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 —
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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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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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 yellow 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!”
• • •
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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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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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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On the Oslo artist Josefine Lyche —
"Josefine has taken me through beautiful stories,
ranging from the personal to the platonic
explaining the extensive use of geometry in her art.
I now know that she bursts into laughter when reading
Dostoyevsky, and that she has a weird connection
with a retired mathematician."
— Ann Cathrin Andersen,
http://bryggmagasin.no/2017/behind-the-glitter/
Personal —
The Rushkoff Logo
— From a 2016 graphic novel by Douglas Rushkoff.
See also Rushkoff and Talisman in this journal.
Platonic —
The Diamond Cube.
Compare and contrast the shifting hexagon logo in the Rushkoff novel above
with the hexagon-inside-a-cube in my "Diamonds and Whirls" note (1984).
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Thursday, March 22, 2018
Also on March 18, 2015 . . .
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The Java applets at the webpage "Diamonds and Whirls"
that illustrate Cullinane cubes may be difficult to display.
Here instead is an animated GIF that shows the basic unit
for the "design cube" pages at finitegeometry.org.
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Monday, March 12, 2018
Remarks related to a recent film and a not-so-recent film.
For some historical background, see Dirac and Geometry in this journal.
Also (as Thas mentions) after Saniga and Planat —
The Saniga-Planat paper was submitted on December 21, 2006.
Excerpts from this journal on that date —
"Open the pod bay doors, HAL."
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Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Related material —
The seven points of the Fano plane within
The Eightfold Cube.
"Before time began . . . ."
— Optimus Prime
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Friday, February 2, 2018
"Plato's allegory of the cave describes prisoners,
inhabiting the cave since childhood, immobile,
facing an interior wall. A large fire burns behind
the prisoners, and as people pass this fire their
shadows are cast upon the cave's wall, and
these shadows of the activity being played out
behind the prisoner become the only version of
reality that the prisoner knows."
— From the Occupy Space gallery in Ireland
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Wednesday, January 24, 2018
(Continued)
From a Log24 post of March 4, 2008 —
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SINGER, ISAAC:
"Are Children the Ultimate Literary Critics?"
— Top of the News 29 (Nov. 1972): 32-36.
"Sets forth his own aims in writing for children and laments
'slice of life' and chaos in children's literature. Maintains that
children like good plots, logic, and clarity, and that they
have a concern for 'so-called eternal questions.'"
— An Annotated Listing of Criticism
by Linnea Hendrickson
"She returned the smile, then looked across the room to
her youngest brother, Charles Wallace, and to their father,
who were deep in concentration, bent over the model
they were building of a tesseract: the square squared,
and squared again: a construction of the dimension of time."
— A Swiftly Tilting Planet,
by Madeleine L'Engle
For "the dimension of time," see A Fold in Time, Time Fold,
and Diamond Theory in 1937.
A Swiftly Tilting Planet is a fantasy for children
set partly in Vespugia, a fictional country bordered by
Chile and Argentina.
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Ibid. —
The pen's point:
John Trever, Albuquerque Journal, 2/29/08
Note the figure on the cover of National Review above —
A related figure from Pentagram Design —
See, more generally, Isaac Singer in this journal.
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Monday, January 22, 2018
A death on the date of the above symmetry chat,
Wednesday, August 17, 2016 —
An Hispanic Hollywood moment:
Ojo de Dios —
Click for related material.
For further Hispanic entertainment,
see Ben Affleck sing
"Aquellos Ojos Verdes "
in "Hollywoodland."
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Friday, January 19, 2018
(Continued)
Jodie Foster in a Dec. 15, 2017, sketch with Stephen Colbert —
"People invest in and take ownership of brands,
and they wonder why the brand didn’t
ask their permission to change."
— Michael Bierut of Pentagram Design
in a Design Week article of Jan. 17, 2018
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Wednesday, January 17, 2018
(Continued from September 12, 2005)
The previous post contrasted the number-triple 11-7-8 below
with number triples 12-9-5 and 12-5-9.
A perhaps more logical counterpart of the triple 11-7-8, based
on opposite locations of star-points or cube-edges, is
the triple 9-12-5. For a theological interpretation, see 9/12/05.
