The shape of the church in today's "But Seriously" post
is not unlike the 1988 rocket shape below . . .
https://www.atariuptodate.de/img/kidshapes.png —
"Here's to efficient packing."
The rocket and chess images are from a post of November 23. 2024.
A search in this journal for "Merton College" yields . . .
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"Speaking of artificial intelligence, it seems as if the creators of 'Mrs. Davis' have ironically chosen to utilize A.I. in the show's production. During a panel at the film festival South by Southwest, Lindelof mentioned how they used artificial intelligence and said, 'We thought it would be fun to build an A.I. that would title our episodes, and that we just basically said that whatever it comes up with, we have to stick to as long as it is appropriate for whatever barometers of appropriateness exist.' Damon Lindelof continued and explained that in the process of creating the A.I. that would title episodes for the upcoming 'Mrs. Davis,' the artificial intelligence struggled to understand what a title actually was, despite the information that was filtered through the program. Lindelof then said that the entire production crew learned a great deal about algorithms and how A.I. works while attempting to get it to generate episode titles. In the end, Lindelof and the rest of the crew were quite happy with the results, noting that Episode 7 is titled 'Great Gatsby: 2001: A Space Odyssey.' " |
Elsewhere, in the art room . . .
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"A banana in the hand is worth two in the box." — Plato
The "For Whom the Bell" post of March 8, 2025, suggests
a search for "Spelman" in this journal . . .
Related fantasy architecture . . .
"Such were the plans I'd made" — 1974 song lyric
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow —
"Life is real! Life is earnest!"
"New horizons open up!"
— Anonymous NY Times wit, 1924
Gatsby-Era Times Snark —
Summary of a TV episode from yesterday that seems like
it was written by a hallucinating chatbot —
In other chatbot news . . .
As for 2001 . . . See "Notes from a (Paper) Journal 1993-2001."
"So we beat on, boats against the current…"
— The Great Gatsby
Thandie Newton in "Reminiscence" (2021) —
The above Screen Rant article is from August 20, 2021.
From that same date —
For Kristen Breitweiser
"Daisy, when she comes to tea at Nick's house,
refers to the flowers brought by Gatsby as being
appropriate for a funeral and asks 'Where's the corpse?'
Gatsby enters immediately thereafter. This foreshadows
what will happen to Gatsby. The dialogue is not in the novel…."
— Discussion of the 2000 TV movie version in
Learning Guide to The Great Gatsby
Correction to the midrash:
Sorvino actually says, when there is a knock at the door,
"That must be the corpse."
An upload from Good Friday, 2019 —
"Daisy, when she comes to tea at Nick's house,
refers to the flowers brought by Gatsby as being
appropriate for a funeral and asks 'Where's the corpse?'
Gatsby enters immediately thereafter. This foreshadows
what will happen to Gatsby. The dialogue is not in the novel…."
— Discussion of the 2000 TV movie version in
Learning Guide to The Great Gatsby
Correction to the midrash:
Sorvino actually says, when there is a knock at the door,
"That must be the corpse."
He had come a long way to this blue lawn,
and his dream must have seemed so close
that he could hardly fail to grasp it.
He did not know that it was already behind him,
somewhere back in that vast obscurity
beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic
rolled on under the night.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
— Epigraph to Limitless: A Novel , by Alan Glynn
Glynn's novel was originally published in 2002 under the title
The Dark Fields .
Compare and contrast —
Stephen King's IT was first published by Viking in 1986.
See as well the May 29th date mentioned by King.
Three reflections suggested by the previous post —
1. A Whit Stillman film mentions favorably Scrooge McDuck —
2. A "promoted tweet" at the Twitter of the previous post's author leads to …
3. The above phrase "New Base" suggests a related literary note —
A link to “Nine Tailors” in this journal may serve as
a memorial to the late David M. Abshire, who
reportedly died at 88 on Halloween.
See also tonight’s previous post and a remark by
Mira Sorvino in her version of The Great Gatsby .
