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Tuesday, June 7, 2022

“When the Men on the Chessboard . . .”

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 5:47 am

See Knoxville in this journal and . . .

"Feed your head." — Grace Slick.

Monday, June 6, 2022

Screenwriters on LA

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:22 am

"Living in Los Angeles is living in the cradle of the industry I fantasized about being a part of since my father gifted me his Sears Super-8 movie camera when I was seven years old. Hollywood is a city but it is also a mythology. A magical fantasy. A living dream. And yes, a dream is a mere sigh away from becoming a nightmare. Many tears have been shed around this town. They’ve been watering the soil for generations, adding more lush green to this transient desert mirage. As Nathanael West wrote in his ode to those on the fringes of Hollywood in his 1939 novel, The Day of the Locust , ‘Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears.' "

— Adam Rifkin, quoted on Jan. 25, 2022

See related remarks from a different author in a Log24 search
for a John O'Hara title, "Hope of Heaven."

Monday, March 14, 2022

A Fiction Which

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:55 pm

"I’ve lived five years on the edge of the continent,
and over those years I’ve shed one skin and grown into another."

— Steinhauer, Olen. All the Old Knives  (p. 222).
St. Martin's Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
(Hardcover first edition:  Minotaur Books, March 10, 2015.)

So to speak.

Sunday, March 13, 2022

Design Research

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 7:55 am

Thursday, March 10, 2022

“Es war einmal ein Steinhauer…”

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 4:19 pm

The Stonecutter

Once upon a time there was a stone cutter who went to a high rock every day and broke stones out of it. He sold these stones for tombstones and doorsteps, and since he knew his job and the stones he offered for sale were always very carefully worked, he always found buyers for them. True, his merit was small and his burden great, but he was content for a long time and desired nothing more.

There was a legend that where he worked there lived a great mountain spirit who sometimes appeared to people and would help them to get ahead; but he had not yet discovered anything about the mountain spirit and always shook his head in disbelief when the subject was spoken of.

Once, however, when the stone cutter delivered a tombstone to a rich man and saw how nicely he lived and on what a precious bed he slept, he cried out during his hard work, which made his brow sweat, "Oh If only I were a rich man I wouldn't have to worry so much and I could sleep on a bed with red silk curtains and golden tassels!"

Scarcely had he spoken the words than a voice sounded through the air, calling to him . . . .

(Translated by Google from the German.)

This post is in honor of Thandiwe Newton, intimacy coordinator.

Diabolical Poetics

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 4:10 am

The title of the previous post suggests a search for
Shubnikov in this journal. That search yields a 1999
Yale doctoral dissertation, 

"Diabolical Structures in the Poetics of Nikolai Gogol."

A related image:

From "Made for Love" (2021) — Lyle Herringbone:

Friday, April 28, 2017

As In :: A Sin

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:09 pm

For the Church of Simultaneous Devices

Related art —

Saturday, March 18, 2017

Back to the Past

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 7:35 pm

"Old men ought to be explorers" — T. S. Eliot

"All on a Saturday night" — Johnny Thunder, 1962

'Loop De Loop,' Johnny Thunder, Diamond Records, 1962

Update of 8:25 PM ET on March 18 —

"Analysis." — Dr. Robert Ford in "Westworld"

"Master theorist and conceptual genius."

— Jon Pareles, front page, online New York Times   tonight

News Search

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:30 pm

See also, in this journal, "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead."

Gamers

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:00 pm

A search for Gamers in this journal yields

The image “http://www.log24.com/log/pix06A/061019-Tombstones.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.

This is not unrelated to the title of a 2008 
book by Jeremy Gray:

Plato's Ghost:
The Modernist Transformation
of Mathematics
.

Friday, March 17, 2017

To Coin a Phrase

(A sequel to the previous post, Narrative for Westworld)

"That corpse you planted last year . . . ." — T. S.  Eliot

Circle and Square at the Court of King Minos

Harmonic analysis based on the circle involves the
circular  functions.  Dyadic  harmonic analysis involves

For some related history, see (for instance) E. M. Stein
on square functions in a 1982 AMS Bulletin  article.

Narrative for Westworld

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:12 pm

“That corpse you planted
          last year in your garden,
  Has it begun to sprout?
          Will it bloom this year?  
  Or has the sudden frost
          disturbed its bed?”

— T. S. Eliot, “The Waste Land

Coxeter exhuming Geometry

Ball and Coxeter, 'Mathematical Recreations,' Twelfth Edition

Click the book for a video.

Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Middle March:

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:02 pm

The Key to All Mythologies  in a Cartoon Graveyard

This is a sequel to yesterday's post Review, which
suggested a look at Lévi-Strauss's The Raw and The Cooked  
in Derrida's “Structure, Sign, and Play," and then a look at the

Financial Times  of February 26, 2010

"The metaphor for metamorphosis no keys unlock."

Steven H. Cullinane, November 7, 1986

Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Review

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 12:00 pm

In Adam’s Fall / We Sinnèd All

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:18 am

Backstory for Westworld —

"Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard."

Backstories

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:00 am

"Backstories do more than amuse guests.
They anchor the hosts.
It's their cornerstone.
The rest of their identity is built around it, layer by layer."

— Elsie Hughes in "Westworld," Season 1, Episode 3,
     "The Stray," at 30:09

See also cornerstone in the Bible.

Dr. Robert Ford (Anthony Hopkins) earlier in that same episode —

Westworld S1E3 23:15- Dr. Ford on fiction

Saturday, March 11, 2017

Atque Vale

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:28 pm

Jeremy Irons and the Apple of Eden —

Jeremy Gray, Valediction —

See also this journal on Thursday, 11 September, 2014.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Plato’s Ghost

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:07 am

Jeremy Gray, Plato's Ghost: The Modernist Transformation of Mathematics, Princeton, 2008–

"Here, modernism is defined as an autonomous body of ideas, having little or no outward reference, placing considerable emphasis on formal aspects of the work and maintaining a complicated— indeed, anxious— rather than a naïve relationship with the day-to-day world, which is the de facto view of a coherent group of people, such as a professional or discipline-based group that has a high sense of the seriousness and value of what it is trying to achieve. This brisk definition…."

Brisk? Consider Caesar's "The die is cast," Gray in "Solomon's Cube," and yesterday's post

Group of 8 cube-face permutations generated by reflections in midplanes parallel to faces

This is the group of "8 rigid motions
generated by reflections in midplanes"
of Solomon's Cube.

Related material:

"… the action of G168 in its alternative guise as SL(3; Z/2Z) is also now apparent. This version of G168 was presented by Weber in [1896, p. 539],* where he attributed it to Kronecker."

— Jeremy Gray, "From the History of a Simple Group," in The Eightfold Way, MSRI Publications, 1998

Here MSRI, an acronym for Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, is pronounced "Misery." See Stephen King, K.C. Cole, and Heinrich Weber.

*H. Weber, Lehrbuch der Algebra, Vieweg, Braunschweig, 1896. Reprinted by Chelsea, New York, 1961.

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