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Tuesday, January 20, 2026

For Harlan Kane . . . Rosebud!

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 6:49 am

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

For Harlan Kane (and SID 6.7):
Nutella Story

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 2:26 pm

Monday, November 10, 2025

For Harlan Kane: A Belt-Buckle Tale

Filed under: General — m759 @ 2:54 pm

For the Church of Synchronology, a date check —

"The almond tree flourisheth." — Ecclesiastes 12:5.

Wednesday, July 16, 2025

For Harlan Kane: The Unholy Maelstrom

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:14 pm

Sunday, July 13, 2025

For Harlan Kane — Space Devs!

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:36 am

Selected sneak previews . . .

IMAGE- Frank Langella and Liam Neeson in 'Unknown'

Tuesday, July 8, 2025

From Harlan Kane’s “Wicked: The Stepmother Chronicles”

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:15 pm

For Harlan Kane — The Heidegger Experiment

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:48 am

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

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 8:52 am

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

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 7:33 pm

Mr. Schifrin's reported dies natalis  was Thursday, June 26, 2025.

Earlier in this  journal —

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

Monday, June 16, 2025

For Harlan Kane: The Waterloo Perimeter

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 7:41 am

http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=Perimeter+Waterloo

The word "perimeter" In related news today . . . 

Tuesday, June 10, 2025

For the Brick House Chronicles of Harlan Kane

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:10 pm

Click image for a more recent illustration.

Thursday, June 5, 2025

For Harlan Kane:  The Amodei Influencer

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:07 am

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dario_Amodei

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

Thursday, May 29, 2025

For Harlan Kane — The Omensetter Chair

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:08 am

Related visual art . . .

(From http://m759.net/wordpress/?tag=green-chair .)

Friday, May 23, 2025

For Harlan Kane: The Mann Deadline

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:14 am

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!

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:52 am

From a Log24 search for Deutsche Schule . . .

As Above, So Below*

Braucht´s noch Text?

       — Deutsche Schule Montevideo

* An "established rule of law
across occult writings.
"

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

For Harlan Kane: The Claude Artifact

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 3:20 pm

Saturday, May 10, 2025

For Harlan Kane — The Mind-Body Problem:
Which is More Fun, Mind or Body?

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:00 pm

Examples of the former:

The Naomis, Wolf and Klein.

Examples of the latter:

The Druckers, Abbey and Sam.

Friday, May 9, 2025

For Harlan Kane: The Bluesky Mystery

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 8:21 pm

"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 . . .

Chengcheng Wan.

Monday, May 5, 2025

For Harlan Kane: The Gombrich Anomaly

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , , — m759 @ 2:34 am

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

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:40 am

For the soundtrack . . .

A song I learned at Beaty Junior High . . .

Monday, April 21, 2025

Harlan Kane’s New Novel — Hillbilly Prayer

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 5:15 am

Sunday, April 20, 2025

From Harlan Kane’s Gotham Times Bestseller —
Liam Neeson in THE NAKED EIGHT!

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 3:33 am

. . . A Sequel to "Unknown" . . .

IMAGE- Frank Langella and Liam Neeson in 'Unknown'

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

For Harlan Kane (and Harrison Ford) —
The Eureka Displacement

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:52 pm

"Water displacement!

  Get in the pool!"

 

Harrison Ford in "The Dial of Destiny"

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

For Harlan Kane:

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:43 pm

The Mama Pajama Case


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

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:23 am

See also Gauss  in this journal.

Sunday, December 29, 2024

For Harlan Kane: Husserl vs. Verhexung

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 1:17 pm

"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 . . .

Square and Rectangle, 16 and 24

Thursday, December 26, 2024

For Harlan Kane: The 713 Redemption

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 4:46 pm

"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

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 2:47 pm

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" —

Click to enlarge.

Tuesday, December 24, 2024

For Harlan Kane:  Numberland, the Musical!

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:01 am

Monday, December 23, 2024

For Harlan Kane: The Forerunner Tag

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:10 am

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

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:30 pm

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

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:15 am

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

For Harlan Kane: The IMG File

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:00 pm

Friday, September 13, 2024

For Harlan Kane: The Yeats Sequel

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:00 am

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.

Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:32 am

Saturday, August 31, 2024

Script Idea for Harlan Kane:
The Timeless Meets Time

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 2:44 pm

"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.

Not so cheap

See also ICERM in this  journal on November 14, 2012.

Thursday, August 29, 2024

For Harlan Kane: The Dreamcatcher Paradox

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 2:55 pm

Saturday, August 24, 2024

Language Game for Harlan Kane:
The Mountain Fountain

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:11 pm

See as well Pale Fire in this journal and . . .

Friday, August 23, 2024

For Harlan Kane: The Sicilian Defense

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 1:17 pm

From the Feast of Saint Nicholas, 2023 . . .

Friday, August 2, 2024

For Harlan Kane:  The Stevens Title

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 6:00 am

Things of August*


Related narratives:

Related mathematics:

'Dreaming Jewels' from October 10, 1985

*

Friday, July 26, 2024

For Harlan Kane:
The Chinatown Omega  Continues.

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:13 pm

A post in this journal from July 3, 2024 — see The Chinatown Omega
suggests a look at a death in Paris on that date . . .

Tuesday, July 9, 2024

For Stephen King (and Harlan Kane):
The Halloran Shining

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:06 am

Monday, April 22, 2024

For Harlan Kane: The Brick Trick

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:47 am

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

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:08 am

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

Tuesday, April 2, 2024

For Harlan Kane: The Rothfeld Explanation

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:56 am

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

Filed under: General — m759 @ 8:36 am

Related material for comedy writers —

Saturday, March 16, 2024

For Harlan Kane: The Benjamin Interrogation

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:20 pm

" 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)

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 8:33 pm

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

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:57 pm

"Pray for the grace of accuracy" — Robert Lowell

See also . . .

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

For Harlan Kane: The Eigenspace Handle

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 8:49 am

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

A Harlan Kane Rite Aid Special:  Chapter 11

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 11:01 pm

From a search in this journal for "Chapter 11" —

 

Inner structure —

IMAGE- Hyperplanes (square and triangular) in PG(3,2), and coordinates for AG(4,2)

The above three images share the same
vector-space structure —

   0     c     d   c + d
   a   a + c   a + d a + c + d
   b   b + c   b + d b + c + d

a + b

a + b + c

a + b + d

  a + b + 
  c + d

   (This vector-space a b c d  diagram is from  
    Chapter 11 of Sphere Packings, Lattices 
    and Groups
 , by John Horton Conway and
    N. J. A. Sloane, first published by Springer
    in 1988.)

For Harlan Kane — The Heidegger Conundrum

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 11:18 am

Where's Y?

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

Filed under: General — m759 @ 6:36 pm

See as well this journal on the above date of infamy.

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

For Harlan Kane: The Zenodo Files

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:55 pm

Google cullinane zenodo  to  . . .

View "The Square Model"  or download "Notes on finite geometry." 

Thursday, December 22, 2022

For Harlan Kane: The Canetti Maxim

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 5:14 am

"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 —

“Open the pod bay doors, Hal.”

Friday, October 14, 2022

The Harlan Kane Story

Filed under: General — m759 @ 2:55 pm

See as well "Sunset Boulevard" in this journal.

Friday, September 30, 2022

Classics Illustrated: The Bitmap File  by Harlan Kane

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:21 am

Related Log24 posts

See Vox Lux and Mathieu Omega.

Related book cover

Saturday, June 25, 2022

For Harlan Kane: The Thoreau Foundation

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:47 am

IMAGE- Right 3-4-5 triangle with squares on sides and hypotenuse as base

Click the image for posts 
related to the above title.

Related material:
The Nutshell Suite.

Wednesday, March 16, 2022

For Harlan Kane: The Gottschalk Gestalt

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 6:27 pm

Fiction —

Non-fiction —

See too . . .

and . . .

Cover design by Will Staehle.

