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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.

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.

* For the title, see Sunday morning.

Slowly, with a beat — 

Meanwhile, back in 1947 —

"Put on your high-heel sneakers …"

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.

“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

Words that may or may not have been said on July 20, 1969: “That’s one small step for a man; one giant leap for mankind.”

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.”
	12:00 AM – 5 comments

One giant leap for mankind:

Date Posted: 11/03/02 Sun

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“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.

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.”

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.”