Out for Blood Dedication added on Kerry "shouldn’t be looking to score -- Chris Lehane, quoted in From today's Harvard Crimson: Ben and Jerry: "I know I'm in the minority, -- Jerry Bruckheimer, Posted 9/30/2004 at 6:25 PM |
Related reading: Related viewing: Today is the birthday of Posted 9/30/2004 at 2:14 PM |
Midnight in the Garden "With a little effort, cross-referenced." -- Opening sentence
Example: Posted 9/30/2004 at 12:00 AM |
Hounded "Scalia said he made the decision to stay on the case based on past practice. 'Not a single case was brought up in the motion to recuse, it was based on nothing other than newspaper editorials, and I'll be doggone if I'm to get hounded off the case by newspaper editorials.'" -- Boston Globe, Sept. 29, 2004 Entries related both to the previous entry and to the above (in style, if not in substance): The Black Queen and Amores Perros. Posted 9/29/2004 at 7:11 PM |
A Tune for Michaelmas Posted 9/29/2004 at 11:02 AM |
Romantic Interaction, From Karl Iagnemma: From Log24.net, March 3, 2004: "No se puede vivir sin amar." -- Malcolm Lowry, From Four Quartets: And the pool was filled with water out of sunlight, Posted 9/29/2004 at 1:00 AM |
3:33:33 PM Romantic Interaction, continued... The Rhyme of Time From American Dante Bibliography for 1983:
From Rachel Jacoff's review of Pinsky's translation of Dante's Inferno: "John Freccero's Introduction to the translation distills a compelling reading of the Inferno into a few powerful and immediately intelligible pages that make it clear why Freccero is not only a great Dante scholar, but a legendary teacher of the poem as well." From The Undivine Comedy, Ch. 2, by Teodolinda Barolini (Princeton University Press, 1992):
From Four Quartets: And the pool was filled with water out of sunlight, Posted 9/28/2004 at 3:33 PM |
Romantic Interaction (See previous entry.) From today's Harvard Crimson: "Pudding Show Features From yesterday's entry, "At the still point, Xanadu (1980) For related material, see Posted 9/27/2004 at 3:00 PM |
Romantic Interaction (See previous entry.) "At the still point, For Olivia Newton-John "Keep me suspended in time with you; -- Olivia Newton-John in Xanadu Posted 9/26/2004 at 1:11 PM |
Writings for Thirsty for knowing what God knows,
and finally said the Name which is the Key...
On 185: See Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations (PI), section 185, on the nature of rules. On 673: See the following works: Moral of these writings, thanks to Gregory Chaitin: "Mais quand une regle est fort composée, ce qui luy est conforme, passe pour irrégulier." --- Leibniz, Discours de métaphysique, VI, 1686 See also the previous entry, High Holy Hexagram, and Pi continued. Posted 9/25/2004 at 5:30 PM |
Readings for The film Pi is, in part, about an alleged secret name of God that can be uttered only on Yom Kippur. This is my personal version of such a name-- not an utterance, but instead a picture: 6:49:32 PM The Details: Synthemes and Spreads (pdf) Posted 9/24/2004 at 6:49 PM |
Time and Chance "Time and chance happeneth to them all." -- Ecclesiastes 9-11 "With the passage of time, everyone participated in the ever-increasingly secret lottery." -- Summary of Borges's Lottery The winning evening lottery number for Sunday, September 19, 2004, and for Thursday, September 23, 2004, in the State of Grace (Kelly) was
See a 9/20/04 story about 408 and a 1/4/03 story about Grace and jazz. From the latter: Now you has jazz. — Cole Porter, lyric for "High Society," Note that yesterday's entries dealt with "the jazz church" and that Sunday, Sept. 19, 2004-- the first of the "408" days above-- was the date of death of Ellis Marsalis Sr., patriarch of a family of jazz musicians. The second of the "408" days above-- yesterday-- was Ray Charles's birthday.
