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Saturday, May 16, 2026

Eleventh-Hour Expertise

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The Celery Stalked at Midnight.

Addendum . . .

Tuesday, February 10, 2026

In Memoriam

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Maybe.

Monday, January 26, 2026

Sunday Evening*

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We are born with the dead:
See, they return, and bring us with them.
The moment of the rose and the moment of the yew-tree
Are of equal duration. A people without history
Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern
Of timeless moments. So, while the light fails
On a winter's afternoon, in a secluded chapel
History is now and England.

With the drawing of this Love and the voice of this Calling

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, unremembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree

Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.
Quick now, here, now, always–
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)
And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flames are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one.

* A post from Dec. 3, 2023, that was saved as a draft and 
apparently future-dated to today —whether by mistake or not,
I do not know — and appeared to me this  (Monday) evening.

Timeless Aurora

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Saturday, November 15, 2025

Claremont Review

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For philosophy professor Ellie Anderson of Pomona College

A remark from Claremont Review

"'Once upon a time' used to be a gateway to
a land that was inviting precisely because
it was timeless, like the stories it introduced
and their ageless lessons about the human condition."

– Dorothea Israel Wolfson, 
   Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2006

Some backstory —

See also The Word Wizard of Claremont.

Sunday, November 2, 2025

New Feature*

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"The visitors are steered away from shamanism’s dark undercurrents…."

London Review of Books, Vol. 47 No. 16 · 11 September 2025 ·
Review of Shamanism: The Timeless Religion  by Manvir Singh.

* Vide  a scene from Season 2 of "Wednesday" —

Friday, September 5, 2025

For Pilgrim World* — A 9/11 Quote

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"The visitors are steered away from shamanism’s dark undercurrents…."

London Review of Books, Vol. 47 No. 16 · 11 September 2025 ·
Review of Shamanism: The Timeless Religion  by Manvir Singh.

* Vide  a scene from Season 2 of "Wednesday" —

Sunday, August 3, 2025

For Fellow Wiig Fans

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A film illustrating the classic book title
The Celery Stalks at Midnight.

Addendum : A love song for Wiig . . .

Related images . . .

Saturday, May 17, 2025

Intersectionality

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:02 pm

For a different sort of intersection — that of the timeless with time —
see the previous post.

Friday, November 29, 2024

Entities for an AI Overview

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Thomas Wolfe, On Time and the River*

"The great river burned there in his vision
in that light of fading day and it was hung there
in that spell of silence and for ever, and it was
flowing on for ever, and it was stranger than a legend,
and as dark as time."

For the birthdate of Madeleine L'Engle and C. S. Lewis,
two geometric entities . . . Tesseract  and  MOG

Related unicode for fans of Siri Hustvedt, who wrote
Mysteries of the Rectangle

Related AI Overview —

"Specifically" correction —
Vide  http://www.davidgorman.com/4quartets/3-salvages.htm.

* “I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river
   Is a strong brown god . . . ." — "The Dry Salvages"

Sunday, November 10, 2024

Numberland: The Talladega Craftsman

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Monday, October 17, 2011

The Craftsman

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A follow-up to yesterday's Sunday School

(Click on images for some background.)

IMAGE- Dennis Ritchie, Amy Adams (Talladega Nights), and the Inferno operating system

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11C/111017-InfernoOS-500w.jpg

 

Backstory—  "Plan 9 is an operating system kernel …."

Meditation— "How can you tell the craftsman from the craft?"
                          (Apologies to William Butler Yeats.)

From Summer Solstice 2023

Related tunes — "Hot Rod Lincoln" and
"Junk in the Trunk" (Planet Booty, YouTube, Feb. 27, 2019)

Friday, October 18, 2024

The Laughing Stock-Car Rally

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The phrase "the laughing stock of the rally" suggests a flashback . . .

Related tunes — "Hot Rod Lincoln" and
"Junk in the Trunk" (Planet Booty, YouTube, Feb. 27, 2019)

Saturday, September 21, 2024

The Squarespace Gray Cube

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"Before time began . . . ." — Optimus Prime

I noticed this favicon on Sept. 18 (see post) at a publisher's webpage.

It turns out that it is not specific to the publisher, but rather to sites
hosted by Squarespace.com.  For instance . . .

See also a post on Christmas Day, 2013.

Related material from the Sept. 18 post mentioned above —

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Flatiron Building Timelessness . . .
Directed by Quine, not Hitchcock

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 5:29 pm

Click the "timelessness" quote below for the "Bell, Book and Candle" scene
with Kim Novak and James Stewart atop the Flatiron Building.

"Before time began . . . ." — Optimus Prime

Saturday, August 31, 2024

Script Idea for Harlan Kane:
The Timeless Meets Time

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 2:44 pm

"kalosmi lokaksaya krt pravrddho"

Also on July 13, 2023 . . .

From the Publications webpage of Dan Gordon

Math Databases on the Cheap,
lightning talk at LuCaNT, July 2023.

