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Revised Standard Version . . .
KKJZ, not KCXE —
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"Everything's Up to Date at KKJZ" —
Show Tune for Development Hell
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Revised Standard Version . . .
KKJZ, not KCXE —
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"Everything's Up to Date at KKJZ" —
Show Tune for Development Hell
https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/movies/disclosure-day-2026-transcript/
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You have the gift but no control. No understanding of your purpose. Not a clue as to what your situation will demand of you beyond today. The only way for you to acquire it is to go back to where it all began. To go home. And when you do, Margaret, you’ll know everything. More than what was ever humanly possible. They gifted each of you. Margaret, what was dormant in you for most of your life was activated only yesterday. And yours, 15 years ago. They gave you fluency in the language in which the book of the universe is written: mathematics. Taught it to you, imbued it so you could understand them. And they imbued you so you could understand us. It’s the two of you. [chuckles] It’s always been just the two of you. [quiet, indistinct chatter] You can direct it or feel where it wants to take you. It can find what you’re looking for. It’ll be an instrument of your will. But you must give yourself over to it. |
I prefer an earlier fantasy on this theme . . .
Many Dimensions, by Charles Williams (1931).
— Do you like Irving Berlin?
— I don't know, I've never irved Berlin.
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Πολυμερῶς καὶ πολυτρόπως πάλαι ὁ Θεὸς λαλήσας . . . .
( Long Day's Journey into Nighttown continues. )
The title is a quote from Stephen Dedalus during
the Black Mass scene in Ulysses. (See May 12.)
Material related to the Ulysses scene:
Material related to pure reason (also from the above PS1 date):
"It was our old friend Pythagoras who discovered
that the pentagram was full of mathematics."
— Narrator, "Donald in Mathmagic Land," Disney, 1959
… and it was Peter J. Cameron who discovered that
mathematics was full of pentagrams.
From Log24 on May 3: Gray Space —
Robert J. Stewart (left) and a pentagram photo posted May 2
by Oslo artist Josefine Lyche. See also Lyche in this journal.
From Log24 on May 13: An Artist's Memorial —
The death mentioned in the above May 13 post occurred on
May 12, the date of a scheduled Black Mass at Harvard.
Related material:

For those disappointed by the cancellation
of this evening's Black Mass at Harvard,
here is a somewhat less exciting substitute.
See also Peter J. Cameron + Magic.
"A New York Jew imitates D. H. Lawrence at his peril."
“Our focus is on creating very high quality, highly artistically produced programs that bring together worlds that usually don’t talk to each other,” said Dr. Greene, a physics and math professor at Columbia and well-known popularizer of science. “We’ve tried to inject the drama of science into these highly produced programs, so people leave the event saying, ‘Wow, I didn’t know that’s what science is like.’ ”
As for D. H. Lawrence, see this journal on September 10, 2003.
* For the title, see last night's Turing Gate.
Continued from yesterday evening's "Long Day's Journey into Nighttown"—
A detail from that post—
Related material from Nighttown—
The Sebastian Horsley Guide to Whoring—
Horsley, the author of Dandy in the Underworld, was
found dead this morning of a suspected heroin overdose.
"By groping toward the light we are made to realize
how deep the darkness is around us."
— Arthur Koestler, The Call Girls: A Tragi-Comedy,
Random House, 1973, page 118
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