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Monday, September 11, 2017

“Leave a Space”

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:00 am

The title is from a play, "Jumpers," by Tom Stoppard.

In memory of Abbott Lowell Cummings, who reportedly
died on May 29, 2017 —

Thursday, August 11, 2022

Space X

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

"Leave a space." — Tom Stoppard, "Jumpers"

See also Lily Collins's recent ice-cream-cone post.

The number 105 displayed in that post may suggest,
to sufferers from apophenia, the date  1/05.

See that date in this journal. For the color  of Collins's
ice cream — lavender — see posts now tagged Space X.

Wednesday, August 10, 2022

A Space

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:20 am

"Snowman author Raymond Briggs dies aged 88"

See as well a Log24 search Stoppard + "Leave a space" .

Related literary notes:

Saturday, June 25, 2022

The Legacy* Battle

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 7:49 pm

See as well this  journal on October 14, 2009 . . .
the date of death for Bruce Wasserstein.

* "Leave a space." — "Jumpers," by Tom Stoppard

Sunday, February 6, 2022

Jumpers for Lehman

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 5:11 pm

"Leave a space." — Tom Stoppard, "Jumpers"

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Cards of Identity  Continues.

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:45 pm

For a different sort of dazzle, and of seeing beneath,
vide  Square Space.    “Leave a space.” — Stoppard,  Jumpers

Monday, December 14, 2020

Espace Carré

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 3:24 pm

"Leave a space." — Tom Stoppard, "Jumpers."

Obituary of a novelist  in The Washington Post  yesterday —

"He gave various explanations for how he chose his nom de plume
le Carré means 'the square' in French —
before ultimately admitting he didn’t really know."

Related material for Dan Brown — Imperial Symbology and . . .

"Together with Tolkien and Lewis, this group forms
the Oxford School of children’s fantasy literature. . . .
They all celebrate the purported wisdom of old stories,
and follow the central tenet that Tolkien set out
for fairy-stories: ‘one thing must not be made fun of,
the magic itself.  That must in the story be taken seriously,
neither laughed at nor explained away.’ "

A leftist academic's  essay at aeon.co, "Empire of Fantasy,"
on St. Andrew's Day, 2020.

A more respectable writer on literature and magic —

Monday, September 11, 2017

More Ado

Filed under: General — m759 @ 7:59 pm

A flashback from the previous post, "Leave a Space" —

From my RSS feed this evening —

Related material from the Web

Len Wein reportedly died on Sunday.
An image from this  journal on Sunday —

" There was an Outer Limits episode called 'The Architects of Fear.' 
I thought: 'Wow. That’s a bit close to our story.' " — Alan Moore

https://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/01/29/
len-wein-the-outer-limits-and-rewriting-watchmen/

See as well a Log24 post from the above Bleeding Cool  date,
2013-01-29, for more comic-book-related material.

Sunday, October 9, 2016

The Left Space

Filed under: General — m759 @ 2:07 pm

See a 1.5 MB Google Image Search for 
Jumpers + Stoppard + "Leave a Space".

For the source of some of the images,
see a Log24 search for "Leave a Space."

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

“Blank Space” Accolades

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 9:00 pm

A post in memory of British theatre director Peter Wood,
who reportedly died on February 11, 2016.

The Album of the Year Grammy:

From the date of the director's death —

"Leave a space." — Tom Stoppard

Sunday, July 19, 2015

Lying Rhyme

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 6:45 pm
 

Tom Stoppard, Jumpers —

“Heaven, how can I believe in Heaven?” 
she sings at the finale.
“Just a lying rhyme for seven!”

“To begin at the beginning: Is God?…”
[very long pause]

Leave a space.”

See as well a search for "Heaven.gif" in this journal.

For the more literate among us —

     … and the modulation from algebra to space.

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Altar

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 11:00 am

"To every man upon this earth,
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
and the temples of his gods…?"

— Macaulay, quoted in the April 2013 film "Oblivion"

"Leave a space." — Tom Stoppard, "Jumpers"

Related material: The August 16, 2014, sudden death in Scotland
of an architect of the above Cardross seminary, and a Log24 post,
Plato's Logos, from the date of the above photo: June 26, 2010.

See also…

IMAGE- T. Lux Feininger on 'Gestaltung'

Here “eidolon” should instead be “eidos .”

An example of eidos — Plato's diamond (from the Meno ) —

http://www.log24.com/log/pix10A/100607-PlatoDiamond.gif

Friday, April 18, 2014

Symmetry

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:30 am

See also “Leave a space,” from Monday.

Monday, April 14, 2014

Legacy

Filed under: General — m759 @ 7:11 am

Leave a space.” — Tom Stoppard

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Riff Design

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

"Leave a space." — Tom Stoppard, in a play about philosophers

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11/110105-NYTobits-Sm.jpg

The word "riff" at top in the Times  obits is from an ad for Google's Chrome browser.
The white space is artificial, made by deleting last  year's dead.

Scene from 'A Good Year'

A Good Year

For further details, click on the image below.

