And an especially Faustian Walpurgis Night to Harvard University, home of Robert Langdon, fictional professor of Religious Symbology -- "That corpse you planted last year in your garden, Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year? Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed?" -- T. S. Eliot, "The Waste Land" From Log24 last September: Posted 4/30/2008 at 11:07 PM |
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Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and Sacred Heart
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Calendar Catechism Q: If the opposite of Christmas (December 25) is Anti-Christmas (June 25), and the opposite of Halloween (October 31) is May Day (May 1), then what is the opposite of April 30? A: October 30... Devil's Night! Posted 4/30/2008 at 9:00 AM |
Sacerdotal Jargon at Harvard: Thomas Wolfe (Harvard M.A., 1922) versus Rosalind Krauss (Harvard M.A., 1964, Ph.D., 1969) on The Kernel of Eternity "No culture has a pact with eternity." -- George Steiner, interview in The Guardian of "At that instant he saw, in one blaze of light, an image of unutterable conviction.... the core of life, the essential pattern whence all other things proceed, the kernel of eternity." -- Thomas Wolfe, Of Time and the River, quoted in Log24 on June 9, 2005 From today's online Harvard Crimson: "... under the leadership of Faust, Harvard students should look forward to an ever-growing opportunity for international experience and artistic endeavor." Pauli as Mephistopheles in a 1932 parody of Goethe's Faust at Niels Bohr's institute in Copenhagen From a recent book on Wolfgang Pauli, The Innermost Kernel: A belated happy birthday Another Harvard figure quoted here on Dec. 5, 2002: "The theory of poetry, that is to say, the total of the theories of poetry, often seems to become in time a mystical theology or, more simply, a mystique. The reason for this must by now be clear. The reason is the same reason why the pictures in a museum of modern art often seem to become in time a mystical aesthetic, a prodigious search of appearance, as if to find a way of saying and of establishing that all things, whether below or above appearance, are one and that it is only through reality, in which they are reflected or, it may be, joined together, that we can reach them. Under such stress, reality changes from substance to subtlety, a subtlety in which it was natural for Cézanne to say: 'I see planes bestriding each other and sometimes straight lines seem to me to fall' or 'Planes in color.... The colored area where shimmer the souls of the planes, in the blaze of the kindled prism, the meeting of planes in the sunlight.' The conversion of our Lumpenwelt went far beyond this. It was from the point of view of another subtlety that Klee could write: 'But he is one chosen that today comes near to the secret places where original law fosters all evolution. And what artist would not establish himself there where the organic center of all movement in time and space-- which he calls the mind or heart of creation-- determines every function.' Conceding that this sounds a bit like sacerdotal jargon, that is not too much to allow to those that have helped to create a new reality, a modern reality, since what has been created is nothing less."From a review of Rosalind Krauss's The Optical Unconscious (MIT Press hardcover, 1993): Krauss is concerned to present Modernism less in terms of its history than its structure, which she seeks to represent by means of a kind of diagram: "It is more interesting to think of modernism as a graph or table than a history." The "table" is a square with diagonally connected corners, of the kind most likely to be familiar to readers as the Square of Opposition, found in elementary logic texts since the mid-19th century. The square, as Krauss sees it, defines a kind of idealized space "within which to work out unbearable contradictions produced within the real field of history." This she calls, using the inevitable gallicism, "the site of Jameson's Political Unconscious" and then, in art, the optical unconscious, which consists of what Utopian Modernism had to kick downstairs, to repress, to "evacuate... from its field."Rosalind Kraus in The Optical Unconscious (MIT Press paperback, 1994): For a presentation of the Klein Group, see Marc Barbut, "On the Meaning of the Word 'Structure' in Mathematics," in Introduction to Structuralism, ed. Michael Lane (New York: Basic Books, 1970). Claude Lévi-Strauss uses the Klein group in his analysis of the relation between Kwakiutl and Salish masks in The Way of the Masks, trans. Sylvia Modelski (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1982), p. 125; and in relation to the Oedipus myth in "The Structural Analysis of Myth," Structural Anthropology, trans. Claire Jackobson [sic] and Brooke Grundfest Schoepf (New York: Basic Books, 1963). In a transformation of the Klein Group, A. J. Greimas has developed the semiotic square, which he describes as giving "a slightly different formulation to the same structure," in "The Interaction of Semiotic Constraints," On Meaning (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987), p. 50. Jameson uses the semiotic square in The Political Unconscious (see pp. 167, 254, 256, 277) [Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1981)], as does Louis Marin in "Disneyland: A Degenerate Utopia," Glyph, no. 1 (1977), p. 64. For related non-sacerdotal jargon, see... Wikipedia on the Klein group (denoted V, for Vierergruppe):In this representation, V is a normal subgroup of the alternating group A4 (and also the symmetric group S4) on 4 letters. In fact, it is the kernel of a surjective map from S4 to S3. According to Galois theory, the existence of the Klein four-group (and in particular, this representation of it) explains the existence of the formula for calculating the roots of quartic equations in terms of radicals. For radicals of another sort, see A Logocentric Meditation, A Mass for Lucero, and [update of 7 PM] Steven Erlanger in today's New York Times-- "France Still Divided Over Lessons of 1968 Unrest." For material related to Klee's phrase mentioned above by Stevens, "the organic center of all movement in time and space," see the following Google search: Posted 4/29/2008 at 11:09 AM |
Religious Art The black monolith of Kubrick's 2001 is, in its way, an example of religious art. One artistic shortcoming (or strength-- it is, after all, monolithic) of that artifact is its resistance to being analyzed as a whole consisting of parts, as in a Joycean epiphany. The following figure does allow such an epiphany. One approach to the epiphany: "Transformations play a major role in modern mathematics." - A biography of Felix Christian Klein The above 2x4 array (2 columns, 4 rows) furnishes an example of a transformation acting on the parts of an organized whole: For other transformations acting on the eight parts, hence on the 35 partitions, see "Geometry of the 4x4 Square," as well as Peter J. Cameron's "The Klein Quadric and Triality" (pdf), and (for added context) "The Klein Correspondence, Penrose Space-Time, and a Finite Model." For a related structure-- not rectangle but cube-- see Epiphany 2008. Posted 4/28/2008 at 7:00 AM |
Happy Birthday to the late Gian-Carlo Rota, mathematician and scholar of philosophy Rota* on his favorite philosopher: "I believe Husserl to be the greatest philosopher of all times.... Intellectual honesty is the striking quality of Husserl's writings. He wrote what he honestly believed to be true, neither more nor less. However, honesty is not clarity; as a matter of fact, honesty and clarity are at opposite ends. Husserl proudly refused to stoop to the demands of showmanship that are indispensable in effective communication." Related material: The Diamond Theorem * Gian-Carlo Rota, "Ten Remarks on Husserl and Phenomenology," in O.K. Wiegand et al. (eds.), Phenomenology on Kant, German Idealism, Hermeneutics and Logic, pp. 89-97, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 Posted 4/27/2008 at 8:28 AM |
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Mere Philosophy In Memory of Edmund Husserl "Mereology (from the Greek μερος, 'part') is the theory of parthood relations: of the relations of part to whole and the relations of part to part within a whole. Its roots can be traced back to the early days of philosophy...." -- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy "Beauty is the proper conformity of the parts to one another and to the whole." -- Classic definition quoted by Werner Heisenberg (Log24, May 18-20, 2005) "It seems, as one becomes older, That the past has another pattern, and ceases to be a mere sequence...." -- T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets See also Time Fold and Theme and Variations. Posted 4/26/2008 at 10:31 AM |
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Destabilizing the Locus "It is the intention of this piece to destabilize the locus of that authorial act...." -- Yale art student Aliza Shvarts, quoted today in The Harvard Crimson From Log24 on March 14:
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Dimensions George Steiner, interview in The Guardian of "No culture has a pact with eternity," he says. "The conditions which made possible the giants of the western poetic, aesthetic, philosophic tradition no longer really obtain." Steiner doesn't believe "there can be a Hamlet without a ghost, a Missa Solemnis without a missa," and if you say that the questions addressed by religion are "nonsense or baby talk or trivial, I don't believe that certain dimensions will be available to you. Particularly today, when the atheist case is being put, if I may say so, with such vulgarity of mind." Posted 4/24/2008 at 9:00 AM |
Upscale Realism
or, "Have some more wine and cheese, Barack." (See April 15, 5:01 AM) Allyn Jackson on Rebecca Goldstein in the April 2006 AMS Notices (pdf)
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From Log24 on March 22 (Tuesday of Passion Week), 2005:
From UPSCALE, a website of the physics department at the University of Toronto:
For further iconology of the above equilateral triangles, see Star Wars (May 25, 2003), Mani Padme (March 10, 2008), Rite of Sping (March 14, 2008), and Art History: The Pope of Hope (In honor of John Paul II three days after his death in April 2005). Happy Shakespeare's Birthday. Posted 4/23/2008 at 9:00 AM |
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Stanley Fish in the New York Times of April 20, 2008-- "General accounts of truth fall under the category of epistemology-- inquiries into how we come to know the facts and truths we routinely affirm." Posted 4/22/2008 at 9:00 AM |
A Fresh Perspective
"... if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest...." Matthew 5:23-24 The following meditations were inspired by an ad today in the online New York Times obituaries section-- "Been somewhere interesting? Tell us about it for a chance to win a trip for 2 to Paris."Country song, quoted here Dec. 17, 2003-- "Give faith a fighting chance."Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano--
"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." Gian-Carlo Rota "He always brought a very fresh From a novel, Psychoshop, quoted here in an entry on the Pope's birthday, "The Gates of Hell" -- His manner was all charm and grace; pure cafe society.... Posted 4/21/2008 at 11:07 AM |
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A Midrash for Benedict On April 16, the Pope's birthday, the evening lottery number in Pennsylvania was 441. The Log24 entries of April 17 and April 18 supplied commentaries based on 441's incarnation as a page number in an edition of Heidegger's writings. Here is a related commentary on a different incarnation of 441. (For a context that includes both today's commentary and those of April 17 and 18, see Gian-Carlo Rota-- a Heidegger scholar as well as a mathematician-- on mathematical Lichtung.) From R. D. Carmichael, Introduction to the Theory of Groups of Finite Order (Boston, Ginn and Co., 1937)-- an exercise from the final page, 441, of the final chapter, "Tactical Configurations"-- "23. Let G be a multiply transitive group of degree n whose degree of transitivity is k; and let G have the property that a set S of m elements exists in G such that when k of the elements S are changed by a permutation of G into k of these elements, then all these m elements are permuted among themselves; moreover, let G have the property P, namely, that the identity is the only element in G which leaves fixed the n - m elements not in S. Then show that G permutes the m elements S into n(n -1) ... (n - k + 1) ____________________ m(m - 1) ... (m - k + 1) sets of m elements each, these sets forming a configuration having the property that any (whatever) set of k elements appears in one and just one of these sets of m elements each. Discuss necessary conditions on m, n, k in order that the foregoing conditions may be realized. Exhibit groups illustrating the theorem." This exercise concerns an important mathematical structure said to have been discovered independently by the American Carmichael and by the German Ernst Witt. For some perhaps more comprehensible material from the preceding page in Carmichael-- 440-- see Diamond Theory in 1937. Posted 4/19/2008 at 5:01 AM |
From "Today in History," by the Associated Press-- April 19, 2008-- "On this date.... Ten years ago.... Mexican poet-philosopher Octavio Paz died at age 84." "Mexico is a solar country--
"And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not." -- John 1:5 "Ya la ronda llega aquí" Posted 4/19/2008 at 4:30 AM |
In memory of Gian-Carlo Rota, mathematician, who died at 66 on this date in 1999 "Numbers go to heaven who know no more of God on earth than, as it were, of sun in forest gloom." -- Meister Eckhart, In Principio Erat Verbum Related material: The Shining of May 29, yesterday's entry, and Against Reductionism. Posted 4/18/2008 at 9:00 AM |
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April 16, 2008 -- day of the Pennsylvania Clinton-Obama debate and of the Pope's birthday -- The Pennsylvania Lottery: Make of this revelation what you will. My own interpretations: the Lichtung of 4/13 and the Dickung of page 441 of Heidegger's Basic Writings, where the terms Lichtung and Dickung are described. See also "The Shining of May 29" (JFK's birthday). "By groping toward the light we are made to realize how deep the darkness is around us." -- Arthur Koestler, The Call Girls: A Tragi-Comedy Posted 4/17/2008 at 8:28 AM |
Poetry for Physicists: The Gates of Hell From the obituary of physicist John Archibald Wheeler at Princeton: In the fall of 1967, he was invited to give a talk.... As he spoke, he... [mentioned] something
strange... what he called a gravitationally
completely collapsed object. But such a phrase was a mouthful, he said,
wishing aloud for a better name. "How about black hole?" someone
shouted from the audience.