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Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Lines from characters played in the film by Tom Hanks and Halle Berry —
— Cloud Atlas , by David Mitchell (2004).
An orison of sorts from a post on Martin Scorsese's
birthday, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2007 —
Displayed on the BlackBerry are parts
of Log24 posts from October 25, 2007,
and October 24, 2007.
Related pattern geometry
From a Log24 search for Angleton + Brotherhood:
A photo of Angleton in a post from 12/9/5 —
From a post of 11/7/8 —
A cryptic note for Dan Brown:
The above dates 11/7/8 and 12/9/5 correspond to the corner-labels
(read clockwise and counter-clockwise) of the two large triangles
in the Finkelstein Talisman —
Above: More symbology for Tom Hanks from
this morning's post The Pentagram Papers.
The above symbology is perhaps better suited to Hanks in his
role as Forrest Gump than in his current role as Ben Bradlee.
For Hanks as Dan Brown's Harvard symbologist
Robert Langdon, see the interpretation 12/5/9, rather
than 12/9/5, of the above triangle/cube-corner label.
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Other intersection-points-counting material —
The Finkelstein Talisman:
See also Hanks + Cube in this journal —
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Tuesday, January 9, 2018
This post supplies some background for earlier posts tagged
Quantum Tesseract Theorem.
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Monday, January 8, 2018
The Quantum Tesseract Theorem —
Raiders —
A Wrinkle in Time
starring Storm Reid,
Reese Witherspoon,
Oprah Winfrey &
Mindy Kaling
Time Magazine December 25, 2017 – January 1, 2018
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Saturday, December 23, 2017
A figure related to the general connecting theorem of Koen Thas —
See also posts tagged Dirac and Geometry in this journal.
Those who prefer narrative to mathematics may, if they so fancy, call
the above Thas connecting theorem a "quantum tesseract theorem ."
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See a Log24 search for "Patterning Windows."
Related material (Click for context) —
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Friday, December 22, 2017
From a Log24 post of October 10, 2017 —
Related material from May 25, 2016 —
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Thursday, December 21, 2017
TIME magazine, issue of December 25th, 2017 —
" In 2003, Hand worked with Disney to produce a made-for-TV movie.
Thanks to budget constraints, among other issues, the adaptation
turned out bland and uninspiring. It disappointed audiences,
L’Engle and Hand. 'This is not the dream,' Hand recalls telling herself.
'I’m sure there were people at Disney that wished I would go away.' "
Not the dream? It was, however, the nightmare, presenting very well
the encounter in Camazotz of Charles Wallace with the Tempter.
From a trailer for the latest version —
Detail:
From the 1962 book —
"There's something phoney in the whole setup, Meg thought.
There is definitely something rotten in the state of Camazotz."
Song adapted from a 1960 musical —
"In short, there's simply not
A more congenial spot
For happy-ever-aftering
Than here in Camazotz!"
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Monday, December 11, 2017
The following IEEE paper is behind a paywall,
but the first page is now available for free
at deepdyve.com —
For further details on the diamond theorem, see
finitegeometry.org/sc/ or the archived version at . . .
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Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Wikipedia on a figure from the previous post —
" Antonelli was recognized with an AIGA Medal in 2015
for 'expanding the influence of design in everyday life
by sharing fresh and incisive observations and
curating provocative exhibitions at MoMA'.[4] She was
rated one of the one hundred most powerful people in
the world of art by Art Review and Surface Magazine.[5] "
Speaking of exhibitions —
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Monday, November 20, 2017
Washington Post dateline . . .
November 20 at 6:34 PM
Address . . .
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/
eight-women-say-charlie-rose-sexually-harassed-them–
with-nudity-groping-and-lewd-calls/2017/11/20/ . . .
See also Charlie Rose in this journal.
The only post found in a Log24 search for "Charlie Rose" is about
his May 7, 2008, interview with a Museum of Modern Art figure,
Paola Antonelli. A more recent appearance by Antonelli —
Synchronolgy check — Log24 on the date 5 June 2012.
* Title and wording of post revised the following day.
