Interesting question.
Also, how many lashes with
a wet noodle does it take to
turn you on?
Monday, March 2, 2026
A Metaphor for Metamorphosis
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Friday, April 29, 2022
Metamorphosis: Seed to Flower in New Yorker Propaganda
Illustration by Nicholas Konrad / The New Yorker April 28, 2022
Some related material from Harvard —
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Wednesday, February 2, 2022
Groundhog Day Metamorphosis
" Whether correspondences were achieved by means of
wordplay, atavistic formal resemblances, or serendipitous
coincidences, the attendant metamorphosis of literary
material into Frye's own scripture could become tiresome:
'just another shake of the kaleidoscope.' " [Link added.]
— From p. 61 of "The Master of the Myth of Literature:
An Interpenetrative Ogdoad for Northrop Frye,"
by Nohrnberg, James C., Comparative Literature ,
Vol. 53 (1), pp. 58-82, Duke University Press,
January 1, 2001.
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Sunday, March 22, 2015
Metamorphosis
In memory of a film enthusiast who reportedly
died on February 23, 2015:
"We wanted the film to go through a very subtle
and nuanced visual metamorphosis."
— Nenad Cicin-Sain on The Time Being
See also February 23, 2015 in this journal.
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Thursday, May 6, 2010
Metamorphosis
From Google yesterday —
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A spring metamorphosis — Google’s new look 5/05/2010 09:00:00 AM Using Google today, you may have noticed that something feels slightly different — the look and feel of our search results have changed! Today’s metamorphosis responds to the increasing richness of the web and the increasing power of search — revealing search tools on the left and updating the visual look and feel throughout. |
For example…
A metaphor for "More" —
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Saturday, January 30, 2010
Metamorphosis and Metaphor
"Animation tends to be a condensed art form, using metamorphosis and metaphor to collide and expand meaning. In this way it resembles poetry."
— Harvard's Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts,
description of an exhibition–
FRAME BY FRAME: ANIMATED AT HARVARD
January 28–Feb 14, 2010
For example–
Animation — The Animated Diamond Theorem,
now shown frame by frame for selected frames
Poetry–
Part I — "That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire…."
Part II — Metaphor on the covers of a Salinger book–
For other thoughts on
metamorphosis and metaphor,
see Endgame.
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Wednesday, April 8, 2026
The Mythos Portal
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Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Geometric Requiem: Steven Spielberg’s
longtime publicist reportedly died on April 7.
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
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longtime publicist reportedly died on April 7.
longtime publicist reportedly died on April 7.
Thursday, November 21, 2024
The Fenstermacher Manifesto
For Glinda in "Wicked" —
"The circle of light is yours." — Facebook post by Fenstermacher
on July 4, 2024, followed on July 6 by Velvet Underground's
"Sunday Morning."
For "Gladiator II" … This journal on the above Velvet Underground date —
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Wednesday, August 7, 2024
Day of the Locus: Also Sprach Zartaloudis
From Thanos Zartaloudis —
“The Experience of Migration: From Metaphor to Metamorphosis,”
On Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture 10 (2020) —
"To paraphrase Roland Barthes, the ancient soothsayer
'speaks the locus of meaning but does not name it,'
while the modern metaphoric-apotropaic subject
'names it but does not speak of its locus.' 12
12 Roland Barthes, “The Structuralist Activity,” in:
Critical Essays, transl. by Richard Howard
(Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1972),
213–220, here: 219."
A related locus:
"For Times Square Church," Steven H. Cullinane, Log24 , Feb. 6, 2018.
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Saturday, July 6, 2024
Ovid.group
The above new URL forwards to "Metamorphosis" in this journal.
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Friday, December 30, 2022
Bullshit Studies: The View from East Lansing
Detail of the above screen (click to enlarge) —
See also this journal on the above date — June 10, 2021.
From this journal on May 6, 2009 —
A related picture of images that "reappear metamorphosed
in the coordinate system of the high region" —
(For the backstory, see Geometry of the I Ching
and the history of Chinese philosophy.)
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Thursday, December 22, 2022
For Harlan Kane: The Canetti Maxim
"Most important for Canetti are certain events
that he calls 'illuminations,' such as his witnessing
of striking workers being mowed down by Viennese
police on July 15, 1927, which was the germ of both
Auto-da-Fé and Crowds and Power. For Canetti,
these epiphanies are moments of metamorphosis,
which he prizes above all in art as well as in life.
Canetti aspired to be a 20th-century Ovid, but
precisely because he was modern, this ambition
landed him, again and again, in paradox, such as
the one expressed in the aphorism that gives this
compilation its title, or in this characteristic maxim:
'It all depends on this: with whom we confuse ourselves .'"
— Hal Foster in The Chronicle of Higher Education ,
"The Best Scholarly Books of 2022," Dec. 21, 2022.
See also this journal on Nov, 25, 2022 —
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Sunday, November 6, 2022
The ’64-’65 Gambit
"… the 1964-65 competition was not even held."