That was it. "I had been searching for just the right term for months, mulling it over in bed, in the bathtub, in my car, wherever I had quiet moments," he later said. "Suddenly this name seemed exactly right." He kept using the term, in lectures and on papers, and it stuck. From Log24 last year on this date ("Happy Birthday, Benedict XVI"):
"Know the one about the Demiurge and the Abridgment of Hope?" From Dante, The Inferno, inscription on the gates of Hell:-- Robert Stone, A Flag for Sunrise, Knopf, 1981, the final page, 439 "Abandon all hope, ye who enter." From Psychoshop, an unfinished novel by Alfred Bester completed by Roger Zelazny: His manner was all charm and grace; pure cafe society.... He purred a chuckle. "My place. If you want to come, I'll show you." "Love to. The Luogo Nero? The Black Place?" "That's what the locals call it. It's really Buoco Nero, the Black Hole." "Like the Black Hole of Calcutta?" "No. Black Hole as in astronomy. Corpse of a dead star, but also channel between this universe and its next-door neighbor." "Here? In Rome?" "Sure. They drift around in space until they run out of gas and come to a stop. This number happened to park here." "How long ago?" "No one knows," he said. "It was there six centuries before Christ, when the Etruscans took over a small town called Roma and began turning it into the capital of the world." Posted 4/16/2008 at 10:10 AM |
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Best summary of Obama's sneer: "Xenophobia, San Francisco Style." Have some wine and cheese, Barack. Posted 4/15/2008 at 5:01 AM |
Classical Quantum From this morning's New York Times: "John A. Wheeler, a visionary physicist... died Sunday morning [April 13, 2008].... ... Dr. Wheeler set the agenda for generations of theoretical
physicists, using metaphor as effectively as calculus to capture the
imaginations of his students and colleagues and to pose questions that
would send them, minds blazing, to the barricades to confront nature.... 'He rejuvenated general relativity; he made it an experimental subject and took it away from the mathematicians,' said Freeman Dyson, a theorist at the Institute for Advanced Study.... ... he [Wheeler] sailed to Copenhagen to work with Bohr, the godfather of the quantum revolution, which had shaken modern science with paradoxical statements about the nature of reality. 'You can talk about people like Buddha, Jesus, Moses, Confucius, but the thing that convinced me that such people existed were the conversations with Bohr,' Dr. Wheeler said....... Dr. Wheeler was swept up in the Manhattan Project to build an atomic bomb. To his lasting regret, the bomb was not ready in time to change the course of the war in Europe.... Dr. Wheeler continued
to do government work after the war, interrupting his research to help
develop the hydrogen bomb, promote the building of fallout shelters and
support the Vietnam War.... 'We are no longer satisfied with insights only into particles, or fields of force, or geometry, or even space and time,' Dr. Wheeler wrote in 1981. 'Today we demand of physics some understanding of existence itself.' At a 90th birthday celebration in 2003, Dr. Dyson said that Dr. Wheeler was part prosaic calculator, a 'master craftsman,' who decoded nuclear fission, and part poet. 'The poetic Wheeler is a prophet,' he said, 'standing like Moses on the top of Mount Pisgah, looking out over the promised land that his people will one day inherit.'"-- Dennis Overbye, The New York Times, Monday, April 14, 2008 As prophets go, I prefer the poet Wallace Stevens: "point A / In a perspective — Wallace Stevens, Posted 4/14/2008 at 2:00 AM |
