". . . riverrun, past Eve and Adam's . . . ."
Friday, May 19, 2017
In the Service of Narrative
Quoted here on St. Stephen's Day, 2008 —
“Wayne C. Booth’s lifelong
study of the art of rhetoric
illuminated the means
by which authors seduce,
cajole and lie to their readers
in the service of narrative.”
— New York Times, Oct. 11, 2005
Booth was a native of American Fork, Utah.
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Thursday, March 9, 2017
Yale Architectural Figure
See also Log24 posts related to "Go Set a Structure"
as well as "New Haven" + Grid.
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Thursday, February 2, 2017
Y* is for Yale
See "Sapir" in this journal as well as a Yale University page on Whorf:
* For a different view of "Y," see the previous post.
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Putting the Y in Vanity
Amy Adams on the cover of the
Vanity Fair Hollywood issue, 2017 —
Line spoken to Adams's
character in Arrival —
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Wednesday, September 11, 2013
A Girl’s Best Friend?*
Continued from September 3rd, 2013.
On that date, there were two posts in this journal:
"The Stone" today suggests…"* and
"An End in Itself."
The former dealt with some philosophy and
mathematics related to graphic design.
The latter dealt with death and finality.
The New York Times today has an obituary
that, revisiting Sept. 3rd, unites the topics of
death and design.
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Alvin Eisenman,
By DANIEL E. SLOTNIK Alvin Eisenman, a graphic designer who in 1951 became the first director of Yale’s graduate program for graphic design, the first offered by a major American university, died on Sept. 3 at his home, which he also designed, on Martha’s Vineyard. He was 92. More>> |
For greater depth, see the American Institute of Graphic Arts.
* This post's title and "The Stone" above refer to the New York Times
philosophy column "The Stone"— In particular, to its Sept. 2nd post
"Women in Philosophy? Do the Math."
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Monday, February 25, 2008
Monday February 25, 2008
A System of SymbolsA book from
Yale University Press
discussed in Log24
four years ago today:
Yale University Press
discussed in Log24
four years ago today:
Click on image for details.
The book is titled
Inside Modernism:
Relativity Theory,
Cubism, Narrative.
For a narrative about relativity
and cubes, see Knight Moves.
Related material:
Geek chic in
this week’s New Yorker—
“… it takes a system of symbols
to make numbers precise–
to ‘crystallize’ them….”
— and a mnemonic for three
days in October 2006
following a memorial to
the Amish schoolchildren
slain that month:
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Saturday, July 30, 2005
Saturday July 30, 2005
Born today: Laurence Fishburne
Matrix
“The nine-fold square has centre, periphery, axes and diagonals. But all are present only in their bare essentials. It is also a sequence of eight triads. Four pass through the centre and four do not. This is the garden of Apollo, the field of Reason, sheltered by the Gate from the turmoil of the Delta, with its endless cycles of erasure and reinscription. This is the Temple of Solomon, as inscribed, for example, by a nine-fold compartmentation to provide the ground plan of Yale….”– Architects John Outram Associates
on work at Rice University
on work at Rice University
Yale Daily News, Jan. 11, 2001:
“When New Haven was founded, the city was laid out into a grid of nine squares surrounded by a great wilderness.
Last year History of Art Professor Emeritus Vincent Scully said the original town plan reflected a feeling that the new city should be sacred.
Scully said the colony’s founders thought of their new Puritan settlement as a ‘nine-square paradise on Earth, heaven on earth, New Haven, New Jerusalem.'”
“Real and unreal are two in one:
New Haven
Before and after one arrives….”
— Wallace Stevens,
“An Ordinary Evening in New Haven,’ XXVIII