Related narrative: Bosch by Snaith . See also . . .
Neil Welliver, great American painter, father of Titus Welliver
Titus Welliver Says "Losing His Way" Led Him Back to Painting
Monday, May 1, 2023
Saturday, November 14, 2020
The Grossinger Interview
The following image was suggested by today’s
New York Times obituary of Joanna Harcourt-Smith
and by earlier Log24 posts now also tagged Grossinger.
For some background, see a book that reportedly
was published on Devil’s Night (October 30) 1997 —
The interview date above suggests some related material
for students of bullshit and for the Church of Synchronology —
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Monday, March 23, 2026
Dance of the Seven Unveilings
"You want fries with that?"
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Thursday, March 12, 2026
Annals of Sacerdotal Jargon:
Geometry and Logic
Louis H. Kauffman —
"To find, by going to the source of logic,
that we build simultaneously
a world of reason and a world of geometry
incites a vision of the full combination of
the temporal and the eternal, a unification
of action and contemplation."
This is from . . .
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Louis H. Kauffman on the Logic Garnet — "This is a remarkable connection of polyhedral geometry with basic logic. The meaning and application of this connection is yet to be fully appreciated. It is a significant linkage of domains. On the one hand, we have logic embedded in everyday speech. One does not expect to find direct connections of the structure of logical speech with the symmetries of Euclidean Geometry. It is the surprise of this connection that appeals to the intuition. Logic and reasoning are properties of language/mind in action. Geometry and symmetry are part of the mindset that would discover eternal forms and grasp the world as a whole. To find, by going to the source of logic, that we build simultaneously a world of reason and a world of geometry incites a vision of the full combination of the temporal and the eternal, a unification of action and contemplation. The relationship of logic and geometry demands a deep investigation. This investigation is in its infancy."
— Louis H. Kauffman, "The Mathematics of Charles Sanders Peirce." |
Footnote to author's name from the first page of the above article —
| Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois, Chicago. Email: kauffman@uic.edu. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Diane Slaviero, David Solzman, Jim Flagg , G. Spencer-Brown, Annetta Pedretti and Kyoko Inoue for many conversations real and imaginary related to this paper. I wish to dedicate this paper to the memory of Milton Singer and to our many meetings in the Piccolo Mondo Restaurant in Hyde Park, Chicago in the 1990’s. |
From the Hyde Park Herald , June 22, 2016 —
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Geometry and Logic
Geometry and Logic
Sunday, February 15, 2026
Sunday, February 8, 2026
Tuesday, February 3, 2026
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Plan 9 from Toronto
This 1950 use of Galois coordinates on a grid
foreshadows their later use by Cullinane to construct
the Miracle Octad Generator of R. T. Curtis and to
illustrate, as below, point-line duality in the Fano plane.
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Sunday, June 8, 2025
The Press Pool
A post from the reported dies natalis of the cover girl singer —
"… And the pool was filled with water out of sunlight …."
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Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Dirac, Kummer, Hudson, and the 16 Points
From the January 2025
Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society :
Some background for the above article's conclusion —
For some related material . . .
Search for "Hudson Kummer Quartic" in Log24.
A song for Singer . . .
"I've got this problem when I'm reading a book
Know there's an ending, so I can't help but look"
— Early James, "I Got This Problem" lyrics
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Tuesday, March 11, 2025
For “Unfrosted” Fans: K-Pop Math
Flashback suggested by a New York Times obituary today . . .
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Saturday, March 8, 2025
New from Apple TV
See as well Kafka in this journal.
Related New York humor . . .
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From Today.com on March 8, 2025 . . . https://www.today.com/popculture/tv/is-snl-new-tonight-rcna195170 Is there a new episode of ‘SNL’ tonight? Yes! The March 8 episode will be a new, live show hosted by Lady Gaga. Gaga will also perform as the episode's musical guest. A double-duty "SNL" episode seems especially fitting for Gaga, who's been nominated for four Oscars and 38 Grammys. Gaga also released her latest album, "Mayhem," on March 7. Ahead of the episode, the singer and actor gave viewers a glimpse of her creative “process” when she played piano and made up impromptu lyrics about the show’s embarrassed cast members in a hilarious promo. Dressed down in a ball cap and eyeglasses, Gaga noted that Andrew Dismukes ordered his breakfast sandwich at 2 p.m. and that Devon Walker was "taking a big swing" by donning a new cowboy hat. Gaga then busted Heidi Gardner, who emerged from her office in jammies and an eye mask, for sleeping on the "SNL" set. "And the question is why?" Gaga sang, hitting a dazzling high note. "And the answer is bed bugs," Gardner sang back, which seemed to inspire the crescendo for Gaga's song. "She has bedbugs!" Gaga belted out with passion. — |
Some dialogue better suited to flyover country . . .
From the first episode of the TV series “The West Wing“:
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Original airdate: Sept. 22, 1999
MARY MARSH
CALDWELL
MARY MARSH
JOSH
TOBY [A stunned silence. Everyone stares at Toby.]
TOBY (CONT.)
JOSH |
For "Love Me" fans, some less clownish material . . .
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Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Color Tray
Image credit: The singer of "Deep Blue," Sara Arlene,
in a Facebook story of November 12, 2024.
"Swirls of red radiate a symphony of joy, love, and passion,
inviting observers to delve into the depth of human emotions."
— Marcela Nowak at Medium.com, August 12, 2023.
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Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Song Title for August Moon? — Flashin’ ’n’ Crashin’
See Blue-Green lyrics.
Related material . . .
"…we could go back to my hotel in Beverly Hills, order some room service…."
— August Moon singer in "The Idea of You"
Image linked to in the post "Hotel Art ," August 14, 2024.
