Monday, October 7, 2024
For Lucinella: “Working Backwards” . . .
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.
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
Working Backwards: 13 in the 11th
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
"I twisted my mind like a bright ribbon, folded it,
"All manner of thing shall be well |
See also some context for these quotations.
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
Harry Potter and the Crown of Fire
Daniel Radcliffe in the recent film "The Lost City" —
301
302
303
304 |
From the Log24 post "Fish Babel" —
The final page, 759, of the Harry Potter saga —
Sunday, July 14, 2013
Working Backwards
|
"I twisted my mind like a bright ribbon, folded it,
"All manner of thing shall be well |
See also some context for these quotations.
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/ .
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.)
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Jaunt 701
Pennsylvania Lottery today—
Context: See the past few days' posts and search for