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Thursday, June 6, 2019

Strange Dots

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 3:43 pm

(Continued)

Wednesday, June 5, 2019

The Tigerman Kaballah

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , , — m759 @ 4:00 am

See also Life of Pi   in this  journal.

Sunday, May 26, 2019

Sunday Shul: Connecting the Dots

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:00 am

"It's very easy to say, 'Well, Jeff couldn't quite connect these dots,'"
director Jeff Nichols told BuzzFeed News. "Well, I wasn't actually
looking at the dots you were looking at."

— Posted on March 21, 2016, at 1:11 p.m,
Adam B. Vary, BuzzFeed News Reporter

"Magical arrays of numbers have been the talismans of mathematicians and mystics since the time of Pythagoras in the sixth century B.C. And in the 16th century, Rabbi Isaac ben Solomon Luria devised a cosmological world view that seems to have prefigured superstring theory, at least superficially. Rabbi Luria was a sage of the Jewish cabalist movement — a school of mystics that drew inspiration from the arcane oral tradition of the Torah.

According to Rabbi Luria's cosmology, the soul and inner life of the hidden God were expressed by 10 primordial numbers [sic ], known as the sefirot. [Link added.]"

— "Things Are Stranger Than We Can Imagine,"
by Malcolm W. BrowneNew York Times Book Review ,
Sunday, March 20, 1994

Burning Bright

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

Gell-Mann's 'eightfold way' as 'a mosaic of simple triangular building blocks' — George Johnson, 1999

Compare and contrast with . . .

The Brightburn Logo:

Related material from the May 12 post

"The Collective Unconscious
in a Cartoon Graveyard
" —

"When they all finally reach their destination —
a deserted field in the Florida Panhandle…." 

" When asked about the film's similarities to the 2015 Disney movie Tomorrowland , which also posits a futuristic world that exists in an alternative dimension, Nichols sighed. 'I was a little bummed, I guess,' he said of when he first learned about the project. . . . 'Our die was cast. Sometimes this kind of collective unconscious that we're all dabbling in, sometimes you're not the first one out of the gate.' "

Saturday, May 25, 2019

Brand On Breyer

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:37 pm

Or:  One Quark for Muster Mark​

"In this way the eight trigrams came into being." — Richard Wilhelm

Detail:

Midrash:

Friday, May 24, 2019

Hidden Eightfold Patterns

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 5:23 pm

Saturday, November 21, 2015

Brightness at Noon*

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

A recent not-too-bright book from Princeton —

Some older, brighter books from Tony Zee

Fearful Symmetry  (1986) and
Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell  (2003).

* Continued.

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Inking

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , , — m759 @ 9:00 am

From Doctorow's 'Jolene: A Life'

See also Go Set a Structure and Tombstone.

Saturday, May 22, 2004

Saturday May 22, 2004

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 3:00 pm

A Form

John Leonard in the June 10, 2004, New York Review of Books, on E. L. Doctorow:

"… he's got urgent things to say and seeks some form to say them in, or a form that will tease and torture secret meanings out of what he thinks he already knows, or a form, like a wishing well, down which to dream, scream, or drown."

48. The Well

The Judgment

The Well. The town may be changed,
But the well cannot be changed.
It neither decreases nor increases.
They come and go and draw from the well.
If one gets down almost to the water
And the rope does not go all the way,
Or the jug breaks, it brings misfortune.

From the Book of Ecclesiastes 12:6

or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern

From Chuck Polisher's I Ching Lexicon:

See also the following form, discussed in

Balanchine's Birthday
(1/9/03) and in

Art Theory
for Yom Kippur

(10/5/03)

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