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Thursday, May 16, 2024

Cube Geometry

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 3:54 pm

From a search in this journal for Kochen

Related material — Hitchcock in this journal and Mermin Pentagrams on the Web.

The Stalking

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:50 am

The Night Stalker pentagram

Friday, January 5, 2024

The Pentagram Papers

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 2:01 pm

Wittgenstein's pentagram and 4x4 'counting-pattern'

Masonic pyramid in 
'Being There' (co-writer of screenplay-- Robert Jones)

"Should we arbitrate life and death
at a round table or a square one?"

— Wislawa Szymborska

Sunday, January 10, 2021

“Glasgow, 1937”

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:04 pm

The location in the title is the opening scene of the new version
of "All Creatures Great and Small."  The year  in the title suggests
a look at (for instance) The Pentagram Papers.

A "support provided by" credit suggests some related images —

A Scotland-related post: The Blue Path and the Red Path
(Log24, Aug. 24, 2014).
Wendelboe's games included chess sets.
See as well a related purchase from further north on the same block.

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

The Pentagram Papers

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 12:40 pm

(Continued)

From a Log24 post of March 4, 2008 —

SINGER, ISAAC:
"Are Children the Ultimate Literary Critics?"
— Top of the News 29 (Nov. 1972): 32-36.

"Sets forth his own aims in writing for children and laments
'slice of life' and chaos in children's literature. Maintains that
children like good plots, logic, and clarity, and that they
have a concern for 'so-called eternal questions.'"

— An Annotated Listing of Criticism
by Linnea Hendrickson

"She returned the smile, then looked across the room to
her youngest brother, Charles Wallace, and to their father,
who were deep in concentration, bent over the model
they were building of a tesseract: the square squared,
and squared again: a construction of the dimension of time."

— A Swiftly Tilting Planet,
by Madeleine L'Engle

Cover of 'A Swiftly Tilting Planet' and picture of tesseract

For "the dimension of time," see A Fold in TimeTime Fold,
and Diamond Theory in 1937

A Swiftly Tilting Planet  is a fantasy for children 
set partly in Vespugia, a fictional country bordered by
Chile and Argentina.

Ibid.

The pen's point:

Wm. F. Buckley as Archimedes, moving the world with a giant pen as lever. The pen's point is applied to southern South America.
John Trever, Albuquerque Journal, 2/29/08

Note the figure on the cover of National Review  above —

A related figure from Pentagram Design

See, more generally,  Isaac Singer  in this  journal.

Friday, January 19, 2018

The Pentagram Papers

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:45 am

(Continued)

Jodie Foster in  a Dec. 15, 2017, sketch  with Stephen Colbert —

"People invest in and take ownership of brands,
and they wonder why the brand didn’t
ask their permission to change."

— Michael Bierut of Pentagram Design
in  a Design Week  article  of Jan. 17, 2018

Details

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 4:04 am

Wednesday, January 17, 2018

At Heaven’s Gate

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 7:30 am

(Continued from September 12, 2005)

The previous post contrasted the number-triple 11-7-8 below
with number triples 12-9-5 and 12-5-9.

Magic cube and corresponding hexagram, or Star of David, with faces mapped to lines and edges mapped to points

A perhaps more logical counterpart of the triple 11-7-8, based
on opposite  locations of star-points or cube-edges, is
the triple 9-12-5. For a theological interpretation, see 9/12/05.

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

An Orison for Ha-Why

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:00 pm

'Cloud Atlas' book cover illustrating the film

Lines from characters played in the film by Tom Hanks and Halle Berry —

— Cloud Atlas , by David Mitchell (2004).

An orison of sorts from a post on Martin Scorsese's
birthday, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2007 —

BlackBerry with pictures from Log24

Displayed on the BlackBerry are parts
of Log24 posts from October 25, 2007,
and October 24, 2007.

Related pattern geometry 

From a Log24 search for Angleton + Brotherhood:
A photo of Angleton in a post from 12/9/5

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From a post of 11/7/8

http://www.log24.com/log/pix08A/081107-Tilespuzzle.jpg

A cryptic note for Dan Brown:

The above dates 11/7/8 and 12/9/5 correspond to the corner-labels
(read clockwise and counter-clockwise) of the two large triangles
in the Finkelstein Talisman

Magic cube and corresponding hexagram, or Star of David, with faces mapped to lines and edges mapped to points

Above: More symbology for Tom Hanks from
this morning's post The Pentagram Papers.

The above symbology is perhaps better suited to Hanks in his
role as Forrest Gump than in his current role as Ben Bradlee.

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For Hanks as Dan Brown's Harvard symbologist 
Robert Langdon, see the interpretation 12/5/9, rather
than 12/9/5, of the above triangle/cube-corner label.

The Pentagram Papers

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 9:16 am

Other intersection-points-counting material —

The Finkelstein Talisman:

Magic cube and corresponding hexagram, or Star of David, with faces mapped to lines and edges mapped to points

See also Hanks + Cube in this journal —

Robert Langdon (played by Tom Hanks) and a corner of Solomon's Cube.

Monday, April 24, 2017

The Trials of Device

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 3:28 pm

"A blank underlies the trials of device"
— Wallace Stevens, "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven" (1950)

A possible meaning for the phrase "the trials of device" —

See also Log24 posts mentioning a particular device, the pentagram .

For instance —

Wittgenstein's pentagram and 4x4 'counting-pattern'

Related figures

Pentagon with pentagram    

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