The Last Word From an album cover:
From Feb. 20:
Relativity Blues
and
Hunter Thompson
Commits Suicide
-- Stephen King
-- Hunter S. Thompson
Rhapsody in Indigo
or:
We are stardust,
We are golden,
continued
1971:
Joni Mitchell, Blue 1994:
Joni Mitchell, Turbulent Indigo "Some call them
'Emissaries from Heaven,'
others say the 'Ne…
Expression Expression is
an impossible word.
If you want to use it
I think you have to explain it further...
-- Ad Reinhardt, Art as Art
"... an equation is a very abstract expression
of knowledge
abo…
ExpressYou've got to make him
Express himself
Hey, hey, hey, hey-- Madonna Humboldt's Gift:
Related material on trains:
Davenport's Express
and End of Days.
Related material on 162:
Dogma Part II…
Parallel Lines
Meet at InfinityFrom Log24,
Dec. 16, 2005: From today's New York Times,
a man who died
(like Charlie Chaplin
and W. C. Fields)
on Christmas Day: …
Dance of the Numbers
(continued)
The Pennsylvania lottery on St. Stephen's Day--
Midday: 105
Evening: 064
From a new
branch of theology, lottery hermeneutics:
See Log24, 1/05,
Death and the Spirit,
…
Language Game on
Boxing Day
In the box-style I Ching Hexagram 34,
The Power of the Great,
is represented by . Art is represented by a box
(Hexagram 20,
Contemplation, View) . And of…
Wren Day"St. Stephen's Day [Dec. 26] is a
national holiday in Ireland,
but the celebrations have little connection to the Saint."
This day in Ireland is instead devoted to a barbaric ritual, "the
hunting of the wren."…
Eight is a Gate
(continued)
Compare and contrast:
Click on pictures for details.
"... die Schönheit... [ist] die
richtige Übereinstimmung
der
Teile miteinander und mit dem Ganzen." "Be…
Nine is a Vine
(continued)
The figures are: A symbol of Apollo from
Balanchine's Birthday and
A Minature Rosetta Stone,
a symbol of pure reason from
Visible Mathematics and
Analogical Train of Thought,
…
High Concept
"Concept (scholastics' verbum mentis)--
theological analogy of Son's procession
as Verbum Patris, 111-12"
-- index to Joyce and Aquinas, by William T. Noon,
Society of Jesus, Yale Universit…
The Stone of Power
"Others say it is a stone that posseses mysterious powers.... often
depicted as a dazzling light. It's a symbol representing power, a
source of immense energy. It nourishes, heals, wounds, bli…
For the feast of
St. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
The Diamond
as Big as
the Monster
From Fitzgerald's The Diamond as Big as the Ritz: "Now," said John
eagerly, "turn out your pocket and let's
see w…
To Graves at the Winter Solstice
"There is one story and one story only
That will prove worth your telling....
Dwell on her graciousness, dwell on her smiling,
Do not forget what flowers
The great boar trampled do…
"Heaven-- Where Is It? How Do We Get There?"
To air on ABC
Tuesday, Dec. 20
(John Spencer's birthday)
Fred Stein, 1945
"And we may see
the meadow in December,
icy white and crystalline."
…
Only the Dead
"There's a place for us...."
Conversation,
continued From last night:
"There is an
underlying timelessness
in the basic conversation
that is mathematics."
-- Barry Mazur (pdf)
From today's New York Times:
"The authors o…
"There is an
underlying timelessness
in the basic conversation
that is mathematics."
-- Barry Mazur (pdf)
It's Quarter to Three
(continued): "I could tell you a lot
but you gotta be true to y…
For the birthday of Steven Spielberg,
director of "1941"-- Sunset for Sydney Leff,
who died at 104 on December 10,
and is said to have drawn
the illustration below. The sun also rises,
and the …
The Meadow
"Heaven-- Where Is It? How Do We Get There?"
To air on ABC
Tuesday, Dec. 20
(John Spencer's birthday)
By Trevanian, who died on
Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2005: From Shibumi "Well...
…
Thirst for
the Absolute
This world is not conclusion; A sequel stands beyond,
Invisible, as music, But positive, as sound.
It beckons and it baffles; Philosophies don't know,
And thro…
Fade to White
For John Spencer,
who died on December 16:
"He was a kind, sweet, funny man... a man who made your words come to
life
in ways you would never expect."
-- James Mangold, quoted in today…
For Trevanian: Fade to Black
"...that
ineffable constellation of talents that makes the player of rank: a
gift for conceiving abstract schematic possibilities; a sense of
mathematical poetry in the light of w…
A Wintry Friday Afternoon
Three years ago today in the New York Times:
"The book was Will Durant's Story of Philosophy, and I was 12 or 13
when I carried it home from
the library one wintry Friday afternoon. I c…
Jesus vs. the Goddess:
A Brief Chronology
In 1946, Robert Graves published "King Jesus, an
historical novel based on the theory and Graves' own historical
conjecture that Jesus was, in fact, the rightful …
The Cinematic
Imagination,
or
"Frida" meets
"Under the Volcano"
A scene from "Frida"
and a scene from the
Day of the Dead festival,
Cuernavaca, 10/30/04
Related material:
For the Man in Black
(Log …
In honor of Freeman Dyson's birthday:
Dance of the Numbers
"Mahlburg likens his approach to an analogous one for deciding
whether a dance party has an even or odd number of attendees. Instead
of counting all the …
From Here
to Eternity
For Loomis Dean
See also
For Rita Moreno
on Her Birthday
(Dec. 11, 2005) Los Angeles Times Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2005 OBITUARIES …
Christmas Reflections
for Julie Taymor (creator of Broadway's "Lion King"
and of the film "Frida")
Adam Gopnik on Narnia in The New Yorker:
"Everything began with images," Lewis wrote.
