"She's turning me on, turning me on
Pushing my buttons like it ain't no thing
If I'm what she wants, she gets what she wants
The neon's buzzing when she pulls that string"
— https://genius.com/Blake-shelton-turnin-me-on-lyrics
Jena Malone in "Lorelei" (2020) —
Lines from the above "Lorelei" scene —
Wayland — "You've been busy."
Dolores — "Yep."
For Women's History Month —
See this post's title in Log24 and the following from Pinkdex ,
the online catalog of the MIT Science Fiction Society (MITSFS)—
"The Pinkdex is so named because it was originally
maintained by another member of MITSFS, many years ago—
Marilyn 'Fuzzy Pink' Niven [said to be so called for her sweaters],
whose husband, Larry Niven, has written
or co-authored many of the books in the MITSFS library."
See also MIT Commencement in this journal.
Postscript for the less technically oriented reader—
This post was suggested by yesterday's "Look, Buster,"
and by the middle name of William Rowan Hamilton.
"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
"Character, as we have stated, is revealed through action.
We are not yet telepathic; we must embody even the most intellectual traits
and express them physically."
— The Craftsmen of Dionysus: An Approach to Acting by Jerome Rockwood
Dionysus Meets Apollo
in "Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould"—
Step I — Tiny Dancer in My Hand (0.48.46)
Step II — The Bridge (0.52.46)
Step III — Liftoff (1.27.37)
"It's going to be accomplished in steps,
this establishment of the Talented
in the scheme of things."
— To Ride Pegasus ,
by Anne McCaffrey* (Radcliffe '47)
An AI image created on Feb. 24, 2024, by https://neural.love —
"Lily Collins Playing Chess" —
* Dies Natalis: November 21, 2011.
From a 1984 film, "2010: The Year We Make Contact" —
Russian — "Piece of pie."
American — "Cake. Piece of cake."
This brief dialogue was suggested by the phrase
"Pineapple Upside-Down Cake," which in turn was
suggested by an image and a dance from the Instagram
page of the talented Jena Malone:
"Business-wise, Magic is working—Bloomberg reported
that the game brought in $500 million in revenue last year.
Hasbro owns Monopoly and Scrabble, but Magic is its top
game brand. . . .
The idea of using a card mechanic to generate story has
precedent—the Italian postmodern writer Italo Calvino
generated an entire novel based on drawing from a
tarot card deck. Games provide frameworks that miniaturize
and represent idealized realities; so do narratives."
— Adam Rogers, Sunday, July 21, 2019, at Wired
"The Esper party began . . ." —
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Life of the Party From Stephen King's Dreamcatcher :
From Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man :
From Anne McCaffrey's To Ride Pegasus :
"… it's going to be accomplished in steps, this |
Adam Rogers at Wired as quoted above —
"The idea of using a card mechanic to generate story
has precedent. . . ."
See The Greater Trumps .
Nobel Flashback:
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
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Continued from Friday the 13th of June, 2014 :
"It's going to be accomplished in steps,
this establishment of the Talented
in the scheme of things."
— To Ride Pegasus ,
by Anne McCaffrey (Radcliffe '47)
Related material:
Click Zenna Henderson's dates for
an informative essay from April 5, 2009.
See also posts on, or about, that date in this journal.
See also Christmas Eve, 2012.
“It’s going to be accomplished
in steps, this establishment
of the talented….”
— To Ride Pegasus , by
Anne McCaffrey (Radcliffe ’47)
“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:
"It's going to be accomplished in steps,
this establishment of the Talented
in the scheme of things."
— To Ride Pegasus ,
by Anne McCaffrey (Radcliffe '47)
From a post of Jan. 11, 2012 —
Tension in the Common Room—
"It's going to be accomplished in steps,
this establishment of the Talented
in the scheme of things."
— To Ride Pegasus ,
by Anne McCaffrey (Radcliffe '47),
quoted here on December 1, 2013
"Twenty-one days is enough time to build trust
and decimate it several times over, and long enough
for someone to drop their pretensions altogether.
So while 'Dude, You’re Screwed' is about a person
at war with himself, 'Naked and Afraid' is about
people at war with each other. The elements may
get you down, but hell is other people."
— Jon Caramanica in The New York Times
(page C1 of today's New York print edition)
First edition, 1973, cover art by Gene Szafran
"It's going to be accomplished in steps,
this establishment of the Talented
in the scheme of things."
