Monday, April 13, 2026
For Katherine Neville (The Eight)
and Brian Harley (Mate in Two Moves)
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and Brian Harley (Mate in Two Moves)
and Brian Harley (Mate in Two Moves)
Friday, April 4, 2025
A Word for Katherine Neville: “Pivot”
See that word in this journal —
http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=Pivot.
Related art: four squares, four diamonds.
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Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Annals of Apple Entertainment . . .
Katherine Neville’s The Eight — Enhanced!
Applying the "Go back 10" symbol above . . .
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Katherine Neville’s The Eight — Enhanced!
Katherine Neville’s The Eight — Enhanced!
Saturday, October 19, 2024
Friday, October 11, 2024
From Katherine Neville’s Birthday, 2024
Fans of the Mark Helprin novel Refiner's Fire
may prefer today's previous post.
Related material —
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Monday, May 20, 2024
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
Le Sacre du Printemps (Blue-Black Version)
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Scholium for Katherine Neville . . .
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Saturday, January 24, 2026
Eightfold Cube AI Overview
From the current New Yorker,
a link for Katherine Neville —
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Friday, September 12, 2025
Lit Bits: Crazy Guggenheim
"Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology,
arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao…."
— Promotional book description at Amazon.com
"Continue a search for thirty-three and three."
— Sucker bait from Katherine Neville's masterpiece The Eight
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Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Plan 9 from Quality Markets
A book by Katherine Neville I first encountered at a Quality Markets
paperback rack in the last century —
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Sunday, April 20, 2025
The Harrowing of Literary Hell
Fans of the novel The Eight by Katherine Neville may recall
that the date April 4 plays a significant role in that fiction.
Related material from log24.com/log/pix25/ …
250420-Harrowing-of-Hell-post-on-April_4_2015.jpg —
250420-Cameron-post-on-April_4_2015-Holy_Saturday.jpg —
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Sunday, August 25, 2024
Log Lady Lines
From the post "Log Lady" of June 12, 2020 —
"Battle of White has raged on endlessly.
Everywhere Black will strive to seal his fate."
— Katherine Neville's chess novel The Eight
For Nathalie Emmanuel, star of the recent Francis Ford Coppola
extravaganza "Megalopolis" and, more impressively, of
a John Woo film released to streaming on Aug. 23 . . .
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Wednesday, July 12, 2023
The Sunset of Dissolution
Dwight Garner today on the late Milan Kundera:
"Kundera’s novels, especially his later ones, could be abstract and
heavy-handed. His characters, at times, were little more than chess pieces.
Their author could be pretentious. His work is filled with observations such as:
'In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia,
even the guillotine.' But his best fiction retains its moments of sweep and power."
Illustration for Florence King's 1989 review of The Eight , a novel
by Katherine Neville that features prominently the date April 4.
See also "Dissolution" in this journal.
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Monday, February 13, 2023
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
Der Einsatz . . . Continues.
Katherine Neville, author of The Eight —
"Nine is a very powerful Nordic number."
in The Magic Circle , Ballantine paperback, 1999, p. 339.
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Saturday, August 21, 2021
Comment
A Bon Jovi "Stripped" video released May 1, 2007 —
Synchronology check —
This journal in the early morning of the above release date —
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Wednesday, March 17, 2021
Sunday, August 23, 2020
Sprechen Sie Neutsch?
Image added to post on Tuesday, November 4, 2025 —
End of added image. Also on Nov. 4, 2025 . . .
Publication year added to the Coordinates excerpt below.
Related images —
Chess Knight
(in German, Springer)
See also…
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Sunday, June 14, 2020
PC Language Game
The above Nat Friedman is not to be confused with
the Nat Friedman of “Hyperseeing,” discussed here June 12.
“One game is real and one’s a metaphor.
Untold times this wisdom’s come too late.
Battle of White has raged on endlessly.
Everywhere Black will strive to seal his fate.
Continue a search for thirty-three and three.
Veiled forever is the secret door.”
— Katherine Neville, aka Cat Velis, in The Eight,
Ballantine Books, January 1989, page 140
Related literary remarks —
The Old Man and the Bull
The Old Man and the Topic
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Friday, June 12, 2020
Log Lady
“Just as these lines that merge to form a key
Are as chess squares; when month and day are four;
Don’t risk another chance to move to mate.
One game is real and one’s a metaphor.
Untold times this wisdom’s come too late.
