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Sunday, August 27, 2023

For the Midnight Garden: 
Hexagram 61 Revisited

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:00 am

See Hexagram 61 in this journal.

Saturday, February 5, 2022

Hexagram 61 Revisited

Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:10 pm

The online New York Times  today  reporting a  Jan. 29 death:

"Mr. Dylan asked Mr. Lay to back him on the title track
of his album “Highway 61 Revisited.” In addition to
playing drums, Mr. Lay played a toy whistle on the song’s
memorable opening."
— Richard Sandomir, Feb. 5, 2022, 2:06 p.m. ET

The above link yields a March 11, 2019, YouTube upload:

Some may prefer the theology of Hexagram  61.

“‘Oracle, why did you write
The Grasshopper Lies Heavy?
What are we supposed to learn?'”

— Philip K. Dick

“She began throwing the coins.“

I Ching Hexagram 61: Inner Truth

Other remarks from the above
YouTube upload date — March 11, 2019 —

Monday, February 1, 2021

Hexagrams for Georginas

Filed under: General — m759 @ 2:18 pm

The Georginas of the title are from yesterday’s posts tagged Poetics.

The hexagrams of the title, shown below, are from
http://finitegeometry.org/sc/64/iching.html .

Monday, January 13, 2020

Hexagram for Day 13

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:00 am

Wednesday, January 1, 2020

A Hexagram for Pauli*

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:21 am

I Ching box symbol

Pictorial version
of Hexagram 20,
Contemplation  (View)

* See Pauli in the Dec. 30
post Number and Time.

Saturday, October 19, 2019

Hexagram 19

Filed under: General — m759 @ 6:55 am

The image “http://www.log24.com/log/pix05B/051202-Hex19.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.

Click the above image
for its source.

See also Hexagram 19
in this journal.

Thursday, March 16, 2017

Hexagram 64 in Context

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 10:22 pm

"Always with a little humor." — Dr. Yen Lo

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Midrash on Hexagram 22

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:30 pm

See Instantia Crucis and Josefine Lyche's
One-Night-Only exhibition in Oslo Jan. 5.

Monday, July 14, 2014

Hexagram 14

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 11:00 am

Possession
in great measure

Related material:

Lead obituary in today’s online New York Times  and Los Angeles Times 

Maazel reportedly died on Sunday, July 13, 2014.

From a search in this journal for Iconic Notation,
a related image from August 14, 2010—

http://www.log24.com/log/pix10B/100814-DBsm.jpg

See also…

Epiphany

Geometry of the I Ching (Box Style)

Box-style I Ching , January 6, 1989

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Hexagram 20 Revisited

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:00 am

Meditations for October 20 :

Box Style,  Wand Work, and  Bowling in Diagon Alley.

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Hexagram 18

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:14 am

(Continued from June 14, 2007)

The late William P. Thurston on how mathematical knowledge may decay:

"There are several obvious mechanisms of decay. The experts in a subject retire and die, or simply move on to other subjects and forget. Mathematics is commonly explained and recorded in symbolic and concrete forms that are easy to communicate, rather than in conceptual forms that are easy to understand once communicated. Translation in the direction conceptual -> concrete and symbolic is much easier than translation in the reverse direction, and symbolic forms often replaces [sic ] the conceptual forms of understanding. And mathematical conventions and taken-for-granted knowledge change, so older texts may become hard to understand.

In short, mathematics only exists in a living community of mathematicians that spreads understanding and breaths [sic ] life into ideas both old and new. The real satisfaction from mathematics is in learning from others and sharing with others. All of us have clear understanding of a few things and murky concepts of many more. There is no way to run out of ideas in need of clarification. The question of who is the first person to ever set foot on some square meter of land is really secondary. Revolutionary change does matter, but revolutions are few, and they are not self-sustaining — they depend very heavily on the community of mathematicians."

At mathoverflow.net, October 30, 2010.
     The discussion has been "closed as no longer relevant."
     For another Thurston quote of interest, see a more recent
     mathoverflow discussion "closed as not a real question."

Monday, July 2, 2012

Hexagram 44 Revisited

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:00 pm

Images from a Google search suggested by
last night's post Coming to Meet, by the recent
film "Archie's Final Project," and by a Thursday,
June 28, 2012, Times Higher Education  piece, 
"Raiders of the Lost Archives"—

IMAGE- Diana Rigg in 'The Hospital' and in 'The Avengers'

    Log24, December 8, 2008 —

David Carradine displays a yellow book-- the Princeton I Ching.

"Let the fingers do the research."
          — Archive Raiders

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Emma Watson turned 34 yesterday.

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:46 pm

Related Hogwarts art —

Related I Ching art —

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Tools Dream

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:50 pm

The above meditation was adapted from . . .

Thursday, January 25, 2024

“New Key” Obit

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:43 am

See as well "New Key" in this  journal.
 

Thursday, January 11, 2024

December 17 Flashback: The List

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:50 am

The reference in the previous post to the Hollywood blacklist suggests
a review of a more interesting kind of list.

See "I Ching" + Ideas posts and . . .

Sunday, December 17, 2023

The List

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:19 am

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Lone Tree

Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:15 pm

Background music: thepiano, from a post of Oct. 7, 2002.

Wednesday, October 4, 2023

Clearwater Revival

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:22 am

"You can ponder perpetual motion
Fix your mind on a crystal day
Always time for a good conversation
There's an ear for what you say"

— "Up Around the Bend" lyrics

Tuesday, August 15, 2023

“You’ve got skills!” — Line from a Tom Cruise film

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:58 pm

See also a video discussing Hexagram 58 — and the month of May, 2021. 
Related material — Cultural remarks from May 2021 in this  journal.

Saturday, June 10, 2023

Tiling Note

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:57 pm

A review by Robert Ghrist of a paper on aperiodic
Wang tilings suggests a search in this journal for Wang tiles.

A resulting image seems appropriate for today's posts,
which include a reference to a renowned Prada-wearer.

"She's like the wind." — Song lyric. See as well Hexagram 57.

Friday, May 5, 2023

Dungeons, Dragons, and Wishing Wells

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:47 pm

This journal ten years ago today

This journal on April 10, 2022

Be careful what you wish for.

