The Hollywood Reporter last evening —
"Michael White, who is best known for producing the movies
The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Monty Python and the Holy Grail ,
has died, his ex-girlfriend confirmed to Reuters. He was 80."
* Continued.
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
High White*
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Monday, January 25, 2016
Tuesday, July 7, 2015
Friday, July 3, 2015
High White Noon
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Sunday, June 21, 2015
Friday, October 10, 2014
High White Noon
(The phrase is from Don DeLillo and Josefine Lyche.)
See “Complex Grid.”
See as well Bill O’Reilly’s remark, “Do not be a coxcomb,”
and an artist‘s self-portrait:
Grid Designer
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Friday, April 26, 2013
Friday, October 26, 2012
High White Noon
Today's 11:01 AM post discussed time concepts
in Eliot's Four Quartets.
For the temporally challenged, here is
a somewhat simpler conceptual framework—
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Three Trios From a post of Columbus Day
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
High White in the Dark Fields
"High white noon"
— Phrase of Don DeLillo and Josefine Lyche
"Spellbinding visuals dwarf weak characters."
— Fox News review of Snow White and the Huntsman
For some stronger characters, see Limitless , a 2011 film
based on a 2001 novel by Alan Glynn, The Dark Fields .
See also St. Andrew's Day 2011 in this journal.
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011
High White Noon
Grid from a post linked to in yesterday's 24 Hour DeLillo—
For an example of this grid as slow art , consider the following—
"One can show that the binary tetrahedral group
is isomorphic to the special linear group SL(2,3)—
the group of all 2×2 matrices over the finite field F3
with unit determinant." —Wikipedia
As John Baez has noted, these two groups have the same structure as the geometric 24-cell.
For the connection of the grid to the groups and the 24-cell, see Visualizing GL(2,p).
Related material—
The 3×3 grid has been called a symbol of Apollo (Greek god of reason and of the sun).
"This is where we sat through his hushed hour,
a torchlit sky, the closeness of hills barely visible
at high white noon." — Don DeLillo, Point Omega
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Thursday, January 21, 2016
Hammered
Or: High White Noon (continued from previous episodes)
"… taking a traditional piece of music with some culturally
relevant connection and using it as the central motif of the
broader arrangement. In this case, it was the Irish ballad
'Limerick’s Lamentation.' (It’s usually played on a fiddle,
I think, but here’s an interesting version on a
hammered dulcimer.)"
— 30 Years of Coens: Miller's Crossing ,
by Christopher Orr in The Atlantic ,
Sept. 10, 2014
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Monday, June 29, 2015
Lynn Arthur Steen, 1941-2015
Steen reportedly died on Sunday, June 21, 2015.
This was the day of the most recent post in
the "High White Noon" series.
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Friday, February 20, 2015
Conceptual Art
See High White in this journal.
Related material:
The Astoria Column
on Coxcomb Hill,
Astoria, Oregon
See also a tale from today's Daily Astorian
(click the AP link in Parks and Recreation) and…
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"McArthur and McArthur in Oregon Geographic Names (2003, Oregon Historical Society) states: '… Coxcomb Hill, Clatsop. This is the summit of the ridge south of Astoria, between the Columbia River and Youngs Bay. The compiler has been unable to learn who first applied the name. The spelling used is the customary form applied to court fools and jesters who wore an imitation coxcomb, and were frequently called coxcombs. …'" |
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Thursday, December 19, 2013
Review
For Josefine Lyche, artist of High White Noon —
Thursday, October 10, 2013
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Monday, September 30, 2013
A Line for Frank
(Continued from High White Noon,
Finishing Up at Noon, and A New York Jew.)
Above: Frank Langella in "Starting Out in the Evening"
Below: Frank Langella and Johnny Depp in "The Ninth Gate"
"Not by the hair on your chinny-chin-chin."
Above: Detail from a Wikipedia photo.
For the logo, see Lostpedia.
For some backstory, see Noether.
