Scholium for the Harvard Alcoholic Club —
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Unthought Known
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Tuesday, June 29, 2021
Perspective for Pullman*
* I.e., for Philip Pullman, author of His Dark Materials .
Those who prefer fiction to reality may consult
a Baja-related search in this journal for "Sea of Cortez."
That search in turn suggests a Fandom webpage related
to yesterday's post "Perspective" —
https://davidmitchell.fandom.com/wiki/Luisa_Rey.
"Luisa Rey is played by Halle Berry in the Wachowski siblings'
2012 adaptation of Cloud Atlas . . . . Her name is based on
The Bridge of San Luis Rey . . . ."
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Doodle Dandy
"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.
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Name That Tune
"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):
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Monday, June 28, 2021
Perspective
From the Wikipedia Manual of Style —
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Writing About Fiction . . .
An in-universe perspective describes the narrative |
Scholium:
Related art:
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Sunday, June 27, 2021
Musical Space Woo, “Ambiguous Yet Sensual”
Some background:
See as well Klarwein in this journal.
I prefer Cara Delevingne's Wall of Sound (click to enlarge):
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Critical Space Race Theory
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.
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Saturday, June 26, 2021
Our Viennese Heritage — “Racy”?!
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Annals of Experimental Theology . . .
See as well . . .
April 11, 2020, was the dies natalis ,
in the Catholic sense,
of John Horton Conway.
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Critical Space Theory: The Three Stooges at Harvard
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Friday, June 25, 2021
Critical Space Theory, Devil’s Night 2016: Around Zero
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Burying the Lede
"Mr. Meislin was in Mexico City in 1985
when it was devastated by earthquakes,
killing thousands."
See also posts now tagged Timequake .
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Queens Gambit
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 —
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Whether writing about matters small or large,
“Even your most serious problem,” he said,
— By Neil Genzlinger, New York Times , |
"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 —
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Thursday, June 24, 2021
Much to Discover… Effectively Conjured
"We have much to discover." — Actor portraying
Christopher Marlowe to actress Elaine Cassidy in a TV series.
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Persons of Interest
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Margaret Atwood on Lewis Hyde's "Trickster is among other things the gatekeeper who opens the door into the next world; those who mistake him for a psychopath never even know such a door exists." (159) What is "the next world"? It might be the Underworld…. The pleasures of fabulation, the charming and playful lie– this line of thought leads Hyde to the last link in his subtitle, the connection of the trickster to art. Hyde reminds us that the wall between the artist and that American favourite son, the con-artist, can be a thin one indeed; that craft and crafty rub shoulders; and that the words artifice, artifact, articulation and art all come from the same ancient root, a word meaning "to join," "to fit," and "to make." (254) If it’s a seamless whole you want, pray to Apollo, who sets the limits within which such a work can exist. Tricksters, however, stand where the door swings open on its hinges and the horizon expands: they operate where things are joined together, and thus can also come apart. |
Punch Line . . .
Wrap Party!
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Wednesday, June 23, 2021
Spring Break Song
"There's a concert hall in Vienna
Where your mouth had a thousand reviews"
— Leonard Cohen lyric, "Take This Waltz" *
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Garden Party
From the June 22 Architectural Digest video of
Cara Delevingne's home —
"I went to a garden party to reminisce with my old friends:
A chance to share old memories and play our songs again.
When I got to the garden party, they all knew my name…
No one recognized me, I didn't look the same."
From a June 21 Instagram story —
From Ernest Hemingway's The Garden of Eden —
She slipped out of bed and stood straight with her long brown legs
and her beautiful body tanned evenly from the far beach where they
swam without suits. She held her shoulders back and her chin up
and she shook her head so her heavy tawny hair slapped around
her cheeks and then bowed forward so it all fell forward and covered
her face. She pulled the striped shirt over her head and then shook
her hair back and then sat in the chair in front of the mirror on the
dresser and brushed it back looking at it critically. It fell to the top of
her shoulders. She shook her head at the mirror. Then she pulled on
her slacks and belted them and put on her faded blue rope-soled shoes.
"I have to ride up to Aigues Mortes," she said.
"Good," he said. "I'll come too."
"No. I have to go alone. It's about the surprise."
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Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Do Androids Dream?
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Why the Playboy pinball backglass art flashed briefly into the video
at 2:03, I do not know. It appears in full later in the video.
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