Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Metadata: The Copenhagen Interpretation
of “Magic in the Moonlight”
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of “Magic in the Moonlight”
of “Magic in the Moonlight”
Wednesday, September 22, 2021
Moonlight Serenade
"When the night has come
And the land is dark
And the moon is the
Only light we'll see . . . ."
Related reading:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/22/
arts/music/barbara-campbell-cooke-dead.html
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Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Dancing in the Moonlight
Instagram screenshot with added note.
Easy E for an Accountant:
Not So Easy: E-Operators
"A great many other properties of E-operators
have been found, which I have not space
to examine in detail."
— Sir Arthur Eddington, New Pathways in Science ,
Cambridge University Press, 1935, page 271.
(This book also presents Eddington's unfortunate
speculations on the fine-structure constant.)
Update of 4:04 AM ET:
Here is the not-so-tiny-dancer in
the above Instagram screenshot.
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Wednesday, October 6, 2021
Balera
From Dancing in the Moonlight (Log24, July 27) —
For those who prefer really tiny dancers (Humbert Humbert, etc.) —
The balero in an Oct. 3 post suggests a search for the feminine form
of that term. The result:
Click to enlarge the balera image.
Related viewing — The portrayal of a very young dancer in
the 2015 film "A Beautiful Now." I find the film's older version
of that dancer, played by Abigail Spencer, of greater interest.
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Thursday, July 22, 2021
Shadow Box Profile: Location, Location, Location
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MICHENER: Returning in the dark from a routine mission my pilot kept missing the poorly lit New Caledonia air strip. We braced for a crash landing, just made it, and were badly shaken. If I had died, I would have left nothing behind. I was approaching 40, mind you. That near crash prompted me to draft South Pacific stories running through my mind. QUESTIONER: Your first draft was written on the island of Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, south of Guadalcanal, in a Quonset hut, by pecking at a typewriter with your two index fingers. What was the story line? MICHENER: Tales of the South Pacific consisted of 18 loosely connected stories about the comedy, boredom, shenanigans of Navy life on a Pacific island between military battles. The stories showed the interplay of Navy men, Navy nurses, and conniving natives; the funny aspects of military planes, jeeps, bulldozers, canned goods imposed on simple people living on beautiful islands. |
Comedy and Boredom —
Shenanigans —
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Sunday, July 18, 2021
The Glorification of Kitty
"… you say goodbye I say hello" — Song lyric
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Saturday, August 22, 2020
An Object Lesson
Posts tagged Plato's Video continue.
Related literary remarks from this journal on Oct. 1, 2016 —
— A Heart for the Gods of Mexico , Conrad Aiken, 1939
Related imagery this morning from the Gulf of Mexico —
Meanwhile, also on Oct. 1, 2016, related imagery from Star Wars Rebels —
Click here for the video.
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Saturday, July 14, 2018
Enchantment Under the Sea*
The title is that of a fictional high school dance on November 12, 1955,
in the 1985 film “Back to the Future.”
A real high school dance from that era —
“The Class History was reviewed by Scott Mohr.”
See also Scott Mohr in Log24 posts tagged Back to the Future.
“… the Prom carried out a Moonlight and Roses theme….”
— Warren Times Mirror, Warren, PA, 2 June 1958, page 7 (above)
Related musical themes from a few years earlier —
See as well the 1955 film “Blackboard Jungle” in this journal.
*For some variations on the title theme, see Red October.
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Tuesday, March 6, 2018
Fields Medal
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Tuesday, December 5, 2017
Space Tune
Wikipedia on "Dancing in the Moonlight" —
"The song was played as a wake-up call for Daniel M. Tani,
an astronaut on board the STS-120: Discovery mission
headed for the International Space Station,
on the early morning of October 24, 2007."
See also Log24 on October 24, 2007.
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Saturday, June 10, 2017
Strange
Mark Zuckerberg in a commencement speech
at Harvard on May 25 —
"Movies and pop culture get this all wrong.
The idea of a single eureka moment
is a dangerous lie. It makes us feel inadequate
since we haven’t had ours. It prevents people
with seeds of good ideas from getting started.
Oh, you know what else movies get wrong about
innovation? No one writes math formulas on glass.
That’s not a thing."
THE ACCOUNTANT (2016) 8 p.m. on HBO.
