“As for amateur detective Lucie, she meets Viva and
begins to realize that both Viva and her client, Leni,
are after the same jewel. Her brother reluctantly reveals
their true natures: Viva is the daughter of the Sun, and
Leni the daughter of the Moon. They can stay on Earth
for only 40 days between the last full moon of winter
and the first full moon of spring. The magic jewel can
allow them to stay.”
In memory of a French film publicist who worked with Clint Eastwood
in 1971 on the release of "The Beguiled" —
From a New York Times graphic review dated Sept. 16, 2016 —
It's Chapter 1 of George Eliot's "Middlemarch."
Dorothea Brooke, young and brilliant, filled with passion
no one needs, is beguiled by some gemstones . . . .
The characters, moving through the book,
glitter as they turn their different facets toward us . . . .
Cf. a glitter-ball-like image in today's New York Times philosophy column
"The Stone" — a column named for the legendary philosophers' stone.
The publicist, Pierre Rissient, reportedly died early Sunday.
See as well Duelle in this journal.
The title is suggested by a new novel (see cover below),
and by an unwritten book by Nabokov —
Related material:
( Continued from December 6th — and from Duelle here and in Pynchon )
Part I
The Galois Embedding
Part II
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From French cinema—
"a 'non-existent myth' of a battle between |
"Moon River, wider than a mile…"
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The most damaging and obstructive Like “genius.” And “sincerity.” And “inspiration.” Distrust these words.
They stand for cherished myths,
— Verlyn Klinkenborg, |
"All she had to do was kick off and flow."
"I'se so silly to be flowing but I no canna stay."
"Shifting Amid, and Asserting, His Own Cinema"
— Headline of an essay on Bertolucci in tormorrow's Sunday New York Times
This, together with yesterday's post on the Paris "Symmetry, Duality, and Cinema" conference last June, suggests a review of the phrase "blue diamond" in this journal. The search shows a link to the French art film "Duelle."
Some background for the word and concept from a French dictionary —
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duel duelle
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For examples of duel and duelle see Evariste Galois
and Helen Mirren (the latter in The Tempest and in 2010 ).
Image from stoneship.org
The title is a reference to yesterday's noon post.
For the late Vladimir Igorevich Arnold—
"All things began in order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again; according to the ordainer of order and mystical Mathematicks of the City of Heaven."
— Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Chapter V
Arnold's own mystical mathematics may be found in his paper
"Polymathematics: Is Mathematics a Single Science or a Set of Arts?"
Page 13–
"In mathematics we always encounter mysterious analogies, and our trinities [page 8] represent only a small part of these miracles."
Also from that paper—
Page 5, footnote 2–
"The Russian way to formulate problems is to mention the first nontrivial case (in a way that no one would be able to simplify it). The French way is to formulate it in the most general form making impossible any further generalization."
Arnold died in Paris on June 3. A farewell gathering was held there on June 8—
"Celles et ceux qui le souhaitent pourront donner un dernier adieu à Vladimir Igorevitch
mardi 8 juin, de 14h a 16h, chambre mortuaire de l'hopital Saint Antoine…."
An International Blue Diamond
In Arnold's memory— Here, in the Russian style, is a link to a "first nontrivial case" of a blue diamond— from this journal on June 8 (feast of St. Gerard Manley Hopkins). For those who prefer French style, here is a link to a blue diamond from May 18—
From French cinema—
"a 'non-existent myth' of a battle between
goddesses of the sun and the moon
for a mysterious blue diamond
that has the power to make
mortals immortal and vice versa"
Photo caption in NY Times today— a pianist "preforming" in 1967. (See today's previous post.)
The pianist's life story seems in part to echo that of Juliette Binoche in the film "Bleu." Binoche appeared in this journal yesterday, before I had seen the pianist in today's Times obituaries. The Binoche appearance was related to the blue diamond in the film "Duelle " (Tuesday morning's post) and the saying of Heraclitus "immortals mortal, mortals immortal" (Tuesday afternoon's post).
This somewhat uncanny echo brings to mind Nabokov—
Life Everlasting—based on a misprint!
I mused as I drove homeward: take the hint,
And stop investigating my abyss?
But all at once it dawned on me that this
Was the real point, the contrapuntal theme;
Just this: not text, but texture; not the dream
But topsy-turvical coincidence,
Not flimsy nonsense, but a web of sense.
Whether sense or nonsense, the following quotation seems relevant—
"Archetypes function as living dispositions, ideas in the Platonic sense, that preform and continually influence our thoughts and feelings and actions." –C.G. Jung in Four Archetypes: Mother, Rebirth, Spirit, Trickster, the section titled "On the Concept of the Archetype."
That section is notable for its likening of Jungian archetypes to Platonic ideas and to axial systems of crystals. See also "Cubist Tune," March 18 —
The Philosophers' Stone
according to
The New York Times—
Related material
from French cinema—
"a 'non-existent myth' of a battle between
goddesses of the sun and the moon
for a mysterious blue diamond
that has the power to make
mortals immortal and vice versa."
See also
* The title is a reference to Jim Dodge's 1989 novel Stone Junction: An Alchemical Potboiler.
A new NY Times column:
Today's New York Times
re-edited for philosophers:
See also
John Baez's paper
Duality in Logic and Physics
(for a May 29 meeting at Oxford),
Lubtchansky's Key, with its links
to Duelle (French, f. adj., dual)
and Art Wars for Trotsky's Birthday.
William Lubtchansky, a cinematographer, was born on October 26, 1937, and died on May 4, 2010.
Yesterday's post included an illustration from this journal on the date of his death.
Here is a Log24 entry from last year on the date of his birth—
| Monday, October 26, 2009 The Keys Enigma
Related material: |
Clicking on the Shift Lock key leads to the following page—
—The Philosopher's Gaze,
by David Michael Levin,
University of California Press, 1999
Related images—
Detail from May 4 image:
Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC:
(http://www.scrapbookpages.com/USHMM/Exterior.html)
See also Lubtchansky's Duelle and
Art Wars for Trotsky's Birthday, 2003.
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