Saturday, August 27, 2011
From http://msa-x.msa-x.org/?p=1064 —
"Exit Art New York, The Labyrinth Wall:
From Mythology to Reality" —
From tonight's online New York Times obituaries —
Ms. Ingberman died Wednesday. Related material—
Symmetry (Wednesday), Design (Thursday), Solomon's Labyrinth (Friday).
See also an essay by John Haber —
"Exit Art may yet offer an alternative: shut them up in the labyrinth, with the Minotaur and, as in Iraq, no Ariadne's thread to guide them out. Jeannette Ingberman and Papo Colo line the space with 'The Labyrinth Wall: From Mythology to Reality,' inviting fifty-one artists to cover its sixty-two panels."
— "Marlene Dumas, The Labyrinth Wall, and Emily Jacir"
Haber (ibid .) also describes artist Marlene Dumas, a recent winner of a Royal Swedish Academy Schock Prize. For a fellow Schock winner— mathematician Michael Aschbacher— see Thursday's Design.)
* For another version of the title, see this morning's front page.
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Wednesday, October 25, 2017
The New York Times at 8:22 PM ET —
"Knight Landesman, a longtime publisher of Artforum magazine
and a power broker in the art world, resigned on Wednesday
afternoon, hours after a lawsuit was filed in New York accusing
him of sexually harassing at least nine women in episodes that
stretched back almost a decade."
See as well, in this journal, Way to the Egress.
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Saturday, April 26, 2014
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Wednesday, December 5, 2018
The Finkelstein Talisman —
"Before time began, there was the Cube."
— Optimus Prime in "Transformers" (Paramount, 2007)
Wikipedia on Hasbro —
Three American Jewish brothers,[6] Herman, Hillel, and Henry Hassenfeld[7]
founded Hassenfeld Brothers in Providence, Rhode Island in 1923 . . . .
The Hassenfeld Auction —
Also on September 16, 2015 —
The Hindman Image —
The Hood Warenkorb —
Under the Hood —
Megan Fox in "Transformers" (2007) —
This Way to the Egress —
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Saturday, March 4, 2017
New York Times headline about a death
on Friday, March 3, 2017 —
René Préval, President of Haiti
in 2010 Quake, Dies at 74
See also …
This way to the egress.
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Monday, July 29, 2013
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Sunday, July 14, 2013
Last night's 9:29 PM (ET) post featured the phrase
"This way to the egress."
Last night's 10 PM post featured two deaths:
The author of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
reportedly died at 85 on Tuesday, July 9.
A former director of the Museum of Modern Art
who was famously shown the exit door there
in his younger years reportedly died at 80 on
Saturday, July 6.
For a sort of pageant combining Christmas,
the Museum of Modern Art, and an egress,
see St. Stephen's Day, 2008.
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Sunday, August 15, 2010
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Saturday, April 14, 2007
Curtain Up,
Light the Lights!
Cafe Society Part I –
Jack Torrance at
the Overlook Hotel:
Cafe Society Part II –
Don Imus at The FanHouse,
Friday the 13th:
Cafe Society Part III –
The Bank Dick at
the Black Pussy Cafe:
“Which way to the egress?”
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Thursday, April 12, 2007
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Tuesday, December 6, 2005
Headline in today’s New York Times:
‘Year of Magical Thinking’
Headed for Broadway
which suggests…
Heaven, Hell,
and Hollywood
(continued)
“This could be Heaven
or this could be Hell.”
— The Eagles, Hotel California
“There are no facts,
there is no truth–
just data to be manipulated.”
— Don Henley, The Garden of Allah
Data:
The New York Lottery numbers
on Joan Didion’s birthday,
Monday, Dec. 5, 2005, were
Mid-day 729,
Evening 439.
Since that day’s Log24 entry,
Magical Thinking, interpreted
the previous day’s (Sunday’s)
NY lottery numbers as a date
and a page number, it seems
appropriate to do a follow-up.
Date 7/29:
See Log24, 7/29/05,
Anatomy of a Death:
Page 439:
See Bartlett’s Familiar
Quotations, 1919, p. 439:
A man’s ingress into the world
is naked and bare,
His progress through the world
is trouble and care;
And lastly,
his egress out of the world,
is nobody knows where.
— John Edwin (1749-1790)
Related material:
The Log24 version of
“This Way to the Egress,”
Directions Out,
linked to in yesterday’s
Magical Thinking.
