A post today by Peter J. Cameron suggests a review . . .
Meanwhile . . .
See as well "The Contributions of Dominic Welsh
to Matroid Theory," by James Oxley, at
https://www.math.lsu.edu/~oxley/dominic3.pdf.
Monday, December 4, 2023
Bloomsday at Waterloo
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Friday, June 16, 2023
Opening on Bloomsday (in LA and NY)*
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Wednesday, December 14, 2022
Bloomsday Meets Broomsday . . .
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Thursday, June 16, 2022
Monday, October 25, 2021
Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Bloomsday for Circe*
* See (for instance) https://www.ulyssesguide.com/15-circe.
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Tuesday, June 16, 2020
For Bloomsday
See also a post of April 10, 2018, in this journal and,
more generally, all posts tagged Dimensión de Arco .
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Thursday, June 27, 2019
Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Bloomsday Trinity
"He attended the Trinity School in Manhattan
before enrolling in the Lawrenceville School
in New Jersey, where he began writing poetry.
He graduated in 1957. Under his yearbook
photograph appeared the motto:
'Plato or comic books, I’m versatile.' "
He reportedly died on Bloomsday, June 16.
See also this journal on that date —
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Friday, June 17, 2011
Bloomsday Lottery
This morning's exercise in lottery hermeneutics is unusually difficult.
Yesterday was Bloomsday (the date described in
James Joyce's Ulysses ) and the New York Lottery numbers were…
Midday numbers: 3-digit 181, 4-digit 9219.
Evening numbers: 3-digit 478, 4-digit 6449.
For 181 and 9219, see the following—
"With respect to every event, we must ask
which element has been subjected directly to change."
— Ferdinand de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics
(New York, The Philosophical Library, Inc., 1959), page 181
That Saussure page number was referenced in the following thesis
on James Joyce's other major novel, Finnegans Wake—
The thesis is from the University of Vienna (Universität Wien ).
The word Wien , in the derived form denoting an inhabitant of that city,
figured prominently in yesterday's news.
As for the evening numbers—
478 perhaps signifies the year 478 BC,
cited in Lawrence Durrell's Sicilian Carousel as the year
the ruler Gelon died.
For the evening 6449, note that the poem by Wallace Stevens quoted
here on June 15 in A for Anastasios deals with "the river of rivers"…
perhaps signifying time.
Interpreting 6449 chronologically yields 6/4/49.
The film artist John Huston, discussed in an essay from that date,
might appreciate the representation of the ancient Sicilian
river god Gelas as a man-headed bull on a coin from
around the year 478 BC.
For some perceptive remarks about Durrell, see the
article by Nigel Dennis in LIFE magazine's Nov. 21, 1960
issue (with cover noting Kennedy's victory in that year's
presidential election).
All of the above may be viewed as an approach to the aesthetic
problem posed by Dennis in yesterday's Bloomsday post—
"The problem that arises with this sort of writing is
one of form, i.e. , how to make one strong parcel
out of so many differently shaped commodities,
how to impose method on what would otherwise
be madness."
"The world has gone mad today…." — Cole Porter
For some related remarks, see page 161 of
Joyce's Catholic Comedy of Language *
by Beryl Schlossman (U. of Wisconsin Press, 1985)
and James Joyce in the final pages of The Left Hand of God
by Adolf Holl.
* Update of July 6, 2011—
This title is a correction from the previous title
given here, Moral Language by Mary Gore Forrester.
Google Books had Schlossman's content previewed
under Forrester's title.
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Thursday, February 29, 2024
Sunday, December 3, 2023
Sunday Morning
A scene from "Charade" (1963) introduced by Jane Pauley today
at the beginning of "CBS Sunday Morning" —
Good question. Also on June 16, 2011 —
Thursday, June 16, 2011
|
"Like three sides to the market square and a clock tower on the fourth"
— Nigel Dennis on The Alexandria Quartet .
See as well Star Brick Memories (Feb. 6, 2021).
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Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Dreamgirls: Kate Mara in Space Barn!
The above piece is from Bloomsday 2023. See also this journal
on that date, as well as . . .
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Saturday, October 8, 2022
Cultural Correlation
The phrase "cultural correlations" from the previous post suggests . . .
From this journal on Bloomsday 2008 —
The holy image
denoting belief and revelation
may be interpreted as
a black hole or as a
symbol by James Joyce :
|
When? Going to dark bed there was a square round Sinbad the Sailor roc’s auk’s egg in the night of the bed of all the auks of the rocs of Darkinbad the Brightdayler. Where?
