A New Yorker piece from October 7th, 2023 —
"Terry Bisson's History of the Future" . . .
The "May 19th" name "was derived from the birthdays
of Ho Chi Minh and Malcolm X." — Wikipedia
And then there is the May 19 Gestalt . . .
For a prequel of sorts, see a May 19, 2023, arXiv paper —
Related Log24 reading: Other posts tagged Kummerhenge.
… For the Harvard Arts Weekend:
"Grids, You Say?" by Josefine Lyche, with
Lyche's quotation from Rosalind Krauss in October
(Vol. 9, Summer 1979) —
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See also last evening's Elevation of the Host, with Vampire Weekend.
"For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross." — Gravity's Rainbow
"At Cambridge, where he studied in the 30s, he had
a reputation for omniscience. Running the local
Communist party cell from the set of college rooms
beneath Wittgenstein's, the youthful Hobsbawm was
invited to join the exclusive Apostles society."
— Mark Mazower in The Guardian , Oct. 1, 2012
* See related posts from Oct. 1, 2, and 5, 2012.
"In the master's bedroom, they gathered for the feast…."
— Suggested by the current film Hotel Transylvania
"For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross."
– Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
Related material— the Feast of Saint Patrick in 2009.
The title is that of a fictional high school dance on November 12, 1955,
in the 1985 film “Back to the Future.”
A real high school dance from that era —
“The Class History was reviewed by Scott Mohr.”
See also Scott Mohr in Log24 posts tagged Back to the Future.
“… the Prom carried out a Moonlight and Roses theme….”
— Warren Times Mirror, Warren, PA, 2 June 1958, page 7 (above)
Related musical themes from a few years earlier —
See as well the 1955 film “Blackboard Jungle” in this journal.
*For some variations on the title theme, see Red October.
Suggested by the previous post, The Crimson Abyss —
“Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei
zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst,
blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.”
“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself
does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss,
the abyss also gazes into you.”
— Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil , Aphorism 146
From the Internet Abyss on Red October Day, October 25, 2010 —
An image reproduced in this journal on that same day —
This suggests the recent link (in the Sept. 22 post Geometry for Jews)
to the post Red October (Oct. 2, 2012). That post mentioned the first
version of Hotel Transylvania.
See also Mary Karr's look at American culture in today's NY Times
Sunday Book Review .
Remarks by an ignorant professor quoted here
yesterday suggest a Log24 search for "Lost in Translation."
That search yields instances of the following figure:
See also the post Red October (Oct. 2, 2012).
Lucy in the Sky
with Diamonds
and Sacred Heart
PARIS — Albert Hofmann, the mystical Swiss chemist who gave the world LSD, the most powerful psychotropic substance known, died Tuesday at his hilltop home near Basel, Switzerland. He was 102.
Related material:
and
a film by Julie Taymor,
Across the Universe:
Detail of the
Strawberry Fields Forever
Sacred Heart:
A song:
Julie Taymor
“Shinin’ like a diamond,
she had tombstones
in her eyes.”— Album “The Dark,”
by Guy ClarkFor related tombstones,
see May 16-19, 2006,
and April 19, 2008.Further background:
Art Wars for
Red October.
Symmetry in Diamond Theory:
Robbing Peter to Pay Paul
"Groups arise in most areas of pure and applied mathematics, usually as a set of operators or transformations of some structure. The appearance of a group generally reflects some kind of symmetry in the object under study, and such symmetry may be considered one of the fundamental notions of mathematics."
"Counter-change is sometimes known as Robbing Peter to Pay Paul."
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For a look at the Soviet approach
to counterchange symmetry, see
The Kishinev School of Discrete Geometry.
The larger cultural context:
See War of Ideas (Oct. 24),
The Hunt for Red October (Oct. 25),
On the Left (Oct. 25), and
ART WARS for Trotsky's Birthday (Oct. 26).
Rummy, here’s your
“war of ideas” —
The Hunt for Red October
Today is the anniversary of the triumph of Lenin in the October Revolution.
General background on the two sides:
News
Politics
Conservative
Progressive and Left
In today’s news: March on Washington
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