“Once again, Harvard defeats Holy Cross.”
That post quoted Joseph Campbell describing a
“… matrix of the cosmic process, whether in the macrocosm
or in a microcosmic field of manifestation.”
Related material —
Macrocosm:
Microcosmic field of manifestation:
The previous post suggests a review of a passage quoted here
on Holy Cross Day 2018 . . .
in light of a post from March 2021 —
This post was suggested by a recent American Mathematical Society essay:
“My goal here is to make the results of one such collaboration,
by Branko Grünbaum (1929-2018) and Geoffrey Shephard (1927-2016)
in the area of discrete geometry more widely known.”
Grünbaum reportedly died on Sept. 14, 2018 — Holy Cross Day.
As for Shephard . . .
Related background on Pearson —
Related background on Roberts —
Related material from a Log24 search for “Holy Cross” —
"When times are mysterious
Serious numbers
Will always be heard."
— Paul Simon,
"When Numbers Get Serious"
"There is a pleasantly discursive treatment of
Pontius Pilate's unanswered question 'What is truth?'"
— H. S. M. Coxeter, introduction to Richard J. Trudeau's remarks
on the "story theory" of truth as opposed to the "diamond theory"
of truth in The Non-Euclidean Revolution (1987)
The deaths of Roth and Grünbaum on September 14th,
The Feast of the Holy Cross, along with Douthat's column
today titled "Only the Truth Can Save Us Now," suggest a
review of …
.
Once again, Harvard defeats Holy Cross.
See also a related remark by Norman Mailer, and Plan 9 in this journal.
Presumably the Holy Cross defeat will please art theorist Rosalind Krauss (below).
(Click to enlarge.)
Wikipedia article:
Reductionism is a philosophical position
which holds that a complex system is nothing but
the sum of its parts, and that an account of it can be
reduced to accounts of individual constituents.[1]
1. See e.g. Reductionism in the Interdisciplinary
Encyclopedia of Religion and Science.
“The Website of the Interdisciplinary Encyclopedia on
Religion and Science is edited by the Advanced School
for Interdisciplinary Research (ADSIR), operating at the
Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome….”
For a reductionist Holy Cross, see yesterday’s noon post.
A new Wikipedia page was created on Oct. 9—
"This page was last modified on 9 October 2012 at 19:54."
This, and a long-running musical, suggest…
"Try to remember the kind of September…"
LIFE Magazine for September 6, 1954, provides
one view of the kind of September when I was
twelve years old. (Also that September, Mitt Romney
was seven. President Obama was born later.)
Top of Life Magazine cover, September 6, 1954
This suggests James Joyce's nightmare view of history.
For some other views of 1954, see selected posts in this journal
that mention that year.
See also IMDb on Grace Kelly that year, and a related theological
reflection from Holy Cross Day, 2002.
But with good Will
To show our simple skill…
( Continued from Midsummer Eve, 1993 )
The "Black Diamond" search from Holy Cross Day
leads to Talk Amongst Yourselves, which in turn
leads to PyrE in the Book, with Alfred Bester's
version of "Will and Idea."
This phrase may be regarded as a version of
Schopenhauer's "Will and Representation."
Related material—
"Schopenhauer's notion of the will comes from the Kantian thing-in-itself, which Kant believed to be the fundamental reality behind the representation that provided the matter of perception, but lacked form. Kant believed that space, time, causation, and many other similar phenomena belonged properly to the form imposed on the world by the human mind in order to create the representation, and these factors were absent from the thing-in-itself. Schopenhauer pointed out that anything outside of time and space could not be differentiated, so the thing-in-itself must be one and all things that exist, including human beings, must be part of this fundamental unity. Our inner-experience must be a manifestation of the noumenal realm and the will is the inner kernel* of every being. All knowledge gained of objects is seen as self-referential, as we recognize the same will in other things as is inside us." —Wikipedia
* "Die Schrecken des Todes beruhen großentheils auf dem falschen Schein, daß jetzt das Ich verschwinde, und die Welt bleibe, Vielmehr aber ist das Gegentheil wahr: die Welt verschwindet; hingegen der innerste Kern des Ich, der Träger und Hervorbringer jenes Subjekts, in dessen Vorstellung allein die Welt ihr Daseyn hatte, beharrt."
— Schopenhauer, Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung , Kapitel 41
Added Nov. 16, 2012, a translation by E. F. J. Payne—
"The terrors of death rest for the most part on the false illusion that then the I or ego vanishes, and the world remains. But rather is the opposite true, namely that the world vanishes; on the other hand, the innermost kernel of the ego endures, the bearer and producer of that subject in whose representation alone the world had its existence."