Ben Affleck stars as Christian Wolff, an enigmatic mathematics savant
with special-ops-caliber skills who moonlights as a numbers cruncher ….
— The New York Times today, What's on TV Saturday
In other news today —
“You can’t play Batman in a serious, square-jawed, straight-ahead way
without giving the audience the sense that there’s something behind
that mask waiting to get out, that he’s a little crazed, he’s strange.”
— The late Adam West, according to The Hollywood Reporter
Update of 2:42 PM ET Saturday —
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Friday, May 5, 2017
For the Gods of Mexico*
A swimmer who won Olympic gold in 1936 reportedly died today.
Related material from August 4, 2008 —
Jodie Foster and the
opening of the 1936 Olympics
|
“Heraclitus…. says: ‘The ruler
— An Introduction to Metaphysics, |
Posts tagged Swimmer may or may not be relevant.
* See …
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Thursday, April 20, 2017
Point 8777*
Or: Expanding the Spielraum, continued
Wikipedia on author Michael Connelly —
Connelly had planned on following his father’s early choice of
career in building construction and started out at the
University of Florida in Gainesville as a building construction major.
After earning grades that were lower than expected, Connelly went
to see Robert Altman’s film The Long Goodbye (1973) and was
enchanted by what he saw. The film, based on Raymond Chandler’s
1953 novel of the same name, inspired Connelly to want to become
a mystery writer. Connelly went home and read all of Chandler's
works featuring Philip Marlowe, a detective in Los Angeles during
the 1940s and ‘50s, and decided to switch majors to journalism with
a minor in creative writing.[4] He was a student of Harry Crews.
[See also …
https://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/11/24/
the-teacher-michael-connelly-never-forgot/.]
A 2002 novel by Connelly — City of Bones .
Two scenes from a 2014 TV pilot based on the 2002 novel —
The "Bosch" pilot does not state the address, but its location in the
Hollywood Hills suggests a review of Heinlein Lottery in this journal.
"Bonedigger Bonedigger
Dogs in the moonlight"
— Paul Simon
* Title suggested by that of the previous post, "Point Zero."
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Monday, February 27, 2017
Saturday, October 1, 2016
Rippling Rhythms
The previous post presented Plato's Meno diagram as
an illustration of (superimposed) yin and yang.
For those who prefer a more fluid approach to yin and yang —
From a June 15, 2016, Caltech news release on gravitational waves —
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Audio The "chirp" tones of the two LIGO detections are available for download. Formats are suitable as ringtones for either iPhone or Android devices. (Instructions for installing custom ringtones) September 2015 Detection December 2015 Detection |
Related commentary from July 2015 and earlier —
See posts tagged Haiku.
A different perspective —
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Doris and Oscar
An image from last night's post Brand Name —
"Squared into a matrix of four"
YouTube data suggested by the above passage —
Related literary remarks —
— A Heart for the Gods of Mexico , Conrad Aiken, 1939
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Monday, June 27, 2016
At Play
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Saturday, September 26, 2015
Posthumous Man
The above book, a tribute by admirers of the late Michael Weinstein
(not, as a campus obituary states, by Weinstein himself),
was reportedly published by Routledge on December 19, 2014.
This journal on that date had a post on an early Greek philosopher who
supposedly was killed because he discovered irrational numbers.
A later approach to academic life —
Emma Stone being directed by Woody Allen in the recent "Irrational Man":
Fans of Allen and Stone may also enjoy Magic in the Moonlight.
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Saturday, September 19, 2015
The Observatory Mystery
Part I: Magic Moonlight
Part II: To Walk the Night
Cover from a 1944 edition of
the 1937 novel by William Sloane —
Part III: Sept. 18, 2015, review by Stephen King
of the works of William Sloane
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Sunday, August 30, 2015
Lines
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live." — Joan Didion
A post from St. Augustine's day, 2015, may serve to
illustrate this.
The post started with a look at a painting by Swiss artist
Wolf Barth, "Spielfeld." The painting portrays two
rectangular arrays, of four and of twelve subsquares,
that sit atop a square array of sixteen subsquares.
To one familiar with Euclid's "bride's chair" proof of the
Pythagorean theorem, "Spielfeld" suggests a right triangle
with squares on its sides of areas 4, 12, and 16.