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Sunday, August 18, 2024
Heart of Weir’d . . . For Mr. Kurtz
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A brief excerpt from a 2018 book about the woman who inspired Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance . . . "There is a passage in Joseph Conrad’s novella, Heart of Darkness (1899), which exemplifies much about what Quality means . . . . … the narrator, Marlow … is … in an environment he finds malign, sinister, macabre, chaotic, indifferently cruel, and nightmarishly meaningless. What saves him is his accidental discovery of a dry old seamanship manual . . . ." Conrad, as quoted in the book cited below: It was an extraordinary find. Its title was An Inquiry into some Points of Seamanship, by a man Towser, Towson – some such name – Master in his Majesty’s Navy. The matter looked dreary reading enough, with illustrative diagrams and repulsive tables of figures, and the copy was sixty years old. I handled this amazing antiquity with the greatest possible tenderness, lest it should dissolve in my hands. Within, Towson or Towser was inquiring earnestly into the breaking strain of ships’ chains and tackle, and other such matters. Not a very enthralling book; but at the first glance you could see there a singleness of intention, an honest concern for the right way of going to work, which made these humble pages, thought out so many years ago, luminous with another than a professional light. The simple old sailor, with his talk of chains and purchases, made me forget the jungle and the pilgrims in a delicious sensation of having come upon something unmistakably real. — From pp. 36-37 of James Essinger and Henry Gurr's
A Woman of Quality: |
See also earlier posts tagged Weir'd.
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Friday, May 31, 2024
Opus
Other entertainment news . . .
I look forward to a University Diaries "Burning Man" joke.
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Saturday, May 11, 2024
The Thesis Advisor
"And so I had an idea, which turned out to be
related to that question, and so it was a little theorem
that I proved and I showed it to my thesis advisor, and
then he said, 'Oh, that could maybe help with this question.'
And he told me the question. And I said, 'Oh that's right,
maybe it could.' But he said, 'But don't work on that.'
He says, 'Borel has worked on that, Singer has worked
on that, a lot of people have tried to do this without success.'
But that has just got me fired up. And so I solved that problem…."
— The late James H. Simons, on his thesis advisor Bertram Kostant.
The thesis advisor reportedly died on Groundhog Day, 2017.
See as well, in this journal, Facets for Snorri.
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Thursday, January 25, 2024
Monday, January 22, 2024
Shangri-La
In memory of the lead singer of the Shangri-Las,
who reportedly died at 75 on January 19 . . .
Related reading: Tonight's previous post and A Turner Classic.
See as well Raiders of the Lost Horizon.
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Thursday, November 30, 2023
The Chronic Gap
— Niall Ferguson, Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist
From this journal on Guy Fawkes Day, 2011—
Shadows
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Wednesday, November 29, 2023
Thursday, October 19, 2023
For Emma Watson — Elemental: Fire and Water
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Sunday, September 17, 2023
Lime Time
"Time is a weapon, it's cold and it's cruel"
— Lyrics: Max D. Barnes. Singer: Ray Price.
The New York Times in September 1949 —
CANNES, France, Sept. 17 (AP) — A. British-made film
with two American stars won the Grand Prize of the
Cannes Film Festival, judges announced today.
The film was "The Third Man," starring Joseph Cotten,
Valli, Orson Welles and Siegfried Breuer.
VIEW FULL ARTICLE IN TIMESMACHINE »
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Monday, September 4, 2023
For the Late Steve Harwell
"Hey now, you're an all star
Get your game on, go play
Hey now, you're a rock star
Get the show on, get paid"
— Lyrics from . . .
And for the Church of Synchronology … Log24 on
the above YouTube date — Dec. 25, 2009.
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Tuesday, May 2, 2023
Dust in the Wind
See posts tagged "The Next Level."
Perhaps Isadore Singer now has a clue . . .
See his phrases "manic as hell" and "pregnant as hell."
See also Illinois Beltane.
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Tuesday, February 14, 2023
The Mobius Chapel
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Saturday, July 30, 2022
Summer Camp
Or: The Sontag Puzzlement
Wikipedia on "Heavenly Creatures" —
"Juliet introduces Pauline to the idea of 'the Fourth World',
a Heaven without Christians where music and art are
celebrated. Juliet believes she will go there when she dies.
Certain actors and musicians have the status of saints in
this afterlife, such as singer Mario Lanza, with whom
both girls are obsessed."
Related material — Sontag + Camp .
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Wednesday, June 22, 2022
Occupy Space Continues.
Alternate Title —
Types of Ambiguity:
The Circle in the Triangle,
the Singer in the Song.
From an excellent June 17 Wall Street Journal review of a new
Isaac Bashevis Singer book from Princeton University Press —
" 'Old Truths and New Clichés,' a collection of 19
prose articles, most appearing in English for the
first time, reveals that Singer was as consummate
an essayist as he was a teller of tales." — Benjamin Balint
From a search in this journal for Singer —
Related material —
From a post of June 2, "Self-Enclosing" —
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"… the self-enclosing processes by which late 20th-century
— Colin Burrow in the June 9, 2022 issue |
From the December 14, 2021, post Notes on Lines —
The triangle, a percussion instrument that was
featured prominently in the Tom Stoppard play
"Every Good Boy Deserves Favour."
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Wednesday, February 23, 2022
Friday, September 10, 2021
Deep in the Diamond
O Merlin in your crystal cave
Deep in the diamond of the day,
Will there ever be a singer
Whose music will smooth away
The furrow drawn by Adam's finger
Across the memory and the wave?
Or a runner who'll outrun
Man's long shadow driving on,
Break through the gate of memory
And hang the apple on the tree?
Will your magic ever show
The sleeping bride shut in her bower,
The day wreathed in its mound of snow
and Time locked in his tower?
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