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This journal yesterday —

On a new Netflix series:

A playwright who reportedly died yesterday —

"Attention must be paid."

Mariner Books paperback, 2005

See, too, this evening's A Common Space
and earlier posts on Raiders of the Lost Crucible.

Also not without relevance —

• The death of the photographer who took
  the above cover photo
• A Hate Speech for Harvard
• A recent University of Bradford thesis —

Readings for the morning of Holy Saturday —

Crucible,  Cauldron,  Whatever.

Related material:  "Crucible" in this  journal.

Continues…

“A physicist who played a central role in developing
the theory of supersymmetry – often known as SUSY –
has died.”

— Times Higher Education , July 3, 2014

In honor of the above physicist, Bruno Zumino,
here are two sets of Log24 posts:

Structure, May 2-4, 2013 (the dates of a physicists’ celebration
for Zumino’s 90th birthday)

Hallmark, June 21, 2014 (the date of Zumino’s death)

(Continued)

The Hallowed Crucible—

Some related symbolism—

See also Stallion Gate  (a novel) in this journal.

For some related nonfiction, see interviews with
Los Alamos physicist Robert F. Christy, who died
at 96 on Wednesday, October 3, 2012.

The Hogwarts saga may be ending, but there's still…

   The Crucible

   Related material:
    Ay que bonito es volar…

A speaker in Washington, D.C., yesterday —

“We are in a crucible moment in the history
of the United States of America,” he said at
the “Let the Church Roar” rally at the National Mall.

In other drama —

“It’s a gesture, dear, not a recipe.”
— Peggy (Vanessa Redgrave) in a 1987 film.

The above Emma Watson date — Oct. 28, 2014 — suggests
some DC-related remarks in a Log24 search for “The Lost Symbol.”

"The sad truth is that, by and large, mathematics is feared
and perhaps even openly disliked in the popular culture of
the majority of countries across the globe. At the very least,
math is often perceived as 'hard' and 'sterile,' pehaps even
remote, and unforgiving."

— James Tanton, Halloween 2018

Related material —

Raiders of the Lost Crucible and Bee Season continue …

"Walter Kerr, in his 1953 review in the New York Herald Tribune ,
wrote, 'The Crucible , which opened at the Martin Beck Thursday,
…seems to me to be taking a step backward into mechanical parable,
into the sort of play which lives not in the warmth of humbly observed
souls but in the ideological heat of polemic.' For Kerr, Miller’s play is
an analytical argument, a treatise, rather than a heartfelt play about
human lives."

— http://www.americanpopularculture.com/
archive/bestsellers/authur_miller.htm

A more heartfelt approach —

" … this beautiful love story . . . ."

Or:  Misery, Jessica …  Jessica, Misery .

Related material from The Harvard Crimson —

"The beach and the castle on the hill and the waves
would always be here, always moving, always changing,
but always constant." 

— Robert Miranda, "The Simplicity of Waves," August 8, 2018

Related material on waves (i.e. , "Fourier's laboratory") —

See also this  journal on August 8.

"At the heart of the trial was the question of
whether the complainant could have agreed
to have sex with the defendant . . .
on Halloween night in 2015 . . . ."

— Vivian Wang in The New York Times  this evening

This  journal on Halloween night in 2015 —

The prominent display of an ad for Elixir Vitae in
today's 11:02 AM post suggests a review of that concept.

See also Raiders of the Lost Crucible in this journal.

See also the previous post and the usual suspects.