Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Saturday, March 9, 2024
Annals of Deceptive Fiction —
Dark Materials: Milton, Eliot, Pullman
For Pullman, see previous instances of "wilde abyss" in this journal.
For a less fictional approach to the abyss, see the following.
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From T. S. Eliot and the Dynamic Imagination
Chapter 7
Would you have me – Shakespeare, Coriolanus, III.ii. [Link added.] . . . .
Eliot describes the creative germ as the The phrase echoes Milton’s Paradise Lost :
Into this wilde Abyss,
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"The phrase echoes Milton's Paradise Lost" —
In describing his abyss, Milton invokes not "psychic material" but
rather the classical view of Nature as composed of the four elements
Water, Earth, Air and Fire.
Note that one source* of the "psychic material" phrase in Eliot's work
gives a rather different picture . . .
"And now I should like to return for a moment to Gottfried Benn
and his unknown, dark psychic material —
we might say, the octopus or angel with which the poet struggles."
* "The Three Voices of Poetry," by T. S. Eliot, The Atlantic, April 1954.
Related entertainment . . .
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Dark Materials: Milton, Eliot, Pullman
Dark Materials: Milton, Eliot, Pullman
Sunday, February 18, 2024
For Students of the Crimson Abyss:
Vocabulary Illustrated
Detail of a February 16 illustration from The Harvard Crimson .
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Vocabulary Illustrated
Vocabulary Illustrated
Thursday, February 15, 2024
Gemini Poem
Or using his research and their tools.
Compare and contrast —
Before thir eyes in sudden view appear The secrets of the hoarie deep, a dark Illimitable Ocean without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and highth, And time and place are lost; where eldest Night And Chaos, Ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal Anarchie, amidst the noise Of endless warrs and by confusion stand. For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four Champions fierce Strive here for Maistrie, and to Battel bring amidst the noise Thir embryon Atoms.... ... Into this wilde Abyss, The Womb of nature and perhaps her Grave, Of neither Sea, nor Shore, nor Air, nor Fire, But all these in thir pregnant causes mixt Confus'dly, and which thus must ever fight, Unless th' Almighty Maker them ordain His dark materials to create more Worlds, Into this wilde Abyss the warie fiend Stood on the brink of Hell and look'd a while, Pondering his Voyage.... -- John Milton, Paradise Lost , Book II
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Sunday, October 8, 2023
Sunday in the Park with The New York Times
nytimes.com/2023/10/08/arts/design/claude-cormier-dead.html
"Mr. Cormier, an avant-garde Canadian landscape architect
who created playfully subversive and much loved public spaces,
died on Sept. 15 at his home in Montreal. He was 63."
Somewhat less playful and subversive — This journal on Sept. 15 —
Poolman! (Toronto International Film Festival Review)
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Friday, September 15, 2023
Poolman! (Toronto International Film Festival Review)
"Eureka!"
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Monday, June 5, 2023
Annals of Set Design
Related dramatic dialogue from FUBAR —
Hero — I guess I'll take the pill, and get it over with. (Dramatic music playing.)
Villain — This will be fun. (Music intensifies.) Cheers … Nothing's happening.
Hero — Come to think of it, I might have taken the antidote.
Read more at: https://tvshowtranscripts.ourboard.org/… .
Related synchronology check —
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Saturday, June 3, 2023
Gesamtkunstwerk for Wagner
In memory of set designer Robin Wagner, winner of three
Tony awards, who reportedly died at 89 on May 29 —
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From Log24 on May 29
"When the men on the chessboard Don't take the Brown acid!
Sunday, May 28, 2023
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See as well Chess Set and Efficient Packing.
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Friday, June 2, 2023
Annals of Philosophy
James Hillman
EGALITARIAN TYPOLOGIES
VERSUS THE PERCEPTION OF THE UNIQUE
“The kind of movement Olson urges is an inward deepening of the image,
an in-sighting of the superimposed levels of significance within it.
This is the very mode that Jung suggested for grasping dreams —
not as a sequence in time, but as revolving around a nodal complex.”
. . . Or, sometimes, as . . .
