For those who understand spoken Norwegian.
I do not. The interview apparently gives some
background on Lyche’s large wall version of
“The 2×2 Case (Diamond Theorem) II.
(After Steven H. Cullinane)” 2012
Size: 260 x 380 cm
See also this work as displayed at a Kjærlighet til Oslo page.
(Updated March 30, 2014, to replace dead Kjaerlighet link.)
(Continued from High White Noon,
Finishing Up at Noon, and A New York Jew.)
Above: Frank Langella in "Starting Out in the Evening"
Below: Frank Langella and Johnny Depp in "The Ninth Gate"
"Not by the hair on your chinny-chin-chin."
Above: Detail from a Wikipedia photo.
For the logo, see Lostpedia.
For some backstory, see Noether.
Those seeking an escape from the eightfold nightmare
represented by the Dharma logo above may consult
the remarks of Heisenberg (the real one, not the
Breaking Bad version) to the Bavarian Academy
of Fine Arts.
Those who prefer Plato's cave to his geometry are
free to continue their Morphean adventures.
For the title, see the end of yesterday's post "For Michaelmas."
See also the Sept. 22 post Incarnation, Part 2
as well as Noether in this journal.
The title is a reference to an article on page SR4 of
The New York Times Sunday Review on Michaelmas.
From Wired , a Saturday evening post —
From a Breaking Bad recap by Logan Hill—
“I am not in danger, Skyler, I am the danger,” Walt growls,
in an electric shock of a scene that likely marks the beginning
of a new phase of Breaking Bad . If this show has been the story
of Walt’s deliberate, step-by-step descent into the bottom of
some bleak moral valley, this is him charging madly downhill
into darkness. “A guy opens his door and gets shot, you think
that of me? No, I am the one who knocks .”
The date of the above meditations was suggested by that of the post
"Theologia Mathematica" in the weblog The World of Dr. Justice .
Today, beginning at about 11 AM ET, I checked out
the latest news from Oslo artist Josefine Lyche,
often mentioned in these posts.
Lyche's Facebook page has a new cover photo—
geometric diagrams from Order in Space , a 1969
book by Keith Critchlow.
A search for more information on Critchlow yielded
information on his friend the impressive Kathleen Raine,
who reportedly died at 95 on July 6, 2003.
See also references to that date in this journal.
From Raine's obituary in The Guardian :
"When asked how she wished people
to remember her, Kathleen Raine said
she would rather they didn't. Or that
Blake's words be said of her: 'That in
time of trouble, I kept the divine vision.' "
Legendary Magician John Calvert Dies at 102
The Hollywood Reporter , 8:36 PM PDT 9/27/2013
by Mike Barnes —
" 'Out in Hollywood many years ago, Danny Kaye was
in my show and came out and impersonated Hitler,'
Calvert said in a 1998 interview. 'Then the Marines
would come out and grab him and put him in the buzz saw
and we’d cut his head off, put his head in a sausage grinder,
and out came German wieners!' "
See MAX in the posts of September 9th.
"Calvert died Friday [Sept. 27] in Lancaster, Calif., according to
The International Brotherhood of Magicians."
See also The Carlin Code (May 12, 2006).
(Where Entertainment Is God , continued)
Yesterday's evening numbers in the New York Lottery
were 007 and 3856. You are free to supply your own
interpretation of the former. The latter may, if you like,
be interpreted as post 3856, The Illuminati Stone .
Some context:
(Click for a larger, clearer image.)
"Let X equal the month of full bookstores."
— Proof by David Auburn
|
"Harvard Book Store is thrilled to welcome Stephen King for a special event to celebrate the release of Doctor Sleep , the long-anticipated sequel to 1977’s The Shining . Mr. King will read from and discuss the new book, followed by a Q&A with the audience at Memorial Church in Harvard Yard on September 27." |
See as well Corpse + Eliot and some remarks
on the mathematics of Kummer
from this September and from last September.
See yesterday's post Design Mastery and a post for Amy Adams's birthday in 2011
on Eliot's still point and the dance .
For T.S. Eliot on his birthday, a film review—
"… the Coens are… elegantly asserting design mastery…."
— Peter Bradshaw, review of "Inside Llewyn Davis"
in The Guardian on May 18, 2013
Related material— Two Log24 posts from that date—
Black Hole Revisited and Midnight in Bakhtin.
The former post presents a Jewish approach to
Eliot's concept of time and "the still point."
