On This Date:
In 1936, Gone with the Wind
was published. In 1971, Monica Potter
was born.
Sources:
Amazon.com and
Tall Tall Trees
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Meditation for St. Peter's Day
"Religious
activists fool themselves if they believe public displays of the Ten
Commandments reflect a more moral and less corrupt nation. One needs
only to watch television to discern …
Reading for St. Peter's Day:
Click on picture for details.
A Link for St. Peter's Day:
http://www.regainnetwork.org/
Summation "Res ipsa loquitur, baby."
-- Maureen Dowd in "Quid Pro Quack"
Cross Window
Royal Palm Student Dream of Heaven March 21, 2004
Thanks for the Memory
As I write, Susannah McCorkle is singing "Thanks for the Memory."
Below are some photos from the website of Paul Winchell, ventriloquist,
inventor, theologian. Winchell died in his sleep at 8…
Merry Anti-Christmas!
Religious Symbolism
at Midnight:
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as the following from
July 26, 2003:
Bright Sta…
Geometry for Jews
continued:
People have tried in many ways
to bridge the gap
between themselves and God....
No bridge reaches God, except one...
God's Bridge: The Cross
-- Billy …
Mathematics and Metaphor The current
(June/July) issue of the Notices
of the American Mathematical Society has two feature articles. The
first, on the vulgarizer Martin Gardner, was dealt with here in a June
19 entry, …
Art History
"I studied with Reinhardt and I found that a fantastic course. I think
he was really very stimulating....
Art history was very personal through the eyes of Ad Reinhardt."
-- Robert Morris, S…
ART WARS:
Darkness Visible
"No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights
of woe"
-- John Milton, Paradise Lost,
Book I, lines 63-64
From the cover article (pdf) in the
Jun…
The Quality of Diamond,
continued
From Log 24.net on
Thursday, February 19, 2004:
Five Easy
Piecesfor Lee Marvin's
Birthday
1.
"EVERYTHING'S a story.
You are a story-- I am a story."
-- Frances Ho…
Final Arrangements, continued:
"Joe Strauss to
Joe Six-Pack"(Editor's sneering headlinefor a David Brooks essay
in today's New York Times)
and Back Again
"I was emptying some boxes in my basement the other…
Cross-Referenced
From today's New York Times,
a review of a Werner Herzog film,
"Wheel of Time," that opens
today in Manhattan:
From the June 13-14
midnight Log24 entry:
"With a little effort, anything…
Darkness at Noon
I stood out in the open cold To see the essence of the eclipse Which
was its perfect darkness. I stood in the cold on the porch And could
not think of anything so perfe…
ART WARS:
Dark City
Jennifer Connelly at
premiere of "Cinderella Man" --
In memory of Martin Buber,
author of Good and Evil,
who died on June 13, 1965:
"With a little effort, anything can be
shown to co…
STAR WARS
continued Picture from Feb. 8
(Martin Buber's birthday)
For John Nash on his birthday:
I know more than Apollo,For oft when he lies sleepingI see the stars at
mortal warsIn the wounded welkin weepi…
Cliffs of Moher
My father's father, his father's father, his --Shadows like winds
Go back to a parent before thought, before speech,At the head of the
past.
They go to the cliffs of Moher rising out of…
Fathers' Day Meditation
Who is my father in this world, in this house,
At the spirit's base?
-- Wallace Stevens,
"The Irish Cliffs of Moher"
Il Miglior Fabbro:
Bedlam Songs
By a knight of ghosts and shadows
I summoned am to tourney... In the desert you can
remember your name
'Cause there ain't no one
for to give you no pain.
ART WARS
continued
From The New Yorker of June 6, 2005: Recommended geometry:
Click on picture to enlarge.
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In memory of film producer Fernando Ghia:
"Among Ghia's solo credits as a producer is
'Lady Caroline Lamb,' a 1972 period drama
written and directed by Robert Bolt."
-- T…
Evil
Some academics may feel that a denunciation of an essay by one of their
fellow academics as "evil" (see this morning's entry The Last Word)
goes too far.
