The Crimson Passion: A Drama at Mardi
Grascontinues. See Feb. 21 and 22 and the previous entry.
In related news:
Rosebud (continued from Feb. 22)
Click on the picture for details. Today's Los Angeles Times: "Otis
Chandler will go down as one of the most importan…
Point Counter Point
From the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, 1911:
COUNTERPOINT (Lat. contrapunctus, "point counter point," "note against
note")
"In music, the art happily defined by Sir Frederick Gore O…
Sudden View
From John O'Hara's Birthday:
"We stopped at the Trocadero and there was hardly anyone there. We
had Lanson 1926. 'Drink up, sweet. You gotta go some. How I love
music. Frère Jacques, Cuernavaca, ac…
Final Club
For the feast of St. Matthias
(traditional calendar)-- from Amazon.com, a quoted Library Journal
review of Geoffrey Wolff's novel The Final Club: "'What other colleges
call fraternities, Princeto…
For St. Matthias's Day
(traditional calendar):
Log24, April 25, 2003 and
The Matthias Defense.
Headline in today's Harvard Crimson:
University at a
Crossroads
Related material: Instantia Crucis,from
The Crucifixion
of John O'Hara Book cover, 1938 See also The…
Cubist Epiphany
"In The Painted Word, a rumination on the state of American painting in
the 1970s, Tom Wolfe described an epiphany...."
-- Peter Berkowitz, "Literature in Theory"
…
A Kind of Temple The page below is from
The Regenerate Lyric:
Theology and Innovation
in American Poetry,
by Elisa New. Related material:
Log24, Oct. 5, 2005--
New Page for Harvard's President--
and …
In the Details
"The groom wears
his boutonniere
on the left lapel,
nearest to his heart.
Buttonieres are generally
single blossoms
such as rosebuds."
-- allweddingideas.com Rosebud
Crimson …
Conceptual Lens
"Contemporary literary theory did not emerge in an intellectual and
cultural vacuum. The subordination of art to argument and ideas has
been a long time in t…
Now Lens murphy plant, murphy grow, a
maryamyria- 10 meliamurphies, in the lazily eye…
New Site
(revised on May 21, 2006)
The new site for my math files is
finitegeometry.org/sc/index.html: Finite Geometryof the Squareand
Cubeby Steven H. Cullinane …
The Past Revisited
From Log24 a year ago on this date, a quote from Many Dimensions
(1931), by Charles Williams:
"Lord Arglay had a suspicion that the Stone would be purely
logical. Yes, he thought, but what, in …
But seriously...
Raiders of the Lost Matrix
(continued)
The Matrix: Click on pictures for details.
In memory of George T. Davis,
who died on February 4,
a Hollywood ending:
"Santa Claus rides…
The Dirty Thirty
Today's birthdays: Amy Tan, born Feb. 19, 1952, in Oakland,
California, and the late Lee Marvin, born Feb. 19, 1924, in New York
City.
For Amy Tan:
"Tan has a strong distaste for 'hodge…
Raiders of the Lost...
(continued)
"'Tony Rome' is flavored with enough in-jokes to make any Sinatra fan
smile-- Frank sleeping in his office underneath a copy of the Jewish
Daily Forward; confronting a lady who ne…
Role Model
The adventures of Harvard president Larry Summers continue in today's
Crimson:
At the most vulnerable juncture of his half-decade at Harvard's
helm, Summers now faces a fuming Faculty with few vocal suppo…
Review:
The One
Monolith
In memory of
Rabbi Yehuda Chitrik, storyteller
From James A. Michener's The Source:
"Trouble started in a quarter that neither Uriel nor Zadok could have
foreseen. For many generations the wise…
Anthony Hopkins
Writes Screenplay
About God, Life & Death
These topics may be illuminated
by a study of the Chinese classics.
If we replace the Chinese word "I"
(change, transformation) with the
word…
Elitist Valentine
"... 'elite' is a term of opprobrium on both sides of the Atlantic for
both
left and right for entirely different reasons-- for the right, an
'elitist' is an unpatriotic, degenerate left-win…
The Lincoln Brigade
Marches On. As yesterday's Lincoln's Birthday entry indicated, my own
sympathies are not with the "created equal" crowd. Still, the
Catholic Fascism of Franco admirer Andrew Cusack seems som…
Proposition
"... a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal"
-- Speech, A. Lincoln, Nov. 19, 1863
Some are less equal than others.
