Tuesday, January 20, 2026
For Harlan Kane . . . Rosebud!
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
For Harlan Kane (and SID 6.7):
Nutella Story
Nutella Story
Monday, November 10, 2025
For Harlan Kane: A Belt-Buckle Tale
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Sunday, July 13, 2025
For Harlan Kane — Space Devs!
Selected sneak previews . . .
Tuesday, July 8, 2025
From Harlan Kane’s “Wicked: The Stepmother Chronicles”

For Harlan Kane — The Heidegger Experiment
The previous post was, in part, about a famous experiment in
molecular biology. From posts now tagged The Heidegger Experiment,
a post from Walpurgisnacht 2015 contains the following passage . . .
See as well other posts with the phrase "shining through" in this journal . . .
“Schon in der Antike gab es zwei Definitionen der Schönheit . . . ."
Saturday, July 5, 2025
For Harlan Kane: The Buried Lede
From the previous post . . .
May 15 in this journal —
For greater depth —
https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/7eaf9272-4218-4eee-a0f4-196043333e84 .
Saturday, June 28, 2025
For Harlan Kane: The Poolman Mission
Mr. Schifrin's reported dies natalis was Thursday, June 26, 2025.
Earlier in this journal —
Monday, June 16, 2025
For Harlan Kane: The Waterloo Perimeter
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
For the Brick House Chronicles of Harlan Kane
Click image for a more recent illustration.
Thursday, June 5, 2025
For Harlan Kane: The Amodei Influencer
An opinion piece on AI in today's online New York Times is by
Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic.
Wikipedia says that . . .
"In 2025, Time magazine listed Amodei as
one of the world's 100 most influential people."
The third link below is about an influence on, not by, Amodei.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/opinion/
anthropic-ceo-regulate-transparency.html
Thursday, May 29, 2025
For Harlan Kane — The Omensetter Chair
Friday, May 23, 2025
For Harlan Kane: The Mann Deadline
Simon Mann, Mercenary Who Sought to
Overthrow African Leader, Dies at 72
— New York Times headline, Thursday, May 22, 2024
" Simon Mann died on May 8 at his home in London. He was 72."
In Memoriam . . .
"… adventures within vast environments and dungeons…."
"Been there, done that." — The late Simon Mann
"… confusion and marvel are properly operations
of God and not of man." — Borges, 1962, in
"The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths."
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Harlan Kane Presents:
The Uruguay Entity!
From a Log24 search for Deutsche Schule . . .
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The Uruguay Entity!
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Saturday, May 10, 2025
For Harlan Kane — The Mind-Body Problem:
Which is More Fun, Mind or Body?
Examples of the former:
Examples of the latter:
Which is More Fun, Mind or Body?
Friday, May 9, 2025
For Harlan Kane: The Bluesky Mystery
"I invented a game based on the way
the symmetric group S_4 works:
www.thegamecrafter.com/games/cards-… ."
— https://bsky.app/profile/ccwan-244823040.bsky.social
For a possible meaning of the digits in that username,
see the previous post.
One possible source of this mysterious username . . .
Monday, May 5, 2025
For Harlan Kane: The Gombrich Anomaly
Axiomatics: Mathematical Thought and High Modernism
by Alma Steingart (University of Chicago Press, 2023) has an
illustration of interest.
The illustration and its caption are from an article by Ernst Gombrich
in The Atlantic, April 1958.
But seriously . . . For Calvin University —
“Anomalies must be expected along the conceptual frontier
between the temporal and the eternal.”
— The Death of Adam, by Marilynne Robinson, Houghton Mifflin,
1998, essay on Marguerite de Navarre.
“D’exterieur en l’interieur entre
Qui va par moi, et au milieu du centre
Me trouvera, qui suis le point unique,
La fin, le but de la mathematique;
Le cercle suis dont toute chose vient,
Le point ou tout retourne et se maintient.”