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Grimness with Wit: Time-Space Variations on 101
For the American Nomenklatura —
The obituary's 101 above refers to time ,
the Stanford page's below to space .
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Reichenbach’s Fell Swoop
See The Eightfold Cube and . . .
Art is magic delivered from
the lie of being truth.
— Theodor Adorno, Minima moralia,
London, New Left Books, 1974, p. 222
(First published in German in 1951.)
The director, Carol Reed, makes…
impeccable use of the beauty of black….
— V. B. Daniel on The Third Man
I see your ironical smile.
— Hans Reichenbach
Adorno, The Third Man, and Reichenbach
are illustrated below (l. to r.) above the names of
cities with which they are associated.
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Acid Test
"Boro makes Jim Jones look like Jim Henson."
— FUBAR, Netflix, Episode 1 (May 25, 2023)
"In The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test , Tom Wolfe writes about encountering
'a young psychologist,' 'Clifton Fadiman’s nephew, it turned out,' in the
waiting room of the San Mateo County jail. Fadiman and his wife were
'happily stuffing three I-Ching coins into some interminable dense volume*
of Oriental mysticism' that they planned to give Ken Kesey, the Prankster-
in-Chief whom the FBI had just nabbed after eight months on the lam.
Wolfe had been granted an interview with Kesey, and they wanted him to
tell their friend about the hidden coins. During this difficult time, they
explained, Kesey needed oracular advice."
— Tim Doody in The Morning News web 'zine on July 26, 2012
Related material — Brown Acid.
* The volume Wolfe mentions was, according to Fadiman, the I Ching.
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Monday, May 29, 2023
The Story Theory of Truth
From the Feast of St. Nicholas, 2022 —
"Does the phrase 'vinegar and brown paper'
mean anything to you?"
See also other posts tagged Up the Hill.
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Wednesday, August 11, 2021
Expanding the Ulysses Spielraum
For Stephen King and the Club Dumas —
Related perceptive remarks by Juliane Ungänz —
Zweig was the author of Schachnovelle .
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Synchronology Check
From the previous post . . .
"This review was filed from the 2020 Sundance Film Festival
on January 30th."
Meanwhile . . .
Click the above image for posts on "Expanding the Spielraum."
See as well . . .
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Friday, November 13, 2020
Deep State, Deep Mind, Deep Structure
. . . .
“In Weber’s hands, the professor and the politician
are not figures to be joined. Each remains a lonely hero
of heavy burden, sent to ride against his particular foe:
the overly structured institution of the modern mind,
the overly structured institution of the modern state.”
See also Chomsky in this journal.
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Monday, August 31, 2020
Hollywood Logic
See as well a recent post in memory of “Chariots of Fire” actor Ben Cross.
From a Chrome Browser announcement today —
Compare and contrast “The Ghost and the Darkness” (Constellation, 1996)
and the new film “Rogue” (Lionsgate, 2020).
“Elijah?… Elijah?!” — Megan Fox in “Rogue” (00:41:47)
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How Deep the Darkness*
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Saturday, August 29, 2020
Shadowlands
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Thursday, August 27, 2020
Tuesday, August 25, 2020
Gail Sheehy and the Source
Sheehy reportedly died on Monday, August 24, 2020.
YouTube has the Vermont speech:
From this journal on that date —
Summary: “Turn on, tune in, drop dead.“
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Saturday, December 21, 2019
Last of the God Professors
From some autobiographical remarks by Simon During,
who was featured in the previous post —
For more on the phrase “god professor,” see
“The Ownership of Knowledge in Higher Education
in Australia 1939-1996,” Hannah Forsyth, Ph.D. thesis,
University of Sydney, 2012
Simon During at Utrecht earlier this year —
For the Church of Synchronology, other April 11, 2019, remarks —
See in particular the phrase “Eritis sicut dei ” in the Log24 remarks.
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Sunday, May 5, 2019
Transgressive Politics at Harvard
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Friday, May 3, 2019
Monday, April 15, 2019
Sacerdotal Jargon
The interested reader can easily find the source of the above prose.