Julie Taymor on "Fri…
Modestly Yours
American IV:
The Man Comes Around
"The virgins are all
trimming their wicks."
-- Johnny Cash From a Dec. 9 Mona Charen column promoting modesty:
"Modestlyyours.net is an antidote t…
For Jennifer Connelly
on Her Birthday:
Collector's Edition
And the price is right!
Related material:
Music of the Dark Lady,
ART WARS: Dark City.
For Rita Moreno
on Her Birthday:
Sex and Art in a Chinese Poem
In the box-style I Ching Hexagram 34,
The Power of the Great,
is represented by . Art is represented by a box
(Hexagram 20,
Co…
Classic Sixties
"And Jesus was a sailorWhen he walked upon the water..."
-- Leonard Cohen meets the timeless
Satori at Pearl Harbor:
"Mercilessly tasteful." -- Andrew Mueller,re…
Intelligence/
Counterintelligence
continued:
Intelligence: A file on James Jesus Angleton at namebase.org, a site
run by Daniel Brandt.
Intelligence
illustrated:
JFK (l.) and
Stanislaw Ulam (r.)
…
Midnight Blue
Stanley Kubrick's
"Eyes Wide Shut"
"Midnight
Blue's your online source
for top quality BDSM Gear, Bondage Gear,
BDSM Toys...."
Related material:
Roger Shattuck's
Forbidden Knowle…
Prequel on
Saint Cecilia's Day
"Death itself would startworking backward."
-- Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia Celebrity Obits, Nov. 22, 2005 --
Intelligence and
Counterintelligence
(continued): …
Roger Shattuck, Scholar,Is Dead at 82
In his honor, some excerpts from previous entries:
Wednesday, January 19, 2005 --
I just subscribed to The New York Review of Books online for another
year, prompted by …
For the birthday of Emily Dickinson: "This
world is not conclusion; A sequel stands beyond,
Invisible, as music, But positive, as sound.
It beckons and it baffles; 5 Philosophies do…
Intelligence
(James Jesus Angleton)
and
Counterintelligence
(David Morrell)
A film by Robert De Niro,
now in production: The Good Shepherd
"Will follow James Wilson, a Yale graduate recruited …
Fairy Tales "It's all in Plato." -- C. S.
Lewis Talking Narnia to Your
Neighbors ChristianityToday.com by Keri Wyatt Kent "The summer Lindy
Lowry was 20, she rejected the Christian faith she'd had since
childhood-- …
For
Kirk DouglasOn His Birthday
Click on picture
for details.
Aion Flux That Nature is a Heraclitean
Fire... -- Poem title, Gerard
Manley Hopkins From Jung's Map of the Soul, by Murray Stein: "...
Jung thinks of the self as undergoing continual transformation during
the co…
Working Backward "Death itself would
startworking backward."
-- Aslan in
The Chronicles of Narnia "'Memory is
non-narrative
and non-linear,'
Lin said of the work....
'People say,
"How do you
read this?"
Any …
Matchwood
The New York Times Book Review, Sunday, February 2, 2003:
Cover illustration by Stephen Savage
'A Box of Matches':A Miniaturist'sNovel of Details In Nicholson Baker's
novel,
things no…
Magical Thinking (continued)
1:00:19 EST
The Lion, the Witch
and the Wardrobe
premieres tonight at the Royal Albert Hall.
Log24 Dec. 2:
Hexagram 19 in the
Cullinane series:
Log24 Dec. 3:
…
Headline in today's New York Times:
'Year of Magical Thinking'
Headed for Broadway
which suggests...
Heaven, Hell,
and Hollywood (continued)
"This could be Heaven
or this could be Hell."
-- …
Lasso In memory of...
CUERNAVACA, Mexico - Spanish singer Gloria Lasso, who made her
name recording romantic ballads in Latin America and Paris, died in her
sleep on Sunday at her home in Cuernavaca.…
Magical Thinking for Joan Didion
on Her Birthday
The Associated Press on the Kennedy Center honors yesterday:
"Dancer Suzanne Farrell was feted by her former colleague at the New
York City Ballet, Jacques d'A…
For Cinderella
12/4 Related material:
From Log24,
back in time
a year and a day:
On December 3... In 1947,
"A Streetcar Named Desire"
opened on Broadway. In 1953,
the musical "Kismet"
opened …
Works and Days
Hesiod, Works and Days:
"So, after all, there was not one kind of Strife
alone, but all over the earth there are two.... For one fosters evil
war and battle, being cruel: her no man
loves; but perfo…
For St. Robertson Davies,
whose feast is today:
Apollo and Christ
Benedict XVI, before he became Pope: "... a purely
harmonious concept of beauty is not enough.... Apollo, who for Plato's
Socrates …
Proof 101
From a course description:
"This module aims to introduce the student to rigorous university level
mathematics.... Syllabus: The idea of and need for mathematical
statements and
proofs.... proof b…
Campion's Day
Today is the feast of the Catholic saint Edmund Campion. Campion, a
Jesuit with a graceful prose style,
would perhaps not be too deeply offended by the fact that his surname
is now best known in some ci…