— Marguerite de Navarre
From this journal on March 7, 2003 —
Chez Mondrian
Kertész, Paris, 1926
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
New from Harlan Kane: The Camerlengo Plot
Monday, April 21, 2025
Harlan Kane’s New Novel — Hillbilly Prayer

Sunday, April 20, 2025
From Harlan Kane’s Gotham Times Bestseller —
Liam Neeson in THE NAKED EIGHT!
. . . A Sequel to "Unknown" . . .

Liam Neeson in THE NAKED EIGHT!
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
For Harlan Kane (and Harrison Ford) —
The Eureka Displacement
The Eureka Displacement
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
For Harlan Kane:
The above link is to an Instagram post from Christmas Day 2022.
For Christmas Eve of that year, see Window as Matrix .
Related viewing from last night on Apple TV Plus . . .
Related dance for the above figure in the chair . . .
Related mathematics suggested by the above Prime Finder white dot:
Related reading . . .
Blowup 1 —
Blowup 2 —
♫ "You and I are just like a couple of tots . . ."
Friday, January 17, 2025
Harlan Kane Goes for the Gold:
The Case of the Baffled Prime
See also Gauss in this journal.
The Case of the Baffled Prime
Sunday, December 29, 2024
For Harlan Kane: Husserl vs. Verhexung
"Die Philosophie ist ein Kampf gegen die Verhexung
unsres Verstandes durch die Mittel unserer Sprache."
— Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations (1953),
Section 109
"The newly redesigned Museum of Modern art
bracketed a rectangular open space."
— Photo caption in a Dec. 23 New York Times obituary
"The literature is replete with explanations of the benefits of
bracketing, not only in phenomenological studies but in other
types of qualitative research."
— Thomas, S. P., & Sohn, B. K. (2023).
From Uncomfortable Squirm to Self-Discovery:
A Phenomenological Analysis of the Bracketing Experience.
International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 22.
https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069231191635
An application of the Husserl approach to Verhexung —
Bracketing the phrase "Galois space" in the literature yields different
mathematical concepts, some derived from "Galois geometry," some
from "topological space."
The former relates to structures with a finite number of points, the latter
to structures with an infinite number of points. Sometimes the two sorts
of structure are related to one another. For example . . .
Thursday, December 26, 2024
For Harlan Kane: The 713 Redemption
"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
From The Queen's Gambit , by Walter Tevis (1983) —
"She stopped and turned to Beth. 'There is no hint of a
Protestant ethic in Mexico. They are all Latin Catholics,
and they all live in the here and now.' Mrs. Wheatley
had been reading Alan Watts. 'I think I’ll have just one
margarita before I go out. Would you call for one, honey?'
Back in Lexington, Mrs. Wheatley’s voice would sometimes
have a distance to it, as though she were speaking from
some lonely reach of an interior childhood. Here in Mexico City
the voice was distant but the tone was theatrically gay, as though
Alma Wheatley were savoring an incommunicable private mirth.
It made Beth uneasy. For a moment she wanted to say something
about the expensiveness of room service, even measured in pesos,
but she didn’t. She picked up the phone and dialed six. The man
answered in English. She told him to send a margarita and a large
Coke to 713."
Wednesday, December 25, 2024
For Harlan Kane: The Hurlbut Identities
From a news story I encountered today —
Hurlbut Church in Chautauqua Institution presents their annual
'Yes, It’s Still Christmas' concert celebrating the journey into
the Christmas season. Saturday at 4 p.m., the Hurlbut sanctuary
will host a Chautauqua Big Band Christmas under the direction of
John Cross."
The phrase "Hurlbut Church" suggests an historical check . . .
A rather different historical check, based on the phrase "Hurlbut Hall,"
the name of my residence at Harvard in the academic year 1960-1961 . . .
My own version of a holiday "Fun Drawer" —
Tuesday, December 24, 2024
Monday, December 23, 2024
For Harlan Kane: The Forerunner Tag
A search for Forerunner+Gameplayers in this journal yields,
among other things, a post related to Pearl Harbor Day 2016.
