Friday, January 26, 2024
For London Werewolves: Steppenwolf and the Moon Knights
Monday, April 2, 2018
The Steppenwolf Carpet
See posts tagged Steppenwolf Carpet in this journal.
Related fiction: Weaveworld .
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
For Nevermore Academy… Wolfing Out
The previous post, and Wednesday's roommate, suggested the above title.
From The Dreaming Jewels , by Theodore Sturgeon: "Oh. And the crystals make things — even complete things — like Tin Pan Alley makes songs." "Something like it." Zena smiled. It was the first smile in a long while. "Sit down, honey; I'll bring the toast. Now — this is my guess — when two crystals mate, something different happens. They make a whole thing. But they don't make it from just anything the way the single crystals do. First they seem to die together. For weeks they lie like that. After that they begin a together-dream. They find something near them that's alive, and they make it over. They replace it, cell by cell. You can't see the change going on in the thing they're replacing. It might be a dog; the dog will keep on eating and running around; it will howl at the moon and chase cats. But one day — I don't know how long it takes — it will be completely replaced, every bit of it." "Then what?" "Then it can change itself — if it ever thinks of changing itself. It can be almost anything if it wants to be." Bunny stopped chewing, thought, swallowed, and asked, "Change how?" "Oh, it could get bigger or smaller. Grow more limbs. Go into a funny shape — thin and flat, or round like a ball. If it's hurt it can grow new limbs. And it could do things with thought that we can't even imagine. Bunny, did you ever read about werewolves?" "Those nasty things that change from wolves to men and back again?" Zena sipped coffee. "Mmm. Well, those are mostly legends, but they could have started when someone saw a change like that." |
Friday, July 15, 2022
The Cubes continues.
From a Toronto Star video on the Langlands program —
From a review of the 2017 film "Justice League" —
"Now all they need is to resurrect Superman (Henry Cavill),
stop Steppenwolf from reuniting his three Mother Cubes
(sure, whatever) and wrap things up in under two cinematic
hours (God bless)."
See also the 2018 film "Avengers of Justice: Farce Wars."
Thursday, May 31, 2018
Schattenspiel
An image from a post of May 25 —
Related material suggested by a question posed today at Instagram
by Marrific to her fellow photographers — "Do you ever wonder
what is the story of people you accidentally shot?"
The question accompanied a photo of a Manhattan street corner.
A Google Street Scene photo at the same location —
Related art —
See also Steppenwolf in this journal.
Tuesday, April 3, 2018
Entertainment Overload
From a May 13, 2010, New York Times theater review —
From a link in a post from yesterday evening —
"Why don't you come with me, little girl,
on a magic carpet ride?" — Steppenwolf lyrics
These lyrics are heard in Star Trek: First Contact (1996).
Related entertainment —
The production of "Passion Play" reviewed above opened May 12, 2010.
See also this journal on that date.
Monday, April 2, 2018
Three Mother Cubes
From a Toronto Star video pictured here on April 1 three years ago:
The three connected cubes are labeled "Harmonic Analysis," 'Number Theory,"
and "Geometry."
Related cultural commentary from a review of the recent film "Justice League" —
"Now all they need is to resurrect Superman (Henry Cavill),
stop Steppenwolf from reuniting his three Mother Cubes
(sure, whatever) and wrap things up in under two cinematic
hours (God bless)."
The nineteenth-century German mathematician Felix Christian Klein
as Steppenwolf —
Volume I of a treatise by Klein is subtitled
"Arithmetic, Algebra, Analysis." This covers
two of the above three Toronto Star cubes.
Klein's Volume II is subtitled "Geometry."
An excerpt from that volume —
Further cultural commentary: "Glitch" in this journal.
Saturday, March 24, 2018
Sure, Whatever.
The search for Langlands in the previous post
yields the following Toronto Star illustration —
From a review of the recent film "Justice League" —
"Now all they need is to resurrect Superman (Henry Cavill),
stop Steppenwolf from reuniting his three Mother Cubes
(sure, whatever) and wrap things up in under two cinematic
hours (God bless)."
For other cubic adventures, see yesterday's post on A Piece of Justice
and the block patterns in posts tagged Design Cube.
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Ride
"Why don't you come with me, little girl,
on a magic carpet ride?" — Steppenwolf lyrics
Related material for fans of Christopher Alexander
(see previous post) — "The 'Life' of a Carpet."
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Figure in the Carpet
"Why don't you come with me, little girl,
On a magic carpet ride?"
– Steppenwolf lyrics
"I like to fold my magic carpet, after use,
in such a way as to superimpose
one part of the pattern upon another."
– Vladimir Nabokov in Speak, Memory
See also Nabokov at Harvard in today's Crimson
and the Russian boxes of Henry James.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
An Abstract Power
Two characters named “Black” and “White” debate religion and the afterlife in the Cormac McCarthy play “The Sunset Limited.”
The play opened in Chicago in a Steppenwolf Theatre production on May 18, 2006.
A New York Times theater review from All Hallows’ Eve, 2006—
“…there is an abstract power in the mysteriousness of Mr. McCarthy’s
vision’s allowing for a multitude of interpretations.” –Jason Zinoman
The current New Yorker (Feb.14) has a note
by Lillian Ross on the same play— “Two-Man Show: O Death”
Some purely visual black-and-white variations that are less dramatic, but have their own “abstract power”—
A book cover pictured here last November to contrast with
“the sound and fury of the rarified Manhattan art world”—
and a web page with multiple interpretations of the book cover’s pattern—
A synchronicity— The first version of “Symmetry Framed” was done
on May 18, 2006— the day “The Sunset Limited” opened.
Another synchronicity relates the mathematics underlying
such patterns to the Halloween date of the above review.
See “To Announce a Faith,” from October 31, 2006.
Monday, October 11, 2010
Venue
… Don't you know that when you play
at this level there's no ordinary venue?
— Lyrics from Chess
Why don't you come with me little girl
On a magic carpet ride?
— Steppenwolf lyrics in Star Trek: First Contact
I like to fold my magic carpet, after use,
in such a way as to superimpose
one part of the pattern upon another.
— Vladimir Nabokov in Speak, Memory
See also recent Log24 posts.