— Ulysses , conclusion of Chapter 17. |
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Friday, December 24, 2021
Number and Time
Number:
|
Time:
This post was suggested by an address from Bloomsday 2021 —
Update —
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Friday, September 24, 2021
Another Opening, Another Show
The HBO series Euphoria opened on
Bloomsday —Sunday, June 16 — 2019.
Also on that date —
For Bloomsday Eve , 2019, see today's previous post.
Update of 2:19 PM ET Sept. 24 —
Full Frontal Architecture:
Detail —
See also "Bee Club" in this journal.
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Thursday, July 22, 2021
Special Island
The author of remarks on Frisette in the previous post —
Other South Pacific material —
"If you try, you'll find me
Where the sky meets the sea."
— Song lyic inspired by James Michener,
quoted here yesterday afternoon
Tréguer Today —
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Sunday, November 1, 2020
Soul Sermon: Quick & Dirty Meets Fast & Furious
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Saturday, September 19, 2020
The Summerfield Prize
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Monday, December 2, 2019
D8: The Black Queen’s Square
The previous post quoted some dialogue from Victor Hugo's
novel about the French Revolution, Ninety-Three.
This suggests a look at the following non-fiction book:
Compare and contrast with the novel The Eight , by Katherine Neville,
about chess and the French Revolution.
Neville's birthday, April 4, plays a major role in her novel. The dies natalis
(in the Roman Catholic sense) of the above Birth of the Chess Queen
author, on the other hand, was reportedly November 20, 2019.
Following a link in this journal from November 20 leads to remarks
that might interest the subjects of an upcoming film, "The Two Popes."
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Wednesday, November 20, 2019
The Secret Life of Walter Minton
For the late Walter J. Minton, publisher at G. P. Putnam's Sons …
"Walter graduated from the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey…."
— New York Times obituary, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019
See that school in the post Bloomsday Trinity of June 22, 2016.
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Monday, October 7, 2019
Berlekamp Garden vs. Kinder Garten
Stevens's Omega and Alpha (see previous post) suggest a review.
Omega — The Berlekamp Garden. See Misère Play (April 8, 2019).
Alpha — The Kinder Garten. See Eighfold Cube.
Illustrations —
The sculpture above illustrates Klein's order-168 simple group.
So does the sculpture below.
Cube Bricks 1984 —
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Thursday, September 5, 2019
Monday, April 8, 2019
Misère Play
Facebook on Bloomsday 2017 —
Also on that Bloomsday —
Chalkroom Jungle Revisited —
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Wednesday, June 20, 2018
Feature
"… what we’re witnessing is not a glitch. It’s a feature…."
— A Boston Globe columnist on June 19.
An image from this journal at the beginning of Bloomsday 2018 —
An encountered feature , from the midnight beginning of June 16 —
Literary Symbolism
"… what we’re witnessing is not a glitch. It’s a feature…."
The glitch encountered on Bloomsday by Agent Smith (who represents
the academic world) is the author of the above page, John P. Anderson.
The feature is the book that Anderson quotes, James Joyce
by Richard Ellmann (first published in 1959, revised in 1982).
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Friday, October 13, 2017
Speak, Memra
The above was suggested by a Log24 review of October 13, 2002,
which in turn suggested a Log24 search for Carousel that yielded
(from Bloomsday Lottery) —
See as well Asimov's "prime radiant," and an illustration
of the number 13 as a radiant prime …
"The Prime Radiant can be adjusted to your mind,
and all corrections and additions can be made
through mental rapport. There will be nothing to
indicate that the correction or addition is yours.
In all the history of the Plan there has been no
personalization. It is rather a creation of all of us
together. Do you understand?"
"Yes, Speaker!"
— Isaac Asimov,
Second Foundation , Ch. 8: Seldon's Plan
"Before time began, there was the Cube."
— Optimus Prime
See also Transformers in this journal.
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Saturday, July 16, 2016
Outer, Inner
A detail from this morning's 6 AM post —
|
An Ordinary Evening in New Haven, XXII
Professor Eucalyptus said, “The search
For an interior made exterior
With the Inhalations of original cold
Not the predicate of bright origin.
The cold and earliness and bright origin
That it is wholly an inner light, that it shines — Wallace Stevens |
See also Bloomsday 2007, "Obituaries in the News."
