Dead On:
A Triple Play From today's New York Times, in reverse order:
Vaughn Meader, Star as Kennedy Mimicker, Dies at 68
Vaughn
Meader was a comic who attained instant celebrity in 1962 with his
record "The …
Song"Each epoch has its singer."
-- Jack London, Oakland, California, 1901
"Anything
but the void. And so we keep hoping to luck into a winning combination,
to tap into a subtle harmony, trying like lock pickers to…
From the late
Bob Davidoffand Lester Lanin,
an arrangement of
the Red Sox anthem:
Hell Freezes Overdepartment:
In honor of this event, here is a recording of Sinatra singing "Sweet
Caroline" (RealAudio, 782K) on the Fourth of July, 1974, aboard the
U.S.S. Midway at the U.S. naval base in Yoko…
A Date Which WillLive in Infamy Log24.net
Sunday,December 7, 2003 Annals of Education:
Eyes on the PrizeDialogue from"Good Will Hunting" -- Will: He used to …
Wooing
"Cheering from Red Sox fans could be heard in the ninth, and when
pinch-hitter Ruben Sierra grounded to second baseman Pokey Reese for
the final out at 12:01 a.m., Boston players ran onto the field and
jumpe…
Today's birthdays:
See Oct. 21, 2002.
Counting Crowson the Feast of St. Luke
"In the fullness of time,educated people will believethere is no
soulindependent of the body,and hence no life after death."
-- Francis Crick, who was awardeda Nobel Prize on …
Last Bell
And there is always one last light to turn out and one last bell to
ringAnd the last one out of the circus has to lock up everything.
-- Mrs. Potter's Lullaby
No se puede vivir sin amar.
Up the River
The careful reader will note that the previous entry has two parts.Part
I, "Spain," links to the home page of a Spaniard named
Jesús.Part
II, "Take This Cup," links to a page about a poet nam…
Spain, Take This Cup
4:09 AM:
The natives are restless tonight.
Midnight in the Garden
continued
Umberto Eco,Foucault's Pendulum,page 176:
Here, too, you entered through a little garden...
Amparo drew me aside as we went in. "I've figured it out," she said.
"T…
The Eight and the Six
(See yesterday's entry)
Today's lottery numbers
in Pennsylvania(State of Grace):
Nite and Day....
with an apologyto St. Cole Porter,whose feast is today.
Snow Jobs
In memory of C. P. Snow,
whose birthday is today
"Without the narrative prop of
High Table dinner
conversation
at Cambridge, Snow would be lost."-- Roger Kimball*
"It was a perfectly ordina…
Star Wars,continuedThe Eight
Lest the reader of the previous entry mistakenly take Katherine
Neville's book The Eight
more seriously than Fritz Leiber's greatly superior writings on
eightness, here are two classic…
Show Businessaccording to Fritz Leiber
(Leiber's "Changewar" is myfavorite mythology.)
From the Changewar story"No Great Magic" (1960) Part V:
Even little things are
turning out to be great things
and becomi…
Naturalized Epistemology,continued...
They Smile
When They Are Low
From today's New York Times:
Narrative Theory
12:07:51 AM
An alternate version ofthe previous entry's illustration: Hexagram51:
Shock, Shock
Time and Chance
Today's winning lottery numbers
in Pennsylvania (State of Grace):
Midday: 373
Evening: 816.
Urn
"Almost every famous chess gameis a well-wrought urnin Cleanth Brooks’
sense."
-- John Holbo,Now We SeeWherein Lies the Pleasure,
July 12, 2004
"The well-wrought urncontained mortal ashes."
-- Geoffrey H…
The Last Enemy(See April 30) "I was also
impressed... by the intensity of Continental modes of literary-critical
thought....
On the Continent, studies of Hölderlin and Rousseau, of Poe,
Baudelaire, Mall…
Introduction to Aesthetics"Chess problems are
thehymn-tunes of
mathematics."-- G. H. Hardy,A Mathematician's Apology G. H. Hardy in
A Mathematician's Apology:
"We do not want many 'variations' …
Starflight
In memory ofJacques Derrida and James Chace,both of whom died in Paris
onFriday, Oct. 8, 2004, and ofOrson Welles, who diedon this date in
1985 Orson Welles
Mate in 2 V. Nabokov, 1919"…
Derrida Dead
"Jacques Derrida,
the Algerian-born, French intellectual who became one of the most
celebrated and unfathomable philosophers of the late 20th century, died
Friday at a Paris hospital, the French presid…
BeliefKERRY: "I'm going to be a president who
believes in
science."KERRY: "I'm a Catholic - raised a Catholic. I was an altar
boy. Religion has
been a huge part of my life, helped lead me through a war, leads me
today.…
Behush the Bush
James Joyce statue, Zurich
"There's where. First.We pass through grassbehush the bush to."
-- Final page ofFinnegans Wake"... we all gain an appreciation of how
each of us can
provide readings t…
Absolute Full Spin Mode
In today's news:
"Kerry... said Bush and Cheneywere in 'absolute full spin mode.'"
Today's middayCalifornia lottery number:
525.Related material--5/25, 2003:
Star Wars andMatrix of the Death …
Prize
This years's Nobel Prize for literature goes to Elfriede Jelinek.
Related material:
No Pain, No Gain --on the film of Jelinek's autobiographical novel
about a masochist, The Piano Teacher Charles Rosen --"Wh…
Metaphysics, cont.
"Logocentrism is... described by Derrida as a 'metaphysics of
presence.'"
1:00:00 AM:
Hickory dickory dock...
3:17:20 PM
Spin the Numbers
IN NOMINE PATRIS...
Today's middayOhio lottery number:224
ET FILII...
2/24 Log24.net entry:
The Crimson Passion
ET SPIRITUS SANCTI...
"Heraclitus.... says:'Th…
The Joyce Identity,or Treadstone vs.
Blarneystone
From The Bourne Identity:
ABBOTT: Can you really bring him in? CONKLIN: I think we're past that,
don't you? What, do you have a better idea? ABBOTT: Well, so far,
you'v…
Tea Privileges
On Janet Leigh, who died Sunday:
The Manchurian Candidate
MARCO -- What's your last name?ROSIE -- Chaney. I'm production
assistant for a man named Justin who had two hits last season. I live
o…
Today's birthday: Anne Rice.
Vampire Quality
To Jacques Levy, cont. and
to Richard Avedon, cont. Levy directed "Red Cross,"a Sam Shepard play
that issaid to be about"the vampire qualityof
language."_______________…
Dedication added onOct. 4, 2004, 2:25 PM:
To Richard Avedon, who diedon Oct. 1, 2004. He said that "All
photographs are accurate.None of them is the truth."
On originality-- Seethe comments._______________________
Or…