Presbyterian Poets Society The Wrinkle in Time link in my previous entry led to a sermon for St. Andrew's day, 2003, at the Riviera Presbyterian Church in Miami. I belong to no church, but have a vague recollection of being confirmed in the Presbyterian church in early adolescence. That ceremony meant nothing to me then, and means nothing to me now. It was the culmination of fitful attendance at Presbyterian Sunday School, which I recall, reluctantly, only as a course of training in ugliness, lies, and stupidity. There seems, however, to be a paradox here. The same religion I so detested seems to have inspired in others works of beauty, truth, and intelligence. To wit, three poets, each with a Presbyterian background: It may be that I am becoming reconciled to the religion that was urged upon me in my youth... becoming, at last, a Riviera Presbyterian. For more details, Posted 3/31/2004 at 3:33 PM |
Literary Archaeology "Mrs. Who's spectacles shone out See, too, Shining Forth and Posted 3/31/2004 at 2:18 AM |
To Be A Jesuit cites Quine: "To be is to be the value of a variable." -- Willard Van Orman Quine, cited by Joseph T. Clark, S. J., in Conventional Logic and Modern Logic: A Prelude to Transition, Woodstock, MD: Woodstock College Press, 1952, to which Quine contributed a preface. Quine died in 2000 on Xmas Day. From a July 26, 2003, entry,
From a December 10, 2003, entry: Putting Descartes Before Dehors "Descartes déclare que c'est en moi, non hors de moi, en moi, non dans le monde, que je pourrais voir si quelque chose existe hors de moi." For further details, see ART WARS. The above material may be regarded as commemorating the March 31 birth of René Descartes and death of H. S. M. Coxeter. For further details, see Plato, Pegasus, and the Evening Star. Posted 3/31/2004 at 12:25 AM |
The Horn at Midnight (See the two previous entries.) HORATIO I think it lacks of twelve. HAMLET No, it is struck. HORATIO Indeed? I heard it not: HORATIO
HAMLET Angels and ministers of grace
From today's New York Times: Mr. Cooke's daughter contacted Mr. Cooke's biographer to inform him of her father's death at midnight [on the night of March 29-March 30, 2004]. ANGEL On Peter Ustinov, also from the New York Times: "He received [an Emmy for his role] as Socrates in 'Barefoot in Athens' in 1966." The Times on "Barefoot in Athens": "Socrates falls from grace, and becomes the lone voice of democracy amongst the corruption of his fellow Athenians in this television adaptation of Maxwell Anderson's play." MINISTER OF GRACE On Alistair Cooke in today's Times: "At Jesus College, Cambridge, Mr. Cooke edited a literary magazine, put on plays and acted in them as a co-founder of the Cambridge Mummers, and pursued a rigorous social life.... Quiller-Couch taught him about writing." GRACE For more on Jesus College, Quiller-Couch, Socrates, and grace, see Posted 3/30/2004 at 3:11 PM |
Something is Rotten "... the administration's reaction to Richard Clarke's Against All Enemies provides more evidence of something rotten in the state of our government." -- Paul Krugman as Marcellus Krugman is among those now using the ominous phrase "abuse of power." He closes with a Nixon-related thought: "Where will it end? In his new book, Worse Than Watergate, John Dean, of Watergate fame, says, 'I've been watching all the elements fall into place for two possible political catastrophes, one that will take the air out of the Bush-Cheney balloon and the other, far more disquieting, that will take the air out of democracy.' " Posted 3/30/2004 at 1:45 AM |
Banach's Birthday "A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories. One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies." -- Stefan Banach, according to MacTutor. The quotation is perhaps taken from Through a Reporter's Eyes: The Life of Stefan Banach, by Roman Kauza (a.k.a. Roman Kaluza).
