An article yesterday at Quanta Magazine suggests a review . . .
From Diamond Theorem images at Pinterest —
Some background —
Thursday, July 30, 2020
Wednesday, July 29, 2020
Duren, Not Durin
A flashback from Log24 posts of July 9-11, 2020,
now tagged Structure and Mutability —
For such temptation, see
Dwarves named “Durin.”
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How Deep the Darkness*
Attraction 2: The Digital Rights Management version —
The “Huh?” is from the character Google, at 0:13:07. Click to enlarge.
* See the title phrase in this journal.
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Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Burying the Lede
The New York Times reports a July 14 death —
“… Dr, Lauersen … was once married to the heiress
and dance patron Rebekah West Harkness ….” [Links added.]
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Monday, July 27, 2020
Intersections Galore
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A Brown Bunny
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To a Daydream Believer and a Homecoming Queen
“Do not block intersection.” — City of Los Angeles
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Sunday, July 26, 2020
Dirty Dancing Disco
Happy Birthday to Kate Beckinsale from Carl Jung.
Related philosophy —
“It seems, as one becomes older,
That the past has another pattern,
and ceases to be a mere sequence….”
— T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
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Para los Muertos
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Saturday, July 25, 2020
Nine Years Ago
See cyber space (as opposed to space ) in The Game (July 25, 2011).
Related material — The Ninth Year.
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The Upholding
“… to uphold the same ideal image of Space Age perfection.”
— Matt Schudel in The Washington Post , July 24, 2020, at 7:52 p.m. EDT
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Friday, July 24, 2020
“Teaching Invites Transformations”
The title is from a 2006 pedagogic address.
Related material from the post “White Mischief” (Feb. 23, 2016) —
“It’s solution, dissolution. Just over and over and over.
It is growth, then decay, then transformation! .
It is fascinating, really.”
— Walter White, Season 1, Ep. 1, “Pilot”
more or less as quoted in huffingtonpost.com
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Wednesday, July 22, 2020
Logo
The Project Voldemort logo capture shown below is the first one at archive.org.
It is dated Dec. 23, 2009. See also this journal on that date —
“V. is whatever lights you to the end of the street: she is also the dark annihilation waiting at the end of the street.” (Tony Tanner, page 36, "V. and V-2," in Pynchon: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Edward Mendelson. Prentice-Hall, 1978. 16-55). |
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“The Pattern of the Thing Precedes the Thing” — Nabokov
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Subtitles from “Laurel Canyon,” a 2002 film — 7 8 |
Related logo with “Fork me on GitHub” ribbon —
“When you come to a fork . . .” — Yogi Berra
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Card
“The pattern of the thing precedes the thing.
I fill in the gaps of the crossword at any spot
I happen to choose. These bits I write on
index cards until the novel is done.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, interview,
Paris Review No. 41 (Summer-Fall 1967).
Another story —
Related material: Mathematics as a Black Art.
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Tuesday, July 21, 2020
Oeuvre
| From “Nabokov’s Crosswords of Composition,” by Rebecca Freeh-Maciorowski, a paper presented at NEMLA, dated 15 October 2014 — “In a way, Nabokov’s entire oeuvre might be built upon one all-encompassing ‘crossword,’ a possibility raised by W.W. Rowe when he writes ‘Words and phrases seem faintly but undeniably to catch many others in the prism of their associations and connotations, almost as if Nabokov’s entire oeuvre were planned from the very start’ (viii). Turning to Pale Fire , the work of Simon Rowberry provides evidence of a whole network of ‘themed entries’ within this novel, what Rowberry refers to as ‘the novel’s promiscuous intertextuality.’ Alternately, the points and coordinates that Nabokov refers to constitute the composition’s ‘checked cells.’ The checked cells are the basic mechanism of the crossword puzzle; essentially, they are the guiding force of the entire puzzle, controlling both the construction and solution. These are the cells within the crossword puzzle in which two words intersect. In Nabokov’s compositional crossword, the ‘checked cells’ are those points which combine disparate entities, places of intersection, where objects and themes converge.” Rowe, W.W., Nabokov’s Deceptive World , New York University Press, 1971. Rowberry, Simon, “Pale Fire as a Hypertextual Network.” 22nd ACM Hypertext Conf., Eindhoven, Netherlands. 6-9 June 2011. Web. |
The Rowberry date appears to be, specifically, 8 June 2011:
A Kinbote note — See also this journal on 8 June 2011.
Update of 3:03 PM ET the same day —
In keeping with Kinbote’s character as an unreliable narrator . . .
Rowberry’s Eindhoven slides indicate he spoke on 9 June 2011.
See as well the Log24 post “Historical Fiction” from 9 June 2011.
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Monday, July 20, 2020
Sunday, July 19, 2020
For Roberta Smith, Social Worker*
* For the meaning of the title, see an obituary by Roberta Smith
in this morning’s New York Times , and Today’s Sermon.
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Today’s Sermon
“Are you a social worker?”
— Cinematic query in LA at Sunset and Selma
(Mojave , released 3 December 2015 (USA))
Related fiction —
“Then he realized why she looked familiar. He’d seen her just
a few hours before, at the job fair for social workers. They’d both
stood at the edge of a crowd that had gathered around a man
handing out applications for jobs at the Children’s Aid Society.
The demand was so great, he ran out of applications; John didn’t
get one, and neither did the redhead. Looking more resigned than
disappointed, the girl had sighed, ‘Oh well,’ to no one in particular
and then headed for the other end of the conference center.”
— Alpert, Mark. The Furies (p. 11), April 22, 2014.
(St. Martin’s Publishing Group. Kindle Edition)
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Saturday, July 18, 2020
The Lexicographic Tradition
See also Kripke in this journal.
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Friday, July 17, 2020
The Resurrection Artifact
From Log24 posts tagged Structure and Mutability —
“… an artifact that seemed to have resurrected him from the dead.”
— “Robert Ludlum’s” The Bourne Enigma , published on June 21, 2016
See as well the 2020 film Archive , and the related 2018 film Replicas
in Oslo Variations.
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Poetic as Well as Prosaic
Prosaic —
Poetic —
Prosaic —
“These devices may have some
theoretical as well as practical value.“
Poetic —
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