Those who prefer mathematics to narrative may prefer to that post
others now tagged — in honor of a mathematical forerunner — Emch.
Friday, December 20, 2024
For Harlan Kane: The Galois Rectangle
Galois's birthday, 1993 —
The title rectangle is featured in a recent sequel to The Galois Tesseract —
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
An International Matrix Group (IMG) for Harlan Kane
A birthdate — November 7, 2009 — from yesterday's news — yields,
with a bit of research in this journal . . .
Simplified rocket image from the previous post —

Monday, December 16, 2024
Friday, September 13, 2024
For Harlan Kane: The Yeats Sequel
From Yeats's sequel to "Sailing to Byzantium,"
titled simply "Byzantium" —
Astraddle on the dolphin's mire and blood,
Spirit after spirit! The smithies break the flood,
The golden smithies of the Emperor!
Marbles of the dancing floor
Break bitter furies of complexity,
Those images that yet
Fresh images beget,
That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea.
Thursday, September 12, 2024
Harlan Kane’s Shadow Work . . . Continues.

Saturday, August 31, 2024
Script Idea for Harlan Kane:
The Timeless Meets Time
"kalosmi lokaksaya krt pravrddho"
Also on July 13, 2023 . . .
From the Publications webpage of Dan Gordon —
Math Databases on the Cheap,
lightning talk at LuCaNT, July 2023.
Background from 2022 —
Gordon's informative webpage on mathematical repositories:
https://ljcr.dmgordon.org/cwm/jupyter_book/math_repos.html.
See also ICERM in this journal on November 14, 2012.
The Timeless Meets Time
Thursday, August 29, 2024
Saturday, August 24, 2024
Language Game for Harlan Kane:
The Mountain Fountain
The Mountain Fountain
Friday, August 23, 2024
For Harlan Kane: The Sicilian Defense
From the Feast of Saint Nicholas, 2023 . . .

Friday, August 2, 2024
For Harlan Kane: The Stevens Title
Things of August*
Related narratives:
Related mathematics:
*

Friday, July 26, 2024
For Harlan Kane:
The Chinatown Omega Continues.
A post in this journal from July 3, 2024 — see The Chinatown Omega —
suggests a look at a death in Paris on that date . . .

The Chinatown Omega Continues.
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
For Stephen King (and Harlan Kane):
The Halloran Shining

The Halloran Shining
Monday, April 22, 2024
For Harlan Kane: The Brick Trick
From a transcript of the film —
|
— You could be making a killing out there consulting, but you’re laying brick. Why? — Because when I hold a brick in my hand, I know exactly what it is and what it will do. Every single time. Its form is its function. That gives me peace. |
The film is based on a novel of the same title, by an author,
Paul Lindsay, who reportedly died on September 1, 2011.
For some bricks of a different sort, see the "Miracle Octad Generator"
(MOG) of R. T. Curtis in this journal on Sept. 1, 2011 — September Morn.
Friday, April 19, 2024
For Harlan Kane and Jonathan Wingdings
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
For Harlan Kane: The Rothfeld Explanation
Earlier . . .
A Riddler Wannabe —
Related material — The Krauss passage quoted as above
by Shechtman in The New Yorker in December 2021 appears
also in a Log24 post of October 18, 2017: "Three Small Grids."
Saturday, March 23, 2024
For Harlan Kane: The DeDeo Papers
Saturday, March 16, 2024
For Harlan Kane: The Benjamin Interrogation
"… if the system were complete, it would turn out to have been
interrogated during the investigation of one problem or another."
Vide . . .
(Illustration updated at 6:32 AM ET Mon., March 18, 2024.)
See also the post "Fundamental Figurate Geometry"
in this journal on Monday, March 11, 2024.