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Saturday, May 15, 2004
Popcorn Theology,
Part II:
Justice at
the Supremes’ Court
From today’s New York Times:
LeRoy Myers, tap dancer and
road manager for the original Supremes,
died April 26, 2004.
From a log24 entry of April 26, 2004:
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“This Way to the Egress”
— Sign supposedly written
by P. T. Barnum
A Google search on this phrase
leads to the excellent website
The Summoning of Everyman.
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Monday, April 26, 2004
Directions Out
Part I: Indirections
“By indirections, find directions out.”
— Polonius in Hamlet: II, i
“Foremost among the structural similarities between Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein… is the use of indirect communication: as paradoxical as it may sound, both authors deliberately obfuscate their philosophy for the purposes of clarifying it…. let us examine more closely particular instances of indirect communication from both of the philosophers with the intention of finding similarity. ‘By indirections, find directions out.’ – Polonius in Hamlet: II, i“
— WowEssays.com
On religious numerology (indirections)…
For the page number “373” as indicating “eternity,” see
Zen and Language Games (5/2/03), which features Wittgenstein,
Language Game (1/14/04), also featuring Wittgenstein, and
Note 31, page 373, in Kierkegaard’s Works of Love (1964 Harper Torchbook paperback, tr. by Howard and Edna Hong),
Publisher: Perennial (Nov. 7, 1964)
ISBN: 0061301221
which says “Compare I John 4:17.”
Okay….
4:17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
The reference to Judgment Day leads us back to Linda Hamilton, who appears (some say, as noted in Zen and Language Games, as the Mother of God) in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and to Part II of our meditation….
Part II: Directions Out
“This Way to the Egress”
— Sign supposedly written by P. T. Barnum
A Google search on this phrase leads to the excellent website
The Summoning of Everyman.
Related thoughts….
A link from Part I of a log24 entry for Thursday, April 22:
ART WARS:
Judgment Day
(2003, 10/07)
to the following —
Frame not included in
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Dr. Silberman: You broke my arm!
Sarah Connor: There are
two-hundred-fifteen bones
in the human body,
[expletive deleted].
That’s one.
This suggests, in light of the above-mentioned religious interpretation of Terminator 2, in light of the 2003 10/07 entry, and in light of the April 22 10:07 PM log24 invocation, the following words from the day after the death of Sgt. Pat Tillman:
Doonesbury April 23, 2004
A more traditional farewell, written by a soldier, for a soldier, may be found at The Summoning of Everyman site mentioned above:
A Few Noteworthy Words
From an American Soldier.
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Saturday, June 8, 2019
See as well posts mentioning "An Object of Beauty."
Update of 12 AM June 11 — A screenshot of this post
is now available at http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/hqk7-nx97 .
Monday, June 3, 2019
(Continued)
". . . Only by the form, the pattern,
Can words or music reach
The stillness, as a Chinese jar still
Moves perpetually in its stillness.”
— T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
From Writing Chinese Characters:
“It is practical to think of a character centered
within an imaginary square grid . . . .
The grid can… be… subdivided, usually to
9 or 16 squares. . . ."
These “Chinese jars” (as opposed to their contents)
are as follows:
.
See as well Eliot's 1922 remarks on "extinction of personality"
and the phrase "ego-extinction" in Weyl's Philosophy of Mathematics —
Friday, May 31, 2019
A phrase from Wikipedia —
"De Niro's gallerist, Virginia Zabriskie."
Zabriskie reportedly died on May 7.
In memoriam — Jar Story.
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Tuesday, May 28, 2019
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For students of the Hogwash School of Witchcraft and Wizardry —
"Elementary particles are the most fundamental
building blocks of nature, and their study
would seem to be an expression of simplification
in its purest form."
— Sean Carroll in The New York Times today
in an opinion piece titled "The Physicist Who
Made Sense of the Universe"
Related remarks: See a Log24 search for "Simpli…".
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(A title for Harlan Kane)
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Friday, May 24, 2019
See also other posts now tagged The Reality Blocks.
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Tuesday, May 21, 2019
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Monday, May 20, 2019
"The bond with reality is cut."
— Hans Freudenthal, 1962
Indeed it is.
