“If I were a sculptor, but then again no
Or a man who sells potions in a travelling show”
Thursday, October 22, 2020
A Travelling Show
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In Memoriam
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Icons from a Search Result
For further details, click on either icon.
This post was suggested by the following passage —
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Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Obit
Randi reportedly died on Tuesday, October 20.
“Italic with Derision”
“These things used to be on the back of cornflakes boxes,”
Mr. Randi, his voice italic with derision, once told the
television interviewer Larry King. “But apparently some
scientists either don’t eat cornflakes, or they don’t read
the back of the box.” — Margalit Fox
See as well …
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Riddle for a Code Girl*
Space People Lightbulb Puzzle
by presentationgo.com
“How many space people does it take
to screw in a lightbulb?”
* I.e. , the code girl of the previous post.
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Arrangement in Gray and Black
See also The Spelman Trick.
The image above, from an Oct. 15 Harvard Crimson article, is not credited.
But see the Crimson’s “Code Girl” page and the website of Margot Shang.
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Meditation in Red and Gray
See also Red and Gray in this journal.
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The Chemicals
From a page linked to yesterday in The Newton Methods —
A related fiction —
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From one of the best books of the 20th century:
by Richard Brautigan “The Chemicals that resided in the jar were a combination of hundreds of things from all over the world. Some of The Chemicals were ancient and very difficult to obtain. There were a few drops of something from an Egyptian pyramid dating from the year 3000 B.C. There were distillates from the jungles of South America and drops of things from plants that grew near the snowline in the Himalayas. Ancient China, Rome and Greece had contributed things, too, that had found their way into the jar. Witchcraft and modern science, the latest of discoveries, had also contributed to the contents of the jar. There was even something that was reputed to have come all the way from Atlantis…. … they did not know that the monster was an illusion created by a mutated light in The Chemicals. a light that had the power to work its will upon mind and matter and change the very nature of reality to fit its mischievous mind.” |
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Tuesday, October 20, 2020
The Leibniz Methods
Click medal for some background. The medal may be regarded
as illustrating the 16-point Galois space.
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The Browning Methods
The Ballad of Goo Ballou —
the Sequel to . . .
“Let me count the ways” is an appropriate request
for students of the discrete , as opposed to the
continuous , which instead requires measurement .
Related academic material —
Raymond Cattell on crystallized vs. fluid intelligence.
For a more literary approach, see Crystal and Dragon
and For Trevanian.
This post was inspired in part by
the American Sequel Society and . . .
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Monday, October 19, 2020
“Let Me Count the Ways” — Jeffrey Toobin?
Portuguese Charlize
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A Moritat for Macalester
The previous post, "Frame Analysis," was about a death
related to Macalester College.
Wikipedia on the man for whom the college was named —
"In the 1870s, Rev. Dr. Edward Duffield Neill turned to
Macalester for sponsorship for the failing institution
in Minnesota known as Jesus College. "
Logos —
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Frame Analysis
For the late John Schue —
Another event on Schue's reported date of death —
Related philosophical remarks —
Also on June 12, 2007 —
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“Graffiti in the Library of Babel” Continues.
Click on the Wiktionary image for the Babel story.
Click on the Springer.com link for related posts.
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Sunday, October 18, 2020
The Limits of Language
Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations 118-119 —
| 118. | Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important? (As it were all the buildings, leaving behind only bits of stone and rubble.) What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stand. |
| 119. | The results of philosophy are the uncovering of one or another piece of plain nonsense and of bumps that the understanding has got by running its head up against the limits of language. These bumps make us see the value of the discovery. |
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Unfolded
See “Unfolded.jpg” in this journal. From that search —
Compare and contrast these figures with images by Wittgenstein in . . .
Related material from last night’s post Modernist Cuts —
Schlick also appears in recent posts tagged Moriarty Variations.
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Saturday, October 17, 2020
Modernist Cuts
"The bond with reality is cut."
— Hans Freudenthal, 1962
Related screenshot of a book review
from the November AMS Notices —
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Now Lens…
The above phrase “neurolinguistic hacker” does not do justice to
Neal Stephenson’s remarks on “Ba’al Shem.”
This post was suggested by an Oct. 12 Wired book review.
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Thursday, October 15, 2020
What Lies Beneath
From the previous post —
Lily Collins in a more recent mattress meditation —
See as well Plaid in this journal.
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The Quarantine Midrash
Illustration for a New York Times July 15 “Tech Fix” piece:
“You’re Doomscrolling Again.“
One possible antidote:
Related fiction: “Quarantine Story.“
“Show me all the blueprints.” — Attributed to Howard Hughes
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Sundown Ending
Those posts mark the end of Yom Kippur 2006
and the death of the father of James R. Swartz,
Harvard '64, for whom the central building of
Harvard Divinity School was renamed in 2019.
See as well last night's post, "With Shields Emblazoned,"
on the death of a notable Divinity School leader.
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Wednesday, October 14, 2020
Histoire d’O : “I Dreamed a Dream”
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