Out for Blood____________________
Dedication added onOct. 4, 2004, 2:10 PM:To Jacques Levy,who died on
Sept. 30, 2004.Levy directed "Red Cross,"a Sam Shepard play that issaid
to be about"the vampire qualityof language."…
Zeros Related reading:
"Love is strong as death."
Related viewing:
Today is the birthday ofDeborah Kerr and alsoTranslators' Day.
Midnight in the Garden "With a little
effort,anything can be shownto connect with anything else:existence is
infinitely
cross-referenced."
-- Opening sentenceof Martha Cooley'sThe Archivist
Woe unto them t…
Hounded7:11:08 PM
"Scalia said he made the decision to stay on the case based on past
practice. 'Not a single case was brought up in the motion to recuse, it
was based on nothing other than newspaper editorials, and I'l…
A Tune for Michaelmas Mozart, K 265, midi
Romantic Interaction,continued (See parts 1,
2, 3, 4)
From Karl Iagnemma:
From Log24.net, March 3, 2004: "No se puede vivir sin amar."
-- Malcolm Lowry,Under the Volcano
From Four Quartets: And the pool was…
3:33:33 PM
Romantic Interaction, continued...
The Rhyme of Time
From American Dante Bibliography for 1983:
Freccero, John. "Paradiso X: The Dance of the Stars" (1968). Reprinted
in Dante in America ... (q.v.)…
Romantic Interactioncontinued...
(See previous entry.)
From today's Harvard Crimson:
"Pudding Show FeaturesWild West Theme"
From yesterday's entry,a tribute to Olivia Newton-John:
"At the still point,there the dance…
Romantic Interaction
(See previous entry.)
"At the still point, there the dance is."-- T. S. Eliot For Olivia
Newton-Johnon her birthday,at 1:11:11 pm EDT
"Keep me suspended in time with you;Don't let this moment di…
Writings forYom Kippur
by Borges and God:
Thirsty for knowing what God knows, Juda Loew devoted himself to
permutations of letters and complex variations
New York State Lottery,evening, Sept. 24, 2004: 185
and fin…
Readings forYom Kippur
The film Pi is, in part, about an alleged secret name of God that can
be uttered only on Yom Kippur. This is my personal version of such a
name-- not an utterance, but instead a picture:
6:49:32…
Time and Chance
"Time and chance happeneth to them all."
-- Ecclesiastes 9-11
"With the passage of time, everyone participated in the
ever-increasingly secret lottery."
-- Summary of Borges's Lottery
The winning eve…
Aluminum, Your Shiny Friend(Continued)
Citicorp CenterVital Statistics:
Location: New York, NY Completion Date: 1977 Cost: $175 million Height:
915 feet Stories: 59 Materials: Steel Facing Materials:
Aluminum,reflec…
Church ArchitectureIn memory of
Harvard-trainedarchitect Edward Larrabee Barnes
From Martha Cooley's The Archivist,April 1999 paperback, page 301:
For related design issuesat Harvard, click here.
Tribute
In memory of Russ Meyer, who "made industrial films for Standard Oil
and lumber companies before making his own films," a picture that might
aptly (see Pi continued) be titled
The Magic Schmuck:
.
By the same…
Semitism
Norman F. Cantor on Christianity:
"Christianity itself
was a Jewish enterprise, and not simply because Jesus was a Jew; Cantor
points out, in his characteristically flippant way, that 'the Church
of…
First Idea and Last Night
In memory of Saint Norman Cantor, an author of "stunning heartlessness"
-- my kind of historian -- who died on Saturday, September 18, 2004...
a link to Log24.net entries of that date.
Give '…
Pi continued:
(see 9/15/04)
Above:
Renegade mathematician Max Cohen (Sean Gullette, left) and the leader
of the Kabbalah sect, Lenny Meyer (Ben Shenkman) have a chance
encounter on a Chinatown street corner.
The Ma…
Man and His Symbols
5:01:22
Sunday ShulFrom this date last year:"Time's a
round."Today's Hebrew
lesson:From Wikipedia-- "In the Bible, Gershom (גרשם "Expulsion"...)
was the firstborn son of Moses and Zipporah."He was circumcised by …
The First Idea
From aldaily.com,a service ofThe Chronicle ofHigher Education:
New Books
"Mr. Oppenheimer, given what has happened since, would you again accept
to develop the bomb? Even after Hiroshima?” “…
Soul at Harvard
Exhibit A:
Exhibit B:
Exhibit C:
Log24.net, Thursday,September 16, 2004,3:57 PM--
Soul andThe Fullness of Time
"In the fullness of time,educated people will believethere is n…
Playing God
Interview in TIME Magazine, issue dated Sept. 6, 2004:
"Ellen DeGeneres has been cast as God in a remake of the 1977 George
Burns film Oh, God!...
