The Source —
Wednesday, January 21, 2026
Thursday, January 8, 2026
Rose Field Shadow Work
on Deep Blue Suede Day
Adapted song lyric —
"What's that sweater you have on?
Is that a faded heart from days gone by?"
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on Deep Blue Suede Day
on Deep Blue Suede Day
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Bilbao Shadow Work
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
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A recent visual echo . . .
Some may prefer more explicit fashion modeling.
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Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Balenciaga Girl: The Northwest Corner*
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Sunday, August 24, 2025
“City of Bones” Shadow Work
The musical introduction to today's "CBS Sunday Morning" suggests . . .
. . . and therefore also . . .
Music from the above Bach portrait:
Fans of XORschism may consult this journal on
the above YouTube Bach date — May 29, 2024.
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Friday, May 16, 2025
“Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November” —
Moonshine Lullabies
Meanwhile . . .
" A faithful cork tries desperately to be reunited with the neck of his
champagne bottle, only to discover he should have aimed for
a different bottle all together."
In other entertainment news . . .
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Moonshine Lullabies
Moonshine Lullabies
Sunday, April 27, 2025
“Remember, Remember, 11:05.”
The lockscreen as I sat down at my computer tonight . . .
The Death Valley photo suggested, indirectly, a check of a TikTok repost . . .
The text photo in the repost, in turn, suggested . . .
THE SOURCE
"Possibilities may be greater than they seem." For both sides, as
Perlstein noted. (Authors do not, usually, write articles' headlines.)
That oracular saying of course applies to individuals as well as sides.
Background reading: Transcribed paper journal posts from April 2001.
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Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Impersonal Noun: The Alpha Integer
From a Log24 post of August 27, 2015 . . .
The personal pronoun "I" may also be read as the Roman numeral I.
Related art — The "planks" of Venice Beach artist John McCracken and . . .
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Monday, April 14, 2025
An Old Song and Dance
Song …
(Marlene Dietrich – "Lili Marlene" …
Dietrich as "The Naked Muse.")
Unsere beiden Schatten
Sah'n wie einer aus.
Das wir so lieb uns hatten,
Das sah man gleich daraus.
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Monday, March 10, 2025
For Nora Barnacle
This afternoon's post "Speak, Memory" referred to the conclusion
of Chapter 17 in Joyce's Ulysses . For those looking forward to
the next chapter . . .
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Sunday, December 1, 2024
Manhattan Show and Tell:
A Diamond Sign for the Yoda of Silicon Valley
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A Diamond Sign for the Yoda of Silicon Valley
A Diamond Sign for the Yoda of Silicon Valley
Friday, October 25, 2024
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Monday, October 21, 2024
Coppola Family Values
In lieu of a hip Jesuit, vide "Sofia Coppola and All the Sad Girls"
by Emily Yoshida in The New York Times on the date of the above
"Teorema" post . . . November 10, 2023.
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Sunday, October 20, 2024
For a Tim Burton Fan: Amityville Serenade
"By a knight of ghosts and shadows . . . ."
The "Lindenhurst" on the above map suggests an Irrelevant
geographic history note, and a scholium . . .
A Wroclaw image from 2011 in which a version of my own work appears —
Ekphrasis of the Cullinane-Lyche wall above . . .
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From The Golden Key by George MacDonald "We must find the country from which the shadows come," said Mossy. "We must, dear Mossy," responded Tangle. "What if your golden key should be the key to it?" "Ah! that would be grand," returned Mossy. |
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Claves Regni — ♫ “Takin’ Care of Business . . .”
"Now he believed that where there was a key,
there must also be a lock…."
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From The Golden Key by George MacDonald "We must find the country from which the shadows come," said Mossy. "We must, dear Mossy," responded Tangle. "What if your golden key should be the key to it?" "Ah! that would be grand," returned Mossy. |
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Sunday Spotlight* for Beetlejuice
* See also, in this journal, Saturday night's Spotlight Revisited.
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Friday, October 4, 2024
Sunday, September 29, 2024
Annals of Snark: The Matchwood Patch
From The New York Times on Michaelmas 2024 —
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A Requiem for Lana: “Knock, Knock, Knockin'”
Mathematician-programmer Lana Creal reportedly died on Sept. 14.
An image reposted in this journal on that date —
Notes on some other women in mathematics —
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Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Die Moritat von MSRI
The writer whose elegance was reportedly described as above
by Rolling Stone was Nick Tosches.
Related reading . . .
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Saturday, September 14, 2024
Seven Years of Group Actions (and Non-Actions)
The previous post's Wired reference to a seven-year AI project
suggests a review of this journal seven years ago . . .
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Friday, September 13, 2024
The Fall Guy — Film Noir Version —
with Emily Blunt as Blackout Margarita
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with Emily Blunt as Blackout Margarita
with Emily Blunt as Blackout Margarita
Thursday, September 12, 2024
“What Dead Men Tell” Sequel* — “Two Tangled Tales”
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Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Annals of Fashion: The Maltese Keyhole
"… dum frater sororis suae automata per clostellum miratur …."
Related reading . . .
"At the end of a long road was a drive that led to a large house . . . ."
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