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Monday, October 4, 2021

Now Lens

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:54 am

In search of lost time …

"A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Woman"
in The New Yorker , issue dated October 4, 2021,
contains diary and notebook writings from 1948 through 1950
by Patricia Highsmith, who has appeared here previously.

Another (undated) portrait, from the Web —

The above photographic  portrait is undated, but it was
posted  on 21 February 2006.  This  journal's posts
on that date have been tagged, in Highsmith's honor

 Now Lens .

Saturday, October 17, 2020

Now Lens…

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:52 am

Continued.

The above phrase “neurolinguistic hacker” does not do justice to
Neal Stephenson’s remarks on “Ba’al Shem.”

This post was suggested by  an  Oct. 12  Wired  book review.

Thursday, September 17, 2020

Now Lens

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:29 am

The title is from James Joyce.

Friday, March 11, 2011

Now Lens

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:00 am

A Story in Pictures

Errol Morris in The New York Times  on March 9

"If everything is incommensurable, then everything is seen through the lens of the present, the lens of now ."

"Borges concluded by quoting Chesterton, 'there is nothing more frightening than a labyrinth that has no center.' [72]"

Now Lens

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11/110311-NowLens.jpg

Uncertified Copy

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Del Toro

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11/110311-delToro.jpg

Plato's Diamond

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11/110311-LychePlatosDiamond256w.jpg

Portrait of an Artist

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11/110311-JosefineLyche.jpg

Meanwhile, back at the Times

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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Now Lens (continued)

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:48 am

"…the farther back we manage to wiggle
 the more we need the loan of a lens…." —Finnegans Wake

For some background on the lens below, see the sermon on February 20th, 2011.

Image-- The Asterisk of Evil

Finnegans Wake

“The quad gospellers may own the targum but any of the Zingari shoolerim
 may pick a peck of kindlings yet from the sack of auld hensyne.”

The above "Zingari shoolerim" passage was quoted here in Frame Tales (November 10th, 2008).

That post concerned the Heinrich Zimmer tale "The King and the Corpse." Some related material—

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11/110224-CorpseRiddle.jpg

Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Not So Lushly

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:47 pm

Geometry lesson

From a Log24 search for “Now Lens.

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Animula

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:48 am

Dante, Purgatorio XVI

Esce di mano a Lui, che la vagheggia
     Prima che sia, a guisa di fanciulla,
     Che piangendo e ridendo pargoleggia,
   87

L’anima semplicetta, che sa nulla,
     Salvo che, mossa da lieto fattore,
     Volontier torna a ciò che la trastulla.
          90

Dante on the soul in Purgatorio 16
Related material:

and, in this journal,

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Shakespeare’s Rhyme

Filed under: General — m759 @ 5:01 am

From Saturday Night Live  last night—

IMAGE- Louis C. K. as Shakespeare on SNL

Related material from the Log24 post "Now Lens"
(March 11, 2011)—

Errol Morris in The New York Times  on March 9, 2011

"If everything is incommensurable, then everything
is seen through the lens of the present, the lens of now ."

"Borges concluded by quoting Chesterton, 'there is nothing
more frightening than a labyrinth that has no center.' [72]"

See also Borges on Shakespeare, everything, and nothing 
in a note from September 7, 2006.

Everything and nothing in Peter J. Cameron's weblog yesterday—

The existence of everything entails the existence of nothing;
indeed, the existence of anything (any set A) entails
the existence of the empty set (the set {x∈A:x≠x}).
But not the other way round.

Right, I had better put on my anorak and go out now …

Illustration added by m759—

How many miles to Babylon?*
Three score miles and ten.
Can I get there by candle-light?**
Yes, and back again.

* Suggested by the Pindar link in this journal yesterday.

** Quoted in the "Seven is Heaven" post on All Souls' Day.

Friday, March 11, 2011

Evening Star

Filed under: General — m759 @ 7:11 pm

The following link was suggested by
this morning's Now Lens and noon's Citizen Julie

The Citizen Kane of Horror.

Related material— Damnation Morning and Punch Line.

Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Tuesday February 21, 2006

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:32 am

Now Lens

  murphy plant, murphy grow, a maryamyria-   10
  meliamurphies, in the lazily eye of his lapis,   11
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  Geometry lesson   13
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the Interplay of a darkies ding in dewood) the Turnpike under   16
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Womb. ground). 1 Given now ann linch you take enn   18
  all. Allow me! And, heaving alljawbreakical   19
  expressions out of old Sare Isaac's 2 universal   20
The Vortex. of specious aristmystic unsaid, A is for Anna   21
Spring of Sprung like L is for liv. Aha hahah, Ante Ann you're   22
Verse. The Ver- apt to ape aunty annalive! Dawn gives rise.   23
tex. Lo, lo, lives love! Eve takes fall. La, la, laugh   24
  leaves alass! Aiaiaiai, Antiann, we're last to   25
  the lost, Loulou! Tis perfect. Now (lens   26

Finnegans Wake, Book II,
Episode 2, page 293

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