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"Watch your parking meters." — Bob Dylan

Seen on Amazon.com today —

Garber is the Harvard professor in the following 2013 remarks:

Log24 on the morning of Wheeler’s death —

Judy Davis in the Marabar Caves

From a New York Times  book review of a new novel about
Timothy Leary that was in the Times online on April 10 —

"Most of the novel resides in the perspective
of Fitzhugh Loney, one of Leary’s graduate students."

"A version of this article appears in print on April 21, 2019,
on Page 10 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: 
Strange Days." 

For material about one of Leary's non -fictional grad students,
Ralph Metzner, see posts now tagged Metzner's Pi Day.

Related material —

The reported publication date of Searching for the Philosophers' Stone
was January 1, 2019.  

A related search published here  on that date:

* Title suggested by two of Ralph Metzner's titles,
   The Expansion of Consciousness  and The Unfolding Self .

Ben Brantley's review  tonight of an Irish Repertory Theater
production of "The Seafarer" suggests a look at an
earlier New York Times  article on the same play.

From that article  (Sunday, Nov. 11, 2007) —

The target of a link in this  journal on the above 2007 date —

"You've got to pick up every stitch . . . ." — Donovan

  "When Death tells a story…"
— Cover of The Book Thief

"Finnegan's waterlogged epiphany" 

— Phrase by John Lancaster in a Washington Post  review of an
autobiography by William Finnegan, a book that today won a Pulitzer Prize.

The review is dated August 7, 2015. This  journal on that date —

… is a novel by James Morrow reviewed in The New York Times
on March 23, 2008:

"Morrow’s inventiveness is beguiling, as are his delight
in Western philosophy and his concern for the sorry state
of the world. Yet there’s also something comic-bookish
about his novel…."

— Siddhartha Deb

"Something comic-bookish" 
in memory of Albert Einstein,
who reportedly died on this date
in 1955 —

(Continued, in memory of the late meteorologist William Gray,
from August 10, 2010, and from April 16, 2016.)

For some backstory, see Huàn, the Flood and Impact Award.

"… Mathematics may be art, but to the general public
it is a black art, more akin to magic and mystery."

— Sir Michael Atiyah, "The Art of Mathematics"
     in the AMS Notices , January 2010, quoted in
     Log24 on April 4, 2016.

Related material:  Gray Space and …

Continues.

'Green Gables' star Jonathan Crombie dies at 48

Update of 8:19 PM ET —

Trailer for a recent Crombie documentary, "Waiting for Ishtar,"
that has not yet been released:

See also Lucero + Ishtar  and Lucero + Muerte .

Midrash:

See also “Leave a space,” from Monday.

“Kilimanjaro is a snow covered mountain 19,710 feet high,
and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western
summit is called the Masai ‘Ngàje Ngài,’ the House of God.
Close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcass
of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking
at that altitude.” — Ernest Hemingway, epigraph to a story

Some background —

Kristen Wiig and a mountain in the recent film “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”
and Wiig in a Log24 post of Sunday, March 6, 2011.

From Thomas Pynchon's 1997 Introduction to Stone Junction—

"He takes the Diamond, and then the Diamond takes him. For it turns out to be a gateway to elsewhere, and Daniel's life's tale an account of the incarnation of a god, not the usual sort that ends up bringing aid and comfort to earthly powers, but that favorite of writers, the incorruptible wiseguy known to anthropologists as the Trickster, to working alchemists as Hermes, to card-players everywhere as the Joker. We don't learn this till the end of the story, by which point, knowing Daniel as we've come to, we are free to take it literally as a real transfiguration, or as a metaphor of spiritual enlightenment, or as a description of Daniel's unusually exalted state of mind as he prepares to cross, forever, the stone junction between Above and Below— by this point, all of these possibilities have become equally true, for we have been along on one of those indispensable literary journeys, taken nearly as far as Daniel— though it is for him to slip along across the last borderline, into what Wittgenstein once supposed cannot be spoken of, and upon which, as Eliphaz Levi advised us— after 'To know, to will, to dare' as the last and greatest of the rules of Magic— we must keep silent."

"The devil likes metamorphoses." —The Club Dumas

Where Entertainment Is God
(continued)

Google News at about 7:37 PM —

Headline in tonight's
online New York Times:

Piedra y Luz

This morning's New York Times tells of Philip J. Hyde, wilderness photographer, who died on March 30.  The following, taken from the website Sister Earth, is in his honor.

Cierra los ojos y oye cantar la luz:
El mediodía anida en tu tímpano

Cierra los ojos y ábrelos:
No hay nadie ni siquiera tú mismo
Lo que no es piedra es luz

Close your eyes and hear
   the song of the light:
Noon takes shelter in your inner ear

Close your eyes and open them:
There is nobody not even yourself
Whatever is not stone is light

(From "Piedra Nativa," by Octavio Paz, quoted in the Sierra Club book Baja California and the Geography of Hope, by Joseph Wood Krutch and Eliot Porter.)

Dream of Youth Revisited

For some material related to the entry Dream of Youth of last Dec. 8 (the feast day of St. Hermann Weyl), see the recently updated A Mathematical Lie.

See, too, a "comedy of errors" from

7 rue René Descartes in Strasbourg (pdf)

on what Hilbert reportedly called "the most beautiful part of mathematics."

A Red Mass

For G. H. Hardy, who, although he kept a portrait of Lenin in his rooms, knew more of truth than most Christians ever know.

"317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but because it is so, because mathematical reality is built that way."
— G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology, 1940