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Sunday, May 19, 2019
From "On the life and scientific work of Gino Fano"
by Alberto Collino, Alberto Conte, and Alessandro Verra,
ICCM Notices , July 2014, Vol. 2 No. 1, pp. 43-57 —
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" Indeed, about the Italian debate on foundations of Geometry, it is not rare to read comments in the same spirit of the following one, due to Jeremy Gray13. He is essentially reporting Hans Freudenthal’s point of view:
' When the distinguished mathematician and historian of mathematics Hans Freudenthal analysed Hilbert’s Grundlagen he argued that the link between reality and geometry appears to be severed for the first time in Hilbert’s work. However, he discovered that Hilbert had been preceded by the Italian mathematician Gino Fano in 1892. . . .' "
13 J. Gray, "The Foundations of Projective Geometry in Italy," Chapter 24 (pp. 269–279) in his book Worlds Out of Nothing , Springer (2010).
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Restoring the severed link —
See also Espacement and The Thing and I.
Related material —
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Tuesday, May 7, 2019
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Monday, May 6, 2019
From Richard Taylor, "Modular arithmetic: driven by inherent beauty
and human curiosity," The Letter of the Institute for Advanced Study [IAS],
Summer 2012, pp. 6– 8 (links added) :
"Stunningly, in 1954, Martin Eichler (former IAS Member)
found a totally new reciprocity law . . . .
Within less than three years, Yutaka Taniyama and Goro Shimura
(former IAS Member) proposed a daring generalization of Eichler’s
reciprocity law to all cubic equations in two variables. A decade later,
André Weil (former IAS Professor) added precision to this conjecture,
and found strong heuristic evidence supporting the Shimura-Taniyama
reciprocity law. This conjecture completely changed the development of
number theory."
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Sunday, May 5, 2019
Compare and contrast —
"A Thousand Possibilities"
— Title of a Harvard Crimson May 3 column
See also The Thousand in this journal.
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Related material —
See also the previous post.
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Continues.
The following conference has just ended.
Yau's actual 70th birthday was April 4.
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Saturday, May 4, 2019
In memory of an art collector's April 24 death —
See also Log24 on April 24 —
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The title refers to Calabi-Yau spaces.
T. S. Eliot —
Four Quartets
. . . Only by the form, the pattern,
Can words or music reach
The stillness, as a Chinese jar still
Moves perpetually in its stillness.
A less "cosmic" but still noteworthy code — The Golay code.
This resides in a 12-dimensional space over GF(2).
Related material from Plato and R. T. Curtis —
A related Calabi-Yau "Chinese jar" first described in detail in 1905 —
A figure that may or may not be related to the 4x4x4 cube that
holds the classical Chinese "cosmic code" — the I Ching —
ftp://ftp.cs.indiana.edu/pub/hanson/forSha/AK3/old/K3-pix.pdf
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Friday, May 3, 2019
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T. S. Eliot —
Four Quartets
. . . Only by the form, the pattern,
Can words or music reach
The stillness, as a Chinese jar still
Moves perpetually in its stillness.
Lévi-Strauss —
A Permanent Order of Wondertale Elements
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In Vol. I of Structural Anthropology , p. 209, I have shown that this analysis alone can account for the double aspect of time representation in all mythical systems: the narrative is both "in time" (it consists of a succession of events) and "beyond" (its value is permanent). With regard to Propp's theories my analysis offers another advantage: I can reconcile much better than Propp himself his principle of a permanent order of wondertale elements with the fact that certain functions or groups of functions are shifted from one tale to the next (pp. 97-98. p. 108). If my view is accepted, the chronological succession will come to be absorbed into an atemporal matrix structure whose form is indeed constant. The shifting of functions is then no more than a mode of permutation (by vertical columns or fractions of columns).
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… Or by congruent quarter-sections.
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Thursday, May 2, 2019
"Let the Wookiee win." — C-3PO
See as well the April 8, 2019, post
Misère Play.
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Wednesday, May 1, 2019
In memory of Quentin Fiore — from a Log24 search for McLuhan,
an item related to today's previous post . . .
Related material from Log24 on the above-reported date of death —
See also, from a search for Analogy in this journal . . .
.
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Friday, April 19, 2019
Berlekamp reportedly died on Tuesday, April 9, 2019.
See as well this journal on that date, in posts now tagged
Berlekamp's Game.
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Monday, April 8, 2019
Facebook on Bloomsday 2017 —
Also on that Bloomsday —
Chalkroom Jungle Revisited —
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Wednesday, April 3, 2019
". . . humanity battling an unseen force . . . ." —
Quantum Space Elements?
