For Fred Sandback:
Time's a Round
The following entry of Feb. 25, 2003, was written for painter Mark Rothko, and may serve as well for minimalist artist Fred Sandback, also connected to the de Menil family of art patrons, who, like Rothko, has killed himself.
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Plagued in life by depression — what Styron, quoting Milton, called "darkness visible" — Rothko took his own life on this date [Feb. 25] in 1970. As a sequel to the previous note, "Song of Not-Self," here are the more cheerful thoughts of the song "Time's a Round," the first of Shiva Dancing: The Rothko Chapel Songs, by C. K. Latham. See also my comment on the previous entry (7:59 PM).
Time’s a round, time’s a round, — C. K. Latham
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The following is from the cover of
"Finnegans Wake: a Symposium,"
a reprint of
Our Exagmination Round His Factification
for Incamination of Work in Progress,
Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1929.
As well as being a memorial to Rothko and Sandback, the above picture may serve to mark the diamond anniversary of a dinner party at Shakespeare and Company on this date in 1928. (See previous entry.)
A quotation from aaparis.org also seems relevant on this, the date usually given for the death of author Malcolm Lowry, in some of whose footsteps I have walked:
"We are not saints."
— Chapter V, Alcoholics Anonymous
“We are Latter Day Saints”.
~The Mormons
Comment by oOMisfitOo — Sunday, June 29, 2003 @ 3:27 am
“It’s coming around again . . .”
Comment by oOMisfitOo — Sunday, June 29, 2003 @ 3:30 am