Log24

Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Mathematics and Narrative:  The Crosswicks Curse Continues.

Filed under: General — m759 @ 7:03 pm

"There is  such a thing as a desktop."

— Saying adapted from a 1962 young-adult novel.

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

The Crosswicks Curse Continues

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:29 am

"There is  such a thing as 1906 "

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

The Crosswicks Curse

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 8:08 pm

Continues.

It was a dark and stormy night 

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11/110420-DarkAndStormy-Logicomix.jpg

— Page 180, Logicomix

Friday, November 7, 2014

The Crosswicks Curse…

Filed under: General — m759 @ 7:00 am

Continues.

There is  such a thing as an MBTI Tesseract.

See a thread at http://www.typologycentral.com/forums/
from August 17 and 18, 2010.

See also this journal on those dates: The Kermode Game.

Thursday, February 27, 2014

The Crosswicks Curse

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 7:00 pm

(Continued)

"There is  such a thing as a tesseract."

— Saying from Crosswicks

IMAGE- From Dmitri Tymoczko's 'Geometry of Music,' Chopin and a tesseract

See also March 5, 2011.

Adapted from the above passage —

"So did L'Engle understand four-dimensional geometry?"

No and Yes.

Thursday, August 15, 2013

The Crosswicks Curse

Filed under: General — m759 @ 8:23 am

(Continued from previous posts)

A check of today's date in this journal
ten years ago yields a reference to the
Brazilian artist Athos Bulcão.

It turns out he died on July 31, 2008.
See that date in this journal.

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

The Crosswicks Curse

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

(Continued)

"There is  such a thing as a tesseract." —A novel from Crosswicks

Related material from a 1905 graduate of Princeton,
"The 3-Space PG(3,2) and Its Group," is now available
at Internet Archive (1 download thus far).

The 3-space paper is relevant because of the
connection of the group it describes to the
"super, overarching" group of the tesseract.

Saturday, March 16, 2013

The Crosswicks Curse

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 4:00 pm

Continues.

From the prologue to the new Joyce Carol Oates
novel Accursed

"This journey I undertake with such anticipation
is not one of geographical space but one of Time—
for it is the year 1905 that is my destination.

1905!—the very year of the Curse."

Today's previous post supplied a fanciful link
between the Crosswicks Curse of Oates and
the Crosswicks tesseract  of Madeleine L'Engle.

The Crosswicks Curse according to L'Engle
in her classic 1962 novel A Wrinkle in Time —

"There is  such a thing as a tesseract."

A tesseract is a 4-dimensional hypercube that
(as pointed out by Coxeter in 1950) may also 
be viewed as a 4×4 array (with opposite edges
identified).

Meanwhile, back in 1905

For more details, see how the Rosenhain and Göpel tetrads occur naturally
in the diamond theorem model of the 35 lines of the 15-point projective
Galois space PG(3,2).

See also Conwell in this journal and George Macfeely Conwell in the
honors list of the Princeton Class of 1905.

Thursday, October 14, 2021

Adventures in Story Space* . . .

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 8:21 pm

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.

Friday, October 23, 2020

Language Game:  The Doily Curse

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 5:01 pm

“Quadrangle” is also a mathematical term.

Example: The Doily.

See also  The Crosswicks Curse .

Monday, December 16, 2019

Writer’s Block

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:43 pm

Frindle, Helen. The Sentient Shield .
Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd., Kindle edition. 

“But why, I am not aware or can’t remember anything; previous lives, contracts, whatever.”

“Perhaps not, but the block has been removed. As I understand blocks are placed because the person would not be able to cope with the information of their past life, or lives, or experiences that may have been so terrible. It seems however that what is happening is that you are now needed to wake up and remember and that is why the block has been removed.”

“Wake up. I don’t understand. I am sorry, I keep repeating myself but I don’t understand!”

Maddy shook her herself and went quiet, she thought perhaps she needed to listen to Pam.

“At this present time no, but it has been removed and you will begin to become, let’s say, more aware and remember.”

“Remember what, here I go again, it seems like a riddle to me and I am beginning to feel very odd, in fact even a little frightened. It seems as if we are venturing into things that are rather supernatural.”

Amen. See also The Crosswicks Curse.

Monday, July 8, 2019

Exploring Schoolgirl Space

See also "Quantum Tesseract Theorem" and "The Crosswicks Curse."

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Zero Dark Nine:

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:09 am

The Crosswicks Curse Continues . . .

"There is  such a thing as geometry."

— Saying adapted from a 1962 young-adult novel.

Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Arachne

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:33 pm

For Andrew Cusack.

A flashback from this  journal on the above remaking-myths date

See too The Crosswicks Curse.

