For the Church of Synchronology —
http://m759.net/wordpress/?p=75618 —
Thursday, October 31, 2024
“… ego ipse oculis meis …” — Petronius, Satyricon*
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Friday, June 29, 2018
Analogies Between Analogies:
Literary Meditation for the Feast of SS Peter and Paul
Background: McLuhan on analogy.
See a publication offering facsimiles of the original 4×6 cards
of John Shade's "Pale Fire," as Nabokov described them.
Regarding these card proportions, note that 4/6 = 333/500, approximately —
the proportions of the text box in a post from yesterday.
"Continue a search for thirty-three and three" — Katherine Neville.
These rather pointless, but vaguely poetic, analogies were suggested by …
-
Yesterday morning's "The Corrections," a post
featuring spider ballooning and a dead poet, and
- "Blue Dream," a post of Feb. 11, 2006.
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Thursday, May 8, 2008
Thursday May 8, 2008
Synchronicity,
Part Deux
Part Deux
From
“On the Holy Trinity,”
the entry in the 3:20 PM
French footprint:
“…while the scientist sees
everything that happens
in one point of space,
the poet feels
everything that happens
in one point of time…
all forming an
instantaneous and transparent
organism of events….”
From
“Angel in the Details,”
the entry in the 3:59 PM
French footprint:
“I dwell in Possibility –
A fairer House than Prose”
These, along with this afternoon’s
earlier entry, suggest a review
of a third Log24 item, Windmills,
with an actress from France as…
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Changing Woman: “Kaleidoscope turning…
Shifting pattern |
“When life itself seems lunatic,
who knows where madness lies?”
— For the source, see
Joyce’s Nightmare Continues.
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Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Tuesday August 21, 2007
Shell Game
Part I:
Overview of Unix
at pangea.stanford.edu
Last revision August 2, 2004
“The Unix operating environment is organized into three layers. The innermost level of Unix is the kernel. This is the actual operating system, a single large program that always resides in memory. Sections of the code in this program are executed on behalf of users to do needed tasks, like access files or terminals. Strictly speaking, the kernel is Unix.
The next level of the Unix environment is composed of programs, commands, and utilities. In Unix, the basic commands like copying or removing files are implemented not as part of the kernel, but as individual programs, no different really from any program you could write. What we think of as the commands and utilities of Unix are simply a set of programs that have become standardized and distributed. There are hundreds of these, plus many additional utilities in the public domain that can be installed.
The final level of the Unix environment, which stands like an umbrella over the others, is the shell. The shell processes your terminal input and starts up the programs that you request. It also allows you to manipulate the environment in which those programs will execute in a way that is transparent to the program. The program can be written to handle standard cases, and then made to handle unusual cases simply by manipulating its environment, without having to have a special version of the program.” (My italics.)
Part II:
Programs
From my paper journal
on the date
“Good Will Hunting”
was released:
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Friday, December 5, 1997 To: The executive editor, The New York Times Re: The Front Page/His Girl Friday Match the speaker with the speech–
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| The Speaker | Frame of Reference | |||
| 1. | rosebud | A. | J. Paul Getty | The front page, N.Y. Times, Monday, 12/1/97 |
| 2. | clock | B. | Joel Silver | Page 126, The New Yorker, 3/21/94 |
| 3. | act | C. | Blanche DuBois | The Elysian Fields |
| 4. | waltz | D. | Bob Geldof | People Weekly 12/8/97 |
| 5. | temple | E. | St. Michael | Heaven’s Gate |
| 6. | watch | F. | Susanna Moore | In the Cut (pbk., Dec. ’96) p. 261 |
| 7. | line | G. | Joseph Lelyveld | Page A21, The New York Times, 12/1/97 |
| 8. | chair | H. | Kylie Minogue | Page 69, People Weekly, 12/8/97 |
| 9. | religion | I. | Carol Gilligan | The Garden of Good and Evil |
| 10. | wife | J. | John Travolta | “Michael,” the movie |
| 11. | harp | K. | Shylock | Page 40, N.Y. Review of Books, 12/4/97 |
| 12. | Oscar | L. | Stephen King | The Shining (pbk., 1997), pp. 316, 317 |
“…while the scientist sees
everything that happens
in one point of space,
the poet feels
everything that happens
in one point of time…
all forming an
instantaneous and transparent
organism of events….”
Part III:
The Bourne Shell
“The binary program of the Bourne shell or a compatible program is located at /bin/sh on most Unix systems, and is still the default shell for the root superuser on many current Unix implementations.” –Wikipedia
Afterword:
See also
the recent comments
of root@matrix.net in
Peter Woit’s weblog.
“Hey, Carrie-Anne,
what’s your game now….”
— The Hollies, 1967
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Friday, January 19, 2007
Friday January 19, 2007
Semantic Transparency
"… semantic transparency … would allow disparate systems to share some understanding of the actual concepts that are represented…"
— IBM Developer Works on October 7, 2003
From Wikipedia's
"Upper Ontology"
and
Epiphany 2007:
"Upper Ontology"
and
Epiphany 2007:
"There is no neutral ground
that can serve as
a means of translating between
specialized (lower) ontologies."
