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Sunday, November 16, 2025

Understanding Media: Analogy

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:59 pm

"Say hello to my little friend."

https://subslikescript.com/movie/Hurlyburly-119336

So what do you want to do?

You want to go to your place,
you want to go to my place?

You want to go to a sex motel?

They got waterbeds.

They got porn
on the in-house video.

I'm hungry.

You want a Jack-in-the-Box?

I love Jack-in-the-Box.

Is that code for something?

What?

What? Is what code for what?

I don't know.

I don't know the goddamn code!

Vide  a post of January 16, 2024.

Media Studies: Film Style

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:24 pm

Prose Style

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 8:03 pm

"Vast realm . . . enchanting . . . capturing the imagination . . .
profound elegance . . . deep connections . . . ."

Jarod Alper in the December 2025
Notices of the American Mathematical Society
,
discussing a topic illustrated on the Notices cover.

Sounds to me like he's channeling SID 6.7 (or Mark Helprin).

Related reading — "Diamonds and Dogs" and "Wag the Tag."

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