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Thursday, March 19, 2026
“Use the Source, Luke” — Adapted Star Wars Line
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Thursday, October 30, 2025
Halloween Spell from St. Luke’s Day
See also other Writer's Block posts.
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Saturday, October 18, 2025
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Wednesday, June 22, 2022
Code Wars: “Use the Source, Luke.”
Click the above galaxy for a larger image.
"O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell
and count myself a king of infinite space,
were it not that I have bad dreams." — Hamlet
Battle of the Nutshells —
From a much larger nutshell
on the above code date—
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Monday, October 18, 2021
Star Logo for the Feast of St. Luke (Skywalker)
See Leiber in this journal.
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Saturday, July 3, 2021
Friday, October 23, 2020
News from Saint Luke’s Day
Midrash for the late Harold Bloom,
author of The Daemon Knows —
It is perhaps not irrelevant that the phrase "on Saturday" in the
Los Angeles Times of Sunday, October 18, 2020, refers to the
preceding day — October 17, 2020. See too that date here.
Related material —
— November 2020
Notices of the American Mathematical Society
For fans of mathematics and narrative —
Some may fancy Bloom as a dybbuk (cf, "A Serious Man") turning
the page in the article above to the next page, 1590 —
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Friday, October 18, 2019
A Song for St. Luke’s Day
From a 1962 young-adult novel —
"There's something phoney in the whole setup, Meg thought.
There is definitely something rotten in the state of Camazotz."
Song adapted from a 1960 musical —
"In short, there's simply not
A more congenial spot
For happy-ever-aftering
Than here in Camazotz!"
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Sunday, June 3, 2018
“Use the Source, Luke”
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Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Dürer for St. Luke’s Day
Structure of the Dürer magic square
16 3 2 13
5 10 11 8 decreased by 1 is …
9 6 7 12
4 15 14 1
15 2 1 12
4 9 10 7
8 5 6 11
3 14 13 0 .
Base 4 —
33 02 01 30
10 21 22 13
20 11 12 23
03 32 31 00 .
Two-part decomposition of base-4 array
as two (non-Latin) orthogonal arrays —
3 0 0 3 3 2 1 0
1 2 2 1 0 1 2 3
2 1 1 2 0 1 2 3
0 3 3 0 3 2 1 0 .
Base 2 –
1111 0010 0001 1100
0100 1001 1010 0111
1000 0101 0110 1011
0011 1110 1101 0000 .
Four-part decomposition of base-2 array
as four affine hyperplanes over GF(2) —
1001 1001 1100 1010
0110 1001 0011 0101
1001 0110 0011 0101
0110 0110 1100 1010 .
— Steven H. Cullinane,
October 18, 2017
See also recent related analyses of
noted 3×3 and 5×5 magic squares.
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Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
“Use ‘The Source,’ Luke”
See Source + Michener and The Source (Dec. 29, 2014).
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Thursday, October 18, 2012
A Story for St. Luke
"When Death tells a story,
you really have to listen."
— The Book Thief (cover)
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Monday, October 18, 2010
For St. Luke’s Day —
The Turning
"To everything, turn, turn, turn…
… there is a season, turn, turn, turn…"
For less turning and more seasons, see a search in this journal for
fullness + multitude + "cold mountain."
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Sunday, October 18, 2009
ART WARS for the Feast of St. Luke
A Sermon from Christchurch
in The New York Times
Related material:
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Monday, September 22, 2025
Musical notes for Julie Taymor* — “Mum’s the word”
Dialogue from the 2025 film "Fountain of Youth" —
EXTERIOR
– Mum!
– What?
– It's not maths. The pattern they found. It's not maths.
INTERIOR
– It's no good, Luke. The code's a brick wall.
– Then we've gone wrong somewhere. We're missing something.
– Hey.
– Hello.
– No. I don't wanna hear it.
– Sorry.
– Thomas.
– These seven digits aren't numbers. They're musical notes.
– What?
– Most universal language there is.
* See April 23, 2011.
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Saturday, June 14, 2025
Adventures in Meta Reality:
When the Bee Stings
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When the Bee Stings
When the Bee Stings
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Menacing Mirrors
The above cultural comment is by Adam Gopnik,
the author of the novel The King in the Window .
