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SPACE Date: 1984/09/15.

Cube Bricks 1984 —

Related material —

Note the three quadruplets of parallel edges  in the 1984 figure above.

Further Reading —

The above Gates article appeared earlier, in the June 2010 issue of
Physics World , with bigger illustrations. For instance —

Exercise: Describe, without seeing the rest of the article,
the rule used for connecting the balls above.

Wikipedia offers a much clearer picture of a (non-adinkra) tesseract —

      And then, more simply, there is the Galois tesseract —

For parts of my own  world in June 2010, see this journal for that month.

The above Galois tesseract appears there as follows:

See also the Klein correspondence in a paper from 1968
in yesterday's 2:54 PM ET post. 

See also An Epic for Kristen .

"We want every student to have a fulfilling experience
of higher education that enriches their lives and careers."

Sure you do.

Click for a more realistic view of these years.

"There are many accounts of
moral and political anger in
the philosophical literature."

— J. M. Bernstein in today's NY Times

J.M. Bernstein is University Distinguished Professor
of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research.

He is the author of a work
that Google Books files under
"Communism and Literature"—

The Philosophy of the Novel:
Lukács, Marxism, and the Dialectics of Form

(University of Minnesota Press, 1984)

The sort of Adult Services I prefer —

Stephen King's Dreamcatcher  (2001) and Brian De Palma's "Body Double" (1984).

From Chomsky's remarks in The New York Times  today —

"It is at once comic and tragic, as Borges might have noted,
that so much money and attention should be concentrated
on so little a thing — something so trivial when contrasted
with the human mind, which by dint of language, in the
words of Wilhelm von Humboldt, can make 'infinite use of
finite means,' creating ideas and theories with universal reach."

A search in this  journal for Humboldt University  yields . . .

"Cum grano salis" — Boris Karloff in "The Black Cat."

From the previous post:

"Words are events, happenings, not things,
as letters make them appear to be."
— Walter J. Ong, S.J., page 2 in 
"Writing and the Evolution of Consciousness,"

". . . originally delivered by Walter J. Ong
as the 7th Annual 'Sidney Warhaft Memorial Lecture',
January 26, 1984, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg."

A different Sidney Warhaft memorial —

Photographs are also events.

See this journal on the above photo date — Sept. 17, 2014.

Lest the title of the TV series in the previous post, "The Chi,"
be mistaken for a reference to the Greek letter  chi …

"Words are events, happenings, not things,
as letters make them appear to be."
— Walter J. Ong, S.J., page 2 in 
"Writing and the Evolution of Consciousness,"
in Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal ,
Vol. 18, No. 1 (Winter 1985), pp. 1-10 (11 pages,
counting the prefatory page with a photo of Ong).

Published by: University of Manitoba.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24777620

". . . originally delivered by Walter J. Ong
as the 7th Annual 'Sidney Warhaft Memorial Lecture',
January 26, 1984, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg."

See as well . . .

This suggests a review of Wonder Woman and the Dreamstone —

” There’s a line from the movie ‘The Paper Chase’, in which
the fearsome Professor Kingsfield tells a room of first-year
law-school students ‘You come in here with a skull full of mush …
and you leave thinking like a lawyer.’ “

— James Propp on December 14, 2020, in . . .

Children of the Labyrinth.

Related material — Japanese Bed.

(Continued)

(Continued … See “Is Fiction the Art of Lying?” by Mario Vargas Llosa, 
a New York Times  essay of October 7, 1984.)

"A non-fiction writer must have the freedom
to imagine the facts they [sic ] use."

Sure they must.

From today's print New York Times  obituary for a screenwriter
who reportedly died last Sunday —

“Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,”
a 1984 follow-up to “Raiders of the Lost Ark” …
made an estimated $333 million worldwide.

See too  "When thou seekest me, seek towards India."

From this evening's online New York Times : 

"Eric Salzman, a composer and music critic who
championed a new art form, music theater,
that was neither opera nor stage musical, died
on Nov. 12 at his home in Brooklyn. He was 84."

^{. . . .}

"The first American Music Theater Festival 
took place in the summer of 1984.

Among that first festival’s featured works was 
'Strike Up the Band!,' Mr. Salzman’s 'reconstructed
and adapted' version of a satirical musical
with a score by George and Ira Gershwin
that had not been staged in 50 years. The director
of that production, Frank Corsaro, died 
the day before Mr. Salzman did."

Synchronology check :

"The day before" above was November 11, 2017.

Links from this  journal  on November 11 —

A Log24 search for Michael Sudduth and an 
October 28, 2017, Facebook post by Sudduth.

Detail of Sudduth's Nov. 11 Facebook home page —

Click the above for an enlarged view of the Sudduth profile picture.