Those seeking an escape from the eightfold nightmare
represented by the Dharma logo above may consult
the remarks of Heisenberg (the real one, not the
Breaking Bad version) to the Bavarian Academy
of Fine Arts.
Those who prefer Plato's cave to his geometry are
free to continue their Morphean adventures.
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Monday, November 5, 2012
Sitting Specially
Some webpages at finitegeometry.org discuss
group actions on Sylvester’s duads and synthemes.
Those pages are based on the square model of
PG(3,2) described in the 1980’s by Steven H. Cullinane.
A rival tetrahedral model of PG(3,2) was described
in the 1990’s by Burkard Polster.
Polster’s tetrahedral model appears, notably, in
a Mathematics Magazine article from April 2009—
Click for a pdf of the article.
Related material:
“The Religion of Cubism” (May 9, 2003) and “Art and Lies”
(Nov. 16, 2008).
This post was suggested by following the link in yesterday’s
Sunday School post to High White Noon, and the link from
there to A Study in Art Education, which mentions the date of
Rudolf Arnheim‘s death, June 9, 2007. This journal
on that date—
The Fink-Guy article was announced in a Mathematical
Association of America newsletter dated April 15, 2009.
Those who prefer narrative to mathematics may consult
a Log24 post from a few days earlier, “Where Entertainment is God”
(April 12, 2009), and, for some backstory, The Judas Seat
(February 16, 2007).
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Sunday, November 4, 2012
Sunday School:
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Thursday, September 27, 2012
A Kenning for Thor’s Day
"A kenning… is a circumlocution
used instead of an ordinary noun
in Old Norse, Old English and
later Icelandic poetry." — Wikipedia
Note the title of Tuesday's post High White in the Dark Fields.
Related material, in memory of a composer-lyricist
who died Monday (NY Times ) or Tuesday (LA Times )—
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Sunday, September 23, 2012
Plan 9 (continued)–
In Like Flynn
From the Wall Street Journal site Friday evening—
| ESSAY September 21, 2012, 9:10 p.m. ET
Are We Really Getting Smarter? Americans’ IQ scores have risen steadily over the past century.
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No, thank you. I prefer the ninth configuration as is—
Why? See Josefine Lyche’s art installation “Grids, you say?“
Her reference there to “High White Noon” is perhaps
related to the use of that phrase in this journal.
The phrase is from a 2010 novel by Don DeLillo.
See “Point Omega,” as well as Lyche’s “Omega Point,”
in this journal.
The Wall Street Journal author above, James R. Flynn (born in 1934),
“is famous for his discovery of the Flynn effect, the continued
year-after-year increase of IQ scores in all parts of the world.”
—Wikipedia
His son Eugene Victor Flynn is a mathematician, co-author
of the following chapter on the Kummer surface— 
For use of the Kummer surface in Buddhist metaphysics, see last night’s
post “Occupy Space (continued)” and the letters of Nanavira Thera from the
late 1950s at nanavira.blogspot.com.
These letters, together with Lyche’s use of the phrase “high white noon,”
suggest a further quotation—
You know that it would be untrue
You know that I would be a liar
If I was to say to you
Girl, we couldn’t get much higher
See also the Kummer surface at the web page Configurations and Squares.
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Sunday, February 12, 2012
Rhetorical Answer
NOW ENJOY BRILLIANT COLLEGE COURSES
IN YOUR HOME OR CAR!
The sun was burning down….
There was a trembling in the air as the unnamed colors
and landforms took on definition, a clarity of outline and extent….
This is where we sat through his hushed hour, a torchlit sky,
the closeness of hills barely visible at high white noon.
— DeLillo, Don, Point Omega
Midi là-haut, Midi sans mouvement
En soi se pense et convient à soi-même…
Tête complète et parfait diadème,
Je suis en toi le secret changement.
— Valéry, Paul, "Le Cimetière Marin"
… Todo lo sé por el lucero puro
que brilla en la diadema de la Muerte.
— Darío, Rubén, "Los Tres Reyes Magos"
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