Sunday, February 18, 2024
History for Conspiracy Theorists (and Harlan Kane)
The New York Times this afternoon —
" William Beecher, who as a reporter for The New York Times
revealed President Richard M. Nixon’s secret bombing campaign
over Cambodia during the Vietnam War, and who later won a
Pulitzer Prize at The Boston Globe, died on Feb. 9 at his home
in Wilmington, N.C. He was 90." — Clay Risen, 2:28 PM
Also on Feb. 9 —
Another Beecher narrative —
Religious meditation from the Church of Synchronology . . .
Thursday, February 15, 2024
For Harlan Kane: The Aggies Prayer
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
For Harlan Kane: The Eigenspace Handle
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From http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/v/eigen.html — Perhaps history this century, thought Eigenvalue, is rippled with gathers in its fabric such that if we are situated, as Stencil seemed to be, at the bottom of a fold, it's impossible to determine warp, woof, or pattern anywhere else. By virtue, however, of existing in one gather it is assumed there are others, compartmented off into sinuous cycles each of which come to assume greater importance than the weave itself and destroy any continuity. Thus it is that we are charmed by funny looking automobiles of the '30's, the curious fashions of the '20's, the peculiar moral habits of our grandparents … We are accordingly lost to any sense of continuous tradition. Perhaps if we lived on a crest, things would be different. We could at least see. (Pp. 155-6, Harper Perennial ed.) |
Monday, October 16, 2023
For Harlan Kane — The Heidegger Conundrum
Sunday, April 30, 2023
For Harlan Kane: The Walpurgisnacht Hallucination
Note that if the "compact Riemann surface" is a torus formed by
joining opposite edges of a 4×4 square array, and the phrase
"vector bundle" is replaced by "projective line," and so forth,
the above ChatGPT hallucination is not completely unrelated to
the following illustration from the webpage "galois.space" —
See as well the Cullinane diamond theorem.
Thursday, March 23, 2023
For Harlan Kane — Operation Aurora: The Infamy Date
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
For Harlan Kane: The Zenodo Files
Thursday, December 22, 2022
For Harlan Kane: The Canetti Maxim
"Most important for Canetti are certain events
that he calls 'illuminations,' such as his witnessing
of striking workers being mowed down by Viennese
police on July 15, 1927, which was the germ of both
Auto-da-Fé and Crowds and Power. For Canetti,
these epiphanies are moments of metamorphosis,
which he prizes above all in art as well as in life.
Canetti aspired to be a 20th-century Ovid, but
precisely because he was modern, this ambition
landed him, again and again, in paradox, such as
the one expressed in the aphorism that gives this
compilation its title, or in this characteristic maxim:
'It all depends on this: with whom we confuse ourselves .'"
— Hal Foster in The Chronicle of Higher Education ,
"The Best Scholarly Books of 2022," Dec. 21, 2022.
See also this journal on Nov, 25, 2022 —
Friday, October 14, 2022
The Harlan Kane Story
See as well "Sunset Boulevard" in this journal.
Friday, September 30, 2022
Classics Illustrated: The Bitmap File by Harlan Kane
Saturday, June 25, 2022
For Harlan Kane: The Thoreau Foundation
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
For Harlan Kane: The Gottschalk Gestalt
Thursday, December 9, 2021
Tuesday, May 11, 2021
The Triangle Induction (Attn: Harlan Kane)
Related material from Wikipedia —
Keith A. Gessen (born January 9, 1975) is a Russian-born
American novelist, journalist, and literary translator.
He is co-founder and co-editor of American literary magazine
and an assistant professor of journalism at the Columbia University
Graduate School of Journalism.
Early life and education
Born Konstantin Alexandrovich Gessen into a Jewish family in Moscow….
Some related images —
The logo of a news site that yesterday
covered a Colorado Springs story:
Wednesday, April 21, 2021
The Spielvogel Conundrum (Attn: Harlan Kane*)
In memory of an advertising mogul who reportedly died today:
The above Altmetric report is apparently thanks to
my registering with ScienceOpen.com on April 19.