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Saturday, April 13, 2019
A Case for Bosch
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Thursday, April 11, 2019
Misery Continues.
Part I: Sharp Objects
Part II: Out of Blue
Part III: Misery
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Saturday, April 15, 2017
A Cinematographer Departs
In memory of cinematographer Michael Ballhaus, who reportedly
died at 81 in Berlin on Tuesday evening, April 11, the first full day
of Passover, 2017.
From a New York Times description of his work —
"The sinuous shot, which shows people parting …
like the Red Sea. . . ." — Margalit Fox tonight
From Log24 on the reported date of Ballhaus's death:
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Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Partitioning the Crimson Abyss
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Wednesday, March 29, 2017
The Crimson Abyss
"And as the characters in the meme twitch into the abyss
that is the sky, this meme will disappear into whatever
internet abyss swallowed MySpace."
—Staff writer Kamila Czachorowski, Harvard Crimson , March 29
1984 —
2010 —
Logo design for Stack Exchange Math by Jin Yang
Recent posts now tagged Crimson Abyss suggest
the above logo be viewed in light of a certain page 29 —
"… as if into a crimson abyss …." —
Update of 9 PM ET March 29, 2017:
Prospero's Children was first published by HarperCollins,
London, in 1999. A statement by the publisher provides
an instance of the famous "much-needed gap." —
"This is English fantasy at its finest. Prospero’s Children
steps into the gap that exists between The Lion, the Witch
and the Wardrobe and Clive Barker’s Weaveworld , and
is destined to become a modern classic."
Related imagery —
See also "Hexagram 64 in Context" (Log24, March 16, 2017).
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Design Abyss
Hexagram 29,
The Abyss (Water)
This post was suggested by an August 6, 2010, post by the designer
(in summer or fall, 2010) of the Stack Exchange math logo (see
the previous Log24 post, Art Space Illustrated) —
In that post, the designer quotes the Wilhelm/Baynes I Ching to explain
his choice of Hexagram 63, Water Over Fire, as a personal icon —
"When water in a kettle hangs over fire, the two elements
stand in relation and thus generate energy (cf. the
production of steam). But the resulting tension demands
caution. If the water boils over, the fire is extinguished
and its energy is lost. If the heat is too great, the water
evaporates into the air. These elements here brought in
to relation and thus generating energy are by nature
hostile to each other. Only the most extreme caution
can prevent damage."
See also this journal on Walpurgisnacht (April 30), 2010 —
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Hexagram 29:
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Hexagram 30:
"Hates California,
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A thought from another German-speaking philosopher —
"Die Philosophie ist ein Kampf gegen die Verhexung
unsres Verstandes durch die Mittel unserer Sprache."
See also The Crimson 's abyss in today's 4:35 AM post Art Space, Continued.
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Art Space Illustrated
Another view of the previous post's art space —
More generally, see Solomon's Cube in Log24.
See also a remark from Stack Exchange in yesterday's post Backstory,
and the Stack Exchange math logo below, which recalls the above
cube arrangement from "Affine groups on small binary spaces" (1984).
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Art Space, Continued
"And as the characters in the meme twitch into the abyss
that is the sky, this meme will disappear into whatever
internet abyss swallowed MySpace."
—Staff writer Kamila Czachorowski, Harvard Crimson today
From Log24 posts tagged Art Space —
From a recent paper on Kummer varieties,
arXiv:1208.1229v3 [math.AG] 12 Jun 2013,
“The Universal Kummer Threefold,” by
Qingchun Ren, Steven V Sam, Gus Schrader, and
Bernd Sturmfels —
Two such considerations —
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Monday, May 29, 2006
Monday May 29, 2006
For John F. Kennedy's birthday:
The Call Girls
Revisited
Revisited
See The Shining of May 29
from 2002
and the references to
the marriage theorem
in Dharwadker's Alleged Proof
from 2005.
"By groping toward the light
we are made to realize
how deep the darkness is
around us."
— Arthur Koestler,
The Call Girls: A Tragi-Comedy,
Random House, 1973, page 118
For related material on
academic darkness, see
Mathematics and Narrative.
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