* A post of December 17

     * See Your Pony in this  journal.

Click here to search for "Crux" in this journal.

The reported June 21, 2016, dies natalis  of Ron Shaw
suggests a flashback . . .

Today's hearsay report that mathematician Jack Morava
died yesterday suggests a review:  Morava in this journal —

"Their immediate source was a Hessian* story . . . ."

— On the Brothers Grimm story "The Golden Key" 
(https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm200.html).

Related fashion statement . . .

* See as well a technical, not ethnic, meaning of "Hessian." 

"I'm in with the in grid, I go where the in grid goes."

For Candlebrow University:

For logicians —

For poets —

For geometers —

Return  of the well-dressed man with a beard —

"…on Saturday…."

* See other chess art and a related poem.

"Play It as It Lays."

A review by Robert Ghrist of a paper on aperiodic
Wang tilings suggests a search in this journal for Wang tiles.

A resulting image seems appropriate for today's posts,
which include a reference to a renowned Prada-wearer.

"She's like the wind." — Song lyric. See as well Hexagram 57.

From the American Mathematical Society today —

Robert Earl Tubbs (1954-2023)
May 15, 2023

"Tubbs, associate professor of mathematics at
the University of Colorado Boulder, died April 11, 2023,
at the age of 69. He received his PhD in 1981 from
Penn State University under the supervision of 
W. Dale Brownawell. His research interests included
number theory, especially transcendental number theory,
the intellectual history of mathematical ideas and mathematics,
and the humanities."

This  journal on the dies natalis  of Tubbs had the third of three
posts tagged "Space and Form."  Those posts dealt with European
cultural history related to Tubbs's interests. The "Space and Form"
posts, along with today's previous Log24 post, suggest a review of
the Nov. 10, 2021 post titled European Culture.  An image from that post —

Those who share Cassirer's enthusiasm for myth may regard the
above Josefine Lyche version of my work as a sort of "secret writing,"
to quote a phrase of Cassirer's I find very distasteful. But there is nothing
secret  about it, although there is some resemblance to written characters.

This  post's title was suggested by a Salinger quote in the European Culture post.

Update on the next day, May  17 —

Further reading in Cassirer's Mythical Thought  indicates that in the
passages above, on Schelling, he may be presenting a parody of
Schelling when he writes "a poem hidden behind a wonderful
secret writing."  Later, on page 10, he asks, sensibly, 

"… is there, perhaps, a means of retaining the question
put forward by Schelling's Philosophie der Mythologie
but of transferring it from the sphere of a philosophy of
the absolute to that of critical philosophy?"

There has reportedly been "an upsurge of interest" in Cassirer —

(A sequel to Social Geometry)

Number mysticism I prefer, from a post of Nov. 15 last year —

Other social notes from that May weekend —

Some related reading for Cormac McCarthy —

The Topos of Unconsciousness .

The title refers to a post discussing a date, 
that of last year's Feast of St. Thomas Becket. 

Related material —

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/09/movies/ruggero-deodato-dead.html .

The title is from . . .

https://booksonthewall.com/blog/samuel-beckett-quote-fail-better/ .

This post was suggested by yesterday's Feast of St. Thomas Becket —

A Beckett-related flashback linked to here yesterday —

Rosalind Krauss in 1978 —

"To get inside the systems of this work,
whether LeWitt's or Judd's or Morris's,
is precisely to enter
a world without a center,
a world of substitutions and transpositions
nowhere legitimated by the revelations
of a transcendental subject. This is the strength
of this work, its seriousness, and its claim to modernity." 

. . . as well as starring in Alpha Dog and in . . .

Or: The Sontag Puzzlement

Wikipedia on "Heavenly Creatures" —

"Juliet introduces Pauline to the idea of 'the Fourth World',
a Heaven without Christians where music and art are
celebrated. Juliet believes she will go there when she dies.
Certain actors and musicians have the status of saints in
this afterlife, such as singer Mario Lanza, with whom
both girls are obsessed."

   Related material — Sontag + Camp .