From Epiphany 2010—
The more industrious scholars will derive considerable pleasure from describing how the art-history professors and journalists of the period 1945-75, along with so many students, intellectuals, and art tourists of every sort, actually struggled to see the paintings directly, in the old pre-World War II way, like Plato's cave dwellers watching the shadows, without knowing what had projected them, which was the Word."
– Tom Wolfe, The Painted Word
Pennsylvania Lottery yesterday—
Saturday, June 26, 2010: Midday 846, Evening 106
Interpretation—
Context:
Yesterday's morning post, Plato's Logos
Yesterday's evening post, Bold and Brilliant Emergence
Poem 846, Oxford Book of English Verse, 1919:
"bird-song at morning and star-shine at night"
Poem 106, Oxford Book of English Verse, 1919:
" All labourers draw home at even"
The number 106 may also be read as 1/06, the date of Epiphany.
Posts on Epiphany 2010—
9:00 AM Epiphany Revisited
12:00 PM Brightness at Noon
9:00 PM The Difference
Related material—
Plato's
Tombstone
