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The previous post suggests a review.

Two images in memory of a journalist —

Illustration from a post on Monday, Jan. 21, 2019 (color inverted):

(Continued)

"Now this is fairly serious stuff."

As is this.

Introductory Aramaic

See also a theater review in yesterday's print NY Times
and a video in today's online Times:

This post is continued from May 12, 2011.

See also another journal's post on that date
as well as some related posts here.

First we take Manhattan….

For those who prefer fiction:

"Many Dimensions  (1931) — An evil antiquarian illegally purchases
the fabled Stone of Suleiman (Williams uses this Muslim form
rather than the more familiar King Solomon) from its Islamic guardian
in Baghdad and returns to England to discover not only that the Stone
can multiply itself infinitely without diminishing the original, but that it
also allows its possessor to transcend the barriers of space and time."

— Wikipedia article on the author Charles Williams

Here is a link to a copy of  the home page of a Turkish
author quoted here on May 4, 2012… in honor of
archaeologist Crawford Greenewalt Jr., who reportedly
died on that date. Greenewalt was an expert on the
ancient city of Sardis, in what is now western Turkey.

The May 4 quote was about 
"Heraclitus’s Aion and His Transformations."

From Deadline Hollywood—

A film producer's death "between Friday night and early Saturday morning,"
April 13-14, 2012—

See also the post linked to on the afternoon of Friday the 13th of April—

"All the saints have powers." — Cardinal Marchisano.

Happy birthday,  James McAvoy (at left below in X-Men: First Class ).

Godfather

"Mr. Messina is no ordinary Twitter user. The self-described
'hash godfather,' he officially invented the Twitter hashtag
in August 2007…."

— Ashley Parker (page ST1 of tomorrow's
    NY Times  National Edition)

But seriously—
Degreeless Noon—

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“My card.”

Sunday School

Lesson from The Quotable Lewis —

See also Multispeech for Oxford.

But seriously . . . (Click Yom Kippur for related posts.)

But seriously—
Degreeless Noon—

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“My card.”

Related material:

"Start the new year off with a new job at Pheedo."

See January 1, 2, 3 of 2010.

Leg-Pulling

"… to make the author manifestly unreliable"

Not to mention the reader.

Related material —

But seriously…

But Seriously…

From "Georg Cantor and the Battle for Transfinite Set Theory," by Joseph W. Dauben (pdf)–

"It is easy, of course, to misinterpret the religious element in Cantor's thinking, as popularizers often do. This was certainly the case in an article that appeared not long ago in the French magazine La Recherche, which supplied [the above] caricatures to illustrate an expository article about Cantor, his religious convictions, psychological illness and transfinite set theory.* The first drawing depicts Cantor in ecstasy, as it were, receiving the divine message. In the second illustration, the figure with the gun of course is meant to be Kronecker– with God helping Cantor to maintain his balance– all of which rests precariously on a transfinite aleph. But there is a very serious side to all of this…."

* Pierre Thuillier, “Dieu, Cantor et l'Infini,” La Recherche, (December, 1977), pp. 1110-1116.

Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity, by David Foster Wallace–

"In modern medical terms, it's fairly clear that G.F.L.P. Cantor suffered from manic-depressive illness at a time when nobody knew what this was, and that his polar cycles were aggravated by professional stresses and disappointments, of which Cantor had more than his share. Of course, this makes for less interesting flap copy than Genius Driven Mad by Attempts to Grapple with ∞. The truth, though, is that Cantor's work and its context are so totally interesting and beautiful that there's no need for breathless Prometheusizing of the poor guy's life. The real irony is that the view of ∞ as some forbidden zone or road to insanity– which view was very old and powerful and haunted math for 2000+ years– is precisely what Cantor's own work overturned. Saying that ∞ drove Cantor mad is sort of like mourning St. George's loss to the dragon: it's not only wrong but insulting."

Related entertainment:

David Foster Wallace,
Influential Writer, Dies at 46

and the film "Neverwas"–

But seriously…

But seriously…

“Sir Frederick Gray, Minister of Defence, is a dignified, upper-class gentleman who is well respected in intelligence circles. However for most of his appearances, Gray is a strict by-the-book person who plays it seriously at all times. Consequently he despises Bond’s playful attitude towards life and his disregard to take his missions seriously.”

— jamesbondmm.co.uk

Geoffrey Keen, who played Sir Frederick Gray in six James Bond films, died on November 3, 2005.

Related material:

The Log24 entry of 11:07 AM on the date of Keen’s death, and the five Log24 entries ending on January 20, 2005.