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The tortoise of the previous post suggests . . .

"Is it the good turtle soup
 or merely the mock?" 

Related material from the above
Toronto premiere date —

Solomon and the Ring.

"Solomon Golomb’s classic book Shift Register Sequences,
published in 1967—based on his work in the 1950s—
went out of print long ago. But its content lives on. . . ."

For part of that content, see Stencils .

A :Log24 post from the date of Golomb's death —

See as well other posts on Mathematics and Narrative.

"There is  such a thing as a desktop."

— Saying adapted from a 1962 young-adult novel.

For Cady Heron

"Why you gotta be so mean?" — Taylor Swift
 

* See references to that Greek island in this journal.

See also posts tagged May 19 Gestalt.

In memory of weather buff Stephen Fybish,
who reportedly died at 80 on August 30.

The Eye of Harvey meets the Eye of Shangri-La —

Today's New York Times  on Fybish —

"Winter was his favorite season. He liked to taste the snow,
'since that’s one of the purer forms of water that we’re likely
to encounter here in the Big Apple,' he said."

— Sam Roberts

See Captain America's special  breakfast
in posts tagged Aesthetic Distance.

See as well Taylor Swift in the previous post and
The School of the New York Times on creating
great branded content:

Continued from June 8, 2016.

Jews on Style  continues …

From a Washington Post  obituary  this morning —

"For the past 30 years, while teaching at New York University’s
law school, Dr. Bruner explored the idea of storytelling as a
fundamental way of understanding the nature of the world
around us. He believed that the choices we make in telling
stories 'become so habitual that they finally become recipes
for structuring experience itself, for laying down routes into
memory,' he said in 1987.

'This is a mode of cognition,' Gardner said, 'at least as
important as STEM' — the science, technology, engineering
and mathematics model of instruction that has gained
currency in recent years.

'He made narrative a form of thinking,' Gardner added.

Jerome Seymour Bruner was born Oct. 1, 1915,
in New York City to Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe."

Related material —

Madeleine L'Engle meets Captain America —

This is from a Jan. 27, 2012, post on mathematics and narrative.

Related literary criticism by the late Florence King —

"Given all the historical personages the author whistles in,
one more won't hurt. Nicolas Boileau, the 17th-century
French literary critic, gave writers a piece of advice that
Ms. Neville could use: 'Make not your tale of accidents
too full / too much variety will make it dull / Achilles' rage
alone, when wrought with skill /Abundantly does a whole
"Iliad" fill.' "

— NY Times  review of The Eight , a novel by Katherine Neville

(Continued from Dec. 13, 2014.)

David Lavery's enthusiasm today for the Marvel Comics
"Infinity Stones" suggests a review of The Foundation Stone
mentioned in the post Narrative Metaphysics of 12/13/2014.

See as well "Many Dimensions" in this journal.

For those who prefer drama to mathematics:

See also Magic + Flute in this journal.

… from yesterday— Bling Ring and Church Logic.

Related narratives— Get Quotes (source of image below)

as well as Helprin's Doors and Trickster.

"Why history?
Well, the essence of history  is story ,
and a good story is an end in itself."

— Barry Mazur, "History of Mathematics  as a tool,"
    February 17, 2013

See also today's previous post.

Two friends from Brooklyn —

"… both marveled at early Ingmar Bergman movies."

One of the friends' "humor was inspired by
surrealist painters and Franz Kafka."

Wikipedia—

"Most of Marvel's fictional characters operate in
a single reality known as the Marvel Universe…."

This journal yesterday —

Related material:  The Cosmic Cube.

Two narratives in memory of my seventh-grade
history teacher, who died on January 27, 2012—

1.  On the history of Liberia
     (subject of a paper I wrote in seventh grade), and

2.  Comic-book history (from the above date)

See also this journal on October 10, 2010.

From 6/22, 2010 —

    I would argue that at least sometimes, lottery numbers may be regarded,
    according to Bernstein's definition, as story statements.

From 7/02, 2010 —

Narrative Sequence

In today's New York Times, Michiko Kakutani reviews a summer thriller by Kevin Guilfoile.  The Thousand  is in the manner of Dan Brown's 2003 The Da Vinci Code  or of Katherine Neville's 1988 The Eight .

From the review—

What connects these disparate events, it turns out, is a sinister organization called the Thousand, made up of followers of the ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras (yes, the same Pythagoras associated with the triangle theorem that we learned in school).

As Mr. Guilfoile describes it, this organization is part Skull and Bones, part Masonic lodge, part something much more twisted and nefarious….

The plot involves, in part,

… an eccentric artist’s mysterious masterwork, made up of thousands of individually painted tiles that may cohere into an important message….

Not unlike the tiles in the Diamond Theory cover (see yesterday's post) or, more aptly, the entries in this journal.

"List, list, O, list!"
— Hamlet's father's ghost

"Ordering and patterning are not wholly narrative activities."
— James E. Giles, 1986

"See also… the true  story 0, 1, 2, 3…" 
— Log24, January 9, 2009

  For some non-narrative patterning of this list, see (for instance)
         Apostol's Modular Functions and Dirichlet Series in Number Theory.

