* A title for Harlan Kane, suggested by obituaries
from The New York Times  (this afternoon) and from
CBC News (on May 14, below) . . .

. . . as well as by illustrations shown here on May 13 and by
a screenwriter quoted here on May 12 —

“When I die,” he liked to say, “I’m going to have written
on my tombstone, ‘Finally, a plot!’”

— Robert D. McFadden in The New York Times

Another quote that seems relevant —

“I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
 Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.”
 — Paul Simon

The previous post suggests a search for Buber in this journal
that yields a passage from New Year's Eve 2017 —

" As for 'that you in which the lines of relation, though parallel,
intersect,' and 'intimations of eternity,' see Log24 posts on
the concept 'line at infinity' as well as 'Lost Horizon.' "

Related illustrations — 

From Pi Day 2017 —

"Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard."

From April 20, 2019 —

From "A History of Violence" —

(Continued.)

𝅘𝅥𝅮_{𝅘𝅥𝅮  Night and day . . . .}

According to Wallace Stevens:

This  post was suggested by the following passage —

" … the Fano plane ,
a set of seven points
grouped into seven lines
that has been called
'the combinatorialist’s coat of arms.' "

— Blake Stacey in a post with tomorrow's date:

… and by Stacey at another weblog, in a post dated Jan. 29, 2019, …

"(Yes, Bohr was the kind of guy who would choose
the yin-yang symbol as his coat of arms.)"

Yes, Stacey is the kind of guy who would casually dismiss
Bohr's coat of arms. 

Related material — 

(See also Faust in Copenhagen in this  journal)—

» more

From The Atlantic  September 2017 issue — "How America Lost Its Mind,"
by former Harvard Lampoon  writer Kurt Andersen —

Note the accusing phrase "a suspicion of science and reason."

Related material by Andersen received in today's mail —

Note the accusing phrase "the cyanide in Donald Trump's Kool-Aid."

Related graphic design —

The source of the above cover art —

* See the film discussed in the previous post:

"I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard."
– Paul Simon

From the previous post —

From a cartoon graveyard —

See also, in this  journal, Smallest Perfect and Nocciolo .

An image from earlier Log24 posts tagged Crossword Omen —

Portrait, in the 2013 film Oblivion , of  a 2005 graduate
of London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art —

London derrière.

For Flowers and  Brown —

See also, in this  journal, A Fellow of Trinity . 

[Revised throughout the day on Sept. 24, 2018.]

"Mathematics may be art, but to the general public it is
a black art, more akin to magic and mystery. This presents
a constant challenge to the mathematical community: to explain
how art fits into our subject and what we mean by beauty."

— Sir Michael Atiyah, quoted here on April 4, 2016

Atiyah's remarks today on the Riemann hypothesis, based on his earlier
remarks on "arithmetic physics" and α, the fine-structure constant,
seem to exemplify the "magic and mystery" approach.

From some previous Log24 posts —

Update of 6:06 PM ET the same day —

https://twitter.com/mpoessel/status/1044131977950109696 —

For related magic and mystery, see Log24 posts tagged on090405.

(Continued from 12 AM Sept. 4)

See also  Identity + Paz  in this  journal.

The title is from an Instagram caption yesterday.

Related material —

See as well "Alcoholic Club" in this  journal.

"I can feel the Devil walking next to me"

— Song lyric from the musical "Chess"

   "No one expected a fire tornado."
— California governor Jerry Brown

Related material —

See esp. the No. Land link.

“I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
 Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.”
 — Paul Simon

From a cartoon graveyard on yesterday's date in 1957 —

For the photo opportunity of the Paul Simon song, see
my former sixth-grade teacher on that same 1957 page.

Peter Woit in his weblog today —

This  weblog on that date, St. Patrick's Day 2014 — 

The New York Times  front page story linked to above —

From a Boston Globe obituary for Andrew Lewis, an Oscar-nominated
screenwriter who reportedly died at 92 on Feb. 28, 2018 —

"A service has been held for Mr. Lewis . . . ."

—  Bryan Marquard, Globe staff, April 5, 2018

From this  journal on the reported date of his death —

The Globe reports that Lewis's father was Clarence Irving Lewis,
a professor of philosophy at Harvard University.

Fact check:  See page 246 of C. I. Lewis: The Last Great Pragmatist ,
by Murray G. Murphey (SUNY Press, 2005).

Figure (a) above is not unrelated to philosophy. See Plato 's Meno  dialogue.
See also a different diamond — a symbol devised by C. I. Lewis for use in
modal logic — in the post Wittgenstein's Diamond (July 10, 2011).

For Greta Gerwig and Saoirse Ronan —

See also a Log24 post from the above Cube Theory date —
April 12, 2016 — Lyrics for a Cartoon Graveyard — as well as . . .

See also the undefined phrase "projective model" in a 2012 MIT thesis,
and the following book —

"At the heart of the trial was the question of
whether the complainant could have agreed
to have sex with the defendant . . .
on Halloween night in 2015 . . . ."

— Vivian Wang in The New York Times  this evening

This  journal on Halloween night in 2015 —

"What of the night
That lights and dims the stars?
Do you know, Hans Christian,
Now that you see the night?"

— The concluding lines of
"Sonatina to Hans Christian,"
by Wallace Stevens
(in Harmonium  (second edition, 1931))

". . . in the end the space itself is the star. . . ."

Related material — The death Tuesday night
of Prince Consort Henrik of Denmark, and the
New Year's Eve speech on Dec. 31, 2015, of
Queen Margrethe II of Denmark.

Distantly  related material — Yesterday morning's
post The Search for Child's Play.

