The title refers to a search (see below)
suggested by three things—
The search— Labyrinth 23.
(Within the search results, note particularly the post "The Infinity Point.")
"Having seen Labyrinth at St. Mark's-in-the-Valley Episcopal Church,
it's time to have a rest at this restaurant."
— https://restaurantguru.com/Bar-Le-Cote-Los-Olivos-California
"It's wine country , after all." — "All the Old Knives"
See as well Stein in posts tagged Narrative Labyrinth.
“Yo sé de un laberinto griego que es una línea única, recta.”
—Borges, “La Muerte y la Brújula”
“I know of one Greek labyrinth which is a single straight line.”
—Borges, “Death and the Compass”
Another single-line labyrinth—
Robert A. Wilson on the projective line with 24 points
and its image in the Miracle Octad Generator (MOG)—
Related material —
The remarks of Scott Carnahan at Math Overflow on October 25th, 2010
and the remarks at Log24 on that same date.
A search in the latter for miracle octad is updated below.
This search (here in a customized version) provides some context for the
Benedictine University discussion described here on February 25th and for
the number 759 mentioned rather cryptically in last night’s “Ariadne’s Clue.”
Update of March 3— For some historical background from 1931, see The Mathieu Relativity Problem.
"We keep coming back to the real . . . ." — Wallace Stevens
"Facets and labyrinths . . . ." — Nicole Kidman
Illustration — Biarritz Balcony Scene.
Simon Mann, Mercenary Who Sought to
Overthrow African Leader, Dies at 72
— New York Times headline, Thursday, May 22, 2024
" Simon Mann died on May 8 at his home in London. He was 72."
In Memoriam . . .
"… adventures within vast environments and dungeons…."
"Been there, done that." — The late Simon Mann
"… confusion and marvel are properly operations
of God and not of man." — Borges, 1962, in
"The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths."
James Hillman
EGALITARIAN TYPOLOGIES
VERSUS THE PERCEPTION OF THE UNIQUE
“The kind of movement Olson urges is an inward deepening of the image,
an in-sighting of the superimposed levels of significance within it.
This is the very mode that Jung suggested for grasping dreams —
not as a sequence in time, but as revolving around a nodal complex.”
See as well "True Grids" (Log24, August 9, 2018).
The Wikipedia "Truchet tiles" article shown above illustrates Hillman's
"superimposed levels of significance."
For more levels, see Wang on Gõdel and other posts tagged For Stella Maris.
(Continued from May 2, 2023 and December 18, 2022)
Harmonic analysis based on the circle involves the
circular functions. Dyadic harmonic analysis involves …
Summary, as an illustration of a title by George Mackey —
New teaser trailer . . .
Earlier teaser trailer . . . October 7, 2023 . . .
This journal on the above 2023 trailer date . . .
"The novelist Cormac McCarthy has been a fixture around
the Santa Fe Institute since its embryonic stages in the
early 1980s. Cormac received a MacArthur Award in 1981
and met one of the members of the board of the MacArthur
Foundation, Murray Gell-Mann, who had won the Nobel Prize
in physics in 1969. Cormac and Murray discovered that they
shared a keen interest in just about everything under the sun
and became fast friends. When Murray helped to found the
Santa Fe Institute in 1984, he brought Cormac along, knowing
that everyone would benefit from this cross-disciplinary
collaboration." — https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/
cormac-and-sfi-abiding-friendship
Joy Williams, review of two recent Cormac McCarthy novels —
"McCarthy has pocketed his own liturgical, ecstatic style
as one would a coin, a ring, a key, in the service of a more
demanding and heartless inquiry through mathematics and
physics into the immateriality, the indeterminacy, of reality."
A Demanding and Heartless Coin, Ring, and Key:
COIN
RING
"We can define sums and products so that the G-images of D generate
an ideal (1024 patterns characterized by all horizontal or vertical "cuts"
being uninterrupted) of a ring of 4096 symmetric patterns. There is an
infinite family of such 'diamond' rings, isomorphic to rings of matrices
over GF(4)."