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American Heaven Headlines from today's Google News: Singer Jan Berry, 62; Half of Surf Music Duo Screeching for heaven at Mach 7 "The promise of 70 virgins in paradise and the equivalent of about $20 was all it took to convince a Palestinian teenager to turn himself into a suicide bomber..." A more modest paradise, from a Jan Berry obituary today: With Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, William Jan Berry co-wrote the lyrics for "Surf City" with its lines about taking the station wagon to a place where there are "two girls for every boy."* * Theological footnote for feminists: Posted 3/28/2004 at 12:12 PM |
Real Enemies, Part II "Even paranoids have real enemies." Hamas leader says Bush -- Headline, USA Today, March 28, 2004 Posted 3/28/2004 at 12:00 PM |
Real Enemies, Part I "Even paranoids have real enemies." According to the Washington Post and Newsday today, the President's persecutors now include Paul O'Neill, Richard A. Clarke, Rand Beers, Flynt Leverett, Richard Foster, John DiIulio, "Others who have fallen out of favor over Iraq include former economic adviser Lawrence Lindsey, retired Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni and former Army chief of staff Gen. Eric Shinseki. All voiced concerns about either the expense or number of troops needed to occupy Iraq. All were treated dismissively by the White House. All are gone, but their estimates proved accurate.... Not every White House attempt at damage-control works. Last summer, White House officials tried to pin the blame on CIA Director George Tenet for not waving Bush off his State of the Union claim that Saddam was seeking uranium in Africa for nuclear weapons. -- Tom Raum in Newsday today Posted 3/27/2004 at 4:24 PM |
President Queeg "Over the weekend, Richard A. Clarke, Bush's former counterterrorism coordinator, said Bush focused too little attention on al Qaeda before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and too much on Iraq afterward. Clarke detailed his allegations in a book released yesterday. In it, he echoes criticism of Bush's judgment and fixation on Iraq that were leveled by former Treasury secretary Paul H. O'Neill in his book, which was published in January." -- Jim VandeHei, Washington Post, "Pity poor George Bush. For some reason, he has been beset by delusional aides who, once they leave the White House, write books containing lies and exaggerations and -- this is the lowest blow of all -- do not take into account the president's genius and all-around wisdom." -- "Bush, Clarke and A Shred of Doubt,"
"He was no different than any officer in the wardroom -- they were all disloyal. I tried to run the ship properly, by the book, but they fought me at every turn. ... Naturally, I can only cover these things from memory... If I've left anything out, why, just ask me specific questions and I'll be glad to answer them... one-by-one..." (With apologies to Paul Krugman... See Krugman's column on President Queeg from March 14 last year -- abstract or full text.) Posted 3/23/2004 at 2:00 AM |
The Hairy Palm Academy The previous two entries were prompted by a picture in the Washington Post of Spain's Interior Minister, a member of the secular arm of the Legion of Christ. Both entries mentioned a school run by the Legion of Christ, the Royal Palm Academy. As the following excerpt from my March 20 entry indicates, a different sort of palm might also be honored by the Legion -- the hairy palm. "Los Legionarios de Cristo... es una organización fundada en 1941 en Méjico por el padre Marcel [Marcial] Maciel (rehabilitado por el Vaticano en 1958 tras ser acusado de ayudarse en sus visiones con ampollas de morfina; también fue acusado de pederastia, le gustaba masturbar a jovencitos y que ellos le masturbaran a él)." Related readings from The New York Review of Books, issue dated April 8, 2004: God in the Hands of Angry Sinners, by Garry Wills, on the Legion of Christ and on Mel Gibson flogging his God, and a related article, a review of Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation. For further details, see an ABC News 20/20 story dated April 26, 2002: When approached by ABC News's Brian Ross in Rome with questions of allegations against Father Marcial Maciel, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger became visibly upset and actually slapped Ross's Posted 3/22/2004 at 10:00 PM |
Quid Pro Quack (Headline of today's Quiddity:
The above rather cryptic sequence of pictures may be regarded as a memorial to Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, who died at about the time I found the central picture, "Royal Palm Student." For further details, click on the individual pictures, each of which is taken from a past log24 entry. Also of some relevance: the palm at the end of A Mass for Lucero and the Stevens poem on The Palm at the End of the Mind. Posted 3/21/2004 at 1:20 AM |