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What is going on in this picture?
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Monday, February 25, 2019
". . . this notion of ‘depth’ is an elusive one
even for a mathematician who can recognize it. . . ."
— G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
See Six-Set in this journal.
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See posts tagged depth.
See as well Eddington Song and the previous post.
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Sunday, February 24, 2019
See also Hudson Hawk in this journal.
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Saturday, February 23, 2019
See 031105-code in this journal, the Wachowskis
at Wikipedia, and The Omega Matrix in this journal.
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For the title, see Schwarzenegger and "Clockwork Orange"
in the June 2005 post "All in the Timing."
Related music — Taps for Donen —
Donen reportedly died on Thursday.
See this journal on that day for a related
New York Times meditation.
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Thursday, February 21, 2019
Earlier in Frenkel's above opinion piece —
"What this research implies is that we are not just hearing
different 'stories' about the electron, one of which may be
true. Rather, there is one true story, but it has many facets,
seemingly in contradiction, just like in 'Rashomon.'
There is really no escape from the mysterious — some
might say, mystical — nature of the quantum world."
See also a recent New Yorker version of the fashionable cocktail-party
phrase "the Rashomon effect."
For a different approach to the dictum "there is one true story, but
it has many facets," see . . .
"Read something that means something."
— New Yorker motto
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Monday, February 18, 2019
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See also the previous post.
I prefer the work of Josefine Lyche on the smallest perfect number/universe.
Context —
Lyche's Lynx760 installations and Vigeland's nearby Norwegian clusterfuck.
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In the beginning of the 1954 film "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,"
Adam, oldest of the brothers, is paired with Milly. The problem then is
to find brides for Adam's six brothers.
Above is a video illustration, published on Aug. 12, 2016, of the six couples.
Matching them involves some choreography.
See also this journal on Aug. 12, 2016 — "Dustbucket Physics" —
"… through the proposition machine of quantum mechanics
comes pregeometry; pregeometry makes geometry;
geometry gives rise to matter and the physical laws
and constants of the universe."
— Harvard professor Peter Galison,
defender of the faith of Scientism
For a different sort of quantum "proposition machine," see posts tagged
Dirac and Geometry.
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Thursday, February 7, 2019
From the series of posts tagged Kummerhenge —
A Wikipedia article relating the above 4×4 square to the work of Kummer —
A somewhat more interesting aspect of the geometry of the 4×4 square
is its relationship to the 4×6 grid underlying the Miracle Octad Generator
(MOG) of R. T. Curtis. Hudson's 1905 classic Kummer's Quartic Surface
deals with the Kummer properties above and also foreshadows, without
explicitly describing, the finite-geometry properties of the 4×4 square as
a finite affine 4-space — properties that are of use in studying the Mathieu
group M24 with the aid of the MOG.
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Saturday, January 26, 2019
who reportedly died early today in Paris, a tribute from
those who wrote the English lyrics for "Windmills of Your Mind" —
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The above cryptic search result indicates that there may
soon be a new Norwegian art installation based on this page
of Eddington (via Log24) —
See also other posts tagged Kummerhenge.
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Wednesday, January 23, 2019
For those who prefer more elaborate decorations —
1. A Facebook image from last August …
2. The Facebook glider suggests a tune from "The Thomas Crown Affair"
(1968) that appeared in a Dec. 16, 2018 post on Christianity and
"interlocking names"—
The revised lyrics describe a square space.
3. An even more elaborate square space:
the Dance of the Snowflakes from
Balanchine's version of The Nutcracker —
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Friday, January 18, 2019
… as opposed to The Dreaming Jewels .
A July 2014 Amsterdam master's thesis on the Golay code
and Mathieu group —
"The properties of G24 and M24 are visualized by
four geometric objects: the icosahedron, dodecahedron,
dodecadodecahedron, and the cubicuboctahedron."
Some "geometric objects" — rectangular, square, and cubic arrays —
are even more fundamental than the above polyhedra.
A related image from a post of Dec. 1, 2018 —
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Sunday, January 13, 2019
See also Clifford in this journal, in particular
The Matrix for Quantum Mystics
(Log24, St. Andrew's Day, 2017).
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Saturday, January 12, 2019
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Friday, January 11, 2019
See also yesterday's Archimedes at Hiroshima and the
above 24 graphic permutations on All Souls' Day 2010.
