Values
for the High Holy Days\\ Mark Finkelstein: "Today comes more evidence
of the left's...."
Immovable Feast\\ Today is the feast of
Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, Archangels.
Grace Notes\\
Today's evening lottery number in the state of Grace was 546... or,
digit by digit, 5 - 4 - 6. Acoustic interpretation by frequency ratios:
E, C, G.
Click on picture for a midi....
Grace\\
Background on today's noon entry:
"Macau's economy is based largely on tourism, namely gambling."--
Wikipedia... The mid-day lottery today in the state of Grace: 313.....
Today's Birthday:
Mira Sorvino\\
In her honor, a "page visited" link from
Xanga Footprints for Log24 this morning....
A Table\\ From the diary of John Baez....
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field.
I'll meet you there."-- Rumi
Symbology 101\\
See "Balance" and
"A Form."
Birthdays:
T. S. Eliot and Linda Hamilton\\
From Eliot's
"Ash Wednesday"--
"Prophesy to the wind, to the wind only for only
The wind will listen. And the bones sang chirping.... "
Bi-Ethnic Medal\\
Adapted from Pierre Le-Tan
in The New Yorker of 8/28/06--
"Bi-Ethnically Correct...."
Tequila!
for Kylie\\
"Time disappears with tequila. It goes elastic,then vanishes."-- Kylie
Minogue. From today's AP
"Obituaries in the News"-- Danny Flores....
Phantasmagoria
continued\\
From Log24,
Jan. 1-7, 2003:
"A corpse will be
transported by express!"-- Under the Volcano,
by Malcolm Lowry (1947)...
Dietrich, Minogue.…
Shining Forth continued\\ The Grace of
Accuracy... This morning the New York Times describes yesterday's
memorial to Cy Feuer-- producer, notably, of the 1972
film version of "Cabaret"....
Religious
Symbolism
continued\\ A symbol in memory of
two-time Academy Award winning
cinematographer Sven Nykvist,
who died yesterday....
Public Space\\ "...
the Danish cartoons crisis last March showed 'two world views colliding
in public space with no common point of reference.'"-- George Carey,
Archbishop of Canterbury....
For a Dark Lady\\
Soledad O'Brien turns 40 today. For her... Jerezana, by Paco de Lucia
(from a 1967 album).
For a more recent look at de Lucia,
see his Cositas Buenas video...
Movie Date
continued\\
"Taking Christ to the Movies,"
by Anna Megill, Princeton '06--
Related material:
"Prepare for the Weirdness."-- Hunter S. Thompson....
Apology\\ Excerpts from Log 24, January 18,
2004: A Living Church-- "Plato has told you a truth; but Plato is dead.
Shakespeare has
startled you with an image.…
At Midnight\\
"At midnight on the Emperor's pavement
flit/Flames that no faggot feeds, nor
steel has lit,/Nor storm disturbs, flames begotten
of flame,/Where blood-begotten spirits come...."
The Pope in Plato's Cave\\
Those who find the Pope's recent remarks (see the previous entry) on a
Byzantine emperor lacking in literary depth may consult the writings of
William Butler Yeats on Byzantium....
ART WARS continued\\
Pandora's Box
Part I:
The Pandora Cross--
"There is no painter in the
West who can be unaware of the symbolic power of the cruciform shape
and the Pandora's box of spiritual reference...."
Medal
for Fallaci\\ Journalist Oriana Fallaci died last night.
"In September [2005], she had a private audience with Pope Benedict XVI
at
Castel Gandolfo, his summer residence outside Rome...."
Triumph of the Cross\\ Today is the birthday
of an expert on primitive roots, the late I. M.
Vinogradov.
Happy birthday.
Click on pictures for further details….
ART WARS continued\\ The Krauss Cross...
Rosalind
Krauss in "Grids"-- "If we
open any tract-- Plastic Art and Pure Plastic Art or The Non-Objective
World,
for instance-- we will find that Mondrian and Malevich...."
Octobers for Fest\\ In memory of Joachim
Fest, a
noted biographer of
Hitler who died on 9/11 at age 79-- A link from 5/27, 2005-- "the four
corners of the
horizon."....
A Sermon for Sartre\\ A sequel to "Les
Mots"-- "Les
Nombres.".... "Words and
numbers are of equal value, for, in the cloak of knowledge, one is
warp and the other woof."-- The princesses Rhyme and Reason in The
Phantom Tollbooth....
Sontag's Sermon\\ Continued from
yesterday... Conclusion: "My image of myself
since age 3 or 4-- the genius-schmuck. I allow one to pay off the
other. Develop relationships to satisfy principally one or the
other...."
ART WARS continued\\ Sontag's Sermon--
Related
material-- "My Life among the Deathworks: Illustrations of
theAesthetics of
Authority"....
"Meet Max Black" Award\\ "For
the Aeron and other
designs, Mr. Stumpf won this year’s National Design Award in Product
Design, which is to be presented posthumously on Oct. 18 by the
Cooper-Hewitt National Design.…"
For Frank Morley's Birthday\\ On chess
and fiction: "As
Boileau-Narcejac* admirably said: 'The creator invents the chessboard,
the serial writer invents the moves.'"--Moez Lahmedi
Today's Birthday: Richard I\\ In his honor, a
small correction will be made this morning to the Wikipedia article on
Harvard University. The date of the founding of Harvard will be
changed....
Today's Birthday: Elizabeth I\\ "What,
nephew," said the
king, "is the wind in that door?"-- SIR THOMAS MALORY, "Le Morte
d'Arthur"--
Epigraph to "A Wind in the Door," by Madeleine L'Engle....
A Game of Chess\\ For Isak Dinesen, who died
in
1962 on this date....
Hamlet's Transformation\\ "O God, I could be
bounded in a nutshell and
count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad
dreams."-- Hamlet.... Background: Monday's "In a Nutshell," Tuesday's
"The
King of Infinite Space.…"
Bad Dreams\\ Happy birthday, Robert M.
Pirsig. Readings for the hour of the
wolf-- "The Shining of May 29" (2002) and "For John F. Kennedy's
Birthday"
(2006).Yesterday was Arthur Koestler's birthday. "By groping toward the
light...."
The King of Infinite Space\\ This book was
published
today. Click on picture for details.
In a Nutshell: The Seed\\ "The symmetric
group
S6 of permutations of 6
objects is the only symmetric group with an outer automorphism.... This
outer automorphism can be regarded as the seed from which grow about
half of the…."
Happy Six continued\\ Continued from
6/6/6.... See also
Saturday's entry and Sunday's Pennsylvania mid-day lottery: 666.
Related
material: "Bright Star" (Monday, March 28, 2005)....
Sylvester's Birthday\\ The following figure
from
a June 11, 1986, note
illustrates Sylvester's "duads" and "synthemes" using the concept of an
"inscape"....
Birthdays: Hayek, Reeves\\ Salma
Hayek ("Frida")-- "Shinin' like a diamond she had tombstones in her
eyes"-- and Keanu Reeves ("Constantine").…
Dirty Business\\
"Some friends of mineare in this band."-- David Auburn, "Proof "....
"And if
the band you're in starts playing different tunes, I'll see you on the
dark side of the moon."....