Wednesday, March 27, 2024
The Triple-Threat Problem
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Metadata: The Copenhagen Interpretation
of “Magic in the Moonlight”
of “Magic in the Moonlight”
Belgian Puzzle Art
From the Belgian artist of the March 25 New Yorker cover —
“There comes a time when the learner has identified
the abstract content of a number of different games
and is practically crying out for some sort of picture
by means of which to represent that which has been
gleaned as the common core of the various activities.”
— Article at Zoltan Dienes’s website
Grid Geometry and Language Models: Grande et Petite
Thursday, March 14, 2024
For Aestheticians: Seeds, Good and Not So Good
In memory of . . .
Good Seed: Sydell.
Not So Good: Pearl.
This post was suggested by Sam Levinson's work in Whanganui NZ
and Alan D. Perlis's work in Birmingham AL —
From South Dakota, related material for Bible fans —
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Saturday, March 9, 2024
Eliot’s Octopus
Contrast the following page from Daniel Albright in 1997
with the previous post's remarks by Sarah Kennedy in 2018.
Related reading: The Log24 post "Real Beyond Artifice," with a
"Seventh Seal" image from the date of Albright's death.
Annals of Deceptive Fiction —
Dark Materials: Milton, Eliot, Pullman
For Pullman, see previous instances of "wilde abyss" in this journal.
For a less fictional approach to the abyss, see the following.
From T. S. Eliot and the Dynamic Imagination
Chapter 7
Would you have me – Shakespeare, Coriolanus, III.ii. [Link added.] . . . .
Eliot describes the creative germ as the The phrase echoes Milton’s Paradise Lost :
Into this wilde Abyss,
Eliot’s creative logic retains an aspect of the divine |
"The phrase echoes Milton's Paradise Lost" —
In describing his abyss, Milton invokes not "psychic material" but
rather the classical view of Nature as composed of the four elements
Water, Earth, Air and Fire.
Note that one source* of the "psychic material" phrase in Eliot's work
gives a rather different picture . . .
"And now I should like to return for a moment to Gottfried Benn
and his unknown, dark psychic material —
we might say, the octopus or angel with which the poet struggles."
* "The Three Voices of Poetry," by T. S. Eliot, The Atlantic, April 1954.
Related entertainment . . .
Dark Materials: Milton, Eliot, Pullman
Monday, February 26, 2024
Design School for Harvard: Tri.be
The name TRI.BE of the musical group in
the previous post suggests the URL https://tri.be
of the design firm Modern Tribe . . .
The above Tri.be color palette suggests a review of
the phrase "Color Box" in this journal, and an image:
Outpost Vegas… Continues.
Wednesday, December 27, 2023
Notes Toward a Ghent Altarpiece
From Prof. Dr. Koen Thas at the University of Ghent on 13 Dec. 2017 —
From this journal on that same date — 13 Dec. 2017 —
Related material for fans of synchronology — both from Nov. 3, 2009 —
Nightlight and Summa Mythologica .