“Oh, pretty baby…” — Frankie Valli at A Capitol Fourth last night.
Related material — Mira Sorvino in The Great Gatsby .
“Jersey girls are tough.” — Garfield.
The New Yorker of March 17 on
a New York literary family—
“First they were Communists, then liberals
(he was questioned by the House Committee
on Un-American Activities);
always they were avid party-givers.”
“Gatsby believed in the green light… ”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Why did the Pole spend all night outside the whorehouse?
He was waiting for the red light to turn green.”
— Blanche Knott, Truly Tasteless Jokes
Mira Sorvino in a TV version of The Great Gatsby —
“Are you my one o’clock?” — Adapted from Mighty Aphrodite
See as well Green Hunt.
"The festival opened with The Great Gatsby ,
directed by Baz Luhrmann."
Midrash on an earlier film version (Mira Sorvino's, 2000):
"Daisy, when she comes to tea at Nick's house,
refers to the flowers brought by Gatsby as being
appropriate for a funeral and asks 'Where's the corpse?'
Gatsby enters immediately thereafter. This foreshadows
what will happen to Gatsby. The dialogue is not in the novel…."
— Learning Guide to The Great Gatsby
Correction to the midrash:
Sorvino actually says, when there is a knock at the door,
"That must be the corpse."
Update of Candlemas, 2014, in memory of Philip Seymour Hoffman—
From The New York Times Sunday Book Review of Sept. 1, 2013—
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THE GAMAL Reviewed by Katharine Weber Ten years ago, when Mark Haddon’s “Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” turned up on the best-seller list and won a number of literary awards, the novel’s autistic narrator beguiled readers with his unconventional point of view. Today, even as controversy surrounds the revised classification of autism in the latest version of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the quirky yet remarkably perceptive points of view of autistic narrators have become increasingly familiar in every category of fiction, from young adult to science fiction to popular and literary fiction. Like Haddon’s Christopher Boone, the narrator of Ciaran Collins’s remarkable first novel, “The Gamal,” has been encouraged by a mental health professional to write his story for therapeutic purposes. Charlie McCarthy, 25, is known in the West Cork village of Ballyronan as “the gamal,” short for “gamalog,” a term for a fool or simpleton rarely heard beyond the Gaeltacht regions of Ireland. He is in fact a savant, a sensitive oddball whose cheeky, strange, defiant and witty monologue is as disturbing as it is dazzling. … |
The Gamal features a considerable variety of music. See details at a music weblog.
This, together with the narrator's encouragement "by a mental health professional
to write his story for therapeutic purposes" might interest Baz Luhrmann.
See Luhrmann's recent film "The Great Gatsby," with its portrait of
F. Scott Fitzgerald's narrator, and thus Fitzgerald himself, as a sensitive looney.
The Carraway-Daisy-Gatsby trio has a parallel in The Gamal . (Again, see
the music weblog's description.)
The Times reviewer's concluding remarks on truth, lies, and unreliable autistic
narrators may interest some mathematicians. From an Aug. 29 post—
A different gamalog , a website in Mexico, is not entirely unrelated to
issues of lies and truth—
For a modeling visionary— "All the Time."
Related material: Coco Rocha and Gatsby .
Update of 12:31 AM July 21— See also "For Doin' Evil."
For little Colva … The Mother Ship :
. . . .
For more light, see "Merton College" + Cameron
in this journal, as well as …
An Education
Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan in Baz Luhrmann's
new version of The Great Gatsby :
We're going to Disney World! —
(For a more up-to-date version of little Colva,
see Primitive Groups and Maximal Subgroups.)
This morning's New York Times gives a folklorist's
view of The Great Gatsby—
"Daisy Buchanan, he argued in a 1960 article,
is a Jazz Age incarnation of the beautiful,
seductive Fairy Queen of Celtic lore."