(See New Gold Standard: Cultural Capital) Posted 9/24/2004 at 1:06 PM |
Aluminum, Your Shiny Friend "From the very beginning, the Citicorp Center (today, the Citigroup Center) in New York City was an engineering challenge. When planning for the skyscraper began in the early 1970s, the northwest corner of the proposed building site was occupied by The church allowed Citicorp to build the skyscraper under one condition: a new church would have to be built on the same corner, with no connection to the Citicorp building and no columns passing through it. How did the engineers do it? They set the 59-story tower on four massive columns, positioned at the center of each side, rather than at the corners. This design allowed the northwest corner of the building to cantilever 72 feet over the new church." Source: PBS, Building BIG. Citigroup (NYSE:C) is said to be the largest financial services conglomerate in the world. For more on the close relationship between churches and banks, see the works of T. S. Eliot and a description of the City of London, For more on Eliot, architecture, and another Harvard man, use links in the previous entry. Posted 9/23/2004 at 2:00 PM |
Church Architecture From Martha Cooley's The Archivist, For related design issues Posted 9/23/2004 at 3:00 AM |
Tribute In memory of Russ Meyer, who "made industrial films for Standard Oil and lumber companies before making his own films," a picture that might aptly (see Pi continued) be titled By the same designer: Click on picture for details. Manufacturer: Click on logo for details. Related material: Posted 9/22/2004 at 2:38 PM |
Semitism
Norman F. Cantor on Christianity: "Christianity itself was a Jewish enterprise, and not simply because Jesus was a Jew; Cantor points out, in his characteristically flippant way, that 'the Church of Rome is officially dedicated to Peter and Paul-- two good Jewish boys, Simon Rocky and Saul of Tarsus.'" -- Lawrence Grossman, review of The Sacred Chain: The History of the Jews, by Norman F. Cantor See also a Palm Sunday, 2003, entry on Posted 9/22/2004 at 1:17 PM |
First Idea and Last Night In memory of Saint Norman Cantor, an author of "stunning a link to Log24.net entries of that date. Give 'em Hell, Norman.
Above: recommended videos "Dante's hell was intended to be a shocking literary device. The Divine Comedy is not a work of theology or a spiritual treatise any more than James Joyce's Ulysses is a sociological study of Dublin."
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Pi continued: (see 9/15/04) Renegade mathematician Max Cohen (Sean Gullette, left) and the leader of the Kabbalah sect, Lenny Meyer (Ben Shenkman) have a chance encounter on a Chinatown street corner. The Magic Schmuck "Confucius is said to have received only one inappropriate answer, i.e., hexagram 22, GRACE -- a thoroughly aesthetic hexagram. This is reminiscent of the advice given to Socrates by his daemon -- 'You ought to make more music' -- whereupon Socrates took to playing the flute. Confucius and Socrates compete for first place as far as reasonableness and a pedagogic attitude to life are concerned; but it is unlikely that either of them occupied himself with 'lending grace to the beard on his chin,' as the second line of this hexagram advises. Unfortunately, reason and pedagogy often lack charm and grace, and so the oracle may not have been wrong after all." -- Carl Jung, Foreword to the I Ching Yesterday, class, in keeping with our morning German lesson, our evening (5:01:22 PM ET) entry was Hexagram 22, Pi (pronounced "bee"). The Chinese term pi may be translated in various ways... As ornament, as adornment, or as in a German web page:
The Wilhelm translation of pi is "grace." This suggests we examine yesterday's evening lottery number in the State of Grace, Pennsylvania:
As kabbalists know, there are many ways of interpreting numbers. In keeping with the viewpoint of Ecclesiastes -- "time and chance happeneth" -- let us interpret this instance of chance as an instance of time... namely, 4/08. Striving for consistency in our meditations, let us examine the lessons for...