You might get . . .

Steven Strogatz and the Time Crystal .

Friday, April 21, 2023

A Poem for Parfit

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:18 pm

This post was suggested
by a Chinese birthday:

Sex and Art in
a Chinese Poem

In the box-style I Ching
Hexagram 34,
The Power of the Great,
is represented by

  The image “http://www.log24.com/theory/images/Box34.gif” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors. .

Art is represented
by a box
(Hexagram 20,
Contemplation, View)

  The image “http://www.log24.com/theory/images/Box20.gif” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors. .

  And of course 
great art
is represented by
an X in a box.
(Hexagram 2,
The Receptive)

  The image “http://www.log24.com/theory/images/Box02.gif” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors. .

The combination of these
three symbols may be viewed
as “Power in a  Box,” or,
according to some scholars,
“The Art of Great Sex.”
 
The image “http://www.log24.com/log/pix05/050310-hex.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.

See as well Parfit in this journal and in
an April 12 New Statesman  article —

Derek Parfit: the perfectionist at All Souls.

Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Firewater Chat: Fear Himself

Filed under: General — m759 @ 5:29 pm

Images from posts tagged Fire Water


Scholium —

Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Ho vs. Ho!

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:53 am

A literary note for Ho, from this journal on October 27, 2008

A day earlier — October 26, 2008 — was the date of a very
informative, but deeply tasteless, introduction to . . .

That introduction need not be quoted here.

Thursday, November 10, 2022

“What are we supposed to learn?”

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:39 pm

From a search in this journal for "Hexagram 61" —

“‘Oracle, why did you write
The Grasshopper Lies Heavy?
What are we supposed to learn?'”

— Philip K. Dick

“She began throwing the coins.“

I Ching Hexagram 61: Inner Truth

Sixty-one years ago . . .

Click to enlarge.

Saturday, September 10, 2022

Orthogonal Latin Triangles

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:38 am

From a 1964 recreational-mathematics essay —

Note that the first two triangle-dissections above are analogous to
mutually orthogonal Latin squares . This implies a connection to
affine transformations within Galois geometry. See triangle graphics
in this  journal.

Affine transformation of 'magic' squares and triangles: the triangle Lo Shu 

Update of 4:40 AM ET —

Other mystical figures —

Magic cube and corresponding hexagram, or Star of David, with faces mapped to lines and edges mapped to points

"Before time began, there was the Cube."

— Optimus Prime in "Transformers" (Paramount, 2007)

Monday, April 25, 2022

Vienna Fantasies

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:04 pm

From a post of November 7, 2012 —

I Ching chessboard (original 1989 arrangement)

Meanwhile, in fiction —

Another Vienna fantasy —

Vide  the source.

Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Programmes: Architectural Theory and the Separatrix

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 3:19 am

Architectural theorist Jeffrey Kipnis in 1991, recalled here in 2015 —

For the source of the illustration, see Hexagram 14.

Monday, February 28, 2022

Church Song

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:24 pm

"February made me shiver . . . ."

Thursday, February 17, 2022

Four Dots, Six Lines

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:46 am

"There is  such a thing  as  a tesseract." 

— Mrs. Whatsit in  A Wrinkle in Time  (1962)

"Simplify, simplify." — Henry David Thoreau in Walden  (1854)

Von Franz representation of the I Ching's Hexagram 2, The Receptive
 

A Jungian on this six-line figure:

“They are the same six lines that exist in the I Ching…. Now observe the square more closely: four of the lines are of equal length, the other two are longer…. For this reason symmetry cannot be statically produced and a dance results.”
 
— Marie-Louise von Franz,
   Number and Time  (1970)

Thursday, January 13, 2022

(Belated) Meditation for New Year’s Day, 2022

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 5:37 pm

Hexagram 51:

"I woke last night to the sound of thunder,
How far off, I sat and wondered.
Started humming a song from 1962.
Ain't it funny how the night moves?"

See also . . .

'Loop De Loop,' Johnny Thunder, Diamond Records, 1962

Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Sure You Can.

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:59 am

Also by Parul Sehgal . . .

"I first met Gaitskill on an August afternoon at her apartment
in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. She is beautiful, startlingly so —
straight-­backed and contained, her body a wick of tensile energy,
her hair a silvery blond. She offered me sparkling water and
hunted down a lime — ‘'I can’t serve it to you naked,' she said . . . ."

— https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/magazine/
mary-gaitskill-and-the-life-unseen.html

As for "the life unseen" . . .
https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/reading/hexagrams/59-dispersing/

Wednesday, November 17, 2021

De Nada

Filed under: General — m759 @ 2:35 pm

From a thank-you-to-my-25K-followers 
Instagram story today:

"The southwest furthers." — Hexagram 40

The story was by Marcela Nowak,
LA-LA Art Director:

Tuesday, November 16, 2021

The Comedian as the Letter C

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:43 pm

See as well a different  influencer.

Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Annals of Numerology

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:36 am

From that opening date — June 25, 2021 — in this journal:

"We have much to discover." — Saying attributed to 
Christopher Marlowe in a TV series.  See posts now tagged 4X.

Midrash for Doctorow —


The Fraction  25/24 —


Numbers Revisualized —
 

                                               25

 

 24
 

Thursday, September 30, 2021

Carthago

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:58 am

Augustine Confessiones 3 3.1.1

veni Carthaginem, et circumstrepebat me 
undique sartago flagitiosorum amorum.

  venio, venire, veni, ventus  
come
  Carthago, Carthaginis F  
Carthage
  circumstrepo, circumstrepere, circumstrepui, circumstrepitus  
make a noise around; surround with noise; shout/cry clamorously around
  undique  
from every side/direction/place/part/source; on all/both sides/surfaces
  sartago, sartaginis F  
frying pan; mixture/medley/jumble/farrago; stove
  flagitiosus, flagitiosa -um, flagitiosior -or -us, flagitiosissimus -a -um  
disgraceful, shameful; infamous, scandalous; profligate, dissolute
  amor, amoris M 
love; affection; the beloved; Cupid; affair; sexual/illicit/… etc. etc. etc.

