"Should we arbitrate life and death
at a round table or a square one?"
Friday, January 5, 2024
The Pentagram Papers
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Thursday, September 28, 2023
Game Change
"The nightingale tells his fairy tale" — Song lyric, "Stardust"
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Michael Gambon, Celebrated
NYT > Obituaries by Benedict Nightingale /
The actor’s family said he had died peacefully
M. S. Swaminathan, Scientist Who Helped
NYT > Obituaries by Keith Schneider /
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The drama game …
"… in 2005, he finally achieved his ambition to play Falstaff
in Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2 at the National Theatre."
The art game …
“ ’A babbled of green fields”
— Shakespeare on the death of Falstaff
Art relevant to the pair of obituaries above —
http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=Raphael+Table.
"Should we arbitrate life and death
at a round table or a square one?"
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Saturday, April 8, 2023
Compare and Contrast
http://www.log24.com/log/pix23/230408-NYer-crossword-puzzle-urn.jpg
"The two cover characters, who I’ve been thinking of as ○ and □ . . ."
— Chris Ware on his New Yorker cover for the issue dated Dec. 26, 2022.
A current art exhibition in Norway —
"Ashes to ashes , dust to dust ."
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Saturday, November 26, 2022
Metaphorical Possibilities
"I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a Wisława Szymborska poem or
Tom Stoppard play that explores the metaphorical possibilities
in the Borromean rings."
— Evelyn Lamb in Scientific American , September 30, 2016.
Other mathematical structures also have metaphorical possibilities.
Perhaps not encantado enough.
See Szymborska in this journal in the context of St. Bridget's Day.
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Sunday, July 17, 2022
Debriefing Ava
Her lips are pips
I call her hips
“Twirly” and “Whirly.”
(Pips are the dots on dice. The above "choose us" image in the form of a
St. Bridget's cross is from Twirly Industries, a sportswear maker in Pakistan.)
See as well a Polish poet's meditation
quoted here on St. Bridget's Day, 2012:
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Thursday, June 30, 2022
Wednesday, June 29, 2022
Techie Wordplay: “Lynx”
"As of 2022, it is the oldest web browser still being maintained,,,,"
"The speed benefits of text-only browsing are most apparent
when using low bandwidth internet connections, or older computer
hardware that may be slow to render image-heavy content."
— Wikipedia [“Older” link added.]
And then there is . . .
See as well the LYNX of Oslo artist Josefine Lyche.
Update of June 30, 2022 —
Lyche, whose art often incorporates mathematical notions,
has not yet, as far as I know, explored the Borromean link
(three rings, linked mutually but not pairwise) in her art.
Remarks by a different math fan, Evelyn Lamb —
"I have had a thing for the Borromean rings for years now.
There’s something so poetic about them. The three rings
are strong together, but they fall apart if any one of them
is removed. Alternatively, the three rings are trapped together
until one of them leaves and sets the others free. I’m kind of
surprised there isn’t a Wisława Szymborska poem or
Tom Stoppard play that explores the metaphorical possibilities
in the Borromean rings." — Scientific American , Sept. 30, 2016.
See also the Lamb date Sept. 30, 2016, as well as work
by Lyche, in Log24 posts tagged Star Cube.
Related material — The Log24 post Borromean Generators.
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Friday, June 17, 2022
Just 17 : Circle in the Square
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Friday, February 10, 2012
Pensée
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Politics
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Related material—
See also At the Still Point (a post in memory of film editor Sally Menke).
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Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Politics
"Should we arbitrate life and death
at a round table or a square one?"
See also the two previous posts,
Disturbing Archimedes and Tesseract.
Update—
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