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"Similarities and parallels can be drawn between alebrijes  
and various supernatural creatures from Mexico's indigenous
and European past." — Wikipedia on the subject of today's
Google Doodle.

"Today’s Doodle celebrates the 115th birthday of
a Mexican artist who turned his dreams into reality…."

Not always a good idea. See the novel in the previous post.

"The ability to imagine is the largest part of what you call intelligence.
You think the ability to imagine is merely a useful step on the way to
solving a problem or making something happen. But imagining it is
what makes it happen. 

This is the gift of your species and this is the danger, because you
do not choose to control your imaginings. You imagine wonderful things
and you imagine terrible things, and you take no responsibility for the
choice. You say you have inside you both the power of good and the
power of evil, the angel and the devil, but in truth you have just one
thing inside you—the ability to imagine."

— Michael Crichton, Sphere

I prefer a different tune . . . Number 117 on  
Cara Delevingne's Wall of Sound (click to enlarge):

Aspiring authors might consult The Bridge of San Luis Rey .

From the Wikipedia Manual of Style —

Scholium:

Related art:

Some background:

See as well Klarwein in this  journal.

I prefer Cara Delevingne's Wall of Sound (click to enlarge):

See as well the Kree vs. the Skrulls.

"… an abundance of types of spaces
can be an extremely confusing situation
to a beginner." — The late Martin Schechter

As can an abundance of types of races.

Related structural note:  This  journal on May 23.

A review of the dramatic legacy of Arthur Schnitzler
(La Ronde , Traumnovelle ) seems in order.

See as well "Language Log" in this  journal.

"Mr. Meislin was in Mexico City in 1985
when it was devastated by earthquakes,
killing thousands." 

See also posts now tagged Timequake .

Note of 10:44 AM ET, Friday, June 25, 2021 —

"Stephen Elliot Dunn was born on June 24,
1939, in Forest Hills, Queens . . . ."

— https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/25/
books/stephen-dunn-poet-dead.html

Update of 11:07 AM ET the same day —

From Dunn's obituary —

"We have much to discover." — Saying attributed to 
Christopher Marlowe in a TV series.  See posts now tagged 4X.

Midrash for Doctorow —

Scholium for Pullman —

   Or tour a book.

* The fictional Claire Randall of the above song, and the real
Claire Randall, murdered by her father on December 8, 2016.

Resonant Date

The above image is from a post of Dec. 14, 2016, titled "Outer Sanctum." 
See as well an Esquire  magazine, UK, article in the Jan/Feb 2017 issue 
. . . with the issuu.com date Dec. 14, 2016  (pp. 140-141 ff.) —

* Title from a scene in "The Net." 

Continues.

From the previous post:

"Words are events, happenings, not things,
as letters make them appear to be."
— Walter J. Ong, S.J., page 2 in 
"Writing and the Evolution of Consciousness,"

". . . originally delivered by Walter J. Ong
as the 7th Annual 'Sidney Warhaft Memorial Lecture',
January 26, 1984, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg."

A different Sidney Warhaft memorial —

Photographs are also events.

See this journal on the above photo date — Sept. 17, 2014.

Lest the title of the TV series in the previous post, "The Chi,"
be mistaken for a reference to the Greek letter  chi …

"Words are events, happenings, not things,
as letters make them appear to be."
— Walter J. Ong, S.J., page 2 in 
"Writing and the Evolution of Consciousness,"
in Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal ,
Vol. 18, No. 1 (Winter 1985), pp. 1-10 (11 pages,
counting the prefatory page with a photo of Ong).

Published by: University of Manitoba.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24777620

". . . originally delivered by Walter J. Ong
as the 7th Annual 'Sidney Warhaft Memorial Lecture',
January 26, 1984, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg."

See as well . . .

This post was suggested by the repeated occurrences of 
the word "syntactic" in . . .

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“Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels . . . .” — Song lyric quoted in
the post Searching for the May Queen: The Amsterdam Windows .

"Ready on the left . . . Ready on the right . . . "
— Military expression

"O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon"
— John Milton, Samson Agonistes

"O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark"
— T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

Continues.

Lyrics from Bruce Springsteen and
the Pointer Sisters —

Well, Romeo and Juliet, Samson and Delilah
Baby you can bet a love they couldn't deny
My words say split, but my words they lie
Cause when we kiss, ooh, fire

{Bridge}

Oh fire
Kisses like fire…
Burn me up with fire
I like what you're doin now, fire
Touchin' me, fire
Touchin' me, burnin me, fire
Take me home

E is for Energy.

Related remarks (suggested by Emma Stone's appearance 
in the "Drop Me a Line" post of August 30, 2015) —

See as well Todayland.

The title is from the previous post,
J. Hillis Miller paraphrasing Milton.
See "Darkness Visible" in this  journal.

"… a difficult novel just sits there on your shelf unread —
unless you happen to be a student, in which case you're
obliged to turn the pages of Woolf and Beckett."

— Jonathan Franzen in The New Yorker , 30 September 2002

Jonathan Franzen on fiction —

"Fiction is storytelling, and our reality arguably consists of
the stories we tell about ourselves."

For  Kristen  Breitweiser

"Daisy, when she comes to tea at Nick's house,
refers to the flowers brought by Gatsby as being
appropriate for a funeral and asks 'Where's the corpse?' 
Gatsby enters immediately thereafter. This foreshadows
what will happen to Gatsby. The dialogue is not in the novel…."

— Discussion of the 2000 TV movie version in
Learning Guide to The Great Gatsby 

Correction to the midrash: 

Sorvino actually says, when there is a knock at the door,

"That must be the corpse."

Jersey girls are tough.

Continues.

Related remarks . . .

The title is a phrase by Wallace Stevens.
See Staats-Oper , a post of Thursday, June 3.

See as well posts of 9/11, 2014 . . . a date suggested by the song lyric
"Oh, moon of Alabama" in one of those posts. The song lyric was in turn
suggested by a New York Times  obituary this evening.

For other suggestive remarks, see Bowie in this  journal.

Arthur Staats, the very influential psychologist who
established the practice of "time out" for naughty
children, reportedly "died at 97 on April 26
at his home in Oahu, Hawaii." 

The New York Times  says this evening that 

"Dr. Staats’s legacy was reflected by
the license plate of his silver BMW —

TYM-OUT . . . ."

Related material —

"I love those Bavarians … So meticulous."
— The Devil, according to Don Henley