The obituary in the previous post mentioned an author, George Kubler,
who captured my attention at a Harvard Square bookstore in the early sixties.
Nostalgia trip —
"The rock might have been the earliest form of a hammer,
but it was improved when someone tied a handle onto the rock
so it would swing harder and faster."
— Wikipedia on The Shape of Time
See Log24 on November 29th, the birth date of storytellers
C.S. Lewis and Madeleine L'Engle.
A related obituary from today's online New York Times —
Related fictional character:
"Ecumenical Edwards"
in Exorcist II: The Heretic .
… is the birth date of storytellers C.S. Lewis and Madeleine L'Engle.
Another perspective on this date —
In the context of mathematics, I prefer to think of it as Brosterman Day.
See, from last year on this date, Osterman Meets Brosterman . . .
and, more generally, Brosterman.
But seriously . . . LAST THOUGHTS ON DEVIL'S NIGHT :
The title is a phrase from Tom Wolfe's The Painted Word —
"the seemingly innocuous obiter dicta ,
the words in passing, that give the game away"
The President on July 23, per USA TODAY —
"And there’s a need, whether it is true or not,
there is a need to project a different picture."
Related material —
EVERY LAST EASTER EGG AND REFERENCE
IN EPISODE 6 OF HBO'S WATCHMEN .
Wikipedia — "For the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards,
Damon Lindelof and Cord Jefferson won the award
for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie,
or Dramatic Special for this episode."
See also . . . The Bard of Teaneck —
"What if Shakespeare had been born in Teaneck, N.J., in 1973?
He would call himself Spear Daddy. His rap would exhibit a profound,
nuanced understanding of the frailty of the human condition, exploring
the personality in all its bewildering complexity: pretension, pride,
vulnerability, emotional treachery, as well as the enduring triumph of love.
Spear Daddy would disappear from the charts in about six weeks."
— Gene Weingarten in the Washington Post,
Sunday, Oct. 2, 2005
Weingarten's remarks were quoted here on that Sunday, along with
the following illustration —
Spear Daddy!
The "bricks" in posts tagged Octad Group suggest some remarks
from last year's HBO "Watchmen" series —
Related material — The two bricks constituting a 4×4 array, and . . .
"(this is the famous Kummer abstract configuration )"
— Igor Dolgachev, ArXiv, 16 October 2019.
As is this —
.
The phrase "octad group" does not, as one might reasonably
suppose, refer to symmetries of an octad (a "brick"), but
instead to symmetries of the above 4×4 array.
A related Broomsday event for the Church of Synchronology —
” . . . one person’s favorite comedy might be a wrenching drama to someone else.”
— The Atlantic promotional email by film critic David Sims on Saturday,
November 28, 2020, 11:37 AM ET.
See as well “Star Quality: Mirror Guy” (this journal, 12:30 PM ET on Saturday,
November 28, 2020, the reported date of death for Darth Vader actor
David Prowse).
For the Dr. Seuss School of
Neuropsychopharmacology —
From the school itself —
Related material — Pilgrim's Progress in this journal and . . .
an image from Log24 on December 8, 2012 —
See as well "To Think That It Happened on Prescott Street"
and related posts.
A nostalgia pill for Watchmen fans.
For Harvard Watchmen fans, a link to 2346:
http://m759.net/wordpress/?p=2346 —
See also, in memory of a Northfield, Minnesota, professor
of mathematics who reportedly died on October 28 —
Posts tagged Olaf Gate.
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