260529-Fable_Tree_Boo.jpg
The above book was reportedly
published on May 19, 2026.
Friday, May 29, 2026
Crucible Notes
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Tuesday, May 19, 2026
For the late author of “A Mad Day’s Work” —
“Little Red May 19”
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“Little Red May 19”
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Justice Line
"And so Solly returned: one week to the day."
— David Justice, line in a whimsical tale linked to at the end
of "Locked Room Mystery," a weblog post today.
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Saturday, June 21, 2025
Customized Artifact
From a Log24 post of May 19, 2025 —
I have not yet yielded to the "customize artifact" temptation.
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An artifact from a report of an architect's May 19 death
in today's online New York Times —
The above artifact customized, courtesy of Google Image Search —
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Friday, June 7, 2024
The Big Finger
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Monday, June 3, 2024
Symmetry Plane
"For ten years… " — Song lyric
The previous post, together with the above song lyric, suggests a review
of the date May 19 ten years ago. The result of the review is the new tag
"Symmetry Plane."
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Old Journalist Dies
From the above . . .
"He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in New York
in 1954 and, in 1958, from Yale, where he was managing editor
of The Yale Daily News.
He was briefly a book editor at Random House, where in 1962
he read a manuscript that Cormac McCarthy had mailed over
the transom. He recommended the work for publication and
spent a year working with Mr. McCarthy on what became his
first novel, 'The Orchard Keeper.' "
See as well the above death date, May 19, in this journal.
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Sunday, May 19, 2024
“A Place to Stand” — Archimedes
Time of the most recent image post, at top left —
<time class="x1p4m5qa" datetime="2024-05-19T13:03:18.000Z"
title="May 19, 2024">9 hours ago</time> .
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Thursday, November 16, 2023
Geometry and Art
AI-assisted report on "Cullinane Diamond Theorem discovery" —
The full story of how the theorem was discovered is actually
a bit more interesting. See Art Space, a post of May 7, 2017,
and The Lindbergh Manifesto, a post of May 19, 2015.
"The discovery of the Cullinane Diamond Theorem is a testament
to the power of mathematical abstraction and its ability to reveal
deep connections and symmetries in seemingly simple structures."
I thank Bing for that favorable review.
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Monday, October 30, 2023
Red October Revisited
A New Yorker piece from October 7th, 2023 —
"Terry Bisson's History of the Future" . . .
The "May 19th" name "was derived from the birthdays
of Ho Chi Minh and Malcolm X." — Wikipedia
And then there is the May 19 Gestalt . . .
For a prequel of sorts, see a May 19, 2023, arXiv paper —
Related Log24 reading: Other posts tagged Kummerhenge.
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Tuesday, October 17, 2023
“A Fair Thought” — Hamlet
"Nothing can come from nothing," or
"Ex nihilo nihil fit " — Classic adage
"Creation is the birth of something, and
something cannot come from nothing."
— Photographer Peter Lindbergh
See as well Peter Lindbergh's short film of
Emma Watson with goat and horse.
"Elemental, my dear Watson."
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Saturday, October 14, 2023
May 19 Gestalt
The prominent role played by the date "May 19" in a New Yorker piece
from Oct. 7 — "Terry Bisson's History of the Future" . . .
. . . suggests a review of "May 19 Gestalt" in this journal
and posts so tagged.
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Thursday, June 1, 2023
For the House at Crary Corner*
A website by today's MIT commencement speaker —
* MIT-related news from May 19, 1961,
in Warren, Pennsylvania . . .
* "The Long Dark Trail" is the title of a recent film
directed by a later resident of 505 Market Street.
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Friday, May 19, 2023
Der Schlußstein des Gewölbes
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Tuesday, April 18, 2023
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Release Dates: The Iceman Goeth
Part I —
Also in May 1986 —
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86-05-08… A linear complex related to M24 . Anatomy of the polarity pictured in the 86-04-26 note. 86-05-26… The 2-subsets of a 6-set are the points of a PG(3,2).
Beutelspacher's model of the 15 points of PG(3,2) |
Part II — (36 years later)
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Friday, May 27, 2022
Wednesday, September 1, 2021
Moss from an Old Manse
An image from Bedrock, a post on May 19, 2011, "Hilary Knight Day" —
Fact check —
Related entertainment —
“There are dark comedies. There are screwball comedies.
But there aren’t many dark screwball comedies.
And if Nora Ephron’s Lucky Numbers is any indication,
there’s a good reason for that.”
