See as well Lester Crystal in Wikipedia.
Friday, April 12, 2024
The Presbyterian Exorcist . . . Continues.
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Monday, August 7, 2023
Exorcist Director Dies
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Los Angeles Times today BY CHRISTI CARRAS, STAFF WRITER
"William Friedkin, a master of suspense and leading figure of the 1970s New Hollywood movement who was known for directing films such as 'The Exorcist' and 'The French Connection,' has died. Friedkin died Monday in Los Angeles, his widow, Sherry Lansing, confirmed to the Los Angeles Times. CAA, which represents Lansing, said Friedkin died at home from heart failure and pneumonia. He was 87." |
Update at 8:42 PM ET —
A French Connection for Friedkin, from
the SXSW opening date of one of his films —
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Sunday, March 29, 2020
Sunday, January 22, 2012
The Presbyterian Exorcist
(Backstory— Presbyterian in this journal)
Princeton University Press on a book it will publish in March—
Circles Disturbed brings together important thinkers in mathematics, history, and philosophy to explore the relationship between mathematics and narrative. The book's title recalls the last words of the great Greek mathematician Archimedes before he was slain by a Roman soldier–"Don't disturb my circles"–words that seem to refer to two radically different concerns: that of the practical person living in the concrete world of reality, and that of the theoretician lost in a world of abstraction. Stories and theorems are, in a sense, the natural languages of these two worlds–stories representing the way we act and interact, and theorems giving us pure thought, distilled from the hustle and bustle of reality. Yet, though the voices of stories and theorems seem totally different, they share profound connections and similarities.
Exercise— Discuss the above paragraph's vulgarity.
Discuss also the more robust vulgarity of Marvel Entertainment…
Context— "Marvel" in this journal, and The Cosmic Cube.
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Saturday, September 24, 2011
Ariadne and the Exorcist
The title describes two philosophical events (one major, one minor) from the same day— Thursday, July 5, 2007. Some background from 2001:
"Are the finite simple groups, like the prime numbers, jewels strung on an as-yet invisible thread? And will this thread lead us out of the current labyrinthine proof to a radically new proof of the Classification Theorem?" (p. 345)
— Ronald Solomon, "A Brief History of the Classification of Finite Simple Groups," Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society , Vol. 38 No. 3 (July 2001), pp. 315-352
The major event— On July 5, 2007, Cambridge University Press published Robert T. Curtis's Symmetric Generation of Groups.*
Curtis's book does not purport to lead us out of Solomon's labyrinth, but its publication date may furnish a Jungian synchronistic clue to help in exiting another nightmare labyrinth— that of postmodernist nominalism.
The minor event— The posting of Their Name is Legion in this journal on July 5, 2007.
* This is the date given by Amazon.co.uk and by BookDepository.com. Other sources give a later July date, perhaps applicable to the book's publication in the U.S. rather than Britain.
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Friday, October 6, 2023
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Sunday, December 12, 2021
The Shining of November 29th
See Log24 on November 29th, the birth date of storytellers
C.S. Lewis and Madeleine L'Engle.
A related obituary from today's online New York Times —
Related fictional character:
"Ecumenical Edwards"
in Exorcist II: The Heretic .
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Saturday, October 30, 2021
For Ecumenical Edwards* — Orange
My response to an Instagram story on Michaelmas 2021 —
An ad page you might like — "The epitome of multipurpose,
these balms can be used for lips, hands and any other bits
of skin that need a little extra TLC." —
https://www.petitvour.com/products/
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Related material —
See as well Joseph Wambaugh's classic novel The Golden Orange .
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Wednesday, October 20, 2021
Monday, June 14, 2021
Fiction For Students
"… a difficult novel just sits there on your shelf unread —
unless you happen to be a student, in which case you're
obliged to turn the pages of Woolf and Beckett."
— Jonathan Franzen in The New Yorker , 30 September 2002
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Sunday, June 13, 2021
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
April 18, 2003 (Good Friday), Continued
"The purpose of mathematics cannot be derived from an activity
inferior to it but from a higher sphere of human activity, namely,
religion."
— Igor Shafarevitch, 1973 remark published as above in 1982.
"Perhaps."
