The New York Times today reports the Oct. 17, 2023,
death of a man who "flipped, violating the mafia’s solemn
oath of loyalty, Omertà."
And then there is academic Omertà.
See
Hemispheres: The Old Up-Down Flip
and
Thursday, September 26, 2024
On Academic Omertà
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Tuesday, February 6, 2024
“Someone Puts a Poem Together”
— Hat Tip to Wallace Stevens
Updated with noun-adjective distinction and Feinerman art
at 5:25 PM ET on Wednesday, February 7, 2024.
Note: The above is not the standard Spanish
word for pineapple. It actually means . . .
AS A NOUN —
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Update on the next day, February 7th —
AS AN ADJECTIVE —
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"Esta fruta se puede probar también en las vías de acceso a la denominada 'capital piñera de Colombia', donde en la última semana de julio se celebra el Reinado Internacional de la Piña."
"This fruit can also be tasted in the access routes of the 'pineapple capital of Colombia', where during the last week of July they celebrate the International Pineapple pageant."
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From this journal during the last week of July 2023 —
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— Hat Tip to Wallace Stevens
— Hat Tip to Wallace Stevens
Summer Knowledge in Winter
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Monday, January 8, 2024
The Star Brick
From a post of January 3, 2024 —
"Hello darkness, my old friend.
I’ve come to talk with you again."
The above image was flipped to reverse left and right.
Related reading: Other posts tagged Darkness and …
Related material: Other posts tagged Star Brick and . . .
"And we may see the meadow in December,
icy white and crystalline"
— Song lyric, "Midnight Sun"
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Wednesday, January 3, 2024
Negative Space
A recently coined phrase — "Negative Mathematics" — is related to the
better-known phrase "Negative Space."
The latter is closely related to the proof of the Cullinane diamond theorem.
For the former, see . . .
Related material: The proof symbol, i.e. the Halmos Tombstone.
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Hemispheres: The Old Up/Down Flip
The previous post suggests a review . . .
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Flippant
From the Log24 search in the previous post for "Dimensions" —
"Hello darkness, my old friend.
I’ve come to talk with you again."
The above image was flipped to reverse left and right.
Related reading: Other posts tagged Darkness and …
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Wednesday, October 12, 2022
Tuesday, August 31, 2021
Summer Knowledge
The title is that of a book of poems by Delmore Schwartz.
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From "Searching for God in the Next Apartment," Throughout Schwartz's poetry a question of belief is central. He thought we could not live without an interpretation of the whole of life, and that modern social orders were inevitably deficient in satisfying this need. He wrote studies and poetry explicitly concerned with the decline of Christian belief and the impossibility of any belief whatsoever. He read Rimbaud's ''Season in Hell,'' Valery's ''Cimetiere Marin,'' Arnold's ''Dover Beach,'' Hardy's ''Oxen,'' Stevens' ''Sunday Morning'' as poems forged in just such a dilemma. His own preferred poem, ''Starlight Like Intuition Pierced the Twelve,'' continued this argument. |
See also Log24 posts tagged Central Myth, and the following image:
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