The latter post presents a more sophisticated approach.
Perhaps the Coens' design mastery extends to the phrase
"time stops" of Kerouac. See the remarks by Dean Moriarty
in On the Road quoted here in the previous post (Sept. 24).
The Coens' film contains, Bradshaw says, "a smoulderingly
Kerouac-y poet, played by Garrett Hedlund." Hedlund played
not Kerouac, but Moriarty, in the 2012 film of On the Road .
“It’s not the tune that counts but IT.”
— Dean Moriarty in On the Road
For the late Carolyn Cassady, once a wife of Neal Cassady
(Dean Moriarty of Jack Kerouac's classic novel On the Road ).
She reportedly died at 90 in England on Friday, September 20,
2013.
From a post in this journal on the night of September 20-21,
with waning Harvest Moon:
Click on "Aooo" for some related posts, tagged "Howl."
"… It raced down the gossamer curtain of Its webbing,
a nightmare Spider from beyond time and space,
a Spider from beyond the fevered imaginings of
whatever inmates may live in the deepest depths of hell.
No, Bill thought coldly, not a Spider either, not really,
but this shape isn’t one It picked out of our minds;
it’s just the closest our minds can come to
(the deadlights)
whatever It really is."
— Stephen King, It (Sept. 15, 1986)
Related horror by Fritz Leiber—
"The Mind Spider" and "Damnation Morning."
Related fiction by Mark Helprin—
As a perceptive reviewer has noted, Helprin's title is
almost a verse from the song "Danny Boy."
See, too, the Danny Boy of The Shining ,
who returns tomorrow in a sequel, Doctor Sleep .
"… a list of group theoretic invariants
and their geometric incarnation…"
— David Lehavi on the Kummer 166 configuration in 2007
Related material —
"The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation."
— T. S. Eliot in Four Quartets
"This is not theology; this is mathematics."
— Steven H. Cullinane on four quartets
To wit:
The Kummer 166 configuration is the configuration of sixteen
6-sets within a 4×4 square array of points in which each 6-set
is determined by one of the 16 points of the array and
consists of the 3 other points in that point's row and the
3 other points in that point's column.
See Configurations and Squares.
The Wikipedia article Kummer surface uses a rather poetic
phrase* to describe the relationship of the 166 to a number
of other mathematical concepts — "geometric incarnation."
Related material from finitegeometry.org —
* Apparently from David Lehavi on March 18, 2007, at Citizendium .
Mathematics:
A review of posts from earlier this month —
Wednesday, September 4, 2013
|
Narrative:
Aooo.
Happy birthday to Stephen King.
An LA obituary online yesterday suggests
a review of Kabbalah in this journal.
See also the final link in last weekend's
Log24 post Sunday Shul.
Google News this morning —
For some remarks in greater depth, see
"In the Neighborhood of Mathematical Space,"
by Karen Shenfeld (1993).
"A model of decorum and tranquillity
Become like any other sport
A battleground for rival ideologies
To slug it out with glee"
Communist leader Chin Peng, 88,
reportedly died in Bangkok yesterday.
"Is a puzzlement."
The above news item seems to exemplify Baudelaire's (and Murdoch's)
notion of contingency —
|
"La modernité, c’est le transitoire, le fugitif, le contingent, la moitié de l’art, dont l’autre moitié est l’éternel et l’immuable." — Baudelaire, "Le Peintre de la Vie Moderne," IV (1863) "By 'modernity' I mean the ephemeral, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art whose other half is the eternal and the immutable." — Baudelaire, "The Painter of Modern Life," IV (1863), translated by Jonathan Mayne (in 1964 Phaidon Press book of same title) |
Thanks to the late Marshall Berman for pointing out this remark of Baudelaire.
(All That Is Solid Melts Into Air , Penguin edition of 1988, p. 133)
* For this post's title, see Language Game in this journal on 9/11,
the morning of Berman's reported death.
“ ’A babbled of green fields”
— Phrase attributed to Shakespeare
Suggested by a poem in the current New Yorker.
Today's text —
"We have no more beginnings.
Incipit : that proud Latin word
which signals the start
survives in our dusty 'inception'."
— George Steiner, beginning of
Grammars of Creation
Reply in the Latin tradition—
.
Cast
(From the Log24 posts
of August 23-24, 2013)
See Hollywood + Vine in this journal.
See also Jews on Fiction.
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