Related meditations —

A more straightforward image —

"I need a photo opportunity . . ." — Song lyric, Paul Simon

For those who are
less than thrilled
by St. Augustine:

See also Margaret Qualley's "Kenzo World" dance.

Those less than thrilled by Qualley's highly energetic,
but very unclassical, dance may review the Log24 post
Raiders of the Lost Images (Feb. 27, 2018).

Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Tools

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:52 am

Update at noon, in memory of Victor Snaith

Thursday, August 26, 2021

Another Opening, Another Show

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:24 am

Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Escape from the Grid

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 5:57 am

Related material:  Dance of the Numbers  (Log24, Dec. 15, 2005).

Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Pause and Rewind

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:14 am

A well in the opening scenes of the 2020 film version of Joan Didion's
1996 novel The Last Thing He Wanted

 

From a link in the previous post

Sorvino in “The Last Templar
at the Church of the Lost Well:

Mira Sorvino at the Church of the Lost Well in 'The Last Templar'

Consider the source.

Wellspring

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:00 am

An online New York Times  obituary today
of a scholar who reportedly died on August 1 —

"In a career that took him to Hong Kong and Taiwan,
as well as a succession of Ivy League universities,
Professor Yu often returned to the theme that China’s
long traditions could be a wellspring, not an enemy,
of enlightenment, individual dignity and democracy."

— Chris Buckley

Cf.  Hexagram 48 in this  journal and some synonyms:

Friday, June 25, 2021

Queens Gambit

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:07 am

Note of 10:44 AM ET, Friday, June 25, 2021 —

"Stephen Elliot Dunn was born on June 24,
1939, in Forest Hills, Queens . . . ."

— https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/25/
books/stephen-dunn-poet-dead.html

Update of 11:07 AM ET the same day —

From Dunn's obituary —

Whether writing about matters small or large,
Mr. Dunn said in a 2010 episode of
The Cortland Review ’s video series “Poets in Person,” 
the key was to find the meaning beneath the experience.

“Even your most serious problem,” he said,
“very few people are going to be interested in
unless you yourself, in the act of writing the poem,
make some discoveries about it.”

—  By Neil Genzlinger, New York Times ,
     June 25, 2021, 10:23 a.m. ET

"We have much to discover." — Saying attributed to 
Christopher Marlowe in a TV series.  See posts now tagged 4X.

Midrash for Doctorow —

Scholium for Pullman —

Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Geometry Unzipped*

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:59 am

Or:  A. A. Milne Meets Jim Morrison

“She’s like the wind.” — Dirty Dancing

* The key to the title is the date  of
the above Amy Adams rendezvous —

Dec. 2, 2013.

Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Swing It, Li’l Darlin’ . . .*

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:44 am

. . . At the speed of a slow, comfortable screw —

* On the title music —

The composition, in the words of jazz writer, Donald Clarke, is
‘an object lesson in how to swing at a slow tempo.’ ”

“X marks the spot” — Indiana Jones

Sunday, January 3, 2021

Ken:  Keeping Still

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:15 pm

Possibly.

For the Church of Synchronology — See the above date:  April 3, 2007.

Thursday, November 26, 2020

Epiphany Search

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:17 pm

Related material — The “box” version of I Ching hexagram 46,
“pushing upward,” in the lower right corner of the following art,
dated 1/6/89 (Epiphany 1989) —

Thursday, November 19, 2020

Modesty

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:28 am

Hexagram 15:
Modesty

Click on the hexagram
for some related posts.

Wednesday, November 11, 2020

The Work of a Comedian

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:57 am

Flashback to Sept. 7, 2008

Change for Washington:

'The Laws of Change: I Ching and the Philosophy of Life,' by Jack M. Balkin

For the details, see yale.edu/lawweb:

“As important to Chinese civilization as the Bible is to Western culture,
the I Ching  or Book of Changes  is one of the oldest treasures of
world literature. Yet despite many commentaries written over the years,
it is still not well understood in the English-speaking world. In this
masterful [sic ] new interpretation, Jack Balkin returns the I Ching  to
its rightful place….

Jack M. Balkin

Jack M. Balkin

Jack M. Balkin is Knight Professor of Constitutional Law
and the First Amendment at Yale Law School, and
the founder and director of Yale’s Information Society Project.
His books and articles range over many different fields….”

Wallace Stevens on 'the work of a comedian'

Friday, September 18, 2020

Holiday Horns

Filed under: General — m759 @ 6:00 pm

Readings for Rosh Hashanah from this journal on April 5, 2005

Compare the following two passages from Holy Scripture:

Genesis 22:13 —

“…behold behind him
a ram caught in a thicket by his horns”

I Ching Hexagram 34 —

“A goat butts against a hedge
And gets its horns entangled.”

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Arts at Cambridge

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:40 pm

Click here to enlarge. See also  Hexagram 59, Feng Shui.

Saturday, March 14, 2020

Possession

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 7:09 am

Detail of Box Style I Ching: Hexagram 14.

Click the above image for details.

There was, however, a challenge by Cozzens himself:

Cozzens replies to Macdonald, March 1958

The apparent source:

 

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Review

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:43 pm

The minute  in the previous post's timestamp
suggests a review

See also Post-It Aesthetics
and posts tagged Story of N.

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Masks of the Illuminati:

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:46 am

The Sternheim Portrait  (For Harlan Kane)

From last night's 1:01 AM post

Detail —

This portrait is of German playwright Carl Sternheim.

Steve Martin's version of Sternheim's 1910 play "The Underpants"
reportedly opened on November 3, 2006.

My own interests on that date lay elsewhere . . .

Related abstract art —

Thursday, November 7, 2019

Jagged Crest

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:01 am

"The man touched the white bishop, queen and king,
and ran his finger over the jagged crest of the rook.
Then, sitting down before the chess set owner could nod
his head, he made his first move with the white pawn."

The late Stephen Dixon, "The Chess House," in
The Paris Review Winter-Spring 1963 (early in 1963).