TIME: What do you think God's house is like?DeGeneres: The…
3:57:09...Time is a Weapon
In memory of rock star and NRA member Johnny Ramone, who died on
Wednesday, Sept. 15:
"You've got to ask yourself a question."-- Clint Eastwood as Dirty
Harry
"At the end, when the agent pum…
God is in...The Details
From an entry for Aug. 19, 2003 onconciseness, simplicity, and
objectivity: Above: Dr. Harrison Pope, Harvard professor of psychiatry,
demonstrates the use of the Wechsler …
The Fullness of Time
"In the fullness of time,educated people will believethere is no
soulindependent of the body,and hence no life after death.'' -- Francis
Crick
PARAPHRASE OF THE PROSEOF "THE DIARY"
after…
11:59 PM: The Last Minute
For the benefit of Grace (Paley, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute),
here are the September 15 lottery numbers for Pennsylvania, the State
of Grace (Kelly):
Midday: 053 Evening: 373.
For …
High HolyHexagram
7:11:20 PM For a poetic interpretationof this symbol, seeHexagram
20,Contemplation (View).
For a religious interpretationsuited to the High Holy Days,see the film
. "The truth is that m…
Shakespearefor Rosh Hashanah
From "Walter Benjamin,1892-1940,"by Hannah Arendt(Introduction
toBenjamin's Illuminations.):
THE PEARL DIVER
Full fathom five thy father lies,Of his bones are coral made,Those are
pearls t…
On Translation
From Illuminations, by Walter Benjamin, translated by Harry Zohn:
"If there is such a thing as a language of truth, the tensionless and
even silent depository of the ultimate truth which all thought stri…
Translation Planefor Rosh Hashanah
Figure A
From the website of
Priv.-Doz. Dr. H. Klein,Arbeitsgruppe Geometrie,Mathematisches Seminar
derChristian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel --
The Translation Plane o…
The Square Wheel
Harmonic analysis may be based either on the circular (i.e.,
trigonometric) functions or on the square (i. e., Walsh) functions.
George Mackey's masterly historical survey showed that the discovery of
…
The Turning
A way a lonea last a loveda long the PARIS,1922-1939
Click on picturesfor further details.
"For the essence and the end Of his labor is beauty... one beauty, the
rhythm of that Wheel"
Robinson Jeffe…
Dark Lady
"Each time we come closer to Shakespeare's life, we escape from the
aridity of formal criticism or the cheap generalities of social history
into a recognizable world of real experience. When A. L. Rowse insis…
September Morn
"Now is the time for turning. The leaves are beginning to turn from
green to red to orange. The birds are beginning to turn and are heading
once more toward the south. The animals are beginning to turn …
Philosophy
For Samira Bellil, who died in Paris onFriday, Sept. 3, 2004... From
the link atSymmetry and Changein the Dreamtime,Part 8, Friday,Sept. 3,
2004,Noon...
Under heaven thunder rolls...
Log24 on Sept. 1…
An Invariant Feast
In memory of philosopher Robert D. Cumming, who took part in the
liberation of Paris on the Feast of St. Louis, 1944, and who died on
that same feast day, August 25, in 2004:
"We'll always have Paris…
A Story of Sorts
Sometimes one's journal entries seem to be telling a story...
This was the case for Log24 entries of Tuesday through Friday last
week. Unfortunately, the story they told is about as coherent as
Finneg…
Symmetry and Change, conclusion...
Ite, Missa Est
3:17:13 PM ET
Hexagram 13Fellowship With Men:
The Image
Heaven
Fire
Heaven together with fire.
"A pretty girl --is like a melody ---- !" For details, seeA…
Symmetry and Change, Part 9...
De Nada
Helen Lane
1:13:49 PM ET
Hexagram 49Revolution:
The Image
Lake Fire Fire in the lake:the image of Revolution. "I sit now in a
little room off the bar at four-…
Symmetry and Change, Part 8...
Noon
12:00:25 PM ET
Hexagram 25Innocence:
The Image
Heaven
Thunder
Under heaventhunder rolls.
Symmetry and Change, Part 7...
Another September Morn
10:01:56 AM ET
Hexagram 56:The Wanderer The Image
Fire Mountain
Fire on the mountain,Run boys run...Devil's in the House ofThe Rising
Sun!
Symmetry and Change, Part 6...
Cinderella's Slipper
12:00:54 AM ET
Hexagram 54The Marrying Maiden: The Image
Thunder Lake See The hundredletterthunderwords ofFinnegans Wake "... a
Thoreau-like…
Symmetry and Change, Part 5...
Whale Road
7:00:23 PM
Hexagram 23Splitting Apart:
The Image
Mountain
Earth
The mountain restson the earth.
"... the plot is different but the monsters, names, and manner of sp…
Symmetry and Change, Part 4...
Heaven and Earth
11:11:42 AM ET
Hexagram 42Increase:
The Image
Wind
Thunder
Wind and thunder:the image of Increase. "This time resembles that ofthe
marriage of heaven and ear…
Symmetry and Change, Part 3...
Whale Rider
12:07:28 PM
Hexagram 28Preponderance ofthe Great:
The Image
Lake
Wind
The lake risesabove the trees. Cullinane College News:
"Congratulations to Clare Lawler, …
Symmetry and Change, Part 2...
Words and Images
9:00:35 AM ET
Hexagram 35Progress:
The Image
Fire
Earth
The sun rises over the earth.
From Aug. 18, 2004: "Oh, my Lolita. I have only wordsto play…