Thursday, December 9, 2021

For Harlan Kane: The Cervantes Threshold

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:23 am

Tuesday, May 11, 2021

The Triangle Induction (Attn: Harlan Kane)

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 7:23 am

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

n+1

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*)

Filed under: General — m759 @ 7:31 pm

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.

* Author of The Abacus Conundrum.

Sunday, December 15, 2019

For Harlan Kane* — The Frindle Kindle

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 5:37 pm

"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:


————————————————————————————————————–

This  journal on December 11, 2018 —

Etymology of 'profane'

* See as well other references to Harlan Kane in this journal.

Tuesday, November 5, 2019

A Title for Harlan Kane: The Guilfoile Experiment

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:30 pm

See Harlan Kane and Guilfoile in this journal.

Sunday, August 25, 2019

For Harlan Kane* — The Rittenberg Saga

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:21 am

* See Kane in this  journal.

Thursday, April 4, 2019

For Harlan Kane . . .

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:00 pm

The Aloha Grid

Some less demanding reading Mysteries of the Rectangle .

Sunday, January 6, 2019

The Roethke Quote (For Harlan Kane)

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:56 pm

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

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:23 pm

"I wrote another book!" — Harlan Kane

The Crimson Staff

Saturday, April 2, 2016

The Emergence of Harlan Kane

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:48 am

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

For Harlan Kane

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 12:00 pm

(Author of The Abacus Conundrum )

The Galois Box

Monday, September 15, 2025

Abacus Conundrums for Hermann Hesse . . .

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:07 pm

. . . and for Harlan Kane

From “Mimsy Were the Borogoves” (Padgett, 1943) —

…”Paradine looked up. He frowned, staring. What in—
…”Is that an abacus?” he asked. “Let’s see it, please.”
…Somewhat unwillingly Scott brought the gadget across to his father’s chair. Paradine blinked. The “abacus,” unfolded, was more than a foot square, composed of thin,  rigid wires that interlocked here and there. On the wires the colored beads were strung. They could be slid back and forth, and from one support to another, even at the points of jointure. But— a pierced bead couldn’t cross interlocking  wires—
…So, apparently, they weren’t pierced. Paradine looked closer. Each small sphere had a deep groove running around it, so that it could be revolved and slid along the wire at the same time. Paradine tried to pull one free. It clung as though magnetically. Iron? It looked more like plastic.
…The framework itself— Paradine wasn’t a mathematician. But the angles formed by the wires were vaguely shocking, in their ridiculous lack of Euclidean logic. They were a maze. Perhaps that’s what the gadget was— a puzzle.

 

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*

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:02 am

"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

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:49 pm

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

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:20 pm

New from Harlan Kane:

The Wittenborn Date

"Always with a little humor." — Dr. Yen Lo

Saturday, October 21, 2023

Chapter 11 Continues: A Larger Box

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:00 pm

"… really we should use larger boxes." — Ursula K. Le Guin

"The Steiner system S (5, 8, 24) is a block design
made up of 24 points and 759 blocks, each of size 8,
with the property that every 5 points lie in exactly one block.
This design is naturally associated with the Golay code, and
its automorphism group is the simple Mathieu group M24;
see [3, Ch. 11].

3.  J.H. Conway and N.J.A. Sloane, Sphere Packings,
     Lattices and Groups
, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1988."

New Zealand Journal of Mathematics,
Volume 25 (1996), 133-139.
"Markings of the Golay Code," by
Marston Conder and John McKay.
(Received July 1995.)

See also the Harlan Kane Special from Broomsday 2023.
That post relates properties of the 4×4 box (Cullinane, 1979)
to those of the 4×6 box (Conway and Sloane, 1988, without
mention of Cullinane 1979).

Saturday, April 30, 2022

The Artifact Mathematician

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:25 pm

(For Harlan Kane)

See as well the Pearl Jam song in posts tagged Enigma Keys.

Friday, December 17, 2021

What Dreams May Come…  continues.

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 8:46 pm

 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.

Rotary telephone dial

From a Log24 search,
"Signs and Symbols."