Related material :

Aooo.

https://www.shmoop.com/no-country-for-old-men/coin-symbol.html —

"You know the date on this coin?"

Related material —

This journal on March 7, 2014 —

From Klein’s 1893  Lectures on Mathematics —

“The varieties introduced by Wirtinger may be called 
  Kummer varieties….” — E. Spanier, 1956

From the "varieties introduced by Wirtinger" link above —

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Continuing the 1984  theme …

More about 1984 from the above May 1, 2016, post —

From University of Chicago Press in 1984:

"Drawing on Hegel, Nietzsche, Derrida,
and others, Mark Taylor extends—and
goes well beyond—pioneering efforts. . . . "
—G. Douglas Atkins, 
Philosophy and Literature

Update at noon on May 16 —

"Follow the Blood Arroyo to the place
where the snake lays its eggs."

— Westworld, Season 1, Episode 2,
air date October 9, 2016

This suggests a review of Derrida + Serpent 
in this journal.

See also, in this  journal, St. Cyprian's Day last year.

A footnote in memory of a preservationist —

Title page of a thesis on language by Miles Spencer Kimball from 1984

The previous post's quotation from the Kimball thesis contains
a reference (numbered 23) to the source of Wittgenstein's 
"savages" remark: Philosophical Investigations , § 194.

Kimball's  remarks quoted in the previous post are from
page 121 of his thesis, under the heading "Wittgenstein's
Battle Against Bewitchment by Language."

From a cinematic example of such bewitchment —

From "Bright Symbol," a post of 12 AM
on December 25, 2015 —

From "Dark Symbol," a post of 12 PM
on December 25, 2015 —

* Title suggested by a song released by Epic Records in 1984.

(Continued )

A 1984 master's thesis (PDF, 8+ MB) —

"Language, Linguistics, and Philosophy:
A Comparison of the Work of Roman Jakobson
and the Later Wittgenstein, with Some Attention
to the Philosophy of Charles Saunders Peirce,"
by Miles Spencer Kimball.

Two pages from that thesis —

Yesterday was reportedly the dies natalis  (in the Catholic sense)
of a former president of New York University.

From the conclusion of The Chronicles of Narnia —

"The term is over:  the holidays have begun. 
The dream is ended:  this is the morning."

Linda Hamilton's related hymn in the 1984 film "Children of the Corn" —

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpHeTcisyRo .

In memory of a culture jammer *—

* "Mr. Lyons … made a living partly by buying,
reconditioning and selling used cars." —
— Ben Ratliff in The New York Times  this evening.

See also the previous post and, from Feb. 14 in
this  journal, the phrase "more global than local."

"I had joined the White House early in 1984, after three years
writing Dan Rather's radio commentaries."

— Peggy Noonan, "Confessions of a White House Speechwriter,"
a 1989 New York Times  excerpt from her book What I Saw
at the Revolution

* See also What IS the frequency, Kenneth?

Above: Frank Langella in “Starting Out in the Evening” Right: Johnny Depp in “The Ninth Gate“

“One must proceed cautiously, for this road— of truth and falsehood
in the realm of fiction— is riddled with traps and any enticing oasis
is usually a mirage.”

– “Is Fiction the Art of Lying?” by Mario Vargas Llosa,
New York Times  essay of October 7, 1984

For the title plan, see Sisteen in this journal.

See also…

Related remarks: Diederik Aerts at arXiv.org.

See also Aerts (as above) on the metaphysics of entities  (1984):

"What a lovely singing voice you must have."
— Bill Murray in Ghostbusters  (1984)

Contestant One:  Ruth Margraff

Contestant Two:  Sandra Sangiao 

Dark Epiphanies

Part I: 

Part II:

"A Little Boy and a Little Girl," by Hans Christian Andersen
(second story of the seven that make up The Snow Queen )

Part III:

A former Snow White —

And for Scarlett — A Venus Flytrap

From last evening's  John Fogerty 1984 video —

From this morning's paper —

Click the soup for some backstory.

"Assume a can opener."

Latin Lesson

Details in an etymology linked to here Monday, June 3,
in a post titled The Deep End — 

"… mid-15c., from Middle French pensée  … from
  fem. past participle of penser  'to think,' from
  Latin pensare  'consider'…." 

A remembrance of the late, great, Esther Williams,
who died early today:

After marrying Lamas, she retired from public life.
Williams explained in a 1984 interview, "A really terrific guy
comes along and says, 'I wish you'd stay home and be
my wife,' and that's the most logical thing in the world for a Latin.
And I loved being a Latin wife — you get treated very well.
There's a lot of attention in return for that sacrifice."

See, too, the link alea  from yesterday's Stitch.