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Saturday, March 15, 2025

Birthday Meets Dies Natalis:
“Harrison, Frida . . . Frida, Harrison.”

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:15 pm

Wikipedia — "Harrison Ford  (born  July  13,  1942) 
is  an  American  actor."

http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=birthday+death-day . . .

From  page  63  of  The New Yorker  issue
dated  August 5,  2002:

“Birthday,  death-day —
what  day  is  not  both?”
— John  Updike

http://m759.net/wordpress/?tag=the-finkelstein-talisman . . .

The Faustus Logo

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 2:06 am

Faustus cover, Thomas Mann

See as well a Log24 search for Forum + Einstein.

Thursday, December 19, 2024

Out on the Fuzzy Edge

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:06 am

"It was — and is — very difficult to focus, to navigate
between each sentence and its real-time double,
to find the fuzzy edges where these reflections meet."

This  journal on April 17, 2020, in a passage quoted
from a Laura Marris essay in The New York Times.

Appalachian humor . . .

— "What's the speed limit on Route 69?"

— "Lickety-split."

Trigger Warning*

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:43 am

* "The warnings come after  the spells." — Doctor Strange

Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Wag the Tag

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 2:33 pm

A synchronology check of the above YouTube upload date —
Sept. 3, 2024 — yields a somewhat relevant quotation . . .

"It was — and is — very difficult to focus, to navigate
between each sentence and its real-time double,
to find the fuzzy edges where these reflections meet."

This  journal on April 17, 2020, in a passage quoted
from a Laura Marris essay in The New York Times.

Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Stairway to Heaven… Nous* or Noose?

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:10 pm

* Greek, not French. Note the Gamma figure at right.

Monday, December 16, 2024

For Harlan Kane: The IMG File

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:00 pm

Saturday, November 23, 2024

The Square Aspect (vs. Stevens’s “Radial* Aspect”)

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 11:32 am

"New horizons open up." — New York Times, Nov. 21, 1924.

A search for some such 96-square division yields . . .

https://www.atariuptodate.de/img/kidshapes.png

Some related art

Image of MOMA Chess Set cover.

"Here's to efficient packing."

* See as well radial vs. square aspects in a post on Mackey's classic
Harmonic Analysis as the Exploitation of Symmetry.

The Radial Aspect

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 8:34 am

Google Doodle on Thursday, November 21, 2024 —


 

From the Wallace Stevens poem
"An Ordinary Evening in New Haven" —

XIX

The moon rose in the mind and each thing there
Picked up its radial aspect in the night,
Prostrate below the singleness of its will.

That which was public green turned private gray.
At another time, the radial aspect came
From a different source. But there was always one:

A century in which everything was part
Of that century and of its aspect, a personage,
A man who was the axis of his time,

An image that begot its infantines,
Imaginary poles whose intelligence
Streamed over chaos their civilities.

What is the radial aspect of this place,
This present colony of a colony
Of colonies, a sense in the changing sense

Of things? A figure like Ecclesiast,
Rugged and luminous, chants in the dark
A text that is an answer, although obscure.

 


 

A Chant in the Dark —

Friday, November 22, 2024

A Thumbnail for Deresiewicz* — “11:07 Tue. November 19”

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:56 am

The above "gone" line is spoken at 0:43:45
by Sofia Falcone to Triad leader Feng Zhao.

* Vide  today's previous post.

For the Wake of the Crimson King:
“Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November”

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 8:26 am

Thursday, November 21, 2024

The Fenstermacher Manifesto

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:45 am

For Glinda in "Wicked" —

"The circle of light is yours." — Facebook post by Fenstermacher
on July 4, 2024, followed on July 6 by Velvet Underground's
"Sunday Morning."

For "Gladiator II" This  journal on the above Velvet Underground date —

Monday, November 18, 2024

Annals of Meritocracy: Location, Location, Location

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:27 am

From the Feast of St. Nicholas, 2018 —

♫  "You're gonna need an ocean . . . ."

Friday, November 15, 2024

Art Tales

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 7:53 am

From a search in this journal for Arkani-Hamed —

This post was suggested by the title

"Visualizing a sacred city: London, art, and religion"

from today's 7 AM post.

Thursday, November 14, 2024

Mimesis: The Auerbach Variations

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:56 pm

Vide  an Auerbach  Bacchus and Ariadne .

As damned nightmares go, I prefer a more literary Auerbach.

Monday, September 18, 2023

The Passage of Time

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 9:55 am

The figure above summarizes a new way of looking at 
so-called "figurate numbers." The old  way goes back
at least to the time of Pythagoras.

A more explicit presentation —

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