Battle of White has raged on endlessly.
Everywhere Black will strive to seal his fate.
Continue a search for thirty-three and three.
Veiled forever is the secret door.”
— Katherine Neville, aka Cat Velis, in The Eight,
Ballantine Books, January 1989, page 140
“One game is real and one’s a metaphor” —
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Tuesday, June 9, 2020
Number
“Nine is a very powerful Nordic number.“
— Katherine Neville, author of The Eight
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Wednesday, April 8, 2020
A Midrash for Steiner
(The late Mark Steiner, not the late George Steiner.)
See Katherine Neville’s novel The Eight ,
Log24 posts tagged Crucible Raiders, and
St. Isidore, whose feast day is April 4 —
Mark Steiner’s book The Applicability of Mathematics
as a Philosophical Problem (Harvard University Press, 2002,
$36.50) is available for free at a website named for St. Isidore.)
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Saturday, December 28, 2019
Caballo Blanco
“The key is the cocktail that begins the proceedings.”
– Brian Harley, Mate in Two Moves
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“Just as these lines that merge to form a key
Are as chess squares . . . .” — Katherine Neville, The Eight
“The complete projective group of collineations and dualities of the
[projective] 3-space is shown to be of order [in modern notation] 8! ….
To every transformation of the 3-space there corresponds
a transformation of the [projective] 5-space. In the 5-space, there are
determined 8 sets of 7 points each, ‘heptads’ ….”
— George M. Conwell, “The 3-space PG (3, 2) and Its Group,”
The Annals of Mathematics , Second Series, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Jan., 1910),
pp. 60-76.
“It must be remarked that these 8 heptads are the key to an elegant proof….”
— Philippe Cara, “RWPRI Geometries for the Alternating Group A8,” in
Finite Geometries: Proceedings of the Fourth Isle of Thorns Conference
(July 16-21, 2000), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001, ed. Aart Blokhuis,
James W. P. Hirschfeld, Dieter Jungnickel, and Joseph A. Thas, pp. 61-97.
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Monday, December 2, 2019
D8: The Black Queen’s Square
The previous post quoted some dialogue from Victor Hugo's
novel about the French Revolution, Ninety-Three.
This suggests a look at the following non-fiction book:
Compare and contrast with the novel The Eight , by Katherine Neville,
about chess and the French Revolution.
Neville's birthday, April 4, plays a major role in her novel. The dies natalis
(in the Roman Catholic sense) of the above Birth of the Chess Queen
author, on the other hand, was reportedly November 20, 2019.
Following a link in this journal from November 20 leads to remarks
that might interest the subjects of an upcoming film, "The Two Popes."
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Thursday, April 4, 2019
Saturday, March 23, 2019
Plan 9 Manifesto
"Arnheim was a particularly important source
for Norway's principal architectural theorist,
Christian Norberg-Schulz."
— Andrew Peter Steen, University of Queensland
doctoral thesis, 2015
See
- "Field of Manifestation,"
- "A Study in Art Education," and
-
"The Concept of Phenomenology in Architecture as Developed
by the Norwegian Theorist Christian Norberg-Schulz"
"Nine is a very powerful Nordic number."
— Katherine Neville, The Magic Circle
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Friday, January 25, 2019
Design Theory
Last night's post "Night at the Social Media" suggests . . .
A 404 for Katherine Neville (born on 4/04) —
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Thursday, January 24, 2019
Night at the Social Media
See also Katherine Neville, Karl Pribram, and Cooper Hewitt in this journal.
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Thursday, August 9, 2018
True Grids
From a search in this journal for "True Grid,"
a fanciful description of the 3×3 grid —
"This is the garden of Apollo,
the field of Reason…."
– John Outram, architect
A fanciful instance of the 4×2 grid in
a scene from the film "The Master" —
A fanciful novel referring to the number 8,
and a not -so-fanciful reference:
Illustrated above are Katherine Neville's novel The Eight and the
"knight" coordinatization of the 4×2 grid from a page on the exceptional
isomorphism between PSL(3,2) (alias GL(3,2)) and PSL(2,7) — groups
of, respectively, degree 7 and degree 8.
Literature related to the above remarks on grids:
Ross Douthat's New York Times column yesterday purported, following
a 1946 poem by Auden, to contrast students of the humanities with
technocrats by saying that the former follow Hermes, the latter Apollo.
I doubt that Apollo would agree.
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