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Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Wonder Boy!

Filed under: General — m759 @ 8:37 am

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Voilà!

Stone Logic . . . Revisited

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 7:26 am

Flashback to April 20, 2017

Tuesday, July 30, 2024

The Dropped Line

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:42 am

Pythagorean theorem proof by overlapping similar figures

"Drop me a line" — Request attributed to Emma Stone.

Meditation on the dropped line


 

Stone herself might prefer the not-so-mean shapes
of "A Quiet Weekend in Mykonos."

Annals of Ominous Music:
Zauberflöte für Kundera

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 7:30 am

Related reading: "Ominous" in this journal.

Annals of Ominous Music:
A Dance to the Ocarina of Time

Filed under: General — m759 @ 5:51 am

Monday, July 29, 2024

The Twilight Bride

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , , — m759 @ 11:12 am

"The loveliness of Paris seems somehow sadly gay." — Song lyric

Taking the Bull by the Nose . . .

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 10:16 am

Continues . See other posts now tagged
The Emmanuel Bride.

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Walpurgisnacht Invitation

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:01 am

Logos

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:40 am

A hat tip to . . .

https://www.creativebloq.com/design/graphic-design/
the-search-is-on-for-a-new-rgraphic_design-logo-
the-results-are-laughably-bad
.

That post suggested . . .

The Source —

https://depositphotos.com/vectors/am.html?qview=157300120

and

https://depositphotos.com/vectors/am.html?qview=676238980 .

Sunday, July 28, 2024

Wag the Tag

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 12:35 pm

For Gigi — With Chill and Irony

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 4:55 am

Today's Google Doodle, honoring soccer at the Paris games,
suggests a review of Hillman's "acorn theory" of the soul in
a Log24 post of September 10, 2022 . . .

"… I loved Gigi.  It fed directly into my Francophilia.
I was convinced that at some future date, I, like
Gigi, would be trained as a courtesan. I, too, would
cause some hard case, experienced roué to abandon
his chill and irony." — Jessica Kardon

Related reading:

Salinger's 'Nine Stories,' paperback with 3x3 array of titles on cover, adapted in a Jan. 2, 2009, Log24 post on Nabokov's 1948 'Signs and Symbols'

Saturday, July 27, 2024

Laurel Canyon Twilight Zone

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:44 am

From this journal on Bastille Day 2021

On that same date this  year . . .

Related reading: other posts tagged Laurel, and
"The Generous Gambler," by Baudelaire.

The Temple of … Indian-A?

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:15 am

The Inscape Club

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:18 am

Friday, July 26, 2024

For Harlan Kane:
The Chinatown Omega  Continues.

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:13 pm

A post in this journal from July 3, 2024 — see The Chinatown Omega
suggests a look at a death in Paris on that date . . .

San Joaquin Flashback

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:25 am
 

Wednesday, June 26, 2024

For San Joaquin, whose feast day is
June— Oops,* July— 26.

Filed under: General — Tags: , ,
— m759 @ 12:52 pm

* Update at 11:32 PM ET June 26 —

The date correction suggests a look at the real  San Joaquin
feast day. See (for instance) earlier posts tagged July 26 2004.

Paris Art

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 3:05 am

"How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm . . . ?"

Song lyric

The Boone Dogma

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:31 am

From Walpurgisnacht 2005

This year's April – Mathematics Awareness Month –
theme is "Mathematics and the Cosmos."

For my own views on this theme as it applies
to education, see Wag the Dogma.

For some other views, see this year's
Mathematics Awareness Month site.

One of the authors at that site,
which is mostly propaganda
for the religion of Scientism,
elsewhere quotes
an ignorant pedagogue:

 

"'The discovery of non-Euclidean geometries
contradicted the "absolute truth" view
of the Platonists.'"
 
Sarah J. Greenwald,
   Associate Professor,
   Department of Mathematics
   Appalachian State University, Boone, NC

 

Damned nonsense.  See Math16.com.

 

This post was suggested by a mention of Boone
in an Atlantic article yesterday, "OopsGPT."

Thursday, July 25, 2024

In Search of an Adept Tool

Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:48 pm

In Memory of “Joe Cool” — Hat Tip

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:44 pm

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/25/arts/
joe-cool-dead-snoop-dogg-doggystyle.html

The Long Slow Reveal

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:14 pm

In the end the space itself is the star

Fourth

Filed under: General — m759 @ 7:31 am

One of Carl Jung's favorite quotations —

"One, two, three . . . but where is the fourth?" (Plato, Timaeus)

Related reading —

This post was suggested by the Lewis Lapham 2005 documentary
"The American Ruling Class."

Update of 7:54 AM EDT —

Desk Sets

Filed under: General — m759 @ 7:07 am

"I associate many things with many things."
— "Desk Set" (1957 film).

Brick Space

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 6:09 am

http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=2×4

Related reading:

http://m759.net/wordpress/?tag=knight-move .

Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Self Story

Filed under: General — m759 @ 5:42 pm

"… always self-discovery and self-defniiton"

— Jill Schary Robinson at the end of the previous post

In memory of Lewis Lapham, who reportedly died yesterday —

Self-Discovery:


 

Self-Definition (from 11/27/2019):

A Companion-Piece for the Circular Rectangle

Laurel Canyon Blues

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 1:48 am

For a British blues pioneer who reportedly died on Monday, July 22, 2024 —

"Got the sun and trees and silence
I'm in my Laurel Canyon home"

Song lyric by John Mayall

Update of 11 AM EDT Wednesday, July 24, 2024 —

From  a 2023 novel by Jill Schary Robinson

"Introduction: A Canyon of the Heart" — An excerpt:

Tuesday, July 23, 2024

“You say AEON, I say Aion” . . .

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:59 pm

From March 3

Aeon . . . Aion.

From "1 day ago" —

Madison

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:00 pm

"Wisconsin is a home state of sorts for the presumptive
Democratic presidential nominee, who briefly lived in Madison
as a young child."

Say "cheese."

In the Arena

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 4:35 am

"Today, Teddy Roosevelt’s man in the arena has a name. . . ."
— Speaker at the Republican National Convention, 2024

And then there is woman  in the arena . . . .

See as well a related YouTube video —

In Memoriam: Duke Fakir,
Last Surviving Member of the Four Tops

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:36 am

See "Four Tops" in this journal.

See also posts now tagged The Tenor Metaphor.

Monday, July 22, 2024

Iconology for Pullman

Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:56 am

See as well . . .

Fans of hallucinatory fiction might recall a saying of Philip Pullman:

"The meaning of a story emerges in the meeting
between the words on the page
and the thoughts in the reader's mind.
So when people ask me what I meant by this story,
or what was the message I was trying to convey in that one,
I have to explain that I'm not going to explain.

Anyway, I'm not in the message business;
I'm in the 'Once upon a time' business."

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