The actor who played Chief Engineer Quinn in the classic
1956 film Forbidden Planet reportedly died today at 91.
In his memory, here is a link from the previous post —
July 15, 2004. Excerpts from that 2004 post —
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Answers to the first crossword puzzle —
Here is an illustration of what might
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Log24 on January 31, 2015 —
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The 1913 puzzle from above, claiming priority —
A more sophisticated puzzle related to the previous post —
In a book to be published Sept. 5 by Princeton University Press,
John Conway, Simon Norton, and Alex Ryba present the following
result on order-four magic squares —
A monograph published in 1976, “Diamond Theory,” deals with
more general 4×4 squares containing entries from the Galois fields
GF(2), GF(4), or GF(16). These squares have remarkable, if not
“magic,” symmetry properties. See excerpts in a 1977 article.
See also Magic Square and Diamond Theorem in this journal.
Or: Bee Season Continues
Click the automat image above to enlarge.
Click the Horn & Hardart image below for the source.
See as well Catskills Heaven (Log24 on August 20, 2017) —
The Coen brothers, 2007 screenplay —
(From a novel by Cormac McCarthy)
An image in memory of a publisher* who reportedly died
on Saturday, August 26, 2017.
He and his wife wrote a novel, The Twelve , that has been compared to
the classic film "Village of the Damned." (See a sequel in this journal.)
For more on the image, see posts now tagged The Finkelstein Talisman.
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The previous post, together with the New York Times Wire and the
life in Trieste of the James Joyce family, suggests a review of …
1. Lucia + Crossword in this journal
2. The following Times items —
Discuss.
The New York Times online today —
Taylor Swift's new video —
For Taylor, news from St. Lucia's Day (Dec. 13) 2016 —
Continued from August 23, 2017. See a death on that date
reported by a funeral home in Monterey, California.
From a Log24 search for "Midnight Special."
Update of 12:45 AM the same night —
"I appreciate simple, iconic and timeless forms —
things that can adapt or serve multiple purposes
and avoid being easily labelled. At the same time,
I love parts and fragments that reveal how things
move or work. Mostly, anything that tells its
own story and isn’t generalized or clad in some
sort of ornamental icing."
— Charlottesville, VA, architect Fred Wolf, who seems
to have been associated with the business name
"Gauss LLC " in Charlottesville.
And I appreciate bulk apperception.
See Captain America's special breakfast
in posts tagged Aesthetic Distance.
See as well Taylor Swift in the previous post and
The School of the New York Times on creating
great branded content:
“I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.”
— Paul Simon
See also John Collier's short story "The Lady on the Grey."
Note that the title of the previous post was "Black Well,"
almost the same as that of Tanner's graphic novel above.
The “Black” of the title refers to the previous post.
For the “Well,” see Hexagram 48.
Related material —
The Galois Tesseract and, more generally, Binary Coordinate Systems.
The previous post suggests an example of
extreme aesthetic distance.
The word "mosaic" in Max Black —
The same word in a very different author —
Related historical remarks, for the Church of Synchronology —
The above death reportedly occurred on Sunday, Sept. 13, 2015.
This journal at 11 AM on that date —
Some background —
Naive readers may suppose that this sort of thing is
related to what has been dubbed "geometric group theory."
It is not. See posts now tagged Aesthetic Distance.
"The confines of reason" vs. the confines of time —
The previous post noted that …
Schorske mentioned hopefully "the fresh light of
the present" in 1971.
Some later light [came] from Brian Aldiss in his novel
Frankenstein Unbound , first published in 1973.
Between these two years, in 1972, the band Looking Glass
released what has been called
"one of Earth's greatest musical compositions, perhaps the greatest."
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The Seventh Function
The New York Times
"What if . . . Barthes was murdered? . . . in order to |
Schorske mentioned hopefully "the fresh light of
the present" in 1971.
Some later light from Brian Aldiss in his novel
Frankenstein Unbound , first published in 1973 —
The above is a variation on a title from last night's post By Degrees.
The Literary Path —
The Hollywood Path —
Further remarks on algebra and space —
See as well the above image in yesterday's post Maori Chess, Vol. 2.
http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=Gaitskill
The above link was suggested by the essay
of the previous post.
http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=Kristeva
http://m759.net/wordpress/?s="Tel+Quel"
http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=Sollers
Some context for the new novel The Seventh Function —
Click image to search Log24 for Gitterkrieg .
This just in …
"Genesis Potini died of a heart attack aged 46
on the 15th August 2011."
The 15th of August in New Zealand overlapped
the 14th of August in the U.S.A.
From a Log24 post, "Sunday Review," on August 14, 2011 —
Part II (from "Marshall, Meet Bagger," July 29):
"Time for you to see the field."
For further details, see the 1985 note
"Generating the Octad Generator."
McLuhan was a Toronto Catholic philosopher.
For related views of a Montreal Catholic philosopher,
see the Saturday evening post.
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