Monday, April 22, 2024
From a transcript of the film —
— You could be making a killing out there consulting, but you’re laying brick. Why?
— Because when I hold a brick in my hand, I know exactly what it is and what it will do.
Every single time.
Its form is its function.
That gives me peace.
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The film is based on a novel of the same title, by an author,
Paul Lindsay, who reportedly died on September 1, 2011.
For some bricks of a different sort, see the "Miracle Octad Generator"
(MOG) of R. T. Curtis in this journal on Sept. 1, 2011 — September Morn.
Friday, April 19, 2024
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Earlier . . .
A Riddler Wannabe —
Related material — The Krauss passage quoted as above
by Shechtman in The New Yorker in December 2021 appears
also in a Log24 post of October 18, 2017: "Three Small Grids."
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Saturday, March 23, 2024
Related material for comedy writers —
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Saturday, March 16, 2024
"… if the system were complete, it would turn out to have been
interrogated during the investigation of one problem or another."
Vide . . .
(Illustration updated at 6:32 AM ET Mon., March 18, 2024.)
See also the post "Fundamental Figurate Geometry"
in this journal on Monday, March 11, 2024.
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Sunday, February 18, 2024
The New York Times this afternoon —
" William Beecher, who as a reporter for The New York Times
revealed President Richard M. Nixon’s secret bombing campaign
over Cambodia during the Vietnam War, and who later won a
Pulitzer Prize at The Boston Globe, died on Feb. 9 at his home
in Wilmington, N.C. He was 90." — Clay Risen, 2:28 PM
Also on Feb. 9 —
Another Beecher narrative —
Religious meditation from the Church of Synchronology . . .
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Thursday, February 15, 2024
"Pray for the grace of accuracy" — Robert Lowell
See also . . .
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Tuesday, January 30, 2024
From http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/v/eigen.html —
Perhaps history this century, thought Eigenvalue, is rippled with gathers in its fabric such that if we are situated, as Stencil seemed to be, at the bottom of a fold, it's impossible to determine warp, woof, or pattern anywhere else. By virtue, however, of existing in one gather it is assumed there are others, compartmented off into sinuous cycles each of which come to assume greater importance than the weave itself and destroy any continuity. Thus it is that we are charmed by funny looking automobiles of the '30's, the curious fashions of the '20's, the peculiar moral habits of our grandparents … We are accordingly lost to any sense of continuous tradition. Perhaps if we lived on a crest, things would be different. We could at least see. (Pp. 155-6, Harper Perennial ed.)
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Monday, October 16, 2023
From a search in this journal for "Chapter 11" —
Inner structure —
The above three images share the same
vector-space structure —
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b + c + d
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a + b + c
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c + d
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(This vector-space a b c d diagram is from
Chapter 11 of Sphere Packings, Lattices
and Groups , by John Horton Conway and
N. J. A. Sloane, first published by Springer
in 1988.)
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Where's Y?
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Sunday, April 30, 2023
Note that if the "compact Riemann surface" is a torus formed by
joining opposite edges of a 4×4 square array, and the phrase
"vector bundle" is replaced by "projective line," and so forth,
the above ChatGPT hallucination is not completely unrelated to
the following illustration from the webpage "galois.space" —
See as well the Cullinane diamond theorem.
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Thursday, March 23, 2023
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Tuesday, February 21, 2023
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Thursday, December 22, 2022
"Most important for Canetti are certain events
that he calls 'illuminations,' such as his witnessing
of striking workers being mowed down by Viennese
police on July 15, 1927, which was the germ of both
Auto-da-Fé and Crowds and Power. For Canetti,
these epiphanies are moments of metamorphosis,
which he prizes above all in art as well as in life.
Canetti aspired to be a 20th-century Ovid, but
precisely because he was modern, this ambition
landed him, again and again, in paradox, such as
the one expressed in the aphorism that gives this
compilation its title, or in this characteristic maxim:
'It all depends on this: with whom we confuse ourselves .'"
— Hal Foster in The Chronicle of Higher Education ,
"The Best Scholarly Books of 2022," Dec. 21, 2022.
See also this journal on Nov, 25, 2022 —
“Open the pod bay doors, Hal.”
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Friday, October 14, 2022
See as well "Sunset Boulevard" in this journal.
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Friday, September 30, 2022
Related Log24 posts …
See Vox Lux and Mathieu Omega.
Related book cover …
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Saturday, June 25, 2022
Click the image for posts
related to the above title.
Related material:
The Nutshell Suite.
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Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Fiction —
Non-fiction —
See too . . .
and . . .
Cover design by Will Staehle.
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Thursday, December 9, 2021
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Saturday, September 25, 2021
See as well . . .
Rouge + Noir .
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Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Related material from Wikipedia —
Keith A. Gessen (born January 9, 1975) is a Russian-born
American novelist, journalist, and literary translator.
