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Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Afterglow Song

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:57 am

Fom last night's Afterglow post . . .

This suggests a review. Earlier in this journal

“The Platters were singing ‘Each day I pray for evening just to be with you,’ and then it started to happen.  The pump turns on in ecstasy.  I closed my eyes, I held her with my eyes closed and went into her that way, that way you do, shaking all over, hearing the heel of my shoe drumming against the driver’s-side door in a spastic tattoo, thinking that I could do this even if I was dying, even if I was dying, even if I was dying; thinking also that it was information.  The pump turns on in ecstasy, the cards fall where they fall, the world never misses a beat, the queen hides, the queen is found, and it was all information.”

— Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis, August 2000
Pocket Books paperback, page 437

A related "Lex-Icon" . . .

Hex Rex
Sex Lex

Wednesday, December 20, 2023

For the Circle Girl

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 5:53 pm

" I think I just like saying 'intake manifold.' " — Emma Watson in "The Circle."

"The manifold that Heraclitus wishes to communicate is a dense, multi-
dimensional complex of ideas and experiences, but speech and writing are
linear. It would be very inefficient to try to communicate with precision the
multidimensional complexity of such a manifold by a simple, literal linear
description."

Word and Flux, by Bruce J. MacLennan,
p. 357 of the January 2, 2021, version.

See also MacLennan in a Log24 post of Christmas Eve, 2012.

Saturday, February 8, 2020

Multispeech

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:09 pm

See the title in this journal. Related material —
"Aimee Lucido's New Yorker puzzle" (answers shown)
in Diary of a Crossword Fiend,  and The Demolished Man 
in this  journal.

Friday, February 7, 2020

Correspondences

The 15  2-subsets of a 6-set correspond to the 15 points of PG(3,2).
(Cullinane, 1986*)

The 35  3-subsets of a 7-set correspond to the 35 lines of PG(3,2).
(Conwell, 1910)

The 56  3-subsets of an 8-set correspond to the 56 spreads of PG(3,2).
(Seidel, 1970)

Each correspondence above may have been investigated earlier than
indicated by the above dates , which are the earliest I know of.

See also Correspondences in this journal.

* The above 1986 construction of PG(3,2) from a 6-set also appeared
in the work of other authors in 1994 and 2002 . . .

Addendum at 5:09 PM suggested by an obituary today for Stephen Joyce:

See as well the word correspondences  in
"James Joyce and the Hermetic Tradition," by William York Tindall
(Journal of the History of Ideas , Jan. 1954).

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