Roll Credits —
Sunday, October 31, 2021
Union and Intersection
Maureen Dowd in The New York Times yesterday, describing an interview
with former Google top executive Eric Schmidt —
"Schmidt said an Oxford student told him, about social media poison,
'The union of boredom and anonymity is dangerous.'
Especially at the intersection of addiction and envy."
A related street scene —
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Saturday, October 30, 2021
For Ecumenical Edwards* — Orange
My response to an Instagram story on Michaelmas 2021 —
An ad page you might like — "The epitome of multipurpose,
these balms can be used for lips, hands and any other bits
of skin that need a little extra TLC." —
https://www.petitvour.com/products/
vegan-lip-balm-sweet-orange-tangerine
Related material —
See as well Joseph Wambaugh's classic novel The Golden Orange .
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Friday, October 29, 2021
Annals of Memory and Desire
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Thursday, October 28, 2021
Gates
Quoted here on Augustine's Day 2003 —
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"Every city has its gates, which need not be of stone. Nor need soldiers be upon them or watchers before them. At first, when cities were jewels in a dark and mysterious world, they tended to be round and they had protective walls. To enter, one had to pass through gates, the reward for which was shelter from the overwhelming forests and seas, the merciless and taxing expanse of greens, whites, and blues–wild and free–that stopped at the city walls. In time the ramparts became higher and the gates more massive, until they simply disappeared and were replaced by barriers, subtler than stone, that girded every city like a crown and held in its spirit." — Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale |
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Wednesday, October 27, 2021
Smile of an Autumn Day
“There she stood in the doorway; I heard the mission bell….”
Background:
The above image is from a Log24 post of Saturday, June 27, 2020.
That is also the date of version 3 of . . .
The 4-Dimensional Light Bulb Theorem .
See too . . .
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Tuesday, October 26, 2021
Katz! — The Musical…
From a post of June 28, 2020 —
"David Solomon Katz was born in Brooklyn to Jewish immigrant parents from
Eastern Europe on Oct. 23, 1916, and grew up in a neighborhood famous for
the gangsters of Murder Inc. …."
Further context —
"His early movie credits include 'The Lusty Men' (1952), a western, directed by
Nicholas Ray and starring Susan Hayward and Robert Mitchum…."
— Bruce Weber in The New York Times , Sept. 9, 2010
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Monday, October 25, 2021
Sunday, October 24, 2021
Bridge Race
See posts so tagged — Bridge Race.
See as well this post's tag — Bridge Riddle.
The above tags were suggested by a remark
at forum.wordreference.com dated July 21, 2011,
and by a check of this journal on that date.
Some context: Tolkien on tengwesta .
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Saturday, October 23, 2021
From the Powder-Room of the Muses
The above title is from Northrop Frye —
"Is it possible* that understanding the nature of clarity and order
can cast suspicion on the very ideas of clarity and order?"
— Douglas Sadao Aoki, University of Alberta, "The Thing Never
Speaks for Itself: Lacan and the Pedagogical Politics of Clarity,"
Harvard Educational Review , Vol. 70, No. 3, Fall 2000,
Copyright © by President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Related scholarly citation by Aoki —
The cited source:
* For the diamond as a symbol of possibility , see modal diamond box .
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Deep Six
From a Thursday morning, Oct. 21, Instagram post —
Related cinematic meditation —
The above scene is from Babylon A.D. (August 2008).
Related question from an early edition of Trivial Pursuit —
"Does Uranus have an aurora?"
Related drama for Brechtians — Branded , The Zero Theorem ,
and, from my own efforts of August 2008 . . .
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Friday, October 22, 2021
Frye on Structure
In search of Frye's "powder-room of the Muses" — See 3×3.
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Thursday, October 21, 2021
SIX — The Musical!
From an Instagram post today:
As for SIX — the non-musical —
For further details, see Lost in the Matrix.
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Wednesday, October 20, 2021
A Treasure Hunt
Clue:
The clue leads to . . .
The above Spratt date leads to . . .
The above snark from this journal leads to . . .
… as well as …
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Academic Elegy
"On September 2, 2020, at the age of 59,
David Graeber died of necrotizing pancreatitis
while on vacation in Venice. The news hit me
like a blow. How many books have we lost,
I thought, that will never get written now?
How many insights, how much wisdom,
will remain forever unexpressed? The appearance of
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
is thus bittersweet, at once a final, unexpected gift
and a reminder of what might have been."
— William Deresiewicz
This is from The Atlantic on St. Luke's Day, 2021.
Note the article's illustration, and related material from
this journal on the date of the death described above:
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Bullshit Studies
Yesterday morning's post "First Step" quoted an essay by Michael Spitzer
published online in Aeon on October 18 —
https://aeon.co/essays/
can-music-give-you-an-orgasm-the-short-answer-is-yes .
A look at earlier essays in that publication reveals . . .
Related material — From a search for Wertheim in this journal —
“Space: what you
damn well have to see.”
— James Joyce, Ulysses
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Tuesday, October 19, 2021
“Begin the Begat” — Finn’s Rainbow
"He was born David Finkelstein in New York
on Aug. 30, 1921. His father, Jonathan, was
a writer who used Finn as a pen name and
then legally changed the family name to Finn
when David was in high school."
Sometimes way behind.
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The Dark at the Bottom of the Stairs
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First Step
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From "Music and Sex," by Michael Spitzer, online at Aeon "Pattern and anticipation are possible only because humans have a grasp of regular time intervals. Our ability to predict what comes next is linked to the evolution of walking on two feet, to bipedalism. Walking might have taught our brain its sense of time, and time is perhaps the brain’s internal simulation of the periodic motion of footsteps (averaging about one step every several 100 milliseconds). In other words, the first step towards human music happened 4 million years ago…." |
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Monday, October 18, 2021
An Artist’s I
Christoph Niemann, cover artist of the Oct. 18, 2021, New Yorker:
"I love the New York City grid. My favorite thing about
Central Park is the shape—a perfect, large rectangle."
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Star Logo for the Feast of St. Luke (Skywalker)
See Leiber in this journal.
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Sunday, October 17, 2021
Slack for Mathematicians
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