The previous post, together with a New York Times report on
an Upper West Side figure's death on Friday, suggests a review . . .
Related material —
Illustrations from a post of Oct. 11, 2010 —
Sunday, December 31, 2017
Where Parallels Meet
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Ich, Du, etc., etc.
Recent posts involving the English pronoun IT referred to
classic tales of horror by Madeleine L'Engle and Stephen King.
Those posts suggest some further remarks by Martin Buber:
THE WORLD IS TWOFOLD for man
in accordance with his twofold attitude.
The attitude of man is twofold
in accordance with the two basic words he can speak.
The basic words are not single words but word pairs.
One basic word is the word pair I-You.
The other basic word is the word pair I-It;
but this basic word is not changed when
He or She takes the place of It.
Thus the I of man is also twofold.
For the I of the basic word I-You is different from
that in the basic word I-It.
— Buber, Martin. I and Thou, Trans. Kaufmann
(p. 53). Kindle Edition.
Four German pronouns from the above passage
by Martin Buber lead to six pronoun pairs:
ich-du, ich-es, ich-sie, du-es, du-sie, es-sie.
This is in accordance with some 1974 remarks by
Marie-Louise von Franz —
The following passage by Buber may confuse readers of
L'Engle and King with its use, in translation, of "it" instead of
the original German "sie" ("she," corresponding to "die Welt") —
Here, for comparison, are the original German and the translation.
As for "that you in which the lines of relation, though parallel,
intersect," and "intimations of eternity," see Log24 posts on
the concept "line at infinity" as well as "Lost Horizon."
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Saturday, December 30, 2017
Aliveness*
"It was a dark and stormy night . . ."
* See also other posts using this word.
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A Dream
Say You, Say Me
Lionel Richie
. . . .
"I had a dream,
I had an awesome dream
People in the park
playing games in the dark
And what they played
was a masquerade
And from behind walls of doubt
a voice was crying out"
. . . .
"Something else was behind this . . .
because it makes no sense.”
— The author reviewed in today's previous post,
as quoted yesterday in The Boston Globe
Say you, say me, say IT . . .
A comment on Sean Kelly's Christmas Morning column on "aliveness"
in the New York Times philosophy series The Stone —
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About IT
Background: See Wrinkle in this journal and a post,
Field of Manifestation, from the above 2015 date.
See as well the Goodreads page below.
The six books reviewed by this user were written or
co-written by the author in the review shown above.
Each review gave the highest rating, five stars.
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Friday, December 29, 2017
On Becket’s Day
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Thursday, December 28, 2017
Rocky Start
The above prose suggests a musical alternative to the Dec. 21
Camazotz song in the posts tagged Quantum Tesseract Theorem . . .
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Memorandum of Misunderstanding
Harrison Ford in "Blade Runner 2049" —
Click the above quote for a scholium.
See also the previous post and . . .
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Wednesday, December 27, 2017
On Fiction and Mathematics
"There is always an awareness in her fiction
of the subjectivity of perception, and
the kaleidoscopic permutations
that memory can work on reality."
This is from a New York Times article subtitled
"Alice Munro, Nobel Winner, Mines the Inner Lives
of Girls and Women" …
The New York Times article was linked to by Marjorie Senechal
in a Huffington Post article of All Saints' Day 2013.
Further material on kaleidoscopic permutations —
See the Log24 post Symmetry of May 3, 2016.
For further material on mining, see Diamond-Mine:
"SEE HEAR READ" — Walt Disney Productions
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For Day 27 of December 2017
See the 27-part structure of
the 3x3x3 Galois cube
as well as Autism Sunday 2015.
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Tuesday, December 26, 2017
Raiders of the Lost Stone
Two Students of Structure
A comment on Sean Kelly's Christmas Morning column on "aliveness"
in the New York Times philosophy series The Stone —
Diana Senechal's 1999 doctoral thesis at Yale was titled
"Diabolical Structures in the Poetics of Nikolai Gogol."
Her mother, Marjorie Senechal, has written extensively on symmetry
and served as editor-in-chief of The Mathematical Intelligencer .
