The above title is from a July 1 review by Brent Simon of
the recent film "Code Name: Banshee."
Example of a narrative template —
The "He's a mad scientist and I'm his beautiful daughter" plot,
as in "Ant-Man" (2015) and in . . .
Plot twist —
For Evangeline
(Some background — See Limerick in this journal.
See also "He's a mad scientist and I'm his beautiful daughter.")
"There was a young lady named Bright…."
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"You read too slow, Daddy," she complained. She was childishly irritable about it. "You say a word. Then I think a long time. Then you say another word." I knew what she meant. I remember, when I was a child, my thoughts used to dart in and out among the slowly droning words of any adult. Whole patterns of universes would appear and disappear in those brief moments. "So?" I asked. "So," she mocked me impishly. "You teach me to read. Then I can think quick as I want." "Quickly," I corrected in a weak voice. "The word is 'quickly,' an adverb." She looked at me impatiently, as if she saw through this allegedly adult device to show up a youngster's ignorance. I felt like the dope! |
Related material — The Quick and the Dead
* For example, from the Marvel Comics realm
Knock, Knock, Knockin' —
A Scene from "Tomorrowland" —
See August 30, 2002, the day that "Tomorrowland"
actress Raffey Cassidy was born. On that date, this
journal contained the following quotation —
"He's a Mad Scientist and I'm his Beautiful Daughter."
— Deety in Heinlein's The Number of the Beast.
George Clooney and Raffey Cassidy in "Tomorrowland" —
Happy birthday to John Polkinghorne, an English
theoretical physicist, theologian, writer, and Anglican priest.
Story
There is one story
and one story only
That will prove
worth your telling….
— Robert Graves,
“To Juan at the Winter Solstice”
“To many, mathematicians have come to resemble an esoteric sect, whose members alone have access to secret otherworldly mysteries.
All of us who came to Mykonos believed that this is an unfortunate situation. Mathematics is an inseparable part of human culture, and should be viewed and treated as such. Our underlying assumption was that mathematical reasoning had something important in common with that quintessential human activity – story-telling. But what this means, and what kind of connections can be drawn between the two, remained to be sorted out.”
Flashback to
Harrison Ford’s birthday
a year earlier:
“He’s a Mad Scientist and
I’m his Beautiful Daughter.”
— Deety in Heinlein’s
The Number of the Beast.
“If you have ever loved a book
so much that you began to
believe that it continued on
in its own world
even after you put it down,
this book could be for you.”
— Jodi Russell, review of
Number of the Beast
These last two quotations
are from
Story Theory and
the Number of the Beast,
by Steven H. Cullinane on
December 21, 2001.
Related material:
See Lucky(?) Numbers,
yesterday’s Pennsylvania lottery,
and the previous entry.
The Number of the Beast
"He's a Mad Scientist and I'm his Beautiful Daughter."
— Deety in Heinlein's The Number of the Beast.
For more on this theme, see my Journal Note of December 21, 2001. See also the film classic "Forbidden Planet," and the play "The Tempest," by William Shakespeare, on which it is based.
Philosophers ponder the idea of identity: what it is to give something a name on Monday and have it respond to that name on Friday….
— Bernard Holland, The New York Times of Monday, May 20, 1996
The New York midday lottery number for Monday, August 26, 2002, was 666, the biblical "number of the beast."
For the beast's Friday response to the calling of its number by New York State on Monday, see
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