For some backstory, see Narrative Line (November 10, 2014).
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Thursday, January 10, 2019
Two examples from the Wikipedia article "Archimedean solid" —
Iain Aitchison said in a talk last year at Hiroshima that
the Mathieu group M24 can be represented as permuting
naturally the 24 edges of the cuboctahedron.
The 24 vertices of the truncated octahedron are labeled
naturally by the 24 elements of S4 in a permutahedron —
Can M24 be represented as permuting naturally
the 24 vertices of the truncated octahedron?
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The Takeuchi Question —
From remarks at Miami last December:
A similiar question about the Fano plane —
Can we make the model more "real"?
From remarks here last November:
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See also Spekkens in this journal.
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Wednesday, January 9, 2019
"Few scripts would have the audacity
to have the deus ex machina be
a Captain Midnight decoder ring."
— Review of "The House with
a Clock in Its Walls" (2018 film)
Related mathematics (click to enlarge) . . .
The "uwa.edu.au" above is for the University of Western Australia.
See the black swan in its coat of arms (and in the above film).
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Saturday, December 22, 2018
"Form the turtle!"
— Rex Harrison, quoted here
on March 12, 2005.
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Thursday, December 20, 2018
Some images suggested by the previous post and by the date
of the documentary below — March 12, 2005 —
See also Slow Art.
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Tuesday, December 18, 2018
The recent post "Tales from Story Space," about the 18th birthday
of the protagonist in the TV series "Shadowhunters" (2016-),
suggests a review of the actual 18th birthday of actress Lily Collins.
Collins is shown below warding off evil with a magical rune as
a shadowhunter in the 2013 film "City of Bones" —
She turned 18 on March 18, 2007. A paper on symmetry and logic
referenced here on that date displays the following "runes" of
philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce —
See also Adamantine Meditation (Log24, Oct. 3, 2018)
and the webpage Geometry of the I Ching.
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Monday, December 17, 2018
"Kiernan Brennan Shipka (born November 10, 1999)
is an American actress. She is best known for starring as
Sabrina Spellman on the Netflix supernatural horror series
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018–present)." — Wikipedia
As noted here earlier, Shipka turned 18 on Nov. 10 last year.
From Log24 on that date —
Another 18th birthday in Story Space —
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Sunday, December 16, 2018
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Wednesday, November 21, 2018
From Log24 on Friday, Nov. 16 —
This evening's New York Times on an opening-credits designer,
Pablo Ferro, who reportedly died at 83 on Friday, Nov. 16 —
An example of Ferro's later work in film —
Musical accompaniment from Sunday morning —
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Tuesday, November 20, 2018
(Continued)
Musical accompaniment from Sunday morning —
Update of Nov. 21 —
The reader may contrast the above Squarespace.com logo
(a rather serpentine version of the acronym SS) with a simpler logo
for a square space (the Galois window ):
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Sunday, November 18, 2018
Update of Nov. 19 —
"Design is how it works." — Steve Jobs
See also www.cullinane.design.
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Tuesday, October 30, 2018
A better term than "phase space" might be "story space."
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Constance Grady at Vox today on a new Netflix series —
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We don’t yet have a story structure that allows witches to be powerful for long stretches of time without men holding them back. And what makes the new Sabrina so exciting is that it seems to be trying to build that story structure itself, in real time, to find a way to let Sabrina have her power and her freedom.
It might fail. But if it does, it will be a glorious and worthwhile failure — the type that comes with trying to pioneer a new kind of story.
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See also Story Space in this journal.
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Wednesday, October 24, 2018
The previous post suggests a review.
Following the above reference to March 30, 2016 —
Following the above reference to Lovasz —
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Monday, October 22, 2018
A better term than "phase space" might be "story space."
See as well Expanding the Spielraum.
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Thursday, September 20, 2018
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Saturday, September 1, 2018
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Friday, August 31, 2018
Review of yesterday's post Perception of Space —
From Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997),
republished as "… and the Sorcerer's Stone ," Kindle edition:
In a print edition from Bloomsbury (2004), and perhaps in the
earliest editions, the above word "movements" is the first word
on page 168:
Click the above ellipse for some Log24 posts on the eightfold cube,
the source of the 168 automorphisms ("movements") of the Fano plane.
"Refined interpretation requires that you know that
someone once said the offspring of reality and illusion
is only a staggering confusion."
