Log24

In search of lost time …

"A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Woman"
in The New Yorker , issue dated October 4, 2021,
contains diary and notebook writings from 1948 through 1950
by Patricia Highsmith, who has appeared here previously.

Another (undated) portrait, from the Web —

The above photographic  portrait is undated, but it was
posted  on 21 February 2006.  This  journal's posts
on that date have been tagged, in Highsmith's honor …

 Now Lens .

Continued.

The above phrase “neurolinguistic hacker” does not do justice to
Neal Stephenson’s remarks on “Ba’al Shem.”

This post was suggested by  an  Oct. 12  Wired  book review.

The title is from James Joyce.

A Story in Pictures

Errol Morris in The New York Times  on March 9—

"If everything is incommensurable, then everything is seen through the lens of the present, the lens of now ."

"Borges concluded by quoting Chesterton, 'there is nothing more frightening than a labyrinth that has no center.' [72]"

Now Lens—

Uncertified Copy—

Del Toro—

Plato's Diamond—

Portrait of an Artist—

Meanwhile, back at the Times—

"…the farther back we manage to wiggle
 the more we need the loan of a lens…." —Finnegans Wake

For some background on the lens below, see the sermon on February 20th, 2011.

Finnegans Wake –

“The quad gospellers may own the targum but any of the Zingari shoolerim
 may pick a peck of kindlings yet from the sack of auld hensyne.”

The above "Zingari shoolerim" passage was quoted here in Frame Tales (November 10th, 2008).

That post concerned the Heinrich Zimmer tale "The King and the Corpse." Some related material—

From Saturday Night Live  last night—

Related material from the Log24 post "Now Lens"
(March 11, 2011)—

Errol Morris in The New York Times  on March 9, 2011—

"If everything is incommensurable, then everything
is seen through the lens of the present, the lens of now ."

"Borges concluded by quoting Chesterton, 'there is nothing
more frightening than a labyrinth that has no center.' [72]"

See also Borges on Shakespeare, everything, and nothing 
in a note from September 7, 2006.

Everything and nothing in Peter J. Cameron's weblog yesterday—

The existence of everything entails the existence of nothing;
indeed, the existence of anything (any set A) entails
the existence of the empty set (the set {x∈A:x≠x}).
But not the other way round.

Right, I had better put on my anorak and go out now …

Illustration added by m759—

How many miles to Babylon?*
Three score miles and ten.
Can I get there by candle-light?**
Yes, and back again.

* Suggested by the Pindar link in this journal yesterday.

** Quoted in the "Seven is Heaven" post on All Souls' Day.

The following link was suggested by
this morning's Now Lens and noon's Citizen Julie—

The Citizen Kane of Horror.

Related material— Damnation Morning and Punch Line.