From an obituary in this morning's online New York Times —

"John Tunney seemed to have a charmed political life until 1976,
when at age 42 he lost his Senate seat after just one term
to the unlikeliest of Republican challengers, a former Democrat
named Samuel I. Hayakawa."

Topology punchline —

"Sorry, but A is closed."

For more tasteless mathematical humor, see . . .

Thanks to Emily Wilson and Wyatt Mason for an excellent
discussion in today's online New York Times  on Wilson's
new translation of Homer's Odyssey  (to be released Nov. 7).

A detail from the Wilson-Mason article —

• The translation of the Greek adjective polytropos  as
  " Herbert Bates’s 'of many changes.' "  [Links added.]

See as well …

"As the film progresses, the plot mirrors
the disorientation felt by the film's director."

— Wikipedia, Irma Vep

The director in question is one Olivier Assayas.

See also Assayas in this journal.

In memory of weather buff Stephen Fybish,
who reportedly died at 80 on August 30.

The Eye of Harvey meets the Eye of Shangri-La —

Today's New York Times  on Fybish —

"Winter was his favorite season. He liked to taste the snow,
'since that’s one of the purer forms of water that we’re likely
to encounter here in the Big Apple,' he said."

— Sam Roberts

(A sequel to the previous post, Up to Date) 

"Dr. Sekler lectured around the world, but one trip proved life-changing.
In 1962, the year he married, Dr. Sekler made his first trip to Nepal.
'It was the way it had been for centuries — a beautiful valley filled with
happy, peaceful people. It seemed like Shangri-La,' he told the Harvard
Gazette  in 2004."

— Bryan Marquard in The Boston Globe  today

See also "Eight is a gate" in this  journal.

The New York Times  online today —

Taylor Swift's new video —

For Taylor, news from St. Lucia's Day (Dec. 13) 2016 —

“I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
 Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.”

 — Paul Simon

See also John Collier's short story "The Lady on the Grey."

Note that the title of the previous post was "Black Well,"
almost the same as that of Tanner's graphic novel above.

Decorations for a Cartoon Graveyard, Continued .

See also some remarks by Wallace Stevens
from a 2016 post "For Crimson Jill."

Don't forget the apple.

From "In the Park with Yin and Yang" (May 10, 2017) —

Decorations for a Cartoon Graveyard

In Memoriam —

"At a visual level a trick is played" —

Or:  Annie Hall Revisited — 

Air date:  January 5, 2017.

For other philosophical remarks from the first eight days of 2017, see
posts now tagged Conceptualist Minimalism.

Related material:  See March 14, 2017, and the 2007 film Waitress .

In memory of Doris Lessing and Clancy Sigal —

". . . along with [R. D.] Laing they formed 'a circle
of almost incestuous mutual influence . . . .' "

— Sam Roberts, The New York Times , July 21 obituary of Sigal

"Thus I would wish to emphasize that
our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often
the abdication of ecstasy,
the betrayal of our true potentialities,
that many of us are only too successful
in acquiring a false self
to adapt to false realities.

But let it stand.
This was the work of an old young man.
If I am older, I am now also younger."

— R. D. Laing, London, September 1964,
preface to the Pelican edition of 
The Divided Self: An Existential Study
in Sanity and Madness  (Penguin Books, 1965)
 

"My Back Pages," by Bob Dylan, Verse 3 —

Girls’ faces formed the forward path
From phony jealousy
To memorizing politics
Of ancient history
Flung down by corpse evangelists
Un-thought of, though, somehow

[Refrain]
Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now

— From an album released August 8, 1964

Quoted here from Vogue   on August 17, 2013 —

See also Stations of the Clock.

From an Anthony Lane movie review in the April 8, 2013,
issue of The New Yorker —

"When the Lord God forbade his worshippers to bow down
before any graven image, [Rosario] Dawson’s face was
exactly the kind of thing He had in mind. No other star can
boast such sculptured features—except Vincent Cassel,
who is pretty damn graven himself. When the two of them
make love, in 'Trance,' one strong bone structure pressed
against another, it’s like a clash of major religions. What if
they had a family? The kids would be practically Cubist."

As for the other film Lane reviewed in that issue, "Blancanieves" —

See Snow White + Cube in this  journal.

See as well a related cartoon graveyard, also from April 8, 2013.

(The title is from yesterday morning's Graphical Interfaces.)

"In the story, Ali Baba is a poor woodcutter who discovers the secret
of a thieves' den, entered with the phrase 'Open Sesame'.
The thieves learn this and try to kill Ali Baba, but Ali Baba's
faithful slave-girl foils their plots." — Wikipedia

Related material —

"Mr. Loeb was particularly interested in finding a way to unlock the value
of Yahoo’s stake in Alibaba, which was already shaping up to be one of
China’s leading internet companies. He pushed the board to recruit a star
like Ms. Mayer to get people excited about a company that had been
stumbling for years."

— Vindu Goel in today's online New York Times

I first encountered the title phrase, of more significance in art than
in science, yesterday in a review of a book by Sydney Padua —

"This could be Heaven or this could be Hell." — "Hotel California"

"Some cartoon graveyards are better than others." — Log24

Alah   —  עָלָה

Aliyah —  עֲלִיָּה

Olah  —   עֹלָה

Related reading —

"Then a 12-14-day Trans-Siberian train ride to Vladivostok . . . ."

— "My First Halloween After Escaping the Nazis,"
     By Masha Leon, October 29, 2015.

Leon reportedly died in her sleep at 86 in Manhattan on the
morning of Wednesday, April 5, 2017.

Other related reading: