"… the effective work of memory is the very definition of art."
— "In Memoriam: Chris Marker," by Richard Brody,
New Yorker weblog post, July 30, 2012
New York Lottery this evening: 178, 0772.
Definition: See 178 on May 25, 2012.
Art: See 772 on Nov. 21, 2010 and Harvard Black Diamond.
Moonshine:
The time of this post, 8:28, may be taken as
a reference to the date, 8/28, of the Feast of St. Augustine.
Augustine's remarks on memory are not without interest.
(Continued from previous TARDIS posts)
Summary: A review of some posts from last August is suggested by the death,
reportedly during the dark hours early on October 30, of artist Lebbeus Woods.
An (initially unauthorized) appearance of his work in the 1995 film
Twelve Monkeys …
… suggests a review of three posts from last August.
Wednesday, August 1, 2012Defining FormContinued from July 29 in memory of filmmaker Chris Marker, See Slides and Chanting†and Where Madness Lies. See also Sherrill Grace on Malcolm Lowry. * Washington Post. Other sources say Marker died on July 30. † These notably occur in Marker's masterpiece |
Wednesday, August 1, 2012Triple Feature
For related material, see this morning's post Defining Form. |
Sunday, August 12, 2012Doctor WhoOn Robert A. Heinlein's novel Glory Road— "Glory Road (1963) included the foldbox , a hyperdimensional packing case that was bigger inside than outside. It is unclear if Glory Road was influenced by the debut of the science fiction television series Doctor Who on the BBC that same year. In Doctor Who , the main character pilots a time machine called a TARDIS, which is built with technology which makes it 'dimensionally transcendental,' that is, bigger inside than out." — Todd, Tesseract article at exampleproblems.com From the same exampleproblems.com article— "The connection pattern of the tesseract's vertices is the same as that of a 4×4 square array drawn on a torus; each cell (representing a vertex of the tesseract) is adjacent to exactly four other cells. See geometry of the 4×4 square." For further details, see today's new page on vertex adjacency at finitegeometry.org. |
"It was a dark and stormy night."— A Wrinkle in Time
From AntiChristmas 2010—
Art theorist Rosalind Krauss and The Ninefold Square
Krauss is a co-founder of the art journal October .
For some backgound, see the overlapping searches
Krauss October and Matrix Architect.
See a paid death notice for architect
John M. Johansen, who died last Friday,
in today's New York Times from Ennead Architects.
"Ennead" means, according to a story on the firm, a "group of nine."
See also a group of nine from the day of Johansen's death.
Related material:
Hexagram 29 and the life of
Robert Palmer Dilworth, who
died on this date in 1993.
(Continued from this morning's father-son Flynns
and from two other Flynn father-son pairs. See the
fictional Tron pair on Jan. 5, 2011 and Dec. 2, 2011,
and the "Flynn effect" pair from Sept. 23, 2012.)
From a film…
Being Flynn (2012)
[first lines]
Jonathan Flynn: America has produced only three classic writers –
Mark Twain, J. D. Salinger and me. I'm Jonathan Flynn.
Everything I write is a masterpiece.
…and from this journal…
"The mind is its own place, and the places inhabited by the insane
and the exceptionally gifted are so different from the places where
ordinary men and women live, that there is little or no common ground
of memory to serve as a basis for understanding or fellow feeling."
— The Doors of Perception , by Aldous Huxley
"Greet guests with a touch of glass."
— The Perception of Doors , by Google —
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City:
For the 2012 film version, see …
(Click image below for a review.)
Personally, I prefer the green door of last night's 10 PM post
(written partly in honor of the body mentioned here on October 23).
The cover of the Nick Flynn book shows a green door beneath a tree.
For a different tree, but similar metaphor, see Confirmation (July 16, 2007).
“The voodoo priestess looked across the table at her wealthy client, a man on trial for murder:
‘Now, you know how dead time works. Dead time lasts for one hour– from half an hour
before midnight to half an hour after midnight. The half-hour before midnight is for doin’ good.
The half-hour after midnight is for doin’ evil….’”
– Glenna Whitley, “Voodoo Justice,” The New York Times , March 20, 1994
Sally Forth on September 5th, 2012—
Backstory—
Posts of October 24th—
Love Ghost and Versions—
and a version of Plan 9—
Related religious meditation—
Irresistible Grace, illustrated by The Girl in the Yellow Dress.
John M. Johansen, architect, who
reportedly died yesterday—
"It wasn't until reading Carl Jung,
Joseph Campbell, and Thomas Merton
that I understood what a symbol really was."
— johnmjohansen.com/Symbolism.html
"Nine is a vine."
(See also that phrase in this journal.)
(Continued from July 21, 2012)
USA Today on a Cuban dissident who died this morning:
Born Dec. 8, 1934, in Madrid, Spain, Gutierrez-Menoyo was the son and brother of men who fought against the Spanish dictator Gen. Francisco Franco.
One of his brothers died in combat in Spain as a member of the Spanish Republican forces. The family moved to Cuba in 1945 and another brother, Carlos, was killed in March 1957 during an attack on the presidential palace of Cuban strongman Fulgencio Batista.
"They could win." — Don Michael Corleone
Peggy Noonan today on the President—
"He told staffers that John Boehner,
one of 11 children of a small-town bar owner,
was a 'country club Republican.' "
Related material from The Atlantic
on the late author John O'Hara (1905-1970)—
As the son of a prominent surgeon, O'Hara held a social position far above that of almost all other Irish Catholics. But in a world in which "'foreigner' meant anyone who wasn't Anglo-Saxon," as one longtime Pottsville resident told us when we recently visited the town, O'Hara could never quite attain the status of his friends, members of the WASP "anthracite aristocracy." This predestined immobility gave O'Hara an acute sensitivity to minute yet telling social distinctions. He was fascinated by the pattern of a necktie, the make of a car, the brand of Scotch, the choice of collar pin, the misuse of a pronoun, the club joined, the college attended, and how these define— in fact, determine— character. "To read him on a fashionable bar or the Gibbsville country club," Edmund Wilson wrote of O'Hara's fictionalized Pottsville, "is to be shown on the screen of a fluoroscope gradations of social prestige of which one had not before been aware."
— "John O'Hara's Protectorate," by Benjamin and Christina Schwarz, The Atlantic , March 2000
Today's 11:01 AM post discussed time concepts
in Eliot's Four Quartets.
For the temporally challenged, here is
a somewhat simpler conceptual framework—
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Three Trios From a post of Columbus Day
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From a Sept. 17, 2010, post of Peter J. Cameron
that was linked to here at 8 AM ET today—
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In a recurring motif in the second Quartet, “East Coker”, Eliot says, Time future and time past and, in “Little Gidding”, … to apprehend |
This should read instead…
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In a recurring motif in the first Quartet, “Burnt Norton”, Eliot says, Time present and time past and, in “The Dry Salvages”, … to apprehend |
Related material from this journal in 2003—
"There's nothing wrong with the system. It's perfect."
— John Anderton in Minority Report
Click image for a trailer. For some
deeper philosophical reflections, see
a post in this journal from the trailer's
upload date and its link to "Eliot's Yew,"
by Peter J. Cameron.
From today's online New York Times —
photos, in memory of an Auschwitz photographer,
of a Polish Catholic victim of the Nazis —
In memory of the victims of Leon Jaroff, Paul Kurtz, and Martin Gardner
(see Halloween Special), an example— Gardner on Galois.
Mathematics and Narrative continues…
Steiner's version of "classical functional analysis"—
"Mein Führer… Steiner…"
* See the story by Kilgore Trout. See also On Linguistic Creation,
The Matrix of Abraham, and The Thoreau Foundation.
For a mathematician who reportedly died on August 27—
"The Mac equivalent to a blue screen is a grey screen.
The info associated with a grey screen is in the kernel.log.
So you may have to look at this."
See also Plan 9.
"The yarns of seamen have a direct simplicity,
the whole meaning of which
lies within the shell of a cracked nut.
But Marlow was not typical
(if his propensity to spin yarns be excepted),
and to him the meaning of an episode
was not inside like a kernel but outside,
enveloping the tale which brought it out
only as a glow brings out a haze,
in the likeness of one of these misty halos
that sometimes are made visible by
the spectral illumination of moonshine."
— Joseph Conrad in Heart of Darkness
Last night's quarter-to-three meditation
linked to one version of "Behind the Green Door."
For those who prefer less heavenly versions—
Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story
is the title of an August 30, 2012, biography
of the late author David Foster Wallace.
(See a Guardian review.)
For example…
The Lovely Bones, Telemark, and Behind the Green Door.
“I have to break in my new suit
and limber up my muscles somehow,”
said Penny defensively. “One can’t
practice outdoors when there’s no snow.
Now watch this one, Mrs. Weems.
It’s called a telemark.”
The title refers to a search (see below)
suggested by three things—
The search— Labyrinth 23.
(Within the search results, note particularly the post "The Infinity Point.")
See …
"… and crown thy good with brotherhood…"
"The brothers are charged with murder,
conspiracy to commit murder,
disposing a body,
and tampering with evidence,
according to police."
A new Wikipedia page was created on Oct. 9—
"This page was last modified on 9 October 2012 at 19:54."
This, and a long-running musical, suggest…
"Try to remember the kind of September…"
LIFE Magazine for September 6, 1954, provides
one view of the kind of September when I was
twelve years old. (Also that September, Mitt Romney
was seven. President Obama was born later.)
Top of Life Magazine cover, September 6, 1954
This suggests James Joyce's nightmare view of history.
For some other views of 1954, see selected posts in this journal
that mention that year.
See also IMDb on Grace Kelly that year, and a related theological
reflection from Holy Cross Day, 2002.
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