— Todd Anthony, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Heavy Metaphor
Earlier posts that are also tagged "Points Omega" suggest some
context for a May 19 New Republic illustration.
x → -1/x
See as well
"Flowers and Brown."
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Tuesday, October 29, 2019
Triangles, Spreads, Mathieu
There are many approaches to constructing the Mathieu
group M24. The exercise below sketches an approach that
may or may not be new.
Exercise:
It is well-known that …
There are 56 triangles in an 8-set.
There are 56 spreads in PG(3,2).
The alternating group An is generated by 3-cycles.
The alternating group A8 is isomorphic to GL(4,2).
Use the above facts, along with the correspondence
described below, to construct M24.
Some background —
A Log24 post of May 19, 2013, cites …
Peter J. Cameron in a 1976 Cambridge U. Press
book — Parallelisms of Complete Designs .
See the proof of Theorem 3A.13 on pp. 59 and 60.
See also a Google search for "56 triangles" "56 spreads" Mathieu.
Update of October 31, 2019 — A related illustration —
Update of November 2, 2019 —
See also p. 284 of Geometry and Combinatorics:
Selected Works of J. J. Seidel (Academic Press, 1991).
That page is from a paper published in 1970.
Update of December 20, 2019 —
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Tuesday, March 5, 2019
Design Warmed Over
Today's announcement of the 2019 Pritzker Architecture Prize
to Arata Isozaki suggests a review.
Isozaki designed the Museum of Contemporary Art building
in Los Angeles in 1986.
A related article from May 19, 2010 —
An excerpt from the Walker article —
Throwback fun with Chermayeff and Geismar —
Other news published on May 19, 2010 —
See also "Character of Permanence" in this journal.
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Monday, June 11, 2018
Arty Fact
The title was suggested by the name "ARTI" of an artificial
intelligence in the new film 2036: Origin Unknown.
The Eye of ARTI —
See also a post of May 19, "Uh-Oh" —
— and a post of June 6, "Geometry for Goyim" —
Mystery box merchandise from the 2011 J. J. Abrams film Super 8
An arty fact I prefer, suggested by the triangular computer-eye forms above —
This is from the July 29, 2012, post The Galois Tesseract.
See as well . . .
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Saturday, May 19, 2018
Flux Capacitor
For Tom Hanks and Dan Brown —
From "Raiders of the Lost Images" —
"The cube shape of the lost Mother Box,
also known as the Change Engine,
is shared by the Stone in a novel by
Charles Williams, Many Dimensions .
See the Solomon's Cube webpage."
See as well a Google search for flux philosophy —
https://www.google.com/search?q=flux+philosophy.
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Saturday, April 21, 2018
Monday, December 4, 2017
In the Service of Narrative
See also posts tagged May 19 Gestalt.
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Sunday, October 15, 2017
Monday, September 18, 2017
In Memoriam
Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov, "the man who saved the world," reportedly died
at 77 in a town near Moscow on May 19, 2017.
A figure from last night's post appeared in this journal on that date.
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Friday, August 4, 2017
Blockbuster
This post was suggested by a New York Times article online today
about an upcoming exhibition at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts —
"A version of this article appears in print on August 6, 2017,
on Page AR2 of the New York edition with the headline:
The article suggests a look at a July 3 Times review of the life of
Jan Fontein, a former Boston Museum of Fine Arts director —
"Mr. Fontein’s time as director coincided with
the nationwide rise of the blockbuster exhibition,
and he embraced the concept. 'There was such a thing
as a contemplative museum, but I don’t think that can
survive anymore,' he told Newsweek in 1978."
Fontein died at 89 on May 19, 2017. See Dharmadhatu — a Log24 post
of July 4, 2017 — and its link to posts tagged May 19 Gestalt.
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Saturday, July 29, 2017
MSRI Program
"The field of geometric group theory emerged from Gromov’s insight
that even mathematical objects such as groups, which are defined
completely in algebraic terms, can be profitably viewed as geometric
objects and studied with geometric techniques."
— Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, 2016:
See also some writings of Gromov from 2015-16:
- Memorandum Ergo (October 29, 2015)
- Great Circle of Mysteries (November 15, 2015)
- Quotations and Ideas (April 15, 2016)
For a simpler example than those discussed at MSRI
of both algebraic and geometric techniques applied to
the same group, see a post of May 19, 2017,
"From Algebra to Geometry." That post reviews
an earlier illustration —
For greater depth, see "Eightfold Cube" in this journal.
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Tuesday, July 4, 2017
Dharmadhatu
In memory of a museum director who reportedly died on May 19, 2017 —
See also posts tagged May 19 Gestalt.
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