— Poem, "The Game of Roles," by Mary Jo Bang
Related material on reality and illusion —
an ad on the back cover of the current New Yorker —
"Hey, the stars might lie, but the numbers never do." — Song lyric
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Thursday, August 30, 2018
This post was suggested by the final inside page, 23,
of next Sunday's New York Times Book Review ,
"Memorabilia/ Happy 20th Anniversary, Harry Potter."
From VOA Learning English, June 26, 2017 —
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J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Books
Turn 20 Years Old
. . . .
" J.K. Rowling’s first book about Harry and his friends at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry was released on June 26, 1997.
The publisher, Bloomsbury, only released 500 copies to stores in Britain and sent 500 to British libraries.
Now, thanks to 450 million more copies of the first book and six others, Harry Potter and his friends are known around the world.
Adults and children loved the books. But 12 publishers rejected the first one, known in many countries as 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.' "
. . . .
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See as well this journal on June 26, 2017 in
posts now tagged Ron Shaw In Memoriam.
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Thursday, August 9, 2018
(Continued from yesterday)
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Wednesday, August 8, 2018
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The Return of Purple Man
Or: This Just In
Detail from a post of yesterday morning taken from
the laptop of private investigator Jessica Jones —
The above image, together with yesterday's date, suggested, rather
fancifully, yesterday morning's later post on just intonation, "Seventh."
The nemesis of Jessica Jones, the Purple Man —
A New York Times piece today* is related to both just intonation and
the color purple —
* Published at 1:50 PM ET —
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Tuesday, August 7, 2018
Smartphone Meets Laptop —
Some related narrative from the previous post —
“All right, Jessshica. It’s time to open the boxsssschhh.”
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Monday, August 6, 2018
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“All right, Jessshica. It’s time to open the boxsssschhh.”
“Gahh,” she said. She began to walk toward the box, but her heart failed her and she retreated back to the chair. “Fuck. Fuck.” Something mechanical purred. The seam she had found cracked open and the top of the box began to rise. She squeezed shut her eyes and groped her way into a corner, curling up against the concrete and plugging her ears with her fingers. That song she’d heard the busker playing on the train platform with Eliot, “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”; she used to sing that. Back in San Francisco, before she learned card tricks. It was how she’d met Benny: He played guitar. Lucy was the best earner, Benny said, so that was mainly what she sang. She must have sung it five times an hour, day after day. At first she liked it but then it was like an infection, and there was nothing she could do and nowhere she could go without it running across her brain or humming on her lips, and God knew she tried; she was smashing herself with sex and drugs but the song began to find its way even there. One day, Benny played the opening chord and she just couldn’t do it. She could not sing that fucking song. Not again. She broke down, because she was only fifteen, and Benny took her behind the mall and told her it would be okay. But she had to sing. It was the biggest earner. She kind of lost it and then so did Benny and that was the first time he hit her. She ran away for a while. But she came back to him, because she had nothing else, and it seemed okay. It seemed like they had a truce: She would not complain about her bruised face and he would not ask her to sing “Lucy.” She had been all right with this. She had thought that was a pretty good deal.
Now there was something coming out of a box, and she reached for the most virulent meme she knew. “Lucy in the sky!” she sang. “With diamonds!”
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Barry, Max. Lexicon: A Novel (pp. 247-248).
Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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Related material from Log24 on All Hallows' Eve 2013 —
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See also this journal on June 21st, 2013.
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Thursday, July 12, 2018
Three hidden keys open three secret gates
Wherein the errant will be tested for worthy traits
And those with the skill to survive these straits
Will reach The End where the prize awaits
— Ready Player One , by Ernest Cline
"Look, my favorite expression is,
'When you go up to the bell, ring it,
or don’t go up to the bell.' …
We’ve gone too far. We have to ring the bell."
— Mel Brooks on "The Producers"
in The New York Times today.
A 2016 Scribner edition of Stephen King's IT —
Related material —
Mystery box merchandise from the 2011 J. J. Abrams film Super 8
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“… the utterly real thing in writing is the only thing that counts…."
— Maxwell Perkins to Ernest Hemingway, Aug. 30, 1935
"Omega is as real as we need it to be."
— Burt Lancaster in "The Osterman Weekend"
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Wednesday, July 11, 2018
"By The Boston Globe
July 10, 2018
The private jets have begun clogging the jetways
in Sun Valley, Idaho, which can only mean one thing:
'Billionaire summer camp’' has begun.
