“There exists a considerable literature
devoted to the Lo shu , much of it infected
with the kind of crypto-mystic twaddle
met with in Feng Shui.”
— Lee C. F. Sallows, Geometric Magic Squares ,
Dover Publications, 2013, page 121
Monday, August 17, 2026
Twaddle Waddle
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Wednesday, August 30, 2023
Wind Over Water Revisited
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The Tempest
A tropical storm over Florida (lower left) as described by William Shakespeare in 1611.
“Wind over Water” in the I Ching, Dissolving: Our revels now are ended. These our actors, as I foretold you, were all spirits and are melted into air, into thin air: and, like the baseless fabric of this vision, the cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples, the great globe itself, yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve and, like this insubstantial pageant faded, leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. (Prospero, IV.i) |
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Saturday, August 19, 2023
Landings
One of the scenes from "Spencer" shows a Christmas weigh-in
at Sandringham with a staircase, and landing, in the background.
Another landing — On the staircase between the first and second
floors at Skillmans in Bemus Point, NY, where in a summer not too
many years ago I saw displayed a copy of Dorm Room Feng Shui .
I ordered this book online and enjoyed it when it arrived.
On the cover is a 3×3 array of images, with the caption "You are here"
in the center square.
Interpret this as you will.
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Friday, August 18, 2023
Photography for Bicoastal Lovers
Earlier, above some other bodies of water . . .
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The Tempest
A tropical storm over Florida (lower left) as described by William Shakespeare in 1611.
“Wind over Water” in the I Ching, Dissolving: Our revels now are ended. These our actors, as I foretold you, were all spirits and are melted into air, into thin air: and, like the baseless fabric of this vision, the cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples, the great globe itself, yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve and, like this insubstantial pageant faded, leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. (Prospero, IV.i) |
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Sunday, July 4, 2021
Raiders of the Lost . . .
See as well a search in this journal for Feng Shui.
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Friday, November 13, 2020
Raiders of the Lost Dorm Room
“That really is, really, I think, the Island of the Misfit Toys at that point.
You have crossed the Rubicon, you jumped on the crazy train and
you’re headed into the cliffs that guard the flat earth at that time, brother,”
said Rep. Denver Riggleman, a Republican congressman from Virginia,
in an interview."
— Jon Ward, political correspondent, Yahoo News , Nov. 12, 2020
The instinct for heaven had its counterpart:
The instinct for earth, for New Haven, for his room,
The gay tournamonde as of a single world
In which he is and as and is are one.
— Wallace Stevens, "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven"
Related material for comedians —
See as well Sallows in this journal.
“There exists a considerable literature
devoted to the Lo shu , much of it infected
with the kind of crypto-mystic twaddle
met with in Feng Shui.”
— Lee C. F. Sallows, Geometric Magic Squares ,
Dover Publications, 2013, page 121
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Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Arts at Cambridge
Click here to enlarge. See also Hexagram 59, Feng Shui.
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Saturday, April 16, 2016
Wind Over Water
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Dorm Room in Purgatory
Happy birthday to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.
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Sunday, November 9, 2014
Twaddle
“There exists a considerable literature
devoted to the Lo shu , much of it infected
with the kind of crypto-mystic twaddle
met with in Feng Shui.”
— Lee C. F. Sallows, Geometric Magic Squares ,
Dover Publications, 2013, page 121
Cf. Raiders of the Lost Theorem, Oct. 13, 2014.
See also tonight’s previous post and
“Feng Shui” in this journal.
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Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Wednesday September 2, 2009
Back to School
Canto I:
Canto II:
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Friday, August 28, 2009,
in this journal Annals of Religion:
Part I:
“Inside the church,
the grief was real….” |
Canto III:
| Sunday, August 30, 2009, in The New York Times “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. Facebook, the online social grid, could not command loyalty forever.” — Virginia Heffernan, “Facebook Exodus,” NY Times Magazine, Sunday, August 30, 2009 |
Click for details.
Canto V:
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Friday, August 28, 2009
Friday August 28, 2009
Part I:
“Inside the church, the grief was real. Sen. Edward Kennedy’s voice caught as he read his lovely eulogy, and when he was done, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg stood up and hugged him. She bravely read from Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest‘ (‘Our revels now are ended. We are such stuff as dreams are made on‘). Many of the 315 mourners, family and friends of the Kennedys and Bessettes, swallowed hard through a gospel choir’s rendition of ‘Amazing Grace,’ and afterward, they sang lustily as Uncle Teddy led the old Irish songs at the wake.”
— Newsweek magazine, issue dated August 2, 1999
Part II:
The Ba gua (Chinese….) are eight diagrams used in Taoist cosmology to represent a range of interrelated concepts. Each consists of three lines, each either ‘broken’ or ‘unbroken,’ representing a yin line or a yang line, respectively. Due to their tripartite structure, they are often referred to as ‘trigrams’ in English. —Wikipedia
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Friday, June 30, 2006
Friday June 30, 2006
“Wind over Water” in the I Ching,
the Classic of Transformations,
signifies huan, “dissolving.”
Dissolving:
Our revels now are ended.
These our actors,
as I foretold you,
were all spirits…
These our actors,
as I foretold you,
were all spirits…
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Saturday, April 9, 2005
Saturday April 9, 2005
Prophetic Humanism
"The solution is dissolution."– Murray L. Bob,
A Contrarian's Dictionary
Strikes Again!
Related material:
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For a larger view, see
the five Log24 entries ending at
midnight Sept. 5-6, 2003:
"We are such stuff as dreams are made on,
and our little life is rounded with a sleep."
(Prospero in The Tempest, IV.i)
Saturday, September 6, 2003
Saturday September 6, 2003
The Tempest
A tropical storm over Florida (lower left)
and a hurricane at Bermuda (upper right)
at 3:15 p.m. EDT on Friday, Sept. 5, 2003:
as described by William Shakespeare in 1611.
“Wind over Water” in the I Ching,
the Classic of Transformations,
signifies huan, “dissolving.”
Dissolving:
Our revels now are ended. These our actors, as I foretold you, were all spirits and are melted into air, into thin air: and, like the baseless fabric of this vision, the cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples, the great globe itself, yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve and, like this insubstantial pageant faded, leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. (Prospero, IV.i)
Friday, September 5, 2003
Friday September 5, 2003
For Grace Paley:
An Enormous Change
at the Last Minute
(of September 5)
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Hexagram 59 of the I Ching comprises the trigrams for wind and water (as in the environmental art of Feng Shui).
The name of the hexagram, Huan, means dispersion or dissolution.
The character Huan may be written as shown at right above. The picture of the character Huan is taken from
Essentially the same picture is shown at
where it is explained as follows:
“At the top is a person or people 
, a flattened version of the more familiar 
. In the center an eye 
looks out from a cave 
or cavern. At the bottom a hand holds a stick or club 
as though ready to strike something. 
represents flowing water.”
The creature in the cave holding a club is reminiscent of my previous entry for today, on the “bone people,” or ancestors, of mankind.
For a transition, in the Kubrick 2001 style, to a more modern scene, see my next entry.
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