Wednesday, August 12, 2026
Symmetry Revisited
From posts tagged Symmetry Framed —
From Making Pictures (Log24, August 9, 2026) —
From Mia Pensa tonight —
Tuesday, August 11, 2026
For Penelope Bloom:
Rosebud in Nighttown
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Friday, July 24, 2026
For Good Will Hunting . . . “What Song the Sirens Sang . . .”
And for the (Anti-AI) Castellows . . .
Perhaps the three sisters would prefer some non-AI reading . . .
The Man Who Discovered Sphere Eversion
Background from July 20, 2026 —
Wikipedia on a reported finding by the AI "Claude Fable 5"
of a counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture.
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And for the (Anti-AI) Castellows . . .
And for the (Anti-AI) Castellows . . .
Snark Hunting in Oz
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Related material . . .
From "By Morning Light," a Log24 post of June 2, 2026 —
Annotation . . . Magic Carpet Ride . . .
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Tuesday, July 21, 2026
Carpet Rider
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Monday, June 15, 2026
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
Monday, January 19, 2026
Yerby vs. Harrow
Song of Solomon 2:15 — “Take us the foxes . . . ."
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Case Study: 17 … 18 … 19 —
The Twin Primes Gap
The above date, 2018-09-27, suggests a flashback . . .
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The Twin Primes Gap
The Twin Primes Gap
Sunday, January 18, 2026
Thursday, January 8, 2026
Wednesday, January 7, 2026
Tuesday, January 6, 2026
Line for a Global Art Bard:
"I love the theater as I love Anne Hathaway . . ."
See illustration.
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Monday, January 5, 2026
Cultural Navigation —
One Brainrot After Another
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One Brainrot After Another
One Brainrot After Another
Saturday, January 3, 2026
Meanwhile, from the Kristen Stewart School of Dramatic Art . . .
"I want to stretch you."
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Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Seeing Things
"I still see things that are not here.
I just choose not to acknowledge them.
Like a diet of the mind, I just choose
not to indulge certain appetites . . .
ike my appetite for patterns . . . perhaps
my appetite to imagine and to dream."
— Russell Crowe as John Nash at
the end of the film "A Beautiful Mind"
Hat tip for the Nash film quote and the cartoon to . . .
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Thursday, February 17, 2011
Figure in the Carpet
"Why don't you come with me, little girl,
On a magic carpet ride?"
– Steppenwolf lyrics
"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
See also Nabokov at Harvard in today's Crimson
and the Russian boxes of Henry James.
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