KEY
"It must be remarked that these 8 heptads are the key to an elegant proof…."
— Philippe Cara, "RWPRI Geometries for the Alternating Group A8," in
Finite Geometries: Proceedings of the Fourth Isle of Thorns Conference
(July 16-21, 2000), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001, ed. Aart Blokhuis,
James W. P. Hirschfeld, Dieter Jungnickel, and Joseph A. Thas, pp. 61-97.
For those who prefer a "liturgical, ecstatic style" —
“The book by Hesse has many facets ….” (Link added.)
— V. V. Nalimov, In the Labyrinths of Language ,
Ch. 1, “What Language Is,” p. 22.
Related philosophical speculation —
(A sequel to the previous post, Narrative for Westworld)
"That corpse you planted last year . . . ." — T. S. Eliot
Circle and Square at the Court of King Minos —
Harmonic analysis based on the circle involves the
circular functions. Dyadic harmonic analysis involves …
For some related history, see (for instance) E. M. Stein
on square functions in a 1982 AMS Bulletin article.
A version of the I Ching’s Hexagram 19:
From Katherine Neville's The Eight , a book on the significance
of the date April 4 — the author's birthday —
|
The Eight by Katherine Neville —
“What does this have to do with why we’re here?” |
Related material: Posts now tagged Hourglass Code.
See also the hourglass in a search for Pilgrim's Progress Illustration.
For the title, see the phrase "reappearing number" in this journal.
Some related mathematics—
the Greek labyrinth of Borges, as well as…
.
Note that "0" here stands for "23," while ∞ corresponds to today's date.
"And she provided him besides with a ball of thread,
bidding him to fasten the end of it to the entrance
of the Labyrinth, and unwind it as he went in, that
it might serve him as a clue to find his way out again."
— "Theseus and Ariadne," by Charles Morris
From "Ariadne's Clue," a post of March 1 last year—
The Watson here is not Emma, but Victor—
From Labyrinth of the Line (March 2, 2011)—
"… construct the Golay code by taking the 24 points
to be the points of the projective line F23 ∪ {∞}…."
— Robert A. Wilson
A simpler projective line— a Galois geometry
model of the line F2 ∪ {∞}—
Here we may consider ∞ to be modeled*
by the third square above— the Galois window .
* Update of about 1 AM Jan. 25, 2012—
This infinity-modeling is of course a poetic conceit,
not to be taken too seriously. For a serious
discussion of points at infinity and finite fields,
see (for instance) Daniel Bump's "The Group GL(2)."
(Continued from November 12, 2005 and June 7, 2011)
Related material— "Labyrinth," a fiction
by the late Roberto Bolaño
in the current New Yorker —
"There's no photo credit."
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]"
Glory Road postgraduate curriculum–
"Learning has always been a major part of Catholic tradition."
Related material:
The Labyrinth of Solitude
entry in this journal,
The Harvard Crimson on the
Harvard FML Video Contest,
and the winning video—
Another view of Harvard–
"Let Noon Be Fair."
— Novel title, Willard Motley.
See also Soul at Harvard.
Note the number, 701,
on the colonel’s collar.
Adapted from Log24,
February 19-22, 2008:
See 2/22/08,
4/19/08,
and 5/22/08.
Die Liebe nahm kein Ende mehr.
Undertakings bring misfortune.
Nothing that would further.
“Brian O’Doherty, an Irish-born artist,
before the [Tuesday, May 20] wake
of his alter ego* ‘Patrick Ireland’
on the grounds of the
Irish Museum of Modern Art.”
— New York Times, May 22, 2008
THE IMAGE
Thus the superior man
understands the transitory
in the light of
the eternity of the end.
Another version of
the image:
See 2/22/08
and 4/19/08.
Michael Kimmelman in today’s New York Times—
“An essay from the ’70s by Mr. O’Doherty, ‘Inside the White Cube,’ became famous in art circles for describing how modern art interacted with the gallery spaces in which it was shown.”
