Click Nina for the above film from Good Friday, 2019.
Sunday, February 28, 2021
Factional Group
Related tune suggested yesterday by Peter J. Cameron —
The Beatles, “I Me Mine,” from the “Let It Be” album.
Related imagery —
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Saturday, February 27, 2021
The Pencil Case
Clue
Here is a midrash on “desmic,” a term derived from the Greek desmé
( δέσμη: bundle, sheaf , or, in the mathematical sense, pencil —
French faisceau ), which is related to the term desmos , bond …
(The term “desmic,” as noted earlier, is relevant to the structure of
Heidegger’s Sternwürfel .)
“Gadzooks, I’ve done it again!” — Sherlock Hemlock
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Quarters
From posts tagged “The Empty Quarter” —
Related tune suggested today by Peter J. Cameron —
The Beatles, “I Me Mine,” from the “Let It Be” album.
That album, and an image from Log24 on Feb. 23 —
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Friday, February 26, 2021
“Only Connect”
Twelves (in memory of Robert de Marrais) —
Receipt date for the above article —
Synchronicity check —
Related reading —
http://www.universityreaders.com/pdf/
Incarnations-of-the-Blaring-Bluesblinger_sneak_preview.pdf
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Non-Chaos Non-Magic
For fans of “WandaVision” —
“1978 was perhaps the seminal year in the origin of chaos magic. . . .”
— Wikipedia article on Chaos Magic
Non-Chaos Non-Magic from Halloween 1978 —
Related material —
A doctoral student of a different Peter Cameron —
( Not to be confused with The Tin Man’s Hat. )
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Thursday, February 25, 2021
Compare and Contrast
“… What is your dream—your ideal? What is your News from Nowhere,
or, rather, What is the result of the little shake your hand has given to
the old pasteboard toy with a dozen bits of colored glass for contents?
And, most important of all, can you present it in a narrative or romance
which will enable me to pass an idle hour not disagreeably? How, for instance,
does it compare in this respect with other prophetic books on the shelf?”
— Hudson, W. H.. A Crystal Age (p. 2). Open Road Media. Kindle Edition.
See as well . . .
The lexicographic Golay code
contains, embedded within it,
the Miracle Octad Generator.
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Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Cards of Identity Continues.
For a different sort of dazzle, and of seeing beneath,
vide Square Space. “Leave a space.” — Stoppard, Jumpers
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Annals of Dim Antiquity
“Twenty-four glyphs, each one representing not a letter, not a word,
but a concept, arranged into four groups, written in Boris’s own hand,
an artifact that seemed to have resurrected him from the dead. It was
as if he were sitting across from Bourne now, in the dim antiquity of
the museum library.
This was what Bourne was staring at now, written on the unfolded
bit of onionskin.”
— The Bourne Enigma , published on June 21, 2016
Passing, on June 21, 2016, into a higher dimension —
For those who prefer Borges to Bourne —
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Surrealistic Pillow Continues.
Suggested tune for Emma Brown —
“Send me the pillow
that you dream on”
“At the still point . . . .” — T. S. Eliot
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Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Death at a Center of Revolution
. . . And what rough beast . . . . ?
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Monday, February 22, 2021
Design Theory
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For “the Supreme Fascist” (a phrase of Paul Erdős)
The above author reportedly died on August 22, 2009.
A check of that date in this journal yields . . .
A passage from the “Assumption” link target above, with a title
suggested by the preceding “Making Mathematics” piece —
Making Money: The Communist Connection
“He and his fellow monks were cut off from the rest of the world
during the second Sino-Japanese War, which lasted from 1937 to
1945. When hostilities ended, the monastery relocated to the
provincial capital of Chengdu, where the monks opened the
Institute of Chinese and Western Cultural Studies with a library
that eventually had 10,000 volumes.
Chengdu, the last stronghold of the Nationalist Party, was overrun
by Mao’s army on Christmas Day 1949. The Communists closed the
institute, confiscated the books and forced Winance and the other
monks to attend indoctrination sessions on Marxism.”
Another article by Wieschenberg might, to some, actually be worth $49 —
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Sunday, February 21, 2021
Cube Woo
"Before time began, there was the Cube."
— Hassenfeld Brothers merchandising slogan
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Saturday, February 20, 2021
Storm News
Epigraph from Google —
Related narratives — the recent film Fast Color * and
a not-so-recent** film . . .
* “Parents need to know that Fast Color is a sci-fi drama
about a family of women who have the ability to deconstruct
objects with their minds.”
** See the not-so-recent writer.
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Wechsler Puzzle
Books by George Steiner at
https://openroadmedia.com/contributor/george-steiner —
Related language —
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Friday, February 19, 2021
Autistic Enchantment . . .
Valentine’s Day, the date of the above post, this year was also
Autism Sunday. Here is a flashback to the Autism Sunday of 2015
and two related links —
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Thursday, February 18, 2021
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Raiders of the Lost Coordinates . . .
From other posts tagged Tetrahedron vs. Square —
"There is such a thing as a 4-set."
— Saying adapted from a 1962 young-adult novel.
Illustration (central detail a from the above tetrahedral figure) —
A Harvard Variation
from Timothy Leary —
The topics of Harvard and Leary suggest some other cultural
history, from The Coasters — "Poison Ivy" and "Yakety Yak."
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Eins und Einheit
“The number one , then, has become Husserl’s touchstone
for discriminating between psychological processes and
logical laws. It is his reality detector. What is
psychological (or empirical) comes on in discrete
individual instances– ones– and you can examine their
edges. What is logical (or ideal) comes on as a
seamless oceanic unity without temporal edges….”
— Marianne Sawicki, “Edmund Husserl (1859—1938),”
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
See also Roman Numeral in this journal.
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Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Buffalo Logic
From a post of January 8, 2021 —
“Lord Arglay had a suspicion that the Stone would be
purely logical. Yes, he thought, but what, in that sense,
were the rules of its pure logic?”
—Many Dimensions (1931), by Charles Williams
A Midrash for Emma —
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