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An alternative to The Snow Queen On The King in the Window , by Adam Gopnik —
"The book is dedicated to Adam Gopnik's son,
'A fantasy that is as ambitious in theme,
The unlikely eponymous hero is Oliver Parker,
His enemy is the dreaded Master of Mirrors,
Oliver's mission is to defeat the Master of Mirrors — Description at https://biblio.co.nz/. . . . |
See also the menacing quantum computer (or "quamputer")
in Black Mirror — "Joan Is Awful" (June 15, 2023).
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Sunday, October 30, 2022
Rethinking October 18th
The New York Times today reported a death on October 18th,
the Feast of St. Luke.
See also Luke in this journal. Some will prefer Cool Hand Luke to
the alleged gospel author.
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Wednesday, October 20, 2021
Academic Elegy
"On September 2, 2020, at the age of 59,
David Graeber died of necrotizing pancreatitis
while on vacation in Venice. The news hit me
like a blow. How many books have we lost,
I thought, that will never get written now?
How many insights, how much wisdom,
will remain forever unexpressed? The appearance of
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
is thus bittersweet, at once a final, unexpected gift
and a reminder of what might have been."
— William Deresiewicz
This is from The Atlantic on St. Luke's Day, 2021.
Note the article's illustration, and related material from
this journal on the date of the death described above:
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Sunday, August 1, 2021
Old Joke
"Can you imagine the mathematical possibilities?"
— Line from "Annie Hall"
Related joke —
The Catherine Hardwicke version —
More fun . . . A 26-year old Cara Delevingne.
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Monday, July 12, 2021
Educational Series
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Friday, November 6, 2020
Breadcrumbs
“keywords”:
[“Donald Trump”,”conspiracy theory”,”qanon”],
“datePublished”:
“2020-09-29T16:56:00+0000”,
“dateModified”:
“2020-10-18T15:01:55+0000”
— CBS News … “Use The Source , Luke.”
“Black velvet in that little boy’s smile”
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Wednesday, November 4, 2020
The Summerfield Prize . . .
The author of A Piece of Justice , a 1995 novel about mathematics
and quilts, has died.
Walsh died on St. Luke's Day. Cf. Luke in this journal.
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Tuesday, November 3, 2020
Notes towards the Redefinition of Culture
An online newspaper page dated Nov. 2, All Souls' Day,
displays a story from Tuesday, Oct. 20, about an upcoming
religious event at a church named for Saint Luke.
Luke's feast day was October 18, the date of death for
a Hollywood publicist —
A gong show I prefer to the above church version —
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Saturday, June 22, 2019
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Monday, November 13, 2017
Plan 9 at Yale
Yale Professors Race Google and IBM to the First Quantum Computer
"So, after summer, in the autumn air,
Comes the cold volume* of forgotten ghosts,
But soothingly, with pleasant instruments,
So that this cold, a children's tale of ice,
Seems like a sheen of heat romanticized."
— Wallace Stevens,
"An Ordinary Evening in New Haven"
* Update of 10:20 the same evening:
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An alternative to The Snow Queen On The King in the Window , by Adam Gopnik —
"The book is dedicated to Adam Gopnik's son,
'A fantasy that is as ambitious in theme,
The unlikely eponymous hero is Oliver Parker,
His enemy is the dreaded Master of Mirrors,
Oliver's mission is to defeat the Master of Mirrors — Description at https://biblio.co.nz/. . . . |
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Friday, October 20, 2017
Heart of the Monkey God
In Memoriam
"Renowned Canadian theologian Gregory Baum, 94,
author of the first draft of the Second Vatican Council's
'Nostra Aetate,' died Oct. 18 in a Montreal hospital."
— National Catholic Reporter , Oct. 20, 2017
October 18 was St. Luke's Day.
From the Log24 post "Prose" on that date —
"Mister Monkey . . . . is also Hanuman, the Hindu monkey god . . . ."
— Cathleeen Schine in an online October 17 NY Times review.
From the novel under review —
"Only the heart of the monkey god is large enough
to contain the hearts and souls of all the monkeys,
all the humans, the gods, every shining thread
that connects them."
— Francine Prose, Mister Monkey: A Novel (p. 263).
HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.
See as well all posts now tagged Prose Monkey.
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