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Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Diamonds and Squares

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 10:14 am

A hypercube's parts as 4 diamonds and 4 squares

For a transformation of these four diamonds and four squares to the
four columns and four rows of a square array, see a March 24 post.

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Space Trip

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

Related drama — Holland Tale, Odious Evening Colors,
The Blue Monkey Diamond, and . . . 

"At the point of convergence
the play of similarities and differences
cancels itself out in order that 
identity alone may shine forth
The illusion of motionlessness,
the play of mirrors of the one: 
identity is completely empty;
it is a crystallization and
in its transparent core
the movement of analogy 
begins all over once again."

— The Monkey Grammarian 

by Octavio Paz, translated by Helen Lane 

Thursday, January 16, 2025

Field Dreams

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

Related reading:
Michael Harris on the Spielraum  and the "relaxed field" —

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Elegy for a Critic

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:23 pm

The previous post suggests a flashback to . . .

A related quotation from art critic Peter Schjeldahl . . .

For P. T. Barnum

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:02 pm

Monday, December 2, 2024

As Snow White dons her gay apparel . . .
Song for a Snow Ball: “♫ Where you going? / Barcelona.

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 3:40 pm

The Pearl-Loined Letter . . . A!

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:43 pm

Some will prefer the Greek lower-case version of that letter . . .

In the Night Kitchen: Fry Cook

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 4:00 am

From Fry’s obituary in The Guardian :

“ Though less of a public theorist than Eliot, Fry still believed passionately
in the validity of poetic drama. As he wrote in the magazine Adam :
‘In prose, we convey the eccentricity of things, in poetry their concentricity,
the sense of relationship between them: a belief that all things express
the same identity and are all contained in one discipline of revelation.' ”

Janet Leigh in "Harper" (1966)

Saturday, November 27, 2021

“Where you going? / Barcelona.” — Sondheim, “Company”*

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:52 pm

* In honor of Sondheim, recent posts are now
  tagged with a phrase from a different show — 
  Send in the Clowns.

  Speaking of which . . .

Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Space Force

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:08 pm

New Yorker  video  today, at 14:00-14:25 —

"What's good about KenKen, and Sudoku, and crosswords,
all of those puzzles like that, is that they have grids to be filled in,
empty squares. I think there is something about human nature
that we want to fill up spaces. And if you're a puzzle person,
or almost anybody, and you see an empty grid, you want to
put something in those spaces. It gives a feeling of satisfaction
that you don't get often in life and that really feels good."

— Will Shortz, New York Times  puzzle editor

"I can't get no… satisfaction…." — The Rolling Stones

The New Yorker  recently restarted the Weiner story,
which includes —

"… the fall of 2017, when he began a twenty-one-month
prison sentence for sexting with a minor."

"You want to put something in those spaces."

— Will Shortz, New York Times  puzzle editor

Yes, you do.

Weiner is now with a Brooklyn countertops company called IceStone.

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