"Think of it as a cybernetic version of prayer…."
— Dennis Overbye in today's online New York Times ,
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/17/science/
cosmology-universe-programming.html .
Related remarks: The Log24 tag Geheimnis der Einheit, and . . .
Related art — "The Difference," a Log24 post of Epiphany 2010.
For your consideration: "Nightmare Alley" Oscar nominations —
Costume design, production design, cinematography, Best Picture.
See as well the introduction by Nick Tosches to the novel .
A touch I personally like: Over the end credits, Hoagy Carmichael's
"Stardust" plays. From related remarks (here abridged) by poet
David Lehman on November 22, 2015 (the feast of St. Cecilia) —
"Every year on this day I think unfailingly of three things:
— that today is Hoagy Carnichael's birthday ….
— that if time were elastic I would write a series of
popular history novels ….
— that paranoid conspiracy theories … are based on
our fundamental inability to understand events.
From this journal on November 22, 2015 —
In memory of Hale Trotter, a mathematician who reportedly
died at Princeton, N.J., on Jan. 17, 2022.
Other perspectives —
“The carnival is an incredibly close-knit, hermetic society.”
— Guillermo del Toro, director and co-writer of
the new remake of "Nightmare Alley"
Dialogue from that remake —
STAN — How do you ever get a guy to geek?
CLEM — Oh- I ain’t going to crap you up. It ain’t easy.
"There is such a thing as a four-set."
— Saying adapted from a 1962 young-adult novel
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