From this journal on All Hallows' Eve 2007 —
"God demands scrutiny beyond his menacingly comic aspects."
— Harold Bloom on José Saramago's The Gospel According to
Jesus Christ (1991). Saramago was awarded the Nobel Prize
in Literature in 1998.
The Hamilton watch from "Interstellar" (2014) —
Those who prefer entertainment may consult Bright Club (August 4).
"From an early age she aspired to be a ballet dancer,
and, though never the sveltest girl en point, at 16
she landed a job in the corps de ballet at Radio City Music Hall."
— From a New York Times obituary this evening
The previous post displayed part of a page from
a newspaper published the day Olivia Newton-John
turned 21 — Friday, September 26, 1969.
A meditation, with apologies to Coleridge:
In Xanadu did Newton-John
A stately pleasure-square decree
Where Aleph the sacred symbol ran
Through subsquares measureless to man.
A related video —
Beware, beware, her flashing eyes, her floating hair:
Set design —
As opposed to block design —
"In real life, Sophia Lillis loves horror…."
"Spirits rise and their dance is unrehearsed…."
— A nightmare song by Barbra Streisand
But not, perhaps, horror in real life . . .
Continuing the themes of the last three posts, which
are now also tagged News Women . . .
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"date":"2019-08-21"
For some backstory, see
http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=”I+Ching”+48+well .
See as well “elegantly packaged” in this journal.
“Well” in written Chinese is the hashtag symbol,
i.e., the framework of a 3×3 array.
My own favorite 3×3 array is the ABC subsquare
at lower right in the figure below —
Influenz , by Paul Klee —
"One of the most influential of modern thinkers . . . ."
As is Stan Lee . . .
"Watch the trailer." — This journal on Eliza Doolittle Day, 2012 .
From Catherine Asaro’s The Spacetime Pool :
|
She gaped at him. “Do you mean a Riemann sheet? A branch cut from one Riemann sheet to another?” “That’s right.” He hesitated. “You know these words?” She laughed unsteadily. “It’s nonsense. Not the sheets, I mean, but they’re just mathematical constructs! They don’t actually exist. You can’t physically go through a branch cut any more than you could step into a square root sign.” |
A broken link found in the search results of
the previous post suggests a review . . .
Photo Opportunity , courtesy of Leni Riefenstahl — Click to enlarge.
From Paul Simon's dreaded Cartoon Graveyard —
The Riefenstahl publication above was suggested by . . .
See as well the firsts of Sophia Lillis (Saturday, August 24).
"Look at what you've done
Why, you've become a grown-up girl"
See also September Morn in this journal.
"Mein Führer… Steiner…"
See Hitler Plans and Quadruple System.
"There is such a thing as a quadruple system."
— Saying adapted from a 1962 young-adult novel
See as well posts now tagged Helsinki Math in this journal.
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