"As if an apparently meaningless frame of reference,
traveling at the speed of thought, suddenly became relevant…."
— Stephen Rachman, "Lost in Translation"
Unclean Frame—
Detail from the film "Sunshine Cleaning"
Clean Frame—
See also Psychic Art and "The Speed of Thought."
For another form of psychic art, see Game of Shadows.
Stephen Rachman on "The Purloined Letter"
"Poe’s tale established the modern paradigm (which, as it happens, Dashiell Hammett and John Huston followed) of the hermetically sealed fiction of cross and double-cross in which spirited antagonists pursue a prized artifact of dubious or uncertain value."
For one such artifact, the diamond rhombus formed by two equilateral triangles, see Osserman in this journal.
Some background on the artifact is given by John T. Irwin's essay "Mysteries We Reread…" reprinted in Detecting Texts: The Metaphysical Detective Story from Poe to Postmodernism .
Related material—
Mathematics vulgarizer Robert Osserman died on St. Andrew's Day, 2011.
A Rhetorical Question
"The past decade has been an exciting one in the world of mathematics and a fabulous one (in the literal sense) for mathematicians, who saw themselves transformed from the frogs of fairy tales— regarded with a who-would-want-to-kiss-that aversion, when they were noticed at all— into fascinating royalty, portrayed on stage and screen….
Who bestowed the magic kiss on the mathematical frog?"
A Rhetorical Answer
Above: Amy Adams in "Sunshine Cleaning"
(Continued from September 7th, 2002)
Happy Birthday, Wallace Shawn!
Shawn in "The Speed of Thought,"
a 2011 film by Evan Oppenheimer.
Uruguay is featured in that film.
See also Lichtung!.
For those who prefer Nick Stahl (star of "The Speed of Thought"— see previous post)
to Keanu Reeves as a savior figure, here is a still from another film with Stahl as savior—
Backstory —
See also a Log24 post from the day of Blank's death, The Uploading.
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