The New York Times today reports a February 8 death —
Also from February 8, related fashion images —
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
For Oppenheimer… and Indiana Jones,
at Halloween Season
Commentary on the "Gyrus" book —
http://numero57.net/2007/12/20/archaeologies-of-consciousness/ .
The commentary was written in the time of the winter solstice, 2007.
See also this journal at that time.
Related musical offering for Doctor Sleep: Lyrics to Nightshift.
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at Halloween Season
Monday, February 10, 2020
Notes for Doctor Sleep
Or: Plato's Cave.
See also this journal on November 9, 2003 …
A post on Wittgenstein's "counting pattern" —
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Saturday, February 14, 2015
Number and Time
"Continue a search for thirty-three and three."
— Katherine Neville in The Eight
"Close enough for government work."
— Stephen King in Doctor Sleep
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Tuesday, February 10, 2015
En Masse
Yale Daily News staff columnist Scott Greenberg today,
in a piece titled "Filling Religion's Void" —
"The secularization of college students in America
has seemed a foregone conclusion for some time,
yet it represents a momentous shift for our university
and society at large that we have not yet
come to grips with….
Is the solution for our society and our University
to return to religion en masse?"
So to speak.
A Midrash for Greenberg:
An Ordinary Evening in New Haven
Meets an Evening in the Garden of Allah —
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Friday, February 6, 2015
Evening in the Garden of Allah
"'Relax,' said the night man .
'We are programmed to receive.'"
— "Hotel California," quoted here on
the evening of January 30, 2015
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Thursday, December 5, 2013
Fields
Edward Frenkel recently claimed for Robert Langlands
the discovery of a link between two "totally different"
fields of mathematics— number theory and harmonic analysis.
He implied that before Langlands, no relationship between
these fields was known.
See his recent book, and his lecture at the Fields Institute
in Toronto on October 24, 2013.
Meanwhile, in this journal on that date, two math-related
quotations for Stephen King, author of Doctor Sleep—
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"Danvers is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, |
For those who prefer their mathematics presented as fact, not fiction—
(Click for a larger image.)
The arrows in the figure at the right are an attempt to say visually that
the diamond theorem is related to various fields of mathematics.
There is no claim that prior to the theorem, these fields were not related.
See also Scott Carnahan on arrow diagrams, and Mathematical Imagery.
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Thursday, November 21, 2013
Quad Rants
Continued from 24 hours ago.
"AA had no rules but many traditions (that were, in fact, rules).
One of the most ironclad was that you never made a Twelfth Step
call on an active alcoholic by yourself, unless the alkie in question
was safely incarcerated in a hospital, detox, or the local bughouse.
If you did, you were apt to end up matching him drink for drink and
line for line."
— King, Stephen (2013-09-24). Doctor Sleep: A Novel
(p. 272). Scribner. Kindle Edition.
" Aus 'It' wurde 'Es', und King sprach es so aus,
dass man sich alleine vom Klang des Titels
gruselte: 'Essssss!' "
— Last night's online
Hamburger Abendblatt
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Thursday, October 24, 2013
For Stephen King
Wikipedia —
"Danvers is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts,
United States, located on the Danvers River near the
northeastern coast of Massachusetts. Originally known
as Salem Village, the town is most widely known for its
association with the 1692 Salem witch trials. It is also
known for the Danvers State Hospital, one of the state's
19th-century psychiatric hospitals, which was located here."
"The summer's gone and all the roses fallin' "
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Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Steam
For Jack and Jill.
The above motivational video is from the web page of a middle school
math teacher who was shot to death yesterday morning.
Related journalism —
See also "S in a Diamond" (here, October 2013)
and "Superman Comes to the Supermarket,"
by Norman Mailer (Esquire , November 1960).
In a recent film, Amy Adams asked Superman,
"What's the S stand for?"
One possible answer, in light of Stephen King's
recent sequel to The Shining and of
the motivational video above—
Steam.
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Thursday, October 10, 2013
Continued
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"… the walkway between here and there would be colder than a witch’s belt buckle. Or a well-digger’s tit. Or whatever the saying was. Vera had been hanging by a thread for a week now, comatose, in and out of Cheyne-Stokes respiration, and this was exactly the sort of night the frail ones picked to go out on. Usually at 4 a.m. He checked his watch. Only 3:20, but that was close enough for government work."
— King, Stephen (2013-09-24). |
From Space.com, the death of an astronaut this morning —
"Carpenter passed at 5:30 a.m. MDT (7:30 a.m. EDT; 1130 GMT)."