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Saturday, October 28, 2017
A sequel to the post CP is for Consolation Prize (Sept. 3, 2016)
An image from Log24 on this date last year:
A recent comment on a discussion of CP symmetry —
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The New Yorker on the recent film "The Square" —
"It’s an aesthetic that presents,
so to speak, just the facts,
as if the facts themselves weren’t
deeply layered with living history
and crisscrossed with vectors
of divergent ideas and ideals."
— Richard Brody, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017
For other images deeply layered and crisscrossed ,
see Geometry of the I Ching.
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Thursday, September 28, 2017
Remarks suggested by the previous post —
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From Jeremy Biles, "Introduction: The Sacred Monster," in
Ecce Monstrum: Georges Bataille and the Sacrifice of Form
(Fordham University Press, 2007, page 3) —
Bataille’s insistent conjunction of the monstrous and the sacred is the subject of this book. Regarded by many as one of the most important thinkers of our time, and acknowledged as an important influence by such intellectuals as Michel Foucault, Julia Kristeva, Maurice Blanchot, and Jacques Derrida, Bataille produced a corpus of wide-ranging writings bearing the monstrous marks of the affective and intellectual contradictions he also sought to produce in his readers. In the following chapters, I will specify some of the ways in which Bataille evokes monstrosity to elicit in himself and his audience an experience of simultaneous anguish and joy—an experience that he calls sacred. In particular, Bataille is fascinated with the ‘‘left-hand’’ sacred. In contradistinction to its lucent and form-conferring ‘‘right-hand’’ counterpart, the left-hand sacred is obscure and formless—not transcendent, pure, and beneficent, but dangerous, filthy, and morbid. This sinister, deadly aspect of the sacred is at once embodied in, and communicated by, the monster. As we will see, it is in beholding the monster that one might experience the combination of ecstasy and horror that characterizes Bataille ’s notion of the sacred.
The dual etymology of ‘‘monster’’ reveals that aspect of the sacred that enticed Bataille. According to one vein of etymological study, the Latin monstrum derives from monstrare (to show or display). The monster is that which appears before our eyes as a sign of sorts; it is a demonstration. But another tradition emphasizes a more ominous point. Deriving from monere (to warn), the monster is a divine omen, a portent; it heralds something that yet remains unexpected, unforeseeable—as a sudden reversal of fortune. In the writings of Bataille, the monster functions as a monstrance, putting on display the sinister aspect of the sacred that Bataille sees as the key to a ‘‘sovereign’’ existence. But in doing so the monster presents us with a portent of something that we cannot precisely foresee, but something that, Bataille claims, can be paradoxically experienced in moments of simultaneous anguish and ecstasy: death.
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See as well …
(Order of news items transposed for aesthetic effect.)
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Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Saturday, September 16, 2017
From "The Metaphysics of Entities," a post of Sept. 20, 2014 —
Anthony Lane in The New Yorker on a 2013 film —
"The hero of 'The Zero Theorem' is a computer genius
called Qohen Leth (Christoph Waltz)…. He is the sole
resident of a derelict church, where, on a crucifix in front
of the altar, the head of Christ has been replaced by a
security camera. No prayers are ever said, and none are
answered."
Related dialogue from a 2008 film —
Another view of the Zero Theorem derelict church —
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Tuesday, September 12, 2017
"Truth and clarity remained his paramount goals…"
— Benedict Nightingale in today's online New York TImes on an
English theatre director, founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company,
who reportedly died yesterday at 86.
See also Paramount in this journal.
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Monday, September 11, 2017
A sentence from the New York Times Wire discussed in the previous post —
"Through characters like Wolverine and Swamp Thing,
he helped bring a new depth to his art form."
For Wolverine and Swamp Thing in posts related to a different
art form — geometry — see …
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Friday, August 25, 2017
The above is a variation on a title from last night's post By Degrees.
The Literary Path —
The Hollywood Path —
Further remarks on algebra and space —
See as well the above image in yesterday's post Maori Chess, Vol. 2.
