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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.

(Continued)

A meditation suggested by the April 20 post Complex Reflection
and by the life and April 20 death of a scientist who worked
at Los Alamos (home of the Monte Carlo method) and at
the Santa Fe Institute (home of complexity theory).

A search for 286 in this journal yields "Yet Another Cartoon Graveyard."

That June 1, 2008, post linked to poem  286 in a 1919 anthology.

Here is that poem, together with poem 823.

Together, these poems may be regarded as a meditation on
Simone Weil and her brother André Weil or, 
more abstractly, on Love and Death.

Happy birthday to Al Pacino.

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.

"Try the grey stuff, it's delicious
Don't believe me? Ask the dishes"

— Disney's "Beauty and the Beast"

Related material —

Happy birthday to Saoirse Ronan.

See also the previous post and the usual suspects.

"It's solution, dissolution." — Walter White

The Hallowed Crucible…  Continues.

Today's Harvard Crimson—

Students Discuss Mental Health

In an effort to break the silence on an often-stigmatized topic,
members of the Harvard community gathered to share
experiences with mental illness through spoken word,
interpretive dance, and candid conversations at Friday night’s
second-annual “Words on the Mind” open mic night.

Related material from this  journal on Friday—

The Hallowed Crucible—

Some related symbolism (headings added Oct. 7)—

Today's (Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012)  Google Doodle for Bohr's birthday—

Review  (See also Faust in Copenhagen in this journal)—

» more

"When shall we three meet again?"

Left to right— John von Neumann, Richard Feynman, Stanislaw Ulam

The source of the above book's title, "Analogies between Analogies,"
was misattributed in a weblog post linked to here on March 4th, 2012.
It occurs in a quote due not to Stanislaw Ulam but to Stefan Banach—

Ulam was Jewish. Banach was not.

From a webpage on Banach—

"On 3 April 1892, he was baptized in the Roman Catholic
 Parish of St. Nicholas in Krakow."

See also…

1. a post of Sunday, April 2, 2006,
2. yesterday's Pennsylvania lottery, and
3. post 585 in this journal. 

(At Los Alamos, Ulam developed the Monte Carlo method.)

(Continued from previous posts)

  Detail from a Washington Post  page today (below)…

  Click to enlarge—

In related news…

  The Hallowed Crucible

"After all the pretty contrast of life and death
 Proves that these opposite things partake of one,
 At least that was the theory…."

— Wallace Stevens, "Connoisseur of Chaos"

Operation Condor

See Tombstones, Crucible, Sunday in the Park, The Condor, and…

Part I: Literal

"Shinin' like a diamond,
 she had tombstones in her eyes."

Part II: Figurative

See Halmos Tombstone in this journal.

Dinner Theater?

“Philosophers ponder the idea of identity: what it is to give something a name on Monday and have it respond to that name on Friday….”
— Bernard Holland in the New York Times of Monday, May 20, 1996

From an entry of last Monday,
“Lynchburg Law” — 

Critic Frank Rich in Wednesday’s Times on a recent televised promotion:

“… it was a manufactured scandal, as over-the-top as a dinner theater production of ‘The Crucible.’ “

From a Friday, Nov. 19, entry:

“the Platonist… is more interested in deriving an abstraction of the object into a universal….”

— Radu Surdulescu, Form, Structure, and Structurality

From El Universal online today:

“Meanwhile, [Mexico] continued to deal with the savagery of Tuesday night’s televised lynchings, with some saying the media had exploited the occurrence.

‘This is a new and worrisome phenomenon,’ security analyst José Reveles said in an interview… ‘It’s like the evil offspring of all the violent exploitation in the media.’  ‘It was Fuenteovejuna,’ he said, referring to the work by the Spanish golden age playwright Lope de Vega in which an entire town covers up the slaying of a corrupt official.”

Frank Rich has the last word:

“A ‘moral values’ crusade that stands between a TV show this popular and its audience will quickly learn the limits of its power in a country where entertainment is god.”