Background from 2022 —

Gordon's informative webpage on mathematical repositories:
https://ljcr.dmgordon.org/cwm/jupyter_book/math_repos.html.

Not so cheap

See also ICERM in this  journal on November 14, 2012.

Friday, March 15, 2024

Corrections to Post from Monday, March 11

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:56 pm

The post, on triangles and figurate geometry, has had some
minor image corrections, and these corrections have now
also been made in a new Zenodo version.

(Some aesthetic background:  In the words of Alan D. Perlis,
that post concerns "a conception that embodies action and
the passing of time in the rigid and timeless structure of an
art form.")

Thursday, March 14, 2024

South Dakota Review:  Perlis on Faulkner

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 8:36 pm

"Alan Perlis also addresses the artist’s freezing of
time as he looks at As I Lay Dying He sees Darl as
an artist-figure who catches “action in the tension
of stopped-time” (104). Both critics link Faulkner to
John Keats, whose poetry often seeks immortality,
like that of an object such as a Grecian urn or an
Ozymandian monument. Perlis sums this up, saying
that Faulkner 'is an idealist in the manner of a Keats
or a Wallace Stevens, who ponder the paradoxical
nature of a conception that embodies action and the
passing of time in the rigid and timeless structure of
an art form.' "

The work cited:

Perlis, Alan D. “As I Lay Dying  as a Study of Time.”
South Dakota Review  10.1 (1972): 103-10

The source of the citation:

I SEE, HE SAYS, PERHAPS, ON TIME:
VISION, VOICE, HYPOTHETICAL NARRATION,
AND TEMPORALITY IN WILLIAM FAULKNER’S FICTION

*****
DISSERTATION
Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for
The Degree Doctor of Philosophy in
the Graduate School of The Ohio State University
By David S. FitzSimmons, B.A., M.A.

*****
The Ohio State University, 2003.


A search in this  journal for Dakota yields the author Kathleen Norris.
See, for instance . . .

https://www.americamagazine.org/content/dispatches/
writing-death-and-monastic-wisdom-conversation-kathleen-norris
.

Thursday, March 7, 2024

State of the Intersection

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T. S. Eliot on the intersection of the timeless with time

See as well a post from this  journal on 26 Oct. 2017
and other posts now tagged Nowhere Legitimated.

Thursday, November 2, 2023

No Joke

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Saturday, April 21, 2018

Kalispell Images

A Getty logo —

For All Souls' Day —

T. S. Eliot — " intersection of the timeless with time …."

Friday, October 6, 2023

Intersection of the Timeless with Time

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 2:46 pm

Earlier . . .

See as well, from the above "Suits" date, Midnight in Oslo.

Friday, June 23, 2023

Intersectionality Studies

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"… the timeless / With time … ." — T. S. Eliot

Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Snark in the Park: Stock Car Number 34

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:59 pm

Related tunes — "Hot Rod Lincoln" and
"Junk in the Trunk" (Planet Booty, YouTube, Feb. 27, 2019)

Tuesday, June 20, 2023

Annals of Devolution

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Timeless (TV Series)

The War to End All Wars (2018)

  • Denise Christopher : How's it going?

    Rufus Carlin : Uh, well, we printed out all the documents from the iPhone.

    Denise Christopher : Is there anything in there that would tell us a specific plan?

    Rufus Carlin : Mostly just devolves into a bunch of ranting, like "Mein Kampf" by Philip K. Dick. We can't figure it out.

    Denise Christopher : Well, there's someone who might know.

Fritz Leiber ?

Saturday, June 17, 2023

Restless Dreams

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Abigail Spencer in the "Timeless" Watergate episode

Less alone . . .

See also posts now tagged Crary Corner, and

the name  Crary.

Sunday, May 7, 2023

For the Latin Club Gang: Tabula Rasa

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From the previous post

From a Log24 post of February 28, 2023 —

Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Timeline:  Salem, Mass., 1628-1629

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:41 am

"Watch your parking meters." — Bob Dylan

Friday, April 14, 2023

“Ready when you are, C. B.”

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“The challenge is to keep high standards of scholarship
while maintaining showmanship as well.”

— Olga Raggio, a graduate of the Vatican library school
and the University of Rome

This quote is from posts tagged The Positive.

A review of those posts was suggested by the date of a different quote,
from a "Timeless" episode that aired on January 16, 2017

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Social Networks: Walk and Talk

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 8:32 pm

Sunday, April 9, 2023

Easter Egg: 404 Found!

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 12:25 pm

Abigail Spencer in the "Timeless" Watergate episode,
and related remarks by the father, Gordon S. Wood, of
the author, Christopher S. Wood, quoted in the previous post

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

For His Nibs Andrew Cusack*

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Wm. F. Buckley as Archimedes, moving the world with a giant pen as lever. The pen's point is applied to southern South America.

* See his post published at 10:00 pm on Monday 27 February 2023.
His categories and tags: Categories — Argentina Heraldry History Monarchy 
Tags — .

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