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Saturday, August 11, 2018

People’s Temple of Doom

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:10 pm

http://www.log24.com/log/pix18/180811-Shiva_Naipaul-Black_and_White-1980-500w.jpg

The above phrase in a different edition (click to enlarge) —

http://www.log24.com/log/pix18/180811-The_Well_that_Brims_Full-500w.jpg

Monday, July 9, 2018

Temple of Doom

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:38 pm

Graeme McMillan in The Hollywood Reporter  Saturday —

"The Quantum Realm is a place where time and space
work differently, and has all sorts of potential to help
keep the MCU fresh for its second decade of films. . . .

So where did it all come from?

What is known to movie audiences as the Quantum Realm
debuted in 1963’s Fantastic Four  No. 16, in a story called
'The Micro-World of Doctor Doom!' "

Related art —

 

Monday, April 1, 2019

Indiana Jones and the Temple of High Life

Filed under: General — m759 @ 5:12 am

Posts now tagged Spaceman include an image . . .

From March 9

Meanwhile . . .

Related material —

Thursday, November 2, 2023

Chants

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 3:02 pm

A related tune for Harrison Ford, still struggling against the Temple of Doom —

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Field Guides

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:21 am

Two Web items, each dated August 12, 2017 —

Meanwhile, at Yale . . .

Monday, August 31, 2020

How Deep the Darkness*

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:51 am

http://www.log24.com/log/pix08/080413-Marabar.jpg

* See the title phrase in this journal.

Sunday, June 28, 2020

“Here We Are Now, Entertain Us.” — Nirvana, “Teen Spirit”

Filed under: General — m759 @ 5:00 pm

Or: Kipling and the Temple of Doom

See also Kipling and The Temple.

This post was suggested by a remark of Holland Cotter in The New York Times
on April 19, 2012 —

“An 18th-century Jain diagram of the cosmos turns the universe
into a kind of salvational board game. “

Hence . . .

Sunday, October 27, 2019

Cipher

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:38 pm

"The postwar self became a cipher to be decoded."

— Nathaniel Comfort in Nature , PDF dated 10 October 2019

From a Log24 search for Temple of Doom

Saturday, December 1, 2018

Character

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:00 am

"What we do may be small, but it has
a certain character of permanence."

— G. H. Hardy,
A Mathematician's Apology

In Memoriam

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:06 am

From today's print New York Times  obituary for a screenwriter
who reportedly died last Sunday —

“Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,”
a 1984 follow-up to “Raiders of the Lost Ark”
made an estimated $333 million worldwide.

Thursday, November 29, 2018

Icons . . .

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:05 pm

For the People's Temple of Doom —

Suggested by the oeuvre  of Steven Spielberg —

Thursday, July 19, 2018

The Corrections (Continued)

Filed under: General — m759 @ 8:33 pm

A search for the phrase "nonlinear Boolean algebra" yields few results.

"Nonlinear Boolean functions " seems to be the phrase intended.

On the mathematics of nonlinear Boolean functions —

A memorable death —

For those who prefer narrative to mathematics —

A related image —

Thursday, March 1, 2018

Identity Icon

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:00 pm

See also the previous two posts.

Tuesday, October 10, 2017

The 35-Year Wait

Filed under: G-Notes,General,Geometry — m759 @ 11:17 am

From the Web this morning —

A different 35-year wait:

A monograph of August 1976 —

Thirty-five years later, in a post of August 2011, "Coordinated Steps" —

'The Seven Dwarfs and their Diamond Mine

"SEE HEAR READ" — Walt Disney Productions

Some other diamond-mine productions —

 Image -- The cast of 1937's 'King Solomon's Mines' goes back to the future

Saturday, August 12, 2017

Images from 1984

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:00 am

For the author of a Harvard Crimson  opinion piece yesterday on 1984 ,
two images adapted from a 1984 film —

Mola Ram from 'Temple of Doom'

See also, in this  journal, Hume's phrase "perfect nonentity."

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Happy Birthday, Harrison Ford

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:01 am

A link from the Temple of Doom.

See also this morning's previous entry.

Saturday, May 23, 2009

Saturday May 23, 2009

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:00 pm
Indiana Jones and the
Temple of Doom


'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom' poster

25 years ago today–

 Release Date:
23 May 1984 (USA)

Plot:
“After arriving in India,
Indiana Jones is asked
by a desperate village
      to find a mystical stone….”

Monday, February 6, 2006

Monday February 6, 2006

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 10:00 am
The Diamond Theory of Truth


“Legend says that when the stones
are brought together the diamonds
inside of them will glow.”