— Margalit Fox, obituary of Tristram P. Coffin,
who died at 89 on January 31st, 2012
See also…
Two screenshots in memory of fashion and fine-art photographer
Lillian Bassman, who died yesterday at 94—
Update of 10:10 AM EST Wed., Feb. 15, 2012…
In memory of Dory Previn, a song for "Hanna" and "Lord of the Rings" star Cate Blanchett.
Previn died yesterday, on Valentine's Day. Perhaps an inspiration for a lyric by Leonard Cohen?
"He had come a long way to this blue lawn,
and his dream must have seemed so close
that he could hardly fail to grasp it.
He did not know that it was already behind him,
somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city,
where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night."
— The Great Gatsby
See also St. Andrew's Day, 2011, in this journal.
"If you can bounce high, bounce for her too."
Happy birthday, George.
Today's New York Times on a current theatrical presentation of The Great Gatsby—
"Throughout the show, the relationship between what is read and its context keeps shifting, with the real world finally giving way entirely to the fictive one."
"This fella's a regular Belasco."
David Brown, producer. Brown died on Monday.
From The Diamond as Big as the Monster in this journal on Dec. 21, 2005–
"At the still point, there the dance is.” –T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
Eliot was quoted in the epigraph to the chapter on automorphism groups in Parallelisms of Complete Designs, by Peter J. Cameron, published when Cameron was at Merton College, Oxford.
“As Gatsby closed the door of ‘the Merton College Library’ I could have sworn I heard the owl-eyed man break into ghostly laughter.” –F. Scott Fitzgerald
Related material: Yesterday's posts and the jewel in Venn's lotus.
St. Olaf College,
Northfield, Minnesota —
From The MSCS Mess
(Dept. of Mathematics, Statistics,
and Computer Science)
November 14, 2008
Volume 37, Number 9—
Math Film Festival 2008
The MSCS Department is sponsoring the second of two film-discussion evenings this Wednesday, November 19. Come to RNS 390 at 7:00 PM to see watch [sic] two short [sic]— Whatchu Know 'bout Math and Just a Finite Simple Group of Order Two— and our feature film, Good Will Hunting. Will Hunting is a mathematical genius who's living a rough life in South Boston, while being employed at a prestigious college in Boston, he's [sic] discovered by a Fields Medal winning mathematics Professor [sic] who eventually tries to get Will to turn his life around but becomes haunted by his own professional inadequacies when compared with Will. Professor Garrett will explain the “impossible problem” and its solution after the film.
Background:
Log24 entries of Wednesday, November 19, the day "Good Will Hunting" was shown:
Damnation Morning revisited and
Mathematics and Narrative continued
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"Of man's first disobedience,
and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and all our woe…. A red apple made the rounds, |
"Do you like apples?"
— Good Will Hunting
"Through the unknown,
remembered gate…."
(Epigraph to the introduction,
Parallelisms of Complete Designs
by Peter J. Cameron,
Merton College, Oxford)
"It's still the same old story…."
— Song lyric
The Great Gatsby, Chapter 6:
"An instinct toward his future glory had led him, some months before, to the small Lutheran college of St. Olaf in southern Minnesota. He stayed there two weeks, dismayed at its ferocious indifference to the drums of his destiny, to destiny itself, and despising the janitor’s work with which he was to pay his way through."
There is a link to an article on St. Olaf College in Arts & Letters Daily today:
"John Milton, boring? Paradise Lost has a little bit of something for everybody. Hot sex! Hellfire! Some damned good poetry, too…" more»
The "more" link is to The Chronicle of Higher Education.
For related material on Paradise Lost and higher education, see Mathematics and Narrative.
Front page of The New York Times Book Review, issue dated January 7, 2007:
“Time passes, and what it passes through is people– though people believe that they are passing through time, and even, at certain euphoric moments, directing time. It’s a delusion, but it’s where memoirs come from, or at least the very best ones. They tell how destiny presses on desire and how desire pushes back, sometimes heroically, always poignantly, but never quite victoriously. Life is an upstream, not an uphill, battle, and it results in just one story: how, and alongside whom, one used his paddle.”
— Walter Kirn, “Stone’s Diaries”
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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