— To Ride Pegasus ,
by Anne McCaffrey (Radcliffe '47)
From a poem by Frances Frost—
"The upper peak, the shattered rock that cleaves the northward sky
remains alone untaken by the darkness"
— "From a Mountain-Top," The North American Review ,
December 1939 (Vol. 248, No. 2, page 301)
For some material related to the Frost poem,
if only by verbal coincidence, see shattered + rock in this journal.
See also rock + cleavage.
For the relationship to Eve, see New Year's Eve, 2012,
and the following image by Karolin Schnoor, who also
illustrated the New York Times op-ed piece "Catholic
Education, in Need of Salvation" published online on
Epiphany 2013 (see last evening's Log24 post)—
For some context, see Establishment of the Talented.
The 3×3×3 Galois Cube
Backstory— The Talented, from April 26 last year,
and Atlas Shrugged, from April 27 last year.
From "The Talented," a post of April 26, 2011—
And for Josefine Lyche—
Unity in Multiplicity —
Pink in Wikipedia
Part I — Unity and Multiplicity
(Continued from The Talented and Galois Cube)
Part II — "A feeling, an angel, the moon, and Italy"—
For Nicole (see Jan. 9).
"Ninth of January, Two Thousand… and Eleven." — Andrew Keeling
This, with the entry on Nicole from January ninth,
suggests the following dialogue from
"Escape to Witch Mountain" (1975)—
Where are the others?
Other kids?
Neighbors, I mean.
There are no neighbors.
Look out of the window. Go on...
Look as far as you can see.
Mr. Bolt owns everything in sight.
Well, I could see the sky.
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See also "establishment of the Talented" in this journal.
From "Deus ex Machina and the Aesthetics of Proof"
(Alan J. Cain in The Mathematical Intelligencer * of September 2010, pdf)—
Deus ex Machina
In a narrative, a deus is unsatisfying for two reasons. The
first is that any future attempt to build tension is undercut if
the author establishes that a difficulty can be resolved by a
deus. The second reason—more important for the purposes
of this essay—is that the deus does not fit with the internal
structure of the story. There is no reason internal to the
story why the deus should intervene at that moment.
Santa in the New York Thanksgiving Day Parade
Thanksgiving Day, 2010 (November 25), New York Lottery—
Midday 411, Evening 332.
For 411, see (for instance) April 11 (i.e., 4/11) in 2008 —
For 332, see "A Play for Kristen**" — March 16, 2008 —
"A search for the evening number, 332, in Log24 yields a rather famous line from Sophocles…"
Sophocles, Antigone, edited by Mark Griffith, Cambridge University Press, 1999:
“Many things are formidable (deina ) and none is more formidable (deinoteron ) than man.”
– Antigone , lines 332-333, in Valdis Leinieks, The Plays of Sophokles, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1982, p. 62
See also the lottery numbers 411 and 332 in this journal on March 22, 2009— "The Storyteller in Chance ."
“… 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
* It seems Santa has delivered an early gift — free online access to all issues of the Intelligencer .
** Teaser headline in the original version at Xanga.com
Recent posts (Church Logic and Church Narrative) have discussed finite geometry as a type of non-Euclidean geometry.
For those who prefer non-finite geometry, here are some observations.
"A characteristic property of hyperbolic geometry
is that the angles of a triangle add to less
than a straight angle (half circle)." — Wikipedia
From To Ride Pegasus, by Anne McCaffrey, 1973:
“Mary-Molly luv, it’s going to be accomplished in steps, this establishment of the Talented in the scheme of things. Not society, mind you, for we’re the original nonconformists…. and Society will never permit us to integrate. That’s okay!” He consigned Society to insignificance with a flick of his fingers. “The Talented form their own society and that’s as it should be: birds of a feather. No, not birds. Winged horses! Ha! Yes, indeed. Pegasus… the poetic winged horse of flights of fancy. A bloody good symbol for us. You’d see a lot from the back of a winged horse…”
“Yes, an airplane has blind spots. Where would you put a saddle?” Molly had her practical side.
On the practical side:
The above chapel is from a Princeton Weekly Bulletin story of October 6th, 2008.
Related material: This journal on that date.
"It's going to be accomplished in steps, this establishment
of the Talented in the scheme of things."
