Vide https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burgruine_Hohenstaufen_(2).jpg.
(Suggested by a chess cartoon in The New Yorker, a castle in Italy,
and a Log24 post.)
Friday, July 18, 2025
Hohenstaufen Phantasmagoria
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Thursday, May 8, 2025
Geometric Theology
From a post of April 17, 2025 —
Some may interpret this as a chessboard, with the white bishops on
their home squares 39 and 36 and the black bishops on 33 and 30.
"I like to fold my magic carpet, after use,
in such a way as to superimpose
one part of the pattern upon another."
– Vladimir Nabokov in Speak, Memory
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Thursday, December 26, 2024
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Thursday, September 19, 2024
For Case Study Films: Compare and Contrast
From August 10 —
Earlier . . .
Still earlier . . .
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Monday, July 8, 2024
Lit Note
Flashback to Sept. 22, 2011 —
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Robert De Niro as Irving Thalberg in "The Last Tycoon." A possible acceptance speech for the Thalberg Award—
"Let me put you in this unit." |
A possible unit —
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Sunday, May 26, 2024
Chess Opening
This journal on April 17, 2024 . . .
"Time for you to see the field." — Bagger Vance
More recently . . .
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
Product Placement
And the Irving Thalberg Award goes to…
Robert De Niro as Irving Thalberg in "The Last Tycoon"
Text and Context—
Text:
Jerky Treats for dogs
Context:
"Mad Dog and Glory" (March 5, 1993)
"Point of No Return" (March 19, 1993) —
Note Jerky Treats in background.
A possible acceptance speech for the Thalberg Award—
"Let me put you in this unit." — John Calley, via Buck Henry
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