From the former: "When smashing monuments, save the pedestals; they always come in handy." From the latter: "The tug of an art that unapologetically sees itself as on a par with science and religion is not to be underestimated.... Philosophical ambition and formal modesty still constitute Minimalism's bottom line." In keeping with the above, from A Minimalist
For a poetic interpretation Posted 9/20/2004 at 12:00 PM |
5:01:22 Posted 9/19/2004 at 5:01 PM |
Sunday Shul From this date last year: Today's Hebrew lesson: From Wikipedia--
A search for information on circumcision by zipper yields the following gem:
Today's German lesson: Properties of an image
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The First Idea From aldaily.com,
Peekaboo: Wallace Stevens on "The First Idea" Patty-cake: "A specialist in Homer's Odyssey and early Greek lyric poetry, Joseph Russo is the only American classicist among six international scholars to provide commentary for Oxford University Press' three-volume edition of the epic poem." -- Introduction to an inaugural lecture, "Language, Poetry, Philology, and 'The Stateliest Measure,'" at Haverford College given by Joseph Russo on Feb. 26, 1999 Posted 9/18/2004 at 2:56 PM |
Exhibit A: Exhibit B:
Exhibit C:
Click on pictures for details. Posted 9/18/2004 at 2:56 AM |
Playing God Interview in TIME Magazine, issue dated Sept. 6, 2004: "Ellen DeGeneres has been cast as God in a remake of the 1977 George Burns film Oh, God!... TIME: What do you think God's house is like? ... and a TV with two videos:
Click on pictures for details. Posted 9/18/2004 at 12:12 AM |
3:57:09... In memory of rock star and NRA member Johnny Ramone, who died on Wednesday, Sept. 15: "You've got to ask yourself a question." "At the end, when the agent pumps Neo full of lead, the agent is using a .357 Magnum. That gun only holds 9 bullets, but the agent shoots 10 shots at Neo. I don't know where he got that gun."
Manufacturer:
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God is in... From an entry for Aug. 19, 2003 on
On Harvard and psychiatry: see The Crimson Passion: This is a reductio ad absurdum of the Harvard philosophy so eloquently described by Alston Chase in his study of Harvard and the making of the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski. Kaczynski's time at Harvard overlapped slightly with mine, so I probably saw him in Cambridge at some point. Chase writes that at Harvard, the Unabomber "absorbed the message of positivism, which demanded value-neutral reasoning and preached that (as Kaczynski would later express it in his journal) 'there is no logical justification for morality.'" I was less impressed by Harvard positivism, although I did benefit from a course in symbolic logic from Quine. At that time-- the early 60's-- little remained at Harvard of what Robert Stone has called "our secret culture," that of the founding Puritans-- exemplified by Cotton and Increase Mather. From Robert Stone, A Flag for Sunrise: "Our secret culture is as frivolous as a willow on a tombstone. It's a wonderful thing-- or it was. It was strong and dreadful, it was majestic and ruthless. It was a stranger to pity. And it's not for sale, ladies and gentlemen." Some traces of that culture:
A more appealing view of faith was offered by PBS on Wednesday night, the beginning of this year's High Holy Days:
Posted 9/17/2004 at 12:00 PM |
The Fullness of Time "In the fullness of time,
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11:59 PM: The Last Minute For the benefit of Grace (Paley, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute), here are the September 15 lottery numbers for Pennsylvania, the State of Grace (Kelly): Midday: 053 Evening: 373. For the significance of the evening number, 373, see Directions Out and Outside the World (both of 4/26/04). In both of these entries, and others to which they are linked, the number 373 signifies eternity. The two most obvious interpretations of the midday number, 53, are as follows:
"Time and chance Posted 9/15/2004 at 11:59 PM |
High Holy 7:11:20 PM For a poetic interpretation For a religious interpretation "The truth is that man's capacity for symbol-mongering in general and language in particular is so intimately part and parcel of his being human, of his perceiving and knowing, of his very consciousness itself, that it is all but impossible for him to focus on the magic prism through which he sees everything else." -- Walker Percy, The Message in the Bottle Posted 9/15/2004 at 7:11 PM |
Shakespeare From "Walter Benjamin, THE PEARL DIVER Full fathom five thy father lies, "... we are dealing here with something which may not be unique but is certainly extremely rare: the gift of thinking poetically. And this thinking, fed by the present, works with the 'thought fragments' it can wrest from the past and gather about itself. Like a pearl diver who descends to the bottom of the sea, not to excavate the bottom and bring it to light but to pry loose the rich and the strange, the pearls and the coral in the depths, and to carry them to the surface, this thinking delves into the depths of the past-- but not in order to resuscitate it the way it was and to contribute to the renewal of extinct ages. What guides this thinking is the conviction that although the living is subject to the ruin of the time, the process of decay is at the same time a process of crystallization, that in the depth of the sea, into which sinks and is dissolved what once was alive, some things 'suffer a sea-change' and survive in new crystallized forms and shapes that remain immune to the elements, as though they waited only for the pearl diver who one day will come down to them and bring them up into the world of the living-- as 'thought fragments,' as something 'rich and strange,' and perhaps even as everlasting Urphänomene." For examples of everlasting Urphänomene, see Translation Plane for Rosh Hashanah and The Square Wheel; recall that on this date "In 1935, the Nuremberg Laws deprived German Jews of their citizenship and made the swastika the official symbol of Nazi Germany." -- Today in History, the Miami Herald (For some further reflections on square wheels, see Triumph of the Cross.) Posted 9/15/2004 at 4:00 PM |
On Translation From Illuminations, by Walter Benjamin, translated by Harry Zohn: "If there is such a thing as a language of truth, the tensionless and even silent depository of the ultimate truth which all thought strives for, then this language of truth is-- the true language. And this very language, whose divination and description is the only perfection a philosopher can hope for, is concealed in concentrated fashion in translations. There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation. But despite the claims of sentimental artists, these two are not banausic. For there is a philosophical genius that is characterized by a yearning for that language which manifests itself in translations: 'Les langues imparfaites en cela que plusieurs, manque la suprême: penser étant écrire sans accessoires, ni chuchotement mais tacite encore l'immortelle parole, la diversité, sur terre, des idiomes empêche personne de proférer les mots qui, sinon se trouveraient, par une frappe unique, elle-même matériellement la vérité.'* If what Mallarmé evokes here is fully fathomable to a philosopher, translation, with its rudiments of such a language, is midway between poetry and doctrine. Its products are less sharply defined, but it leaves no less of a mark on history." * "The imperfection of languages consists in their plurality, the supreme one is lacking: thinking is writing without accessories or even whispering, the immortal word still remains silent; the diversity of idioms on earth prevents everybody from uttering the words which otherwise, at one single stroke, would materialize as truth.' -- Stéphane Mallarmé / Crise de vers Posted 9/15/2004 at 2:56 PM |
Translation Plane Figure A
Two versions of the defining spreadset for this plane are shown in Figure A. In the left part of Fig. A, the matrices of Dr. Klein are altered by the use of "2" instead of Posted 9/15/2004 at 11:30 AM |
The Square Wheel Harmonic analysis may be based either on the circular (i.e., trigonometric) functions or on the square (i. e., Walsh) functions. George Mackey's masterly historical survey showed that the discovery of Fourier analysis, based on the circle, was of comparable importance (within mathematics) to the discovery (within general human history) of the wheel. Harmonic analysis based on square For some observations of Stephen Wolfram on square-wheel analysis, see pp. 573 ff. in Wolfram's magnum opus, A New Kind of Science (Wolfram Media, May 14, 2002). Wolfram's illustration of this topic is closely related, as it happens, to a note on the symmetry of finite-geometry hyperplanes that I wrote in 1986. A web page pointing out this same symmetry in Walsh functions was archived on Oct. 30, 2001. That web page is significant (as later versions point out) partly because it shows that just as the phrase "the circular functions" is applied to the trigonometric functions, the phrase "the square functions" might well be applied to Walsh "While the reader may draw many a moral from our tale, I hope that the story is of interest for its own sake. Moreover, I hope that it may inspire others, participants or observers, to preserve the true and complete record of our mathematical times." -- From Error-Correcting Codes Posted 9/14/2004 at 3:00 PM |
