This journal on 7/21, 2025 —
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Pol Vandevelde, “Poetry (Dichtung)” in Excerpts from the Vandevelde article:
6. … language is the means of the configuration and what
7. Poetry names the very configuration of thinking, the fact
8. This productive use of language in order to describe what
9. Poetry cannot thus simply be configuration. It is more |
♫
Little darlin'
It's been a long, cold, lonely winter
Little darlin'
It feels like years since it's been here
Here comes Plan 9, doo-doo-doo
This journal on All Souls' Day 2025 —
Friday, November 13, 2020
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Yale Daily News, Jan. 11, 2001:
“When New Haven was founded, the city was laid out into
a grid of nine squares surrounded by a great wilderness.
Last year History of Art Professor Emeritus Vincent Scully
said the original town plan reflected a feeling that the new city
should be sacred. Scully said the colony’s founders thought of
their new Puritan settlement as a ‘nine-square paradise on Earth,
heaven on earth, New Haven, New Jerusalem.'”
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“Real and unreal are two in one: New Haven
— Wallace Stevens, |
This 1950 use of Galois coordinates on a grid
foreshadows their later use by Cullinane to construct
the Miracle Octad Generator of R. T. Curtis and to
illustrate, as below, point-line duality in the Fano plane.
The URL http://ninefold.space now forwards to …
http://m759.net/wordpress/?tag=lo-shu .
A book by Katherine Neville I first encountered at a Quality Markets
paperback rack in the last century —
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A search in Fandom for Saul Durand leads back,
as often happens, to Indiana Jones . . .
Fandom page with a completely irrelevant Indiana Jones video.
For high art, see Cézanne in the previous post.
For low humor, see Tex Avery's Red Hot Riding Hood and . . .
Related reading —
Lo Shu and Death Valley.
From the August 2023 Notices of the American Mathematical Society —
"He worked tirelessly towards a more egalitarian world…."
"Chandler’s egalitarian spirit infused the workshops."
— Memorial Tribute: Remembrances of Chandler Davis
* See yesterday's Log24 post "Egalitarian Plan 9."
Some related mathematical windmills —
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For the eight-limbed star at the top of the quaternion array She drew from her handbag a pale grey gleaming implement that looked by quick turns to me like a knife, a gun, a slim sceptre, and a delicate branding iron—especially when its tip sprouted an eight-limbed star of silver wire. “The test?” I faltered, staring at the thing. “Yes, to determine whether you can live in the fourth dimension or only die in it.” — Fritz Leiber, short story, 1959 |
See as well . . .
"With the Tablet of Ahkmenrah and the Cube of Rubik,
my power will know no bounds!"
— Kahmunrah in a novelization of Night at the Museum:
Battle of the Smithsonian , Barron's Educational Series
Scholium —
Abstracting from narrative to structure, and from structure
to pure number, the Tablet of Ahkmenrah represents the
number 9 and the Cube of Rubik represents the number 27.
Returning from pure abstract numbers to concrete representations,
9 yields the structures in Log24 posts tagged Triangle.graphics,
and 27 yields a Galois cube .
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