Saturday, May 9, 2026
Annals of Narrative: Square Peg, Round Hole
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Saturday, March 28, 2026
Friday, March 27, 2026
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
Thursday, January 22, 2026
Annals of Hollywoodland
Sagan as Fagin —
[A verse suggested by a Facebook post today . . .
"The cast of Sentimental Value all received
their first-ever Oscar nominations" . . .
and by the Jan. 22, 2026, New Yorker Cartoon of the Day.]
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For Your Consideration:
Shadowcraft Backstory
"A witch hiding a dangerous secret is thrust
into an elite magical academy, where survival
means risking her life and her heart.
Dark secrets. Deadly choices. A destiny that
can’t be outrun. Welcome to Shadowcraft Academy."
— https://www.breannerandall.com/
The Source . . . A Titusville bookstore —
Other May Tricks —
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Shadowcraft Backstory
Shadowcraft Backstory
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
♫ “The rain is Tess” — Song lyric
Related Platonic image —
"Red sky at night . . ."
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Tuesday, September 2, 2025
In Memory of Charles Grodin:
New Dog, Old Tricks
Instagram's Lilahlore today . . .
"Fancy dress in bathtub, why not"
Instagram's Lilyjcollins on May 2, 2022 . . .
"Happy Met Ball Monday!"
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New Dog, Old Tricks
New Dog, Old Tricks
Monday, August 25, 2025
Using AI: Search vs. Chat
Adapted song lyric —
"I used Chat, Chat used me, neither one cared."
What if we read the above machine-boilerplate "Comments Off"
remark ending a May 6 Log24 post as a dramatist's note?
Related reading —
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/
ai-chatbots-delusions-chatgpt.html —
"Over 21 days of talking with ChatGPT, an otherwise
perfectly sane man became convinced that he was
a real-life superhero. We analyzed the conversation.
. . . We received a full export of all of Allan Brooks’s conversations
with an OpenAI chatbot and analyzed a subset of the conversations
starting from May 6, 2025, when he began the chat about pi."
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Sunday, August 17, 2025
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
High Concept: Lilla Meets Lila
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Sunday, July 13, 2025
Brick House* Lit Tip
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“The best thriller I've read in years! At once a heart-pounding mystery and a profound take on the dangers of our confessional age.” — Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year “Welcome to the memoir workshop from hell. In dual timelines, a young writer looks for creative inspiration in a dangerous paradise and a mother searches for answers about her daughter's last days. I relished this insider's look at the glittering, intimate, and sometimes toxic world of writing retreats. The Deepest Lake is a gripping yet thoughtful novel about overcoming trauma, meeting our inheritance, and what happens when we seize the power to rewrite our own stories.” — Alison B. Hart, author of The Work Wife
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Friday, June 13, 2025
Sunday, June 1, 2025
The Past is Prologue:
May Tricks, June Havoc
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May Tricks, June Havoc
May Tricks, June Havoc
Saturday, May 31, 2025
Not So Nobel . . .
In memory of comic book writer Peter David, who reportedly died
on May 24, here is a sequel to this morning's post The Nobel Eye . . .
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Friday, May 30, 2025
Thursday, May 29, 2025
Classic Static vs. Romantic Dynamic
Dichotomies —
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Update: The above remarks were suggested in part by a repost today . . .
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Wednesday, May 28, 2025
From May 3, 2025 — The FutureHouse Report
"To appreciate the full depth of the Cullinane diamond theorem,
it is instructive to examine the group–theoretic foundations
in greater detail."
— http://m759.net/wordpress/?p=126734
The report was cited here on May 3, 2025.
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Tuesday, May 27, 2025
The Primordial As
"The disclosure of the primordial as is the end of a search that began with Plato….
This search comes to its conclusion with Heidegger.”
— “Three Senses of ‘A is B’ in Heideggger,” Ch. 17 in Indiscrete Thoughts
by Gian-Carlo Rota [Birkhauser, Boston, 1997].
Related philosophy . . .
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Anatomy of a Fourfold Square
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Brick House Conference: The Missing 18 Minutes
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May Tricks:
“Pardon me boy, is this the Transylvania Station?”
See as well Bucharest in this journal.
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“Pardon me boy, is this the Transylvania Station?”
“Pardon me boy, is this the Transylvania Station?”
Saturday, May 24, 2025
En Recherche de Pynchon’s Preterite*
* See a post of May 18.
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A Monolith for Pasadena
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For May 24: Case Study Notes
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