That image in turn suggests a diagram illustrating the fact
that a triangle suitably inscribed in a half-circle is a right
triangle… in this case, a right triangle with angles of 30, 60,
and 90 degrees… Thus —
In memory of screenwriter John Gregory Dunne (husband
of Joan Didion and author of, among other things, The Studio )
here is a cinematric approach to the above figure.
The half-circle at top suggests the dome of an observatory.
This in turn suggests a scene from the 2014 film "Magic in
the Moonlight."
As she gazes at the silent universe above
through an opening in the dome, the silent
Emma Stone is perhaps thinking,
prompted by her work with Spider-Man …
"Drop me a line."
As he gazes at the crack in the dome,
Stone's costar Colin Firth contrasts the vastness
of the Universe with the smallness of Man, citing …
"the tiny field F2 with two elements."
In conclusion, recall the words of author Norman Mailer
that summarized his Harvard education —
"At times, bullshit can only be countered
with superior bullshit."
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Friday, August 28, 2015
Art and Space
Observatory scene from "Magic in the Moonlight"
"The sixteen nodes… can be parametrized
by the sixteen points in affine four-space
over the tiny field F2 with two elements."
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Thursday, December 25, 2014
Friday, July 25, 2014
Actual Talent
“It’s going to be accomplished in steps,
this establishment of the Talented
in the scheme of things.”
— Anne McCaffrey, Radcliffe ’47, To Ride Pegasus
From a review of the new film “Magic in the Moonlight”—
“Sophie seems to have some actual talent….
When Sophie meets Aunt Vanessa, she uncovers the spinster’s
long-ago love affair with a member of parliament. It’s eerie.”
Material that is related, if only in story space:
- Today’s Telegraph obituary for aviatrix Lettice Curtis,
who reportedly died at 99 on July 21, 2014 - The 1933 film “Christopher Strong,” starring
Katharine Hepburn as an aviatrix who has an
affair with a member of parliament
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Friday, June 27, 2014
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Ay Que Bonito
From Iris Murdoch's novel The Bell —
" 'With an engineer to help me,' said Dora,
'I can do anything.' And indeed as she
stood there in the moonlight, looking at
the quiet water, she felt as if by the sheer
force of her will she could make the great
bell rise. After all, and after her own fashion,
she would fight. In this holy community
she would play the witch."
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Friday, January 16, 2009
Friday January 16, 2009
Behind
the Picture
the Picture
“Oftentimes people will like a picture I paint because it’s maybe the sun hitting on the side of a window and they can enjoy it purely for itself,” Wyeth once said. “It reminds them of some afternoon. But for me, behind that picture could be a night of moonlight when I’ve been in some house in Maine, a night of some terrible tension, or I had this strange mood. Maybe it was Halloween. It’s all there, hiding behind the realistic side.”
— Andrew Wyeth, who died today
Related material:
“In the pictures of the old masters, Max Picard wrote in The World of Silence, people seem as though they had just come out of the opening in a wall… ”
— Annie Dillard in For the Time Being
“And the wall is made of light– that entirely credible yet unreal Vermeer light. Light like this does not exist, but we wish it did.”
— Susanna Kaysen in Girl, Interrupted
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Thursday, January 31, 2008
Thursday January 31, 2008
As the black moon
of some divine eclipse,
As the black sun
of the Apocalypse,
As the black flower
that blessed Odysseus back
From witchcraft; and
he saw again the ships.
of some divine eclipse,
As the black sun
of the Apocalypse,
As the black flower
that blessed Odysseus back
From witchcraft; and
he saw again the ships.
In all thy thousand images
we salute thee.
Earlier in the poem….
Clothed with the sun
or standing on the moon
Crowned with the stars
or single, a morning star,
Sunlight and moonlight
are thy luminous shadows,
Starlight and twilight
thy refractions are,
Lights and half-lights and
all lights turn about thee.
or standing on the moon
Crowned with the stars
or single, a morning star,
Sunlight and moonlight
are thy luminous shadows,
Starlight and twilight
thy refractions are,
Lights and half-lights and
all lights turn about thee.
From Oct. 16, 2007,
date of death of Deborah Kerr:
date of death of Deborah Kerr:
"Harish, who was of a
spiritual, even religious, cast
and who liked to express himself in
metaphors, vivid and compelling,
did see, I believe, mathematics
as mediating between man and
what one can only call God."