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The Turning A way a lone Click on pictures "For the essence and the end Robinson Jeffers, Posted 9/12/2004 at 1:13 PM |
Dark Lady "Each time we come closer to Shakespeare's life, we escape from the aridity of formal criticism or the cheap generalities of social history into a recognizable world of real experience. When A. L. Rowse insists that Emilia Bassano Lanier, the tempestuous, adulterous, musical, poetic wife of a court musician, was the original 'Dark Lady' of the Sonnets, we can buy it or not, as we please. But the very existence of a woman like Emilia demonstrates that the clichéd images of Elizabethan women, as subservient wives or unruly whores, are too grossly tuned to capture the reality of Shakespeare's world. Whether she is the Dark Lady or not, Emilia is a dark lady. Good biographical criticism dissolves determinisms, and replaces them not with gossipy puzzle-solution certainties but with glimpses of life as it is lived, and art as it is made." -- Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, issue dated Sept. 13, 2004
"En librairie depuis le 12 septembre 2003, ce livre correspond au désir du mouvement 'ni putes ni soumises' de briser l'omerta et de poursuivre les débats engagés depuis la marche des femmes. À travers ce récit, ce sont les voix de milliers de jeunes femmes qui se font entendre, exprimant leurs interrogations et leur révolte." On Samira Bellil, who died on Sept. 3: "Bellil was considered the 'godmother' of the womens' rights group 'Ni Putes Ni Soumises' (Neither Whores Nor Submissive.)" -- Hendersonville (NC) Times-News Posted 9/12/2004 at 12:00 PM |
"Now is the time for turning. The leaves are beginning to turn from green to red to orange. The birds are beginning to turn and are heading once more toward the south. The animals are beginning to turn to storing their food for the winter. For leaves, birds and animals, turning comes instinctively. But for us, turning does not come so easily." -- President Clinton, Posted 9/11/2004 at 12:00 PM |
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For Samira Bellil, who died in Paris on From the link at Three songs from Sept. 10 "Good morning little schoolgirl -- Rod Stewart, Sept. 10, 1964 "Tell your mamma, girl, I can't stay long -- Neil Diamond, Sept. 10, 1966 "A time of war, a time of peace -- The Byrds, Sept. 10, 1965 Further verses from the Byrds To everything, turn, turn, turn, "It's not even called rape. They call it ... and a time to every purpose "... The kind of school where teacher -- Metropolitan Police Service, London Posted 9/10/2004 at 1:13 PM |
An Invariant Feast In memory of philosopher Robert D. Cumming, who took part in the liberation of Paris on the Feast of St. Louis, 1944, and who died on that same feast day, August 25, in 2004: Posted 9/6/2004 at 2:29 PM |
A Story of Sorts Sometimes one's journal entries seem to be telling a story... This was the case for Log24 entries of Tuesday through Friday last week. Unfortunately, the story they told is about as coherent as Finnegans Wake. Anyone interested can find the story, put into chronological order and prefaced with a summary, at Symmetry and Change Posted 9/5/2004 at 5:29 PM |
Symmetry and Change
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Early Evening, Shining Star |
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Words and Images |
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Symmetry and Change, Part 1...
Early Evening,
Shining Star
Hexagram 01
The Creative:
The movement of heaven
is full of power.
Click on picture
for details.
The Clare Lawler Prize
for Literature goes to...
For the thoughts on time |
Symmetry and Change, Part 2...
Words and Images
Hexagram 35
Progress:
The Image
The sun rises over the earth.
