"… his greatest creation was Archie Bunker, the focus of that show
and one of the most enduring characters in television history."
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
Bunker Bingo …
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Thursday, December 3, 2020
Bunker Bingo
See as well 5×5, The Matrix of Abraham, and Deutsche Schule Montevideo .
“If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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Saturday, February 16, 2019
Bunker Bingo Continues.
From a post of October 16, 2017, "Halloween Meditation" —
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Thursday, October 25, 2012
Bunker Bingo*
Mathematics and Narrative continues…
Steiner's version of "classical functional analysis"—
"Mein Führer… Steiner…"
* See the story by Kilgore Trout. See also On Linguistic Creation,
The Matrix of Abraham, and The Thoreau Foundation.
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Friday, December 4, 2020
German Lesson: Untergang
The recent posts "Bunker Bingo" and "Here's to Efficient Packing!"
suggest a review.
Alex Ross in The New Yorker on Dec. 2, 2020, on the German
word "Untergang " —
"The usual translation is 'downfall,' although
the various implications of the word—
literally, “going-under”—are difficult to capture
in English. In some contexts, Untergang simply
means descent: a sunset is a Sonnenuntergang .
Lauren German in a 2005 film —
See as well . . .
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Friday, November 14, 2008
Friday November 14, 2008
Riverrun
(The first word in Finnegans Wake.
See also the Log24 entries following
the death of Pope John Paul II.)
At Inside Higher Ed, Margaret Soltan ("UD") discusses…
"moments of clarity [cf. related essay (pdf)] that seem, when you look at all of them together late in the day, to disclose our life’s otherwise hidden pattern, meaning, and flow.
'Not far downstream was a dry channel where the river had run once, and part of the way to come to know a thing is through its death. But years ago I had known the river when it flowed through this now dry channel, so I could enliven its stony remains with the waters of memory. In death it had its pattern, and we can only hope for as much.'"
— A River Runs Through It, by Norman Maclean, a story about trout fishing and grace
Related material:
Maclean's fellow author Kilgore Trout and the story he is said to be most proud of, about Bunker Bingo.
See also yesterday's entry, Bob's Country Bunker, and On Linguistic Creation.
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