— Niall Ferguson, Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist
From this journal on Guy Fawkes Day, 2011—
Shadows
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Thursday, November 30, 2023
The Chronic Gap
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Thursday, September 22, 2022
The Tag in the Bag
The above image is from a tweet dated Jan. 11, 2018.
Related material from this journal — That date, in posts
now tagged In the Bag. Those posts are followups to
a remark by Nabokov:
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Saturday, November 12, 2011
For the Old Guy
From this journal on Guy Fawkes Day, 2011—
ShadowsBetween the idea — T. S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men" |
This year's Lamont Cranston award goes to…
Norton Dodge, who died at 84 on Guy Fawkes Day.
"Professor Dodge and the underground artists
whose work he helped save are the subjects of
a book, The Ransom of Russian Art (1994),
by John McPhee."
— Margalit Fox in today's New York Times
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Saturday, November 5, 2011
Shadows
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
— T. S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men"
A passage quoted here on this date in 2005—
Douglas Hofstadter on his magnum opus:
“… I realized that to me,
Gödel and Escher and Bach
were only shadows
cast in different directions
by some central solid essence."
This refers to Hofstadter's cover image:
Also from this date in 2005:
Midrash: Hearts of Darkness.
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Tuesday, April 8, 2003
Tuesday April 8, 2003
Death's Dream Kingdom
April 7, 2003, Baghdad – A US tank blew a huge statue of President Saddam Hussein off its pedestal in central Baghdad on Monday with a single shell, a US officer said…. "One shot, one kill."
"When smashing monuments, save the pedestals; they always come in handy."
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"In death's dream kingdom….
Between the idea — T. S. Eliot, Harvard 1910, The Hollow Men
"A light check in the shadow — Edward H. Adelson, Yale 1974, Illusions and Demos
"point A / In a perspective that begins again / At B" — Wallace Stevens, Harvard 1901, "The Rock" See also |
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