Log24

As noted in the previous post, the phrase “the ability to jump
in and out of spaces” was quoted in an update this morning to
a July 2 post, “The Maxwell Enticement.” Related jumping —

See also other Log24 posts now tagged Knight Move.

Ursula K. Le Guin, in Amazing Stories , Sept. 1992, published
"The Rock That Changed Things" (pp. 9-13) and her story from
thirty years earlier, "April in Paris" (Fantastic Stories , Sept. 1962.)
The latter (pp. 14-19) was followed by some brief remarks (p. 19)
comparing the two stories.

For "The Rock," see Le Guin + Rock in this journal.

"April in Paris" is about time travel by means of an alchemist's
pentagram. The following figure from 1962 is in lieu of a pentagram —

See as well a search for 1962 in this journal.

The previous post suggests a review of
the phrase "strange loop" in this journal.

In memory of Mike Wallace—

1. An April 8 post noting the death of Wallace—
   a NY Times  obituary notice with ad at top— "The North Face"
    
2. An April 21 post noting the death of Charles Colson,
   reportedly at at 3:12 PM on Saturday, April 21, 2012,
   with ad at top— "Discover New Horizons" 
    
3. An April 21 post linking to a 3/12 post (this date being
   suggested by the reported time of Colson's death)
   that has a review of the film "The Ninth Configuration"
    
4. An April 22 post with six lines that some might
   interpret as meeting on a horizon, two lines that might
   be interpreted as meeting at a "depth horizon," and
   a ninth line that emerges from the other eight
    
5. An April 23 post that combines a passage from
   "The Ninth Configuration" with a detail from
   the North Face ad that appeared above Wallace's
   NY TImes  obituary on April 8 and again above
   Colson's obituary on April 23
    
6. "The game's…"

See also Knight Moves.

"I love gazing into things. Can you imagine with me how glorious it is, for example, to see into a dog, in passing— into him… to ease oneself into the dog exactly at his center, the place out of which he exists as a dog, that place in him where God would, so to speak, have sat down for a moment when the dog was complete, in order to watch him at his first predicaments and notions and let him know with a nod that he was good, that he lacked nothing, that no better dog could be made. For a while one can endure being in the middle of the dog, but one has to be sure to jump out in time, before the world closes in around him completely, otherwise one would remain the dog within the dog and be lost to everything else."

— Rainer Maria Rilke, quoted in The New York Times  in 1988

Omitting unneeded narrative details,
a madman's knight move —

A novel search in memory of the late
uncrowned crown prince of Albania—

Nabokov, Pale Fire

Related narratives—

Prose Tale and The Meadow.

Oh, and happy birthday to Woody Allen (76 today)—

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." —Groucho Marx

Hamlet Fire†

The "knight's move" of the title is the supplying of the above link.
For details, click on the link (a search on the link's two words).

^{* For the meaning of "knight's move," see To Make a Short Story Long.}

^† For the meaning of the phrase  (as opposed to the search ),
    see the birthplace of Tom Wicker, who died today.