Monday, October 7, 2024
For Lucinella: “Working Backwards” . . .
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Saturday, July 29, 2023
Monday, January 16, 2023
“Working Backwards” … Continues
See earlier instances of "working backwards" in this journal.
Alan Rickman as Metatron in "Dogma" —
Alan Rickman as Severus Snape at Hogwarts —
Page three hundred and ninety-four —
See also today's previous post.
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Wednesday, January 13, 2021
Working Backwards: 13 in the 11th
(Adapted from Encyclopaedia Britannica,
Eleventh Edition (1911), Crystallography .)
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Sunday, June 2, 2019
Working Backward
The title is from a search in this journal —
http://www.m759.net/wordpress/?s=1982+Janine .
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Thursday, November 6, 2014
Working Backward
“This setting of the Ave Verum Corpus text was composed
to celebrate the feast of Corpus Christi .” — Wikipedia
“Ave Verum Corpus .”— Madison in the BBC America TV series
“Intruders,” Season 1, Episode 3: “Time Has Come Today.”
See also the Eucharistic meditation of Feb. 13, 2006, linked to in yesterday’s post
on Guy Fawkes Day. (That British holiday originally commemorated the Catholic
Gunpowder Plot of 1605.)
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Sunday, July 14, 2013
Working Backwards
"Warming to the question of what it means to read a poem backward…."
— Essayist in a New Yorker weblog on July 11, 2013
“Death itself would start working backwards.”
— Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia , 1950
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"I twisted my mind like a bright ribbon, folded it,
"All manner of thing shall be well |
See also some context for these quotations.
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Tuesday, May 17, 2022
Harry Potter and the Crown of Fire
Daniel Radcliffe in the recent film "The Lost City" —
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301
302
303
304 |
From the Log24 post "Fish Babel" —
The final page, 759, of the Harry Potter saga —
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Sunday, July 14, 2013
Working Backwards
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"I twisted my mind like a bright ribbon, folded it,
"All manner of thing shall be well |
See also some context for these quotations.
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Saturday, January 9, 2021
Thursday, January 7, 2021
The Primes of Miss Jean Valentine
Valentine reportedly died on December 29, 2020.
Related dialogue from "The Mirror Has Two Faces" (1996) —
– It's interesting how coupling appears in nature and mathematics.
– You were talking about pairs …
– Oh, the twin-prime conjecture. It explores pairs of prime numbers.
Those only divisible by themselves. Three-five. Five-seven.
Not seven-nine …
– Nine can be divided by three.
– That's right. And … and so on. It was discovered that pairs were
often separated by …
– One number in between.
– Exactly. Did you read my book?
– No, I'm sorry.
– That's okay. This is marvellous.
– A first date like a game show.
– I didn't mean to lecture.
– I'm sorry, I didn't mean to call it a date.
Twin-Prime Dates —
December 31 and December 29, 2020.
"Though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still
which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn
of time. But if she could have looked a little further back, into the
stillness and the darkness before Time dawned…she would have known
that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed
in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start
working backwards."
– C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe , as quoted at
https://apologyanalogy.com/death-working-backwards/ .
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Saturday, June 13, 2015
Egg Tales
"And not all the king's men nor his horses
Will resurrect his corpus."
See as well Andy Weir's "The Egg" and Working Backward.
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Thursday, March 26, 2015
When Death Tells a Story…
See the title phrase and "working backward" in this journal.
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Beans Talk
Peter Keepnews on the late jazz musician Chico Hamilton:
"He was a charter member of the baritone saxophonist
Gerry Mulligan’s quartet, which helped lay the groundwork
for the cool movement. His own quintet, which he formed
shortly after leaving the Mulligan group, came to be
regarded as the quintessence of cool."
Example: a recording uploaded on October 27, 2013,
and this journal on that date.
Related material: Working Backward.
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Tuesday, July 30, 2013
St. Julia’s Day
For mathematician Julia Robinson, who died on this date
in 1985, and her sister Constance Reid, who died on
October 14, 2010—
A search suggested by the "cosmic dippiness" of
a 1998 science fiction novel and by the non-dippiness of
a much better novel with closely related themes from 1977—
(The use of "recursive" here is of course rather poetic, not to be
construed as meaningful in the strictly mathematical sense.
See also the term's etymology, and Working Backwards.)