He is co-founder and co-editor of American literary magazine
n+1
and an assistant professor of journalism at the Columbia University
Graduate School of Journalism.
Early life and education
Born Konstantin Alexandrovich Gessen into a Jewish family in Moscow….
Some related images —
The logo of a news site that yesterday
covered a Colorado Springs story:
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Wednesday, April 21, 2021
In memory of an advertising mogul who reportedly died today:
The above Altmetric report is apparently thanks to
my registering with ScienceOpen.com on April 19.
* Author of The Abacus Conundrum.
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Sunday, December 15, 2019
"Thus the nature of reality comes into question…."
— Frindle, Helen. The Sentient Shield , author's preface.
Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd. Kindle edition.
Published on December 11, 2018:
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This journal on December 11, 2018 —
* See as well other references to Harlan Kane in this journal.
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Tuesday, November 5, 2019
See Harlan Kane and Guilfoile in this journal.
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Sunday, August 25, 2019
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Thursday, April 4, 2019
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Sunday, January 6, 2019
Hat tip to Benjamin Markovits …
… for a quote from Roethke —
“Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one:
The shapes a bright container can contain!”
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Monday, November 13, 2017
"I wrote another book!" — Harlan Kane
The Crimson Staff
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Saturday, April 2, 2016
Publisher's description of a book about everything —
"When the whole is greater than the sum of the parts—
indeed, so great that the sum far transcends the parts
and represents something utterly new and different—
we call that phenomenon emergence."
— Oxford University Press
Titles for Harlan Kane, from the date that
the above book's author reportedly died —
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Friday, January 29, 2016
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Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Related reading — http://m759.net/wordpress/?s="Arrow+in+the+Blue" .
For Harlan Kane, a post from this journal on July 26, 2022 —
the date of Oettinger's reported death:
Related reading: a death on Oscars weekend . . .
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Saturday, February 24, 2024
New from Harlan Kane:
The Wittenborn Date
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"Always with a little humor." — Dr. Yen Lo
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Saturday, October 21, 2023
"… really we should use larger boxes." — Ursula K. Le Guin
"The Steiner system S (5, 8, 24) is a block design
made up of 24 points and 759 blocks, each of size 8,
with the property that every 5 points lie in exactly one block.
This design is naturally associated with the Golay code, and
its automorphism group is the simple Mathieu group M24;
see [3, Ch. 11].
3. J.H. Conway and N.J.A. Sloane, Sphere Packings,
Lattices and Groups, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1988."
— New Zealand Journal of Mathematics,
Volume 25 (1996), 133-139.
"Markings of the Golay Code," by
Marston Conder and John McKay.
(Received July 1995.)
See also the Harlan Kane Special from Broomsday 2023.
That post relates properties of the 4×4 box (Cullinane, 1979)
to those of the 4×6 box (Conway and Sloane, 1988, without
mention of Cullinane 1979).
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Saturday, April 30, 2022
(For Harlan Kane)
See as well the Pearl Jam song in posts tagged Enigma Keys.
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Friday, December 17, 2021
For Harlan Kane:
The Rechtschaffen Avatar
In memory of dream researcher Allan Rechtschaffen,
who reportedly died at 93 on November 29, a story
concept by Stephen King:
"Then she realized she wasn’t actually seeing them at all.
They were projections. Avatars. And so was the huge telephone
they were circling."
— King, Stephen. The Institute: A Novel .
Scribner. Kindle Edition. Location 7120.
From a Log24 search,
"Signs and Symbols."
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Sunday, July 5, 2020
Promotional material —
“Did you buckle up?” — Harlan Kane
The publication date of The Enigma Cube reported above was February 13, 2020.
Related material — Log24 posts around that date now tagged The Reality Bond.
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Monday, May 25, 2020
(For Harlan Kane)
From Shimada’s notes on computational data at
http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~shimada/
preprints/Edge/PaperEdge/compdataEdge.pdf —
“C24 is the list of codewords of the extended
binary Golay code C24. Each codeword is expressed
by a subset of the set M of the positions [1, . . . , 24]
of MOG.”
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Tuesday, February 25, 2020
The Sternheim Portrait (For Harlan Kane)
From last night's 1:01 AM post —
Detail —
This portrait is of German playwright Carl Sternheim.
Steve Martin's version of Sternheim's 1910 play "The Underpants"
reportedly opened on November 3, 2006.
My own interests on that date lay elsewhere . . .
Related abstract art —
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Thursday, December 5, 2019
(For Harlan Kane)
See also earlier posts tagged The Fontana Arches.
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Thursday, November 28, 2019
(A title for Harlan Kane.)
Cartoon caption from The New Yorker issue dated Dec. 2, 2019 —
“Someday I’ll buy a little place in the country
and take my finger off the Zeitgeist.”
