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read my profile sign my guestbook Name: Steven Country: United States State: Pennsylvania Gender: Male Interests: Mathematics, literature. Occupation: Retired Industry: Computers (Software) Message: message me Website: visit my website Member Since: 7/20/2002

Archived Entries:
See log24.com.

Selected Past Entries:

Three Days
of the
Saint, 2002

12/6:
Santa vs.
the Volcano

12/7:
Satori at
Pearl Harbor

12/8:
Architecture
of Eternity

Some may feel that the Saint in question is Philip Berrigan, who joined Saburo Ienaga and Ivan Illich on Dec. 6, 2002.

Others may feel that the Saint is Don Ameche, who died on Dec. 6, 1993.

"Things change."

— SHC 12/9/02

Sequel

Stan Rice died on Dec. 9, 2002. A poem of his tells what happened next.

Eight is a Gate

Hollywood producer dies Dec. 14, meets Bach at Heaven's Gate. Realistic comedy.

The Diamond Project

Notes on dance, mortality, and "the still point" on the date of Irene Diamond's death.

Immortal Diamond,
or
NASA Meets Jesus

Thoughts on John O'Hara and G. M. Hopkins for James Joyce's birthday.

Blackbird Singing

The Fred Rogers memorial koan.

Art Wars

LeWitt vs. Witt

Stone, not Wood

best describes St. Peter

The Word

in the Desert

Art Wars:

Fahne Hoch

and

Thorny Crown

O'Hara's Crucifixion

Unity and Reciprocity

in mathematics

The Quality of Diamond

Da Vinci Code ,

Crimson Passion,

Cubist Crucifixion.

Truth and Style

The Line

Bush Mutiny

Symmetry and Change

A Shot at Redemption

Mathematics and Narrative

The Judas Seat

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Friday, May 09, 2008

Mathematics and Narrative, continued:

Cubist Language Game

"Philosophers ponder the idea
of identity: what it is to give
something a name on Monday
and have it respond to
that name on Friday...."

-- Bernard Holland

Monday:

From Log24 on
August 19, 2003
and on
Ash Wednesday, 2004:
a reviewer on
An Instance of the Fingerpost::

"Perhaps we are meant to
see the story as a cubist
retelling of the crucifixion."

Related material
for today's anniversay
of the birth of philosopher
Jose Ortega y Gasset:

Cubism as Multispeech
and
Halloween Meditations
(illustrated below)

Cover of 'The Gameplayers of Zan,' by M.A. Foster

"Modern art...
will always have
the masses against it."
-- Ortega y Gasset, 1925

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ART WARS continued:

Kernel of Eternity
continued from April 29

The Klein Group: The four elements in four colors, with black points representing the identity

Wikipedia on the Klein group (denoted V, for Vierergruppe):

In this representation, V is a normal subgroup of the alternating group A₄ (and also the symmetric group S₄) on 4 letters. In fact, it is the kernel of a surjective map from S₄ to S₃. According to Galois theory, the existence of the Klein four-group (and in particular, this representation of it) explains the existence of the formula for calculating the roots of quartic equations in terms of radicals.

For radicals of another sort, see A Logocentric Meditation, A Mass for Lucero, and Steven Erlanger in The New York Times-- "France Still Divided Over Lessons of 1968 Unrest."

The Klein Group as Kernel
of a Map from S₄ to S₃:

Portrait of O: The Klein Group as Kernel in the Symmetric Group of Degree Four

Click to enlarge.

For those who prefer Galois's
politics to his mathematics,
there is
MAY 68: STREET POSTERS
FROM THE PARIS REBELLION
at London's Southbank Centre
(May 1 - June 1, 2008).

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Thursday, May 08, 2008

ART WARS continued:

Synchronicity,
Part Deux

Footprints at Log24 on the afternoon of May 8, 2008, including two from France

From
"On the Holy Trinity,"
the entry in the 3:20 PM
French footprint:

"...while the scientist sees
everything that happens
in one point of space,
the poet feels
everything that happens
in one point of time...
all forming an
instantaneous and transparent
organism of events...."

-- Vladimir Nabokov

From
"Angel in the Details,"
the entry in the 3:59 PM
French footprint:

"I dwell in Possibility -
A fairer House than Prose"

-- Emily Dickinson

These, along with this afternoon's
earlier entry, suggest a review
of a third Log24 item, Windmills,
with an actress from France as...

Changing Woman:

"Kaleidoscope turning...

Juliette Binoche in 'Blue' The 24 2x2 Cullinane Kaleidoscope animated images

Shifting pattern
within unalterable structure..."
-- Roger Zelazny, Eye of Cat

"When life itself seems lunatic,
who knows where madness lies?"

-- For the source, see
Joyce's Nightmare Continues.

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Annals of Religion, continued:

Synchronicity

Today is the feast of
Saint Robert A. Heinlein.

Time of the above: 1:00 PM.
Update of 2:07 PM --

On the local Charlie Rose broadcast today at about 1:48 PM, Paola Antonelli, the organizer of an exhibit at MoMA, "Design and the Elastic Mind," talked about science fiction's influence (or non-influence) on the exhibit. She used the metaphor "the day after tomorrow." As I had just written a link relating design, science fiction, and May 10 (the date of the literal day after tomorrow-- click on "feast" above), I found her remarks of interest. Here is a related passage from a web page.

Paola Antonelli

Photo Credit: Andrea Ciotti

Antonelli on scientists as designers who do not call themselves designers:

"So they all try to reach out. They have that in common. Then what they have in common is this attempt to... propose something for the real future. I don't really like science fiction, but I like to think of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow."

Amen.

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	Annals of Religion: Star Wars continued from May 25, 2003 Israel turns 60 Wed., May 7, 2008 2:23 PM EDT By Dan Williams "JERUSALEM, May 7 (Reuters) - Fireworks and military fanfare launched Israel's 60th anniversary celebrations on Wednesday..." Related material from Tuesday: "... someone was down sixty, someone was up...." -- Play It As It Lays
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Archived Entries: See log24.com.

Selected Past Entries:

Three Days of the Saint, 2002

Immortal Diamond, or NASA Meets Jesus

Da Vinci Code , Crimson Passion, Cubist Crucifixion.

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Mathematics and Narrative, continued:

ART WARS continued:

ART WARS continued:

Annals of Religion, continued:

Annals of Religion:

Israel turns 60

Archived Entries:
See log24.com.

Three Days
of the
Saint, 2002

Immortal Diamond,
or
NASA Meets Jesus

Da Vinci Code ,

Crimson Passion,

Cubist Crucifixion.