This morning's 6 AM post linked to a more recent obituary in the news —
"… while Jules and Judy were still living in Brooklyn Heights …
Jules collaborated with his former roommate, Norton Juster,
by illustrating what was to become the children’s classic
The Phantom Tollbooth . Neither author or illustrator had
a clue as to how to get this unlikely work published, and it
was Judy’s idea to take it to a mutual friend . . . ."
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Monday, June 27, 2016
Interiors
"The film ends with the family silently attending Eve's funeral,
each placing a single white rose, Eve's favourite flower and a
symbol of hope to her, on Eve's wooden, perfectly polished coffin."
— Wikipedia article on Woody Allen's 1978 film "Interiors"
"The story of our lives is written in interiors . . . ."
— A "Defender of Notable New York City Interiors"
(NY Times headline today) who reportedly died at 78
on June 16, 2016, a date known as Bloomsday.
See also posts now tagged Bloomsday Eve 2016.
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Thursday, October 16, 2014
Broom Bridge Day
Wikipedia on Broom (or Broome, or Brougham) Bridge,
where on 16 October 1843 Hamilton discovered quaternions:
"The 16 October is sometimes referred to as
Broomsday (in reference to Broome Bridge)
and as a nod to the literary commemorations
on 16 June (Bloomsday in honour of James Joyce)."
See also, in this journal, The Craft.
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Saturday, June 21, 2014
When You Care Enough…
“… near-death experiences have all the
hallmarks of mystical experience…”
— “Bolt from the Blue,” by Oliver Sacks
(See “Annals of Consciousness,” June 20, 2014)
The late Charles Barsotti once “worked for Kansas City-based
Hallmark Cards,” according to an obituary.
See also Mad Day.
Some related deconstructive criticism:
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Friday, June 20, 2014
Annals of Consciousness
A search for the late Charles Barsotti’s art
in this journal leads to the following passage:
For related material from Bloomsday 2014,
the date of Barsotti’s death, see posts tagged
“consciousness growth.”
Update of 2 AM June 21, 2014:
“… near-death experiences have all the
hallmarks of mystical experience…”
— “Bolt from the Blue,” by Oliver Sacks
Barsotti once “worked for Kansas City-based
Hallmark Cards,” according to an obituary.
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Sunday, June 30, 2013
Book Award
|
"What on earth is
— Said to be an annotation |
In the spirit of the late Thomas Guinzburg…
See also "Concrete Universal" in this journal.
Related material— From a Bloomsday reply
to a Diamond Theory reader's comment, an excerpt—
The reader's comment suggests the following passages from
the book by Stirling quoted above—
Here Stirling plays a role analogous to that of Professor Irwin Corey
accepting the National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974.
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Sunday, June 16, 2013
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Metalibrarianship
This screenshot was suggested by the word "metalibrarianship" in a Bloomsday 2011 post by artist Steve Richards.
Note the words in the search field.
The phrase "Dublin Core metadata" refers to a city in Ohio, not in Ireland.
Related material— The highlighted phrase below is in the epigraph to Borges's "The Library of Babel"—
"I would, for these causes, wish him that is melancholy, to use both humane and divine authors, voluntarily to impose some taske upon himself, to divert his melancholy thoughts; to study the art of memory, Cosmus Rosselius, Pet. Ravennas, Scenkelius Detectus, or practise brachygraphy, &c. that will aske a great deal of attention: or let him demonstrate a proposition in Euclide in his five last books, extract a square root, or studie Algebra: than which, as gClavius holds, in all humane disciplines nothing can be more excellent and pleasant, so abstruse and recondite, so bewitching, so miraculous, so ravishing, so easie withal and full of delight, omnem humanum captum superare videtur . By this means you may define ex ungue leonem , as the diverbe is, by his thumb alone the bigness of Hercules, or the true dimensions of the great hColossus, Solomons temple, and Domitians amphitheater, out of a little part. By this art you may contemplate the variation of the 23 letters…."
g Ad. 2. definit.2. elem. In disciplinis humanis nihil praestantius reperitur: quippe miracula quaedam numerorum eruit tam abstrusa et recondita, tanta nihilo minus facilitate et voluptate, ut, &c.
h Which contained 1080000 weight of brass.
— The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part. 2, Sec. 2, Mem. 4
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Thursday, June 16, 2011
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Wednesday June 17, 2009
Calvinist Epiphany
The above ad leads to…
… which in turn suggests
a picture linked to in yesterday’s
Bloomsday for Carlin:
Related material:
Hilbert vs. Pascal
(Jan. 23, 2009)
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Saturday, December 20, 2008
Saturday December 20, 2008
Cheap* Epiphanies
for the Church of
the Forbidden Planet
Mid-day lotteries Dec. 19:
* NY 198 PA 918
O the mind, mind has mountains,
cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man fathomed.
