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Friday, January 31, 2020

Notes for a Blue Guitar

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:00 pm

Gravatar at the weblog of Peter J. Cameron

Same Gravatar in blue —

Synchronology check —

Click Lukasiewicz for further remarks.

Monday, August 5, 2019

Blue Guitar

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:32 am

This flashback was suggested by the following date —

February 26, 2014 —

Related material — The Church of Synchronology.

Sunday, May 17, 2015

Song for a Blue Guitar

Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:00 pm

From a 2012 piece on author Oliver Sacks:

"… he successfully set out to envision a splash of
true indigo, the colour he had been fascinated by
since childhood."

Related material:  The tag indigo  in this journal and
Annie Lennox singing "Mood  Indigo."

Thanks to UD  for pointing out the Sacks piece.

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Blue Guitar

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:07 am

The online New York TImes  this morning —

Paco de Lucia, Renowned Flamenco Guitarist, Dies at 66

By REUTERS FEB. 26, 2014, 8:30 A.M. E.S.T.

MADRID — Paco de Lucia, the influential Spanish guitarist who vastly expanded the international audience for flamenco and merged it with other musical styles, died suddenly on Wednesday** of a heart attack in Mexico.

The 66-year-old virtuoso, as happy playing seemingly impossible syncopated flamenco rhythms as he was improvising jazz or classical guitar, helped to legitimize flamenco in Spain itself at a time when it was shunned by the mainstream.

Related material linked to here at midnight Monday-Tuesday —

Djelem Djelem.

Unrelated material, suggested merely by the upload dates of 
two guitar videos* — See Oct. 25, 2008, and Oct. 26, 2011

* El Toro – Malagueña (guitarist: Canabarro) and Light and Shade 
  (guitarist: de Lucia).

** Update of 12:26 PM ET — Other reports now say de Lucia died
not today, Wednesday, Feb. 26, but rather on Tuesday, Feb. 25.

Tuesday, April 5, 2022

For a Maker of Strings Who Died on March 30

Filed under: General — m759 @ 5:41 am

Related material: Blue Guitar.

Monday, August 2, 2021

Savage Stevens

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:22 am

http://www.wallacestevens.com/concordance/

savage

Your query matched 15 lines
 
An Ordinary Evening in New Haven (iv)
Stanza: 61; Line Number: 7
     They only know a savage assuagement cries
Stanza: 62; Line Number: 8
     With a savage voice; and in that cry they hear
Stanza: 64; Line Number: 10
     In a savage and subtle and simple harmony,
 
Credences of Summer (vii)
Stanza: 101; Line Number: 11
     The object, grips it in savage scrutiny,
 
Examination of the Hero in a Time of War (ii)
Stanza: 26; Line Number: 12
     And rainbow sortilege, the savage weapon
 
Exposition of the Contents of a Cab (OP)
Line Number: 12
     And savage blooms;
 
From the Journal of Crispin (II) (OP)
Stanza: 114; Line Number: 20
     Into a savage color he goes on.
 
Gubbinal
Line Number: 9
     That savage of fire,
 
Less and Less Human, O Savage Spirit
Title
     Less and Less Human, O Savage Spirit
 
Page from a Tale
Line Number: 20
     They looked back at Hans’ look with savage faces.
 
Sunday Morning (vii)
Stanza: 95; Line Number: 5
     Naked among them, like a savage source.
 
The Comedian as the Letter C, ii: Concerning the Thunderstorms of Yucatan
Stanza: 14; Line Number: 14
     Into a savage color he went on.
 
The Man with the Blue Guitar (iii)
Stanza: 29; Line Number: 9
     To bang it from a savage blue,
 
The Pediment of Appearance
Line Number: 10
     The savage transparence. They go crying
 
The World as Meditation
Line Number: 6
     Whose mere savage presence awakens the world in which she dwells.
_________________________________________________________________________
Online Concordance to Wallace Stevens’s Poetry

Saturday, February 1, 2020

Varda at the Brattle, or “Aion: The Prize”

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:01 pm

Today's Brattle Theatre films celebrate the work of Agnès Varda.

A search for Varda in this journal in turn suggests a search for 
Aion-related posts.

Within that  search, the post "Icons" (Sept. 16, 2011) is not unrelated
to yesterday's post "Notes for a Blue Guitar."

All this is, of course, mere dreamlogic .

Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Gap Dance

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:09 am

From Wallace Stevens, "The Man with the Blue Guitar":

IX

And the color, the overcast blue
Of the air, in which the blue guitar
Is a form, described but difficult,
And I am merely a shadow hunched
Above the arrowy, still strings,
The maker of a thing yet to be made . . . .

"Arrowy, still strings" from the diamond theorem

Saturday, September 14, 2019

The All-Night Record Player

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 4:00 am

See "Politics of Experience" and "Blue Guitar."

IMAGE- Scene from 'Oblivion' (2013) 

Sunday, May 22, 2016

Sunday School

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 9:00 am

From 'The Politics of Experience,' by R.D. Laing

A less metaphysical approach to a "pre-form" —

From Wallace Stevens, "The Man with the Blue Guitar":

IX

And the color, the overcast blue
Of the air, in which the blue guitar
Is a form, described but difficult,
And I am merely a shadow hunched
Above the arrowy, still strings,
The maker of a thing yet to be made . . . .