The annual Allen & Company conference, the investment
firm’s invite-only gathering of some of the world’s most
powerful corporate titans, officially begins on Wednesday."
In other news —
"NASHVILLE, Tenn. –
Get ready to see the Titans in training camp."
See also another post now tagged "Clash of the Titans."
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Friday, July 6, 2018
"… Only by the form, the pattern,
Can words or music reach
The stillness, as a Chinese jar still
Moves perpetually in its stillness."
— T. S. Eliot, "Burnt Norton," 1936
"Read something that means something."
— Advertising slogan for The New Yorker
The previous post quoted some mystic meditations of Octavio Paz
from 1974. I prefer some less mystic remarks of Eddington from
1938 (the Tanner Lectures) published by Cambridge U. Press in 1939 —
"… we have sixteen elements with which to form a group-structure" —
See as well posts tagged Dirac and Geometry.
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Saturday, June 9, 2018
Now out from behind a paywall . . .
The diamond theorem at SASTRA —
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Thursday, June 7, 2018
See also David Brooks on logic in today's online New York Times —
"…the necessary skill of public life, the ability to
see two contradictory truths at the same time."
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See also Eightfold Trinity in this journal.
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Tuesday, May 22, 2018
The previous post suggests a media review.
Doppelgangers from the wonderful world of entertainment —
"We have a clip." — Kalle (Kristen Wiig on SNL)
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Sunday, May 20, 2018
Dialogue from the 1984 fourth draft of the script, as found on the Web,
for "Back to the Future" (1985) (apparently some changes were made
in the filming) —
A sort of "flux capacitor" (see previous post) —
The Rolls-Royce Cullinan
… plus "e" for Einstein …
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Saturday, May 19, 2018
For Tom Hanks and Dan Brown —
From "Raiders of the Lost Images" —
"The cube shape of the lost Mother Box,
also known as the Change Engine,
is shared by the Stone in a novel by
Charles Williams, Many Dimensions .
See the Solomon's Cube webpage."
See as well a Google search for flux philosophy —
https://www.google.com/search?q=flux+philosophy.
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Wednesday, May 16, 2018
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Wednesday, May 9, 2018
Click the text below for a slideshow.
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Monday, May 7, 2018
Stanley Fish in the online New York Times today —
". . . Because it is an article of their faith that politics are bad
and the unmediated encounter with data is good,
internet prophets will fail to see the political implications
of what they are trying to do, for in their eyes political implications
are what they are doing away with.
Indeed, their deepest claim — so deep that they are largely
unaware of it — is that politics can be eliminated. They don’t
regard politics as an unavoidable feature of mortal life but as
an unhappy consequence of the secular equivalent of the
Tower of Babel: too many languages, too many points of view.
Politics (faction and difference) will just wither away when
the defect that generates it (distorted communication) has
been eliminated by unmodified data circulated freely among
free and equal consumers; everyone will be on the same page,
reading from the same script and apprehending the same
universal meanings. Back to Eden!"
The final page, 759, of the Harry Potter saga —
"Talk about magical thinking!" — Fish, ibidem .
See also the above Harry Potter page
in this journal Sunday morning.
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Sunday, May 6, 2018
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Saturday, May 5, 2018
Art enthusiast Phyllis Tuchman in The New York Times yesterday —
"Ms. Rockburne's understated work plugged into
the prevailing Minimalist aesthetic of the day . . . ."
This was quoted here yesterday, followed by a visual flash drive
of sorts —
Another Parisian flash drive of sorts —
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Friday, May 4, 2018
Two excerpts from today's Art & Design section of
The New York Times —
For the deplorables of France —
For further remarks on l'ordre ,
see posts tagged Galois's Space
(… tag=galoiss-space).
* The radical of the title is Évariste Galois (1811-1832).
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Thursday, May 3, 2018
. . . Con Figuras de Espantar
"He Who Searches is multifaceted in structure …"
— Publisher's description of a Helen Lane translation
of "Como en la Guerra ," by Luisa Valenzuela.
Also by Valenzuela —
Related material — An obituary from The Boston Globe today
on the April 5 death of Borinsky's translator, and . . .
"He Who Searches" may consult also posts tagged Date.
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Monday, April 16, 2018
"Can you bring me some players?"
— Molly Bloom in "Molly's Game"
Happy birthday to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.
