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Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Raiders of the Inarticulate . . .

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 11:58 pm

. . . Continues.

". . . thematic preoccupations with binaries
(free will and destiny,
fact and fiction,
conscious and unconscious,
desire and fear)
and with the overarching notion
that stories become real
when they profoundly stir
one’s heart and mind.
These elements aren’t dramatized
as much as bluntly articulated . . . ."

— Nick Schager, thedailybeast.com, Dec. 21, 2021

Friday, January 4, 2019

Eliot’s Wake

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:35 pm

Scholium —

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Raiders of the Lost Articulation

Tom Hanks as Indiana Langdon in Raiders of the Lost Articulation :

An unarticulated (but colored) cube:

Robert Langdon (played by Tom Hanks) and a corner of Solomon's Cube

A 2x2x2 articulated cube:

IMAGE- Eightfold cube with detail of triskelion structure

A 4x4x4 articulated cube built from subcubes like
the one viewed by Tom Hanks above:

Image-- Solomon's Cube

Solomon’s Cube

A Raid on the Inarticulate

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

                                “… And so each venture
Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate….”

— T. S. Eliot, “East Coker V” in Four Quartets

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Where the Joints Are

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 10:00 am

An image related to the recent posts Sense and Sensibility:

A quote from yesterday's post The Eight:

A possible source for the above phrase about phenomena "carved at their joints":

See also the carving at the joints of Plato's diamond from the Meno :

Image-- Plato's diamond and a modern version from finite geometry

Related material: Phaedrus on Kant as a diamond cutter
in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance .

Monday, September 15, 2014

The Eight

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 12:00 pm

The image at the end of today’s previous post A Seventh Seal
suggests a review of posts on Katherine Neville’s The Eight .

Update of 1:25 PM ET on Sept. 15, 2014:

Neville’s longtime partner is neurosurgeon and cognitive theorist
Karl H. Pribram. A quote from one of his books:

See also Sense and Sensibility.

Sunday, September 14, 2014

Structure

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

In memory of cartoonist Tony Auth, who reportedly died today

From a Saturday evening post:

“A simple grid structure makes both evolutionary and developmental sense.”

From a post of June 22, 2003:

Confession in 'The Seventh Seal'

Sermon

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 11:00 am

Epigraphs from Parallelisms of Complete Designs
by Peter J. Cameron (Cambridge University Press, 1976)

Introduction
Through the unknown, remembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning
(T. S. Eliot: Little Gidding)

I  The existence theorem
Here the impossible union
Of spheres of existence is actual
(T. S. Eliot: The Dry Salvages)

II  The parallelogram property
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)
(T. S. Eliot: Little Gidding)

III  Steiner points and Veblen points
You say I am repeating
Something I have said before. I shall say it again.
Shall I say it again?
(T. S. Eliot: East Coker)

IV  Edge-colourings of complete graphs
And hollyhocks that aim too high
Red into grey and tumble down
(T. S. Eliot: East Coker)

V  Biplanes and metric regularity
Two and two, necessarye conjunction,
Holding eche other by the hand or the arm
Whiche betokeneth concorde.
(T. S. Eliot: East Coker)

VI  Automorphism groups
At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement.
(T. S. Eliot: Burnt Norton)

VII  Resolutions and partition systems
… fiddle with pentagrams
Or barbituric acids, or dissect
The recurrent image into pre-conscious terrors .. .
(T. S. Eliot: The Dry Salvages)

Sensibility

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 9:26 am

Structured gray matter:

Graphic symmetries of Galois space:
IMAGE - The Diamond Theorem

The reason for these graphic symmetries in affine  Galois space —

symmetries of the underlying projective  Galois space:

Saturday, September 13, 2014

Sense

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:09 pm

“A simple grid structure makes both evolutionary and developmental sense.”

— Van Wedeen, MD, of the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at
Massachusetts General Hospital, Science Daily , March 29, 2012

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