The name "Hickey" in last night's post suggested the phrase
"pipe dream" and a search for the opening date of
"The Iceman Cometh" — which was October 9, 1946.
That date, it happens, was the birth date of a video game
executive whose passing was noted here . . .
* Illustration from a related 2003 Log24 post —
Da Capo
“The story bent and climbed and went into weird areas.
For instance, at one time Simon Peter was a cave-dweller;
at another, he only appeared in other characters’ dreams….”
— Keri Hulme on The Bone People
The Small quotation is from a page describing his transcription
for string quartet of Bach's Goldberg Variations:
https://manontroppomusic.wordpress.com/goldberg-variations/.
* See too other Log24 occurrences of "da capo."
Related material —
* The title is a musical term…
From Log24 last summer . . .
From Log24 yesterday:
Catchup for Blockheads . . . Da Capo
Related material: Posts tagged Metadata.
For fans of Hunger Games and Elysium —
Roberta Smith in this evening's* online New York Times—
"Especially with the gap between the wealthiest
and everyone else so wide, it is dicey
for a major museum to celebrate the often frivolous
objects on which the rich spend their ever increasing
surplus income. Such a show must be beyond reproach
in every way: transparent in organization, impeccable
in exhibition design, illuminating in catalog and labeling
and, most of all, self-evidently excellent in the quality of
the objects on display."
Da capo: "I've heard of affairs that are strictly Platonic."
For the late Jim Hall—
Backstory: Icon, 1:44 PM ET today.
Update of 11 PM ET Dec. 10, 2013 —
For all the notes, see Da Capo (11 AM today)
and the Cullinane frequency matrix (12×12).
Matrix used to illustrate the well-tempered
scale. The integer frequency-ratio values
are only approximate in such a scale.
Da Capo, Part II:
The Elegant Window
From a review of
The Nick Tosches Reader,
published by Da Capo Press:
“Elegant as a slow blues.”
— Rolling Stone
“Examples are the
stained-glass windows of knowledge.”
— Vladimir Nabokov
And so….
See also
Da Capo
You say I am repeating
Something I have said before. I shall say it again.
Shall I say it again?
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Southern Strategy, Da Capo
“Why are you based in North Carolina?”
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“Remembering speechlessly we seek the great forgotten language, the lost lane-end into heaven, a stone, a leaf, an unfound door. Where? When?” |
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At left: Meanwhile, at the Vatican: ROME, July 31 — The Vatican issued a letter Saturday attacking the “distortions” and “lethal effects” of feminism. |
In memory of
Laurance Rockefeller,
who died yesterday at 94
"J. S. Bach's 'Goldberg Variations' is a self-contained world, immersion in which is transformative….
At the end of Variation 30, Bach writes simply 'Aria da capo.' I have written it out for the convenience of the players. This recurrence of the Aria, after its long journey through thirty variations and especially coming immediately after the exuberant Quodlibet (Variation 30), is magical. It is the same Aria, yet subtly different: transformed."
Da Capo
“The story bent and climbed and went into weird areas. For instance, at one time Simon Peter was a cave-dweller; at another, he only appeared in other characters’ dreams….”
— Keri Hulme on The Bone People
“Words are events.”
In East Asian traditions, “Rocks are seen as events–rather slow-moving events–but as events….”
— Graham Parkes, professor of philosophy at the University of Hawaii
Parkes is working on a translation of Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra and is the author of “The Overflowing Soul: Images of Transformation in Nietzsche’s Zarathustra.”
He is also the translator, with David Pellauer, of Nietzsche and Music, by Georges Liébert (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003).
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