Sunday, December 15, 2019
For Harlan Kane* — The Frindle Kindle
"Thus the nature of reality comes into question…."
— Frindle, Helen. The Sentient Shield , author's preface.
Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd. Kindle edition.
Published on December 11, 2018:

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This journal on December 11, 2018 —
* See as well other references to Harlan Kane in this journal.
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
A Title for Harlan Kane: The Guilfoile Experiment
See Harlan Kane and Guilfoile in this journal.
Sunday, August 25, 2019
For Harlan Kane* — The Rittenberg Saga
* See Kane in this journal.
Thursday, April 4, 2019
For Harlan Kane . . .
Sunday, January 6, 2019
The Roethke Quote (For Harlan Kane)
Hat tip to Benjamin Markovits …
… for a quote from Roethke —
“Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one:
The shapes a bright container can contain!”
Monday, November 13, 2017
New from Harlan Kane
Saturday, April 2, 2016
The Emergence of Harlan Kane
Publisher's description of a book about everything —
"When the whole is greater than the sum of the parts—
indeed, so great that the sum far transcends the parts
and represents something utterly new and different—
we call that phenomenon emergence."
— Oxford University Press
Titles for Harlan Kane, from the date that
the above book's author reportedly died —
Friday, January 29, 2016
Monday, September 15, 2025
Abacus Conundrums for Hermann Hesse . . .
. . . and for Harlan Kane
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From “Mimsy Were the Borogoves” (Padgett, 1943) —
…”Paradine looked up. He frowned, staring. What in— |
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From City of Illusions (Le Guin, 1967) — All the top of the table, Falk now saw, was sunk several inches into a frame, and contained a network of gold and silver wires upon which beads were strung, so pierced that they could slip from wire to wire and, at certain points, from level to level. There were hundreds of beads, from the size of a baby’s fist to the size of an apple seed, made of clay and rock and wood and metal and bone and plastic and glass and amethyst, agate, topaz, turquoise, opal, amber, beryl, crystal, garnet, emerald, diamond. It was a patterning-frame, such as Zove and Buckeye and others of the House possessed. Thought to have come originally from the great culture of Davenant, though it was now very ancient on Earth, the thing was a fortune-teller, a computer, an implement of mystical discipline, a toy. In Falk’s short second life he had not had time to learn much about patterning-frames. Buckeye had once remarked that it took forty or fifty years to get handy with one; and hers, handed down from old in her family, had been only ten inches square, with twenty or thirty beads… . . . . A crystal prism struck an iron sphere with a clear, tiny clink. Turquoise shot to the left and a double link of polished bone set with garnets looped off to the right and down, while a fire-opal blazed for a moment in the dead center of the frame. Black, lean, strong hands flashed over the wires, playing with the jewels of life and death. “So,” said the Prince, “you want to go home. But look! Can you read the frame? Vastness. Ebony and diamond and crystal, all the jewels of fire: and the Opal-stone among them, going on, going out. |
Sunday, May 25, 2025
Case Study: Packing*
"If you need me, I'll be packing." — An artist's April 22 narrative on TikTok.
* Alternate title for Harlan Kane … Burying the Lede: The Graveyard Slot .
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
“Time flies like an arrow….” — Attributed to Anthony Oettinger
Related reading — http://m759.net/wordpress/?s="Arrow+in+the+Blue" .
For Harlan Kane, a post from this journal on July 26, 2022 —
the date of Oettinger's reported death:
Related reading: a death on Oscars weekend . . .
Saturday, February 24, 2024
Saturday Night Live: The Full Snow Moon
Saturday, October 21, 2023
Saturday, April 30, 2022
The Artifact Mathematician
Friday, December 17, 2021
What Dreams May Come… continues.
For Harlan Kane:
The Rechtschaffen Avatar
In memory of dream researcher Allan Rechtschaffen,
who reportedly died at 93 on November 29, a story
concept by Stephen King:
"Then she realized she wasn’t actually seeing them at all.
They were projections. Avatars. And so was the huge telephone
they were circling."