     Friday, January 9, 2009…

Saturday's post quoted a mathematical narrative with the following opening sentence–

"Let G  be a finite, primitive subgroup of GL(V) = GL(n,D),
where V  is an n-dimensional vector space over the division ring D."

If that narrative were a novel, its opening might win a Bulwer-Lytton prize.

As might the opening of another nonfiction narrative—

"What are we are doing?"

A partial answer to this profound metaphysical question
for fans of the classic film "Dark City"
(which was written in part by one "Lem Dobbs")–

Part I — Fiction —

Part II — Nonfiction —

http://www.shellbeachinn.com/

Part III — Fiction —

"The bench on which Dobbs was sitting
was not so good."

— B. Traven, opening sentence
of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

The Magic Lyre

(Click image for context.)

See also Saturday's post—

as well as Solemn Dance
   and Mazur at Delphi.

(This last is apparently based on
a talk given by Barry Mazur at Delphi
in 2007 and may or may not appear in
a book, Mathematics and Narrative,
to be published in 2010.)

Suggested tune for the lyre–

"Send me the pillow
  that you dream on,"

in memory of Hank Locklin,
who died on this date last year.
 

Continues.

See also theta functions in this journal.

For those who prefer narratives to mathematics . . .

Tiger at the Fire Temple

Things of August*

Related narratives:

• The Dreaming Jewels
• Transfiguration College
• Archimedes at Hiroshima

Related mathematics:

*

The dimensions of the "bricks" in the R. T. Curtis
"Miracle Octad Generator":  2×4.

For those who prefer narrative to mathematics . . .

From the above Baez essay —

"And when the hero arrives, there should be
a little flourish of trumpets, like:

And now we come to a key player:
the group of deck transformations."

This remark and Baez's statement that

"Ideally the tricks I’m suggesting here
will be almost invisible…."

suggest a non-mathematical "deck transformation"
that some will prefer —

In the March 21 Netflix series "3 Body Problem,"
the deck of the ship Judgment Day is transformed
in a spectacular manner by an invisible  trick.

"The present article elaborates on a talk presented at the first
'Mathematics and Narrative' conference (Mykonos, July 12-15, 2005)."

— Leo Corry on his "Calculating the Limits of Poetic License"

"In this article I seek to clarify the role played by poetic license
in the triangular relationship involving mathematics, the history
of mathematics and mathematics in fiction."

— Leo Corry, https://www.tau.ac.il/~corry/publications/articles.html . . .

See also tonight's previous post.

The Bermuda Octahedron

Related narrative —

This post was suggested by the Möbius Dick  air date —
August 4, 2011 — in this  journal.

레몬타워

Related narrative: Bosch by Snaith.

"A good public narrative can, at the best of times,
transform an art theft into a lucky break for the gallery."

— The Walrus , Sept. 1, 2022 

From a search in this  journal for Goya —

Related quotations —

"So we beat on, boats against the current…." — F. Scott Fitzgerald

"There grows a tree in Paradise…." — Joan Baez

Related narrative — River of Death.

From "When Novelists Become Cubists," by Andre Furlani—

"The architectonics of a narrative," Davenport says,
"are emphasized and given a role to play in dramatic effect
when novelists become Cubists; that is, when they see
the possibilities of making a hieroglyph, a coherent symbol,
an ideogram of the total work. A symbol comes into being
when an artist sees that it is the only way to get all the meaning in." 

* See "Starlight Like Intuition" by Delmore Schwartz.
The "Twelve" of the title may be regarded as cube edges.

C. S. Lewis on myth —

"The stories I am thinking of always have a very simple narrative shape—
a satisfactory and inevitable shape, like a good vase or a tulip."

The image and quote are from posts tagged Spectral Valhalla.

 "With the Tablet of Ahkmenrah and the Cube of Rubik,
my power will know no bounds!"
— Kahmunrah in a novelization of Night at the Museum:
Battle of the Smithsonian , Barron's Educational Series

Scholium —

Abstracting from narrative to structure, and from structure
to pure number, the Tablet of Ahkmenrah represents the
number 9 and the Cube of Rubik represents the number 27.

Returning from pure abstract numbers to concrete representations,
9 yields the structures in Log24 posts tagged Triangle.graphics,
and 27 yields a Galois  cube .

The online New York Times  today  reporting a  Jan. 29 death:

"Mr. Dylan asked Mr. Lay to back him on the title track
of his album “Highway 61 Revisited.” In addition to
playing drums, Mr. Lay played a toy whistle on the song’s
memorable opening."
— Richard Sandomir, Feb. 5, 2022, 2:06 p.m. ET

The above link yields a March 11, 2019, YouTube upload:

Some may prefer the theology of Hexagram  61.

“‘Oracle, why did you write
The Grasshopper Lies Heavy?
What are we supposed to learn?'”

— Philip K. Dick

“She began throwing the coins.“

Other remarks from the above
YouTube upload date — March 11, 2019 —