Perhaps the following citation will help . . .
Friday, October 4, 2024
Springtime Down Under —
Themes and Motifs
https://miapensa.com/pages/about —
"… using her documented past work as a means to
revisit and expand on the themes and motifs…."
See also Patterning.
Against Iris Murdoch’s “Simplified Fantasy-Myth” —
A Real Person
"Against the consolations of form, the clean crystalline
work, the simplified fantasy-myth, we must pit the
destructive power of the now so unfashionable naturalistic
idea of character.
Real people are destructive of myth, contingency is
destructive of fantasy and opens the way for imagination."
— Iris Murdoch, "Against Dryness," January 1961
A New York Times Monday, Sept. 30, theater review by Jesse Green —
"… a story, set in 'the very near future,' in which computer-mediated
interactions — predictive chatbots, large language models, generative
intelligence — are pitted against their analog forebears. What creative
opportunities does such technology afford the artist? What human
opportunities does it squander? Forget the sword: It’s the pen vs. the pixel."
Ilustration for a new drama :
"Goldilocks and the Forebears" —
Suggested musical accompaniment: "Yesterday."
For the Librarian: “Commedia for the Disgruntled” . . .
A check in this journal for the above script date — Nov. 21, 2011 —
yields posts tagged . . .
Thursday, October 3, 2024
Mojo Dojo Casa House at Ripon, Wisconsin:
The Textbook Case
The review suggested above contained an excerpt from the
April 1994 Dartmouth Magazine —
I encountered this some time ago in a search related to
Ripon College and math. The Poe-and-Finite-Math
combination from Dartmouth was memorable.
Fleetwood Thunder
"Against Dryness" —
"Against the consolations of form, the clean crystalline
work, the simplified fantasy-myth, we must pit the
destructive power of the now so unfashionable naturalistic
idea of character.
Real people are destructive of myth, contingency is
destructive of fantasy and opens the way for imagination."
— Iris Murdoch, January 1961
"the now so unfashionable naturalistic idea of character" —
"Thunder only happens when it's raining,
Players only love you when they're playing."
— Song lyric. See as well the previous post.
Philosophy
Thesis —
A 1911 essay by T. E. Hulme,
"Romanticism and Classicism" —
"There is a general tendency to think that verse means
little else than the expression of unsatisfied emotion.
People say: 'But how can you have verse without sentiment?'
You see what it is: the prospect alarms them. A classical revival
to them would mean the prospect of an arid desert and the death
of poetry as they understand it, and could only come to fill the gap
caused by that death. Exactly why this dry classical spirit should
have a positive and legitimate necessity to express itself in poetry
is utterly inconceivable to them."
Antithesis —
A 1961 reaction against Hulme,
"Against Dryness" —
"Against the consolations of form, the clean crystalline
work, the simplified fantasy-myth, we must pit the
destructive power of the now so unfashionable naturalistic
idea of character.
Real people are destructive of myth, contingency is
destructive of fantasy and opens the way for imagination."
— Iris Murdoch, January 1961
Synthesis —
Dramarama: The New York Times vs. Sara Aiello
A New York Times Monday, Sept. 30, theater review by Jesse Green —
"… a story, set in 'the very near future,' in which computer-mediated
interactions — predictive chatbots, large language models, generative
intelligence — are pitted against their analog forebears. What creative
opportunities does such technology afford the artist? What human
opportunities does it squander? Forget the sword: It’s the pen vs. the pixel.
I’m afraid, alas, the pixel wins, because the play, which opened on Monday,
in a stylish Lincoln Center Theater production directed by Bartlett Sher,
works only as provocation."
"… the sets (by Michael Yeargan and Jake Barton) and the projections
(by Barton) — along with Sher’s typically expressive manipulation
of them — are the production’s most successfully integrated elements,
especially the squircle panels, pop-up rooms and torrential digital imagery."
Squircle-related imagery —
From a Facebook reel by Sara Aiello Studio
(Excerpted as "The See Saw" in Log24 on Oct. 1, 2024) —
Topics
In memory of American author Ella Leffland,* who reportedly
died on September 18, 2024 —
* Leffland wrote, notably, The Knight, Death, and the Devil .
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
“The serpent’s eyes shine . . .” — Song lyric by Don Henley
In memory of British author Clive Sinclair,* who reportedly
died on March 5, 2018 —
* Sinclair was "born into a Jewish family originally named Smolensky."
— Wikipedia
In Memory of Harry Elkins Widener* — Iceberg!
"… the tip of a horribly large and scary iceberg…."
— Harvard Law emeritus professor Laurence Tribe talking with
Erin Burnett tonight about a newly unsealed Jack Smith document.
* Quod vide.
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Resort Song
A scene from "Nell" —
Related philosophy — "The valley spirit never dies . . . ."
Related song for fans of the TV series "The Resort" —
"Down in the valley, the valley so low,
Hang your head over, hear the wind blow"
Photography related to "The Resort" —
Urban Shaman Marks Season
The added Valéry emblem above seemed a fitting remembrance.
See as well . . .
Special from the Crary Block:* The See Saw
* The city block in Warren, PA, containing the former Crary residence,
Crary Art Gallery, and the former Kopf residence.
For Orson and Kane . . .
Friday Night Horror Flashbacks
One year ago here . . .
Blue Review
From this journal on September 24, 2012—
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"A single self-transcendence" — Aldous Huxley From an anonymous author at the website Kill Devil Hill—
"This little story… has that climactic moment of Kill Devil Hills also appears in a 1983 film—
"Suppose it were possible to transfer
— Trailer for "Brainstorm" (1983), |
"… that 'good' threshold . . . ." — See Threshold in this journal.