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Sunday, April 15, 2018
From subtitles to the recent film "Molly's Game" —
1893
01:19:40,423 –> 01:19:42,633
I'm the only
Irish guy they let play.
1894
01:19:42,718 –> 01:19:43,851
-I'm not Irish.
1895
01:19:46,549 –> 01:19:48,729
-You're not?
-No.
1896
01:19:50,367 –> 01:19:51,594
-Molly Bloom?
1897
01:19:51,695 –> 01:19:53,570
-You're thinking of the
James Joyce character.
1898
01:19:55,434 –> 01:19:57,286
-I always thought you were Irish.
1899
01:19:57,809 –> 01:19:58,473
-I'm not.
1900
01:19:58,543 –> 01:19:59,856
Can you bring me some players?
1901
01:19:59,881 –> 01:20:02,200
-Isn't there a famous book?
-Okay, Douglas.
1902
01:20:02,239 –> 01:20:04,231
Focus up. Yes, there's
a book by James Joyce
1903
01:20:04,279 –> 01:20:06,482
called <i>Ulysses</i> and there's
a character named Molly Bloom
1904
01:20:06,529 –> 01:20:07,974
and that is why
you think I'm Irish
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"By means of an idea we can see
the idea cloaked in the passing parade."
— James Hillman in A Blue Fire
Related material: Cloak and Dagger —
See as well Barbara Rose.
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Or: Personalities Before Principles
Personalities —
Principles —
This journal on April 28, 2004 at 7:00 AM.
Backstory —
Square Triangles in this journal.
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For the title, see "Inking," a post of Aug. 5, 2015.
See also West Hollywood in a film written and directed by Aaron Sorkin.
Search for Viper Room in this journal.
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Saturday, April 14, 2018
See as well an interview in this evening's online New York Times
by Maureen Dowd with "Exorcist" director William Friedkin —
“I don’t drink,” he says. “I’ve never done drugs.
I’ve never tried grass. But I think Miles Davis
is a reason to live.”
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Friday, April 13, 2018
Or: A Magic Circle for Penny
The subtitle was suggested by the character Penny
in today's post on Mathmagic Land.
* Ray-circle. See an image search.
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Thursday, April 12, 2018
Continued from Monday morning, for Lev Grossman —
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Monday, April 9, 2018
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This journal on the above date of death, March 30, had a quote from
the author of the graphic novel Aleister & Adolf —
"Program or be programmed."
I prefer Barbra to Aleister —
"Spirits rise and their dance is unrehearsed."
See as well spirits in the previous post.
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… Continued (for Lev Grossman fans)
From the above Wikipedia article —
-
In the Robert Frost poem, "The Witch of Coos," the game
is referenced in lines 7-8:
"Summoning spirits isn't 'Button, button,
who's got the button,' I would have them know."
Fact check: From the Frost poem at Bartleby.com —
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"Summoning spirits isn’t 'Button, button,
Who’s got the button,' you’re to understand."
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Sunday, April 8, 2018
Today is Orthodox Easter.
From a search in this journal for "Magic Circle" —
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Saturday, April 7, 2018
The late Philip J. Davis in his 2004 essay
"A Brief Look at Mathematics and Theology,"
Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal ,
Issue 27, Article 14. Available at:
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/hmnj/vol1/iss27/14/
"In my childhood, the circle persisted as a potent magic figure
in the playtime doggerel 'Make a magic circle and sign it with a dot.'
The interested reader will find thousands of allusions to the phrase
'magic circle' on the Web."
There are fewer allusions to "magic circle" + "sign it with a dot."
One such allusion (click to enlarge) is . . .
Davis died on Pi Day .
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Friday, March 30, 2018
The online New York Times this evening has an obituary
for "an unorthodox … drama scholar" who reportedly died
on Thursday, March 22, 2018.
Some drama in this journal from around that date — in posts
tagged "The Cubes" — includes the following excerpt from
a graphic novel:
"Program or be programmed."
— A saying by the author of the above graphic novel.
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Saturday, March 24, 2018
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.
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Friday, March 23, 2018
Copy editing — From Wikipedia
"Copy editing (also copy-editing or copyediting, sometimes abbreviated ce)
is the process of reviewing and correcting written material to improve accuracy,
readability, and fitness for its purpose, and to ensure that it is free of error,
omission, inconsistency, and repetition. . . ."
An example of the need for copy editing:
Related material: Langlands and Reciprocity in this journal.
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