— King, Stephen. The Institute: A Novel .
Scribner. Kindle Edition. Location 7120.
From a Log24 search,
"Signs and Symbols."
Sunday, July 5, 2020
The Enigma Cube
Promotional material —
“Did you buckle up?” — Harlan Kane
The publication date of The Enigma Cube reported above was February 13, 2020.
Related material — Log24 posts around that date now tagged The Reality Bond.
Monday, May 25, 2020
The Shimada Documents
(For Harlan Kane)
From Shimada’s notes on computational data at
http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~shimada/
preprints/Edge/PaperEdge/compdataEdge.pdf —
“C24 is the list of codewords of the extended
binary Golay code C24. Each codeword is expressed
by a subset of the set M of the positions [1, . . . , 24]
of MOG.”
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
Masks of the Illuminati:
The Sternheim Portrait (For Harlan Kane)
From last night's 1:01 AM post —
Detail —
This portrait is of German playwright Carl Sternheim.
Steve Martin's version of Sternheim's 1910 play "The Underpants"
reportedly opened on November 3, 2006.
My own interests on that date lay elsewhere . . .
Related abstract art —
Thursday, December 5, 2019
The Fontana Arches
Thursday, November 28, 2019
The Zeitgeist Finger
(A title for Harlan Kane.)
Cartoon caption from The New Yorker issue dated Dec. 2, 2019 —
“Someday I’ll buy a little place in the country
and take my finger off the Zeitgeist.”
This (along with the previous post) suggests a Log24 search for Zeitgeist.
That search concludes, appropriately for today, with a meditation
on giving thanks.
Saturday, November 23, 2019
The Oboe Connection
For Harlan Kane —
“… We found,
If we found the central evil, the central good….
… we and the diamond globe at last were one.”
— "Asides on the Oboe," by Wallace Stevens
This post was suggested by a death on the night of
Friday, November 22 — St. Cecilia's Day.
For the oboe connection, see an obituary.
Thursday, October 3, 2019
The Overbye Metaphors
(For Harlan Kane)
"Once Mr. Overbye identifies a story, he said, the work is
in putting it in terms people can understand. 'Metaphors
are very important to the way I write,' he said. The results
are vivid descriptions that surpass mere translation."
— Raillan Brooks in The New York Times on a Times
science writer, October 17, 2017. Also on that date —
"There is such a thing as a 4-set."
— Saying adapted from a 1962 young-adult novel.
See as well The Black List (Log24, September 27).
Friday, September 13, 2019
At the Door
"Behold, I stand at the door, and knock." — Rev. 3:20
For Harlan Kane — The 3:20 Midrash:
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"… the walkway between here and there would be colder than a witch’s belt buckle. Or a well-digger’s tit. Or whatever the saying was. Vera had been hanging by a thread for a week now, comatose, in and out of Cheyne-Stokes respiration, and this was exactly the sort of night the frail ones picked to go out on. Usually at 4 a.m. He checked his watch. Only 3:20, but that was close enough for government work."
— King, Stephen (2013-09-24). |
Tuesday, September 10, 2019
The Wertham Memorandum
For Harlan Kane
From this journal on Feb. 5, 2009:
"In the garden of Adding
live Even and Odd…
And the song of love's recision
is the music of the spheres."
— The Midrash Jazz Quartet in
City of God , by E. L. Doctorow (2000).
From this journal on the date of
the above post by Gavaler:
Monday, September 9, 2019
The Montenegro Contingency
(For Harlan Kane)
"While digging in the grounds for the new foundation,
the broken fragments of a marble statue were unearthed."
— From Thomas Hardy, "Barbara of the House of Grebe,"
quoted in an epigraph to Paul de Man's "Shelley Disfigured,"
in turn quoted by Barbara Johnson on page 231 of Persons
and Things (Harvard paperback, 2010).