— Harrison Ford in
“Indiana Jones and the
Temple of Doom”

In today’s online New York Times:

(1) A review of pop-archaeology TV,
     “Digging for the Truth,”
(2) a Sunday news story,
     “Looking for the Lie,”
(3) and a profile,
     “Storyteller in the Family.”

From (1):
“The season premiere ‘Digging for the Truth: The Real Temple of Doom,’ showed Mr. Bernstein in South America, exploring tunnels….”
From (2):
“… scientists are building a cognitive theory of deception to show what lying looks like….”
From (3):
“I did feel one had to get not just the facts, but the emotional underpinnings.”

Related material:

Log24 on

Harrison Ford’s birthday
last July–

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— and Mathematics and Narrative.

See also Saturday’s entry,
Raiders of the Lost Matrix,
for logic as an aid in
detecting lies.

Saturday, July 16, 2005

Saturday July 16, 2005

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 3:00 pm
Tribute

to the Dance of Kali:

  From Feb. 18, 2003

Fat Man and Dancing Girl

Dance of
Shiva and Kali

Paul Newman as
General Groves

From "The Bomb of the Blue God," by M. V. Ramana

Gita 11:32 —

kalosmi lokaksaya krt pravrddho

"This literally means: I am kala, the great destroyer of Worlds. What is intriguing about this verse, then, is the interpretation of kala by Jungk and others to mean death. While death is technically one of the meanings of kala, a more common one is time."

 See 1132 AD & Saint Brighid, and my 2003 weblog entries of January 5 (Twelfth Night and the whirligig of time), January 31 (St. Bridget's Eve), and February 1 (St. Bridget's Day).

The fact that Oppenheimer thought, on this date in 1945, of Chapter 11, verse 32, of the Gita may, as a mnemonic device, be associated with the use of the number 1132 in Finnegans Wake.

Related material for
Michael Flatley on his
July 16 birthday:

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Shiva as Lord of the Dance

Michael and other Irish persons
may benefit from the film
"Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom"
as an introduction to
the Dance of Shiva and Kali.

On a more personal level:
Log24 entries of July 12 and July 13.

Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Wednesday July 13, 2005

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:00 pm

Today's birthday: Harrison Ford

Location, Location, Location

 

Wikipedia on Temple of Doom:

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"Most of the filming was done
on location in Sri Lanka."

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Friday, August 22, 2003

Friday August 22, 2003

Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:04 pm

Mr. Holland’s Week

On Monday, August 18, 2003,
a New York Times editor wrote
the following headline
for a book review:

Bending Over Backward
for a Well-Known Lout.

The word “lout” here refers to
author John O’Hara, who often
 wrote about his native Pennsylvania.

And in Three Days…

On Thursday, August 21, 2003,
the Pennsylvania Lottery
midday number was
 162.

For some other occurrences of this number,
see my entries of August 19, written
in honor of the birthday of
Jill St. John. 

The “three days” remark referred to above
is from another St. John (2:19), allegedly
the author of an account of the last days
of one Jesus of Nazareth.

Those who share Mel Gibson’s
taste for religious drama may
savor the following dialogue:

Jesus’ Response
to Dishonor

Dramatis Personae:

  • Narrator
  • Group 1
  • Group 2
  • Voice of Jesus
  • Voice of Doom
  • Voice of Hope

Narrator:  Those who had been healed did not join in with the throng at Jesus’ crucifixion who cried, “Crucify Him, crucify Him.”  ….

Voice of Doom:  It was a different story for the guilty ones who had fled from the presence of Jesus. 

Group 1:  The priests and rulers never forgot the feeling of guilt they felt that moment in the temple. 

Group 2:  The Holy Spirit flashed into their minds the prophets’ writings concerning Christ. Would they yield to this conviction?

Voice of Doom:  Nope!  They would have to repent first!   They would not admit that they were wrong!  They knew that they were dead wrong.  But they would not repent of it!  And because Jesus had discerned their thoughts, they hated Him.  With hate in their hearts they slowly returned to the temple.

Voice of Hope:  They could not believe their eyes when they saw the people being healed and praising God!  These guilty ones were convicted that in Jesus the prophecies of the Messiah were fulfilled. As much as they hated Jesus, they could not free themselves from the thought that He might be a prophet sent by God to restore the sacredness of the temple.

Voice of Doom:  So they asked Him a stupid question!   “What miracle can you perform to show us that you have the right to do what you did?”

Voice of Jesus:  “Destroy this temple and in three days I will build it again.”

Voice of Doom:  Those guys couldn’t believe it!

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….
— Bernard Holland, The New York Times,
Monday, May 20, 1996

“Ask a stupid question…”

For further details, see

The Crucifixion of John O’Hara

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