From the above Rock obituary —
"One friend, whom he had met early in his time
at Cambridge, was Syd Barrett of the band Pink Floyd."
See as well "Crazy Diamond" in this journal.
Saturday, November 20, 2021
Shining On
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Wednesday, June 19, 2019
Diagram
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Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Tuesday July 11, 2006
Not Crazy Enough?
Some children of the sixties may feel that today's previous two entries, on Syd Barrett, the Crazy Diamond, are not crazy enough. Let them consult the times of those entries– 2:11 and 8:15– and interpret those times, crazily, as dates: 2/11 and 8/15.
This brings us to Stephen King territory– apparently the natural habitat of Syd Barrett.
See Log24 on a 2/11, Along Came a Dreamcatcher, and Log24 on an 8/15, The Line.
From 8/15, a remark of Plato:
"There appears to be a sort of war of Giants and Gods going on…"
(Compare with the remarks by Abraham Cowley for Tom Stoppard's recent birthday.)
From 2/11, two links: Halloween Meditations and We Are the Key.
From Dreamcatcher (the film and the book):
For Syd Barrett as Duddits,
see Terry Kirby on Syd Barrett
(edited– as in Stephen King
and the New Testament—
for narrative effect):
"He appeared as the Floyd performed the song 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond.' It contains the words: 'Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun. Shine on you crazy diamond. Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky.'
At first, they didn't recognise the man, whose head and eyebrows were shaved….
But this was the 'crazy diamond' himself: Syd Barrett, the subject of the song….
When Roger Waters saw his old friend, he broke down….
Rick Wright, the keyboards player, later told an interviewer:
… 'Roger [Waters] was in tears, I think I was; we were both in tears. It was very shocking… seven years of no contact and then to walk in while we're actually doing that particular track. I don't know – coincidence, karma, fate, who knows? But it was very, very, very powerful.'"
Remarks suitable for Duddits's opponent, Mister Gray, may be found in the 1994 Ph.D. thesis of Noel Gray.
"I refer here to Plato's utilisation in the Meno of graphic austerity as the tool to bring to the surface, literally and figuratively, the inherent presence of geometry in the mind of the slave."
Shine on, gentle Duddits.
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Tuesday July 11, 2006
It's like tryin' to
tell a stranger 'bout
Rock 'n' Roll
"In Tom Stoppard's new play 'Rock 'n' Roll,' showing in the West End, he [Syd Barrett] is portrayed in the opening scene, and his life and music are a recurring theme."
— Terry Kirby, Syd Barrett: The Crazy Diamond, in The Independent of July 12
Keynote
"Each scene is punctuated with a rock track from such acts as the Velvet Underground, the Doors, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and Pink Floyd. Songs by Floyd's lost founder, Syd Barrett, are the keynote for Stoppard's theme that rock music sounded the death knell for repression but also heralded a freedom filled with its own perils."
— Ray Bennett, today's review of a new play, "Rock 'n' Roll," by Tom Stoppard
Related material:
Dance of the Numbers,
for Tom Stoppard
on his birthday,
July 3, 2006,
and
Knock, Knock, Knockin',
from yesterday.
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Tuesday July 11, 2006
Pink Floyd co-founder
Syd Barrett dies
"Pink Floyd's 1975 track 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond,' from the album 'Wish You Were Here,' is widely believed to be a tribute to Barrett."– Reuters
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Saturday, April 12, 2003
Saturday April 12, 2003
2:23 PM
Sequel
to the previous two entries
"This world is not conclusion;
A sequel stands beyond…."
— Emily Dickinson
Today's birthday: dancer/actress Ann Miller.
"In 1937, she was discovered by Lucille Ball…."
Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz,
and Ann Miller, cast photo
from Too Many Girls (1940)
"Just goes to show star quality shines through…."
— Website on Too Many Girls"It'll shine when it shines."
— Folk saying, epigraph to The Shining"Shine on, you crazy diamond."
— Pink Floyd"Well we all shine on…"
— John Lennon, "Instant Karma"
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Saturday, November 9, 2002
Saturday November 9, 2002
Birthdate of Hermann Weyl
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Result of a Google search.
Category: Science > Math > Algebra > Group Theory
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Weyl, H.: Symmetry. |
Sponsored Link Symmetry Puzzle |
Quotation from Weyl’s Symmetry:
“Symmetry is a vast subject, significant in art and nature. Mathematics lies at its root, and it would be hard to find a better one on which to demonstrate the working of the mathematical intellect.”
In honor of Princeton University, of Sylvia Nasar (see entries of Nov, 6), of the Presbyterian Church (see entry of Nov. 8), and of Professor Weyl (whose work partly inspired the website Diamond Theory), this site’s background music is now Pink Floyd’s
You Crazy Diamond.” |
Updates of Friday, November 15, 2002:
In order to clarify the meaning of “Shine” and “Crazy” in the above, consult the following —
- “Shine” … The Shining, by Stephen King
- “Crazy” … The Hollow Man, by Dan Simmons
To accompany this detailed exegesis of Pink Floyd, click here for a reading by Marlon Brando.
For a related educational experience, see pages 126-127 of The Book of Sequels, by Henry Beard, Christopher Cerf, Sarah Durkee, and Sean Kelly (Random House paperback, 1990).
Speaking of sequels, be on the lookout for Annie Dillard’s sequel to Teaching a Stone to Talk, titled Teaching a Brick to Sing.