Wednesday, May 6, 2026
Monday, February 23, 2026
A Mardi Gras Dies Natalis:
Two Vehicles for Introspection
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Two Vehicles for Introspection
Two Vehicles for Introspection
Dies Natalis Art Supplies
The following Log24 illustration from Ash Wednesday was
suggested by yesterday's New York Times report of a dies natalis
on that day —
Those who do not observe Ash Wednesday may prefer
a "dust to dust" post from Oct. 23, 2025 —
the publication date of Philip Pullman's novel
The Rose Field (The Book of Dust, Volume Three).
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Thursday, February 12, 2026
Sunday, November 23, 2025
Film Director Dies Natalis
Alex Traub of The New York Times reported this evening (8:11 PM EST)
that New Zealand film director Lee Tamahori died on November 7 —
in Catholic terms, his "dies natalis," or date of birth into heaven.
In memoriam . . .
From Log24 on that date, in the post "Triangulating the Isomorphic Formalisms,"
an image from June 30, 2025 —
Related reading for the Royal Society — Japanese Bed and Harvard Miller.
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Saturday, October 18, 2025
Resonance Art Event: Dies Natalis
March 9, 2025, in this journal . . . "Resonance" —
" 'Resonance' represents an intricate and multi-faceted experience
that pushes the boundaries of conventional art and collaboration.
Conceived by the visionary studio of Gregory and Judith Beylerian
in collaboration with the acclaimed multimedia artist Marcela Nowak,
this exceptional event brought together diverse attendees to engage in
a fully immersive experience aimed at creating resonance amongst the
participants."
— https://www.issuewire.com/a-multi-dimensional-journey-resonance-art-
event-unveils-an-immersive-fusion-of-art-human-connection-and-metaverse-
1777395622653633 … September 18, 2023.
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Saturday, August 2, 2025
In Memory of Wallace Stevens on His Dies Natalis:
Evolutionary Games at Harvard
"O Brave New World with Such Games" — Science, Aug. 23, 2013 —
Related reading from the Science date —
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Evolutionary Games at Harvard
Evolutionary Games at Harvard
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Plato’s Thunderdome
For a Slane Castle Dies Natalis
The New York Times this afternoon —
"Lord Mount Charles, an Anglo-Irish peer
turned rock ’n’ roll promoter,
died on June 18 in a hospital in Dublin at 74."
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For a Slane Castle Dies Natalis
For a Slane Castle Dies Natalis
Friday, May 16, 2025
Wag the Dogma Continues:
Inception! — On Yesterday’s Broadway Dies Natalis
The above image is from a Log24 post of August 22, 2024.
Related reading for Broadway theologians —
Death Working Backwards (Hat Tip to C. S. Lewis)
The May 15 date above is from the previous post.
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Inception! — On Yesterday’s Broadway Dies Natalis
Inception! — On Yesterday’s Broadway Dies Natalis
Saturday, March 15, 2025
Birthday Meets Dies Natalis:
“Harrison, Frida . . . Frida, Harrison.”
Wikipedia — "Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942)
is an American actor."
http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=birthday+death-day . . .
From page 63 of The New Yorker issue
dated August 5, 2002:
“Birthday, death-day —
what day is not both?”
— John Updike
http://m759.net/wordpress/?tag=the-finkelstein-talisman . . .
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“Harrison, Frida . . . Frida, Harrison.”
“Harrison, Frida . . . Frida, Harrison.”
Friday, March 7, 2025
Note from a Dies Natalis*
* For the dies natalis itself, see a New York Times report
of a death on February 27, and this journal on that date.
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Tuesday, January 14, 2025
For the Dies Natalis of Gödel
World Logic Day: 14 January
"On 26 November 2019, the 40th General Conference
of UNESCO proclaimed 14 January to be World Logic Day,
a global day of supporting the development of logic through
teaching and research, as well as to [sic] public dissemination of
the discipline. The date chosen to celebrate World Logic Day,
14 January, corresponds to the date of death of Kurt Gödel . . . ."
— https://wld.cipsh.international
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Monday, January 13, 2025
From the Dies Natalis of
a Tolkien Mapmaker
This post was suggested by a New York Times
"Overlooked No More" obituary today.
See also Durer Knight in this journal.
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a Tolkien Mapmaker
a Tolkien Mapmaker
Monday, January 6, 2025
Wednesday, December 25, 2024
Dies Natalis: “Shocked, Shocked!”
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Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Minding the Gap: A Surrealist’s Dies Natalis
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Friday, October 25, 2024
Thursday, August 15, 2024
Dies Natalis
A search in this journal for "Wallace Stevens died" is
suggested by a New York Times obituary this afternoon . . .
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Sunday, March 17, 2024
The Livingstone Dies Natalis
The above Livingstone obituary is dated January 29, 2024.
See as well that date in this journal, and some remarks
by Bernd Witte on Walter Benjamin, science, language, and religion.
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Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Dies Natalis
The New York Times reports the death yesterday, January 30, 2024,
of the wife of Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson.
According to the Catholic Church, therefore, yesterday was her
dies natalis — day of birth into heaven.
According to the Times, her secular dies natalis was Oct. 3 (10/03) —
"Melinda Kae Ledbetter was born on Oct. 3, 1946, in Pueblo, Colo."
According to this journal, yesterday's significant "10 03" was a time —
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."
Words that are somewhat less hallucinatory —
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Tuesday, July 4, 2023
Dies Natalis
June 27, 2016, in YouTube and in life —
Today's date, July 4, was also, in 1826, the dies natalis of
former U.S. presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams.
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Saturday, May 27, 2023
Dies Natalis
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Saturday, December 31, 2022
Dies Natalis: The Frame
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Friday, April 22, 2022
Dies Natalis
October 2, 2016, was, in the Catholic sense, the dies natalis
of a philosopher of science, Mary Hesse.
October 2 was also the day of birth, in the non-Catholic sense,
of philosopher-poet Wallace Stevens.
Cf. remarks in this journal on October 2, 2016.
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Wednesday, December 26, 2018
Sunday, May 10, 2026
Cigar Requiem
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Thursday, March 26, 2026
Fields Dream
The New York Times reported yesterday that
Hironaka's dies natalis was March 18, 2026.
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Wednesday, December 31, 2025
Review: Variations on the Theme of Eightness
From posts tagged Dunne Memorial —
“Have the gates of death
been opened unto thee?
Or hast thou seen the doors
of the shadow of death?”
From a December 31, 2003, post:
In memory of
John Gregory Dunne,
who died on
Dec. 30, 2003:
For further details, click
on the black monolith.
Another December 30 dies natalis —
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Thursday, December 25, 2025
More Fun . . . Annals of Romantasy?*
251225-Reporter's-obit-NYT-ghostwrote-for-Brando-and-Reagan.jpg —
This journal on December 19, the reported dies natalis
of the above reporter-ghostwriter —
Dec. 19 screenshot from https://m759.net/wordpress/?p=130765 —
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Sunday, December 21, 2025
Hollywood Backstories
The above dies natalis — Dec. 19, 2025 — suggests a flashback . . .
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