— R. P. Langlands
From a link of Jan. 17, 2008—
Time and Eternity:
Jean Simmons (l.) and Deborah Kerr (r.)
in "Black Narcissus" (1947)
and from the next day,
Jan. 18, 2008:
… Todo lo sé por el lucero puro
que brilla en la diadema de la Muerte.
— Rubén Darío,
born January 18, 1867
Related material:
Dark Lady and Bright Star,
Time and Eternity,
Damnation Morning
Happy birthday also to
the late John O'Hara.
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Sunday, July 31, 2005
Sunday July 31, 2005
Looney Tunes
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LOS ANGELES, July 30 (AP) – Kayo Hatta, an independent filmmaker… died on July 20. She was 47. She accidentally drowned at a friend’s home in the San Diego area, her sister Julie Hatta said….
Ms. Hatta graduated from Stanford University with a degree in English and received a master’s degree in film from the University of California, Los Angeles. She recently completed a 30-minute coming-of-age film called “Fishbowl,” based on the writings of Hawaiian author Lois-Ann Yamanaka. |
From Log24 on Moon Day, July 20,
the date of Hatta’s death:
the date of Hatta’s death:
Quote from an earlier entry:
Quote from July 20:
|
Quote from Lois-Ann Yamanaka:
| Blu’s Hanging
… Poppy still plays “Moon River” in the background. |
There will be a public memorial service in Honolulu
open to friends and the general public:
Date: Sunday, July 31st
Time: 1:00 pm
Location: Moiliili Hongwanji Buddhist Church,
902 University Avenue
In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to:
Asian Improv aRts / Kayo Hatta Fund
201 Spear St., Ste 1650
San Francisco, CA 94105
open to friends and the general public:
Date: Sunday, July 31st
Time: 1:00 pm
Location: Moiliili Hongwanji Buddhist Church,
902 University Avenue
In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to:
Asian Improv aRts / Kayo Hatta Fund
201 Spear St., Ste 1650
San Francisco, CA 94105
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Wednesday, July 20, 2005
Wednesday July 20, 2005
| Words that may or may not have been said on July 20, 1969:
“That’s one small step for |
Another rhetorical contrast,
from a different date —
from a different date —
One small step for me:
Sunday, November 03, 2002
|
Music to Read By In honor of Roger Cooke’s review of Helson’s Harmonic Analysis, 2nd Edition, today’s site music is “Moonlight in Vermont.” |
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One giant leap for mankind:
“The ‘Diamond Theory’ website of Steven Cullinane shows a man who is incapable of telling the truth: a pathological liar who hates and despises the mathematical community; a sociopath caught between the conflicting desires to earn the admiration of mathematicians, and his desire to insult those who ignore him and refuse him his self-perceived due measure of honor and reverie. As such, Steven Cullinane is constantly trying to purchase recognition when he has the funds to advertise on google.com, or steal that recognition by lying and deceiving dmoz.org when money isn’t enough. As you can see from the correspondence below, Jed Pack has clearly pointed out serious errors in Steven Cullinane’s calculations. Now, instead of admitting that he has been caught with his pants down, Steven Cullinane is questioning Jed Pack’s education! Surely, Jed Pack is a more competent mathematician than Steven Cullinane.”
For further details, see Crankbuster.
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Sunday, November 3, 2002
Sunday November 3, 2002
Music to Read By
In honor of Roger Cooke’s review of Helson’s Harmonic Analysis, 2nd Edition, today’s site music is “Moonlight in Vermont.”
Saturday, October 5, 2002
Saturday October 5, 2002
Zen holy day:
Bodhidharma Day
Epigraph to Chapter 23 of Contact, by Carl Sagan:
We have not followed cunningly devised fables….
— II Peter 1:16
Song lyric:
It’s still the same old story….
— Herman Hupfeld, 1931
From Chapter 23 of Contact, by Carl Sagan:
“You mean you could decode a picture hiding in pi and it would be a mess of Hebrew letters?”
“Sure. Big black letters, carved in stone.”
He looked at her quizzically.
“Forgive me, Eleanor, but don’t you think you’re being a mite too… indirect? You don’t belong to a silent order of Buddhist nuns. Why don’t you just tell your story?”
Moonlight and love songs,
never out of date….
See also my journal note
for Michaelmas, 2002,
“Pi in the Sky.”
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