Friday, April 17, 2026
Meeting Cute:
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald and Alfred Hitchcock
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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald and Alfred Hitchcock
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald and Alfred Hitchcock
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Approaches to Group Theory:
“Between the idea/And the reality/
Between the motion/And the act/
Falls the Shadow”
"Let G be . . . ."
There is also Stephen King's group theory . . .
"And she feels the thing begin to happen—something of which
the girls who whisper and giggle about sex in the girls’ room
have no idea, at least as far as she knows; they only marvel at
how gooshy sex must be, and now she realizes that for many
of them sex must be some unrealized undefined monster;
they refer to the act as It. Would you do It, do your sister and
her boyfriend do It, do your mom and dad still do It, and how
they never intend to do It . . . ."
— King, Stephen. It: A Novel (p. 1102).
Scribner. Kindle Edition.
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“Between the idea/And the reality/
Between the motion/And the act/
Falls the Shadow”
“Between the idea/And the reality/
Between the motion/And the act/
Falls the Shadow”
Thursday, February 26, 2026
Saturday, January 10, 2026
Thursday, June 26, 2025
For Art Devs: Plan 9 from Claude
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Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Scholium for Devs
Related reading:
“Concept (scholastics’ verbum mentis)– theological analogy
of Son’s procession as Verbum Patris, 111-12″
— Index to Joyce and Aquinas, by William T. Noon, S.J.,
Yale University Press 1957, second printing 1963, page 162.
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People Also Ask . . .
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Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Choreography for a Moulin Bleu*
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Wednesday, March 26, 2025
For Patricia Annette† … The Krazy Kat* Game
† https://www.facebook.com/patricia.annette.31521301
* . . .
Thursday, February 29, 2024
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Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Friday, March 14, 2025
Graf Dies Mortis
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Monday, March 10, 2025
For a Dreamcatcher*
* See a New York Times obituary from March 2, 2025.
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Thursday, February 6, 2025
Monday, September 30, 2024
Thursday, June 6, 2024
“Pattern Ritual Flight” in the Tai Xuan Jing
文 禮 逃
See also Language Game: The Flight to Laurel Canyon —
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Tuesday, June 4, 2024
A Spectrum for Cairo*
"You ain't been blue, no no no, 'til you've had that mood indigo."
* See "Miller's Girl."
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Saturday, June 1, 2024
New Social Medium: Cara.app
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Monday, October 23, 2023
Thursday, October 12, 2023
A Groping
Financial Times today informs us that the new 48-page novel by
Nobel Lit Prize winner Jon Fosse, with title translated as
"A Shining," will be published not on Halloween, as previously
reported here, but instead on the next day, All Hallows. Good.
The novel's original title, in Norwegian, is Kvitleik .
The Web indicates that this means "White Game."
See as well yesterday's post "Void Game." A relevant quote —
"By groping toward the light we are made to realize
how deep the darkness is around us."
— Arthur Koestler, The Call Girls: A Tragi-Comedy ,
Random House, 1973, page 118
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Saturday, September 30, 2023
The Algorithm and Mrs. Davis
On the recent Peacock series "Mrs. Davis" —
"The algorithm is known as Mrs. Davis … and is
the all-seeing, all-knowing, not-quite-all-merciful
manifestation of artificial intelligence to whom
humanity has plighted its troth in this eight-part
manifestation of real intelligence from creators
Tara Hernandez and Damon Lindelof."
— John Anderson in The Wall Street Journal ,
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
For The Algorithm , see last evening's Michaelmas post and . . .
For a different Mrs. Davis, see . . .
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From Tom McCarthy's review yesterday of The Maniac , a novel about 1940s social life at Los Alamos — "The mathematician Martin Davis’s wife, Lydia, storms out of a Trinity dinner party, condemning the men’s failure to fully take on board the consequences of their atom splitting. Besides sharing her name with our own age’s great translator of Blanchot and Proust, this Lydia Davis is a textile artist — a hanging detail that points back toward the novel’s many looms and weavings. For the Greeks, the fates spinning the threads of human lives were female (as Conrad knew, recasting them as Belgian secretaries in 'Heart of Darkness'). So was Theseus’ wool-ball navigator, Ariadne. And so, too, was the Ithacan ur-weaver Penelope, whose perpetual making and unraveling of her tapestry beat Gödel to an incompleteness theory by thousands of years. 'Text,' by the way, means something woven, from which we get 'textile.' It might just be that Penelope was not only testing her own version of the ontological limit, but also embedding it — in absent form, a hole — within the weft and warp of what we would eventually call the novel." |
Martin Davis reportedly died this year on New Year's Day.
This journal on that date —
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Friday, September 29, 2023
36 Shades of Blue: Namespace Mastery and Subjection
Tom McCarthy today on a new novel about von Neumann at Los Alamos:
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"Beyond its mid-20th-century viewfinder, though, it quickly becomes clear that what The Maniac is really trying to get a lock on is our current age of digital-informational mastery and subjection." "Amid — or, more aptly, beneath — the panoply of brilliant men in The Maniac , women function as bit players. At Los Alamos they’re even called 'computers,' since they carry out the secondary, workaday calculations that are then fed upward for male geniuses to work their magic on. But does von Neumann really deserve the title 'Father of Computers,' granted him here by his first wife, Mariette Kovesi? Doesn’t Ada Lovelace have a prior claim as their mother?" |
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Assassin’s Creed Song:
♪ “I left my Booth… in San Francisco” ♪
If you liked this one, see more in Blanche Knott's Truly Tasteless Jokes.
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♪ “I left my Booth… in San Francisco” ♪
♪ “I left my Booth… in San Francisco” ♪
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
Former-Day Saint
"Birthday, death-day — what day is not both?" — Updike
The actor who played "Illya Kuryakin" reportedly died yesterday —
" David Keith McCallum Jr. was born on Sept. 19, 1933, into
a musical family in Glasgow. His father was the first violinist
for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London; his mother,
Dorothy Dorman, was a cellist. He would later tell interviewers
that his Scotch Presbyterian upbringing had left him emotionally
circumscribed.
'We Scots, we tend to be awfully tight inside,' he told TV Guide
in 1965. 'It has hurt me as an actor to be so — so naturally restricted.' "
— Leslie Kaufman in The New York Times
This journal on McCallum's 90th birthday — Sept. 19, 2023 —
"You take the high road and . . . ."
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Monday, September 25, 2023
Some Noise
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Color Field* Art
This journal on the above color-field date . . .
* I prefer the art-history term "color field"
to the pandering term "psychedelic."
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Harvardwood Suggests
For an aspiring art director . . .
Since the event is online, your boozin' can be merely simulated .
This might be your best course of action. Looking for a cock tale ?
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Tuesday, August 9, 2022
Nihilism for Science Groupies
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