Hold them cheap
May who ne'er hung there.
Evening lotteries Dec. 19:
* NY 198 PA 414
"minds blazing, to the barricades"
— The New York Times
on the Wheeler effectSee also
Bloomsday for Nash:
The Revelation Game —
For details,
click on the
black hole.
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Thursday, July 17, 2008
Thursday July 17, 2008
|
CHANGE FEW CAN BELIEVE IN |
Continued from June 18.
Jungian Symbols
of the Self —
Compare and contrast:
Jung's four-diamond figure from
Aion — a symbol of the self —
Jung's Map of the Soul,
by Murray Stein:
"… Jung thinks of the self as undergoing continual transformation during the course of a lifetime…. At the end of his late work Aion, Jung presents a diagram to illustrate the dynamic movements of the self…."
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Monday, June 16, 2008
Monday June 16, 2008
Bloomsday for Nash:
The Revelation Game
(American Mathematical Society Feb. 2008
review of Steven Brams’s Superior Beings:
If They Exist, How Would We Know?)
(pdf, 15 megabytes)
"Brams does not attempt to prove or disprove God. He uses elementary ideas from game theory to create situations between a Person (P) and God (Supreme Being, SB) and discusses how each reacts to the other in these model scenarios….
In the 'Revelation Game,' for example, the Person (P) has two options:
1) P can believe in SB's existence
2) P can not believe in SB's existence
The Supreme Being also has two options:
1) SB can reveal Himself
2) SB can not reveal Himself
1) P can believe in SB's existence
2) P can not believe in SB's existence
The Supreme Being also has two options:
1) SB can reveal Himself
2) SB can not reveal Himself
Each player also has a primary and secondary goal. For the Person, the primary goal is to have his belief (or non-belief) confirmed by evidence (or lack thereof). The secondary goal is to 'prefer to believe in SB’s existence.' For the Supreme Being, the primary goal is to have P believe in His existence, while the secondary goal is to not reveal Himself. These goals allow us to rank all the outcomes for each player from best (4) to worst (1). We end up with a matrix as follows (the first number in the parentheses represents the SB's ranking for that box; the second number represents P's ranking):
The question we must answer is: what is the Nash equilibrium in this case?"
Analogously:
|
Lotteries on Bloomsday, June 16, 2008 |
Pennsylvania (No revelation) |
New York (Revelation) |
|
Mid-day (No belief) |
418
No belief, |
064
Revelation |
|
Evening (Belief) |
709
Belief without |
198
|
The holy image
denoting belief and revelation
may be interpreted as
a black hole or as a
symbol by James Joyce:
|
When? Going to dark bed there was a square round Sinbad the Sailor roc's auk's egg in the night of the bed of all the auks of the rocs of Darkinbad the Brightdayler. Where?
— Ulysses, conclusion of Chapter 17 |
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Tuesday June 19, 2007
Faustus is gone:
regard his hellish fall
— Marlowe
I have just read, in the New York Times Book Review that arrived in yesterday's mail, a review of Segre's Faust in Copenhagen. The review, on news stands next Sunday, was titled by the Times "Meta Physicists."
On Faust— today's noon entry and yesterday's "Nightmare Lessons."
On "Meta Physicists"– an entry of June 6, on Cullinane College, has a section titled "Meta Physics."
On Copenhagen— an entry of Bloomsday Eve, 2004 on a native of that city.
Another Dane:
"Words, words, words."
— Hamlet
Another metaphysics:
"317 is a prime,
not because we think so,
or because our minds
are shaped in one way
rather than another,
but because it is so,
because mathematical
reality is built that way."
— G. H. Hardy,
A Mathematician's Apology
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Monday, June 18, 2007
Monday June 18, 2007
Obituaries in the News
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 6:13 a.m. ET
Norman Hackerman
“AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Norman Hackerman, a chemist … died Saturday [June 16] …. He was 95. … He taught chemistry … before joining the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon during World War II.”
The date of Hackerman’s death is celebrated in Ireland as Bloomsday— the day on which, in 1904, the events of James Joyce’s novel Ulysses came to pass.
Scene from
“Behind the Lid” —
Photo by Richard Termine
“Behind the Lid” is an avant-garde production featuring scenes from the author’s life presented in the form of dreams.
Those who like such scenes may consult past Log24 entries. They will find, for instance, the following, commemorating a death which, like Hackerman’s, occurred on a Bloomsday:
Click on the picture for details.