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The Echo in Plato's Cave "It is said that the students of medieval Paris came to blows in the streets over the question of universals. The stakes are high, for at issue is our whole conception of our ability to describe the world truly or falsely, and the objectivity of any opinions we frame to ourselves. It is arguable that this is always the deepest, most profound problem of philosophy." -- Simon Blackburn, Think (Oxford, 1999) Michael Harris, mathematician at the University of Paris: "... three 'parts' of tragedy identified by Aristotle that transpose to fiction of all types-- plot (mythos), character (ethos), and 'thought' (dianoia)...." -- paper (pdf) to appear in Mathematics and Narrative, A. Doxiadis and B. Mazur, eds. Mythos -- A visitor from France this morning viewed the entry of Jan. 23, 2006: "In Defense of Hilbert (On His Birthday)." That entry concerns a remark of Michael Harris. A check of Harris's website reveals a new article: "Do Androids Prove Theorems in Their Sleep?" (slighly longer version of article to appear in Mathematics and Narrative, A. Doxiadis and B. Mazur, eds.) (pdf).From that article: "The word 'key' functions here to structure the reading of the article, to draw the reader's attention initially to the element of the proof the author considers most important. Compare E.M. Forster in Aspects of the Novel: [plot is] something which is measured not be minutes or hours, but by intensity, so that when we look at our past it does not stretch back evenly but piles up into a few notable pinnacles."Ethos -- "Forster took pains to widen and deepen the enigmatic character of his novel, to make it a puzzle insoluble within its own terms, or without. Early drafts of A Passage to India reveal a number of false starts. Forster repeatedly revised drafts of chapters thirteen through sixteen, which comprise the crux of the novel, the visit to the Marabar Caves. When he began writing the novel, his intention was to make the cave scene central and significant, but he did not yet know how: When I began a A Passage to India, I knew something important happened in the Malabar (sic) Caves, and that it would have a central place in the novel-- but I didn't know what it would be... The Malabar Caves represented an area in which concentration can take place. They were to engender an event like an egg."-- E. M. Forster: A Passage to India, by Betty Jay Dianoia -- Flagrant Triviality or Resplendent Trinity? "Despite the flagrant triviality of the proof... this result is the key point in the paper." -- Michael Harris, op. cit., quoting a mathematical paper Online Etymology Dictionary: flagrant c.1500, "resplendent," from L. flagrantem (nom. flagrans) "burning," prp. of flagrare "to burn," from L. root *flag-, corresponding to PIE *bhleg- (cf. Gk. phlegein "to burn, scorch," O.E. blæc "black"). Sense of "glaringly offensive" first recorded 1706, probably from common legalese phrase in flagrante delicto "red-handed," lit. "with the crime still blazing." A related use of "resplendent"-- applied to a Trinity, not a triviality-- appears in the Liturgy of Malabar: -- The Liturgies of SS. Mark, James, Clement, Chrysostom, and Basil, and the Church of Malabar, by the Rev. J.M. Neale and the Rev. R.F. Littledale, reprinted by Gorgias Press, 2002 On Universals and A Passage to India: ""The universe, then, is less intimation than cipher: a mask rather than a revelation in the romantic sense. Does love meet with love? Do we receive but what we give? The answer is surely a paradox, the paradox that there are Platonic universals beyond, but that the glass is too dark to see them. Is there a light beyond the glass, or is it a mirror only to the self? The Platonic cave is even darker than Plato made it, for it introduces the echo, and so leaves us back in the world of men, which does not carry total meaning, is just a story of events." -- Betty Jay, op. cit. Judy Davis in the Marabar Caves In mathematics (as opposed to narrative), somewhere between a flagrant triviality and a resplendent Trinity we have what might be called "a resplendent triviality." For further details, see "A Four-Color Theorem." Posted 4/13/2008 at 7:59 AM |
Spin Yesterday morning's entry: "let the spinning wheel spin." Yesterday's lottery in the Keystone State: Interpretations: 707 009 Posted 4/12/2008 at 7:00 AM |
Pegasus With thanks to my anonymous reader(s?) in France: Click on image for further details. Ride a painted pony let the spinning wheel spin. Posted 4/11/2008 at 8:35 AM |
