The Ballad of Goo Ballou —
the Sequel to . . .
“Let me count the ways” is an appropriate request
for students of the discrete , as opposed to the
continuous , which instead requires measurement .
Related academic material —
Raymond Cattell on crystallized vs. fluid intelligence.
For a more literary approach, see Crystal and Dragon
and For Trevanian.
This post was inspired in part by
the American Sequel Society and . . .
Continues in The New York Times :
“One day — ‘I don’t know exactly why,’ he writes — he tried to
put together eight cubes so that they could stick together but
also move around, exchanging places. He made the cubes out
of wood, then drilled a hole in the corners of the cubes to link
them together. The object quickly fell apart.
Many iterations later, Rubik figured out the unique design
that allowed him to build something paradoxical:
a solid, static object that is also fluid….” — Alexandra Alter
Another such object: the eightfold cube .
From the subtitles to “A Discovery of Witches,”
Season 1, Episode 2 —
An actor playing a contemporary (2018) fictional Oxford professor —
378
00:35:54,235 –> 00:35:56,593
We’re among hundreds of laboratories
using genetics
379
00:35:56,595 –> 00:35:59,713
to study species origin,
but in our lab
380
00:35:59,715 –> 00:36:02,315
humans aren’t the only species
we’re studying.
An earlier non-fictional Oxford student writes —
Related material: Other posts tagged Structure and Mutability.
In memory of Wilford Brimley:
“The polymorphic Thing, capable of absorbing the human
as but one among other morphological possibilities in its
seemingly infinite repertoire, can be understood, that is,
as the embodiment of evolution.”
— Eric White, Science Fiction Studies #61 (Vol. 20, Part 3, Nov. 1993),
“The Erotics of Becoming: XENOGENESIS and The Thing“
See a Log24 search for Beadgame Space.
This post might be regarded as a sort of “checked cell”
for the above concepts listed as tags . . .
Related material from a Log24 search for Structuralism —
An article yesterday at Quanta Magazine suggests a review . . .
From Diamond Theorem images at Pinterest —
Some background —
“The pattern of the thing precedes the thing.
I fill in the gaps of the crossword at any spot
I happen to choose. These bits I write on
index cards until the novel is done.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, interview,
Paris Review No. 41 (Summer-Fall 1967).
Another story —
Related material: Mathematics as a Black Art.
Prosaic —
Poetic —
Prosaic —
“These devices may have some
theoretical as well as practical value.“
Poetic —
See also The Lexicographic Octad Generator (LOG) (July 13, 2020)
and Octads and Geometry (April 23, 2020).
See also the previous post and the Red Books of May 30.
The previous post contained a passage from Iris Murdoch’s
1961 essay “Against Dryness.” Some related philosophy —
For those who prefer pure mathematics to philosophical ruminations
there are some relevant remarks in my webpage of August 27, 2003.
In memoriam —
Click the quotation below for “Foster’s Space” posts.
For those who prefer fiction —
“Twenty-four glyphs, each one representing not a letter, not a word,
but a concept, arranged into four groups, written in Boris’s own hand,
an artifact that seemed to have resurrected him from the dead. It was
as if he were sitting across from Bourne now, in the dim antiquity of
the museum library.
This was what Bourne was staring at now, written on the unfolded
bit of onionskin.”
— “Robert Ludlum’s” The Bourne Enigma , published on June 21, 2016
Passing, on June 21, 2016, into a higher dimension —
(From his “Structure and Form: Reflections on a Work by Vladimir Propp.”
Translated from a 1960 work in French. It appeared in English as
Chapter VIII of Structural Anthropology, Volume 2 (U. of Chicago Press, 1976).
Chapter VIII was originally published in Cahiers de l’Institut de Science
Économique Appliquée , No. 9 (Series M, No. 7) (Paris: ISEA, March 1960).)
The structure of the matrix of Lévi-Strauss —
Illustration from Diamond Theory , by Steven H. Cullinane (1976).
The relevant field of mathematics is not Boolean algebra, but rather
Galois geometry.
"Maybe an image is too strong
Or maybe is not strong enough."
— "Solomon and the Witch,"
by William Butler Yeats
… "icy white and crystalline" — Johnny Mercer
From a search in this journal for Hudson Hawk —
See also Stella Octangula.
The phrase “structural logic” in yesterday’s entry was applied to Bach’s cello suites. It may equally well be applied to geometry. In particular:
“The aim of this thesis is to classify certain structures which are, from a certain point of view, as homogeneous as possible, that is which have as many symmetries as possible.”
— Alice Devillers, “Classification of Some Homogeneous and Ultrahomogeneous Structures,” Ph.D. thesis, Université Libre de Bruxelles, academic year 2001-2002
Related material:
The above models for the corresponding projective spaces may be regarded as illustrating the phrase “structural logic.”
For a possible application of the 16-point space’s “many symmetries” to logic proper, see The Geometry of Logic.
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