There is, however,
"the field of reason"–
the 3×3 grid:
Click on grid
for details.
From a Log24 entry of January 7, 2007:
"One of the primary critiques of modernism that Learning from Las Vegas was engaged in, as Frederic [sic] Jameson clearly noted, was the dialectic between inside and outside and the assumption that the outside expressed the interior. Let's call this the modernist drive for 'expressive transparency.'"
— Aron Vinegar of Ohio State U., "Skepticism and the Ordinary: From Burnt Norton to Las Vegas"
From this week's New Yorker (issue dated Jan. 22, 2007)–
"A Life," by Zbigniew Herbert
(translated from the Polish by Alissa Vales):
I was a quiet boy a little sleepy and–amazingly–
unlike my peers–who were fond of adventures–
I didn't expect much–didn't look out the window
At school more diligent than able–docile stable
For the rest of the poem, click here.
From the Wikipedia article on Zbigniew Herbert:
"In modern poetry, Herbert advocated semantic transparence. In a talk given at a conference organized by the journal Odra he said: 'So not having pretensions to infallibility, but stating only my predilections, I would like to say that in contemporary poetry the poems that appeal to me the most are those in which I discern something I would call a quality of semantic transparency (a term borrowed from Husserl's logic). This semantic transparency is the characteristic of a sign consisting in this: that during the time when the sign is used, attention is directed towards the object denoted, and the sign itself does not hold the attention. The word is a window onto reality.'"
(Wikipedia cites as the source–
Herbert's talk at the meeting "Poet in face of the present day," organized by the "Odra" journal. Print version: Preface to: Zbigniew Herbert "Poezje," Panstwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, Warszawa 1998, ISBN 83-06-02667-5.)
Fom Nabokov's Transparent Things (pdf):
"Its ultimate vision was the incandescence of a book or a box grown completely transparent and hollow. This is, I believe, it: not the crude anguish of physical death but the incomparable pangs of the mysterious mental maneuver needed to pass from one state of being to another. Easy, you know, does it, son."
Related material:
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Thursday, April 6, 2006
Thursday April 6, 2006
Harmony and Conciseness
“Problems are the poetry of chess.
They demand from the composer
the same virtues that characterize
all worthwhile art:
originality, invention,
harmony, conciseness,
complexity, and
splendid insincerity.”
Harmony:
Yesterday’s NY mid-day lottery: 456
Conciseness:
Yesterday’s NY evening lottery: 808
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Sunday, September 5, 2004
Sunday September 5, 2004
Symmetry and Change
in the Dreamtime
Notes from the Journal
of Steven H. Cullinane
Summary:
| Aug 31 2004 07:31:01 PM |
Early Evening, Shining Star |
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| Sep 01 2004 09:00:35 AM |
Words and Images |
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| Sep 01 2004 12:07:28 PM |
Whale Rider |
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| Sep 02 2004 11:11:42 AM |
Heaven and Earth |
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| Sep 02 2004 07:00:23 PM |
Whale Road |
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| Cinderella’s Slipper |
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| Sep 03 2004 10:01:56 AM |
Another September Morn |
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| Noon |
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| De Nada |  |
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| Ite, Missa Est |  |
Symmetry and Change, Part 1…
Early Evening,
Shining Star
Hexagram 01
The Creative:
The Image
Heaven
Heaven
The movement of heaven
is full of power.
Click on picture
for details.
The Clare Lawler Prize
for Literature goes to…
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For the thoughts on time |
Symmetry and Change, Part 2…
Words and Images
Hexagram 35
Progress:
The Image
Fire
Earth
The sun rises over the earth.
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“Oh, my Lolita. I have only words “This is the best toy train set “As the quotes above by Nabokov and Welles suggest, we need to be able to account for the specific functions available to narrative in each medium, for the specific elements that empirical creators will ‘play with’ in crafting their narratives.” |
For
James Whale
and
William French Anderson —
Words
In the Spirit of
Dave Barry’s Book of Bad Songs:
Stay for just a while…
Stay, and let me look at you.
It’s been so long, I hardly knew you.
Standing in the door…
Stay with me a while.
I only want to talk to you.
We’ve traveled halfway ’round the world
To find ourselves again.
September morn…
We danced until the night
became a brand new day,
Two lovers playing scenes
from some romantic play.
September morning still can
make me feel this way.
Look at what you’ve done…
Why, you’ve become a grown-up girl…
— Neil Diamond
Images
In the Spirit of
September Morn:
The Last Day of Summer:
Photographs by Jock Sturges
“In 1990, the FBI entered Sturges’s studio and seized his work, claiming violation of child pornography laws.”
Related material:
and
Log24 entries of
Aug. 15, 2004.
Those interested in the political implications of Diamond’s songs may enjoy Neil Performs at Kerry Fundraiser.
I personally enjoyed this site’s description of Billy Crystal’s remarks, which included “a joke about former President Clinton’s forthcoming children’s
“Puff, puff, woo, woo, off we go!”
Symmetry and Change, Part 3…
Hexagram 28
Preponderance of
the Great:
The Image
Lake
Wind
The lake rises
above the trees.
