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"Greater East Asia" (大東亜, Dai-tō-a)
was a Japanese term
(banned during the post-war Occupation)
referring to Far East Asia. —Wikipedia

Related historical remarks from Wikipedia—

"From the Japanese point of view, one common principal reason stood behind both forming the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere and initiating war with the Allies: Chinese markets. Japan wanted their 'paramount relations' in regard to Chinese markets acknowledged by the U.S. government. The U.S., recognizing the abundance of potential wealth in these markets, refused to let the Japanese have an advantage in selling to China."

"Shine on, shine on,
there is work to be done
in the dark before the dawn."

— Daisy May Erlewine

"The exhibition title Theme and Variations
hints at the analytical-intellectual undertone
Josefine Lyche takes this time, but
not without humorous touches."

"Perfect, genuine,
complete, crystalline, pure."

See also The Cruciatus Curse.

Significant Passage:
On the Writing Style of Visual Thinkers

"The words are filled with unstated meaning.
They are (the term is Ricoeur's) 'packed'
and need unpacking." —Gerald Grow

From the date of Ricoeur's death,
May 20, 2005—

“Plato’s most significant passage
    may be found in Phaedrus  265b…."

From Sept. 30, 2004—

Mozart's K 265 is variations on the theme
now known as "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star."

For darker variations on the Twinkle theme,
see the film "Joshua" and Martin Gardner's
Annotated Alice  (Norton, 2000, pp. 73-75).

Joshua

For darker variations on the asterisk theme,
see Darkness Visible (May 25)
and Vonnegut's Asterisk.

Happy Birthday,
Carey Mulligan

Star of "An Education"

In "An Education," Mulligan's character
applies for admission to Oxford.

Today's New York Times:

For Memorial Day Weekend:

Finn, again!

See also Time and Chance: Log24 Posts of Oct. 24, 2006*, which include a link to the work of Msgr.^✝ Robert Sokolowski of the Catholic University of America.

_{* For the connection between Finnegans Wake  and the date October 24, 2006, see Polyglot Joyce, p. 223, and Phrase Finder.}

_{^✝ From the posts of Saturday, May 22— "The Lyche Gate was the covered gateway at the entrance of the church yard, where the corpse was rested until the priest issued from the church to meet the procession."}

_{— Ancient English Ecclesiastical Architecture, by Frank Wills, published by Stanford and Swords, 1850}

Charles Isherwood on the death last Saturday of a fellow theater critic—

"...as it happened, I heard about his death just as I was entering the Lunt-Fontanne to see 'The Addams Family.' For a second time. By myself.

Now, there are happier ways to spend a Saturday night than attending a show you didn’t particularly like for the second time, by yourself. (Long story.) But then there’s no happy way to spend the night a friend dies."

For what it's worth—  night thoughts from this journal, Saturday night to Sunday morning—

• Annals of Conceptual Art (2:02 AM ET Sunday)
• Annals of Philosophy (3:33 AM ET Sunday)
• Sunday School (9:00 AM ET Sunday)

From "Sunday School"—

"Nine tailors make a man."
– Dorothy Sayers

For a former editor of Humpty Dumpty—

Click to enlarge.

The weekend's posts in this journal coincided,
more or less, with the finale of the TV series "Lost."
Recalling each story brings to mind
the subtitle of Heinrich Zimmer's classic
  The King and the Corpse —

Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil.

Here, in the spirit of "The Fifth Element," is a
brief graphic summary of such a conquest—

The Soul

(Click for details)

Evil

(from Saturday morning)

  "This is in point of form Heraclitus' masterpiece,
   the most perfectly symmetrical of all the fragments."

    — Charles H. Kahn

A Google search suggested by Dexter Gordon's "Round Midnight" yields…

• m759 on Xanga – Weblog – Archives – May 2007

  Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday in Brazil "Dare to struggle, dare to win!" "Dare to guzzle Gordon's gin." — dialogue from Masks of the Illuminati …
  m759.xanga.com/archives/2007/5/ – Cached

• тексты,статьи,артефакты эпохи венца бредоносия и трансмутации …

  4 posts – 1 author – Last post: Aug 19, 2009

  Dare to guzzle Gordon's gin, Joyce added. Je suis Bovary, Flaubert said looking embarrassed. Je suis Molly Bloom, Joyce said unembarrassed. …
  psytribe.ru/index.php?topic=14001.0

May 18 update — The Russian link has been replaced by a link to a cached copy of the relevant content.

Richard Kiley in "Blackboard Jungle" (1955)

In memory of David Randolph, longtime director of Manhattan's St. Cecilia Chorus. Randolph died at 95 on May 12. (See May 12's "Soul Song.")

A book by Randolph and other remarks
related to St. Cecilia, whose
  feast day is November 22—

Today's top New York Times obituary
mentions Irving Berlin's 1919 tune
"A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody."

("That's show business." — Berlin)

I prefer a different song —

Related material —

Garden of the Soul and
A Mass for Lucero.

William Lubtchansky, a cinematographer, was born on October 26, 1937, and died on May 4, 2010.

Yesterday's post included an illustration from this journal on the date of his death.

Here is a Log24 entry from last year on the date of his birth—

Clicking on the Shift Lock key leads to the following page—

—The Philosopher's Gaze,
by David Michael Levin,
University of California Press, 1999

Related images—

Detail from May 4 image:

Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC:

(http://www.scrapbookpages.com/USHMM/Exterior.html)

See also Lubtchansky's Duelle and
Art Wars for Trotsky's Birthday, 2003.

Paul Robeson in
"King Solomon's Mines," 1937—

The image above is an illustration from
  "Romancing the Hyperspace," May 4, 2010.

This illustration, along with Georgia Brown's
song from "Cabin in the Sky"—
"There's honey in the honeycomb"—
suggests the following picture.

"What might have been and what has been
   Point to one end, which is always present."
— Four Quartets

Leg-Pulling

"… to make the author manifestly unreliable"

Not to mention the reader.

Related material —

But seriously…

Click to enlarge.

"If you can bounce high, bounce for her too."

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Happy birthday, George.

The Secret Life of Walter Murphy

Continued from last night…

"On 1 March 07, I was scheduled
 to fly on American Airlines…."

— A tale by the late Walter F. Murphy,
professor emeritus of constitutional law at Princeton

Related material:

A hymn for Murphy — "I'll Fly Away."

See also this journal on
that same date– 1 March 07— along with

Parallelisms of Complete Designs and

Parallelism in Hebrew Poetry.

Murphy's Last Stand

In memory of Walter F. Murphy, a leading constitutional scholar and McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton from 1968 to 1995. Murphy was also the author of a bestselling 1979 novel, The Vicar of Christ. He died at 80 on Tuesday, April 20, 2010, quod vide.

His novel, according to this morning's New York Times, "tells the story of an American who fights valiantly in the Korean War (as Professor Murphy did), becomes chief justice of the United States, resigns to become a monk and is eventually elected the first American pope." An eventful tale.

For a good review of Murphy's novel, see "The Doomed Hero." This review, and yesterday's Log24 Law Day post, which mentions the concept of "the mighty music of the innermost heaven," suggest revisiting a Log24 post of August 28, 2009 and a hymn by Brian Wilson—

Lyrics007.com—

	Send "In My Room" Ringtone to Cell There's a world where I can go and tell my secrets to In my room In my room In this world I lock out all my worries and my fears In my room In my room Do my dreaming and my scheming lie awake and pray Do my crying and my sighing laugh at yesterday Now it's dark and I'm alone but I won't be afraid In my room In my room