Richard H. Masland and I were in a Harvard freshman seminar together
in the 1960-61 academic year. From a Crimson article on the program —
"Freshman Seminar Program Department Administrator Corinna S. Rohse
described the program’s courses, which allow students to study subjects
that vary from Sanskrit to the mathematical basis for chess, as
'jewel-like: small and incredibly well-cut.' "
This suggests a review of Log24 posts now tagged Four Gates.
On a former LA Times editor who reportedly died today at 73 —
"Richard Masland, who grew up with Carroll, described
his friend as a mediocre student who enjoyed midnight
raids on auto junkyards and other mischief.
But, Masland noted, he 'was never the front man.
He let other people actually do the raising of hell.'"
"I remember how the darkness doubled
I recall lightning struck itself
I was listening, listening to the rain
I was hearing, hearing something else
Life in the hive puckered up my night
The kiss of death, the embrace of life
There I stand neath the Marquee Moon
Just waiting"
— Tom Verlaine, "Marquee Moon"
In memory of Michael Gill,
producer and director of the
1969 TV series "Civilisation,"
who died on October 20:
Two descriptions of "Aeon Flux,"
a story featured in the Log24 entry
on the day that Gill died —
"After Aeon is done, Trevor decides that she knows too much, so he has a underling propose a plan to kill her. The plan, quite strangely, is to implant a bunch of nanites (microscopic robots) in Trevors seminal duct so he has sex with Aeon and the nanites tear her apart from the inside. But Aeon was prepared because she had some weird, mean, spiky, device in her uterus(!?!!) that eats the nanites (that part is kinda weak), she blows up a wall then and escapes leaving Trevor standing there naked and confused."
The Incredible Shrinking Man
(Wired Magazine, October 2004)
See also yesterday's entry on Scientism.
In memory of
Thomas Wootton Masland,
brother of
Richard Harry Masland, Harvard '64,
the Log24 entries of October 25.
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