“Congratulations to Clare Lawler, who participated very successfully in the recently held Secondary Schools Judo Championships in Wellington.”
For an explanation of this entry’s title, see the previous two entries and
Oxford Word
(Log24, July 10, 2004)
Symmetry and Change, Part 4…
Heaven and Earth
Hexagram 42
Increase:
The Image
Wind
Thunder
Wind and thunder:
the image of Increase.
“This time resembles that of
the marriage of heaven and earth”
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you gotta ride it like you find it.
Get your ticket at the station
of the Rock Island Line.
in Rock Island, Illinois
“What it all boiled down to really was everybody giving everybody else a hard time for no good reason whatever… You just couldn’t march to your own music. Nowadays, you couldn’t even hear it… It was lost, the music which each person had inside himself, and which put him in step with things as they should be.”
— The Grifters, Ch. 10, 1963, by
James Myers Thompson
“The Old Man’s still an artist
with a Thompson.”
— Terry in “Miller’s Crossing”
For some of “the music which
each person had inside,”
click on the picture
with the Thompson.
It may be that Kylie is,
in her own way, an artist…
with a 357:
(Hits counter at
The Quality of Diamond
as of 11:05 AM Sept. 2, 2004)
For more on
“the marriage of heaven and earth,”
see
Plato, Pegasus, and the Evening Star.
Symmetry and Change, Part 5…
Whale Road
Hexagram 23
Splitting Apart:
The Image
Mountain
Earth
The mountain rests
on the earth.
“… the plot is different but the monsters, names, and manner of speaking will ring a bell.”
— Frank Pinto, Jr., review of Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf
Other recommended reading, found during a search for the implications of today’s previous entry, “Hexagram 42”:
This excellent meditation
on symmetry and change
comes from a site whose
home page
has the following image:
Symmetry and Change, Part 6…
Cinderella’s Slipper
Hexagram 54
The Marrying Maiden:
The Image
Thunder
Lake
See
“… a Thoreau-like retreat
by a nearby lake….
Both men have
a ‘touch of the poet’….
The symmetry is perfect.”
by a nearby lake….
Both men have
a ‘touch of the poet’….
The symmetry is perfect.”
Symmetry and Change, Part 7…
Another September Morn
Hexagram 56:
The Wanderer
The Image
Fire
Mountain
Fire on the mountain,
Run boys run…
Devil’s in the House of
The Rising Sun!
Friday, September 3, 2004
Symmetry and Change, Part 8…
Hexagram 25
Innocence:
The Image
Heaven
Thunder
Friday, September 3, 2004
Symmetry and Change, Part 9…
Hexagram 49
Revolution:
The Image
the image of Revolution.
“I sit now in a little room off the bar at four-thirty in the morning drinking ochas and then mescal and writing this on some Bella Vista notepaper I filched the other night…. But this is worst of all, to feel your soul dying. 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? …And this is how I sometimes think of myself, as a great explorer who has discovered some extraordinary land from which he can never return to give his knowledge to the world: but the name of this land is hell. It is not Mexico of course but in the heart.”
— Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
Friday, September 3, 2004
Symmetry and Change, conclusion…
Ite, Missa Est
Hexagram 13
Fellowship With Men:
The Image
Heaven
Fire
“A pretty girl —
is like a melody —- !”
For details, see
A Mass for Lucero.
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Thursday, June 5, 2003
Thursday June 5, 2003
Regime Change
at the New York Times:
With Honors
Departing New York Times executive editor
Howell Raines:
"Remember, when a great story breaks out,
go like hell."
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Returning |
Good Will's |
From the date "Good Will Hunting" was released:
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Friday, December 5, 1997 "Philosophers ponder the idea of identity: what it is to give something a name on Monday and have it respond to that name on Friday." To: The executive editor, The New York Times Re: The Front Page/His Girl Friday Match the speaker with the speech — |
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| The Speaker | Frame of Reference | |||
| 1. | rosebud | A. | J. Paul Getty | The front page, N.Y. Times, Monday, 12/1/97 |
| 2. | clock | B. | Joel Silver | Page 126, The New Yorker, 3/21/94 |
| 3. | act | C. | Blanche DuBois | The Elysian Fields |
| 4. | waltz | D. | Bob Geldof | People Weekly 12/8/97 |
| 5. | temple | E. | St. Michael | Heaven's Gate |
| 6. | watch | F. | Susanna Moore | In the Cut (pbk., Dec. '96) p. 261 |
| 7. | line | G. | Joseph Lelyveld | Page A21, The New York Times, 12/1/97 |
| 8. | chair | H. | Kylie Minogue | Page 69, People Weekly, 12/8/97 |
| 9. | religion | I. | Carol Gilligan | The Garden of Good and Evil |
| 10. | wife | J. | John Travolta | "Michael," the movie |
| 11. | harp | K. | Shylock | Page 40, N.Y. Review of Books, 12/4/97 |
| 12. | Oscar | L. | Stephen King | The Shining (pbk., 1997), pp. 316, 317 |
Postscript of June 5, 2003:
"…while the scientist sees everything that happens
in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens
in one point of time … all forming an instantaneous
and transparent organism of events…."
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