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Monday, October 7, 2024

For Lucinella: “Working Backwards” . . .

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Continues.

Saturday, July 29, 2023

Working Backwards

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The title is from a story by C. S. Lewis.

Monday, January 16, 2023

“Working Backwards” … Continues

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See earlier instances of "working backwards" in this journal.

Alan Rickman as Metatron in "Dogma" —

Alan Rickman as Severus Snape at Hogwarts —

Defense Against the Dark Arts

Page three hundred and ninety-four —

See also today's previous post.

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

Working Backwards: 13 in the 11th

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IMAGE- The 13 symmetry axes of the cube

(Adapted from Encyclopaedia Britannica,
Eleventh Edition (1911), Crystallography .)

Sunday, July 14, 2013

Working Backwards

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"Warming to the question of what it means to read a poem backward…."

— Essayist in a New Yorker  weblog on July 11, 2013

“Death itself would start working backwards.”

— Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia , 1950

"I twisted my mind like a bright ribbon, folded it, 
and tied the crazy Christmas knots I love so well."
— Roger Zelazny, A Rose for Ecclesiastes , 1963

"All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flame are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one."
— T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets , 1942

See also some context for these quotations.

Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Harry Potter and the Crown of Fire

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Daniel Radcliffe in the recent film "The Lost City" —

301
00:15:51,476 –> 00:15:54,513
Um, some might call me
a collector.

302
00:15:54,617 –> 00:15:58,310
But there is one obsession
in particular

303
00:15:58,414 –> 00:16:00,519
that has held me captive.

304
00:16:01,693 –> 00:16:03,177
The Crown of Fire

From the Log24 post "Fish Babel" —

The final page, 759, of the Harry Potter saga —

Sunday, July 14, 2013

Working Backwards

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"Warming to the question of what it means to read a poem backward…."

— Essayist in a New Yorker  weblog on July 11, 2013

“Death itself would start working backwards.”

— Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia , 1950

"I twisted my mind like a bright ribbon, folded it, 
and tied the crazy Christmas knots I love so well."
— Roger Zelazny, A Rose for Ecclesiastes , 1963

"All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flame are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one."
— T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets , 1942

See also some context for these quotations.

Saturday, January 9, 2021

Lockscreen

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Working backwards . . . Beach RocksDecember 1, 2020.

Thursday, January 7, 2021

The Primes of Miss Jean Valentine

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Valentine reportedly died on December 29, 2020.

Related dialogue from "The Mirror Has Two Faces" (1996) —

– It's interesting how coupling appears in nature and mathematics.

– You were talking about pairs …

– Oh, the twin-prime conjecture. It explores pairs of prime numbers.
Those only divisible by themselves. Three-five. Five-seven.
Not seven-nine …

– Nine can be divided by three.

– That's right.  And … and so on.  It was discovered that pairs were
often separated by …

– One number in between.

– Exactly. Did you read my book?

– No, I'm sorry.

– That's okay. This is marvellous.

– A first date like a game show.

– I didn't mean to lecture.

– I'm sorry, I didn't mean to call it a date.

Twin-Prime Dates —

December 31  and December 29, 2020.

"Though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still
which she did not know.  Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn
of time.  But if she could have looked a little further back, into the
stillness and the darkness before Time dawned…she would have known
that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed
in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start
working backwards."

– C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe , as quoted at
https://apologyanalogy.com/death-working-backwards/ .

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

St. Julia’s Day

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For mathematician Julia Robinson, who died on this date
in 1985, and her sister Constance Reid, who died on
October 14, 2010

A search suggested by the "cosmic dippiness" of
a 1998 science fiction novel and by the non-dippiness of
a much better novel with closely related themes from 1977—

(Click to enlarge.)

(The use of "recursive" here is of course rather poetic, not to be
construed as meaningful in the strictly mathematical sense.
See also the term's etymology, and Working Backwards.)

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Jaunt 701

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Pennsylvania Lottery today

Image-- PA lottery Oct. 9, 2010-- Midday 701, Evening 987

Context: See the past few days' posts and search for

"Death itself would start working backwards."

Sunday, August 13, 2023

Annals of Numerology:  “Hey, Ninety-Eight Point Six”

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This post is in memory of a "photographer of socialites and artists."

Sunday, June 4, 2006

Sunday June 4, 2006

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Death on Gypsy Day

Jeremy Pearce in this morning's New York Times:

"Dr. Fritz Klein, a psychiatrist and sex researcher who studied bisexuals and their relationships and later helped start a foundation for promoting bisexual culture, died on May 24 at his home in San Diego. He was 73.  The cause was a heart attack, said his companion, Tom Reise."

Sunrise in Death Valley

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(Click to see the larger original,
a photo by Michael Trezzi)


"The Waste Land,"
 
a 1922 poem by T. S. Eliot:

The sea was calm, your heart
       would have responded
 420
Gaily, when invited, beating obedient
To controlling hands
 
                      I sat upon the shore
Fishing, with the arid plain behind me
Shall I at least set my lands in order?  425

 

Eliot's note on line 424:
"V. Weston, From Ritual to Romance;
chapter on the Fisher King."

 

"The Fisher King,"
 
a 1991 film by Terry Gilliam:

"Did you lose your mind
 all of a sudden,
 or was it a slow,
 gradual process?"

"Well, I'm a singer by trade.
Summer stock, nightclub revues,
that sort of thing.
And God, I absolutely lived for it.
I can do Gypsy, every part.
I can do it backwards.

Then one night, in the
middle of singing 'Funny'…
…suddenly it hit me.

What does all this mean?

I mean, that,
plus the fact
that I'd watched all my friends die."


 

"[Screenwriter Richard] LaGravenese, speaking of the experience of making this special film, says: 'At times it appeared that for some people working on the movie, individual journeys were being made towards their own particular Grails. This was certainly true for me. I hear it is common; that a movie you're working on can begin to reflect the life you're having around it.'"
 
Dreams: The Fisher King,
    edited by Phil Stubbs

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