Monday, November 8, 2021
The Hole Story: Backward Forward and Sideways
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Wednesday, January 24, 2018
The Pentagram Papers
From a Log24 post of March 4, 2008 —
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SINGER, ISAAC:
"Sets forth his own aims in writing for children and laments
— An Annotated Listing of Criticism
"She returned the smile, then looked across the room to
— A Swiftly Tilting Planet,
For "the dimension of time," see A Fold in Time, Time Fold,
A Swiftly Tilting Planet is a fantasy for children |
Ibid. —
The pen's point:
John Trever, Albuquerque Journal, 2/29/08
Note the figure on the cover of National Review above —
A related figure from Pentagram Design —
See, more generally, Isaac Singer in this journal.
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Saturday, September 6, 2014
Plato Thanks the Academy
Plato at Stanford:
Lacan and the Matheme of Fantasy
“… [in] the matheme of fantasy ($ ◊ a ),
the diamond-shaped “lozenge” (poinçon ) ◊
can be read as a condensation of four symbols:
one, ∧ (the logical symbol for conjunction [“and”]);
two, ∨ (the logical symbol for disjunction [“or”]);
three, > (the mathematical symbol for “greater than”); and,
four, < (the mathematical symbol for “less than”). As per
Lacan’s matheme, the subject’s desires are scripted and
orchestrated by an unconscious fundamental fantasy
in which the desiring subject ($) is positioned in relation to
its corresponding object-cause of desire ( a ).”
— plato.stanford.edu, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Stanford author:
The author is a professor in Albuquerque.
For other perspectives, see that city in this journal.
For the film authors, see IMDb.
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Thursday, July 3, 2014
Gates and Windows:
The Los Alamos Vision
“Gates said his foundation is an advocate for the Common Core State Standards
that are part of the national curriculum and focus on mathematics and language
arts. He said learning ‘needs to be on the edge’ where it is challenging but not
too challenging, and that students receive the basics through Common Core.
‘It’s great to teach other things, but you need that foundation,’ he said.”
— T. S. Last in the Albuquerque Journal , 12:05 AM Tuesday, July 1, 2014
See also the previous post (Core Mathematics: Arrays) and, elsewhere
in this journal,
“Eight is a Gate.” — Mnemonic rhyme:
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Thursday, October 21, 2010
Line
The NY Times recently discussed "Longing for the Lines That Had Us at Hello"
and “We land in Albuquerque at 4 a.m. That’s strictly a 9 o’clock town.”
And so…
"How much story do you want?" — George Balanchine
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Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Tuesday March 4, 2008
… And for a
Swiftly Tilting
Shadowed Planet …
Swiftly Tilting
Shadowed Planet …
John Trever, Albuquerque Journal, 2/29/08
The pen's point:
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Log24, Dec. 11, 2006
SINGER, ISAAC:
"Sets forth his own aims in writing for children and laments 'slice of life' and chaos in children's literature. Maintains that children like good plots, logic, and clarity, and that they have a concern for 'so-called eternal questions.'"
— An Annotated Listing
"She returned the smile, then looked across the room to her youngest brother, Charles Wallace, and to their father, who were deep in concentration, bent over the model they were building of a tesseract: the square squared, and squared again: a construction of the dimension of time."
— A Swiftly Tilting Planet,
A Swiftly Tilting Planet is a fantasy for children set partly in Vespugia, a fictional country bordered by Chile and Argentina.
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Sunday, December 14, 2003
Sunday December 14, 2003
Hell to Heaven
From Hotel Point:
On a novel, Dow Mossman's
The Stones of Summer —
Evidence of Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano. The Dow Mossman character (Dawes Williams) sitting in the Rio Grande tearing pages out of his notebooks. (We get the pages, reproduced somewhat tediously in near-agate type.) Somewhere the ex-Consul Geoffrey Firmin gets mention. Mythic drinking and death in Mexico, vaguely “Jungian.”…
“The first time he had noticed it, language, was in the fourth grade when Miss Norma Jean Thompson, his teacher, turned against the whole class and said:
‘All Americans eventually go to heaven.’
‘By sweet Jesus,’ Ronnie Crown had said that afternoon, sitting on Dunchee’s wall, waiting for Dawes Williams to come tell him about it, ‘that’s about the God Damn dumbest thing I ever heard.’
Dawes Williams had agreed immediately that the message was insipid, but he thought for years that the syntax was inspired. In fact, the first time Norma Jean Thompson had said, ALL AMERICANS EVENTUALLY GO TO HEAVEN, was also the first time Dawes Williams had ever noticed the English sentence."
From Norma Jean Thompson:
"… the Town House Restaurant on Central and Morningside [in Albuquerque]: 'It's like going backwards in time to the late 1950s; you'd think you'd meet Frank Sinatra in there. You can drown in the big red leather booths, and if you're lucky, they'll take out their private family stock of brandy. Wonderful Greek salads, steaks and potatoes for lunch or dinner. Time stops in there, right off Route 66.' "
From wcities.com:
On the Town House Lounge & Restaurant in Albuquerque:
"Try the three-inch Baklava and feel like you have died and gone to heaven…"
AMEN.
See, too, the film "Stone Reader"
and the previous Log24 entry.
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