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Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Wind Over Water Revisited

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:47 am
 

The Tempest

IMAGE- 'Wind over Water,' i.e. 'Feng Shui'

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:

“Wind over Water“

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)

Saturday, August 19, 2023

Landings

Filed under: General — m759 @ 8:02 am

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.

Friday, August 18, 2023

Photography for Bicoastal Lovers

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 12:08 pm

Earlier, above some other bodies of water . . .

The Tempest

IMAGE- 'Wind over Water,' i.e. 'Feng Shui'

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:

“Wind over Water“

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)

Sunday, July 4, 2021

Raiders of the Lost . . .

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:56 am

See as well a search in this journal for Feng Shui.

Friday, November 13, 2020

Raiders of the Lost Dorm Room

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 11:48 am

“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

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Arts at Cambridge

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:40 pm

Click here to enlarge. See also  Hexagram 59, Feng Shui.

Saturday, April 16, 2016

Wind Over Water

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:45 pm
 

Google News this evening —

See also Feng Shui  in this journal.

Dorm Room in Purgatory

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:45 pm

Dorm Room Feng Shui: 'YOU ARE HERE'

Happy birthday to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.

Sunday, November 9, 2014

Twaddle

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:00 am

“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.

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Wednesday September 2, 2009

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:09 am
Back to School

Canto I:

NY Times-- 'Soul' of a Party Is Memorialized

Canto II:

Friday, August 28, 2009,
in this journal

Annals of Religion:

Rites of Passage

“Things fall apart;
   the centre cannot hold….“

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

Canto IV:

A Season in Purgatory, by Dominick Dunne

Click for details.
 
Canto V:
 
Dorm Room Feng Shui: 'YOU ARE HERE'

Friday, August 28, 2009

Friday August 28, 2009

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:09 am
Rites of Passage

“Things fall apart;
   the centre cannot hold….“

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

Part III:

3x3 array of symbols, cover of 'Dorm Room Feng Shui'

Above: detail from the cover of…

Bagua in Brief, from 'Dorm Room Feng Shui'
Figures explaining 'Dorm Room Feng Shui'

Friday, June 30, 2006

Friday June 30, 2006

Filed under: General — m759 @ 6:23 pm
Summers Revels Ended

IMAGE- 'Wind over Water,' i.e. 'Feng Shui'

“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… 

Saturday, April 9, 2005

Saturday April 9, 2005

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:59 am

Prophetic Humanism

"The solution is dissolution."–  Murray L. Bob,
A Contrarian's Dictionary
Strikes Again!

Related material:

Dissolution

IMAGE- Hexagram 59, 'Wind over Water,' i.e. 'Feng Shui'

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

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:00 am

The Tempest

IMAGE- 'Wind over Water,' i.e. 'Feng Shui'

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:

“Wind over Water“

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

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:59 pm

For Grace Paley:
An Enormous Change
at the Last Minute
(of September 5)

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

The LiSe Heyboer I Ching.

Essentially the same picture is shown at

The Dan Stackhouse I Ching,

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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