Christendom Today From PP Nunca Mas! --
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Geometry of the 4x4 Square: http://log24.com/theory/geometry.html "There is such a thing as a tesseract." Posted 3/19/2004 at 2:35 PM |
Rainbow's End From the See also Posted 3/18/2004 at 4:23 PM |
State of Grace Saint Mercedes McCambridge, who won an Oscar for "All the King's Men," died on March 2, 2004. From an entry for that date:
From today's New York Times: Charlotte Mercedes Agnes McCambridge was born on March 16, 1916, in Joliet, Ill. ... She began giving her birth date, though, as St. Patrick's Day 1918. In explaining the discrepancy, a spokeswoman said, "She's an actress," adding: "She was a little bit Irish. And she decided she wanted to be two years younger." What the hell, she's younger now. Posted 3/17/2004 at 11:59 PM |
William H. Pickering,
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Readings for Books: Finnegans Wake (1939) Gravity's Rainbow (1978) Masks of the Illuminati (1981) Quotations: "Nature does not know extinction; "I faced myself that day -- Joan Didion, "On Self-Respect,"
"317 is a prime, -- G. H. Hardy, Posted 3/17/2004 at 4:31 PM |
Anschaulichkeit In memory of John W. Seybold, who died at 88 on Sunday, March 14, 2004.... Seybold is said to have originated the application of the phrase "what you see is what you get" (WYSIWYG) to computerized typesetting. The date of Seybold's death was also the date of Einstein's birth. The entry "Clarity and Certainty" for that day contains a discussion by Einstein of the fact that the altitudes of a triangle have a point in common. A March 14 search for a clear diagram of that fact yielded the above illustration, to which I returned today after reading of Seybold's WYSIWYG philosophy. The illustration is taken from an article by a British teacher of geometry that contains the following: "Dick Tahta wrote... of geometry as involving the direct apprehension of imagery, gazing as into the eyes of a beloved and a certain intuition-seeing (Anschauung)..... His sentences have tremendous power, and yet the terms he uses are slippery and seem unexplainable. What is, or what might be, 'direct apprehension of imagery'? What is evoked by the powerfully metaphorical 'gazing as into the eyes of a beloved'? 'Intuition' is a tremendously difficult term.... The combination 'intuition-seeing' seems to represent an attempt to convey a meaning for the German 'Anschauung,' and echoes the original title of the text Anschauliche Geometrie by Hilbert and Cohn-Vossen which was published in English as Geometry and the Imagination." From the same article: "... for Lacan 'mathematics ... is constantly in touch with the unconscious'.... Commentators on Lacan frequently write that... he argued that the human being is captivated by an image.... The object, in a sense, gazes back."
The final meaning above, theological contemplation, suggests that the altitude-intersection diagram above may be used for a meditation on the Trinity. This is, of course, silly†, but no sillier than the third-rate lucubrations of the damned charlatan Lacan. † For a less silly geometrico-theological metaphor, see "Scalene Trinities" from The Mind of the Maker, by Dorothy Sayers. ‡ For a related revelation, see A Contrapuntal Theme. Posted 3/16/2004 at 1:06 PM |
The Spaniard
On Opus Dei in Spain: "Two of Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar's children went to Opus-run schools. Notable Opus members include Defense Minister Federico Trillio, Justice Minister Jose Maria Michavila, Attorney General Jesus Cardenal and former National Police Chief Juan Cotino." -- AP report, Oct. 3, 2002, according to a web page at rickross.com Those who prefer their religion in fictional form may enjoy the following related reading: Posted 3/15/2004 at 11:45 PM |
More Bush Crookedness Who is "reporter Karen Ryan"? Posted 3/15/2004 at 10:12 PM |
Lenten Meditations: Posted 3/15/2004 at 7:00 PM |
The Fog and the Fury Headline and opening sentence of a column in the Washington Times: "Job creation fog . . . and fury Something must be done [to] restore jobs in U.S. manufacturing...." So far, so good. But the columnist goes on to explain the recent loss of manufacturing jobs: "Let's be honest. Some of these manufacturing jobs will not be coming back because of structural changes in our economy. Manufacturers have been reducing payrolls, in middle management and on the production line, because they have found ways to produce more goods at far less cost, boosting profits for further expansion and fatter investor and worker pension dividends." Uh-huh. Here is a different explanation (the "fury," as opposed to "the fog"), from a March 10 column: "Last week's jobs report, with hundreds of thousands giving up the search for