"Frye's largely imaginary eightfold roman
may have provided him a personal substitute—
or alternative— for both ideology and myth."
— P. 63 of James C. Nohrnberg, "The Master of
the Myth of Literature: An Interpenetrative Ogdoad
for Northrop Frye," Comparative Literature Vol. 53,
No. 1 (Winter, 2001), pp. 58-82
See also today's earlier post In Nuce .
From "Northrop Frye at Home and Abroad: His Ideas,"
by Jean O'Grady —
"Frye always denied the accusation that
he was trying to make everyone accept
his whole ‘system’ like a straightjacket;
he remarked to an interviewer that perhaps
he would ultimately be found less useful as a
systemizer than as a quarry for later thinkers,
'a kind of lumber-room for later generations…
a resource person for anyone to explore and
get ideas from.' "
From Wikipedia's Lumber Room article —
"The phrase 'lumber room' is found in British fiction
at least during the 19th century …. Probably one of
the most evocative references is the short story by
'Saki' (H. H. Munro) called 'The Lumber Room':
'Often and often Nicholas had pictured to himself
what the lumber-room might be like, that region
that was so carefully sealed from youthful eyes
and concerning which no questions were ever answered.
It came up to his expectations. In the first place it was large
and dimly lit, one high window opening on to the forbidden
garden being its only source of illumination. In the second
place it was a storehouse of unimagined treasures.' "
See also Two by Four in this journal.
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Excerpts from James C. Nohrnberg, "The Master of the Myth of Literature: An Interpenetrative Ogdoad for Northrop Frye," Comparative Literature Vol. 53, No. 1 (Winter, 2001), pp. 58-82
From page 58 — * P. 22 of Rereading Frye: The Published and Unpublished Works , ed. David Boyd and Imre Salusinszky, Frye Studies [series] (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998). [Abbreviated as RF .]
From page 62 —
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Update of 4:00 PM —
See also this journal on Sunday morning and
Bill Murray's "Razor's Edge."
Or: A Candle for Sunrise
Commentary —
“Looking carefully at Golay’s code is like staring into the sun.”
Or: Notes for the Metaphysical Club
Northrop Frye on Wallace Stevens:
"He… stands in contrast to the the dualistic
approach of Eliot, who so often speaks of poetry
as though it were an emotional and sensational
soul looking for a 'correlative' skeleton of
thought to be provided by a philosopher, a
Cartesian ghost trying to find a machine that
will fit."
Ralph Waldo Emerson on "vacant and vain" knowledge:
"The new position of the advancing man has all
the powers of the old, yet has them all new. It
carries in its bosom all the energies of the past,
yet is itself an exhalation of the morning. I cast
away in this new moment all my once hoarded
knowledge, as vacant and vain."
Harold Bloom on Emerson:
"Emerson may not have invented the American
Sublime, yet he took eternal possession of it."
Wallace Stevens on the American Sublime:
"And the sublime comes down
To the spirit itself,
The spirit and space,
The empty spirit
In vacant space."
A founding member of the Metaphysical Club:
See also the eightfold cube.
A passage quoted here Wednesday, Nov. 23 —
The exploding cigar and peanut-can snake of the previous post
suggest that the source of the above "series of surprises"
be made clear. It is not Stevens, but Emerson.
Related material from this journal —
Before the monograph "Diamond Theory" was distributed in 1976,
two (at least) notable figures were published that illustrate
symmetry properties of the 4×4 square:
Hudson in 1905 —
Golomb in 1967 —
It is also likely that some figures illustrating Walsh functions as
two-color square arrays were published prior to 1976.
Update of Dec. 7, 2016 —
The earlier 1950's diagrams of Veitch and Karnaugh used the
1's and 0's of Boole, not those of Galois.
See Bonanza and Magnificent Seven in this journal.
* Al Caiola, who reportedly died on November 9th.
This journal at 11:48 PM ET Sunday, Nov. 20, 2016 —
The New York Times online this evening* —
* On the New York Times Wire at 8:29 PM ET.
Cover: Night at the Brooklyn Bridge
From the American Mathematical Society (AMS) webpage today —
From the current AMS Notices —
Related material from a post of Aug. 6, 2014 —
(Here "five point sets" should be "five-point sets.")
From Gotay and Isenberg, “The Symplectization of Science,”
Gazette des Mathématiciens 54, 59-79 (1992):
“… what is the origin of the unusual name ‘symplectic’? ….
Its mathematical usage is due to Hermann Weyl who,
in an effort to avoid a certain semantic confusion, renamed
the then obscure ‘line complex group’ the ‘symplectic group.’
… the adjective ‘symplectic’ means ‘plaited together’ or ‘woven.’
This is wonderfully apt….”
The above symplectic structure* now appears in the figure
illustrating the diamond-theorem correlation in the webpage
Rosenhain and Göpel Tetrads in PG(3,2).
* The phrase as used here is a deliberate
abuse of language . For the real definition of
“symplectic structure,” see (for instance)
“Symplectic Geometry,” by Ana Cannas da Silva
(article written for Handbook of Differential
Geometry , Vol 2.) To establish that the above
figure is indeed symplectic , see the post
Zero System of July 31, 2014.
See "sacerdotal jargon" in this journal.
For those who prefer scientific jargon —
"… open its reading to
combinational possibilities
outside its larger narrative flow.
The particulars of attention,
whether subjective or objective,
are unshackled through form,
and offered as a relational matrix …."
— Kent Johnson in a 1993 essay
For some science that is not just jargon, see …
and, also from posts tagged Dirac and Geometry …
The above line complex also illustrates an outer automorphism
of the symmetric group S6. See last Thursday's post "Rotman and
the Outer Automorphism."
See also "Both Hands and an Ass Map"
in posts tagged "Academy Map."
From "Kafka: An End or a Beginning?"
by Morten Høi Jensen
in Los Angeles Review of Books ,
November 19, 2016 —
From a New York Times obit for a music producer who reportedly
died on Tuesday, November 15, 2016 —
"He also produced … the Starland Vocal Band’s No. 1 hit,
'Afternoon Delight' (1976), and conducted Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach,
and the orchestra that accompanied him, on his album
'Haneshama Lach' (1959)." — Daniel E. Slotnik
See as well …
and …
"The high-end diamond game is played
on a very small field by only a few players."
— Matthew Hart in Vanity Fair , Sept. 2016 issue
Alicia Vikander and Matt Damon in "Jason Bourne" (2016).
The linked-to trailer was uploaded on April 20, 2016.
For related entertainment, see posts of April 2016…
in particular, those related to the April 20 death of
"Diamonds Are Forever" director Guy Hamilton.
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