— Dylan Loeb McClain in The New York Times , Nov. 3, 2020.
But in other games . . .
"The metaphor for metamorphosis no keys unlock."
— Steven H. Cullinane, November Seventh, 1986
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Wednesday, June 8, 2022
Meta Four
Tonight is Replacement Eve —
"The metaphor for metamorphosis no keys unlock" — Cullinane, 1986
Related remarks —
From a Log24 search for "Notation+Levi-Strauss" —
"There is such a thing as a four-set."
— Motto adapted from a 1962 young-adult novel.
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Saturday, January 15, 2022
Superimposed Figures
A David Mamet line from last night's 11:02 PM ET post —
"Something to do with an early computer." This suggests . . .
"The metaphor for metamorphosis no keys unlock." — Cullinane, 1986
See as well a different Franz.
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Sunday, September 19, 2021
Risen
Last Sunday:
A week later:
From a recent Instagram story —
A related ghost writer —
Update of 11:22 PM ET the same day (Sept. 19, 2021) —
"The metaphor for metamorphosis no keys unlock." — Cullinane, 1986
See as well a different Franz.
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Sunday, March 18, 2018
Draper at the Mother Church
From The Atlantic , September 2017 issue, online —
"How America Lost Its Mind," by former Harvard Lampoon
writer Kurt Andersen —
Related material —
"There is a transformation, a metamorphosis that's going on here."
— Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica
The Lucasian Version —
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Tuesday, February 6, 2018
For Times Square Church*
The metaphor for metamorphosis no keys unlock.
— Steven H. Cullinane, "Endgame"
* See Times Square Church in this journal and
the posts of July 2010. Related material:
A Monday night death —
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Wednesday, December 20, 2017
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Middle March:
The Key to All Mythologies in a Cartoon Graveyard
This is a sequel to yesterday's post Review, which
suggested a look at Lévi-Strauss's The Raw and The Cooked
in Derrida's “Structure, Sign, and Play," and then a look at the …
Financial Times of February 26, 2010 —
"The metaphor for metamorphosis no keys unlock."
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Sunday, August 14, 2016
Norwegian Meditation
The previous post dealt with a death on August 6.
On that date nine years earlier —
"Atle Selberg, who had a major influence in mathematics
and especially in analytic number theory during the 20th century,
died on August 6 [2007]. Born on June 14, 1917, in Langesund,
Norway, he received his Ph.D. in 1943 from the University of Oslo. . . ."
— American Mathematical Society, 2007
See also Selberg in this journal —
Click image for the full version of the above post
and some remarks from the date of Selberg's death.
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Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Art Wars
Wil S. Hylton today in the online New York Times —
"It seems to me now, with greater reflection,
that the value of experiencing another person’s art
is not merely the work itself, but the opportunity
it presents to connect with the interior impulse of another.
The arts occupy a vanishing space in modern life:
They offer one of the last lingering places to seek out
empathy for its own sake, and to the extent that
an artist’s work is frustrating or difficult or awful,
you could say this allows greater opportunity to try to
meet it. I am not saying there is no room for discriminating
taste and judgment, just that there is also, I think,
this other portal through which to experience creative work
and to access a different kind of beauty, which might be
called communion."
Or damnation.
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Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Geometry for Jews
(Continued from previous episodes)
Boole and Galois also figure in the mathematics of space —
i.e. , geometry. See Boole + Galois in this journal.
Related material, according to Jung’s notion of synchronicity —
- This journal on the date, August 6, 2007, of the
above paper, and the following day —
posts now tagged Metamorphosis 2007 - This journal on two of the dates of the 2003 Haifa workshop
that the paper mentions in a footnote —
posts now tagged Solomon’s Mental Health Month
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Thursday, April 2, 2015
A Word…
… in memory of Tom Koch, comedy writer for Bob and Ray,
who reportedly died at 89 on March 22 —
Nuanced
Part I: "Nuanced" in the recent post Metamorphosis
(from March 22, the above date):
"We wanted the film to go through a very subtle
and nuanced visual metamorphosis."
— Nenad Cicin-Sain on The Time Being
Part II: Other instances of "nuanced" in this journal.