I Ching chessboard (original 1989 arrangement)

Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Conceptual News

Filed under: General — m759 @ 8:37 pm

The New York Times  reports this evening the
death of a Conceptual artist on October 19

Conceptual art from October 19

Friday, August 16, 2019

Nocciolo

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 10:45 am

(Continued)

IMAGE- 'Nocciolo': A 'kernel' for Pascal's Hexagrammum Mysticum: The 15 2-subsets of a 6-set as points in a Galois geometry.

A revision of the above diagram showing
the Galois-addition-table structure —

Related tables from August 10

See "Schoolgirl Space Revisited."

Saturday, July 27, 2019

Make America Strange Again

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:59 pm

Suggested by the previous post, "The Swarm" —

“‘Oracle, why did you write
The Grasshopper Lies Heavy?
What are we supposed to learn?'”

— Philip K. Dick

“She began throwing the coins.“

I Ching Hexagram 61: Inner Truth

Monday, July 22, 2019

Space, Time, Form

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:33 am

Magic cube and corresponding hexagram, or Star of David, with faces mapped to lines and edges mapped to points

Click the image for some remarks on a related novel.

Thursday, May 23, 2019

Fire on the Water

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 8:13 pm

Related literary remarks from The Crimson Abyss 
(a Log24 post of March 29, 2017) —

Prospero's Children  was first published by HarperCollins,
London, in 1999. A statement by the publisher provides
an instance of the famous "much-needed gap." —

"This is English fantasy at its finest. Prospero’s Children 
steps into the gap that exists between The Lion, the Witch
and the Wardrobe
  and Clive Barker’s Weaveworld , and
is destined to become a modern classic."

Related imagery from The Crimson Abyss —

See as well posts of June 6, 2004, and May 22, 2004.

Wednesday, December 5, 2018

The Hassenfeld Legacy

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:30 am

The Finkelstein Talisman —

Magic cube and corresponding hexagram, or Star of David, with faces mapped to lines and edges mapped to points

"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 —

Thursday, November 1, 2018

Formation, Transformation . . . . Solution, Dissolution

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 8:40 pm

Monday, August 20, 2018

A Wheel for Ellmann

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:12 pm

The title was suggested by Ellmann's roulette-wheel analogy
in the previous post, "The Perception of Coincidence."

I Ching hexagrams as a Singer 63-cycle, plus zero

Saturday, July 28, 2018

Angle

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 11:22 am

Floyd:  "You're trying to figure out this length.
            That's the hypotenuse. So you have to
             know this angle."

Monday, June 25, 2018

The Gateway Device

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 6:24 pm
 

<title data-rh="true">Frank Heart, Who Linked Computers Before the Internet, Dies at 89 – The New York Times</title>
. . . .
<meta data-rh="true" name="description" itemprop="description" content="Mr. Heart’s team built the gateway device for the Arpanet, the precursor to the internet. Data networking was so new then, they made it up as they went."/>
. . . .
<meta data-rh="true" property="article:published" itemprop="datePublished" content="2018-06-25T19:16:17.000Z"/>

See also yesterday's "For 6/24" and 

IMAGE- 'Nocciolo': A 'kernel' for Pascal's Hexagrammum Mysticum: The 15 2-subsets of a 6-set as points in a Galois geometry.

Wednesday, January 17, 2018

At Heaven’s Gate

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 7:30 am

(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.

Magic cube and corresponding hexagram, or Star of David, with faces mapped to lines and edges mapped to points

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.

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

An Orison for Ha-Why

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:00 pm

'Cloud Atlas' book cover illustrating the film

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 —

BlackBerry with pictures from Log24

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

The image “http://www.log24.com/log/pix05B/051209-Angleton.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.

From a post of 11/7/8

http://www.log24.com/log/pix08A/081107-Tilespuzzle.jpg

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

Magic cube and corresponding hexagram, or Star of David, with faces mapped to lines and edges mapped to points

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.

The image “http://www.log24.com/log/pix05B/051211-gump.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.

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.

The Pentagram Papers

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 9:16 am

Other intersection-points-counting material —

The Finkelstein Talisman:

Magic cube and corresponding hexagram, or Star of David, with faces mapped to lines and edges mapped to points

See also Hanks + Cube in this journal —

Robert Langdon (played by Tom Hanks) and a corner of Solomon's Cube.

Tuesday, August 29, 2017

The Finkelstein Talisman

Filed under: General — m759 @ 8:38 pm

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.)

Magic cube and corresponding hexagram, or Star of David, with faces mapped to lines and edges mapped to points

For more on the image, see posts now tagged The Finkelstein Talisman.

*
 

Sunday, August 27, 2017

Black Well

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:00 pm

The “Black” of the title refers to the previous post.
For the “Well,” see Hexagram 48.

Related material —

The Galois Tesseract and, more generally, Binary Coordinate Systems.

Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Every Picture Tells a Story

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 11:48 am

Hexagram 15:
Modesty

See also remarks today by David Brooks at The New York Times .

Friday, July 14, 2017

Squares

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 8:42 am

Box-style I Ching,  January 6, 1989 —

Geometry of the I Ching (Box Style)

(Click on images for background.)

Detail:

Detail of Box Style I Ching: Hexagram 14.

See also yesterday's illustration of 
the 1965 paperback edition 
of Whittaker and Watson 

Detail:

 .

Thursday, July 13, 2017

Dead at 61

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:22 am

I Ching Hexagram 61: Inner Truth

See also Hexagram 61 in this journal.

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Partitioning the Crimson Abyss

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 6:00 pm

For the title, see Crimson + Abyss in this journal.

"Ready when you are, C. B."

Hexagram 63, "After Completion"

Sunday, April 9, 2017

23 for 23 for …

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:01 pm

James McAvoy —

Saturday, April 1, 2017

Art Space

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 12:20 am

(Continued)

Click image for some backstory.

“Whatever he drew was the platonic ideal
of what a cartoon should look like.”

— Bob Mankoff on Jack Ziegler, who reportedly
     died on Wednesday, March 29, 2017.

See also "Hexagram 64 in Context," March 16, 2017.

Wednesday, March 29, 2017

The Crimson Abyss

"And as the characters in the meme twitch into the abyss
that is the sky, this meme will disappear into whatever
internet abyss swallowed MySpace."

