"After finishing high school in Miami,
Ms. Reno attended Cornell University,
graduating in 1960 with a degree in chemistry."
— The online New York Times today
An example that is blatantly not "just the facts," from a Cornell author
found via last midnight's link "Ghost Light" —
— David W. Henderson, Cornell University
"the predicate* of bright origin"
— A phrase of Wallace Stevens quoted here yesterday
One origin, noted here on January 25—
This commemorated the death of noted discographer Brian Rust.
Rust appears in today's New York Times obituary index—
Also in today's obituaries: artist Alan Uglow, who reportedly died on January 20.
A link ("Noland") from this journal on that date leads to… a geometric origin.
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What Stevens's "predicate" is, I do not know.
Eliot's predicate would seem to be "still."
Related material— The dance from "Pulp Fiction"** illustrated here
on the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels last year.
* Some background for the Hall of Philosophy (yesterday's post)—
"Unity of the Proposition" at Wikipedia and at Oxford University Press.
** A flickr.com page gives examples. (The link is thanks to The Ghost Light).
For material related to the Dec. 29, 2010, posts Toy Stories and True Grid —
See Theological Points of Tron: Legacy, by the anonymous blogger hilbertthm90.
An excerpt —
Another story told in the movie is how this girl was about to be destroyed by the evil guys only to find “the father” standing over her after she blacked out and he “saved her”. The father’s disk contains all the information about everything in the grid, so in a sense the father is omniscient. Clearly the father is a stand in for the Biblical God since he creates a whole universe and is omniscient (and by some of the actions he performs in the movie, he seems omnipotent as well). I don’t think the Christian parallels are all in my head.
There is some sketchy theology that occurs that might be in my head, though. The “real world” outside of the grid seems to be a symbol for heaven. If this is true, it presents a very interesting theological point.
Compare and contrast —
Woody and Buzz from Christmas Day, 2010 —
Update of 8:55 PM — Related material from today's Ghost Light weblog —
See also today's New York midday lottery number, 596, as it appears in a search
for "legacy code" in this journal. It is China's code for its first nuclear test.
Today's evening New York number is less alarming — 401, suggesting the date
4/01 — i.e., April Fools' Day.
From the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society , October 2002, p. 563:
“To produce decorations for their weaving, pottery, and other objects, early artists experimented with symmetries and repeating patterns. Later the study of symmetries of patterns led to tilings, group theory, crystallography, finite geometries, and in modern times to security codes and digital picture compactifications. Early artists also explored various methods of representing existing objects and living things. These explorations led to… [among other things] computer-generated movies (for example, Toy Story ).”
– David W. Henderson, Cornell University
THE SOURCE —
From the weblog The Ghost Light on Christmas Day, 2010 —
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