A recent search for one Georgina Edwards, writer on Wittgenstein
and Hesse, yielded a different G.E. who is perhaps better suited to
illustrate the oeuvres of Nabokov and of Stephen King —
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzf1uXelQ0p/.
This post is in memory of a fashion designer —
— and of a Russian philologist:
The ivory-tower games of the previous post, Space Poetics,
suggest a review of Hesse on the I Ching —
“Once Knecht confessed to his teacher that he wished to
learn enough to be able to incorporate the system of the
I Ching into the Glass Bead Game. Elder Brother laughed.
‘Go ahead and try’, he exclaimed. ‘You’ll see how it turns out.
Anyone can create a pretty little bamboo garden in the world.
But I doubt the gardener would succeed in incorporating
the world in his bamboo grove’ ” (P. 139).
— Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game (Magister Ludi) .
Translated by Richard and Clara Winston ( London, Vintage, 2000).
The above passage is as quoted and cited in
“Language Games in the Ivory Tower:
Comparing the Philosophical Investigations with
Hermann Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game ,”
by Georgina Edwards
First published: 13 December 2019,
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-9752.12389 .
The cited publication date was also the date of death for
a Harvard classmate of mine. As an alumnus of Phillips Andover,
he might have preferred Oliver Wendell Holmes to Hesse.
From Malcolm Lowry’s Poetics of Space ,
edited by Richard J. Lane and Miguel Mota,
University of Ottawa Press, 2016 —
Another gesture —
See “Bella Vista” in this journal.
Welcome to Westview continues.
My Windows lockscreen this morning features a badger
emerging from his den. Microsoft’s commentary —
Related commentary from Bellevue —
“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare
from which I am trying to awake.”
— James Joyce, Ulysses
The co-ed Delphic-Bee Club will split into the all-male Delphic Club
and the all-female Bee Club three years after merging, according to
club affiliates.
See also the previous post, “Bee Season.“
This post was suggested by a list of names in the previous post
and by a death date in the obituary of a Phillips Andover alumnus.
“Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
As the swift seasons roll!”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, “The Chambered Nautilus”
See as well this journal on the above library date — December 15, 2014 —
in posts now tagged Myth and Memory.
* The title is from a post of last December —
Also on Linden Street —
Related news —
The co-ed Delphic-Bee Club will split into the all-male Delphic Club
and the all-female Bee Club three years after merging, according to club affiliates.
Miss Jane Pittman reportedly said that . . .
"People are always looking for someone to lead them
through the trials and tribulations." She said, "Every time
a child is born, the old folks looked in its face and asked,
'Are you the one?' ”
From this journal on Nov. 17, 2018 —
See also another disastrous-mess commentary from Nov. 17, 2018.
Related weblog post —
Related theology — “Diamonds Are Forever” in this journal.
Related art — “Black Diamond.”
See the December 4, 2020, film “Wander,” starring Aaron Eckhart,
and the June 15, 2014, Log24 post “Aaron Eckhart Strikes Deep.”
For Holocaust Remembrance Day —
Little reportedly died at 79 on Jan. 7.
“Mr. Little submitted the manuscript for ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’
to 12 publishers. He received 12 rejections in response, before selling it for £2,500,
or about $3,400 (the equivalent of about $5,800 today). It was a meager amount,
but his genius was in the details: He sold only the rights to publish it in Britain and
the Commonwealth, and he asked for high royalties.” — Clay Risen, New York Times
Leachman reportedly died at 94 today.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein : And it was you… who left my grandfather’s
book out for me to find.
Frau Blücher : Yes.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein : So that I would…
Frau Blücher : Yes.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein : Then you and Victor were…
Frau Blücher : YES. YES. Say it. He vas my… BOYFRIEND!
In the spirit of Kinbote…
The real Frau Blücher was of course Hannah Arendt,
whose boyfriend was Martin Heidegger.
Cf. a Log24 post of April 10, 2017 —
| From “Heidegger for Passover”
“Propriation1 gathers the rift-design2 of the saying — p. 415 of Heidegger‘s Basic Writings , “Das Ereignis versammelt den Aufriß der Sage — Heidegger, Weg zur Sprache 1. “Mirror-Play of the Fourfold” |
From a post of Friday, March 30, 2012 —
In memory of actor Warren Stevens—
“… Which makes it a gilt-edged priority that one of us
gets into that Krell lab and takes that brain boost.”
— American adaptation of Shakespeare’s Tempest , 1956
Posts from the date of Stevens’s death are tagged Requiem Day.
Tony Stark: I’m calling in VERONICA.
[As Hulk is wreaking havoc on the nearest city
Tony Stark brings out his Hulkbuster armor to stop him.]
Alright everybody, stand down! [to Hulk] You listening?
That little witch is messing with your mind.
Related vocabulary —
See as well the word facet in this journal.
Analogously, one might write . . .
A Hiroshima cube consists of 6 faces ,
each with 4 squares called facets ,
for a total of 24 facets. . . ."
(See Aitchison's Octads , a post of Feb. 19, 2020.)
Click image to enlarge. Background: Posts tagged 'Aitchison.'"
See also Balcony in this journal.
For the title, see Illuminations in this journal.
Another approach —
These images were suggested by Creamy and Sweaty.
A search for the above title in this journal yields
a post that itself yields two philosophical links:
“It’s not unusual for theorists to work on speculative ideas
involving some degree of wishful thinking, but this is
a case of taking that to an extreme.”
— Peter Woit today, “This Week’s Hype”
I prefer the wishful thinking of Robert A. Heinlein —
See “Hollywood Nihilism Meets Pantheistic Solipsism”
from Feb. 24 in 2009, and, from today’s date four years
ago: “For Your Consideration.”
“She was having a helluva time tightening her skate.”
This quotation from Catcher in the Rye was suggested
by a rather different quotation, source not attributed,
posted tonight by a Hollywood celebrity.
The death date of the quotation’s source was apparently
October 22, 2014. See, from that date, the Log24 post
| “… the walkway between here and there would be colder than a witch’s belt buckle. Or a well-digger’s tit. Or whatever the saying was. Vera had been hanging by a thread for a week now, comatose, in and out of Cheyne-Stokes respiration, and this was exactly the sort of night the frail ones picked to go out on. Usually at 4 a.m. He checked his watch. Only 3:20, but that was close enough for government work.”
— King, Stephen (2013-09-24). |
Related narrative — November 13, 2014.
CV books (by which I mean either
Curriculum Vitae or Clusterfuck Venue,
whichever pleases you more) —
C V
Related stupid math joke: "Girls just wanna have F1." — Song lyric
Click on the image in the previous post for a trailer
featuring a fictional 15-year-old Natalie Wood.
For those who prefer more mature imaginary lovers . . .
Provenance — See Lockscreen in this journal.
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Corky St. Clair: Here’s the Remains of the Day lunchbox.
Kids don’t like eating at school, but if they have a
Remains of the Day lunchbox they’re a lot happier.
* CNN Larry King Live Transcript —
TARANTINO: This is a “Kung Fu” lunch box from back in the day here.
KING: Kids bought this, took it to school.
TARANTINO: He was a rock star at the time when “Kung Fu” came out.
Every kid in school had the “Kung Fu” lunch box.
Even has a nice little thermos in here.
KING: What are you doing with it?
TARANTINO: I have a lunch box collection.
KING: You are a little strange.
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The same texts appeared in another Windows lockscreen today —
I prefer the beach huts inspiration in "Body Double" (1984) —
Midrash for Hollywood —
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