A link, "Continued," in this journal at 3:26 a.m. EDT today led to…
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Friday, October 4, 2013
For the Feast of St. Francis
"According to Vladimir Nabokov, Salvador Dalí
was 'really Norman Rockwell’s twin brother
kidnapped by gypsies in babyhood.'
But actually there were triplets: the third one is
Stephen King."
— Margaret Atwood, "Shine On,"
online Sept. 19, 2013
"The metaphor for metamorphosis
no keys unlock."
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Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Frame Tale
From an academic's website:
For Josefine Lyche and Ignotus the Mage,
as well as Rose the Hat and other Zingari shoolerim —
Sabbatha hanti, lodsam hanti, cahanna risone hanti :
words that had been old when the True Knot moved
across Europe in wagons, selling peat turves and trinkets.
They had probably been old when Babylon was young.
The girl was powerful, but the True was all-powerful,
and Rose anticipated no real problem.
— King, Stephen (2013-09-24).
Doctor Sleep: A Novel
(pp. 278-279). Scribner. Kindle Edition.
From a post of November 10, 2008:
Twenty-four Variations on a Theme of Plato,
a version by Barry Sharples based on the earlier
kaleidoscope puzzle version of Steven H. Cullinane
"The king asked, in compensation for his toils
during this strangest of all the nights he had
ever known, that the twenty-four riddle tales
told him by the specter, together with the story
of the night itself, should be made known
over the whole earth and remain eternally
famous among men."
Frame Tale:
"The quad gospellers may own the targum
but any of the Zingari shoolerim may pick a peck
of kindlings yet from the sack of auld hensyne."
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Monday, September 30, 2013
A Line for Frank
(Continued from High White Noon,
Finishing Up at Noon, and A New York Jew.)
Above: Frank Langella in "Starting Out in the Evening"
Below: Frank Langella and Johnny Depp in "The Ninth Gate"
"Not by the hair on your chinny-chin-chin."
Above: Detail from a Wikipedia photo.
For the logo, see Lostpedia.
For some backstory, see Noether.
Those seeking an escape from the eightfold nightmare
represented by the Dharma logo above may consult
the remarks of Heisenberg (the real one, not the
Breaking Bad version) to the Bavarian Academy
of Fine Arts.
Those who prefer Plato's cave to his geometry are
free to continue their Morphean adventures.
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Saturday, September 28, 2013
Castle Rock Entertainment
(Where Entertainment Is God , continued)
Yesterday's evening numbers in the New York Lottery
were 007 and 3856. You are free to supply your own
interpretation of the former. The latter may, if you like,
be interpreted as post 3856, The Illuminati Stone .
Some context:
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Stephen King's 7-8 PM event yesterday
at Harvard's Memorial Church (see previous post) - Harvard Walpurgisnacht in this journal
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Anthony Hopkins (alias Odin, alias Hannibal Lecter)
as Ted Brautigan in the 2001 film Hearts in Atlantis
(from Castle Rock Entertainment, based on a much
better 1999 Stephen King book of the same title)
(Click for a larger, clearer image.)
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Friday, September 27, 2013
Proof (continued)
"Let X equal the month of full bookstores."
— Proof by David Auburn
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"Harvard Book Store is thrilled to welcome Stephen King for a special event to celebrate the release of Doctor Sleep , the long-anticipated sequel to 1977’s The Shining . Mr. King will read from and discuss the new book, followed by a Q&A with the audience at Memorial Church in Harvard Yard on September 27." |
See as well Corpse + Eliot and some remarks
on the mathematics of Kummer
from this September and from last September.
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Monday, September 23, 2013
For Danny Boy
"… It raced down the gossamer curtain of Its webbing,
a nightmare Spider from beyond time and space,
a Spider from beyond the fevered imaginings of
whatever inmates may live in the deepest depths of hell.
No, Bill thought coldly, not a Spider either, not really,
but this shape isn’t one It picked out of our minds;
it’s just the closest our minds can come to
(the deadlights)
whatever It really is."
— Stephen King, It (Sept. 15, 1986)
Related horror by Fritz Leiber—
"The Mind Spider" and "Damnation Morning."
Related fiction by Mark Helprin—
As a perceptive reviewer has noted, Helprin's title is
almost a verse from the song "Danny Boy."
See, too, the Danny Boy of The Shining ,
who returns tomorrow in a sequel, Doctor Sleep .
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