.- El Arzobispo Emérito de México, Cardenal Ernesto Corripio Ahumada, falleció esta mañana a las 05:30 a.m., en su domicilio.... of literary "signature passages" -- Posted 4/11/2008 at 12:48 AM |
The Date A Xanga footprint this morning--
New York Times obituaries pictured here on April 7, suggests further consideration of a female date.... namely, that of a Log24 entry, A Yahrzeit for Virginia Woolf, from March 28 (the date of Woolf's death). March 28 this year was also the date of death of another female author, Helen Bassine Yglesias. Click on the image for a larger picture and further details. "Attention must be paid." -- Linda Loman Posted 4/10/2008 at 9:29 AM |
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A Yahrzeit for Baghdad From Google News at about 5:55 AM ET today: Log24 five years ago: Click to enlarge. "When smashing monuments, Posted 4/9/2008 at 6:15 AM |
Eight is a Gate Part I: December 2002 Part II: Epiphany 2008 This figure is related to the mathematics of reflection groups. Part III: "The capacity of music to operate simultaneously along horizontal
and vertical axes, to proceed simultaneously in opposite directions (as in inverse canons),
may well constitute the nearest that men and women can come to absolute
freedom. Music does 'keep time' for itself and for us." Inverse Canon ---- George Steiner in Grammars of Creation From Werner Icking Music Archive: Bach, Fourteen Canons on the First Eight Notes of the Goldberg Ground, No. 11 -- Click to enlarge. Play midi of Canon 11. At a different site -- an mp3 of the 14 canons. Part IV: That Crown of Thorns, by Timothy A. Smith Posted 4/8/2008 at 8:00 AM |
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A year ago... (Holy Saturday, 2007) -- From Friedrich Froebel, who invented kindergarten: For further details, see Gift of the Third Kind and Kindergarten Relativity. Related material:
"... There was a problem laid out on the
board, a six-mover. I couldn't solve it, like a lot of my
problems. I reached down and moved a knight.... I looked down at the chessboard. The
move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved
it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a
game for knights."
-- Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep Posted 4/7/2008 at 11:07 PM |
"LegacyPlus™: The Class, Without the Classes" -- The New York Times on the date of Charlton Heston's death "Leave a space." -- Tom Stoppard in "Jumpers" "Heaven is a state, a sort of metaphysical state." -- John O'Hara, Hope of Heaven Posted 4/7/2008 at 1:00 PM |
"Lord Arglay had a suspicion that -- Charles Williams, Many Dimensions Posted 4/7/2008 at 2:20 AM |
Synchronicity "Something isn't real until it's on TV." -- Folk saying quoted, for instance, in Postmodern Times Time of this entry: 11:07:48 PM. Overheard yesterday, on the night of Charlton Heston's death: "He's a good gun, and we aren't heading for a church social." -- Yul Brynner to Steve McQueen in The Magnificent Seven (AMC, 8 PM ET Saturday, April 5, 2008) Posted 4/6/2008 at 11:07 PM |
For Sunrise Click image to enlarge. The above tableau, from this morning's New York Times obituary page, suggests the following meditations:
consistent with the fable of the mice and the lion in The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe and with the speech of Aslan at the conclusion of The Narnia Chronicles: "The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning." The rather depressing "Death Notices" box that has attracted Charlton Heston's gaze in the online obituaries pictured above might be replaced as follows: The Heston classic pictured above is, let us recall, based on a book titled Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. "I know this man!" -- Charlton Heston Time of this entry: 2:12:35. Posted 4/6/2008 at 2:12 AM |
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Class Without Classes From Log24 on this date four years ago: ART WARS Posted 4/5/2008 at 7:00 AM |
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