"Leave a space." — Tom Stoppard, "Jumpers"
See also Lily Collins's recent ice-cream-cone post.
The number 105 displayed in that post may suggest,
to sufferers from apophenia, the date 1/05.
See that date in this journal. For the color of Collins's
ice cream — lavender — see posts now tagged Space X.
A house divided —
Update of 12:50 PM ET Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022 —
From a search in this journal for Spacek —
"Honesty's the best policy."
— Miguel de Cervantes
"Liars prosper."
— Anonymous
— Epigraphs to On Writing:
A Memoir of the Craft,
by Stephen King
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* A title suggested by the previous post.
Or: Spectral Theory
(continued from Oct. 2, 2013, and earlier)
A memorable phrase by Verity Stob
at theregister.co.uk on Jan. 26:
"… remember you're not just an emotionless Dalek.
You are in the lavender band of the autistic spectrum."
See also lavender in this journal…
("Dalek, Spacek. Spacek, Dalek.")
Verity herself —
Verity's column, illustrated above, on Nov. 12, 2013,
was titled "Three Men in a Tardis."
Connoisseurs of synchronicity may consult my own
remarks on that date. Three men discussed there
are the two X-Men patriarchs Patrick Stewart and
Ian McKellen, as well as a more interesting character,
composer Sir John Tavener.
Peter J. Cameron attributes failure of his usual
link to the NASA "Astronomy Picture of the Day"
(APOD) to the US government shutdown, and
gives a substitute link.
Here is yet another substitute link, this one
specifically to today's picture —
Related literary remarks by Nabokov —
Among the many exhilarating things Lake taught
was that the order of the solar spectrum is not
a closed circle but a spiral of tints from cadmium
red and oranges through a strontian yellow and a
pale paradisal green to cobalt blues and violets,
at which point the sequence does not grade into
red again but passes into another spiral, which
starts with a kind of lavender gray and goes on to
Cinderella shades transcending human perception.
— Pnin
See Prime Cut and Lavender Blue, Dilly Dilly
as well as Sissy Spacek on "Big Love."
"Honesty's the best policy."
— Miguel de Cervantes
"Liars prosper."
— Anonymous
— Epigraphs to On Writing:
A Memoir of the Craft,
by Stephen King
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The cruelest month continues…
"…as Newton conceived it, the distinction between
the individualities of two particles is so marked that
it is impossible for them ever to coincide or for
either of them to alter the being of the other…."
"Waves interfere with each other because they are
interchangeable and thus not distinguishable;
two processes can coincide in space and time
but two substances cannot. Thus the wave
reveals a whole new possibility of identity…."
"The concept of a field is elusive."
— Peter Pesic, Seeing Double: Shared Identities
in Physics, Philosophy, and Literature,
Chapter 6, "The Fields of Light"
11:11
“Why do we remember the past
but not the future?”
— Stephen Hawking,
A Brief History of Time,
Ch. 9, “The Arrow of Time”
For another look at
the arrow of time, see
“Imaginary time is a relatively simple concept that is rather difficult to visualize or conceptualize. In essence, it is another direction of time moving at right angles to ordinary time. In the image at right, the light gray lines represent ordinary time flowing from left to right – past to future. The dark gray lines depict imaginary time, moving at right angles to ordinary time.”
Is Time Quantized?
Yes.
Let us suppose, for the sake of argument, that time is in fact quantized and two-dimensional. Then the following picture,
from Time Fold, of “four quartets” time, of use in the study of poetry and myth, might, in fact, be of use also in theoretical physics.
In this event, last Sunday’s entry, on the symmetry group of a generic 4×4 array, might also have some physical significance.
At any rate, the Hawking quotation above suggests the following remarks from T. S. Eliot’s own brief history of time, Four Quartets:
“It seems, as one becomes older,
That the past has another pattern,
and ceases to be a mere sequence….
I sometimes wonder if that is
what Krishna meant—
Among other things—or one way
of putting the same thing:
That the future is a faded song,
a Royal Rose or a lavender spray
Of wistful regret for those who are
not yet here to regret,
Pressed between yellow leaves
of a book that has never been opened.
And the way up is the way down,
the way forward is the way back.”
Related reading:
Some comments on yesterday’s entry that are too good to be hidden under a “comments” link. References are to Through the Looking Glass.
My understanding of the “Red Queen” was that it was a metaphorical reference to a womans menstrual cycle.
The two queens were representative of a womans behaviors throughout. Or some such thing.
Posted 6/24/2003 at 11:12 AM by oOMisfitOo
Humn. [affects very proper British Accent:] I suppose then the good reverend is out of his bloody mind?
Posted 6/24/2003 at 11:14 AM by oOMisfitOo
Speaking of religion, blood, and the 23rd, perhaps Sissy Spacek should play both the Red and the White Queen in Looking Glass. Remember her prom night?
See my entry of May 23rd, The Prime Cut Gospel.
Posted 6/24/2003 at 2:46 PM by m759
For today’s musical offering, click here.
In honor of
Pope Callistus III, and
all of whom died on this date:
A lavender love butterfly vignette…
If you remember something there
That glided past you,
Followed close by heavy breathing,
Don't be concerned. It will not harm you;
It's only me, pursuing something
I'm not sure of.
and a
But seriously…
A few words in memory of a great mathematician, André Weil, who died on August 6, 1998:
"I wonder if it is because to-night my soul has really died that I feel at the moment something like peace. Or is it because right through hell there is a path, as Blake well knew, and though I may not take it, sometimes lately in dreams I have been able to see it?"
— Malcolm Lowry, 1947, Under the Volcano
There is a link on the Grand Finale site above to a site on British Columbia, which to Lowry symbolized heaven on earth. See also my website Shining Forth, the title of which is not unrelated to the August 6, 1993 encyclical of Pope John Paul II.
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