Here is a followup to that entry.
From the Riviera P…
Birthday Links
Today's birthdays:
Gene Wilder and Adrienne Barbeau.
For Gene:
A discussion of Frankenstein as
The Modern Prometheus at
Mathematics and Narrative.
For Adrienne:
Chinese Arithmetic.
The Last Word
Beethoven Week on the BBC ended at midnight June 10.
"With Beethoven, music did not grow up, it regressed to adolescence. He
was a hooligan who could reduce Schiller’s Ode to Joy to madness,
bloodlust, …
All in the Timing Posted in USA TODAY
6/9/2005 11:40 PM:
Schwarzenegger Timeline
A look at the job approval rating
of California Governor
Arnold Schwarzenegger
since his election in Oc…
Test
This entry is in memory of Howard Eavenson Boyer, Jr., who, today's New
York Times informs us, was born in Philadelphia on Oct. 26, 1943, and
in his youth studied the 17th-century
metaphysical poets.
Later in…
From Andrew Cusack's weblog:
April 21, 2005
'For Christ and Liberty'
Though
[it is] a purely Protestant institution (literally), I am rather fond
of
Patrick Henry College. Indeed, it takes some courage i…
Kernel of Eternity
continued
"At that instant he saw,
in one blaze of light,
an image of
unutterable conviction....
the core of life, the essential
pattern
whence all other things proceed,
the kernel of eter…
The Power of Myth
"Myths have no life of their own. They wait for us to give them flesh."
-- Albert Camus, Prometheus in the Underworld
"Prometheus -- One of the Titans of Greek myth, famous as a benefactor…
Kernel of EternityToday is the feast day of
Saint Gerard Manley
Hopkins, "immortal diamond.""At that instant he saw, in one blaze of
light, an image of
unutterable conviction, the reason why the artist works and lives a…
Quest
"Mike Nichols, who oversaw Monty Python's Spamalot, picked
up the prize for directing a musical.
A somewhat flustered Nichols told the audience he had forgotten
what he intended to say, but then went on to th…
939, or
Too Clever by Half
On the new
Prime Minister of France:
"In Praise of Those Who Stole the Fire, M. de Villepin's grandest
literary effort to date.... will enhance his reputation within a small
Pari…
Blair Insists
EU Treaty Not Dead From BBC News: Is it me or have we all been locked
in a Monty Python sketch this week? ... Dutch Voter: Hello, I wish to
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The Sequel to Rhetoric 101:
101 101
"A SINGLE VERSE by Rimbaud,"
writes Dominique de
Villepin,
the new French Prime Minister,
"shines like a powder trail
on
a day’s horizon.
It sets it ablaze all at once,
…
Rhetoric 101:
Poetry and Reason
"La voix de la pensée
est-elle plus qu'un rêve?" "Is the langage of thought any more
than a dream?"
-- Rimbaud
Yes.
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It was the best of times,it was the worst of
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One Bound "With one bound,
the Prime Minister is free." -- Times of London, June 7, 2005 Inaugural
Order and Disorder
From "Connoisseur of Chaos,"
by Wallace Stevens, in
Parts of a World, 1942:
IA. A violent order is a disorder; and
B. A great disorder is an order. These
Two things are one. (Pages of i…
Mot Juste?
From today's New York Times, on the effort of Paris to be chosen as the
host of the 2012 Olympics:
"'To have the games would bring a little fun, as you say, a breath of
fresh air,' said Benoît Génuini, …
Drama of the Diagonal The 4x4 Square: French
Perspectives
Earendil_Silmarils: Les Anamorphoses: "Pour construire un dessin en
perspective, le peintre trace sur sa toile des repères: la lign…
Drama of the Diagonal,
continued
"I could name other writers
who share this sense of a world
larger than ourselves; their writing provides
a field in which something like
a sacramental imagination is clearly at p…
The Barest Vocabulary
at the Altar of Facts
From Log24, April 28, 2005: (See also Log24,
April 5, 2005.) Compare this diagram with that of
Samuel Beckett in Quad (1981):
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of actions in comparable situations, yet each gene…