Math vs. Narrative

Thursday, May 19, 2022

True Confessions! … 8!

Filed under: General — Tags: Math vs. Narrative, Schoolgirl Confessions — m759 @ 2:01 pm

A literary note by the author of The Eight published on April 8, 2022 —

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Schoolgirl.space

Filed under: General — Tags: Math vs. Narrative, Schoolgirl Confessions — m759 @ 5:46 am

See also a Log24 post from 2010, "Class of 64."

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Wednesday, May 18, 2022

“The form, the pattern”

Filed under: General — Tags: Disney Wars, Lo Shu, Math vs. Narrative — m759 @ 7:26 pm

An image from Slovenia missed earlier* in the search above —

"Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera." — Oscar Hammerstein

* See "Robin Wilson" in the Design Grammar post of
19 Oct. 2017. The author of the above document may
or may not be the Robin Wilson of Gresham College.

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Sounds of Music: Compare and Contrast

Filed under: General — Tags: Math vs. Narrative — m759 @ 6:28 pm

The New York Times this afternoon —

From Log24 on the Catholic dies natalis of
the von Trapp daughter above —

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“Make it new.”

Filed under: General — Tags: Math vs. Narrative — m759 @ 10:41 am

"Literature is not demography, nor is it politics, even if it is quite often political. Progress, at least when it comes to cultural production, becomes lasting not when one is trying to join the reigning establishment, or lamenting how exclusionary it is (it so often is!), but, to quote that anti-Semite Ezra Pound, when one seeks, in the first place, to make it new ."

— Mordechai Levy-Eichel and Daniel Scheinerman on
May 17, 2022, in The Chronicle of Higher Education —
"Digital humanists need to learn how to count:
A prominent recent book in the field
suffers serious methodological pitfalls."

And then there are methodological sinkholes —

See Log24 posts tagged Sinkhole and . . .

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Tuesday, May 17, 2022

As If Searching . . .

Filed under: General — Tags: Math vs. Narrative, Reading Marks, Schoolgirl Confessions — m759 @ 10:11 pm

'As if searching for prisms of light'quote

Further searching, on the wider Web, yields . . .

"Blair has multiple sclerosis, a condition Didion shared."
— Susan Burton, review of Mean Baby , NY Times 15 May 2022

Another recent narrative about Didion and MS —

March 3rd, 2022

A Fraying Narrative:

Multiple Sclerosis, The White Album, and how Didion’s seminal work became—to one writer—a bible for losing one's mind.

by Emily Carmichael

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Harry Potter and the Crown of Fire

Filed under: General — Tags: Crown of Fire, Math vs. Narrative — m759 @ 2:23 pm

Daniel Radcliffe in the recent film "The Lost City" —

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00:15:51,476 –> 00:15:54,513
Um, some might call me
a collector.

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But there is one obsession
in particular

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that has held me captive.

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The Crown of Fire

From the Log24 post "Fish Babel" —

The final page, 759, of the Harry Potter saga —

Sunday, July 14, 2013

Working Backwards

Filed under: General — m759 @ 8:25 PM Edit This

"Warming to the question of what it means to read a poem backward…."

— Essayist in a New Yorker weblog on July 11, 2013

“Death itself would start working backwards.”

— Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia , 1950

"I twisted my mind like a bright ribbon, folded it,
and tied the crazy Christmas knots I love so well."
— Roger Zelazny, A Rose for Ecclesiastes , 1963

"All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flame are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one."
— T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets , 1942

See also some context for these quotations.

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