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Monday, August 2, 2021

The Dinner Party

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:28 pm

For Darkinbad the Brightdayler

Sunday, January 17, 2021

“Signs and Symbols”

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:42 pm

The title is from Nabokov.

Related: A sign or symbol known to
techies as “the hamburger.”
See also “White Palace” earlier tonight.

The above image appeared earlier in posts
now tagged “Darkinbad the Brightdayler.”

Wednesday, January 15, 2020

The Round Square

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 11:53 pm

From a link in my RSS feed tonight to the Times Literary Supplement ,
via Aldaily.com

See as well some Log24 posts tagged Circular Rectangle.

Related material:  A passage quoted here on Jan. 28, 2009

When?

 

Going to dark bed there was a square round Sinbad the Sailor roc's auk's egg in the night of the bed of all the auks of the rocs of Darkinbad the Brightdayler.

Where?

Black disc from end of Ch. 17 in Ulysses

— Ulysses, conclusion of Episode 17

Friday, December 25, 2015

At Play in the Fields

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 1:00 pm

See Fields of Force  and recent posts.

From PR Newswire  in July 2011 —

Campus Crusade for Christ Adopts New Name: Cru
60-year-old Int’l Ministry Aims to Increase
Relevance and Global Effectiveness

Related material:

Yin + Yang —

Diamond Theory version of 'The Square Inch Space' with yin-yang symbol for comparison

Dark Symbol

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:00 pm

Related material:

The previous post (Bright Symbol) and
a post from Wednesday,
December 23, 2015, that links to posts
on Boolean algebra vs. Galois geometry.

“An analogy between mathematics and religion is apposite.”

— Harvard Magazine  review by Avner Ash of
Mathematics without Apologies
(Princeton University Press, January 18, 2015)

Bright Symbol

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:00 am

Detail:

Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Splitting Apart

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:01 pm

Bleecker Street logo —

Click image for some background.

Related remarks on mathematics:

Boole vs. Galois

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Wednesday January 28, 2009

ACTUAL BEING
continued from
October 25, 2008

John Updike at Boston Public Library, 2006, photo by Robert Spencer for The New York Times
 

"The only wealth he bestowed on his subjects lay in the richness of his descriptive language, the detailed fineness of which won him comparisons with painters like Vermeer and Andrew Wyeth."

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in today's International Herald Tribune  

 

"These people have discovered how to turn dreams into reality. They know how to enter their dream realities. They can stay there, live there, perhaps forever."

— Alfred Bester on the inmates of Ward T in his 1953 short story, "Disappearing Act"

Related material:
"Is Nothing Sacred?"
 

When?

Going to dark bed there was a square round Sinbad the Sailor roc's auk's egg in the night of the bed of all the auks of the rocs of Darkinbad the Brightdayler.

Where?

Black disc from end of Ch. 17 in Ulysses

Ulysses, conclusion of Episode 17

 

Cover of 'Through the Vanishing Point,' by Marshall McLuhan and Harley Parker

Happy Feast of
St. Thomas Aquinas.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Tuesday June 17, 2008

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 7:01 am
Nightmare Alley

"History, Stephen said,
is a nightmare from which
I am trying to awake."
Ulysses

When?

Going to dark bed there was a square round Sinbad the Sailor roc's auk's egg in the night of the bed of all the auks of the rocs of Darkinbad the Brightdayler.

Where?

Black disc from end of Ch. 17 in Ulysses

Ulysses, conclusion of Chapter 17


When in Rome

His manner was all charm
and grace; pure cafe society….

He purred a chuckle.
"My place. If you want to come,
I'll show you."

"Love to. The Luogo Nero?
The Black Place?"

"That's what the locals call it.
It's really Buoco Nero,
the Black Hole."

Psychoshop, by
Alfred Bester and Roger Zelazny

In memory of
special effects wizard
Stan Winston,
who died Sunday at 62:

http://www.log24.com/log/pix08/080617-StanWinston.jpg

"The energetic Winston
was always looking
 to the next project."

— Today's LA Times,
story by
Dennis McLellan

Monday, June 16, 2008

Monday June 16, 2008

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 9:00 pm
Bloomsday for Nash:
The Revelation Game

(American Mathematical Society Feb. 2008
review of Steven Brams’s Superior Beings:
If They Exist, How Would We Know?)

(pdf, 15 megabytes)

"Brams does not attempt to prove or disprove God. He uses elementary ideas from game theory to create situations between a Person (P) and God (Supreme Being, SB) and discusses how each reacts to the other in these model scenarios….

In the 'Revelation Game,' for example, the Person (P) has two options:
1) P can believe in SB's existence
2) P can not believe in SB's existence
The Supreme Being also has two options:
1) SB can reveal Himself
2) SB can not reveal Himself

Each player also has a primary and secondary goal. For the Person, the primary goal is to have his belief (or non-belief) confirmed by evidence (or lack thereof). The secondary goal is to 'prefer to believe in SB’s existence.' For the Supreme Being, the primary goal is to have P believe in His existence, while the secondary goal is to not reveal Himself. These goals allow us to rank all the outcomes for each player from best (4) to worst (1). We end up with a matrix as follows (the first number in the parentheses represents the SB's ranking for that box; the second number represents P's ranking):

Revelation Game payoff matrix

The question we must answer is: what is the Nash equilibrium in this case?"

Analogously:

Lotteries on
Bloomsday,
June 16,
2008
Pennsylvania
(No revelation)
New York
(Revelation)
Mid-day
(No belief)
418

 

The Exorcist

No belief,
no revelation

064

 

4x4x4 cube summarizing geometry of the I Ching

Revelation
without belief

Evening
(Belief)
709

Human Conflict Number Five album by The 10,000 Maniacs

 

Belief without
revelation

198

 

(A Cheap
Epiphany)

Black disc from end of Ch. 17 of Ulysses

Belief and
revelation

The holy image

Black disc from end of Ch. 17 of Ulysses

denoting belief and revelation
may be interpreted as
a black hole or as a
symbol by James Joyce:

When?

Going to dark bed there was a square round Sinbad the Sailor roc's auk's egg in the night of the bed of all the auks of the rocs of Darkinbad the Brightdayler.

Where?

Black disc from end of Ch. 17 in Ulysses

Ulysses, conclusion of Chapter 17

Tuesday, June 29, 2004

Tuesday June 29, 2004

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 2:22 pm
And So To Bed

Advanced Study (6/26/04), continued…

Part I: Ulysses

When?

Going to dark bed there was a square round Sinbad the Sailor roc's auk's egg in the night of the bed of all the auks of the rocs of Darkinbad the Brightdayler.

Where?

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Ulysses, conclusion of Ch. 17

 

Part II: Badcoc

A Visual Meditation for

the Feast of St. Peter

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For further details on this structure, see

Magic Squares, Finite Planes,
and Points of Inflection
on Elliptic Curves
,
by Ezra Brown, and

Visualizing GL(2, p)
by Steven H. Cullinane.

For a more literary approach
to this structure, see

Balanchine's Birthday (Jan. 9, 2003),
Art Theory for Yom Kippur (Oct. 5, 2003),
A Form (May 22, 2004),
Ineluctable (May 27, 2004),
A Form, continued (June 5, 2004),
Parallelisms (June 6, 2004),
Deep Game (June 26, 2004), and
Gameplayers of Zen (June 27, 2004).

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To appreciate fully this last entry
on Gameplayers,
one must understand
the concept of "suicide"
in the game of Go

and be reminded
by the fatuous phrase of the
Institute of Contemporary Art
quoted in Gameplayers
"
encompassed by 'nothing' " —
of John 1:5.

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