—Staff writer Kamila Czachorowski, Harvard Crimson , March 29

1984

IMAGE- 'Affine Groups on Small Binary Spaces,' illustration

2010

Logo design for Stack Exchange Math by Jin Yang
 

Recent posts now tagged Crimson Abyss suggest
the above logo be viewed in light of a certain page 29

"… as if into a crimson abyss …." —

Update of 9 PM ET March 29, 2017:

Prospero's Children  was first published by HarperCollins,
London, in 1999. A statement by the publisher provides
an instance of the famous "much-needed gap." —

"This is English fantasy at its finest. Prospero’s Children 
steps into the gap that exists between The Lion, the Witch
and the Wardrobe
  and Clive Barker’s Weaveworld , and
is destined to become a modern classic."

Related imagery —

See also "Hexagram 64 in Context" (Log24, March 16, 2017).

Design Abyss

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 1:00 pm


http://www.log24.com/images/IChing/hexagram29.gif  
Hexagram 29,
The Abyss (Water)

This post was suggested by an August 6, 2010, post by the designer
(in summer or fall, 2010) of the Stack Exchange math logo (see
the previous Log24 post, Art Space Illustrated) —

http://www.8164.org/☵☲/  .

In that post, the designer quotes the Wilhelm/Baynes I Ching  to explain
his choice of Hexagram 63, Water Over Fire, as a personal icon —

"When water in a kettle hangs over fire, the two elements
stand in relation and thus generate energy (cf. the
production of steam). But the resulting tension demands
caution. If the water boils over, the fire is extinguished
and its energy is lost. If the heat is too great, the water
evaporates into the air. These elements here brought in
to relation and thus generating energy are by nature
hostile to each other. Only the most extreme caution
can prevent damage."

See also this  journal on Walpurgisnacht (April 30), 2010 —

http://www.log24.com/images/IChing/hexagram29.gif

Hexagram 29:
Water

http://www.log24.com/log/pix10A/100430-Commentary.jpg

http://www.log24.com/images/IChing/hexagram30.gif

Hexagram 30:
Fire

"Hates California,
it's cold and it's damp.
"

Image--'The Fire,' by Katherine Neville

A thought from another German-speaking philosopher

"Die Philosophie ist ein Kampf gegen die Verhexung
unsres Verstandes durch die Mittel unserer Sprache."

See also The Crimson 's abyss in today's 4:35 AM post Art Space, Continued.

Saturday, March 25, 2017

Like Decorations in a Cartoon Graveyard

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 4:00 am

Continued from April 11, 2016, and from

A tribute to Rothko suggested by the previous post

For the idea  of Rothko's obstacles, see Hexagram 39 in this journal.

Monday, March 6, 2017

Reading the Coins

Filed under: General — m759 @ 7:00 pm

From Didion’s Play It As It Lays :

Everything goes.  I am working very hard at
not thinking about how everything goes. 
I watch a hummingbird, throw the I Ching
but never read the coins, keep my mind in the now.
— Page 8

From Play It As It Lays :

I lie here in the sunlight, watch the hummingbird. 
This morning I threw the coins in the swimming pool,
and they gleamed and turned in the water in such a way
that I was almost moved to read them.  I refrained.
— Page 214

From a search in this journal for "The Southwest Furthers" —

Hexagram 39:
Obstruction

I Ching, Hexagram 39

The Judgment

Obstruction. The southwest furthers.

(See Zenna Henderson.) 

Saturday, February 18, 2017

Verbum

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 3:00 am

The Log24 version  (Nov. 9, 2005, and later posts) —

VERBUM
SAT
SAPIENTI

 

Escher's 'Verbum'

Escher's Verbum


Solomon's Cube

Solomon's Cube
 

I Ching hexagrams as parts of 4x4x4 cube

Geometry of the I Ching

The Warner Brothers version

The Paramount version

See also related material in the previous post, Transformers.

Sunday, January 8, 2017

A Theory of Everything

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 7:11 pm

The title refers to the Chinese book the I Ching ,
the Classic of Changes .

The 64 hexagrams of the I Ching  may be arranged
naturally in a 4x4x4 cube. The natural form of transformations
("changes") of this cube is given by the diamond theorem.

A related post —

The Eightfold Cube, core structure of the I Ching

Saturday, October 15, 2016

Twelve and Twelve

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:12 pm

See All Saints 2014 in this journal and listen to 
the new Stevie Nicks reissue of Bella Donna.

Related religious imagery —

Magic cube and corresponding hexagram, or Star of David, with faces mapped to lines and edges mapped to points (The 6 cube faces are mapped to the 6 hexagram lines.)

Friday, September 2, 2016

Raiders of the Lost Birthday

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 10:00 am

Some images from the posts of last July 13
(Harrison Ford's birthday) may serve as funeral
ornaments for the late Prof. David Lavery.

IMAGE- Massimo Vignelli, his wife Lella, and cube

Magic cube and corresponding hexagram, or Star of David, with faces mapped to lines and edges mapped to points

See as well posts on "Silent Snow" and "Starlight Like Intuition."

Monday, August 29, 2016

Roll Credits

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:29 am

Click images for some backstories.

  

  

    Pink hexagram in cube

Related material: The Wet Hot Summa.

Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Logos and Logic

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 8:11 pm

"Logos and logic, crystal hypothesis,
 Incipit and a form to speak the word
 And every latent double in the word…."

— Wallace Stevens,
    "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction,"
     Section I, Canto VIII

    

Narratives

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 1:00 pm

The novel Blood on Snow , set in Oslo, was published
by Knopf on April 7, 2015.  This journal on that date —

Log24 on Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Logic

Filed under: Uncategorized — m759 @ 7:00 PM 

Seven years ago in this journal —

The above links:  the Stone,  the rules.

A related image —

Saturday, August 6, 2016

Mystic Correspondence:

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 12:00 pm

The Cube and the Hexagram

The above illustration, by the late Harvey D. Heinz,
shows a magic cube* and a corresponding magic 
hexagram, or Star of David, with the six cube faces 
mapped to the six hexagram lines and the twelve  
cube edges mapped to the twelve hexagram points.
The eight cube vertices correspond to eight triangles
in the hexagram (six small and two large). 