Proof: Jacques Herb…
Along Camea Dreamcatcher
For "the great Ojibwe tribe" (A phrase from the lyrics to "Broken
Feather Blues,"
by Pat Donohue,
performed on tonight's
Prairie Home Companion)
Ojibwe dreamcatcher:
…
Respect and
Ignorance
Thought for Today:
"What we respect we always do,
but what we do not respect we ignore.' -- Associated Press, Feb. 11,
2006
From Bloomberg.com:
ART WARS
(Continued from
April 6-7, 2004)
Blue Dream
For Ray Charles
(Spider Web)
and Jay Dee
(Donuts)
From Dogma Part II: Amores Perros:
"Do Catholics believe that when you die your so…
Russian Gold
From today's Harvard Crimson:
'Tawdry Shleifer Affair'
Stokes Faculty Anger
Toward Summers
"The 18,000-word article, 'How Harvard Lost Russia,' by
investigative journalist David McClintick '62, i…
Zen Koan
In memory of Akira Ifukube (pdf), composer of music for "Godzilla," who
died on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2006... birthday of John "Star Wars"
Williams-- Symbology at Harva…
The Vanishing (?) President
Karen E. Fields, translator's introduction to Elementary Forms of the
Religious Life, by Emile Durkheim: "Durkheim breathed the air of
turn-of-the-century Paris, a place that
fizz…
Space, Time, and Scarlett
From last night's Grammy awards, lyrics performed by Christina Aguilera
and Herbie Hancock: "a place where there's no space or time"
-- Leon Russell
Not bad, but as Kat358 noted on May …
Midnight in the Garden
of the Soul
(continued)
This time slot, reserved at midnight,
seems to belong to Frank Goodman,
who, according to this morning's (3 AM) New York Times, was
"one of the last of the old-tim…
For Grammy Night
From A Mass for Lucero:
"To the two gods of art, Apollo and Dionysus, we owe our recognition
that... there is a tremendous opposition, as regards both origins and
aims, between the Apolline art of …
Iconography (continued) "... iconography,
the concept and image
of the bride of Christ--
the sponsa Christi--
assumed particular relevance in
the definition of women's identity."
-- Silvia Evangelisti in
His…
Today's birthdays:
E. T. Bell and G. H. Hardy.
I added a paragraph today to the diamond theorem page:
"Some of the patterns resulting from the action of G on D have been
known for thousands of years. (See Jablan…
The Diamond Theory of Truth "Legend says
that when the stones
are brought together the diamonds
inside of them will glow."
-- Harrison Ford in
"Indiana Jones and the
Temple of Doom" In today's …
The Logic of Apollo
"The
icon that I use... is the nine-fold square.... This is the garden of
Apollo, the
field of Reason...."
-- Architect's notes on the design of a college campus
"Binary image morpholo…
Catholic Schools Sermon
For those who might be tempted today, following yesterday's conclusion
of Catholic
Schools Week, to sing (for whatever reason) "Ding Dong, the Witch is
Dead"-- Here, from his classic Witchc…
Review:
Halloween Meditations
Review:
Recommended Reading
for Hogwarts Students on Devil's Night
Raiders of
the Lost Matrix
(continued) The Archaeologist
with a Thousand Faces "From often humble beginnings, and often with a
childhood fascination
for antiquity, the archaeologist leaves…
Washington Ballet "At the still point..."
Related material:
Log 24, Sunday, January 29, 2006,
and links in the previous entry--
A Contrapuntal Theme and
Good Will Writing. Beauty is momentary in …
Our True Intent
In memory of
Christopher James Makins,2nd Baron Sherfield,
Fellow of All Souls:
Related material:
Good Will Writing, A Contrapuntal Theme,
Ideas, Stories, Values,
as well as
Toot! Toot…
Catholic Schools Week,continuedThe Gospel
According toFather
Hardon:TELEPATHY. The direct communication of ideas from one mind to
another without words, signs, gestures, or any other ordinary means …
Catholic Schools Week
On this date 10 years ago,
Gene Kelly died.
"In time..."
A Great Fall
From today's New York Times,
"Frey Says Falsehoods Improved His Tale"--
"Overall, his portrayal in A Million Little Pieces is of a person who
'I created in my mind to help me cope' with drug addic…
The Actor, 2005
See also
Russell Crowe as Santa's helper,
Communion, and the subsequent
Playing God: The Color of Collateral.
From "Collateral"-- FELIX: Do you believe in Humpty Dumpty?
MAX: No.…
"Good Night and Good Luck"
-- Morgan Freeman, closing remarks at the Screen Actors Guild Awards
on January 29, 2006 A Historyof Death Hollywood'sMurrow
Review by Stephen Hunter …