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Monday, October 11, 2021

Pivotal

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:19 am
 

https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-recording-preservation-board/documents/EinsteinOnTheBeach.pdf

“Einstein on the Beach” is a pivotal work in the oeuvre of Philip Glass. It is the first, longest, and most famous of the composer's operas, yet it is in almost every way unrepresentative of them. For “Einstein” is much more than the usual uneven collaboration between a librettist and composer. From its beginnings, worked out between Glass and the theater artist Robert Wilson over a series of luncheons at a restaurant on New York's Sullivan Street in 1974, this was truly a team effort.

See as well Joyce and  Einstein on the Beach  (Log24, March 8, 2020).

Related material — Diamond Pivot.

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Pivot

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:00 am

A Web search for "diamond pivot bright" yields . . .

Page 103 of 'Conceptions of Reality in Modern American Poetry,' by L. S. Dembo


An "irrational image" from Log24 (Nov. 26, 2002) —
 

"The beautiful in mathematics resides in contradiction.  
Incommensurability, logoi alogoi , was the first splendor
in mathematics."

Simone Weil, Oeuvres Choisies , 
éd. Quarto, Gallimard, 1999, p. 100

Friday, October 21, 2016

Pivot

Filed under: General — m759 @ 6:00 pm

    

 

See also "Diamond Pivot" in this journal.

Sunday, April 3, 2016

Die Verhexung

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:38 pm

Backstory:  Verhexung  and Ein Kampf .

Prequel: The Verhexung  quote above is from Wittgenstein's section 109 
in Philosophical Investigations . The search result shown links to a page
containing part of the preceding  Wittgenstein section —

For another look at "crystalline purity" and language, see the previous
two posts, Logic and Fruit Loom.

Wallace Stevens, “Country Words” —

“What is it that my feeling seeks?
I know from all the things it touched
And left beside and left behind.
It wants the diamond pivot bright.”

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Pivot

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:15 am

Yesterday's post The Belicic Problem suggests
a review of a Log24 post from October 29, 2007:

The extremely loose plot of Anthony Hopkins's
pet project "Slipstream" was in part inspired by
the events of 1956 in Santa Mira.

In keeping with Hopkins's strange plot logic, and
with the strange visual logic of the New York Times
editorial logo in yesterday's Santa Mira post

IMAGE- Semaphore-like logo of NY Times editorial page editor's weblog

here is a "diamond pivot bright"—

Click image for an explanation.

Monday, October 29, 2007

Monday October 29, 2007

Filed under: General — m759 @ 7:20 am
Home from Home

On Anthony Hopkins’s new film:

“At one point during ‘Slipstream,’ Hopkins’s character stumbles upon a Dolly Parton impersonator while Parton’s wonderful song, ‘Coat of Many Colors,’ plays on the soundtrack.  I told Hopkins that I thought he used the tune– which is about a multi-hued coat that little Dolly’s grandmother made for her out of random pieces of cloth when the future superstar’s family was dirt poor– as a sort of commentary on the patchwork structure of ‘Slipstream’ itself.  Hopkins smiled broadly and his eyes lit up.  Yes, he said, that’s exactly what he was doing.  He said he even tried to get Parton to appear in the movie, but she was booked and couldn’t do it.”

—  Paul Tatara, Oct. 22, 2007

Anthony Hopkins:

“Our existence is beyond understanding.  Nobody has an answer.  I sense that life is such a mystery.  To me, God is time.”

Related material:

“Have you ever worried about your memory, because it doesn’t seem to recall exactly the same past from one day to the next? Have you ever thought that the whole universe might be a crazy, mixed-up dream? If you have, then you’ve had hints of the Change War…

Spider and Snake on cover of Fritz Leiber's novel Big Time

It’s been going on for a billion years and it will last another billion or so. Up and down the timeline, the two sides– ‘Spiders’ and ‘Snakes’– battle endlessly to change the future and the past. Our lives, our memories, are their battleground. And in the midst of the war is the Place, outside space and time, where Greta Forzane and the other Entertainers provide solace and r-&-r for tired time warriors.”

— Publisher’s description of Fritz Leiber’s Big Time.

Dialogue from “Slipstream”

“My God, this place must be
a million years old!”

Anthony Hopkins at Dolly's Little Diner in Slipstream

“Dolly’s Little Diner–
Home from Home”

Meanwhile…

Country Star
Porter Wagoner, 80, Dies

Wallace Stevens,
“Country Words”–

“What is it that my feeling seeks?
I know from all the things it touched
And left beside and left behind.
It wants the diamond pivot bright.”

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