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A Girl's Best Friend?*

Continued from September 3rd, 2013. On that date, there were two posts in this journal: "The Stone" today suggests…"* and "An End in Itself." The former dealt with…

Kakutani on Pynchon

"A version of this review appears in print on September 11, 2013, on page C1 of the New York edition…." — The New York Times  online this evening

Moss on the Wall

The following page from the Sept. 16, 2013, issue of The New Yorker deals with current trends in paranoid schizophrenia. It may interest fans of Philip K. Dick. (Click for a…

ART WARS Midrash

Poster shown here last night — Politics this afternoon —

Viking Book

For the late Billy Wilder, director of Ace in the Hole  (1951) Click image for a larger version. See, too, this morning's quarter-to-three post, and The Vikings  (1958)—…

Ace in the Hole

Some random thoughts suggested by the Norwegian ice hole in the opening scene of the 2012 film Kon-Tiki . From a Log24 post of August 2, 2013— See, too, the secret…

Winning*

For the star of Platoon — * Continued from July 28, 2011.

The Importance of Being Ernst

For John Cusack and Menno Meyjes — "I still haven't found what I'm looking for." — Bono "In fact Surrealism found what it had been looking for from the first…

It's 10 PM*

(Continued) * The title and displayed time of this post is a fudge.    The post was actually put online at about 10:02 PM.    A surreal interpretation of that  time as the date …

Crosses for Sherlock

"Take a cube, and write the numbers 1,…,6 on its faces. Now the pairs of numbers on opposite faces form a syntheme. (Standard dice, for example, represent the…