— Anne McCaffrey
From this journal on August 23,
a look at Resurrection Road in M magazine—
Notes for an unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon, by F. Scott Fitzgerald—
"There is a place for a hint somewhere
of a big agent to complete the picture."
“It’s going to be accomplished
in steps, this establishment of
the Talented in the
scheme of things.”
— Anne McCaffrey, Radcliffe ’47
Click on images to enlarge.
Related material:
— A passage from
Through the Looking-Glass
“… it’s going to be
accomplished in steps,
this establishment of
the Talented
in the scheme of things.”
On the seven steps of Charles Williams:
— Dennis L. Weeks (a former student of Walter J. Ong, S. J.) in Steps Toward Salvation: An Examination of Coinherence and Substitution in the Seven Novels of Charles Williams (New York, Peter Lang Publishing, 1991), page 9
On the twelve steps of Christmas:
The Shining
of Dec. 13
continued from
Dec. 13, 2003
“There is a place for a hint
somewhere of a big agent
to complete the picture.”
— Notes for an unfinished novel,
The Last Tycoon,
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Good Earth (1937)
casting: Chinese extras
(uncredited)
(From the book Tangram)
See also
yesterday’s entries
as well as…
Serpent’s Eyes Shine,
Alice’s Tea Party,
Janet’s Tea Party,
Hollywood Memory,
and
Hope of Heaven.
“… it’s going to be
accomplished in steps,
this establishment of
the Talented
in the scheme of things.”
“… it’s going to be accomplished in steps,
Alec Guinness and Ernie Kovacs
play checkers in
“Our Man in Havana” (1959)
Et cetera,
Et cetera,
Et cetera
“…Once in a lullaby….”
— Judy Garland
Edie Adams sings on the
final episode of
“The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour”
in April 1960
On this date in 1961,
Ernest Hemingway shot
himself.
The Talented Patricia Highsmith
Related material:
The Languages of Addiction,
Ch. 13: The Barnes Complex
See also
The Garden of Eden.
(continued from
March 7, 2008)
A search for the evening
number, 332, in Log24
yields a rather famous
line from Sophocles…
Sophocles, Antigone,
edited by Mark Griffith,
Cambridge University Press,
1999:
— Antigone, lines 332-333, in Valdis Leinieks, The Plays of Sophokles, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1982, p. 62
Continuing the search within Antigone for the mid-day number, 874, we find…
“Power (kratos), for one who is concerned with power (kratos), is in no way to be transgressed.”
— Antigone, lines 873-874, Leinieks, op. cit. p. 69
Both passages from Sophocles seem not unrelated to yesterday’s entry for the Ides of March and to last night’s opening routine on “Saturday Night Live.”
The above word deina (formidable, wonderful, awesome) in the latter context suggests the following meditation:
— Anne McCaffrey,
Radcliffe ’47,
To Ride Pegasus
Related material:
The Log24 Pi Day
mantra from
Roger Zelazny —
“center loosens,
forms again elsewhere.”
“A shape of some kind
for something that
has no shape.”
— Roy Scheider
in “2010”
For further details,
click on the monolith.
See also the Keystone State’s
lottery numbers for Sunday–
Grammy night and the
date of Scheider’s death:
These numbers suggest
the following links.
For further details related
to death and religion, see
a version of the cheer
“1234, who are we for?”
For further details related
to Grammy night, see
6/17, 2007:
A selection from the
Stephen King Hymnal
“… 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
Under the Volcano, by Malcolm Lowry, 1947, Chapter VI:
“What have I got out of my life? Contacts with famous men… The occasion Einstein asked me the time, for instance. That summer evening…. smiles when I say I don’t know. And yet asked me. Yes: the great Jew, who has upset the whole world’s notions of time and space, once leaned down… to ask me… ragged freshman… at the first approach of the evening star, the time. And smiled again when I pointed out the clock neither of us had noticed.”
To Ride Pegasus, by Anne McCaffrey, 1973:
“Mary-Molly luv, it’s going to be accomplished in steps, this establishment of the Talented in the scheme of things. Not society, mind you, for we’re the original nonconformists…. and Society will never permit us to integrate. That’s okay!” He consigned Society to insignificance with a flick of his fingers. “The Talented form their own society and that’s as it should be: birds of a feather. No, not birds. Winged horses! Ha! Yes, indeed. Pegasus… the poetic winged horse of flights of fancy. A bloody good symbol for us. You’d see a lot from the back of a winged horse…”
From Holt Spanish and English Dictionary, 1955:
lucero m Venus
(as morning or evening star);
bright star…
star (in forehead of animal)….