Exercise:  Is this noteworthy mapping** of faces to lines, 
edges to points, and vertices to triangles an isolated 
phenomenon, or can it be viewed in a larger context?

* See the discussion at magic-squares.net of
   "perimeter-magic cubes"

** Apparently derived from the Cube + Hexagon figure
    discussed here in various earlier posts. See also
    "Diamonds and Whirls," a note from 1984.

Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Block That Metaphor

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 8:38 pm

Magic cube and corresponding hexagram, or Star of David, with faces mapped to lines and edges mapped to points (The 6 cube faces are mapped to the 6 hexagram lines.)

Happy dies natalis  to the late Frida Kahlo.

Saturday, May 14, 2016

The Hourglass Code

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 1:28 pm

version of the I Ching’s Hexagram 19:

I Ching Hexagram 19, 'Approach,' the box-style version

From Katherine Neville's The Eight , a book on the significance
of the date April 4 — the author's birthday —

Axe image from Katherine Neville's 'The Eight'

The Eight  by Katherine Neville —

    “What does this have to do with why we’re here?”
    “I saw it in a chess book Mordecai showed me.  The most ancient chess service ever discovered was found at the palace of King Minos on Crete– the place where the famous Labyrinth was built, named after this sacred axe.  The chess service dates to 2000 B.C.  It was made of gold and silver and jewels…. And in the center was carved a labrys.”
… “But I thought chess wasn’t even invented until six or seven hundred A.D.,” I added.  “They always say it came from Persia or India.  How could this Minoan chess service be so old?”
    “Mordecai’s written a lot himself on the history of chess,” said Lily…. “He thinks that chess set in Crete was designed by the same guy who built the Labyrinth– the sculptor Daedalus….”
    Now things were beginning to click into place….
    “Why was this axe carved on the chessboard?” I asked Lily, knowing the answer in my heart before she spoke.  “What did Mordecai say was the connection?”….
    “That’s what it’s all about,” she said quietly.  “To kill the King.”
 
     The sacred axe was used to kill the King.  The ritual had been the same since the beginning of time. The game of chess was merely a reenactment.  Why hadn’t I recognized it before?

Related material:  Posts now tagged Hourglass Code.

See also the hourglass in a search for Pilgrim's Progress Illustration.

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Stevens Illustrated

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 3:48 pm

From a Stevens poem, "The Public Square" —

"A slash of angular blacks."

I Ching hexagram 14, box style

See also "Hexagram 14."

Saturday, February 27, 2016

Back to the Blackboard

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 12:00 pm

Related material —

Runes to Grave and

Thursday, January 28, 2016

A6!

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 9:57 am

The title refers to a line by Louis Menand quoted
at the end of the previous post.

There "a6!" refers to the chessboard square in
column a, row 6.  In Geometry of the I Ching,
this square represents Hexagram 61, "Inner Truth."

See also "inner truth" in this journal.

Friday, January 22, 2016

Easter Footnote

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 12:00 pm

A search from Easter 2013 for "Cremona synthemes" *

IMAGE- Google image search for 'cremona synthemes'

For some strictly mathematical background, see
Classical Geometry in Light of Galois Geometry.

* For more about Cremona and synthemes, 
   see a 1975 paper by W. L. Edge,
  "A Footnote on the Mystic Hexagram."

Thursday, January 21, 2016

Dividing the Indivisible

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 11:00 am

My statement yesterday morning that the 15 points
of the finite projective space PG(3,2) are indivisible 
was wrong.  I was misled by quoting the powerful
rhetoric of Lincoln Barnett (LIFE magazine, 1949).

Points of Euclidean  space are of course indivisible
"A point is that which has no parts" (in some translations).

And the 15 points of PG(3,2) may be pictured as 15
Euclidean  points in a square array (with one point removed)
or tetrahedral array (with 11 points added).

The geometry of  PG(3,2) becomes more interesting,
however, when the 15 points are each divided  into
several parts. For one approach to such a division,
see Mere Geometry. For another approach, click on the
image below.

IMAGE- 'Nocciolo': A 'kernel' for Pascal's Hexagrammum Mysticum: The 15 2-subsets of a 6-set as points in a Galois geometry.

Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Splitting Apart

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:01 pm

Bleecker Street logo —

Click image for some background.

Related remarks on mathematics:

Boole vs. Galois

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

The Nutshell

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 1:13 pm

See a search for Nocciolo  in this journal.

An image from that search —

IMAGE- 'Nocciolo': A 'kernel' for Pascal's Hexagrammum Mysticum: The 15 2-subsets of a 6-set as points in a Galois geometry.

Recall also Hamlet's
"O God bad dreams."

Pascal’s Finite Geometry

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 12:01 am

See a search for "large Desargues configuration" in this journal.

The 6 Jan. 2015 preprint "Danzer's Configuration Revisited," 
by Boben, Gévay, and Pisanski, places this configuration,
which they call the Cayley-Salmon configuration , in the 
interesting context of Pascal's Hexagrammum Mysticum .

They show how the Cayley-Salmon configuration is, in a sense,
dual to something they call the Steiner-Plücker configuration .

This duality appears implicitly in my note of April 26, 1986,
"Picturing the smallest projective 3-space." The six-sets at
the bottom of that note, together with Figures 3 and 4
of Boben et. al. , indicate how this works.

The duality was, as they note, previously described in 1898.

Related material on six-set geometry from the classical literature—

Baker, H. F., "Note II: On the Hexagrammum Mysticum  of Pascal,"
in Principles of Geometry , Vol. II, Camb. U. Press, 1930, pp. 219-236  

Richmond, H. W., "The Figure Formed from Six Points in Space of Four Dimensions,"
Mathematische Annalen  (1900), Volume 53, Issue 1-2, pp 161-176

Richmond, H. W., "On the Figure of Six Points in Space of Four Dimensions," 
Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics , Vol. 31 (1900), pp. 125-160

Related material on six-set geometry from a more recent source —

Cullinane, Steven H., "Classical Geometry in Light of Galois Geometry," webpage

Thursday, November 12, 2015

For Bernstein and Horowitz

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:17 am

Detail of Box Style I Ching: Hexagram 14.