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Sunday, August 13, 2017
From The Atlantic , September 2017 issue, online —
"How America Lost Its Mind," by former Harvard Lampoon
writer Kurt Andersen —
The Atlantic 's embedded Google ad for "Quantum Space Elements"
is, by the way, completely unrelated to similar-sounding work on
models of space in finite geometry (cf. tsimtsum ) . . .
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Friday, August 11, 2017
A post suggested by the word tzimtzum (see Wednesday)
or tsimtsum (see this morning) —
Lifeboat from the Tsimtsum in Life of Pi —
Another sort of tsimtsum, contracting infinite space to a finite space —
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Thursday, August 3, 2017
"The centre of transformations that
Transform for transformation's self,
In a glitter that is a life, a gold
That is a being, a will, a fate."
— Wallace Stevens, "Human Arrangement"
From "The Dark Tower," a post of July 9, 2016 —
See also a search for Glitter in this journal.
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Or: Trinity Test Site
From the New York Times Book Review of
next Sunday, August 6, 2017 —
"In a more conventional narrative sequence,
even a sequence of poems,
this interpenetration would acquire
sequence and evolution." [Link added.]
The concept under review is that of the Holy Trinity.
See also, in this journal, Cube Trinity.
For a simpler Trinity model, see the three-point line …
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Tuesday, August 1, 2017
Megan Fox in "Transformers" (2007) —
Background from January 25, 2017 —
"Remembering speechlessly we seek
the great forgotten language,
the lost lane-end into heaven,
a stone, a leaf, an unfound door.
Where? When?" — Thomas Wolfe
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Sunday, July 30, 2017
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Bullshit Studies Continued
The remarks by Mikhail Gromov on neuroscience in his papers
cited in the previous post suggest some related remarks —
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Saturday, July 29, 2017
"The field of geometric group theory emerged from Gromov’s insight
that even mathematical objects such as groups, which are defined
completely in algebraic terms, can be profitably viewed as geometric
objects and studied with geometric techniques."
— Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, 2016:
See also some writings of Gromov from 2015-16:
For a simpler example than those discussed at MSRI
of both algebraic and geometric techniques applied to
the same group, see a post of May 19, 2017,
"From Algebra to Geometry." That post reviews
an earlier illustration —
For greater depth, see "Eightfold Cube" in this journal.
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Continued from the post Aesthetic Distance of July 28, 2017.
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Friday, July 28, 2017
In memory of a Disney "imagineer" who reportedly died yesterday.
From the opening scene of a 2017 film, "Gifted":
Frank calls his niece Mary to breakfast on the morning she is
to enter first grade. She is dressed, for the first time, for school —
- Hey! Come on. Let's move!
- No!
- Let me see.
- No.
- Come on, I made you special breakfast.
- You can't cook.
- Hey, Mary, open up.
(She opens her door and walks out.)
- You look beautiful.
- I look like a Disney character.
Where's the special?
- What?
- You said you made me special breakfast.
Read more: http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/
movie_script.php?movie=gifted
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Monday, June 26, 2017
Analogies — "A : B :: C : D" may be read "A is to B as C is to D."
Gian-Carlo Rota on Heidegger…
"… The universal as is given various names in Heidegger's writings….
The discovery of the universal as is Heidegger's contribution to philosophy….
The universal 'as' is the surgence of sense in Man, the shepherd of Being.
The disclosure of the primordial as is the end of a search that began with Plato….
This search comes to its conclusion with Heidegger."
— "Three Senses of 'A is B' in Heideggger," Ch. 17 in Indiscrete Thoughts
See also Four Dots in this journal.
Some context: McLuhan + Analogy.
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Wednesday, May 31, 2017
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Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Or: Putting the Pinter in Pinterest
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From "A Poem for Pinter"
Log24 on Oct. 13, 2005
The Guardian on Harold Pinter, winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature:
"Earlier this year, he announced his decision to retire from playwriting in favour of poetry,"
Michael Muskal in today's Los Angeles Times:
"Pinter, 75, is known for his sparse and thin style as well as his etched characters whose crystal patter cuts through the mood like diamond drill bits."
Robert Stone, A Flag for Sunrise (See Jan. 25):
"'That old Jew gave me this here.' Egan looked at the diamond…. 'It's worth a whole lot of money– you can tell that just by looking– but it means something, I think. It's got a meaning, like.'
