An image in memory of a publisher* who reportedly died
on Saturday, August 26, 2017.
He and his wife wrote a novel, The Twelve , that has been compared to
the classic film "Village of the Damned." (See a sequel in this journal.)
For more on the image, see posts now tagged The Finkelstein Talisman.
*
A search for Finkelstein in this journal yields an image …
Notes and frequency ratios
See also the remarks of a character in Martin Cruz Smith's
novel Stallion Gate on piano keys —
"I hate arguments. I'm a coward. Arguments are full of words,
and each person is sure he's the only one who knows
what the words mean. Each word is a basket of eels,
as far as I'm concerned. Everybody gets to grab just one eel
and that's his interpretation and he'll fight to the death for it….
Which is why I love music. You hit a C and it's a C and that's all it is.
Like speaking clearly for the first time. Like being intelligent.
Like understanding. A Mozart or an Art Tatum sits at the piano
and picks out the undeniable truth."
The late physicist David Ritz Finkelstein on the magic square
in Dürer's "Melencolia I" —
"As a child I wondered why such a square was called magic.
The Occult Philosophy [of Agrippa] answers this question
at least. They were used as magical talismans."
The correspondence in the previous post between
Figures A and B may serve as a devotional talisman
in memory of Finkelstein, a physicist who, in the sort of
magical thinking enjoyed by traditional Catholics, might
still be lingering in Purgatory.
See also this journal on the date of Finkelstein's death —
"He was born David Finkelstein in New York
on Aug. 30, 1921. His father, Jonathan, was
a writer who used Finn as a pen name and
then legally changed the family name to Finn
when David was in high school."
Sometimes way behind.
Click the image for some remarks on a related novel.
The Finkelstein Talisman —
"Before time began, there was the Cube."
— Optimus Prime in "Transformers" (Paramount, 2007)
Wikipedia on Hasbro —
Three American Jewish brothers,[6] Herman, Hillel, and Henry Hassenfeld[7]
founded Hassenfeld Brothers in Providence, Rhode Island in 1923 . . . .
The Hassenfeld Auction —
Also on September 16, 2015 —
The Hindman Image —
The Hood Warenkorb —
Under the Hood —
Megan Fox in "Transformers" (2007) —
This Way to the Egress —
Finkelstein reportedly died on Sunday, January 24, 2016.
| “A Serious Man kicks off with a Yiddish-language frame story that takes place in a 19th-century Eastern European shtetl, where a married couple has an enigmatic encounter with an old acquaintance who may be a dybbuk , or malevolent spirit (and who’s played by the Yiddish theater actor Fyvush Finkel). The import of this parable is cryptic to the point of inscrutability, making it a perfect introduction to the rest of the movie.”
— Dana Stevens at Slate.com on Oct. 1, 2009 |
See also Finkelstein in this journal.
See as well posts now tagged Oct. 4, 2018,
in the context of today’s previous post.
(Continued from September 12, 2005)
The previous post contrasted the number-triple 11-7-8 below
with number triples 12-9-5 and 12-5-9.
A perhaps more logical counterpart of the triple 11-7-8, based
on opposite locations of star-points or cube-edges, is
the triple 9-12-5. For a theological interpretation, see 9/12/05.
Lines from characters played in the film by Tom Hanks and Halle Berry —
— Cloud Atlas , by David Mitchell (2004).
An orison of sorts from a post on Martin Scorsese's
birthday, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2007 —
Displayed on the BlackBerry are parts
of Log24 posts from October 25, 2007,
and October 24, 2007.
Related pattern geometry
From a Log24 search for Angleton + Brotherhood:
A photo of Angleton in a post from 12/9/5 —
From a post of 11/7/8 —
A cryptic note for Dan Brown:
The above dates 11/7/8 and 12/9/5 correspond to the corner-labels
(read clockwise and counter-clockwise) of the two large triangles
in the Finkelstein Talisman —
Above: More symbology for Tom Hanks from
this morning's post The Pentagram Papers.
The above symbology is perhaps better suited to Hanks in his
role as Forrest Gump than in his current role as Ben Bradlee.
For Hanks as Dan Brown's Harvard symbologist
Robert Langdon, see the interpretation 12/5/9, rather
than 12/9/5, of the above triangle/cube-corner label.
From a political kingmaker's online NY Times obituary this evening —
" 'I have been criticized for 20 years for running
ideologically arched campaigns,' he told the National
Conservative Political Action Conference in 1991. 'I plead guilty.' "
To check the unfamiliar usage "ideologically arched," see minute 35:02 on
the linked video. The word may actually have been "harsh," not "arched."
For an arched campaign, see the previous post, App . Some background —
A Village Voice —
"Arthur Jay Finkelstein was born on May 18, 1945, in the East New York
section of Brooklyn, the son of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe.
His father, Morris, was a cabby. His mother was the former Zella Ordanksi.
The family moved to Levittown, on Long Island, when he was 11, then to
Queens, where he graduated from Forest Hills High School.
In 1967, Mr. Finkelstein earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and
political science from Queens College. As a student, he sometimes shared
a college radio program with Ayn Rand, the author and philosopher whose
laissez-faire capitalism he would fiercely defend in street-corner debates in
Greenwich Village." — Sam Roberts of The New York Times
"Now a little trivial heuresis is in order."