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Saturday, October 9, 2010
Jaunt 701
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Sunday, August 30, 2009
Sunday August 30, 2009
Working Backward
Continued from
December 10, 2005:
“Death itself would start
working backward.”
— Aslan in
The Chronicles of Narnia
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Saturday, January 26, 2008
Saturday January 26, 2008
Working Backward
Those who have followed the links here recently may appreciate a short story told by yesterday’s lottery numbers in Pennsylvania: mid-day 096, evening 513.
The “96” may be regarded as a reference to the age at death of geometer H.S.M. Coxeter (see yesterday morning’s links). The “513” may be regarded as a reference to the time of yesterday afternoon’s entry, 5:01, plus the twelve minutes discussed in that entry by presidential aide Richard Darman, who died yesterday.
These references may seem less fanciful in the light of other recent Log24 material: a verse quoted here on Jan. 18—
… Todo lo sé por el lucero puro
que brilla en la diadema de la Muerte.
— Rubén Darío,
born January 18, 1867
que brilla en la diadema de la Muerte.
— Rubén Darío,
born January 18, 1867
— and a link on Jan. 19 to the following:
The Lion, the Witch
and the Wardrobe:
and the Wardrobe:
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“But what does it all mean?” asked Susan when they were somewhat calmer. “It means,” said Aslan, “that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of Time. But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and the darkness before Time dawned, she would have read there a different incantation. She would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backward.” |
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Saturday, December 10, 2005
Saturday December 10, 2005
Prequel on
Saint Cecilia’s Day
“Death itself would start
working backward.”
— Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia
Celebrity Obits, Nov. 22, 2005 —
Intelligence and
Counterintelligence
(continued):
| Aldous Huxley & C.S. Lewis both died on Nov.22, 1963. For some reason, their deaths went largely unnoticed… | The doors of perception lead to Narnia | November 22, 08:51:20am |
| Shemp Howard died 50 years ago today | Moe | November 22, 09:17:18am |
See also the previous entry, and this follow-up:
“Shattuck’s death on Thursday… was reported by his nephew, John Shattuck, head of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, The Boston Globe reported Saturday.”
Related material:
“The White Witch rules Narnia,
and has brought to it
the Hundred Years of Winter.”
— The Narnia Academy
and the foundation of the
David Morrell Counterintelligence Library:
Shemp
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Thursday, December 8, 2005
Thursday December 8, 2005
Working Backward
"Death itself would start
working backward."
— Aslan in
The Chronicles of Narnia
"'Memory is non-narrative
and non-linear,'
Lin said of the work….
'People say,
"How do you read this?"
Any way you want.'"
"Work as if you were in the
early days of a better nation."
— God, according to the author of 1982 Janine
From Carole A. Holdsworth, Tanner may have stated it best:
“V. is whatever lights you to
(Tony Tanner, page 36,
She's a mystery |
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Wednesday, December 7, 2005
Wednesday December 7, 2005
Magical Thinking
(continued)
(continued)
1:00:19 EST
The Lion, the Witch
and the Wardrobe
premieres tonight at
the Royal Albert Hall.
Hexagram 19 in the
Cullinane series:
— Katherine Neville, The Eight
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“What does this have to do with why we’re here?”
“I saw it in a chess book Mordecai showed me. The most ancient chess service ever discovered was found at the palace of King Minos on Crete– the place where the famous Labyrinth was built, named after this sacred axe. The chess service dates to 2000 B.C. It was made of gold and silver and jewels…. And in the center was carved a labrys.” … “But I thought chess wasn’t even invented until six or seven hundred A.D.,” I added. “They always say it came from Persia or India. How could this Minoan chess service be so old?” “Mordecai’s written a lot himself on the history of chess,” said Lily…. “He thinks that chess set in Crete was designed by the same guy who built the Labyrinth– the sculptor Daedalus….” Now things were beginning to click into place…. “Why was this axe carved on the chessboard?” I asked Lily, knowing the answer in my heart before she spoke. “What did Mordecai say was the connection?”…. “That’s what it’s all about,” she said quietly. “To kill the King.” The sacred axe was used to kill the King. The ritual had been the same since the beginning of time. The game of chess was merely a reenactment. Why hadn’t I recognized it before? |
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“But what does it all mean?” asked Susan when they were somewhat calmer. “It means,” said Aslan, “that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of Time. But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and the darkness before Time dawned, she would have read there a different incantation. She would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backward.” |
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