"Oh, my Lolita. I have only words "This is the best toy train set "As the quotes above by Nabokov and Welles suggest, we need to be able to account for the specific functions available to narrative in each medium, for the specific elements that empirical creators will 'play with' in crafting their narratives." |
For
James Whale
and
William French Anderson --
Words
In the Spirit of
Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs:
Stay for just a while...
Stay, and let me look at you.
It’s been so long, I hardly knew you.
Standing in the door...
Stay with me a while.
I only want to talk to you.
We’ve traveled halfway ’round the world
To find ourselves again.
September morn...
We danced until the night
became a brand new day,
Two lovers playing scenes
from some romantic play.
September morning still can
make me feel this way.
Look at what you've done...
Why, you've become a grown-up girl...
-- Neil Diamond
Images
In the Spirit of
September Morn:
The Last Day of Summer:
Photographs by Jock Sturges
"In 1990, the FBI entered Sturges's studio and seized his work, claiming violation of child pornography laws."
Related material:
and
Log24 entries of
Aug. 15, 2004.
Those interested in the political implications of Diamond's songs may enjoy Neil Performs at Kerry Fundraiser.
I personally enjoyed this site's description of Billy Crystal's remarks, which included "a joke about former President Clinton's forthcoming children's
"Puff, puff, woo, woo, off we go!"
Symmetry and Change, Part 3...
Hexagram 28
Preponderance of
the Great:
The Image
The lake rises
above the trees.
"Congratulations to Clare Lawler, who participated very successfully in the recently held Secondary Schools Judo Championships in Wellington."
For an explanation of this entry's title, see the previous two entries and
Oxford Word
(Log24, July 10, 2004)
Symmetry and Change, Part 4...
Heaven and Earth
Hexagram 42
Increase:
Wind and thunder:
the image of Increase.
"This time resembles that of
the marriage of heaven and earth"
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"What it all boiled down to really was everybody giving everybody else a hard time for no good reason whatever... You just couldn't march to your own music. Nowadays, you couldn't even hear it... It was lost, the music which each person had inside himself, and which put him in step with things as they should be."
-- The Grifters, Ch. 10, 1963, by
James Myers Thompson
"The Old Man's still an artist
with a Thompson."
-- Terry in "Miller's Crossing"
For some of "the music which
each person had inside,"
click on the picture
with the Thompson.
It may be that Kylie is,
in her own way, an artist...
with a 357:
(Hits counter at
The Quality of Diamond
as of 11:05 AM Sept. 2, 2004)
For more on
"the marriage of heaven and earth,"
see
Plato, Pegasus, and the Evening Star.
Symmetry and Change, Part 5...
Whale Road
Hexagram 23
Splitting Apart:
The Image
The mountain rests
on the earth.
"... the plot is different but the monsters, names, and manner of speaking will ring a bell."
-- Frank Pinto, Jr., review of Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf
Other recommended reading, found during a search for the implications of today's previous entry, "Hexagram 42":
This excellent meditation
on symmetry and change
comes from a site whose
home page
has the following image:
Symmetry and Change, Part 6...
Cinderella's Slipper
Hexagram 54
The Marrying Maiden:
Symmetry and Change, Part 7...
Another September Morn
Hexagram 56:
The Wanderer
Fire on the mountain,
Run boys run...
Devil's in the House of
The Rising Sun!
Symmetry and Change, Part 8...
Hexagram 25
Innocence:
Symmetry and Change, Part 9...
Hexagram 49
Revolution:
"I sit now in a little room off the bar at four-thirty in the morning drinking ochas and then mescal and writing this on some Bella Vista notepaper I filched the other night.... But this is worst of all, to feel your soul dying. I wonder if it is because to-night my soul has really died that I feel at the moment something like peace. Or is it because right through hell there is a path, as Blake well knew, and though I may not take it, sometimes lately in dreams I have been able to see it? ...And this is how I sometimes think of myself, as a great explorer who has discovered some extraordinary land from which he can never return to give his knowledge to the world: but the name of this land is hell. It is not Mexico of course but in the heart."
-- Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
Symmetry and Change, conclusion...
Ite, Missa Est
Hexagram 13
Fellowship With Men:
"A pretty girl --
is like a melody ---- !"
For details, see
A Mass for Lucero.
Symmetry and Change, conclusion... Ite, Missa Est Hexagram 13 The ImageHeaven
Fire
"A pretty girl -- For details, see Posted 9/3/2004 at 3:17 PM |
Symmetry and Change, Part 9... Hexagram 49 The Imagethe image of Revolution. "I sit now in a little room off the bar at four-thirty in the morning drinking ochas and then mescal and writing this on some Bella Vista notepaper I filched the other night.... But this is worst of all, to feel your soul dying. I wonder if it is because to-night my soul has really died that I feel at the moment something like peace. Or is it because right through hell there is a path, as Blake well knew, and though I may not take it, sometimes lately in dreams I have been able to see it? ...And this is how I sometimes think of myself, as a great explorer who has discovered some extraordinary land from which he can never return to give his knowledge to the world: but the name of this land is hell. It is not Mexico of course but in the heart." -- Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano Posted 9/3/2004 at 1:13 PM |
Symmetry and Change, Part 8... Hexagram 25 The ImageHeaven
Thunder
Posted 9/3/2004 at 12:00 PM |
Symmetry and Change, Part 7... Another September Morn Hexagram 56:
The ImageFire
Mountain
Fire on the mountain, Posted 9/3/2004 at 10:01 AM |
Symmetry and Change, Part 6... Cinderella's Slipper Hexagram 54
The ImageThunder
Lake
See
"... a Thoreau-like retreat by a nearby lake.... Both men have a 'touch of the poet'.... The symmetry is perfect." Posted 9/3/2004 at 12:00 AM |
Symmetry and Change, Part 5... Whale Road Hexagram 23 The Image Mountain
Earth
The mountain rests "... the plot is different but the monsters, names, and manner of speaking will ring a bell." -- Frank Pinto, Jr., review of Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf Other recommended reading, found during a search for the implications of today's previous entry, "Hexagram 42": This excellent meditation Posted 9/2/2004 at 7:00 PM |
Symmetry and Change, Part 4... Heaven and Earth Hexagram 42 The ImageWind
Thunder
Wind and thunder: "This time resembles that of
you gotta ride it like you find it. Get your ticket at the station of the Rock Island Line. in Rock Island, Illinois "What it all boiled down to really was everybody giving everybody else a hard time for no good reason whatever... You just couldn't march to your own music. Nowadays, you couldn't even hear it... It was lost, the music which each person had inside himself, and which put him in step with things as they should be." -- The Grifters, Ch. 10, 1963, by "The Old Man's still an artist For some of "the music which It may be that Kylie is, (Hits counter at For more on Posted 9/2/2004 at 11:11 AM |
Symmetry and Change, Part 3... Hexagram 28 The Image Lake
Wind
The lake rises
"Congratulations to Clare Lawler, who participated very successfully in the recently held Secondary Schools Judo Championships in Wellington." For an explanation of this entry's title, see the previous two entries and Oxford Word Posted 9/1/2004 at 12:07 PM |
Symmetry and Change, Part 2... Words and Images Hexagram 35
The Image Fire
Earth
The sun rises over the earth.
For Words Stay for just a while... -- Neil Diamond Images The Last Day of Summer: "In 1990, the FBI entered Sturges's studio and seized his work, claiming violation of child pornography laws." Related material: and Log24 entries of Those interested in the political implications of Diamond's songs may enjoy Neil Performs at Kerry Fundraiser. I personally enjoyed this site's description of Billy Crystal's remarks, which included "a joke about former President Clinton's forthcoming children's "Puff, puff, woo, woo, off we go!" Posted 9/1/2004 at 9:00 AM |