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Friday, November 15, 2024

Art for Stephen King: The Swirling

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 7:27 am

Related cinematic art … the 2022 TV series "The Resort"
and the 2022 film "Stars at Noon."

"Swirls of red radiate a symphony of joy, love, and passion,
inviting observers to delve into the depth of human emotions."

Marcela Nowak at Medium.com, August 12, 2023.

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Deep Snow at Donner Pass

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 11:38 pm

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.

NY Times Meditation:  Dimensions and Synergy

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:39 pm

"Her work gave a new dimension to the words 'holy land'
and to the synergy between heaven and earth."

"… the time of the songbird has come …."
     — Song of Songs

— Obituary by Sam Roberts in The New York Times,
     2:27 PM ET today

Related material for students of dimensions, synergy,
and "Where Madness Lies" —

Other Log24 posts tagged "The Button."

Metadata for Sam Levinson:  Turning 16

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:27 pm

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.

The Button Source

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:00 pm

Continuing the Ojo de Dios  theme from recent Delving posts . . .

. . . and from posts now tagged Tepoztlan Dance . . .

Friday, April 13, 2018

Strahlenkreis*

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:23 pm

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.

Mathmagic Land

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 5:45 pm

Continued from yesterday.

From Log24 on July 24, 2014

Later . . .

"Button, Button, Who's Got the Button?"

Manil Suri?

See also The Abacus Conundrum.

Thursday, April 12, 2018

Play

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:51 pm

Continued from Monday morning, for Lev Grossman —

Monday, April 9, 2018

Dance

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 7:21 pm

NY Times wire, Ivor Guest obituary, screenshot at 7:09:09 PM ET

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.

Nicht Spielerei…

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 8:25 am

Continued  (for Lev Grossman  fans)

From the above Wikipedia article

  • 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

  • "Summoning spirits isn’t 'Button, button,
    Who’s got the button,' you’re to understand."

Sunday, April 8, 2018

Raiders of the Lost Circle

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:10 am

Today is Orthodox Easter.

From a search in this journal for "Magic Circle" —

Saturday, April 7, 2018

Dot

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:41 pm

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/ 

wrote —

"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 .

Friday, March 30, 2018

Unorthodox Drama

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:29 pm

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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