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The New York Times  eulogizes a man who died Friday —

“Rabbi Steinsaltz was a prolific and wide-ranging writer
and a sharp observer of humanity who wrote more than
60 books on philosophy, mysticism, theology, even zoology.
His study of kabbalah, ‘The Thirteen Petalled Rose,’ is
considered a classic and has been translated into eight languages.”

Another classic of Jewish thought:

Thoughts of the young Carl Reiner as rendered above in 1967 —

“Somewhere, someplace… there must be a lost horizon…
A Shangri-La where a man can find peace, happiness,
and lots of naked ladies.”

Voilà.

The previous post suggests a search for Buber in this journal
that yields a passage from New Year's Eve 2017 —

" As for 'that you in which the lines of relation, though parallel,
intersect,' and 'intimations of eternity,' see Log24 posts on
the concept 'line at infinity' as well as 'Lost Horizon.' "

Related illustrations — 

From Pi Day 2017 —

"Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard."

From April 20, 2019 —

From "A History of Violence" —

Recent posts involving the English pronoun IT referred to
classic tales of horror by Madeleine L'Engle and Stephen King.

Those posts suggest some further remarks by Martin Buber: 

THE WORLD IS TWOFOLD for man
     in accordance with his twofold attitude.
The attitude of man is twofold
     in accordance with the two basic words he can speak.
The basic words are not single words but word pairs.
One basic word is the word pair I-You.
The other basic word is the word pair I-It;
     but this basic word is not changed when
     He or She takes the place of It.
Thus the I of man is also twofold.
For the I of the basic word I-You is different from
     that in the basic word I-It.

— Buber, Martin. I and Thou, Trans. Kaufmann
     (p. 53). Kindle Edition. 

Four German pronouns from the above passage
by Martin Buber lead to six pronoun pairs:

ich-du, ich-es, ich-sie, du-es, du-sie, es-sie.

This is in accordance with some 1974 remarks by
Marie-Louise von Franz —

The following passage by Buber may confuse readers of
L'Engle and King with its use, in translation, of "it" instead of
the original German "sie" ("she," corresponding to "die Welt") —

Here, for comparison, are the original German and the translation.

As for "that you in which the lines of relation, though parallel,
intersect," and "intimations of eternity," see Log24 posts on
the concept "line at infinity" as well as "Lost Horizon."

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

(A sequel to the previous post, Up to Date) 

"Dr. Sekler lectured around the world, but one trip proved life-changing.
In 1962, the year he married, Dr. Sekler made his first trip to Nepal.
'It was the way it had been for centuries — a beautiful valley filled with
happy, peaceful people. It seemed like Shangri-La,' he told the Harvard
Gazette  in 2004."

— Bryan Marquard in The Boston Globe  today

See also "Eight is a gate" in this  journal.