Friday, February 24, 2023
Tuesday, February 14, 2023
Monday, February 13, 2023
The Adelson Shadow
Related search results —
From a different Adelson, in a Log24 post from 2003 —
Related geometric entertainment —
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Wednesday, February 1, 2023
Variations in Memory of a Designer
Last updated at 22:46 PM ET on 1 February 2023.
Click for a designer's obituary.
Paraphrase for a road-sign collector:
See as well … Today's New York Times obituary
of the Harvard Business School Publishing
Director of Intellectual Property.
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Sunday, January 29, 2023
Darkness Doubled, Doubled.
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Friday, January 27, 2023
The Stone
Here stands the mean, uncomely stone,
’Tis very cheap in price!
The more it is despised by fools,
The more loved by the wise.
— https://jungcurrents.com/
the-story-of-the-stone-at-bollingen
Not so cheap:
Identical copies of the above image are being offered for sale
on three websites as representing a Masonic "cubic stone."
None of the three sites say where, exactly, the image originated.
Image searches for "Masonic stone," "Masonic cube," etc.,
fail to yield any other pictures that look like the above image —
that of a 2x2x2 array of eight identical subcubes.
For purely mathematical — not Masonic — properties of such
an array, see "eightfold cube" in this journal.
The websites offering to sell the questionable image —
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Getty —
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Alamy —
https://www.alamy.com/
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Photo12 —
https://www.photo12.com/en/image/
No price quoted on public page:
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Street Theater
The November 6, 1954, Saturday Review date
in the previous post suggests a flashback, from
those available online, to a couple of days earlier
in November 1954 —
Click for an enlargeable PDF version.
For two of the characters in these pictures, see Crux.
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More from the Illustrious La Farge Family
(See Paul La Farge from the previous post and Christopher La Farge.)
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Wednesday, January 25, 2023
In Memory of an Author* Who Died on Wednesday, Jan. 18
"He played with history and narrative techniques." — Obituary headline
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* See his New York Times obituary, online today —
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Tuesday, January 24, 2023
The Importance of Being Droll
The Engelberg Variations —
"… the arrangement of one's books …."
. . . or of one's house committees . . . .
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Sunday, January 22, 2023
Preform
Sometimes the word "preform" is not a misspelling.
"… there are present in every psyche forms which are unconscious
but nonetheless active — living dispositions, ideas in the Platonic sense,
that preform and continually influence our thoughts and feelings and actions."
The Source: Jung on a facultas praeformandi . . .
Illustration —
"A primordial image . . . .
the axial system of a crystal"
For those who prefer a Jewish approach to these matters —
(Post last updated at about 2:10 PM ET on Jan. 23, 2023.)
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