"Prodigal Son" scene in Blade Runner .
Click for related news.
"Nothing the god of biomechanics wouldn't let you in heaven for."
Friday, July 31, 2015
Thursday, July 30, 2015
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Witch Fire
From the evening of Monday, July 27, 2015:
"SEATTLE (AP) — True-crime writer Ann Rule… has died at age 83.
Rule died at Highline Medical Center at 10:30 p.m. Sunday [July 26],
said Scott Thompson, a spokesman for CHI Franciscan Health."
I prefer fictional crime… for instance, crime described by the late
Patricia Highsmith. Photos show that Highsmith had, at times,
"… that look on a face we follow like a witch-fire."
— Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
See also Log24 posts on the evening of Sunday, July 26, tagged Cauldron.
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Tuesday, July 28, 2015
In the Midnight Hour
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Monday, July 27, 2015
The Ten
The title refers to actress Kristen Wiig. (See Getcha.)
For Wiig, a scene from a 1968 Ingmar Bergman parody…
… and parts of a post from Saturday night, July 18, 2015 —
Some related material from pure mathematics — Design Cube (July 23).
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Sunday, July 26, 2015
The Nine
"Nine maidens kindle the Cauldron by their breathing."
Related material: Nine Vine.
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Lit
"Passion simmers,
Then it boils.
To the victor
Go the spoils."
— The Spoils of Babylon
(theme song, adapted)
Compare and contrast:
"… my song sounded
In the four-towered Caer, forever turning,
And of its Cauldron was my first song sung:
Nine maidens kindle the Cauldron by their breathing.
Of what nature is the Lord of Annwn’s Cauldron?
Enameled iridescence and pearly white its rim.
It will not boil the coward’s portion – not so its destiny."
— The Spoils of Hell
(title adapted)
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Sunday Sermon
"Little emblems of eternity"
— Phrase by Oliver Sacks in today's
New York Times Sunday Review
Some other emblems —
Note the color-interchange
symmetry of each emblem
under 180-degree rotation.
Click an emblem for
some background.
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Sunday Review
"Little emblems of eternity "
— Oliver Sacks, contemplating his own impending death,
in The New York Times Sunday Review section today.
Sacks's phrase refers to elements of the periodic table —
Another approach to "emblems of eternity" — The I Ching .
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Sunday School
Hexagram 51:
"I woke last night to the sound of thunder,
How far off, I sat and wondered.
Started humming a song from 1962.
Ain't it funny how the night moves?"
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Midrash Jazz for Kristen
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Saturday, July 25, 2015
Strange Loop
From an explanation of the Web app IFTTT —
"IF This Then That" —
"If you are a programmer you can think of it as a loop*
that checks for a certain condition… to run one or
multiple actions if the condition is met."
After Completion (from Friday night, and 1989) —
Advertisement —
"On February 19, 2015, IFTTT renamed
their original application to IF…."
From Tuesday's post on the death of E. L. Doctorow —
“…right through hell
there is a path…”
— Malcolm Lowry
* More precisely, a conditional or conditional loop .
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Frame Tale
In memory of a talented frame-maker —
From July 4, the date of his reported death:
From the next day:
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Friday, July 24, 2015
Manifest O (continued)
"Principles before personalities." — AA motto
For some personalities, see posts of November 23 last year.
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Field of Manifestation
This post was suggested by a book title in
the previous post: "Pieces of the Action."
A group action is a mathematical concept.
Related meditation:
"The number 9, that is to say, relates traditionally
to the Great Goddess of Many Names (Devi,
Inanna, Ishtar, Astarte, Artemis, Venus, etc.)
as matrix of the cosmic process, whether in the
macrocosm or in a microcosmic field of manifestation."
— Joseph Campbell,
The Inner Reaches of Outer Space
Examples:
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Thursday, July 23, 2015
Space
It's Space Week at Camp Google.
“… the object sets up
a kind of frame or space or field
within which there can be epiphany.”
— Charles Taylor
“My little baby sister can do it with ease.
It’s easier to learn than those ABC’s.”
— Kylie Minogue
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Ein Kampf
"Die Philosophie ist ein Kampf gegen die Verhexung
unsres Verstandes durch die Mittel unserer Sprache."
— Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations (1953), Section 109
Related material —
"… the common bond between chess, music, and mathematics
may, finally, be the absence of language."
— George Steiner, Fields of Force: Fischer and Spassky at Reykjavik ,
Viking hardcover, June 1974.
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Last Wish
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Tag
The New York Times this afternoon —
Professor Crone reportedly died at her home
in Princeton, N.J., on July 11, 2015.
See some posts, now with a new tag, that relate to that date.
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Harvard Death
Bloomberg.com —
July 21, 2015 — 3:51 PM EDT
Updated on July 21, 2015 — 6:04 PM EDT —
James Rothenberg of Capital Group
Dies at 69 of Heart Attack
"He was … chairman of Harvard Management Co.,
which invests the university’s $36.4 billion endowment."
See also …
The Harvard Crimson —
UPDATED: July 22, 2015, at 1:28 a.m.
"Rothenberg’s death, reportedly of a heart attack,
was unexpected."
He reportedly "chaired Harvard Management Company’s
board of directors from 2004 until his death."
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Tuesday, July 21, 2015
“Ragtime” Author Dies at 84
“…right through hell
there is a path…”
— Malcolm Lowry
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