— THE WORLD AS WILL AND REPRESENTATION
by Arthur Schopenhauer
Translated from the German by E. F. J. Payne
In two volumes
© 1969 Dover Publications, Inc.
© 1958 by The Falcon's Wing Press
Volume Two: Supplements to the Fourth Book,
XLI. On Death and Its Relation to the Indestructibility of Our Inner Nature
|
… I saw a shadow
I rose to a knee, |
Simpson reportedly died on Holy Cross Day.
That day in this journal—
Click for further details.
Some context—
(Continued… A Meditation for Holy Cross Day )
Black Diamond in this journal
versus
Black Diamond at Harvard—
On the middle initial of the Cary Grant character
in yesterday's post Summer Reading—
Click image for further details.
"The concept of nothingness follows Roger Thornhill throughout North by Northwest , first as another identity imposes itself upon him and later as circumstances force him to run from Vandamm as well as the police. When Eve asks him what the 'O' in 'ROT' stands for, Thornhill can only answer 'nothing.' His middle initial's lack of meaning connects well to the overall theme of the human self as possibly nothing." —Hitchcock and Identity, by Emily Pilgrim
Related material— Elementary Finite Geometry (Aug. 1).
See, too, a post for Holy Cross Day in 2002.
Or: Night of Lunacy
From 9 PM Monday —
Note that the last line, together with the page number, forms
a sort of key—
The rest of the story—
For one reinterpretation of the page number 304, see a link—
Sermon— from Tuesday's post Diamond Speech.
The linked-to sermon itself has a link, based on a rereading
of 304 as 3/04, to a post of March 4, 2004, with…
WW and ZZ
as rendered by figures from the Kaleidoscope Puzzle—
.
Yesterday morning the same letter-combinations occurred
in a presentation at CERN of a newly discovered particle—
(Click for context.)
Since the particle under discussion may turn out to be the
God particle, it seems fitting to interpret WW and ZZ as part
of an imagined requiem High Mass.
Ron Howard, director of a film about CERN and the God particle,
may regard this imaginary Mass as performed for the late
Andy Griffith, who played Howard's father in a television series.
Others may prefer to regard the imaginary Mass as performed
for the late John E. Brooks, S. J., who served as president of
The College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass., for 24 years.
Griffith died Tuesday. Brooks died Monday.
For some background on the Holy Cross, see posts of
Sept. 14 (Holy Cross Day) and Sept. 15, 2010—
For more lunacy, see…
Continue a search for thirty-three and three
— Katherine Neville, The Eight
The Usual Suspects
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For some background, click on the diamond above. See also Harrison Ford in "Harvard Defeats Holy Cross." |
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."
An Ecumenical Hymn
For those who observed Yom Kippur at
Harvard's Memorial Church on Saturday,
September 18, 2010—
Friday night and the lights are low…
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day for
July 13, 2007— Manhattanhenge.
See also on July 13, 2007, in this journal, a post
for Harrison Ford's 65th birthday featuring the
ecumenical diamond-in-a-football religious symbol—
In the book, the golden compass is actually called ‘the alethiometer.’ As any student of Greek would expect, this instrument has to do with alethia— the truth. In the fourth chapter of the book, the Master of Jordan College tells Lyra, the protagonist of the story, that the alethiometer ‘tells you the truth. As for how to read it, you’ll have to learn by yourself.'”
— Sermon by Paul Lundberg, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Seminary, Tuesday, December 4, 2007.
“Harvard’s motto is Veritas. Many of you have already found out, and others will find out in the course of their lives, that truth eludes us as soon as our concentration begins to flag, all the while leaving the illusion that we are continuing to pursue it. This is the source of much discord. Also, truth seldom is sweet; it is almost invariably bitter.”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, commencement address, Harvard University, June 8, 1978
Square Wheel, continued
For director Robert Wise,
who died yesterday on
The Feast of The Holy Cross:
The Maltese Cross
From Cabaret Mechanical Theatre
See also Sept. 8, 2002, Sept. 12, 2002, and Time Fold.
Holy Cross Day
The Cross and the Wheel:
“… the quality of life as of death
and of light as of darkness is one,
one beauty, the rhythm of that Wheel,
and who can behold it is happy
and will praise it to the people.”
— Robinson Jeffers,
“Point Pinos and Point Lobos,”
quoted at the end of
The Cosmic Code by Heinz Pagels,
Simon & Schuster, 1982
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