Adam Gopnik on Narnia in The New Yorker:
“Everything began with images,” Lewis wrote.
“We’re not here to stick a mirror on you. Anybody can do that, We’re here to give you a more cubist or skewed mirror, where you get to see yourself with fresh eyes. That’s what an artist does. When you paint the Crucifixion, you’re not painting an exact reproduction.”
Images for Julie Taymor:
Today’s New York Times on Debora Arango, an artist who died at 98 on Dec. 4 at her home near Medellin, Colombia:
“She made dramatic paintings of prostitutes, which shocked midcentury sensibilities….”
“Ms. Arango always pushed boundaries, even as a young girl. In a favorite story, she talked about how she wore pants to ride horses….”
Related material: Yesterday’s entry “Modestly Yours” and entries on Johnny Cash, horses, and Julie Taymor of September 12-14, 2003.
“Words are events.”
— Walter J. Ong, Society of Jesus
Concluding Unscientific Postscript
at noon on St. Lucy’s Day:
“They are the horses of a dream.
They are not what they seem.”
— The Hex Witch of Seldom, page 16