From "the world of the unintentional, the contingent, the minute,
and the particular" (Kovacevic, U. of Montenegro, 2011) —
Yes, we received your payment. No, it wasn't late, but it was for $78.13, and the bill was for $78.31. Okay, great. Read more: https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/ movie_script.php?movie=the-circle
Another such transposition: Pages 213 and 231 in a search
for "gaps" in a 2010 paperback discussion of Lacan —
These pages are as follows —

Sunday, September 1, 2019
The Abacos Conundrum
Thursday, July 25, 2019
The Morgenthau Correction
The Folkenflik Obit
For Harlan Kane . . .
A related word in this journal: Irvine.
Tuesday, May 28, 2019
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
The Toronto Plot*
* A title for Harlan Kane, suggested by obituaries
from The New York Times (this afternoon) and from
CBC News (on May 14, below) . . .
. . . as well as by illustrations shown here on May 13 and by
a screenwriter quoted here on May 12 —
“When I die,” he liked to say, “I’m going to have written
on my tombstone, ‘Finally, a plot!’”
— Robert D. McFadden in The New York Times
Another quote that seems relevant —
“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
Monday, April 29, 2019
The Hustvedt Array
For Harlan Kane
"This time-defying preservation of selves,
this dream of plenitude without loss,
is like a snow globe from heaven,
a vision of Eden before the expulsion."
— Judith Shulevitz on Siri Hustvedt in
The New York Times Sunday Book Review
of March 31, 2019, under the headline
"The Time of Her Life."
Edenic-plenitude-related material —
"Self-Blazon… of Edenic Plenitude"
(The Issuu text is taken from Speaking about Godard , by Kaja Silverman
and Harun Farocki, New York University Press, 1998, page 34.)
Preservation-of-selves-related material —
Other Latin squares (from October 2018) —
Saturday, December 29, 2018
Annals of Style: Perfecting the New Yorker Sneer
See also the Verwandlungslehre link from the previous post
and The Hassenfeld Legacy (for Harlan Kane).
Saturday, February 11, 2017
The Quantum Identity
The title was suggested by the previous post and by
the novels of Harlan Kane.
Sunday, April 3, 2016
The Cruelest Month
Continued from the April 1 posts
Apple Gate and Wonders of the Invisible World
Background music: "Like a rose under the April snow…." — Streisand
The Emergence of Harlan Kane continues from yesterday —
Sunday, February 21, 2016
Phone Logic
" 'This is a new category (of device) we’re talking about,'
said Andy Nuttall, HP’s director of mobility strategy.
HP introduced the device Sunday ahead of this week’s
Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, Spain."
— Matt Day in The Seattle Times today
See also the previous post and the recent film "The Intern."
"Buckle up!" — Harlan Kane
Sunday, December 6, 2015
Thursday, July 9, 2015
Man and His Symbols
A post of July 7, Haiku for DeLillo, had a link to posts tagged "Holy Field GF(3)."
As the smallest Galois field based on an odd prime, this structure
clearly is of fundamental importance.
It is, however, perhaps too small to be visually impressive.
A larger, closely related, field, GF(9), may be pictured as a 3×3 array…
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… hence as the traditional Chinese Holy Field.
Marketing the Holy Field
The above illustration of China's Holy Field occurred in the context of
Log24 posts on Child Buyers. For more on child buyers, see an excellent
condemnation today by Diane Ravitch of the U. S. Secretary of Education.
Saturday, January 10, 2015
The Marlowe Deception*
From The New York Times this morning:
"David Henry Marlowe was born in Brooklyn
on June 6, 1931, the youngest of three children
of Karl and Lena Marlowe, Jewish immigrants
from Russia and Ukraine. His father sold
insurance, among other things, and his mother
ran the household.
For a time, the couple had a 'mind reading' act
on the Coney Island boardwalk, and their son
never forgot it. 'I can’t read minds, like my
parents,' he liked to say to friends. 'What I can
read is behavior.'"
For the rest of the story, see Marlowe's obituary.
For synchronicity, see this journal on the reported
date of his death.