“History, Stephen said,
is a nightmare
from which I am
trying to awake.”
— Ulysses
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Saturday, June 16, 2007
Saturday June 16, 2007
Happy Bloomsday to
Margaret Soltan at
Margaret Soltan at
“When may we expect to have
something from you on the
esthetic question? he asked.”
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Friday, June 16, 2006
Friday June 16, 2006
For Bloomsday 2006:
Hero of His Own Story
"The philosophic college should spare a detective for me."
— Stephen Hero. Epigraph to Chapter 2, "Dedalus and the
Beauty Maze," in Joyce and Aquinas, by William T. Noon, S. J.,
Yale University Press, 1957 (in the Yale paperback edition of
1963, page 18)
"Dorothy Sayers makes a great deal of sense when she points out
in her highly instructive and readable book The Mind of the Maker
that 'to complain that man measures God by his own measure is
a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience;
he has no other yardstick.'"
— William T. Noon, S. J., Joyce and Aquinas (in the Yale paperback
edition of 1963, page 106)
Related material:
- Dorothy Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh
-
Jill Paton Walsh's detective novel A Piece of Justice (1995):
"The mathematics of tilings and quilting play background
roles in this mystery in which a graduate student attempts
to write a biography of the (fictitious) mathematician
Gideon Summerfield. Summerfield is about to posthumously
receive the prestigious (and, I should point out, also fictitious)
Waymark Prize in mathematics…but it soon becomes clear
that someone with evil intentions does not want the student's
book to be published!By all accounts this is a well written mystery…
the second by the author with college nurse Imogen Quy playing
the role of the detective."— Mathematical Fiction by Alex Kasman,
College of Charleston
- Quilt Geometry, by Steven H. Cullinane
AD PULCHRITUDINEM TRIA REQUIRUNTUR:
INTEGRITAS, CONSONANTIA, CLARITAS.
Thursday, June 16, 2005
Thursday June 16, 2005
Final Arrangements, continued:
"Joe Strauss to
Joe Six-Pack"
(Editor's sneering headline
for a David Brooks essay
in today's New York Times)
and Back Again
"I was emptying some boxes in my basement the other day and I came across an essay somebody had clipped on Ernest Hemingway from the July 14, 1961, issue of Time magazine. The essay was outstanding. Over three pages of tightly packed prose, with just a few photos, the anonymous author performed the sort of high-toned but accessible literary analysis that would be much harder to find in a mass market magazine today….
The sad thing is that this type of essay was not unusual in that era….
The magazines would devote pages to the work of theologians like Abraham Joshua Heschel* or Reinhold Niebuhr. They devoted as much space to opera as to movies because an educated person was expected to know something about opera, even if that person had no prospect of actually seeing one….
Back in the late 1950's and early 1960's, middlebrow culture, which is really high-toned popular culture, was thriving in America. There was still a sense that culture is good for your character, and that a respectable person should spend time absorbing the best that has been thought and said."
— David Brooks,
The New York Times,
June 16, 2005
The Time essay begins by quoting Hemingway himself:
"All stories,
if continued far enough,
end in death,
and he is no true storyteller
who would keep that from you."
Here is the top section of today's
New York Times obituaries.
New York Times obituaries.
Here is the
middlebrow part —
— and here is a link that returns,
as promised in this entry's headline,
to "Joe Strauss" —
complete with polkas.
* "Judaism is a religion of time, not space."
— Wikipedia on Heschel.
See the recent Log24 entries
Star Wars continued,
Dark City, and
Cross-Referenced, and last year's
Bloomsday at 100.
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Thursday, December 16, 2004
Thursday December 16, 2004
Nothing Nothings
(Again)
Background: recent Log24 entries (beginning with Chorus from the Rock on Dec. 5, 2004) and Is Nothing Sacred? (quotations compiled on March 9, 2000).
From an obituary of Paul Edwards, a writer on philosophy, in this morning's New York Times:
"Heidegger's Confusions, a collection of Professor Edwards's scholarly articles, was published last month by Prometheus."
Edwards, born in Vienna in 1923 to Jewish parents, died on December 9.
Some sites I visited earlier this evening, before reading of Edwards's death:
-
" 'Nothingness itself nothings' — with these words, uttered by Martin Heidegger in the early 1930s, the incipient (and now-familiar) split between analytic and continental philosophy began tearing open. For Rudolf Carnap, a leader of the Vienna Circle [Wiener Kreis] of logical empiricists and a strident advocate of a new, scientific approach to philosophy, this Heideggerian proposition exemplified 'a metaphysical pseudo-sentence,' meaningless and unable to withstand any logical analysis. Heidegger countered that Carnap’s misplaced obsession with logic missed the point entirely."