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Friday, January 2, 2015
Coincidentia Oppositorum
A sequel to New Year's Greeting from Franz Kafka:
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http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/buddhism/mccort/mccort.html
From "Kafka and the Coincidence of Opposites," by … my aim in the following pages is to identify and examine the particular dynamics of Kafka's mysticism through an analysis of this principle of the coincidence of opposites, first as a recurrent motif in his intellectual life, and then as a thematic and structural force in several key works of short fiction. Since the coincidentia, as the "abstract essence" of dialectical logic, may be said to subsume all experiential content, it becomes intrinsically more interesting as form than as content, and we will thus be examining a variety of Kafka's coincidentia-generated binaries (e.g., conscious/unconscious, freedom/bondage, wisdom/ignorance), first in a series of short parables and finally in two of the longer short fictions, "Die Verwandlung" [“The Metamorphosis”] and “Vor dem Gesetz” [“Before the Law”]. Moreover, since the coincidentia, understood in the German and other mystical traditions familiar to Kafka as the original Oneness of the pairs of opposites, is precisely what the human mind obscures as it conceptually bifurcates things in order to "get at them," we will be focusing especially on those relatively rare instances in Kafka's fiction in which the mind of the character or persona goes beyond its own intrinsic limits. This is in support of the case for Kafka's mystical insight as a mainspring of his literary creativity and, more generally, for Kafka as essentially a spiritual writer, convinced in the end of the human being's capacity to transcend, however remote the possibility, the suffering of separation built into his or her own dualistic consciousness. |
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Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Schau der Gestalt
(Continued from Aug. 19, 2014)
“Christian contemplation is the opposite
of distanced consideration of an image:
as Paul says, it is the metamorphosis of
the beholder into the image he beholds
(2 Cor 3.18), the ‘realisation’ of what the
image expresses (Newman). This is
possible only by giving up one’s own
standards and being assimilated to the
dimensions of the image.”
— Hans Urs von Balthasar,
The Glory of the Lord:
A Theological Aesthetics,
Vol. I: Seeing the Form
[ Schau der Gestalt ],
Ignatius Press, 1982, p. 485
A Bauhaus approach to Schau der Gestalt :
I prefer the I Ching ‘s approach to the laws of cubical space.
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Friday, October 4, 2013
For the Feast of St. Francis
"According to Vladimir Nabokov, Salvador Dalí
was 'really Norman Rockwell’s twin brother
kidnapped by gypsies in babyhood.'
But actually there were triplets: the third one is
Stephen King."
— Margaret Atwood, "Shine On,"
online Sept. 19, 2013
"The metaphor for metamorphosis
no keys unlock."
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Sunday, October 2, 2011
Emerson on Mathematics
From "The Poet" (1844)—
If the imagination intoxicates the poet, it is not inactive in other men. The metamorphosis excites in the beholder an emotion of joy.
The use of symbols has a certain power of emancipation and exhilaration for all men. We seem to be touched by a wand, which makes us dance and run about happily, like children. We are like persons who come out of a cave or cellar into the open air. This is the effect on us of tropes, fables, oracles, and all poetic forms. Poets are thus liberating gods. Men have really got a new sense, and found within their world, another world or nest of worlds; for the metamorphosis once seen, we divine that it does not stop. I will not now consider how much this makes the charm of algebra and the mathematics, which also have their tropes, but it is felt in every definition….
… Here is the difference betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol to one sense, which was a true sense for a moment, but soon becomes old and false…. Mysticism consists in the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one…. And the mystic must be steadily told,— All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric,— universal signs, instead of these village symbols,— and we shall both be gainers.
See also Weyl on the use of symbols (in coordinate systems) and today's previous posts Birth of a Poet and Symmetric Generation Illustrated.
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Saturday, August 20, 2011
Castle Rock
Happy birthday to Amy Adams
(actress from Castle Rock, Colorado)
"The metaphor for metamorphosis…" —Endgame
Related material:
"The idea that reality consists of multiple 'levels,' each mirroring all others in some fashion, is a diagnostic feature of premodern cosmologies in general…."
— Scholarly paper on "Correlative Cosmologies"
"How many layers are there to human thought? Sometimes in art, just as in people’s conversations, we’re aware of only one at a time. On other occasions, though, we realize just how many layers can be in simultaneous action, and we’re given a sense of both revelation and mystery. When a choreographer responds to music— when one artist reacts in detail to another— the sensation of multilayering can affect us as an insight not just into dance but into the regions of the mind.
The triple bill by the Mark Morris Dance Group at the Rose Theater, presented on Thursday night as part of the Mostly Mozart Festival, moves from simple to complex, and from plain entertainment to an astonishingly beautiful and intricate demonstration of genius….
'Socrates' (2010), which closed the program, is a calm and objective work that has no special dance excitement and whips up no vehement audience reaction. Its beauty, however, is extraordinary. It’s possible to trace in it terms of arithmetic, geometry, dualism, epistemology and ontology, and it acts as a demonstration of art and as a reflection of life, philosophy and death."
— Alastair Macaulay in today's New York Times
SOCRATES: Let us turn off the road a little….
— Libretto for Mark Morris's 'Socrates'
See also Amy Adams's new film "On the Road"
in a story from Aug. 5, 2010 as well as a different story,
Eightgate, from that same date:
The above reference to "metamorphosis" may be seen,
if one likes, as a reference to the group of all projectivities
and correlations in the finite projective space PG(3,2)—
a group isomorphic to the 40,320 transformations of S8
acting on the above eight-part figure.
See also The Moore Correspondence from last year
on today's date, August 20.
For some background, see a book by Peter J. Cameron,
who has figured in several recent Log24 posts—
"At the still point, there the dance is."
— Four Quartets
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