Some irrelevant Super Tuesday literary background
for spring songbirds —
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolanus .
Related social media from New Year's Eve 2021 —
A 3×3 Instagram array, and a Reno parking lot.
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Metadata for Sam Levinson: Turning 16
In the recent film "Stars at Noon," the protagonist said . . .
Perhaps she should also have investigated Hell's coordinates . . .
The above XYZ record label metadata refers to
August 23, 1958 … The day I turned sixteen.
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The Button Source
Continuing the Ojo de Dios theme from recent Delving posts . . .
. . . and from posts now tagged Tepoztlan Dance . . .
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Friday, April 13, 2018
Strahlenkreis*
Or: A Magic Circle for Penny
The subtitle was suggested by the character Penny
in today's post on Mathmagic Land.
* Ray-circle. See an image search.
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Mathmagic Land
Continued from yesterday.
From Log24 on July 24, 2014 —
Later . . .
"Button, Button, Who's Got the Button?"
See also The Abacus Conundrum.
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Thursday, April 12, 2018
Monday, April 9, 2018
Dance
This journal on the above date of death, March 30, had a quote from
the author of the graphic novel Aleister & Adolf —
"Program or be programmed."
I prefer Barbra to Aleister —
"Spirits rise and their dance is unrehearsed."
See as well spirits in the previous post.
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Nicht Spielerei…
… Continued (for Lev Grossman fans)
From the above Wikipedia article —
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In the Robert Frost poem, "The Witch of Coos," the game
is referenced in lines 7-8:
"Summoning spirits isn't 'Button, button,
who's got the button,' I would have them know."
Fact check: From the Frost poem at Bartleby.com —
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"Summoning spirits isn’t 'Button, button,
Who’s got the button,' you’re to understand."
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Sunday, April 8, 2018
Raiders of the Lost Circle
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Saturday, April 7, 2018
Dot
The late Philip J. Davis in his 2004 essay
"A Brief Look at Mathematics and Theology,"
Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal ,
Issue 27, Article 14. Available at:
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/hmnj/vol1/iss27/14/
"In my childhood, the circle persisted as a potent magic figure
in the playtime doggerel 'Make a magic circle and sign it with a dot.'
The interested reader will find thousands of allusions to the phrase
'magic circle' on the Web."
There are fewer allusions to "magic circle" + "sign it with a dot."
One such allusion (click to enlarge) is . . .
Davis died on Pi Day .
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Friday, March 30, 2018
Unorthodox Drama
The online New York Times this evening has an obituary
for "an unorthodox … drama scholar" who reportedly died
on Thursday, March 22, 2018.
Some drama in this journal from around that date — in posts
tagged "The Cubes" — includes the following excerpt from
a graphic novel:
"Program or be programmed."
— A saying by the author of the above graphic novel.
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