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Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Cold Comfort Dam

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:50 am

"And, as with all retold tales that are in people's hearts,
there are only good and bad things and black and white
things and good and evil things and no in-between anywhere."

— John Steinbeck, author's epigraph to The Pearl

From the Season 4 finale of Westworld :
uploading Dolores's pearl at Hoover Dam —

For those who prefer greater theological simplicity . . .

Optimus Prime on a different Hoover Dam figure, that of 
the AllSpark: "Before time began, there was the Cube."

Simplifying even more . . .

“A set having three members is a single thing
wholly constituted by its members but distinct from them.
After this, the theological doctrine of the Trinity as
‘three in one’ should be child’s play.”

– Max Black, Caveats and Critiques: Philosophical Essays
in Language, Logic, and Art
 , Cornell U. Press, 1975

IMAGE- The Trinity of Max Black (a 3-set, with its eight subsets arranged in a Hasse diagram that is also a cube)

As above, Black's theology forms a cube.

Monday, January 31, 2022

The Prime Mover

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 3:32 pm

"Metaphor in language — the prime mover"

— George Steiner in Real Presences  (1989)
 

Not so prime —

See also the "Transformers" marketing saga.

Related marketing: 
Disney  Easter eggs

Saturday, March 13, 2021

Eternal Spark

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:43 am

According to Lt. Col. Wayne M. McDonnell in June 1983 —

“… it is accurate to observe that when a person experiences
the out-of- body state he is, in fact, projecting that eternal spark
of consciousness and memory which constitutes the ultimate
source of his identity….”

— Section 27, “Consciousness in Perspective,” of
“Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process.”

A related quotation —

“In truth, the physical AllSpark  is but a shell….”

https://tfwiki.net/wiki/AllSpark

From the post Ghost in the Shell  (Feb. 26, 2019) —

See also, from posts tagged Ogdoad Space

“Like the Valentinian Ogdoad— a self-creating theogonic system
of eight Aeons in four begetting pairs— the projected eightfold work
had an esoteric, gnostic quality; much of Frye’s formal interest lay in
the ‘schematosis’ and fearful symmetries of his own presentations.”

— From p. 61 of James C. Nohrnberg’s “The Master of the Myth
of Literature: An Interpenetrative Ogdoad for Northrop Frye,”
Comparative Literature , Vol. 53 No. 1, pp. 58-82, Duke University
Press (quarterlyJanuary 2001)

— as well as . . .

Related illustration from posts tagged with
the quilt term Yankee Puzzle

IMAGE- 'Yankee Puzzle' quilt block pattern on cover of Northrop Frye's 'Anatomy of Criticism'

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Art Installation

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:00 pm

Vinnie Mancuso, in an article now dated December 25, 2018 —

Not so useless —

The caption in fine print below says
"Download Blender and install it.
I won't show you how to do that 
because I don't want to insult your
intelligence…."

Sunday, June 23, 2019

Verbum Sat

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:07 pm

Vinnie Mancuso, in an article now dated December 25, 2018 —

Related art —

Escher, 'Verbum,' detail

Click image for further details.

Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Dialogue from Plato’s Cave

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:15 am

At  scifi.stackexchange.com

Why was the Cosmic Cube named the Tesseract 
in the Marvel movie series? Is there any specific reason 
for the name change? According to me, Cosmic Cube
seems a nice and cooler name.

— Asked March 14, 2013, by Dhwaneet Bhatt
    
At least it wasn't called 'The AllSpark.' 
It's not out of the realm of possibility. 

— Solemnity, March 14, 2013

Tuesday, June 20, 2017

All-Spark Notes

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 1:55 pm

(Continued)

"For years, the AllSpark rested, sitting dormant
like a giant, useless art installation."

— Vinnie Mancuso at Collider.com yesterday

Related material —

Dormant cube

IMAGE- Britannica 11th edition on the symmetry axes and planes of the cube

Giant, useless art installation —

Sol LeWitt at MASS MoCA.  See also LeWitt in this journal.

Saturday, February 18, 2017

Verbum

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 3:00 am

The Log24 version  (Nov. 9, 2005, and later posts) —

VERBUM
SAT
SAPIENTI

 

Escher's 'Verbum'

Escher's Verbum


Solomon's Cube

Solomon's Cube
 

I Ching hexagrams as parts of 4x4x4 cube

Geometry of the I Ching

The Warner Brothers version

The Paramount version

See also related material in the previous post, Transformers.

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