Yesterday's post and recent Hollywood news suggest
a meditation on a Progressive Matrix —
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"My card."
Structurally related images —
A sample Raven's Progressive Matrices test item
(such items share the 3×3 structure of the hash symbol above):
Structural background —
The Ideas
| “We tell ourselves stories in order to live…. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the ‘ideas’ with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.” — Joan Didion |
See Didion and the I Ching and posts tagged Plato in China .
The online Harvard Crimson today:
“ ‘I don’t like how they check your bags
when you leave the library
even though you have to swipe your
student ID to get in.’
But what else would I be carrying in this
Gutenberg Bible-sized backpack? ”
Nicole Kidman at the end of “Hemingway & Gellhorn” (2012)
Hieron Grammaton, Part III*
The Old Man and the Light
In memory of
Ernest Hemingway,
who died on this date
in 1961, a story
in three parts:
I — Eye of Raven
Fermata
II — Psyche and Symbol
Leonard Baskin, detail of
cover for Jung’s
Psyche and Symbol
III — Raven Steals the Light
Detail from the story
“Raven Steals the Light”
Midrash:
“To the earnestness of death belongs precisely that capacity for awakening, that resonance of a profound mockery which, detached from the thought of the eternal, is an empty and often brash jest, but together with the thought of the eternal is just what it should be….” —Kierkegaard
* For Hieron Grammaton, Parts I and II, see the five Log24 entries from 6:29 PM Tuesday, June 23, to 1:00 AM Sunday, June 28.
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