— The late Waclaw Szymanski on p. 279 of
"Decompositions of operator-valued functions
in Hilbert spaces" (Studia Mathematica 50.3
(1974): 265-280.)
See "A Talisman for Finkelstein," from midnight
on the reported date of Szymanski's death. That post
refers to "the correspondence in the previous post
between Figures A and B" … as does this post.
In memory of physicist David Ritz Finkelstein,
who reportedly died yesterday —
"His sense of irony and precision was appreciated" ….
Precision
Irony
An illustration of the song "Stuck in the Middle with You"
(from the Tarantino film "Reservoir Dogs") was posted by
an academic at Christmas 2015 —
See also, in this journal,
The Jewel in the Lotus Meets the Kernel in the Nutshell
(December 16, 2015).
"The ideal of a complete mathematical theory of beauty
lies on the same long line of distinguished fantasies of
mathematical wisdom as the number mysticism of
Pythagoras and Plato, the Ars Magna of Ramon Llull
(whom Agrippa studied) and Giordano Bruno
(who studied Llull and Agrippa), the vision of Mathesis
Universalis that Descartes and Leibniz shared, and the
Ars Combinatoria of Leibniz. Dürer does not deny the
existence of absolute beauty but despairs of knowing it."
— The late David Ritz Finkelstein in 2007.
He reportedly died today.
Recipe for Disaster
according to Jerome Kagan,
Harvard psychologist emeritus
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| "'Humans demand that there be a clear right and wrong,' he said. 'You've got to believe that the track you've taken is the right track. You get depressed if you're not certain as to what it is you're supposed to be doing or what's right and wrong in the world.'" | "People need to divide the world into good and evil, us and them, Kagan continued. To do otherwise– to entertain the possibility that life is not black and white, but variously shaded in gray– is perhaps more honest, rational and decent. But it's also, psychically, a recipe for disaster." |
Black and White: |
Shades of Gray: |
The above Kagan quotes are taken
from a New York Times essay by
Judith Warner as transcribed by
Mark Finkelstein on Sept. 29.
See also Log24 on
Sept. 29 and 30.
Related material:
Kagan's book
Surprise, Uncertainty,
and Mental Structures
(Harvard U. Press, April 2002)
and Werner Heisenberg–
discoverer of the
uncertainty principle—
as Anakin Skywalker
being tempted by
the Dark Side:
(Rosh Hashanah began at sundown September 22; Yom Kippur begins at sundown October 1. —holidays.net)
"Today comes more evidence of the left's painful struggle to deal with its diminished standing and repeated rejection at the polls. In the subscription-required Why Voters Like Values, [New York] Times columnist Judith Warner claims that "the Christian right's ability to stir voter passions is based not on values, but on psychology." Warner describes having bravely gone inside the belly of the conservative beast, recently attending a Values Voters Summit in DC, and declaring it "imbued with so much intolerance and hate." This is presumably in contrast with liberal love-ins, where Bush & Co. are regularly depicted as liars, murderers, Hitlers, etc.
She later describes a schadenfreude-provoking scene of the day after Kerry's 2004 defeat, picking through the rubble with Harvard psychology professor emeritus, Jerome Kagan, who tried to console Warner and presumably himself. As she describes it:
"Our conversation drifted to the Republicans' 'values' [note scare quotes] agenda, and Kagan's belief that values sell because they're an antidote to the endemic mental health problem of our time: depression.
"'Humans demand that there be a clear right and wrong,' he said. 'You've got to believe that the track you've taken is the right track. You get depressed if you're not certain as to what it is you're supposed to be doing or what's right and wrong in the world."
"People need to divide the world into good and evil, us and them, Kagan continued. To do otherwise– to entertain the possibility that life is not black and white, but variously shaded in gray– is perhaps more honest, rational and decent. But it's also, psychically, a recipe for disaster."
Got it? Liberalism is "more honest, rational and decent" than conservativism, but that's just not what the benighted public wants. They're looking for political Prozac, a Manichean worldview they can cling to, and that's what conservatism cunningly offers.
Less controversial values are provided by yesterday evening's Pennsylvania lottery— namely, the values 4, 5, and 6.
For a discussion of these values under the guise of musical intervals, see Professor Kagan again, in a paper (pdf) he wrote with Marcel R. Zentner, "Infants' Perception of Consonance and Dissonance in Music" (Infant Behavior & Development, Vol. 21, No. 3, 1998):
Adults judge as most consonant either the octave (difference of 12 semitones) [or the unison, difference of 0 semitones], the fifth (7 semitones), or the major third (4 semitones).
Illustration (see also yesterday evening):
Notes and frequency ratios
The paper discusses consonant intervals
as an example of alleged
"perceptual universals."
Related material on universals
suitable for today, the Feast of
St. Michael and All Angels:
Shining Forth and
Midsummer Eve's Dream.
The material in Shining Forth
is also related, tangentially, to the
following presentation of the
Warner "values" essay
in today's online New York Times:
The above three Times items,
taken together, suggest that
those in search of "values"
should consult Betty Suarez:
Click on picture for further details.
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