Scarlett Johansson and friend
in “The Horse Whisperer” (1998)
“… 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
Party Phone
for Van Morrison
on his birthday
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Honey Blonde She's as sweet as |
From March 24, 2006:
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Life of the Party From Alfred Bester's Related material: "… it's going to be — Anne McCaffrey,
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"It's not the twilight zone no,
it's not the twilight zone
Yes it's just a party phone,
pure
honeycomb,
honeycomb,
honeycomb"
— Van Morrison, "Twilight Zone,"
in The Philosopher's Stone
From Stephen King's Dreamcatcher:
From Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man:
Related material:
"… 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
“Words and numbers are of equal value,
for, in the cloak of knowledge,
one is warp and the other woof.”
— The princesses Rhyme and Reason
in The Phantom Tollbooth,
by Norton Juster, 1961
(From a Sermon for
St. Patrick’s Day, 2001)
The Pennsylvania midday lottery
on St. Patrick’s Day, 2006:
618.
x2 – x – 1 = 0
Or we may, with Miles Davis, prefer a more sensuous incarnation of the keys:
“… 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
“… 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
(And born yesterday…
Neil “I am, I cried” Diamond)
Recommended Reading
for Cullinane College:
“The Talented form their own society and that’s as it should be: birds of a feather. No, not birds. Winged horses! Ha! Yes, indeed. Pegasus… the poetic winged horse of flights of fancy. A bloody good symbol for us. You’d see a lot from the back of a winged horse…”
— To Ride Pegasus, by Anne McCaffrey.
“Born in Cambridge, MA, on April Fool’s Day 1926 (‘I’ve tried very hard to live up to being an April-firster,’ she quips), McCaffrey graduated from Radcliffe College in 1947.”
Born on March 9, 1947, in Christchurch, Keri Hulme won the Pegasus Prize for her Maori novel, The Bone People.
Trifecta
Born today: Arthur Koestler,
former Communist and writer on parapsychology
From To Ride Pegasus, by Anne McCaffrey, 1973:
“Mary-Molly luv, it’s going to be accomplished in steps, this establishment of the Talented in the scheme of things. Not society, mind you, for we’re the original nonconformists…. and Society will never permit us to integrate. That’s okay!” He consigned Society to insignificance with a flick of his fingers. “The Talented form their own society and that’s as it should be: birds of a feather. No, not birds. Winged horses! Ha! Yes, indeed. Pegasus… the poetic winged horse of flights of fancy. A bloody good symbol for us. You’d see a lot from the back of a winged horse…”
“Yes, an airplane has blind spots. Where would you put a saddle?” Molly had her practical side.
He laughed and hugged her. Henry’s frequent demonstrations of affection were a source of great delight to Molly, whose own strength was in tactile contacts.
“Don’t know. Lord, how would you bridle a winged horse?”
“With the heart?”
“Indubitably!” The notion pleased him. “Yes, with the heart and the head because Pegasus is too strong a steed to control or subdue by any ordinary method.”
Born today: Darryl F. Zanuck,
producer of “Viva Zapata!”
Director Eliza Kazan consults with scriptwriter John Steinbeck about the production of “Viva Zapata!” in Cuernavaca, Mexico:
When John woke, I asked him, “Isn’t the Syndicate of Film Technicians and Workers here Communist-dominated?”
Elia Kazan on Darryl Zanuck’s insistence that Zapata’s white horse be emphasized:
Darryl made only one suggestion that he was insistent on. He’d stolen it, no doubt, from an old Warner western, but he offered it as if it were pristine stuff. “Zapata must have a white horse,” he said, “and after they shoot him, we should show the horse running free in the mountains — get the idea? A great fade-out.” We got the idea, all right. Darryl was innocent about the symbol in his suggestion, but so enthusiastic about the emotion of it that he practically foamed at the mouth. John’s face was without expression. Actually, while I thought it was corny, the idea worked out well in the end.
Born today: comedian Bob Newhart
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If Kazan hadn’t directed “Viva Zapata!”…
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