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Monday, January 31, 2022

The Prime Mover

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 3:32 pm

"Metaphor in language — the prime mover"

— George Steiner in Real Presences  (1989)
 

Not so prime —

See also the "Transformers" marketing saga.

Related marketing: 
Disney  Easter eggs

Pace  the lacquered glitter”

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:58 pm

Celebrity News

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:55 pm

More precisely . . .

Sunday, January 30, 2022

Rock Music

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:38 pm

"All I need is a miracle" — Song from "Spencer" (2021)

Sandringham MOG

"Risin' up to the challenge of our rival" — "Rocky III" (1982)

Stein Meets Steiner

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:43 pm

"I get no kick from champagne…." — Cole Porter

But . . .

Related literary remarks —

Sunday, January 16, 2022

Space

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 4:17 am

"Leave a space." — Stoppard, "Jumpers."

"Read something that means something." — The New Yorker

Related material — Bialystock Configurations :

Malgorzata Prazmowska and Krzysztof Prazmowski
University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland
malgpraz@math.uwb.edu.pl and krzypraz@math.uwb.edu.pl

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