'The Power Of The Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts,' by Rudolf Arnheim

Monday, April 7, 2008

Monday April 7, 2008

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:00 pm
“LegacyPlus™:
 
The Class,
 Without the Classes”

The New York Times
on the date of
Charlton Heston’s death

Leave a space.”
 — Tom Stoppard      
in “Jumpers”

NY Times obituaries April 7, 2008: Charlton Heston, Helen Yglesias, George Switzer

“Heaven is a state, a sort of
   metaphysical state.”
— John O’Hara,
Hope of Heaven

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Tuesday February 26, 2008

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 8:00 pm

Eight is a Gate (continued)

Tom Stoppard, Jumpers:
"Heaven, how can I believe in Heaven?" she sings at the finale. "Just a lying rhyme for seven!"
"To begin at the beginning: Is God?…" [very long pause]

 
From "Space," by Salomon Bochner

Makom. Our term “space” derives from the Latin, and is thus relatively late. The nearest to it among earlier terms in the West are the Hebrew makom and the Greek topos (τόπος). The literal meaning of these two terms is the same, namely “place,” and even the scope of connotations is virtually the same (Theol. Wörterbuch…, 1966). Either term denotes: area, region, province; the room occupied by a person or an object, or by a community of persons or arrangements of objects. But by first occurrences in extant sources, makom seems to be the earlier term and concept. Apparently, topos is attested for the first time in the early fifth century B.C., in plays of Aeschylus and fragments of Parmenides, and its meaning there is a rather literal one, even in Parmenides. Now, the Hebrew book Job is more or less contemporary with these Greek sources, but in chapter 16:18 occurs in a rather figurative sense:

O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place (makom).

Late antiquity was already debating whether this makom is meant to be a “hiding place” or a “resting place” (Dhorme, p. 217), and there have even been suggestions that it might have the logical meaning of “occasion,” “opportunity.” Long before it appears in Job, makom occurs in the very first chapter of Genesis, in:

And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place (makom) and the dry land appear, and it was so (Genesis 1:9).

This biblical account is more or less contemporary with Hesiod's Theogony, but the makom of the biblical account has a cosmological nuance as no corresponding term in Hesiod. Elsewhere in Genesis (for instance, 22:3; 28:11; 28:19), makom usually refers to a place of cultic significance, where God might be worshipped, eventually if not immediately. Similarly, in the Arabic language, which however has been a written one only since the seventh century A.D., the term makām designates the place of a saint or of a holy tomb (Jammer, p. 27). In post-biblical Hebrew and Aramaic, in the first centuries A.D., makom became a theological synonym for God, as expressed in the Talmudic sayings: “He is the place of His world,” and “His world is His place” (Jammer, p. 26). Pagan Hellenism of the same era did not identify God with place, not noticeably so; except that the One (τὸ ἕν) of Plotinus (third century A.D.) was conceived as something very comprehensive (see for instance J. M. Rist, pp. 21-27) and thus may have been intended to subsume God and place, among other concepts. In the much older One of Parmenides (early fifth century B.C.), from which the Plotinian One ultimately descended, the theological aspect was only faintly discernible. But the spatial aspect was clearly visible, even emphasized (Diels, frag. 8, lines 42-49).

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Paul Dhorme, Le livre de Job (Paris, 1926).

H. Diels and W. Kranz, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 6th ed. (Berlin, 1938).

Max Jammer, Concepts of Space (Cambridge, Mass., 1954).

J. M. Rist, Plotinus: The Road to Reality (Cambridge, 1967).

Theologisches Wörterbuch zum Neuen Testament (1966), 8, 187-208, esp. 199ff.

— SALOMON BOCHNER

Related material: In the previous entry — "Father Clark seizes at one place (page eight)
upon the fact that…."

Father Clark's reviewer (previous entry) called a remark by Father Clark "far fetched."
This use of "place" by the reviewer is, one might say, "near fetched."

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Saturday February 23, 2008

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

"An acute study of the links
between word and fact"
Nina daVinci Nichols

 
Thanks to a Virginia reader for a reminder:
 
Virginia /391062427/item.html? 2/22/2008 7:37 PM
 
The link is to a Log24 entry
that begins as follows…

An Exercise

of Power

Johnny Cash:
"And behold,
a white horse."

Springer logo - A chess knight
Chess Knight
(in German, Springer)

This, along with the "jumper" theme in the previous two entries, suggests a search on springer jumper.That search yields a German sports phrase, "Springer kommt!"  A search on that phrase yields the following:
"Liebe Frau vBayern,
mich würde interessieren wie man
mit diesem Hintergrund
(vonbayern.de/german/anna.html)
zu Springer kommt?"

Background of "Frau vBayern" from thePeerage.com:

Anna-Natascha Prinzessin zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg 

F, #64640, b. 15 March 1978Last Edited=20 Oct 2005

     Anna-Natascha Prinzessin zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg was born on 15 March 1978. She is the daughter of Ludwig Ferdinand Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg and Countess Yvonne Wachtmeister af Johannishus. She married Manuel Maria Alexander Leopold Jerg Prinz von Bayern, son of Leopold Prinz von Bayern and Ursula Mohlenkamp, on 6 August 2005 at Nykøping, Södermanland, Sweden.

The date of the above "Liebe Frau vBayern" inquiry, Feb. 1, 2007, suggests the following:

From Log24 on
St. Bridget's Day, 2007:

The quotation
"Science is a Faustian bargain"
and the following figure–

Change

The 63 yang-containing hexagrams of the I Ching as a Singer 63-cycle

From a short story by
the above Princess:

"'I don't even think she would have wanted to change you. But she for sure did not want to change herself. And her values were simply a part of her.' It was true, too. I would even go so far as to say that they were her basis, if you think about her as a geometrical body. That's what they couldn't understand, because in this age of the full understanding for stretches of values in favor of self-realization of any kind, it was a completely foreign concept."

To make this excellent metaphor mathematically correct,
change "geometrical body" to "space"… as in

"For Princeton's Class of 2007"

Review of a 2004 production of a 1972 Tom Stoppard play, "Jumpers"–

John Lahr on Tom Stoppard's play Jumpers

Related material:

Knight Moves (Log24, Jan. 16),
Kindergarten Theology (St. Bridget's Day, 2008),
and

The image “My space -(the affine space of six dimensions over the two-element field
(Click on image for details.)

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