'Let's see,' Egan said, 'what would it mean?' He took hold of Pablo's hand cupping the stone and held his own hand under it. '"The jewel is in the lotus," perhaps that's what it means. The eternal in the temporal….'"
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See as well an image in a link target from today's noon post —
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Click image for some background.
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Monday, May 29, 2017
Click the above search for a larger version.
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Thursday, May 25, 2017
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A post of March 22, 2017, was titled "The Story of Six."
Related material from that date —
"I meant… a larger map." — Number Six in "The Prisoner"
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Thursday, May 18, 2017
From a May 15 review of a new book by Douglas Coupland, author of
the 1991 book Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture .
"Minimalists are actually extreme hoarders:
they hoard space." — Douglas Coupland
The title of Coupland's new book suggests a review of Schmeikal
in this journal …
Coupland's above remark on hoarders suggests a look at
a wealthy California collector whom, were he not wealthy,
some might call a hoarder.
“I buy things because they strike an emotional bell,
they appeal to my curiosity, to the thrill of discovery
of the extraordinary in the ordinary,” Mr. Cotsen told
The Denver Post in 1998. “They appeal to my sense
of humor, and to my search for the beauty in simplicity.”
He added, “I decided I had a collection when there was
no more space to put anything.”
By the time he died at 88 on May 8 in Beverly Hills, Calif.,
Mr. Cotsen (pronounced COAT-zen) had donated about
half of the material in his collections to institutions like the
Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, Princeton University
and the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, N.M.
— Richard Sandomir in the online New York Times , May 17
Cotsen reportedly died at 88 on May 8.
See also this journal on that date —
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Thursday, April 27, 2017
An image in the previous post referred to something called
"universal logic," touted in 2015 by the publisher Birkhäuser*
as a "new interdisciplinary field."
From this journal on April 20 last year —
Universal Logic and the Road to Hell.
* See the webpage excerpted below.
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Wednesday, April 26, 2017
A sketch, adapted tonight from Girl Scouts of Palo Alto —
From the April 14 noon post High Concept —
From the April 14 3 AM post Hudson and Finite Geometry —
From the April 24 evening post The Trials of Device —
Note that Hudson's 1905 "unfolding" of even and odd puts even on top of
the square array, but my own 2013 unfolding above puts even at its left.
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Monday, April 24, 2017
"A blank underlies the trials of device"
— Wallace Stevens, "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven" (1950)
A possible meaning for the phrase "the trials of device" —
See also Log24 posts mentioning a particular device, the pentagram .
For instance —
Related figures —
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Wednesday, April 5, 2017
A note at the end of an article on architecture historian
Christopher Gray in the current online New Yorker —
This article appears in other versions
of the April 10, 2017, issue, with
the headline “Dem Bones.”
"Defeated, you will rise to your feet as is said of Dry Bones .
These bones will rise again." — Agnes Martin, 1973
Accounting for Taste —
Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty at the Oscars:
Ben Affleck, star of "The Accountant," at the Oscars:
See also Prisoner + Bones in this journal.
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Tuesday, April 4, 2017
"Plan 9 deals with the resurrection of the dead."
— Bill Murray in "Ed Wood"
For The Church of Plan 9
(The plan , as well as the elevation ,
of the above structure is a 3×3 grid.)
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From a post on March 13, 2017 —
Shafarevich was not the only one with a legacy . . .
See also posts in this journal
now tagged The Gray Legacy.
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Sunday, March 26, 2017
From a search in this journal for Seagram + Tradition —
Related art: Saturday afternoon's Twin Pillars of Symmetry.
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Saturday, March 25, 2017
The phrase "twin pillars" in a New York Times Fashion & Style
article today suggests a look at another pair of pillars —
This pair, from the realm of memory, history, and geometry disparaged
by the late painter Mark Rothko, might be viewed by Rothko
as "parodies of ideas (which are ghosts)." (See the previous post.)
For a relationship between a 3-dimensional simplex and the {4, 3, 3},
see my note from May 21, 2014, on the tetrahedron and the tesseract.
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