Click image for some backstory.

The Horowitz of the title reportedly died Nov. 2.

Monday, September 21, 2015

Happy Birthday, Stephen King

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:02 pm

Ding

Sunday, August 30, 2015

Nut

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:42 pm

(A companion-piece to the previous post, Bolt)

" In one of her more memorable roles, Ms. Craig
played Marta, a green-skinned slave girl, in the
'Star Trek' episode 'Whom Gods Destroy.' She
performed a seductive, loose-limbed dance that
seemed to nearly overwhelm William Shatner’s
red-blooded Captain Kirk, while Leonard Nimoy’s
Mr. Spock pronounced it 'mildly interesting.' "

Obituary by Katie Rogers in the online
New York Times  of Aug. 19, 2015.  Rogers was
describing actress Yvonne Craig, who reportedly
died on Monday, August 17, 2015.

Related material from this morning's online Times

Bolt

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:47 am

(Quoted here in Annals of Consciousness, June 20, 2014.)

Sunday, August 9, 2015

The Cauldron

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 7:19 am

From a review of the 2013 film "The Wolverine" —

"The rituals, culture and hierarchies of Japan
have intrigued and baffled the typical Westerner
for centuries …."

Not to mention those of China 

 Hexagram 50:
         
Ding
The Cauldron

Sunday, July 26, 2015

Sunday Review

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:00 am

"Little emblems of eternity 

— Oliver Sacks, contemplating his own impending death,
in The New York Times  Sunday Review section today.  

Sacks's phrase refers to elements of the periodic table —

Another approach to "emblems of eternity" — The I Ching .

Sunday School

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:00 am

Hexagram 51:

"I woke last night to the sound of thunder,
How far off, I sat and wondered.
Started humming a song from 1962.
Ain't it funny how the night moves?"

Saturday, July 25, 2015

Strange Loop

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 10:00 pm

From an explanation of the Web app IFTTT —
"IF This Then That" —

"If you are a programmer you can think of it as a loop*
that checks for a certain condition… to run one or
multiple actions if the condition is met."

After Completion  (from Friday night, and 1989) —

Advertisement —

Wikipedia —

"On February 19, 2015, IFTTT renamed
their original application to IF…."

This journal —

From Tuesday's post on the death of E. L. Doctorow —

“…right through hell
     there is a path…”
 
  — Malcolm Lowry

* More precisely, a conditional  or conditional loop 

Friday, July 24, 2015

After Completion

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 10:45 pm

Obituaries, including one for George Coe of 'The Dove' (1968)


 

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Colorful Tales

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:50 pm

See also the Log24 post from May 18,
the date of Eric Caidin's reported death,
as well as Hexagram 50 and May 14, 2014—
Death in Mathmagic Land.

Thursday, March 19, 2015

“Divisive Rhetoric”

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:00 pm

I Ching hexagram 14, box style

An example for 'Jews on Style'- Kipnis on the separatrix

     — Jeffrey Kipnis, "Twisting the Separatrix"
     Assemblage  No. 14 (Apr., 1991), pp. 30-61
     Published by: The MIT Press
     Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3171098

Monday, March 2, 2015

For Turing’s Cathedral

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:30 pm

Item from the British press on Oct. 17, 2014:

Item from this journal on that same date:

Raiders of the Inarticulate.

A related "slash" —

Elementary, my dear Watson.

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Our Most Important Product

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:45 am

Hexagram 35:
Progress

"Then came a 'Robot Psychologist,' known as a Psychological Matrix Rotator,
developed for the Department of Defense. It is still used to literally 'see' that
the right man gets the right Army job."

Ronald Reagan, 1961 GE Sales Meeting

"Always with a little humor." — Yen Lo

In memory of Dr. Irving Peress,
who reportedly died on Thursday,
November 13, 2014.

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Progressive Matrix

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 6:00 am

Yesterday's post and recent Hollywood news suggest
a meditation on a Progressive Matrix —

Oct. 12-14, 2005:

'A Poem for Pinter,' conclusion: 'Tick Tick Hash.'

'The Interpreter'-- Sean Penn to Nicole Kidman-- 'My Card.'

Click to enlarge.

"My card."

Structurally related images —

A sample Raven's Progressive Matrices  test item
(such items share the 3×3 structure of the hash symbol above):

IMAGE- Raven's Progressive Matrices item with symbols from Cullinane's box-style I Ching

Structural background —

Sunday, November 9, 2014

Sermon

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 11:00 am

The Ideas

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live….
We interpret what we see, select the most workable
of multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we
are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon
disparate images, by the ‘ideas’  with which we have
learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria
which is our actual experience.”
— Joan Didion

See Didion and the I Ching  and posts tagged Plato in China .

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Verhexung

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 8:15 pm

"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment [Verhexung ]
of our intelligence by means of our language."

— Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations , Section 109

"The philosophy of logic speaks of sentences and words
in exactly the sense in which we speak of them in ordinary life
when we say e.g. 'Here is a Chinese sentence,' or 'No, that only
looks like writing; it is actually just an ornament' and so on."

— Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations , Section 108

Monday, June 30, 2014

High Concept

Tags:  — m759 @ 5:24 PM

For the title, see a post of Nov. 4, 2007.

Related material:

Hexagram 29, Water, and a pattern resembling
the symbol for Aquarius:

http://www.log24.com/images/IChing/hexagram29.gif          .

For some backstory about the former,
see the June 21 post Hallmark.

For some backstory about the latter,
see today’s post Toward Evening.

Tom Wolfe has supplied some scaffolding*
to support the concept.

* A reference to Grossman and Descartes.

Monday, June 30, 2014

High Concept

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 5:24 pm

For the title, see a post of Nov. 4, 2007.

Related material:

Hexagram 29, Water, and a pattern resembling
the symbol for Aquarius:

http://www.log24.com/images/IChing/hexagram29.gif          .