This (along with the previous post) suggests a Log24 search for Zeitgeist.
That search concludes, appropriately for today, with a meditation
on giving thanks.
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Saturday, November 23, 2019
For Harlan Kane —
“… We found,
If we found the central evil, the central good….
… we and the diamond globe at last were one.”
— "Asides on the Oboe," by Wallace Stevens
This post was suggested by a death on the night of
Friday, November 22 — St. Cecilia's Day.
For the oboe connection, see an obituary.
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Thursday, October 3, 2019
(For Harlan Kane)
"Once Mr. Overbye identifies a story, he said, the work is
in putting it in terms people can understand. 'Metaphors
are very important to the way I write,' he said. The results
are vivid descriptions that surpass mere translation."
— Raillan Brooks in The New York Times on a Times
science writer, October 17, 2017. Also on that date —
"There is such a thing as a 4-set."
— Saying adapted from a 1962 young-adult novel.
See as well The Black List (Log24, September 27).
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Friday, September 13, 2019
"Behold, I stand at the door, and knock." — Rev. 3:20
Say it with flowers.
For Harlan Kane — The 3:20 Midrash:
"… the walkway between here and there would be colder than a witch’s belt buckle. Or a well-digger’s tit. Or whatever the saying was. Vera had been hanging by a thread for a week now, comatose, in and out of Cheyne-Stokes respiration, and this was exactly the sort of night the frail ones picked to go out on. Usually at 4 a.m. He checked his watch. Only 3:20, but that was close enough for government work."
— King, Stephen (2013-09-24).
Doctor Sleep: A Novel (p. 133). Scribner. Kindle Edition.
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Tuesday, September 10, 2019
For Harlan Kane
From this journal on Feb. 5, 2009:
"In the garden of Adding
live Even and Odd…
And the song of love's recision
is the music of the spheres."
— The Midrash Jazz Quartet in
City of God , by E. L. Doctorow (2000).
From this journal on the date of
the above post by Gavaler:
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Monday, September 9, 2019
(For Harlan Kane)
"While digging in the grounds for the new foundation,
the broken fragments of a marble statue were unearthed."
— From Thomas Hardy, "Barbara of the House of Grebe,"
quoted in an epigraph to Paul de Man's "Shelley Disfigured,"
in turn quoted by Barbara Johnson on page 231 of Persons
and Things (Harvard paperback, 2010).
From "the world of the unintentional, the contingent, the minute,
and the particular" (Kovacevic, U. of Montenegro, 2011) —
Yes, we received your payment.
No, it wasn't late, but it was for $78.13,
and the bill was for $78.31.
Okay, great.
Read more: https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/
movie_script.php?movie=the-circle
Another such transposition: Pages 213 and 231 in a search
for "gaps" in a 2010 paperback discussion of Lacan —
These pages are as follows —
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Sunday, September 1, 2019
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Thursday, July 25, 2019
For Harlan Kane . . .
The Usual Suspect —
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Tuesday, May 28, 2019
(A title for Harlan Kane)
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Tuesday, May 21, 2019
* A title for Harlan Kane, suggested by obituaries
from The New York Times (this afternoon) and from
CBC News (on May 14, below) . . .
. . . as well as by illustrations shown here on May 13 and by
a screenwriter quoted here on May 12 —
“When I die,” he liked to say, “I’m going to have written
on my tombstone, ‘Finally, a plot!’”
— Robert D. McFadden in The New York Times
Another quote that seems relevant —
“I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.”
— Paul Simon
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Monday, April 29, 2019
For Harlan Kane
"This time-defying preservation of selves,
this dream of plenitude without loss,
is like a snow globe from heaven,
a vision of Eden before the expulsion."
— Judith Shulevitz on Siri Hustvedt in
The New York Times Sunday Book Review
of March 31, 2019, under the headline
"The Time of Her Life."
Edenic-plenitude-related material —
"Self-Blazon… of Edenic Plenitude"
(The Issuu text is taken from Speaking about Godard , by Kaja Silverman
and Harun Farocki, New York University Press, 1998, page 34.)
Preservation-of-selves-related material —
Other Latin squares (from October 2018) —
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Saturday, December 29, 2018
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Saturday, February 11, 2017
The title was suggested by the previous post and by
the novels of Harlan Kane.
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Sunday, April 3, 2016
Continued from the April 1 posts
Apple Gate and Wonders of the Invisible World
Background music: "Like a rose under the April snow…." — Streisand
The Emergence of Harlan Kane continues from yesterday —
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Sunday, February 21, 2016
" 'This is a new category (of device) we’re talking about,'
said Andy Nuttall, HP’s director of mobility strategy.
HP introduced the device Sunday ahead of this week’s
Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, Spain."
— Matt Day in The Seattle Times today
See also the previous post and the recent film "The Intern."
