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Love's Labour's Lost - Futility Closet

Love's Labour's Lost - Futility Closet

Each year since 1993, the Literary Review has presented a Bad Sex in Fiction Award “to draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it.” Here’s 2013’s winner, Manil Suri, in his novel The City of Devi: Surely supernovas explode that instant, somewhere, in some galaxy. The hut vanishes, and with it the sea and the sands — only Karun’s body, locked…Read Article

Backward Baseball - Futility Closet

Backward Baseball - Futility Closet

In a retrograde analysis puzzle, one tries to deduce the history of a game from the current state of play. The most familiar examples concern chess, but Smith College mathematician Jim Henle worked out that it can also be done in baseball. This is the batting order of the Mudville Slugs: Flynn Blake Casey Hobbes Davis Shlabotnick Thayer Cooney Barrows We’re told also that in the ninth inning Casey came to bat for the fourth time, while the base…Read Article

Inventory - Futility Closet

Inventory - Futility Closet

Image: © Nevit Dilmen By Nevit Dilmen. How many sticks do you see?Read Article

Crime and Punishment - Futility Closet

Memorable excerpts from the detective fiction of Michael Avallone (1924-1999): “The next day dawned bright and clear on my empty stomach.” (Meanwhile Back at the Morgue) “My body felt as abnormal as a tuxedo in a hobo jungle.” (The Crazy Mixed-Up Corpse) “My stunned intellect, the one that found death in his own backyard with him standing only feet away, hard to swallow in a hurry, found the answer.” (The Horrible Man) “Her breasts were twin mo…Read Article

Eye to Eye - Futility Closet

By Robert William Petrick, a perfectly requited sentiment.Read Article

Persistence - Futility Closet

Each of the first 18 multiples of 526315789473684210 contains all 10 digits: 526315789473684210 x 1 = 526315789473684210 526315789473684210 x 2 = 1052631578947368420 526315789473684210 x 3 = 1578947368421052630 526315789473684210 x 4 = 2105263157894736840 526315789473684210 x 5 = 2631578947368421050 526315789473684210 x 6 = 3157894736842105260 526315789473684210 x 7 = 3684210526315789470 526315789473684210 x 8 = 4210526315789473680 526315789473…Read Article

A Book Toilet - Futility Closet

In 1772, wool merchant François Adrien Van den Bogaert commissioned a garden pavilion for Den Wolsack, his house in Antwerp. On the first floor is a bibliophile’s lavatory, in which the bowl is concealed in a fancifully rendered stack of books. The volumes on the surrounding shelves aren’t real; they’re made of wood covered with leather. (Thanks, Serge.)Antwerp · Antwerp Read Article

Mementos - Futility Closet

At midday each June 21, a shaft of light pierces the roof of a mausoleum in Brussels’ Laeken Cemetery and creates a heart of light. It’s not clear whether this was deliberate. The tomb’s occupants, Louise Flignot and Léonce Evrard, died in 1916 and 1919, and the mausoleum was not built until 1920. Its designer, one Georges deLarabrie, is not known to have produced any other work, and the planning documents don’t mention the heart. When Sir Lawre…Belgium · Belgium Read Article

Associate Degrees - Futility Closet

Double Duty - Futility Closet

From the Strand, December 1901, “one of Sir John Stainer’s musical jokes, two hymns in one — in B flat or G major, according to the manner in which it is read, upside up or upside down. It was written as an autograph for a friend of his son’s.”Read Article

Footwork - Futility Closet

Conclusion of a 2021 investigation by physicist Eve Armstrong of her cat’s reactions to a laser pointer: FTake, for example, the structure that emerges in the D1 D3-D4 slice of the four-dimensional phase space (Figure 5, middle left). Thisf particular viewing angfffle reveals the startfffffffffffling property offfffffffffffffffffffffffffffgrtoit y[jlu;mj9jgffggggggggffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff…Cats Read Article

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