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Two approaches to "Great Delight"

Part I:  Curtis —

Part II:  Morrow —

Despite the phrase "Diamond mandala," my own interests
lie with Curtis, not Morrow. See (for instance) a post of
Dec. 14, 2013.

See also Nicole Kidman as an earlier Black Widow.

"When will they ever learn?"

— Rhetorical question by the late Pete Seeger

NY Times  logo for its Learning Network  feature —

Frances McDormand in Burn After Reading —

The Times  pieces that inspired the above selection —

See also Mr. Arlington's date of death, January 16,
and Mr. Burns's date of death, January 26.

Continues…

Other Times content — ("O Me!") —

Other non -Times content — ("O Life!") —

The author of the above pairing has suggested a topic she
seems ill-prepared to discuss — poetry and psychosis.

Her background is in grade-school education.
For one possible result when grade-school education
meets psychosis, see Log24 posts tagged Danvers.

For better-informed discussion of the relation of poetry  
to psychological states that are more normal, see (for instance)
Roberts Avens on James Hillman.

(Continued from Saturday)

Huizenga reportedly died on Saturday.

Seeger reportedly died yesterday — Monday, Jan. 27, 2014.

From his New York Times  obituary —

"Planning to be a journalist, Mr. Seeger attended Harvard,
where he founded a radical newspaper and joined the
Young Communist League."

From yesterday morning's Log24 rosemary link —

"I'll be seeing you in all the old familiar places."

Part I

Part II

Part III

"There's rosemary, that's for remembrance."

For the Tin Men —

The word:  Shear.

A One-Frame Film —

Continued from remarks of Marissa Mayer at Davos last year —

Related material — This evening's NY lottery…

… and Log24 post number 1424 —

Continued from Epiphany* —

Today's New York Times  Word of the Day  is "lexicon."

* The word "lexicon" appeared in a Log4 post of Epiphany, 2014, but
    ​only within a link— "a bareword  "— to a search for Barry + Lexicon.

Dark Epiphanies

Part I: 

Part II:

"A Little Boy and a Little Girl," by Hans Christian Andersen
(second story of the seven that make up The Snow Queen )

Part III:

A former Snow White —

Click images for related material.

"Oh, I've got a field!
  I can build walls!"

For Marissa, continued from Jan. 13—

"Killer App" —

By David Barboza in today's print NY Times.
Stephanie Yifan Yang contributed research.

A version of this article appears in print on January 21, 2014,
on page B1 of the New York edition with the headline:
A Popular Chinese Social Networking App Blazes Its Own Path.

Another path —

See also Chinese Oracle.

Today's online Washington Post —

"In 1973, Mr. Pike was credited with single-handedly grounding
a $14 million program that awarded extra pay for flight duty to
generals and admirals who never piloted anything more
aerodynamic than a desk at the Pentagon.

Standing on the floor of the House with his arms outstretched
like a plane in flight, Mr. Pike used mockery to plead his case."

— Matt Schudel, 2:38 PM ET

For Time Cube  fans —

The Conductor and the Cube

Review —

From a Jan. 20, 2011, Emory University press release —
"Finite formula found for partition numbers" —

"We found a function, that we call P, that is like
a magical oracle," Ono says. "I can take any number,
plug it into P, and instantly calculate the partitions
of that number. P does not return gruesome numbers
with infinitely many decimal places. It's the finite,
algebraic formula that we have all been looking for."

Some may prefer Chinese  oracles.