Brian O’Doherty, “Inside the White Cube,” 1976 Artforum essays on the gallery space and 20th-century art:
“The history of modernism is intimately framed by that space. Or rather the history of modern art can be correlated with changes in that space and in the way we see it. We have now reached a point where we see not the art but the space first…. An image comes to mind of a white, ideal space that, more than any single picture, may be the archetypal image of 20th-century art.”
“Nothing that would further.”
— Hexagram 54
|
…. Now thou art an 0 |
“…. in the last mystery of all the single figure of what is called the World goes joyously dancing in a state beyond moon and sun, and the number of the Trumps is done. Save only for that which has no number and is called the Fool, because mankind finds it folly till it is known. It is sovereign or it is nothing, and if it is nothing then man was born dead.”
— The Greater Trumps,
by Charles Williams, Ch. 14
“A labyrinthine man never seeks
the truth, but always, only, his Ariadne….
Who besides myself knows what Ariadne is?”
— Nietzsche,
epigraph to Ariadne’s Lives,
by Nina daVinci Nichols
(See yesterday’s entry.)
Related material:
Entries of Feb. 13
and Feb. 19 at Log24
and the entry of Feb. 13 at
Ariachne’s Broken Woof 
Troilus and Cressida in Act 5, Scene 2:
“And yet the spacious breadth of this division
Admits no orifex for a point as subtle
As Ariachne’s broken woof to enter.
Instance, O instance! strong as Pluto’s gates;
Cressid is mine, tied with the bonds of heaven:
Instance, O instance! strong as heaven itself;
The bonds of heaven are slipp’d, dissolved, and loosed….”
Prizes and Rewards
"… like the victors in the games
collecting their prizes,
we receive our reward…."
— Conclusion of
Plato's Republic
From The Harvard Crimson
front page on
Mardi Gras, 2008:
Harvard senior Matthew Di Pasquale
plans a new campus magazine called
"Diamond"–
Related material:
"… Bush spoke and answered audience questions for nearly 90 minutes inside East Grand Rapids High School in suburban Grand Rapids….
After leaving the school, Bush's motorcade stopped at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in downtown Grand Rapids, where he stood silently for a few moments after placing a bouquet of white roses at Ford's burial site on the museum grounds. The 38th president, who grew up in Grand Rapids, died Dec. 26 at age 93."
For the meaning of multispeech,
see the entries of
All Hallows' Eve, 2005:
"There is such a thing
as a tesseract."
— A Wrinkle in Time
|
The Library of Congress “American sculptor Daniel Chester French was born in Exeter, New Hampshire on April 20, 1850. His colossal seated figure of Abraham Lincoln presides over the Lincoln Memorial. Reared in Cambridge and Concord, Massachusetts, he was embraced by members of the Transcendentalist community including Ralph Waldo Emerson. Author and fellow Concord resident Louisa May Alcott encouraged young French to pursue a career as an artist. Louisa’s sister, artist May Alcott, was his early teacher. French studied in Boston and New York prior to receiving his first commission for the 1875 statue The Minute Man. Standing near the North Bridge in Concord, in the Minute Man National Historical Park, this work commemorates events at the North Bridge, the site of ‘the shot heard ’round the world.’ An American icon, images derivative of The Minute Man statue appeared on defense bonds, stamps, and posters during World War II.” |
 |
Log24 on the anniversary of
Lincoln’s assassination —
|
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:30 AM The Sun Also Sets, or… This Way to
the Egress Continued from April 12: “I have only come here
— Robert Stone, |
Log24 entry of
November 7, 2003 —
 |
— and a
student play from
Virginia Tech:
Part V:
Symmetry
for Beavis and Butt-Head
and
The Rhetoric of Scientism:
It’s a very ancient saying,
But a true and honest thought,
That if you become a teacher,
By your pupils you’ll be taught.
— Oscar Hammerstein,
“Getting to Know You”
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