From a 2013 memoir by Marjorie Senechal —
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"While I was in Holland my enterprising student assistant at Smith had found, in Soviet Physics – Crystallography, an article by N. N. Sheftal' on tetrahedral penetration twins. She gave it to me on my return. It was just what I was looking for. The twins Sheftal' described had evidently begun as (111) contact twins, with the two crystallites rotated 60o with respect to one another. As they grew, he suggested, each crystal overgrew the edges of the other and proceeded to spread across the adjacent facet. When all was said and done, they looked like they'd grown through each other, but the reality was over-and-around. Brilliant! I thought. Could I apply this to cubes? No, evidently not. Cube facets are all (100) planes. But . . . these crystals might not have been cubes in their earliest stages, when twinning occurred! I wrote a paper on "The mechanism of certain growth twins of the penetration type" and sent it to Martin Buerger, editor of Neues Jarbuch für Mineralogie. This was before the Wrinch symposium; I had never met him. Buerger rejected it by return mail, mostly on the grounds that I hadn't quoted any of Buerger's many papers on twinning. And so I learned about turf wars in twin domains. In fact I hadn't read his papers but I quickly did. I added a reference to one of them, the paper was published, and we became friends.[5]
After reading Professor Sheftal's paper I wrote to him in Moscow; a warm and encouraging correspondence ensued, and we wrote a paper together long distance.[6] Then I heard about the scientific exchanges between the Academies of Science of the USSR and USA. I applied to spend a year at the Shubnikov Institute for Crystallography, where Sheftal' worked. I would, I proposed, study crystal growth with him, and color symmetry with Koptsik. To my delight, I was accepted for an 11-month stay. Of course the children, now 11 and 14, would come too and attend Russian schools and learn Russian; they'd managed in Holland, hadn't they? Diana, my older daughter, was as delighted as I was. We had gone to Holland on a Russian boat, and she had fallen in love with the language. (Today she holds a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literature from Yale.) . . . . |
Philosophy professors and those whose only interest in mathematics
is as a path to the occult may consult the Log24 posts tagged Tsimtsum.
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Stoned: A Reading for St. Stephen’s Day
See also Log24 posts now tagged Apperception.
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Monday, December 25, 2017
New Kids on a Block:
A Midnight Special for Charles Wallace
Old Kid on Peter Block —
See the remarks today of Harvard philosophy professor Sean D. Kelly
in The New York Times :
Alexander's "15 properties that create the wholeness and aliveness" —
This is the sort of bullshit that seems to go over well at Harvard.
See Christopher Alexander in this journal.
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Every Picture Tells a Story
The movie marquee below
("Batman" and "Lethal Weapon 2")
indicates that the recent film "IT"
is set in the summer of 1989.
The marquee suggests a review. Also . . . .
"… the thing that has shown up every twenty-seven years
or so . . . . It always comes back, you see. It."
— King, Stephen. IT (p. 151). Scribner. Kindle Edition.
Note that the flashback summer in King's book,
1958… plus 27 is 1985… plus 27 is 2012.
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Sunday, December 24, 2017
Saturday, December 23, 2017
The Right Stuff
A figure related to the general connecting theorem of Koen Thas —
See also posts tagged Dirac and Geometry in this journal.
Those who prefer narrative to mathematics may, if they so fancy, call
the above Thas connecting theorem a "quantum tesseract theorem ."
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The Patterning
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Friday, December 22, 2017
Thursday, December 21, 2017
Wrinkles
TIME magazine, issue of December 25th, 2017 —
" In 2003, Hand worked with Disney to produce a made-for-TV movie.
Thanks to budget constraints, among other issues, the adaptation
turned out bland and uninspiring. It disappointed audiences,
L’Engle and Hand. 'This is not the dream,' Hand recalls telling herself.
'I’m sure there were people at Disney that wished I would go away.' "
Not the dream? It was, however, the nightmare, presenting very well
the encounter in Camazotz of Charles Wallace with the Tempter.
From a trailer for the latest version —
Detail:
From the 1962 book —
"There's something phoney in the whole setup, Meg thought.
There is definitely something rotten in the state of Camazotz."
Song adapted from a 1960 musical —
"In short, there's simply not
A more congenial spot
For happy-ever-aftering
Than here in Camazotz!"
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Wednesday, December 20, 2017
A Snow Ball for Clifford Irving (1930-2017)
William Grimes in The New York Times this evening —
"Clifford Irving, who perpetrated one of the biggest literary hoaxes
of the 20th century in the early 1970s when he concocted a
supposedly authorized autobiography of the billionaire Howard Hughes
based on meetings and interviews that never took place, died on Tuesday
at a hospice facility near his home in Sarasota, Fla. He was 87."
A figure reproduced here on Tuesday —
A related figure —
See too the 1973 Orson Welles film "F for Fake."
Some background on the second figure above —
posts tagged April 8-11, 2016.
Some background on the first figure above —
today's previous post, January 2018 AMS Notices.
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January 2018 AMS Notices
Update of 9:29 PM ET Dec. 20, 2017 —
See in particular, in the above Notices , the article
"Algebraic Structures on Polytopes," by Federico Ardila,
within the 2018 Joint Mathematics Meeting Lecture Sampler.
Related reading:
arXiv:1711.09102v1 [hep-th] 24 Nov 2017,
"Scattering Forms and the Positive Geometry of
Kinematics, Color and the Worldsheet," by
Nima Arkani-Hamed, Yuntao Bai, Song He, Gongwang Yan
(Submitted to the arXiv on 24 Nov. 2017).
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Tuesday, December 19, 2017
A Mythologem for Meletinsky
The word "mythologem" on page 55 of The Burning Fountain
by Philip Wheelwright, revised edition of 1968 (p. 91 in the 1954
edition), suggests a Web search for that word. It was notably often
used in the 1998 English translation of a book by Eleazar Meletinsky
first published in Russian in 1976 —
Meletinsky reportedly died on December 17, 2005.
In his memory, Log24 posts from that date are now tagged Mythologem Day.
"And we may see the meadow in December,
icy white and crystalline" — Johnny Mercer
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