Friday, July 7, 2017

Psycho History

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 6:00 pm

The title was suggested by the term “psychohistory” in
the Foundation  novels of Isaac Asimov. See the previous post.

See also a 2010 New York Times  review of
DeLillo’s novel Point Omega . The review is titled,
without any other reference to L’Engle’s classic tale
of the same name, “A Wrinkle in Time.”

IMAGE- NY Times headline 'A Wrinkle in Time' with 24 Hour Psycho and Point Omega scene

Related material: The Crosswicks Curse.

Friday, March 14, 2014

The Search for Charles Wallace

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:19 pm

The search in the previous post for the source of a quotation from Poincaré yielded, as a serendipitous benefit, information on an interesting psychoanalyst named Wilfred Bion (see the Poincaré  quotation at a webpage on Bion). This in turn suggested a search for the source of the name of author Madeleine L'Engle's son Bion, who may have partly inspired L'Engle's fictional character Charles Wallace.  Cynthia Zarin wrote about Bion in The New Yorker  of April 12, 2004 that

"According to the family, he is the person for whom L’Engle’s insistence on blurring fiction and reality had the most disastrous consequences."

Also from that article, material related to the name Bion and to what this journal has called "the Crosswicks Curse"*—

"Madeleine L’Engle Camp was born in 1918 in New York City, the only child of Madeleine Hall Barnett, of Jacksonville, Florida, and Charles Wadsworth Camp, a Princeton man and First World War veteran, whose family had a big country place in New Jersey, called Crosswicks. In Jacksonville society, the Barnett family was legendary: Madeleine’s grandfather, Bion Barnett, the chairman of the board of Jacksonville’s Barnett Bank, had run off with a woman to the South of France, leaving behind a note on the mantel. Her grandmother, Caroline Hallows L’Engle, never recovered from the blow. ….

… The summer after Hugh and Madeleine were married, they bought a dilapidated farmhouse in Goshen, in northwest Connecticut. Josephine, born in 1947, was three years old when they moved permanently to the house, which they called Crosswicks. Bion was born just over a year later."

* "There is  such a thing as a tesseract."

Saturday, January 4, 2014

For Phil Everly

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:00 am

A Souther song at YouTube.

See also the lyrics and, in this journal,
synchronicity on the uploading date.

Related art —

End of the Line Blues

IMAGE- YouTube statistics: 384 views, 3 thumbs up, 0 down.

and The Crosswicks Curse

IMAGE- The full group of hypercube symmetries, including both rotations and reflections, is of order 384.

Friday, November 1, 2013

Orange and Black at the White House

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:28 am

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.

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

The Long March

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:01 pm

See Women's History Month, 2013.

See also The Crosswicks Curse  and

Benchmark:

Saturday, April 13, 2013

Occupy Space

Filed under: General — m759 @ 8:28 pm

(Continued from Seize the Dia,  April 6)

Two chess games by Fischer, against two brothers—

1956: "In this game, Fischer (playing Black) demonstrates
noteworthy innovation and improvisation." — Wikipedia

1963: "Fischer [playing Black] had engineered a brilliantly
disguised trap for him and … he had fallen into it." — NY Times

See also this evening's Times  obituaries and The Unfolding.

Some context:  The Crosswicks Curse.

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Kountry Korn Kandy

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:00 pm

For the first two words of the title, 
see the previous post.

For the third word, see a review of the recent film "Hitchcock"
about the director and Janet Leigh during the filming of "Psycho"—

Hopkins' Hitchcock more or less eats out of Janet's hand
when she feeds him candy corn during a drive together
(the reference is to the candy Norman Bates is devouring
when he's interviewed by Martin Balsam's detective).

A story that demands the blended talents of Hitchcock and of
Mel Brooks to do it justice:

See also a 2010 New York Times  review of
DeLillo's novel Point Omega . The review is titled,
without any other reference to L'Engle's classic tale
of the same name, "A Wrinkle in Time."

IMAGE- NY Times headline 'A Wrinkle in Time' with 24 Hour Psycho and Point Omega scene

Related material: The Crosswicks Curse.

Saturday, March 16, 2013

Puzzles

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 7:59 am

For readers of The Daily Princetonian :

IMAGE- 4x4 array in 'Ancient Jewels' puzzle

(From a site advertised in the
Princetonian  on March 11, 2013)

For readers of The Harvard Crimson :

IMAGE- Harvard Crimson ad, Easter Sunday, 2008: 'Finite projective geometry as a graphic grammar of abstract design'

For some background, see Crimson Easter Egg and the Diamond 16 Puzzle.

For some (very loosely) related narrative, see Crosswicks in this journal
and the Crosswicks Curse  in a new novel by Joyce Carol Oates.

"There is  such a thing as a tesseract."
— Crosswicks author Madeleine L'Engle

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