Log24

The last line* of the previous post . . .

"See as well a search in this  journal for Zettel ."

suggests another entertainment review —

"Interspersed with the surprisingly fruitful escapades
of these drunken detectives are a series of flashbacks
to Christmas 2007 . . . ."

— Rachel Aroesti in The Guardian , 
"Fri 29 Jul 2022 01.00 EDT,"
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/
2022/jul/29/the-resort-peacock-now-funny-
fast-paced-caper-the-white-lotus

* Added at about 7:20 this morning. The relevant material is in
the last post from that search — dated December 26, 2007.

"We … have … showtime."

* The new cartoon name of Cristin Milioti.

(A sequel to the previous post — "To the Lighthouse")

From that same date . . .

"Who would not be rapt?" . . . Cristin Milioti? —

Midrash on Woolf for Reiner —

Illustrated! —

From a review of "The Resort" at another website —

"The phrase 'The attempt to recall your past
is a waste of time' is repeated throughout the series."

A waste of time? …  Perhaps.  In "The Resort," Milioti is drawn
into an investigation of fictional events from December 2007.

A check of my own memories from that December
may or may not be a waste of time, but it yields a
page from a book that I fondly recall . . .

Venn's Trinity

Today is the birthday of logician John Venn.

From the St. Andrews History of Mathematics site:

"Venn considered three discs R, S, and T as typical subsets of a set U. The intersections of these discs and their complements divide U into 8 non-overlapping regions, the unions of which give 256 different Boolean combinations of the original sets R, S, T." 

Last night's entry, "A Queer Religion," gave a Catholic view of the Trinity.  Here are some less interesting but more fruitful thoughts inspired by Venn's diagram of the Trinity (or, indeed, of any three entities):

"To really know a subject you've got to learn a bit of its history…."
— John Baez, August 4, 2002

"We both know what memories can bring;
They bring diamonds and rust."
— Joan Baez, April 1975

For the "diamonds" brought by memories of the 2⁸ combinations described above, consider how the symmetric group S₈ is related to the symmetries of the finite projective space PG(3,2).  (See Diamond Theory.) 

For the "rust," consider the following:

"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt…."
— Matthew 6:19

The letters R, U, S, T in the Venn diagram above are perhaps relevant here, symbolizing, if you will, the earthly confusion of language, as opposed to the heavenly clarity of mathematics.

As for MOTH, see the article Hometown Zeroes (which brings us yet again to the Viper Room, scene of River Phoenix's death) and the very skillfully designed website MOTHEMATICS.