— Steven H. Cullinane, February 13, 2019
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From Log24 on Good Friday, April 18, 2003 — . . . What, indeed, is truth? I doubt that the best answer can be learned from either the Communist sympathizers of MIT or the “Red Mass” leftists of Georgetown. For a better starting point than either of these institutions, see my note of April 6, 2001, Wag the Dogma. See, too, In Principio Erat Verbum , which notes that “numbers go to heaven who know no more of God on earth than, as it were, of sun in forest gloom.” Since today is the anniversary of the death of MIT mathematics professor Gian-Carlo Rota, an example of “sun in forest gloom” seems the best answer to Pilate’s question on this holy day. See
“Examples are the stained glass windows Motto of Plato’s Academy † The Exorcist, 1973 |
Detail from an image linked to in the above footnote —
"And the darkness comprehended it not."
Id est :
A Good Friday, 2003, article by
a student of Shafarevitch —
"… there are 25 planes in W . . . . Of course,
replacing {a,b,c} by the complementary set
does not change the plane. . . ."
Of course.
See. however, Six-Set Geometry in this journal.
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Friday, October 19, 2018
Kaleidoscope and Old Lace
See posts now tagged "Kaleidoscope Society" and, more generally,
a search in this journal for "Kaleidoscope."
Related material —
Photo caption in a news story today:
"Father Gary Thomas attends the premiere of Warner Brothers’
'The Rite' at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, in Los Angeles,
on January 26, 2011. Thomas is holding a special Mass
on Thursday and Saturday [Oct. 18 and 20] to counter
a planned hex on Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh."
See as well posts tagged "Rubik Exorcism."
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Saturday, April 14, 2018
Whoosh
See as well an interview in this evening's online New York Times
by Maureen Dowd with "Exorcist" director William Friedkin —
“I don’t drink,” he says. “I’ve never done drugs.
I’ve never tried grass. But I think Miles Davis
is a reason to live.”
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Friday, April 13, 2018
Mathmagic Land
Continued from yesterday.
From Log24 on July 24, 2014 —
Later . . .
"Button, Button, Who's Got the Button?"
See also The Abacus Conundrum.
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Tuesday, January 31, 2017
The Burton Temptation
The young actress of the previous post in a music video —
The late Richard Burton
in Exorcist 2 : The Heretic —
"Been there, done that."
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Saturday, January 14, 2017
Here We Go Loop De Lie
Wikipedia on The Exorcist III (1990),
written and directed by William Peter Blatty —
"Kinderman takes his friend, a priest named Father Dyer,
out to see their mutually favorite film It's a Wonderful Life ."
Related material from an RSS feed at noon —
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Friday, January 13, 2017
Sunday, October 2, 2016
Some Old Philosophy from Rome
See also Log24 posts from the above reported date of death —
posts now tagged Wittgenstein's Pentagram.
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Monday, August 29, 2016
Roll Credits
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Monday, January 26, 2015
Ending Credits
From a search for "snowflake" in this journal —
See also the January 13 death of a mathematician,
graph theorist Ralph Faudree of the University of Memphis.
Two hymns that may or may not be relevant:
Walking in Memphis and Come Falda di Neve,
the song that plays over the ending credits of
Exorcist III —
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Those who prefer more-secular music may consult
Princeton Requiem, a post from the day of Faudree's death.
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Saturday, September 6, 2014
Friday, August 22, 2014
The Bottom Line
The bottom three lines of an image search:
For a meditation on the bottom line, see Mary Gaitskill’s story
“The Agonized Face.” See also George C. Scott reciting from
the Scottish play in The Exorcist III.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014
Death in Mathmagic Land
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Monday, June 16, 2014
Epiphany
See the January 6, 2014, post For the Padres
as well as Consciousness Growth.
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Friday, June 13, 2014
To Walk the Walk and…
The Walk
From last night’s viewing, an image of Africa in 1947 at the end
of the alternate version of Exorcist: The Beginning ,
also starring Stellan Skarsgård—
The Talk
From this morning’s reading, Macmillan’s 1960 “wind of change” speech—
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Former-Day Saint
From Wikipedia:
Wilf might prefer to be remembered not,
as in Thursday’s post, on the latter day above,
but rather on the former.
Happy birthday, Stellan Skarsgård.
Skarsgård in Exorcist: The Beginning .
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Sunday, January 26, 2014
A Midnight Exorcism
The summoning of the spirit of Bertrand Russell
yesterday by Peter J. Cameron at his weblog
suggests a review of this weblog’s posts of
Christmas Eve, December 24-25, 2013.
(Recall that Robert D. Carmichael, who, in a book
linked to at midnight last Christmas Eve discusses
some “magic” mathematical structures,
reportedly was trained as a Presbyterian minister.
See also The Presbyterian Exorcist.)
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Thursday, January 23, 2014
Shining Forth
Continued from remarks of Marissa Mayer at Davos last year —
Related material — This evening's NY lottery…
… and Log24 post number 1424 —
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