"When you come to a fork in the road, take it." — Yogi Berra
The Story Game —
Two players of interest . . .
Friday, July 22, 2022
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Tuesday January 27, 2009
A Kind of Cross
“For every kind of vampire,
there is a kind of cross.”
— Gravity’s Rainbow
The above text on Joyce’s theory of epiphanies:
“It emphasizes the radiance, the effulgence, of the thing itself revealed in a special moment, an unmoving moment, of time. The moment, as in the macrocosmic lyric of Finnegans Wake, may involve all other moments, but it still remains essentially static, and though it may have all time for its subject matter it is essentially timeless.”
— Page 17 of Stephen Hero, by James Joyce, Theodore Spencer, John J. Slocum, and Herbert Cahoon, Edition: 16, New Directions Publishing, 1963
Related epiphanies —
Detail from
the above text:
Cover of
a paperback novel
well worth reading:
Related material:
the above text:
Cover of
a paperback novel
well worth reading:
Related material:
“Joyce knew no Greek.”
— Statement by the prototype
of Buck Mulligan in Ulysses,
Oliver St. John Gogarty,
quoted in the above
New Directions Stephen Hero
“Chrysostomos.”
— Statement in Ulysses
by the prototype
of Stephen Dedalus,
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce
See also the link to
Mardi Gras, 2008,
in yesterday’s entry,
with its text from
the opening of Ulysses:
“He faced about and
blessed gravely thrice
the tower,
the surrounding country
and the awaking mountains.”
Some context:
(Click on images for details.)
and
“In the process of absorbing
the rules of the institutions
we inhabit, we become
who we are.”
— David Brooks, Jewish columnist,
in today’s New York Times
The Prisoner,
Episode One, 1967:
“I… I meant a larger map.”
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Saturday, December 10, 2005
Saturday December 10, 2005
Prequel on
Saint Cecilia’s Day
“Death itself would start
working backward.”
— Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia
Celebrity Obits, Nov. 22, 2005 —
Intelligence and
Counterintelligence
(continued):
| Aldous Huxley & C.S. Lewis both died on Nov.22, 1963. For some reason, their deaths went largely unnoticed… | The doors of perception lead to Narnia | November 22, 08:51:20am |
| Shemp Howard died 50 years ago today | Moe | November 22, 09:17:18am |
See also the previous entry, and this follow-up:
“Shattuck’s death on Thursday… was reported by his nephew, John Shattuck, head of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, The Boston Globe reported Saturday.”
Related material:
“The White Witch rules Narnia,
and has brought to it
the Hundred Years of Winter.”
— The Narnia Academy
and the foundation of the
David Morrell Counterintelligence Library:
Shemp
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Friday, December 9, 2005
Friday December 9, 2005
Intelligence
and
Counterintelligence
A film by Robert De Niro,
now in production:
"Will follow James Wilson, a Yale graduate recruited as one of the founders of the CIA. The character is said to be based on the legendarily shrewd but paranoid counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton."
Recommended
reading:
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