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Recent posts on hotels and education suggest a review.
See “Child Buyer” in this journal.

From John Hersey’s The Child Buyer  (1960):

“I was wondering about that this morning…
About forgetting. I’ve always had an idea that
each memory was a kind of picture,
an insubstantial picture. I’ve thought of it as
suddenly coming into your mind when you need it,
something you’ve seen, something you’ve heard,
then it may stay awhile, or else it flies out, then
maybe it comes back another time….
If all the pictures went out, if I forgot everything,
where would they go? Just out into the air? Into the sky?
Back home around my bed, where my dreams stay?”

“We keep coming back and coming back
To the real: to the hotel instead of the hymns….”

— Wallace Stevens

— Postcard from eBay 

Yesterday’s flashback to the “Square Ice” post of
St. Francis’s Day, 2016 —

This suggests a review of the July 16, 2013, post “Child Buyers.”

Related images from “Tomorrowland” (2015) —

An ignorant, but hopeful, space fan —

The space fan knocks on one door-panel of a 3×3 array —

Related image from “Hereafter” (2010) —

Matt Damon with his  3×3 door-panel array.

"              … yet the dread
Of dying, and being dead,
Flashes afresh to hold and horrify."

— Philip Larkin, "Aubade"

From tonight's New York Times  obituaries —

See as well "Child Buyer" in this journal.

"Sign (Just sign) the dotted line (The dotted line)"

— Song lyric by Labrinth

See as well "Child Buyer" in this journal.

Addendum for Mean Girls —

The "dotted line" lyric by Labrinth was suggested by 
last night's post Red Dot Problems —

Instagram, August 4, 2017 —

See posts on Suppes and Child Buyers.

Bottom line — See also a post from August 4, 2017.

"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.

"A friend asked why I am saying kaddish.
 A good question."

— Kaddish , by Leon Wieseltier, Chapter One

Scarlett Johansson
and Natalie Portman

See Scarlett in Lucy …

Barry Rudd at the end of John Hersey's
1960 novel The Child Buyer :

"Fascinating to be a specimen,
truly fascinating.  Do you suppose
I really can develop an I.Q. of
over a thousand?"

… and Natalie in Black Swan .

Midrash :

December 2, 2014

• "12:30 pm we leave for the historic
  Princeton Cemetery on Witherspoon and
  Paul Robson Streets to assemble for
  a service and burial at 2:00 pm."

(Continued)

“Alles wird viel einfacher, wenn man zuerst von der
Unendlichkeit der Theilbarkeit abstrahirt und bloss
Discrete Grössen betrachtet.”

— Carl Friedrich Gauss in 1825

(Quoted here in the July 16, 2013, post Child Buyers.)