From a motion picture filmed in Bucharest —
Meanwhile, in this journal . . .
* See the previous post.
Thursday, May 30, 2024
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Bucharest Quest
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"On Thursday, October 10, 2019, the University of Bucharest awarded the honorary title of Doctor Honoris Causa to one of the most important specialists in political science, Professor Daniel Chirot, professor at the "Henry M. Jackson" School of International Studies at the University of Washington, for his entire didactic and scientific activity. Through this distinction, awarded at the proposal of the Faculty of Political Sciences, Professor Daniel Chirot became a member of the academic community of the University of Bucharest." — From the University's website. |
Chirot was a resident of Hurlbut Hall at Harvard, as was I,
in the academic year 1960-1961.
This journal the day after the Chirot award . . .
See also Bucharest in this journal.
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Monday, March 9, 2020
The Bucharest Wheel
From the Bucharest author in last night's 12:12 AM post —
From this journal on the above date, Feb. 16, 2011 —
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The Bucharest Cross
For fans of "The Zero Theorem" —
The 24 permutations of S4 arranged on a cube
by Cristi Stoica of Bucharest at
http://www.unitaryflow.com/2009/06/polyhedra-and-groups.html:
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Wednesday, July 25, 2018
Bucharest Physics
Update of 10:30 PM ET the same day —
For some philosophical background, including an I Ching diagram, see . . .
See as well my own 8×8 diagram (1989) related to the I Ching .
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Thursday, May 24, 2018
Bucharest Semiotics
See Solomon Marcus in this journal.
Related art —
Related fictions: The Seventh Function of Language (2017)
and Lexicon (2013). I prefer Lexicon .
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Tuesday, December 5, 2017
Bucharest for Kinbote
New York Times online headline this afternoon —
King Michael of Romania Is Dead at 96
See as well . . .
Log24 posts on Bucharest.
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013
The Crying of Bucharest
From a reported interview with Terry Gilliam:
Question: "You said in an interview that The Zero Theorem
was very influenced by Bucharest. In what way?"
Some related material from Log24:
See also a Google search from this evening—
— and the beginning of the Zero Theorem screenplay —
FADE IN:
A rim of swirling light appears, circling helplessly into a
gigantic BLACK HOLE. It spirals inward…
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Monday, September 9, 2024
Romanian Services
Orthodox:
Unorthodox:
Related mathematical vocabulary . . .
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Wednesday, May 29, 2024
The Strong Law of Small Shapes*
Two examples:
The above note led to a letter from John H. Conway, which in turn
led to the following . . .
* The title refers to a well-known 1988 article by Richard K. Guy.
A shape from the date of Guy's reported death —
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Saturday, August 1, 2020
A Cross for von Sydow
See also Joseph Malkevitch's memorial essay on Richard K. Guy,
who reportedly died on March 9, 2020, and Log24 on that date.
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Monday, June 3, 2019
University Square
For Radu Surdulescu, who . . .
"participated in the 1956 reclamatory movements
of the students in Bucharest. He was among the
organizers of the demonstration to be held in
the University Square on November 5, 1956."
— Wikipedia (Google translation from Romanian)
See also squares and Surdulescu in "From Tate to Plato"
(Log24, November 19, 2004).
Those who prefer fiction may consult William Boyd and
Terry Gilliam.
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Sunday, July 1, 2018
Friday, May 25, 2018
Grid Design
Click the grid for the tag 5×5 in this journal.
A related book —
See also the previous post, Bucharest Semiotics.
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Thursday, May 24, 2018
Part and Hole
See also other posts now tagged Hole.
The above review of a Feb. 13, 2018, post was suggested by the
publication date below . . .
. . . and by today's Arts & Letters Daily item that linked to it —
Note, in Album , the activities of
Barthes in Bucharest during 1948.
From a May 20 Log24 post, "A Cryptic Message" —
"Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story." — Title of a book by D.T. Max
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Sunday, May 28, 2017
Bullshit Studies
The previous post dealt with a symbol of an apparently
admirable "social development environment."
For a less admirable development environment, see a film
described in a July 2014 story from Film New Europe —
"Shooting started in Bucharest on 9 June 2014. . . ."
This journal on 8-9 June 2014 —
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Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Slow Art
The American Mathematical Society today got around to
publishing an obituary for Solomon Marcus, a Bucharest
mathematician who died on St. Patrick's Day, March 17.
See as well this journal on March 22.
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Friday, November 1, 2013
Chapel
In memory of Anca Petrescu,
"the Albert Speer of Communism."
Source: www.thezerotheorem-movie.com.
The Gilliam quotes are from insidemovies.ew.com.
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Saturday, May 18, 2013
Black Hole Revisited
Backstory: The two previous Log24 posts
Raiders of the Lost Aleph (May 14) and
The Crying of Bucharest (May 15).
The following sequence of images was suggested by
Peter Woit's May 16 post "One Ring to Rule Them All."
Also from Devil's Night 2008:
From the May 16 Nobel Symposium talk discussed in
Woit's "One Ring to Rule Them All":
Related material:
All Souls' Day at the Still Point (Nov. 2, 2003) and
Frodo and the Oxford Murders (Oct. 13, 2011).
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Saturday, March 30, 2013
Bright Star
An earlier (noon) version of this post showed a photo of a
heartbreakingly beautiful young woman I encountered on
the Web today by chance. Perhaps it is best if she remains
anonymous here.
A detail taken today from her Facebook page:
Location of a nightclub in Bucharest
Related material: Shining Forth by myself and Malcolm Lowry,
and Lucifer by Mihai Eminescu.
See also this journal "about 3 weeks ago."
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