work, and manufacturing jobs disappearing for the 43rd straight month, jolted the White House. What is going on? They're calling it a jobless recovery. Wrong. Millions of jobs are being created. They're just not being created here in the United States. The reasons can be traced to these four acronyms: NAFTA, GATT, WTO, PNTR. These are the trade treaties and global institutions that have permitted the historic substitution of foreign labor for American labor, to the enrichment of the transnational companies that look upon the Congress as a wholly owned subsidiary.... For the Bush Republicans, the chickens are coming home to roost.... At a weekend conference on immigration and jobs hosted by The American Cause, which this writer chairs, one speaker blurted out that while he voted for Bush in 2000, he would never do so again. The room erupted in applause, though virtually all there were conservatives, and all had once been Goldwater-Nixon-Reagan Republicans." -- Pat Buchanan, author of
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Clarity and Certainty "At the age of 12 I experienced a second wonder of a totally different nature: in a little book* dealing with Euclidean plane geometry, which came into my hands at the beginning of a schoolyear. Here were assertions, as for example the intersection of the three altitudes of a triangle in one point, which --- though by no means evident --- could nevertheless be proved with such certainty that any doubt appeared to be out of the question. This lucidity and certainty [Klarheit und Sicherheit] made an indescribable impression upon me.... For example I remember that an uncle told me the Pythagorean theorem before the holy geometry booklet* had come into my hands. After much effort I succeeded in 'proving' this theorem on the basis of the similarity of triangles ... for anyone who experiences [these feelings] for the first time, it is marvellous enough that man is capable at all to reach such a degree of certainty and purity [Sicherheit und Reinheit] in pure thinking as the Greeks showed us for the first time to be possible in geometry."-- from "Autobiographical Notes" in Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist, edited by Paul Arthur Schilpp "Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating." For clarity and certainty, consult All About Altitudes (and be sure to click the "pop it up" button). For murkiness and uncertainty, consult The Fog of War. Happy birthday, Albert. * Einstein's "holy geometry booklet" was, according to Banesh Hoffman, Lehrbuch der Geometrie zum Gebrauch an höheren Lehranstalten, by Eduard Heis (Catholic astronomer and textbook writer) and Thomas Joseph Eschweiler. Posted 3/14/2004 at 3:28 PM |
The Line From a March 10, 2004, entry:
By the Associated Press, "Dave Schulthise, known as Dave Blood during his career as a bassist with the 1980's Philadelphia punk-rock band the Dead Milkmen, died on Wednesday [March 10, 2004] at the home of friends in North Salem, N.Y. He was 47. 'David chose to end his life,' Mr. Schulthise's sister, Kathy, wrote on the band's Web site." I walk the thinnest line -- The Dead Milkmen, Beelzebubba album Related material: The Word in the Desert. Posted 3/13/2004 at 12:00 PM |
A Game of From Lou Dobbs Tonight, March 12, 2004:
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St. Howard's Day In memory of Howard Fast, George W. Bush (left) and Posted 3/12/2004 at 5:00 PM |
Bush's Stalinist Justice From Ashcroft the Nihilist: "... victims had no idea just how rigged the federal court system really has become until they actually were in the dock, protesting their innocence (which federal law also has deemed a crime – see the Martha Stewart case). They had no idea that federal prosecutors can legally suborn perjury (called "statements of interest") and that judges are sickeningly pro-government to the point where they are simply another arm of the prosecution. And they had no idea that their trial would differ only in name but not in substance from the famed Stalinist show trials of the late 1930s." This note commemorates Communist author Howard Fast (Spartacus), who died one year ago today. "In the memoir Being Red, published in 1990, Fast wrote: 'In the party I found ambition, narrowness and hatred; I also found love and dedication and high courage and integrity — and some of the noblest human beings I have ever "Fast wrote critically about Soviet leader Josef Stalin and left the party after the Soviet Union's crushing of an uprising in Hungary." -- CBS News Howard Fast was twice the man George W. Bush is, since Bush's Stalinist justice department makes him, at best, half-Fast. (See, too, yesterday's entry A Half-Right Leader.) Posted 3/12/2004 at 2:56 PM |
A Half-Right Leader
For more details, click here. Posted 3/11/2004 at 11:46 PM |
Sequel From an entry of July 27, 2003...