"Buckle up!" — Harlan Kane
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Sunday, December 6, 2015
By Harlan Kane
See Omega (June 11, 2015).
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Thursday, July 9, 2015
(Continued)
A post of July 7, Haiku for DeLillo, had a link to posts tagged "Holy Field GF(3)."
As the smallest Galois field based on an odd prime, this structure
clearly is of fundamental importance.
It is, however, perhaps too small to be visually impressive.
A larger, closely related, field, GF(9), may be pictured as a 3×3 array…
… hence as the traditional Chinese Holy Field.
Marketing the Holy Field
The above illustration of China's Holy Field occurred in the context of
Log24 posts on Child Buyers. For more on child buyers, see an excellent
condemnation today by Diane Ravitch of the U. S. Secretary of Education.
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Saturday, January 10, 2015
From The New York Times this morning:
"David Henry Marlowe was born in Brooklyn
on June 6, 1931, the youngest of three children
of Karl and Lena Marlowe, Jewish immigrants
from Russia and Ukraine. His father sold
insurance, among other things, and his mother
ran the household.
For a time, the couple had a 'mind reading' act
on the Coney Island boardwalk, and their son
never forgot it. 'I can’t read minds, like my
parents,' he liked to say to friends. 'What I can
read is behavior.'"
For the rest of the story, see Marlowe's obituary.
For synchronicity, see this journal on the reported
date of his death.
* "I wrote another book." — Harlan Kane
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Friday, November 28, 2014
Continued from Finder (Sept. 23, 2014)
"I wrote another book!" — Harlan Kane
From an online NY Times obituary this morning :
"At Newsweek, Mr. Bernstein and other top editors
became known as the Flying Wallendas for
managing tasks on deadline with the seeming ease
of the famed trapeze artists. In a tribute, staff
members framed a circus poster of the high-wire
troupe and hung it in his office."
Wikipedia on Bernstein's son-in-law :
"Married to New York Times correspondent Nina Bernstein,
Huyssen is also a longtime friend of Nobel Prize-winning
Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, and often hosts him when
the writer comes to the US. The two teach an undergraduate
class together at Columbia called 'Words and Pictures,'
which examines problems of visual representation in literature,
particularly theories of ekphrasis."
Ekphrasis for Bernsteins:
The Wonder Show of the World!
See also Miniature Prize —
"Rosebud."
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013
The title refers to a classic 1960 novel by John Hersey.
“How do you get young people excited about space?”
— Megan Garber in The Atlantic , Aug. 16, 2012
(Italics added.) (See previous four posts.)
Allyn Jackson on “Simplicity, in Mathematics and in Art,”
in the new August 2013 issue of Notices of the American
Mathematical Society—
“As conventions evolve, so do notions of simplicity.
Franks mentioned Gauss’s 1831 paper that
established the respectability of complex numbers.”
This suggests a related image by Gauss, with a
remark on simplicity—
Here Gauss’s diagram is not, as may appear at first glance,
a 3×3 array of squares, but is rather a 4×4 array of discrete
points (part of an infinite plane array).
Related material that does feature the somewhat simpler 3×3 array
of squares, not seen as part of an infinite array—
Marketing the Holy Field
Click image for the original post.
For a purely mathematical view of the holy field, see Visualizing GL(2,p).
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012
From this journal on June 19, 2012—
Walter Gropius on space—
"Was ist Raum, wie können wir ihn
erfassen und gestalten?"
Walter Gropius,
The Theory and
Organization of the
Bauhaus (1923)
A book published on the same date—
June 19, 2012:
"… what Chalmers called the convergence of coincidence—
a force majeure of unrelated events that shaped one's life,
that perhaps defined the concept of life itself.
He believed in the power of that force."
— The Cryptos Conundrum , by Chase Brandon
See also Chase Brandon in Sunday's Huffington Post .
"I wrote another book."
— Robert De Niro as Harlan Kane
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Thursday, November 3, 2011
"Buckle up!" — Harlan Kane, in the spirit of strategic stupidity.
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Monday, April 25, 2011
From the author of The Abacus Conundrum—
Harlan Kane's sequel to The Apollo Meme—
THE KRISTEN EFFECT
"Thus the universal mutual attraction between the sexes is represented."
— Hexagram 31
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Monday, December 6, 2010
Saturday Night Live on December 4, 2010 —
If you liked Harlan Kane's THE ABACUS CONUNDRUM, you'll love…
THE LOTTERY ENIGMA —
New York Lottery on Sunday, December 5, 2010
Related links— For 076, yesterday's entry on "Independence Day."
For 915, see 9/15, "Holy Cross Day Revisited," and its prequel,
linked to on 9/15 as "Ready When You Are, C.B."
See also "Citizen Harlan" and "The Beaver."
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