Saturday, December 2, 2023
Tuesday, August 1, 2023
Adventures in Story Space
Season 2 Teaser of "The Peripheral" —
Non-fiction —
Monday, September 20, 2021
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I did not attempt a solution of the above red-dot problem, but others
have done some related work —
Some related Log24 remarks: "The Dotted Line," Sept. 21, 2021.
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Thursday, October 14, 2021
Adventures in Story Space* . . .
In memory of an editor/author who reportedly died on September 12 . . .
Vide an anthology he edited that was published on November 1, 2013,
and two Log24 posts from that date —
Colorful Tale (11/1/2013)
See the title phrase in this journal.
See also posts from last August tagged Storyville.
Orange and Black at the White House (11/1/2013)
See Josh Lederman's AP story on this year's
colorful White House Halloween decorations.
Orange and black are also the Princeton colors.
See as well The Crosswicks Curse.
* "Story space" is a phrase from Log24 on September 12.
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Sunday, September 12, 2021
2001: A Story Space Odyssey
Click the image below for "Story Theory and the Number of the Beast"
(the latter, a Heinlein novel).
See also "Story Space."
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Tuesday, September 1, 2020
Story Space
“The universe, then, is less intimation
than cipher: a mask rather than a revelation
in the romantic sense. Does love meet with love?
Do we receive but what we give? The answer is
surely a paradox, the paradox that there are
Platonic universals beyond, but that the glass
is too dark to see them. Is there a light beyond
the glass, or is it a mirror only to the self?
The Platonic cave is even darker than Plato
made it, for it introduces the echo, and so
leaves us back in the world of men, which does
not carry total meaning, is just a story of events.”
than cipher: a mask rather than a revelation
in the romantic sense. Does love meet with love?
Do we receive but what we give? The answer is
surely a paradox, the paradox that there are
Platonic universals beyond, but that the glass
is too dark to see them. Is there a light beyond
the glass, or is it a mirror only to the self?
The Platonic cave is even darker than Plato
made it, for it introduces the echo, and so
leaves us back in the world of men, which does
not carry total meaning, is just a story of events.”
– Betty Jay, reader’s guide to A Passage to India
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Friday, May 3, 2019
The Structure of Story Space
Four Quartets
. . . Only by the form, the pattern,
Can words or music reach
The stillness, as a Chinese jar still
Moves perpetually in its stillness.
A Permanent Order of Wondertale Elements
| In Vol. I of Structural Anthropology , p. 209, I have shown that this analysis alone can account for the double aspect of time representation in all mythical systems: the narrative is both “in time” (it consists of a succession of events) and “beyond” (its value is permanent). With regard to Propp’s theories my analysis offers another advantage: I can reconcile much better than Propp himself his principle of a permanent order of wondertale elements with the fact that certain functions or groups of functions are shifted from one tale to the next (pp. 97-98. p. 108). If my view is accepted, the chronological succession will come to be absorbed into an atemporal matrix structure whose form is indeed constant. The shifting of functions is then no more than a mode of permutation (by vertical columns or fractions of columns). |
… Or by congruent quarter-sections.
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Thursday, May 2, 2019
Story Space
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Monday, December 17, 2018
Tales from Story Space
"Kiernan Brennan Shipka (born November 10, 1999)
is an American actress. She is best known for starring as
Sabrina Spellman on the Netflix supernatural horror series
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018–present)." — Wikipedia
As noted here earlier, Shipka turned 18 on Nov. 10 last year.
From Log24 on that date —
Another 18th birthday in Story Space —
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Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Story Structure, Story Space
Constance Grady at Vox today on a new Netflix series —
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We don’t yet have a story structure that allows witches to be powerful for long stretches of time without men holding them back. And what makes the new Sabrina so exciting is that it seems to be trying to build that story structure itself, in real time, to find a way to let Sabrina have her power and her freedom. It might fail. But if it does, it will be a glorious and worthwhile failure — the type that comes with trying to pioneer a new kind of story. |
See also Story Space in this journal.
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Monday, October 22, 2018
Story Space
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Tuesday, June 21, 2022
Friday, January 1, 2021
Mission Possible: KenKen Meets BarbieBarbie
Wikipedia on the late Hugh Hefner —
“Through his father’s line, Hefner was a descendant of
Plymouth governor William Bradford. He described
his family as ‘conservative, Midwestern, [and] Methodist’.
His mother had wanted him to become a missionary.”
A quote from Story Space —
“Your mission, should you choose to accept it . . . .” —
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Annie_Fanny .
Hefner’s parents might prefer the region of Story Space
proper to Dreamboat Annie.
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Tuesday, December 18, 2018
Shadowhunter Tales
The recent post "Tales from Story Space," about the 18th birthday
of the protagonist in the TV series "Shadowhunters" (2016-),
suggests a review of the actual 18th birthday of actress Lily Collins.
Collins is shown below warding off evil with a magical rune as
a shadowhunter in the 2013 film "City of Bones" —
She turned 18 on March 18, 2007. A paper on symmetry and logic
referenced here on that date displays the following "runes" of
philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce —
See also Adamantine Meditation (Log24, Oct. 3, 2018)
and the webpage Geometry of the I Ching.
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Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Friday, July 25, 2014
Actual Talent
“It’s going to be accomplished in steps,
this establishment of the Talented
in the scheme of things.”
— Anne McCaffrey, Radcliffe ’47, To Ride Pegasus
From a review of the new film “Magic in the Moonlight”—
“Sophie seems to have some actual talent….
When Sophie meets Aunt Vanessa, she uncovers the spinster’s
long-ago love affair with a member of parliament. It’s eerie.”
Material that is related, if only in story space:
- Today’s Telegraph obituary for aviatrix Lettice Curtis,
who reportedly died at 99 on July 21, 2014 - The 1933 film “Christopher Strong,” starring
Katharine Hepburn as an aviatrix who has an
affair with a member of parliament
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