Log24

A followup to last midnight's Black Hole Revisited .

See also Victor Turner on liminality, together with Paul Goodman
on public squares, in a post of May 8, 2007. 

Related material: Midnight in Dostoevsky (St. Andrew's Day, 2009).

From a search in this journal for "Public Square" —

See also Gresham in this journal.

A scene suggested by today's 11:30 AM post —

The New York Times  this afternoon on Nick Flynn —

"His songs of experience hum with immediacy."

From the date of Lawrence Stupski's death —

See as well a search in this journal for "Foundation."

For T.S. Eliot on his birthday, a film review—

"… the Coens are… elegantly asserting design mastery…."

— Peter Bradshaw, review of "Inside Llewyn Davis" 
    in The Guardian  on May 18, 2013

Related material— Two Log24 posts from that date—

Black Hole Revisited and Midnight in Bakhtin.

The former post presents a Jewish approach to
Eliot's concept of time and "the still point."
The latter post presents a more sophisticated approach. 

Perhaps the Coens' design mastery extends to the phrase
"time stops" of Kerouac. See the remarks by Dean Moriarty
in On the Road  quoted here in the previous post (Sept. 24).

The Coens' film contains, Bradshaw says, "a smoulderingly
Kerouac-y poet, played by Garrett Hedlund." Hedlund played
not Kerouac, but Moriarty, in the 2012 film of On the Road .

From "The Stone" (a philosophy series) in today's New York Times —

Louis Sullivan, in his Kindergarten Chats , on the pier and lintel as basic elements of architecture:

… [Sullivan says that the pier] embodies “the simplest physical beginnings"….
    Add the lintel and “presto!” …. 
    But he has a question: what is this sudden coming-into-being of a way of being?

  “We have no true name for it in the language. But if you fix the phenomenon well in your thought,
   the absence of an exact word for it need not matter much.”

The source —

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A related passage —

"Crucial here is the concept of emergence , the sudden coming into being of something that is greater than its component parts (like water is greater than its component parts, hydrogen and oxygen; therefore, water is an emergent property)."

— Article on Bakhtin in The Cervantes Encyclopedia , by Howard Mancing (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004)

See also "strong emergence" in this journal.

Chronotope

The polytope at left in the illustration below might, to use the term of Bakhtin, be called a “chronotope.”

See Time Fold for a literary context.