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Friday, July 24, 2026

Lost in Translation: REVELADO

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 8:53 am

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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

 

Wednesday, July 22, 2026

“Pivotal”

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 8:21 pm

The Latest Spielberg Fantasy —
Disclosure Day: The Clown Chuckles

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , , — m759 @ 11:45 am

https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/movies/disclosure-day-2026-transcript/

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).

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

For the Nighttown Comedy Center

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 7:20 pm

— Do you like Irving Berlin?

— I don't know, I've never irved Berlin.

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Thursday, June 16, 2016

Polytropos

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:00 pm

Πολυμερῶς καὶ πολυτρόπως πάλαι ὁ Θεὸς λαλήσας . . . .

Long Day's Journey into Nighttown  continues. )

Saturday, May 17, 2014

This Feast of Pure Reason

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 6:00 pm

The title is a quote from Stephen Dedalus during
the Black Mass scene in Ulysses. (See May 12.)

Material related to the Ulysses scene:

IMAGE- Event of Jan. 19, 2012, at MoMA PS1 on a book about Elaine Sturtevant

Material related to pure reason (also from the above PS1 date):

 

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Death in Mathmagic Land

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 3:28 pm

"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:

Monday, May 12, 2014

Mass Appeal

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:00 pm

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.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Dehors*

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 10:31 am

"A New York Jew imitates D. H. Lawrence at his peril."

The New York Times  today

“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.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Nighttown

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

Continued from yesterday evening's "Long Day's Journey into Nighttown"—

A detail from that post—

Image-- Detail of New Yorker cover 'Finish Line,' double fiction issue of June 14 & 21, 2010

Related material from Nighttown—
The Sebastian Horsley Guide to Whoring

Image-- YouTube video, '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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