Continued from Sunday, January 24, 2016
Wikipedia on Io in Greek mythology
(a precursor to Marvel Comics) —
"Walter Burkert [18] notes that the story of Io was told
in the ancient epic tradition at least four times….
18. Burkert, Homo Necans (1974) 1983:
164 note 14, giving bibliography."
An "io" story I prefer — m24.io.
In memory of Father John Romas, a Greek Orthodox priest who
reportedly died on Sunday, January 24, 2016.
This is from a post on Greek philosophy on that date.
From page 56 of The Science Fiction of Mark Clifton ,
Southern Illinois University Press, 1980 —
See also the following image in this journal —
.
For Evangeline
(Some background — See Limerick in this journal.
See also "He's a mad scientist and I'm his beautiful daughter.")
"There was a young lady named Bright…."
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"You read too slow, Daddy," she complained. She was childishly irritable about it. "You say a word. Then I think a long time. Then you say another word." I knew what she meant. I remember, when I was a child, my thoughts used to dart in and out among the slowly droning words of any adult. Whole patterns of universes would appear and disappear in those brief moments. "So?" I asked. "So," she mocked me impishly. "You teach me to read. Then I can think quick as I want." "Quickly," I corrected in a weak voice. "The word is 'quickly,' an adverb." She looked at me impatiently, as if she saw through this allegedly adult device to show up a youngster's ignorance. I felt like the dope! |
Related material — The Quick and the Dead
* For example, from the Marvel Comics realm
(Continued from Dec. 9, 2013)
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"…it would be quite a long walk
Swiftly Mrs. Who brought her hands… together.
"Now, you see," Mrs. Whatsit said,
– A Wrinkle in Time , |
From a media weblog yesterday, a quote from the video below —
"At 12:03 PM Eastern Standard Time, January 12th, 2016…."
This weblog on the previous day (January 11th, 2016) —
"There is such a thing as harmonic analysis of switching functions."
— Saying adapted from a young-adult novel
* For some backstory, see a Caltech page.
On a stage character named Pascal —
"… the mathematics professor implores Minnie to take
full advantage of her own intelligence and talents,
usually capped off with a non sequitur gift of some kind…."
— Sean T. Collins, " 'I’m better than you, you son of a bitch':
a review of The Diary of a Teenage Girl: The Play ,"
Comic Book Resources , March 30, 2010
The title refers to a line by Louis Menand quoted
at the end of the previous post.
There "a6!" refers to the chessboard square in
column a, row 6. In Geometry of the I Ching,
this square represents Hexagram 61, "Inner Truth."
See also "inner truth" in this journal.
After Menand
This subtitle refers to the previous post, Game Theory for Steiner.
That post suggested a search that led to a New Yorker piece
by Louis Menand, "Game Theory," excerpted below.
"The definition of easy to learn, hard to master"
— Alex Hern in The Guardian today on the game of Go
Not unlike music, mathematics, and chess.
For the title, see "Accomplished in Steps" in this journal.
"In U.S. criminal law, means, motive, and opportunity is
a common summation of the three aspects of a crime
that must be established before guilt can be determined
in a criminal proceeding." — Wikipedia
See also "Motive for Metaphor" in this journal.
"I'm in with the in crowd,
I go where the in crowd goes"
— Musical motif of the recent film "Irrational Man"
From a piece in The Harvard Crimson today:
"The refrain of one of my favorite songs goes,
'Tension is to be loved when it is like a passing note
to a beautiful, beautiful chord.' I don’t want to seek
the allusion [sic ] of finding balance anymore:
It can’t be found."
Allusion —
"No angel born in Hell
Could break that Satan's spell"
— "American Pie"
A passing note —
"The name diabolus in musica ("the Devil in music")
has been applied to the interval from at least the
early 18th century…."
— Wikipedia on the tritone
See also Music & Noise at a physics site and the square root
of two on page 56 of Barry Mazur's Imagining Numbers
(Picador imprint, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003) —
— The New Yorker , May 19, 1997 issue, page 52
See also Hollander in this journal.
(This post was suggested by a search for
"Barry Mazur" + "Two-Faced.")
The New York Times , reporting yesterday on the death of
a distinguished expert in the field of artificial intelligence,
said that he “laid the foundation for the field.”
Related material:
“A Bad Case of Mixed Metaphors:
Psychiatry, Law, Politics, Society,
and Ezra Pound”
by Arnold M. Ludwig,
American Journal of Psychotherapy
2000 Winter; 54(1): 116-117
From that paper —
“… the conceptual foundation for the field
continues to be primitive.”
See also, in this journal, The Source (Oct. 4, 2014).
An image from that post —
Ground plan for a game of
Noughts and Crosses
In this journal, see Syntactic/Symplectic and Raiding Minsky’s.
IMAGE- Kristen Wiig in 'Cock and Bull Story' —
See also some Saturday Night Live comedy in
"The Sound of Music" (a post from March 6, 2011)
and Kristen Wiig in a new "Zoolander 2" promotion.
For Mel Gibson
The book in the previous post, "A Hateful Eight," was
reportedly published on February 25, 2004. See also
this journal on that date —
Click image for post.
In memory of physicist David Ritz Finkelstein,
who reportedly died yesterday —
"His sense of irony and precision was appreciated" ….
Precision
Irony
An illustration of the song "Stuck in the Middle with You"
(from the Tarantino film "Reservoir Dogs") was posted by
an academic at Christmas 2015 —
See also, in this journal,
The Jewel in the Lotus Meets the Kernel in the Nutshell
(December 16, 2015).
"The ideal of a complete mathematical theory of beauty
lies on the same long line of distinguished fantasies of
mathematical wisdom as the number mysticism of
Pythagoras and Plato, the Ars Magna of Ramon Llull
(whom Agrippa studied) and Giordano Bruno
(who studied Llull and Agrippa), the vision of Mathesis
Universalis that Descartes and Leibniz shared, and the
Ars Combinatoria of Leibniz. Dürer does not deny the
existence of absolute beauty but despairs of knowing it."
— The late David Ritz Finkelstein in 2007.
He reportedly died today.
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore…."
— Edgar Allan Poe, 1845 (link added)
"The infamous pseudohistorian Eric Temple Bell
begins his book 'The Magic of Numbers' as follows:
The hero of our story is Pythagoras…."
Related material —
See also "Temple Bell" in this journal.
"Hard Science Fiction in the era of short attention spans,
crowd-sourcing, and rapid obsolescence"
— May 26, 2012, Dragon Press Bookstore symposium
Related material: Posts now tagged Black Diamond.
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