Montessori's Birthday\\ THE
MONTESSORI METHOD: CHAPTER VI
HOW LESSONS SHOULD BE GIVEN
"Let all thy words be counted."Dante, Inf., canto X.
CONCISENESS, SIMPLICITY, OBJECTIVITY.....
The Number of the Beast\\
"He's a Mad Scientist and I'm his Beautiful Daughter."-- Deety in
Heinlein's The Number of the Beast. For more on this theme, see....
For Mary Shelley's Birthday\\
A Chain of Links...
The creator of Frankenstein might appreciate the following chain of
thought.
Lucifer.com,
Lucifer Media Corporation,
Lucifer Media Sites,
The Extropy Institute....
Feast day of St. Ingrid\\
Like Shakespeare, Ingrid Bergman was born and died on the same date...
In her case, August 29. To honor her performance in "Spellbound," here
is a copy of the first crossword….
Bird's Birthday\\ Clint Eastwood on how his
life might have gone
differently: "I might be sitting in some piano bar hoping somebody will
leave 50 cents in a glass saying 'Play "Melancholy Baby"'....
The Cobra Strikes\\
High praise for Allison Janney, TV star:
"Allison is like the great movie actresses from the '40s," says the
creator and executive producer of NBC's The West Wing....
Requiem for a Critic\\ Sample clips of
Thelonious Monk compositions: Four in One,
Criss-Cross. A 1999 Mike Melillo Trio album, "Bopcentric," includes the
above compositions....
Music of the Dark Lady\\
Two journal notes below deal with the general mythology of the Dark
Lady. This note, more personal, deals with a particular incarnation of
this Lady....
The Hero and the Dark Lady\\
From a summary of Mike Resnick's novel "The Dark
Lady"... Leonardo, an art historian of the far future, is given a
mission...
Meditation on the Dark Lady\\
Doble-V + Doble-V = W.W. ... Tanner may have stated it best: "V. is
whatever lights you to the end
of the street: she is also the....
Round Lights\\
A link for the August 26 birthdays of
Rufino Tamayo and Julio Cortazar:
Homage to Thelonious Sphere Monk.
See also "Sphere" in Pynchon's V. ...
Cruciatus in Crucem\\
From Battlefield Vacations, Edinburgh:
On the film "Braveheart"--
If you've ever wondered about what exactly "drawn and quartered" means,
there's a good demonstration....
August 23: Feast Day of St. William
Wallace\\
See The Great Man Himself and The William Wallace Directory Page.
As Blake Well Knew\\ From The New York Times:
Edsger Wybe Dijkstra, whose contributions to the mathematical logic
that underlies computer programs and operating systems make him one of
the intellectual giants of the field.…
Here's Your Sign\\
Last night, reading the 1990 Nobel Prize Lecture by
Octavio Paz, I was struck by the fact that he was describing, in his
own life and in the life of his culture, what might best be called a
"fall from grace".…
In Honor of Deceased Popes\\ For Pope St.
Sixtus II,
Pope St. Hormisdas,
Pope Callistus III, and Pope Paul VI, all of whom died on this date:
Bouncing butterflies...
A music box butterfly tune...
A lavender love butterfly vignette….
August 6: Feast of the Metamorphosis\\
Adapted from Brief Exhortations:
Geneva Bible:
Romans 12:2 2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed
[metamorphosized] by the renewing of your mind....,
Veritatis Splendor\\
Black Holes Conclusion of the Nobel Prize lecture of Subrahmanyan
Chandrasekhar on December 8, 1983:
The mathematical theory of black holes is a subject of immense
complexity....
What is Truth?\\ In honor of the 200th
anniversary of the birth of Niels Henrik Abel, a partial answer....
After the Fall\\
"We're in a war of words."-- Andy Rooney.... "I've heard of affairs
that are strictly plutonic/But
diamonds are a girl's best friend!"-- Marilyn Monroe....
Celebrity War Room\\
"What would bug the Taliban more than seeing a gay woman in a suit
surrounded by Jews?"-- Ellen DeGeneres at the 2001 Emmy awards. How
about seeing Judy Davis in a sequel to The Hot Rock....
"History, Stephen said"\\ "To really know a
subject you've got to learn a bit of its
history...."-- John Baez...."We both know what memories can bring; They
bring diamonds and rust...."
The Story Theory of Truth\\ ... Versus
The Diamond Theory of Truth. One year ago today, Lorenzo Music, the
voice of Carlton the doorman on
Rhoda, died. His eulogy from Valerie Harper....
Miss Sauvé\\
Homily on Flannery O'Connor for the Sunday following Corpus Christi
Day, 2002: "The part of her fiction that most fascinates me, then
and
now, is what many critics referred to as 'the grotesque'...."
The Cruciatus Curse\\
Today's birthday-- Martin Sheen... "Perfect, genuine, complete,
crystalline, pure."....
Death of a Cut-up\\
The dark philosopher William S. Burroughs died five years ago today.
Part of his legacy is the "cut-up" technique....
Double Day\\ August 2, 2002...
"Time cannot exist without a soul (to count it)."-- Aristotle.
This quotation appears in my journal note of August 2, 1995, as an
epigraph....
Stephen King's Seattle Rose\\
"On February 28, 2001 (Ash Wednesday)....
At a shop called Mind Over Matter in Port Townsend, Washington, people
had been playing with…."