See Knoxville in this journal and . . .
"Feed your head." — Grace Slick.
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
“When the Men on the Chessboard . . .”
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Monday, June 6, 2022
Screenwriters on LA
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"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."
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Monday, March 14, 2022
A Fiction Which
"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.
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Sunday, March 13, 2022
Thursday, March 10, 2022
“Es war einmal ein Steinhauer…”
The Stonecutter
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This post is in honor of Thandiwe Newton, intimacy coordinator.
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Diabolical Poetics
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:
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Friday, April 28, 2017
As In :: A Sin
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Saturday, March 18, 2017
Back to the Past
"Old men ought to be explorers" — T. S. Eliot
"All on a Saturday night" — Johnny Thunder, 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
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News Search
See also, in this journal, "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead."
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Gamers
A search for Gamers in this journal yields …
This is not unrelated to the title of a 2008
book by Jeremy Gray:
Plato's Ghost:
The Modernist Transformation
of Mathematics .
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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.
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Narrative for Westworld
“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“
Click the book for a video.
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Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Middle March:
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."
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Tuesday, March 14, 2017
In Adam’s Fall / We Sinnèd All
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Backstories
"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 —
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Saturday, March 11, 2017
Atque Vale
Jeremy Irons and the Apple of Eden —
Jeremy Gray, Valediction —
See also this journal on Thursday, 11 September, 2014.
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Plato’s Ghost
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—
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."
![presented by Weber in [1896, p. 539],* where he attributed it to Kronecker](http://www.log24.com/log/pix10/100303-Weber537.gif){kind=link}
— 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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