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Thursday, December 15, 2022

Christmas Knot

Filed under: General — m759 @ 6:00 am

For seekers of a "crazy Christmas knot" —

The commercial logo below may be viewed as
three in-folded Y-shaped orange forked tongues.

Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Area 15 Revisited: The In-Folding

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 2:41 pm

"All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flame are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one."

— T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding” (1942)

For seekers of a "crazy Christmas knot" —

The commercial logo below may be viewed as
three in-folded Y-shaped orange forked tongues.

See also this journal on the above opening date — July 23, 2021:

'The Power Of The Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts,' by Rudolf Arnheim

Cover illustration:

Spies returning from the land of
Canaan with a cluster of grapes.

Colored woodcut from
Biblia Sacra Germanica ,
Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1483.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

"What happens in Canaan, stays in Canaan."

Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Harry Potter and the Crown of Fire

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:23 pm

Daniel Radcliffe in the recent film "The Lost City" —

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Um, some might call me
a collector.

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But there is one obsession
in particular

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that has held me captive.

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The Crown of Fire

From the Log24 post "Fish Babel" —

The final page, 759, of the Harry Potter saga —

Sunday, July 14, 2013

Working Backwards

Filed under: General — m759 @ 8:25 PM Edit This

"Warming to the question of what it means to read a poem backward…."

— Essayist in a New Yorker  weblog on July 11, 2013

“Death itself would start working backwards.”

— Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia , 1950

"I twisted my mind like a bright ribbon, folded it, 
and tied the crazy Christmas knots I love so well."
— Roger Zelazny, A Rose for Ecclesiastes , 1963

"All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flame are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one."
— T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets , 1942

See also some context for these quotations.

Sunday, July 14, 2013

Working Backwards

Filed under: General — m759 @ 8:25 pm

"Warming to the question of what it means to read a poem backward…."

— Essayist in a New Yorker  weblog on July 11, 2013

“Death itself would start working backwards.”

— Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia , 1950

"I twisted my mind like a bright ribbon, folded it, 
and tied the crazy Christmas knots I love so well."
— Roger Zelazny, A Rose for Ecclesiastes , 1963

"All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flame are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one."
— T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets , 1942

See also some context for these quotations.

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