— Review of A Parting of the Ways: Carnap, Cassirer, and Heidegger
- Carnap's Criticism of Heidegger, by Abraham D. Stone (dated, for what it's worth, June 16, 2004… the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday.)
- "Death and Metaphysics," by Peter Kraus, pp. 98-111 in Death and Philosophy, ed. by Jeff Malpas and Robert Solomon. Heidegger's famous phrase (misquoted by Quine in Gray Particular in Hartford) "Das Nichts selbst nichtet" is discussed on page 102.
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Saturday, June 26, 2004
Saturday June 26, 2004
Advanced Study
Herman Goldstine (left), shown in 1952
at the Institute for Advanced Study
with J. Robert Oppenheimer (center)
and John von Neumann (right).
Click on the picture above
for an obituary in today's New York Times
of Goldstine, who died on June 16, 2004.
Click on the picture below
for an event appropriate to
the date of Goldstine's death.
The event, a talk on black holes, took place at
the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia.
Goldstine was executive director of the Society
from 1984 to 1997.
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Wednesday, June 16, 2004
Sunday, January 11, 2004
Sunday January 11, 2004
The Lottery
|
New York Midday: 720 Evening: 510 |
Pennsylvania Midday: 616 Evening: 201 |
What these numbers mean to me:
720: See the recent entries
720 in the Book, and
Report to the Joint Mathematics Meetings.
616 and 201:
The dates, 6/16 and 2/01,
of Bloomsday and St. Bridget's Day.
510: A more difficult association…
Perhaps "Love at the Five and Dime"
(8/3/03 and 1/4/04).
Perhaps Fred Astaire's birthday, 5/10.
More interesting…
A search for relevant material in my own archives, using the phrase "may 10" cullinane journal, leads to the very interesting weblog Heckler & Coch, which contains the following brief entries (from May 19, 2003):
"May you live in interesting times
While widely reported as being an ancient Chinese curse, this phrase is likely to be of recent and western origin.Geometry of the I Ching
The Cullinane sequence of the 64 hexagrams"
"… there are many associations of ideas which do not correspond to any actual connection of cause and effect in the world of phenomena…."
— John Fiske, "The Primeval Ghost-World," quoted in the Heckler & Coch weblog
"The association is the idea"
— Ian Lee on the communion of saints and the association of ideas (in The Third Word War, 1978)
Tuesday, June 17, 2003
Tuesday June 17, 2003
On actor Gregory Peck, who died Thursday, June 12, 2003:
"He had early success in 'The Keys of the Kingdom,' in which he played a priest."
As Peck noted in a videotape played at his memorial service June 16,
"As a professional," he added, "I think I'd like to be thought of as a good storyteller; that's what's always interested me."
June 16, besides being the day of Peck's memorial, was also Bloomsday. My entry for 1 PM on Bloomsday, a day celebrating the Ulysses of James Joyce, consists of the three words "Hickory, Dickory, Dock." A comment on that entry:
"I prefer the Wake."
The following, from the Discordian Scriptures, provides a connection between the Bloomsday mouse and the Wake of patriarch Gregory Peck.
Hickory Dickory Dock
Hickory, dickory, dock!
Here we are on higher ground at once. The clock symbolizes the spinal column, or if you prefer it, Time, chosen as one of the conditions of normal consciousness. The mouse is the Ego; "Mus", a mouse, being only "Sum", "I am", spelt Qabalistically backwards. This Ego or Prana or Kundalini force being driven up the spine, the clock strikes one, that is, the duality of consciousness is abolished. And the force again subsides to its original level. "Hickory, dickory, dock!" is perhaps the mantra which was used by the adept who constructed this rime, thereby hoping to fix it in the minds of men; so that they might attain to Samadhi by the same method. Others attribute to it a more profound significance — which is impossible to go into at this moment, for we must turn to:
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall….
The Bloom of Ulysses has a certain philosophical kinship with Yale literary critic Harold Bloom. For material related to the latter Bloom's study of Gnosticism, see Chaos Matrix. For the conflict between Gnostic and Petrine approaches to religion, see Poul Anderson's Operation Chaos.
From an account of Peck's memorial service:
"Mourners included… Piper Laurie…."
OK, he's in.
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