"Arrowy, still strings" from the diamond theorem

See also "preforming" and the blue guitar
in a post of May 19, 2010.

Update of 7:11 PM ET:
More generally, see posts tagged May 19 Gestalt.

Sunday, May 17, 2015

Metaphysics for Sunday

Filed under: General — m759 @ 8:00 am

From Chapter 1 of R. D. Laing's The Politics of Experience —

"An activity has to be understood in terms of the experience
from which it emerges. These arabesques that mysteriously
embody mathematical truths only glimpsed by a very few —
how beautiful, how exquisite — no matter that they were
the threshing and thrashing of a drowning man.

We are here beyond all questions except those of being
and nonbeing, incarnation, birth, life and death.

Creation ex nihilo  has been pronounced impossible even for
God. But we are concerned with miracles. We must hear the
music of those Braque guitars (Lorca*)."

See also Christmas Day, 2009.

*  Update of Sunday afternoon: A search for the Lorca quote yields
   no result, but Cocteau wrote that "Mon rêve, en musique, serait
   d'entendre la musique des guitares de Picasso. "
   (Oeuvres complètes , Vol. 10, p. 107)

   See also Stevens + "Blue Guitar" in this journal.

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Cubist Aesthetics…

Filed under: General — m759 @ 8:00 pm

in Stevens' "The Man with the Blue Guitar"

Author:  Ruszkowska-Buchowska, Dominika
Publication: Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: 
An International Review of English Studies
Article Type: Critical essay
Date: Jan 1, 2004

See also Blue Guitar
and Cubist Language Game
as well as Dali Cube.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Preforming

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 11:00 am

Photo caption in NY Times  today— a pianist "preforming" in 1967. (See today's previous post.)

The pianist's life story seems in part to echo that of Juliette Binoche in the film "Bleu." Binoche appeared in this journal yesterday, before I had seen the pianist in today's Times  obituaries. The Binoche appearance was related to the blue diamond in the film "Duelle " (Tuesday morning's post) and the saying of Heraclitus "immortals mortal, mortals immortal" (Tuesday afternoon's post).

This somewhat uncanny echo brings to mind Nabokov

Life Everlasting—based on a misprint!
I mused as I drove homeward: take the hint,
And stop investigating my abyss?
But all at once it dawned on me that this
Was the real point, the contrapuntal theme;
Just this: not text, but texture; not the dream
But topsy-turvical coincidence,
Not flimsy nonsense, but a web of sense.

Whether sense or nonsense, the following quotation seems relevant—

"Archetypes function as living dispositions, ideas in the Platonic sense, that preform and continually influence our thoughts and feelings and actions." –C.G. Jung in Four Archetypes: Mother, Rebirth, Spirit, Trickster, the section titled "On the Concept of the Archetype."

That section is notable for its likening of Jungian archetypes to Platonic ideas and to axial systems of crystals. See also "Cubist Tune," March 18 —

 

Blue tesseract cover<br /><br />
art, blue crystals in 'Bleu,' lines from 'Blue Guitar'

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Cubist Tune

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:29 am

For Desconvencida

Blue tesseract cover art, blue crystals in 'Bleu,' lines from 'Blue Guitar'

See also Wallace Stevens,
"The Relations between Poetry and Painting"

Monday, July 2, 2007

Monday July 2, 2007

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 8:28 pm

A figure like Ecclesiast/
Rugged and luminous,
 chants in the dark/
A text that is an answer,
although obscure.

— Wallace Stevens,
"An Ordinary Evening
in New Haven"

A Text

Time and Chance
today in the
Keystone State:

PA Lottery July 2, 2007: Mid-day 004, Evening 802


From 8/02
in 2005:

50 Years Ago
on this date, poet
Wallace Stevens died.

Memorial: at the
Wallace Stevens
Concordance,
enter center.


Result:

The Man with the Blue Guitar
line 150 (xiii.6): The heraldic center of the world

Human Arrangement
line 13: The center of transformations that

This Solitude of Cataracts
line 18: Breathing his bronzen breath at the azury center of time.

A Primitive Like an Orb
line 1 (i.1): The essential poem at the center of things,
line 87 (xi.7): At the center on the horizon, concentrum, grave

Reply to Papini
line 33 (ii.15): And final. This is the center. The poet is

Study of Images II
line 7: As if the center of images had its

An Ordinary Evening in New Haven
line 291 (xvii.3): It fails. The strength at the center is serious.
line 371 (xxi.11): At the center, the object of the will, this place,

Things of August
line 154 (ix.18): At the center of the unintelligible,

The Hermitage at the Center
Title: The Hermitage at the Center

Owl's Clover, The Old Woman and the Statue (OP)
line 13 (ii.9): At the center of the mass, the haunches low,

The Sail of Ulysses (OP)
line 50 (iv.6): The center of the self, the self

Someone Puts a Pineapple Together (NA)
line 6 (i.6): The angel at the center of this rind,

Of Ideal Time and Choice (NA)
line 29: At last, the center of resemblance, found
line 32: Stand at the center of ideal time,


For a text on today's
mid-day number, see

  Theme and Variations.

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