* See Night Clerk in this journal.
Sunday, January 9, 2022
Night Clerk Meets Ready Player* . . . Continues
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Saturday, September 1, 2018
Another 48 Hours
Backstory: See The Plaid Overnight Case in this journal.
See as well a post from 10:16 PM ET Thursday, August 30, 2018.
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Friday, August 31, 2018
Perception of Number
Review of yesterday's post Perception of Space —
From Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997),
republished as "… and the Sorcerer's Stone ," Kindle edition:
In a print edition from Bloomsbury (2004), and perhaps in the
earliest editions, the above word "movements" is the first word
on page 168:
Click the above ellipse for some Log24 posts on the eightfold cube,
the source of the 168 automorphisms ("movements") of the Fano plane.
"Refined interpretation requires that you know that
someone once said the offspring of reality and illusion
is only a staggering confusion."
— Poem, "The Game of Roles," by Mary Jo Bang
Related material on reality and illusion —
an ad on the back cover of the current New Yorker —
"Hey, the stars might lie, but the numbers never do." — Song lyric
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Thursday, August 30, 2018
Twenty Years
This post was suggested by the final inside page, 23,
of next Sunday's New York Times Book Review ,
"Memorabilia/ Happy 20th Anniversary, Harry Potter."
From VOA Learning English, June 26, 2017 —
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J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Books . . . . " J.K. Rowling’s first book about Harry and his friends at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry was released on June 26, 1997. The publisher, Bloomsbury, only released 500 copies to stores in Britain and sent 500 to British libraries. Now, thanks to 450 million more copies of the first book and six others, Harry Potter and his friends are known around the world. Adults and children loved the books. But 12 publishers rejected the first one, known in many countries as 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.' " . . . . |
See as well this journal on June 26, 2017 in
posts now tagged Ron Shaw In Memoriam.
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Wednesday, May 9, 2018
Once Upon a . . .
Click the text below for a slideshow.
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Monday, January 8, 2018 Filed under: Uncategorized — m759 @ 12:00 AM
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Monday, April 9, 2018
The Long Hello
Es la línea de transporte más antigua que va de Cuernavaca a Tepoztlán . . . .
Image from the 1973 Elliott Gould film "The Long Goodbye" —
Some backstory . . . .
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https://hidden-films.com/2014/11/09/the-little-movie-that-couldnt-
an-oral-history-of-elliott-goulds-never-completed-a-glimpse-of-tiger/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Glimpse_of_Tiger
- http://m759.net/wordpress/?p=71956 —
Monday, January 8, 2018
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