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At the Gate
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" 'The S[elf] is invariant, origin, locus or field, it’s a functional property of consciousness' (C, 15:170 [2: 315]). Just as in transformational geometry, something remains fixed in all the projective transformations of the mind’s momentary systems, and that something is the Self (le Moi, or just M, as Valéry notates it so that it will look like an algebraic variable)." C Valéry, Cahiers, 29 vols. (Paris: Centre National de le Recherche Scientifique, 1957-61) This is from page 157 of . . .
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"Time for you to see the field." — Bagger Vance.
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Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Monday, May 26, 2014
Springtime for Vishnu
… Continues.
A post by Margaret Soltan this morning:
Links (in blue) from the above post:
Cane and Mondo Cane.
Bagger Vance — “Time for you to see the field.”
From Pictures for Kurosawa (Sept. 6, 2003) —
“As these flowing rivers that go towards the ocean,
when they have reached the ocean, sink into it,
their name and form are broken, and people speak of
the ocean only, exactly thus these sixteen parts
of the spectator that go towards the person (purusha),
when they have reached the person, sink into him,
their name and form are broken, and people speak of
the person only, and he becomes without parts and
immortal. On this there is this verse:
‘That person who is to be known, he in whom these parts
rest, like spokes in the nave of a wheel, you know him,
lest death should hurt you.’ “
— Prasna Upanishad
Related material — Heaven’s Gate images from Xmas 2012:
“This could be heaven or this could be hell.” — Hotel California
Those who prefer mathematics to narrative may consult Root Circle.
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Saturday, September 8, 2012
SAT
The producer of the films "Gandhi," "City of Joy,"
and "The Legend of Bagger Vance"
reportedly died on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012.
Film producer Jake Eberts is shown
on the set of "City of Joy" in 1991.
(David Appleby photo, Los Angeles Times ,
with the Sanskrit word SAT added)
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Meet Max Black (continued)
Background— August 30, 2006—
In the 2006 post, the above seventh symbol 110000 was
interpreted as the I Ching hexagram with topmost and
next-to-top lines solid, not broken— Hexagram 20, View .
In a different interpretation, 110000 is the binary for the decimal
number 48— representing the I Ching's Hexagram 48, The Well .
“… Max Black, the Cornell philosopher, and
others have pointed out how ‘perhaps every science
must start with metaphor and end with algebra, and
perhaps without the metaphor there would never
have been any algebra’ ….”
– Max Black, Models and Metaphors,
Cornell U. Press, 1962, page 242, as quoted
in Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors,
by Victor Witter Turner, Cornell U. Press,
paperback, 1975, page 25
The algebra is certainly clearer than either I Ching
metaphor, but is in some respects less interesting.
For a post that combines both the above I Ching
metaphors, View and Well , see Dec. 14, 2007.
In memory of scholar Elinor Ostrom,
who died today—
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Thursday, June 7, 2012
The Field
"Time for you to see the field." —Bagger Vance
This post was suggested by a link from a post
in this journal seven years ago yesterday—
“Is the language of thought
any more than a dream?“
— Rimbaud
Yes.
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
The Entertainment*
From a film released Friday, April 13th, 2012—
"Time for you to see the field." — Bagger Vance, as quoted here yesterday.
* Title courtesy of David Foster Wallace.
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
The Field
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Friday, July 29, 2011
Marshall, Meet Bagger
Marshall McLuhan writing to Ezra Pound on Dec. 21, 1948—
"The American mind is not even close to being amenable to the ideogram principle as yet. The reason is simply this. America is 100% 18th Century. The 18th century had chucked out the principle of metaphor and analogy— the basic fact that as A is to B so is C to D. AB:CD. It can see AB relations. But relations in four terms are still verboten. This amounts to deep occultation of nearly all human thought for the U.S.A.
I am trying to devise a way of stating this difficulty as it exists. Until stated and publicly recognized for what it is, poetry and the arts can’t exist in America."
"Time for you to see the field." —Bagger Vance
The field — See June 2010.
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Saturday, January 2, 2010
Annals of Philosophy
The Legend of Bhagavan
"I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
— Bhagavad Gita 11:32 as translated by
J. Robert Oppenheimer
LIFE magazine photo, Jan. 1, 1947
Powell died on New Year's Eve– the day before yesterday. Yesterday's post was dedicated to Will Smith in his role as golf caddy Bagger Vance. In the novel from which the Smith film was taken, "Bagger Vance" is an anglicized form of the term "Bhagavan" from the Bhagavad Gita. In the Gita, "Bhagavan" refers to Krishna– an incarnation, or avatar, of the god Vishnu.
Let us hope that when, on the last day of the old year, Powell met the Reaper, he appeared as neither fearsome Krishna nor grim Oppenheimer, but rather as the kinder, gentler Bagger Vance.
See also "Bhagavad Gita" in this journal.
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Friday, January 1, 2010
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Saturday July 25, 2009
“Unsheathe your dagger definitions.“
— James Joyce, Ulysses
The entry of 12:06 PM Thursday, July 23, contained a link to the journal Red Kite Prayer. The “red kite” is the red flag posted near the end of the Tour de France.
Thanks for a definition are due to the journal Flahute. A quotation from that journal:
“There’s only one shot that’s in harmony with the field. The home of your authentic swing. That flag… and all that you are.”
— The Legend of Bagger Vance
See also yesterday’s Log24 post.
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Friday, July 24, 2009
Friday July 24, 2009
Word Problem
“Philosophers ponder the idea
of identity: what it is to
give something a name on
Monday and have it respond
to that name on Friday….”
— Bernard Holland
Quoted here Monday:
Tom Wolfe on the moon
landing forty years ago:
“What NASA needs now
is the power of the Word.”
“It don’t mean a thing
if it ain’t got that….”
Background:
This week’s
earlier entries.
Happy birthday,
Gus Van Sant.
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