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Tuesday, September 26, 2023
Former-Day Saint
"Birthday, death-day — what day is not both?" — Updike
The actor who played "Illya Kuryakin" reportedly died yesterday —
" David Keith McCallum Jr. was born on Sept. 19, 1933, into
a musical family in Glasgow. His father was the first violinist
for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London; his mother,
Dorothy Dorman, was a cellist. He would later tell interviewers
that his Scotch Presbyterian upbringing had left him emotionally
circumscribed.
'We Scots, we tend to be awfully tight inside,' he told TV Guide
in 1965. 'It has hurt me as an actor to be so — so naturally restricted.' "
— Leslie Kaufman in The New York Times
This journal on McCallum's 90th birthday — Sept. 19, 2023 —
"You take the high road and . . . ."
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Monday, November 9, 2015
A Particular Mind
"The old, slow art of the eye and the hand, united in service
to the imagination, is in crisis. It’s not that painting is 'dead'
again—no other medium can as yet so directly combine
vision and touch to express what it’s like to have a particular
mind, with its singular troubles and glories, in a particular
body. But painting has lost symbolic force and function in a
culture of promiscuous knowledge and glutting information."
— Peter Schjeldahl in The New Yorker ,
issue dated Jan. 5, 2015
Cover of a 1980 book on computer music that contains a
helpful article on Walsh functions —
See, in this book, "Walsh Functions: A Digital Fourier Series,"
by Benjamin Jacoby (BYTE , September 1977). Some context:
Symmetry of Walsh Functions.
Excerpts from a search for Steve + Jobs in this journal —
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