Catholic Tastes, Part II: A Catholic priest on "The Passion of the Christ": "By the time it’s over, the make-up artists give his skin the texture of spaghetti marinara." -- The Rev. Richard A. Blake, S.J., professor of fine arts and co-director of the film studies program at Boston College, in America magazine, issue dated March 15, 2004. Related material: "I’m waiting for Mel’s sequel:
-- Bruce Feirstein in The New York Observer Posted 3/11/2004 at 4:28 PM |
Men of Respect
"I caught Alan Dershowitz defending Martha Stewart on ABC TV this morning. Most Americans who pay any attention at all to the news of her trial think she is being charged with insider trading. She is not. She is accused of asserting her innocence to federal prosecutors who accused her of insider trading. She is on trial for allegedly lying about her innocence. Think about that. The Constitution supposedly gives us the presumption of innocence. A federal bureaucrat shows up and says, in effect, 'We haven't defined insider trading yet, Mrs. Stewart, but we think you're guilty of it and should go to prison for it.' Martha says 'I'm innocent' and for that she's prosecuted. Dershowitz was right on the money when he announced on ABC, 'This is like the Soviet -- Thomas DiLorenzo, February 4, 2004 DiLorenzo is a professor of economics Dershowitz is a professor of law Posted 3/11/2004 at 3:19 PM |
Split
"Which is it then? For Gass, the Cartesian schism is a post- lapsarian divorce-in progress, only apparently similar to the expulsion from paradise. For Stevens the fault is primordial and Descartes only its latter-day avatar. For Miller, Descartes is the historical culprit, the patriarch of the split." -- The Evil Genius Notebook, Posted 3/10/2004 at 6:01 PM |
Ennui of the First Idea The ennui of apartments described by Stevens in "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction" (see previous entry) did not, of course, refer to the "apartments" of incidence geometry. A more likely connection is with the apartments -- the "ever fancier apartments and "Language was no more than a collection of meaningless conventional signs, and life could absurdly end at any moment. He [Mallarmé] became aware, in Millan’s* words, 'of the extremely fine line separating absence and presence, being and nothingness, life and death, which -- John Simon, Squaring the Circle * A Throw of the Dice: The Life of Stéphane Mallarmé, by Gordon Millan The illustration of the "fine line" is not by Mallarmé but by myself. (See Songs for Shakespeare, March 5, where the line separates being from nothingness, and Ridgepole, March 7, where the line represents the "great primal beginning" of Chinese philosophy (or, equivalently, Stevens's "first idea" or Mallarmé's line "separating absence and presence, being and nothingness, life and death.") Posted 3/10/2004 at 4:07 AM |
Apartments From Wallace Stevens, It is the celestial ennui of apartments Are the ravishments of truth, so fatal to Who comes and goes and comes and goes all day. From Guyan Robertson, From Plato's Meno: They will get it straight one day at the Sorbonne. See Logos and Logic Posted 3/7/2004 at 6:00 PM |
Ridgepole CBS News Sunday Morning today had a ridgepole ceremony for a house that was moved from China to Salem, Massachusetts. From the web page Introduction to the I Ching-- "He who has perceived the meaning of change fixes his attention no longer on transitory individual things but on the immutable, eternal law at work in all change. This law is the tao of Lao-tse, the course of things, the principle of the one in the many. That it may become manifest, a decision, a postulate, is necessary. This fundamental postulate is the 'great primal beginning' of all that exists, t'ai chi -- in its original meaning, the 'ridgepole.' Later Chinese philosophers devoted much thought to this idea of a primal beginning. A still earlier beginning, wu chi, was represented by the symbol of a circle. Under this conception, t'ai chi was represented by the circle divided into the light and the dark, yang and yin, . This symbol has also played a significant part in India and Europe. However, speculations of a gnostic-dualistic character are foreign to the original thought of the I Ching; what it posits is simply the ridgepole, the line. With this line, which in itself represents oneness, duality comes into the world, for the line at the same time posits an above and a below, a right and left, front and back-in a word, the world of the opposites." The t'ai chi symbol is also illustrated on the web page Cognitive Iconology, which says that "W.J.T. Mitchell calls 'iconology' a study of the 'logos' (the words, ideas, discourse, or 'science') of 'icons' (images, pictures, or likenesses). It is thus a 'rhetoric of images' (Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology, p. 1)." A variation on the t'ai chi symbol appears in a log24.net entry for March 5: The Line, See too my web page Logos and Logic, which has the following:
Logos Alogos, In the conclusion of Section 3, Canto X, of "Notes," Stevens says
This is the logoi alogoi of Simone Weil. Posted 3/7/2004 at 12:00 PM |
Cognitive Blending It seems that much of my effort here at Xanga can be described by these two words. Specifically, for an application of the "conceptual blending" of Fauconnier and Turner to my journal entries of Feb. 29-March 5, 2004, click here. Posted 3/6/2004 at 2:18 AM |
Signifying Nothing Fred Benninger, the former chairman of MGM Grand and the MGM studio, died at 86 at his home in Las Vegas on Sunday, Feb. 29, 2004. "Mr. Benninger was well known in the business world for decades, but he made his biggest mark in the gambling industry." For Benninger, who died on Oscar Day, a two-part story. Part One From an entry for
Part Two From an entry for
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Songs for Shakespeare from Willie and Waylon
LEAR: Now you better do some thinkin' FOOL: I've always been different
".... in the last mystery of all the single figure of what is called the World goes joyously dancing in a state beyond moon and sun, and the number of the Trumps is done. Save only for that which has no number and is called the Fool, because mankind finds it folly till it is known. It is sovereign or it is nothing, and if it is nothing then man was born dead." — The Greater Trumps, From Arts & Letters Daily,
The "more" link of the item at left above leads to an American Scientist article titled The Importance of The appearance of these two items side-by-side at Arts
& Letters Daily, together with Brantley's remark above, is an
example of Jungian synchronicity -- a concept that the American
Scientist author and Jonathan Miller probably both sneer at.
Sneer away. Posted 3/5/2004 at 1:20 AM |
ZZ we measure heaven and earth black on white we create new worlds and universes "Numbers and Names, Alphabets From time to time we take our pen in hand -- Hermann Hesse (1943), See also the previous entry, Posted 3/4/2004 at 1:44 PM |
Deep Play In the previous entry, there was a reference to Carl Kaysen, former director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and father of Susanna Kaysen, author of Girl, Interrupted. A search for further information on Carl Kaysen led to
Turner's book describes thought and culture in terms of what he calls "blends." It includes a meditation on
That Turner bases weighty ruminations of what he is pleased to call "social science" on the properties of cockfights suggests that the academic world is, in some respects, even more bizarre than the mental hospital described by Kaysen's daughter. Still, Turner's concept of "blends" is not without interest. Here is a blend based on a diagram of the fields in which Turner and Kaysen père labor: "politics, economics, and "economics, sociology, In the previous entry we abstracted from the nature of these academic pursuits, representing them simply as sets in a Venn diagram. This led to the following religious icon, an example of a Turner
Here is another "blend," related both to the religious material in the previous entry and to Geertz's influential essay. From my entry for Summa Theologica (Source: Blanche Knott, Illustration for the entries Posted 3/3/2004 at 8:00 PM |
An Association of Ideas "The association is the idea." -- Ian Lee "One of my teachers told me I was a nihilist... I took it as a compliment." MIT biography of Carl Kaysen, Susanna Kaysen's father: "His scholarly work has ranged widely in the areas where economics, sociology, politics and law overlap."
"Ahí construyó Félix Candela la Capilla abierta (1959, junto con Guillermo Rosell y Manuel Larrosa) que iba a ser un templo para todas las religiones, pero que no fue autorizada por las autoridades. Más adelante la Capilla habría de convertirse en restaurante, como el de Xochimilco construido en 1957, discoteca, bar y teatro. En el Casino de la Selva vivieron personajes famosos. Uno de ellos fue el escritor inglés Malcolm Lowry...." -- El Casino de la Selva, "No se puede vivir sin amar." -- Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano Posted 3/3/2004 at 12:00 PM |
Super Tuesday O the days of the Kerry dancing.... For further details, see April 16, 2003. Posted 3/2/2004 at 4:16 PM |
Passion From the previous entry: 1. From an entry of Dec. 21, 2002, some background in literary theory:
At the Oscars Sunday night, a thought attributed by Billy Crystal to Sean Connery: "Pussy Galore! I just got it! That's vulgar." For further background, see Passing the Crown (Aug. 24, 2003) and The Agony and the Ya-Ya (Oct. 4, 2002). Posted 3/2/2004 at 3:01 PM |