Wednesday, June 5, 2024
For CBS Sunday Morning: Portman and the Dark Side
For Connoisseurs of Hallucination
Annals of Cultural Appropriation: Lambda Pride
Lambda in 1950 . . .
Later . . .
A related cultural appropriation —
The Roman letter (or numeral) V as a film title, with Natalie Portman
representing, as usual, the darkness of ignorance.
For a future Michael Crichton*— The Tachikawa Hint
Hat tip to Peter Woit for quoting the above yesterday.
* See Crichton in this weblog and the solar Apollo symbols
of CBS Sunday Morning, which this week featured Crichton.
As an Apollo symbol, I prefer the Chinese "holy field" —
a ninefold square.
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
A Spectrum for Cairo*
"You ain't been blue, no no no, 'til you've had that mood indigo."
* See "Miller's Girl."
Monday, June 3, 2024
Symmetry Plane
"For ten years… " — Song lyric
The previous post, together with the above song lyric, suggests a review
of the date May 19 ten years ago. The result of the review is the new tag
"Symmetry Plane."
Old Journalist Dies
From the above . . .
"He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in New York
in 1954 and, in 1958, from Yale, where he was managing editor
of The Yale Daily News.
He was briefly a book editor at Random House, where in 1962
he read a manuscript that Cormac McCarthy had mailed over
the transom. He recommended the work for publication and
spent a year working with Mr. McCarthy on what became his
first novel, 'The Orchard Keeper.' "
See as well the above death date, May 19, in this journal.
Review
Excerpt from a Log24 post of May 2, 2003 Though truth may be very hard to find in the pages of most books, the page numbers are generally reliable. This leads to the following Zen meditations. From a review of the film “The Terminator”:
From a journal note on religion, science, and the meaning of life written in 1998 on the day after Sinatra died and the Pennsylvania lottery number came up “256”:
From Michael Crichton’s Rising Sun John Connor (aka J. C.) offers the following metaphysical comment on the page number that appears above his words (256):
Connor is correct. The number 256 does indeed seem to be, and indeed it seemed to be again only yesterday evening, when the Pennsylvania lottery again made a metaphysical statement. Our Zen meditation on the trustworthiness of page numbers concludes with another passage from Rising Sun, this time on page 373:
Here J. C. offers another trenchant comment on his current page number. The metaphysical significance of 373, “the eternal in the temporal,” is also discussed in the Buddhist classic A Flag for Sunrise, by Robert Stone (Knopf hardcover, 1981) … on, of course, page 373. |
Related graphic art —
This is from a Log24 search, "Windmill + Diamond."
Sunday, June 2, 2024
In Memory of Michael Crichton, Author of Sphere:
Manifesting Summerisle
"For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross."
— Gravity's Rainbow
See as well this journal on the above mad-scientist date.
Manifesting Summerisle
Dramarama for Philadelphia’s University of the Arts
Close Enough
“… 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 material: Apollo Shining.