For some backstory about the former,
see the June 21 post Hallmark.

For some backstory about the latter,
see today’s post Toward Evening.

Tom Wolfe has supplied some scaffolding*
to support the concept.

* A reference to Grossman and Descartes.

Saturday, June 21, 2014

Hallmark

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 5:01 pm

A suitable hallmark for
the previous post, Logical Death:

29

http://www.log24.com/images/IChing/hexagram29.gif

Hexagram 29: "K'an represents…
the principle of light inclosed in the dark."
— The Richard Wilhelm I Ching

A related page from Stanford:

IMAGE- Page 29 of 'Radical Atheism,' by Martin Hägglund, Stanford U. Press, 2008

Friday, March 28, 2014

Chinese Rune

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 12:00 pm

"The Geometry of the I Ching introduces something called the Cullinane sequence
for the hexagrams, and uses a notation based on the four sides and two diagonals
in a square to indicate the yin and yang lines. The resulting rune-like symbols
are intriguing…."

— Andreas Schöter's  I Ching  home page

Actually, the geometry is a bit deeper than the rune-like symbols.

" 'Harriet Burden has been really great to me,'
Rune says in an interview, 'not only as a collector
of my work but as a true supporter. And I think of her
as a muse for the project … ' "

— In The Blazing World , the artist known as Rune

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Everybody Comes to Rick’s

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 8:00 am

Continued from a post of January 28 —
In Memory of Pete Seeger.

The spiritual tribute link in that post suggests a review
of the following page from a pop-philosophy novel —

"Turn, turn, turn." — Pete Seeger.  See also this morning's news.

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

See More Glass

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 4:00 pm

The first story of "The Snow Queen, in Seven Stories"
by Hans Christian Andersen (1845) (see yesterday morning)—

Story the First,
Which Describes a Looking-Glass
and the Broken Fragments

You must attend to the commencement of this story, for when we get to the end we shall know more than we do now about a very wicked hobgoblin; he was one of the very worst, for he was a real demon.  One day, when he was in a merry mood, he made a looking-glass which had the power of making everything good or beautiful that was reflected in it almost shrink to nothing, while everything that was worthless and bad looked increased in size and worse than ever. The most lovely landscapes appeared like boiled spinach, and the people became hideous, and looked as if they stood on their heads and had no bodies. Their countenances were so distorted that no one could recognize them, and even one freckle on the face appeared to spread over the whole of the nose and mouth. The demon said this was very amusing. When a good or pious thought passed through the mind of any one it was misrepresented in the glass; and then how the demon laughed at his cunning invention. All who went to the demon’s school—for he kept a school—talked everywhere of the wonders they had seen, and declared that people could now, for the first time, see what the world and mankind were really like. They carried the glass about everywhere, till at last there was not a land nor a people who had not been looked at through this distorted mirror. They wanted even to fly with it up to heaven to see the angels, but the higher they flew the more slippery the glass became, and they could scarcely hold it, till at last it slipped from their hands, fell to the earth, and was broken into millions of pieces. But now the looking-glass caused more unhappiness than ever, for some of the fragments were not so large as a grain of sand, and they flew about the world into every country. When one of these tiny atoms flew into a person’s eye, it stuck there unknown to him, and from that moment he saw everything through a distorted medium, or could see only the worst side of what he looked at, for even the smallest fragment retained the same power which had belonged to the whole mirror. Some few persons even got a fragment of the looking-glass in their hearts, and this was very terrible, for their hearts became cold like a lump of ice. A few of the pieces were so large that they could be used as window-panes; it would have been a sad thing to look at our friends through them. Other pieces were made into spectacles; this was dreadful for those who wore them, for they could see nothing either rightly or justly. At all this the wicked demon laughed till his sides shook—it tickled him so to see the mischief he had done. There were still a number of these little fragments of glass floating about in the air, and now you shall hear what happened with one of them.

 "Was there more to come? Was I done?
I wondered if I had dreamed
the connectedness of Being
the night before, or if now, awake,
I dreamed distinctions.
I didn’t know where I was for an instant."

"Alethia," by Charles Johnson, as
     quoted by Eve Tushnet on Aug. 22, 2013

Tushnet on Johnson —

"Somebody–I hope a commenter will remind me who it was–
has suggested that the Left typically thinks in terms of an
opposition between oppression and liberation, whereas
the right typically thinks in terms of an opposition between
civilization and barbarism. I would reframe the latter opposition
as order vs. chaos; if we do that, it’s obvious that both
oppositions are unrelentingly relevant, yet few thinkers or artists
are able to hold both conflicts before our eyes at once.

I just finished Charles Johnson’s 1986 short-story collection 
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Tales and Conjurations ,
a bag of broken glass which is equal parts liberationist and
reactionary, yearning for freedom and knuckling under to fatalism." 

Related material —

Saturday Night Live, Dec. 11, 1976

Consumer Reporter: Alright. Fine. Fine. Well, we'd like to show you another  one of Mr. Mainway's products. It retails for $1.98, and it's called Bag O' Glass. [ holds up bag of glass ] Mr. Mainway, this is simply a bag of jagged, dangerous, glass bits.

Irwin Mainway: Yeah, right, it's you know, it's glass, it's broken glass, you know? It sells very well, as a matter of fact, you know? It's just broken glass, you know?

Consumer Reporter: [ laughs ] I don't understand. I mean, children could seriously cut themselves on any one of these pieces!

Irwin Mainway: Yeah, well, look – you know, the average kid, he picks up, you know, broken glass anywhere, you know? The beach, the street, garbage cans, parking lots, all over the place in any big city. We're just packaging what the kids want! I mean, it's a creative toy, you know? If you hold this up, you know, you see colors, every color of the rainbow! I mean, it teaches him about light refraction, you know? Prisms, and that stuff! You know what I mean?

Tommy Lee Jones perhaps knows what Mainway means.
Kristen Wiig (see Aug. 22, 2013, in this  journal) perhaps does not.

See also Tushnet on The Man in the High Castle  as well as
Tommy Lee Jones and Hexagram 61.

Saturday, December 14, 2013

Bend Sinister

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I Ching hexagram 14, box style

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