For the De las Cuevas above, see …
https://www.gemmadelascuevas.com/ —
"I am an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics
at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) . . . ."
— and a tweet from Thursday, April 14, 2022, that indicates
an interest in philosophy as well as physics —
Related vocabulary —
Related drama —
A song lyric linked to here recently —
"I love you, Eddie,
but so does Betty"
— suggests a musical response:
"This time we almost made
our poem rhyme, didn't we?"
Recent remarks by the author of the response:
"You see, Malloy, I'm writing a novel about Los Angeles….
It's a fantastic place, you know, Malloy…. It has a Spanish name,
with religious Roman Catholic connotations…. And yet, Malloy,
consider this: the really fantastic thing about it is that it's the
crystallization of the ordinary, cheap ordinary American.
The people. The politics. The cults…. And I'm going to put it
in a book…."
— Hope of Heaven, by John O'Hara (1938)
The Malloy character perhaps represents O'Hara, and the
speaker in the passage above, Nathanael West. The planned
book is perhaps The Day of the Locust , by West (1939).
The opening of Miss Lonelyhearts , an earlier work by West —
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The Miss Lonelyhearts of The New York Post-Dispatch (Are-you-in-trouble?—Do-you-need-advice?—Write-to-Miss-Lonelyhearts-and-she-will-help-you) sat at his desk and stared at a piece of white cardboard. On it a prayer had been printed by Shrike, the feature editor.
“Soul of Miss L, glorify me. Although the deadline was less than a quarter of an hour away, he was still working on his leader. He had gone as far as: “Life is worth while, for it is full of dreams and peace, gentleness and ecstasy, and faith that burns like a clear white flame on a grim dark altar.” But he found it impossible to continue. The letters were no longer funny. He could not go on finding the same joke funny thirty times a day for months on end. And on most days he received more than thirty letters, all of them alike, stamped from the dough of suffering with a heart-shaped cookie knife. |
This post was suggested by an obituary in tonight's online
New York Times and by the German nickname — Würger ,
in English: Shrike — of a WWII German fighter plane
mentioned in that obituary.
"In Der Teufel frisst Fliegen gilt es,
eine russische Prinzessin im Exil zu retten,
während der Geist eines wahnsinnigen Serienmörders
die Stadt heimsucht." — www.cliquenabend.de/spiele/…
"First we take Manhattan . . . ." — Leonard Cohen
Tangled Up In Red
| CHANGE FEW CAN BELIEVE IN |
See Siri Hustvedt on the name "Wechsler"
and see the tag "permutahedron" in this journal.
A Tangled Tale
Proposed task for a quantum computer:
"Using Twistor Theory to determine the plotline of Bob Dylan's 'Tangled up in Blue'"
One approach to a solution:
"In this scheme the structure of spacetime is intrinsically quantum mechanical…. We shall demonstrate that the breaking of symmetry in a QST [quantum space-time] is intimately linked to the notion of quantum entanglement."
— "Theory of Quantum Space-Time," by Dorje C. Brody and Lane P. Hughston, Royal Society of London Proceedings Series A, Vol. 461, Issue 2061, August 2005, pp. 2679-2699
(See also The Klein Correspondence, Penrose Space-Time, and a Finite Model.)
For some less technical examples of broken symmetries, see yesterday's entry, "Alphabet vs. Goddess."
That entry displays a painting in 16 parts by Kimberly Brooks (daughter of Leonard Shlain– author of The Alphabet Versus the Goddess— and wife of comedian Albert Brooks (real name: Albert Einstein)). Kimberly Brooks is shown below with another of her paintings, titled "Blue."
"She was workin' in a topless place And I stopped in for a beer, I just kept lookin' at the side of her face In the spotlight so clear. And later on as the crowd thinned out I's just about to do the same, She was standing there in back of my chair Said to me, 'Don't I know your name?' I muttered somethin' underneath my breath, She studied the lines on my face. I must admit I felt a little uneasy When she bent down to tie the laces of my shoe, Tangled up in blue." -- Bob Dylan
Further entanglement with blue:
The website of the Los Angeles Police Department, designed by Kimberly Brooks's firm, Lightray Productions.
Further entanglement with shoelaces:
"Entanglement can be transmitted through chains of cause and effect– and if you speak, and another hears, that too is cause and effect. When you say 'My shoelaces are untied' over a cellphone, you're sharing your entanglement with your shoelaces with a friend."
— "What is Evidence?," by Eliezer Yudkowsky
Continued…
… from June 11, 2008.
Werner, Kimberly;
Kimberly, Werner.
Happy Feast of
St. Mary Magdalene.
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