* "I wrote another book." — Harlan Kane
Friday, November 28, 2014
Words and Pictures
Continued from Finder (Sept. 23, 2014)
"I wrote another book!" — Harlan Kane
From an online NY Times obituary this morning :
"At Newsweek, Mr. Bernstein and other top editors
became known as the Flying Wallendas for
managing tasks on deadline with the seeming ease
of the famed trapeze artists. In a tribute, staff
members framed a circus poster of the high-wire
troupe and hung it in his office."
Wikipedia on Bernstein's son-in-law :
"Married to New York Times correspondent Nina Bernstein,
Huyssen is also a longtime friend of Nobel Prize-winning
Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, and often hosts him when
the writer comes to the US. The two teach an undergraduate
class together at Columbia called 'Words and Pictures,'
which examines problems of visual representation in literature,
particularly theories of ekphrasis."
Ekphrasis for Bernsteins:
The Wonder Show of the World!
See also Miniature Prize —
"Rosebud."
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Child Buyers
The title refers to a classic 1960 novel by John Hersey.
“How do you get young people excited about space?”
— Megan Garber in The Atlantic , Aug. 16, 2012
(Italics added.) (See previous four posts.)
Allyn Jackson on “Simplicity, in Mathematics and in Art,”
in the new August 2013 issue of Notices of the American
Mathematical Society—
“As conventions evolve, so do notions of simplicity.
Franks mentioned Gauss’s 1831 paper that
established the respectability of complex numbers.”
This suggests a related image by Gauss, with a
remark on simplicity—
Here Gauss’s diagram is not, as may appear at first glance,
a 3×3 array of squares, but is rather a 4×4 array of discrete
points (part of an infinite plane array).
Related material that does feature the somewhat simpler 3×3 array
of squares, not seen as part of an infinite array—
Marketing the Holy Field
Click image for the original post.
For a purely mathematical view of the holy field, see Visualizing GL(2,p).
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Grey Screen of Death
For a mathematician who reportedly died on August 27—

"The Mac equivalent to a blue screen is a grey screen.
The info associated with a grey screen is in the kernel.log.
So you may have to look at this."
See also Plan 9.
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Space Cadets
From this journal on June 19, 2012—
Walter Gropius on space—
"Was ist Raum, wie können wir ihn
erfassen und gestalten?"
The Theory and
Organization of the
Bauhaus (1923)
A book published on the same date—
June 19, 2012:
"… what Chalmers called the convergence of coincidence—
a force majeure of unrelated events that shaped one's life,
that perhaps defined the concept of life itself.
He believed in the power of that force."
— The Cryptos Conundrum , by Chase Brandon
See also Chase Brandon in Sunday's Huffington Post .
"I wrote another book."
— Robert De Niro as Harlan Kane
Thursday, November 3, 2011
The China Conundrum
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"Buckle up!" — Harlan Kane, in the spirit of strategic stupidity.
Monday, April 25, 2011
The Kristen Effect
From the author of The Abacus Conundrum—
Harlan Kane's sequel to The Apollo Meme—
THE KRISTEN EFFECT
"Thus the universal mutual attraction between the sexes is represented."
— Hexagram 31
Monday, December 6, 2010
In Hoc Signo
Saturday Night Live on December 4, 2010 —
If you liked Harlan Kane's THE ABACUS CONUNDRUM, you'll love…
THE LOTTERY ENIGMA —
New York Lottery on Sunday, December 5, 2010
Related links— For 076, yesterday's entry on "Independence Day."
For 915, see 9/15, "Holy Cross Day Revisited," and its prequel,
linked to on 9/15 as "Ready When You Are, C.B."
See also "Citizen Harlan" and "The Beaver."







































































































