can
survive anymore,' he told Newsweek  in 1978."

From The New York Times  this evening —

"Mr. Roth made his mark at the Victoria and Albert
with record-breaking exhibitions focused on
David Bowie in 2013, Alexander McQueen in 2015
and The Beatles and the youth revolution of the 1960s
in 2016."

Related material —

Record-breaking in this journal and Sunday in the Park with Death.

"Serve in Heaven …
or reign in Hell?
Which is it to be?"

— David in "Alien: Covenant" (2017)

Other mythological tales —

In memory of a TV gunslinger who reportedly died Thursday, August 3, 2017 . . .

From this journal on that day (posts now tagged Dark Tower Theology) —

"The concept under review is that of the Holy Trinity.
  See also, in this  journal, Cube Trinity.
  For a simpler Trinity model, see the three-point line  …"

"Would that it were so simple."

"Simone Weil said that morality
was a matter of attention not of will.
We need a new vocabulary of attention."

— Iris Murdoch, "Against Dryness"

"A tight story is one thing, but a 95-minute feature
that is unable to give even the slightest inkling
that it’s based on a grand-scale epic masterpiece
is something else entirely."

— Kate Erbland, "The Dark Tower" film review
     at IndieWire.com, Aug. 2, 2017

From a not-so-slight Inkling, a word to the wise —

—  From an editorial glossary to "Ósanwe-kenta," by J.R.R. Tolkien

See as well posts now tagged Enda's Game.

This post was suggested by a  New York Times  article online today
about an upcoming exhibition at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts —

"A version of this article appears in print on August 6, 2017,
on Page AR2 of the New York edition with the headline:

Art;  Woodblock Smackdown!."

The article suggests a look at  a July 3 Times  review of the life of
Jan Fontein, a former Boston Museum of Fine Arts director —

"Mr. Fontein’s time as director coincided with
the nationwide rise of the blockbuster exhibition,
and he embraced the concept. 'There was such a thing
as a contemplative museum, but I don’t think that can
survive anymore,' he told Newsweek  in 1978."

Fontein died at 89 on May 19, 2017. See Dharmadhatu — a Log24 post
of July 4, 2017 — and its link to posts tagged May 19 Gestalt.

(To the previous post)

For the rest of the prequel, see New York Values (Jan. 17, 2016).

(Continued)

"Refined interpretation requires that you know that
someone once said the offspring of reality and illusion
is only a staggering confusion."

— Poem, "The Game of Roles," by Mary Jo Bang

Related material for those perplexed by such Verhexung —

The title is that of the cover essay in 
the Sunday, August 6, 2017, issue
of The New York Times Book Review .

From a poem on page 17 —

"Avoidance of boredom drives the body forward."

By the same poet, Mary Jo Bang —

"A circular mirror of the social order is something
like a master with an exclusive club membership
until a woman comes through the revolving door."

These remarks, and the life of Matthew Vaughn, director of
"X-Men: First Class" and other films (cf. this morning's post 
Dichotomy), suggest a review of the Nobel Flashback post
of October 6, 2016. A retitled sample —

Avoidance of Boredom

"National and educational contexts call for
appropriately tailored arguments."

— Gabriel H. Karger in The Harvard Crimson , July 27, 2017,
"Freedom and Final Clubs: The Wrong Dichotomy"

Related material —

From a 1987 review of the Stephen King novel Misery :

"In other words, for all her craziness, Annie Wilkes
becomes Paul Sheldon's literary muse, and as muses go
she probably isn't too much worse than average,
her main fault being a tendency to punish more literally
than most muses do."

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in The New York Times

From the Estée Lauder website :

"Who is a Modern Muse? The description of
our iconic fragrance says it all . . . ."

A rival product —

See all related posts.

As between "No Land" and "No. Land."

See also Conceptualist Minimalism.