Vide the May 2026 Notices of the American Mathematical Society . . .
Friday, May 22, 2026
“The Faltering Beginnings of Logic” — Phrase by Paul Valéry
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For Mert Lawwill, Champion Motorcylist —
Zen and the Art of Metaphysics
Lawwill reportedly died at 85 on May 6, 2026, in Meridian, Idaho.
From this journal on that date (Oz Space) . . .
"And let us finally, then, observe the
parallel progress of the formations of thought
across the species of psychical onomatopoeia
of the primitives, and elementary symmetries
and contrasts, to the ideas of substances,
to metaphors, the faltering beginnings of logic,
formalisms, entities, metaphysical existences."
— Paul Valéry, Introduction to the Method of
Leonardo da Vinci
Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ,
Ch. 6 (italics are mine) —
“A classical understanding sees the world primarily as underlying form itself.
A romantic understanding sees it primarily in terms of immediate appearance .”
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Zen and the Art of Metaphysics
Zen and the Art of Metaphysics
Sunday, May 10, 2026
Entities:
A Schoolgirl Problem for Zorro Ranch
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A Schoolgirl Problem for Zorro Ranch
A Schoolgirl Problem for Zorro Ranch
Saturday, May 9, 2026
Raiders of the Lost MacGuffin
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Friday, May 8, 2026
Wednesday, May 6, 2026
Oz Space
"And let us finally, then, observe the
parallel progress of the formations of thought
across the species of psychical onomatopoeia
of the primitives, and elementary symmetries
and contrasts, to the ideas of substances,
to metaphors, the faltering beginnings of logic,
formalisms, entities, metaphysical existences."
— Paul Valéry, Introduction to the Method of
Leonardo da Vinci
But first, a word from our sponsor…
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Tuesday, May 5, 2026
All Encyclopedia of Mathematics articles
have been moved to HandWiki.org .
For instance,
https://handwiki.org/wiki/Cullinane_diamond_theorem .
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have been moved to HandWiki.org .
have been moved to HandWiki.org .
Monday, May 4, 2026
AI Theology
"In some circles, AI involvement in creative work is anathema."
— Thomas Claburn at theregister.com, Mon 4 May 2026 // 21:13 UTC
In other circles . . .
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For a Broken Hill* Urban Legend♦
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Friday, April 24, 2026
Annals of Aesthetics: “Reordering the World”
Alternate title . . . "Junebug for Feminists"
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Friday, April 10, 2026
Welcome to the Hotel Stanley
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Thursday, April 9, 2026
“The Thing* and I” Continues.
From this journal on Saturday, April 4, 2026 —
Some related remarks on literary form —
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* See a Log24 post of Sunday, April 17, 2016.
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Tuesday, March 3, 2026
The Dangling Cock-Up . . . “See the Problem?”
From The Hedgehog Review, Summer 2024,
"I Sing the Electric Body: On Syntax,"
by Brian Patrick Eha —
"One of the most common syntactical cock-ups
is the misplaced or dangling modifier.
'Having been accused of taking bribes to steer research,
Harvard University has suspended Professor Jane Doe.'
See the problem?"
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Blood Moon at Sunrise
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Monday, March 2, 2026
Old Manse* Art
* Reference to a Nathaniel Hawthorne title in a 2022 post.
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Thursday, September 11, 2025
Alice in Numberland: Twin Pillars
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Saturday, August 23, 2025
Venice for Screenwriters: “The Thomas Mann Script”
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Thursday, August 21, 2025
May 29 Bunker Bingo
From a May 29 review of "Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning" —
"Ethan Hunt is sealed in an unreality bunker* of his own."
From a novel, The Footprints of God , published August 12, 2003 —
A tour guide describes stations of the cross in Jerusalem:
"Ibrahim pointed down the cobbled street to a half circle of bricks
set in the street. 'There is where Jesus began to carry the cross.
Down the street is the Chapel of Flagellation, where the Roman
soldiers whipped Jesus, set on him a crown of thorns, and said,
"Hail, King of the Jews!" Then Pilate led him to the crowd and cried,
"Ecce homo! Behold the man!" '
Ibrahim delivered this information with the excitement of a man
reading bingo numbers in a nursing home."
* Hunt's unreality bunker is not unlike that of the Footprints of God hero.
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Fall Guy: “Coattails Aflame”
From a review in Christianity Today on May 29, 2025 —
From a post of Monday, August 18, 2025 —
Backstory —
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Monday, May 19, 2025
Turing-Test Notes
I have not yet yielded to the "customize artifact" temptation.
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Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Humor & Cartoons, Puzzles & Games . . .
Let’s Go, Brandon!
Related reading . . . Masks of the Illuminati .
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Let’s Go, Brandon!
Let’s Go, Brandon!
Harlan Kane Presents:
The Uruguay Entity!
From a Log24 search for Deutsche Schule . . .
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The Uruguay Entity!
The Uruguay Entity!
The Naked Eight . . . Continues.
Leslie Nielsen in "The Naked Gun" —
Related entertainment —
LIAM NEESON in THE NAKED EIGHT!
. . . A Sequel to "Unknown" . . .
This post was suggested by a May 13 New York Times report of
a death in Uruguay on that date. See also Uruguay in this journal.
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Tuesday, May 13, 2025
For The Entity — A Rose Field
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