Sunday, July 5, 2020

The Enigma Cube

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 5:03 am

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

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:24 am

(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:

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:46 am

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

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 4:17 pm

(For Harlan Kane)

See also earlier posts tagged The Fontana Arches.

Thursday, November 28, 2019

The Zeitgeist Finger

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:30 am

(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

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:46 pm

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

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:00 pm

(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

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:45 am

"Behold, I stand at the door, and knock." — Rev. 3:20

Say it with flowers.


For Harlan Kane The 3:20 Midrash:

"… 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).
    Doctor Sleep: A Novel  (p. 133). Scribner. Kindle Edition. 

Tuesday, September 10, 2019

The Wertham Memorandum

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:38 am

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

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 8:44 am

(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

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:57 pm

For Harlan Kane

Image from a New York Times  story this afternoon.

Thursday, July 25, 2019

The Morgenthau Correction

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:04 pm

For Harlan Kane . . .

The Usual Suspect —

The Folkenflik Obit

Filed under: General — m759 @ 6:00 am

For Harlan Kane . . .

https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/story/
2019-07-23/robert-folkenflik-uci-english-professor-emeritus-
and-longtime-laguna-beach-resident-dies-at-80

A related word in this journal:  Irvine.

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

The Khurana Embarrassment

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:36 pm

(A title for Harlan Kane)

Tuesday, May 21, 2019

The Toronto Plot*

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:00 pm

* 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

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:58 pm

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

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:38 pm

See also the Verwandlungslehre  link from the previous post
and The Hassenfeld Legacy (for Harlan Kane).

Saturday, February 11, 2017

The Quantum Identity

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:45 pm

The title was suggested by the previous post and by
the novels of Harlan Kane.

Sunday, April 3, 2016

The Cruelest Month

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:40 pm

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

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:23 pm

" '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

The Omega Weekend

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 4:04 am

By Harlan Kane

See Omega  (June 11, 2015).

Thursday, July 9, 2015

Man and His Symbols

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 2:24 pm

(Continued)

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.  

The Galois field GF(3)

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

hence as the traditional Chinese  Holy Field.

Marketing the Holy Field

IMAGE- The Ninefold Square, in China '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*

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:25 am

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

Filed under: General — m759 @ 8:07 am

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 —

Snow globe

"Rosebud."

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Child Buyers

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 10:00 pm

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—

IMAGE- Complex Grid, by Gauss

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

IMAGE- The Ninefold Square, in China '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

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:29 pm

For a mathematician who reportedly died on August 27

IMAGE- 'Mac for Dummies' from SNL 'Harlan Kane' sketch

"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

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:00 pm

From this journal on June 19, 2012

Walter Gropius on space—

"Was ist Raum, wie können wir ihn
 erfassen und gestalten?"

Walter Gropius,

The Theory and
Organization of the
Bauhaus
  (1923)

A book published on the same date—
June 19, 2012:

IMAGE- 'The Cryptos Conundrum,' by Chase Brandon

"… 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

Filed under: General — m759 @ 5:48 pm
 
 

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11C/111103-3x3favicon-BlowupTo256w.bmp

The Holy Field

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11C/111103-ChinaConundrum-240w.jpg

"Buckle up!" — Harlan Kane, in the spirit of strategic stupidity.

Monday, April 25, 2011

The Kristen Effect

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:31 pm

From the author of The Abacus Conundrum

http://www.log24.com/log/pix10B/101206-AbacusConundrum.jpg

Harlan Kane's sequel to The Apollo Meme

THE KRISTEN EFFECT

IMAGE- Kristen Wiig, 'Cock and Bull Story'

"Thus the universal mutual attraction between the sexes is represented."
Hexagram 31

Monday, December 6, 2010

In Hoc Signo

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:33 am

Saturday Night Live  on December 4, 2010 —

'The Abacus Conundrum' from SNL

If you liked Harlan Kane's THE ABACUS CONUNDRUM, you'll love…

THE LOTTERY ENIGMA —

http://www.log24.com/log/pix10B/101205-NYlottery.jpg

                                 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."

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