". . . The last of the river diamonds . . . .
bright alluvial diamonds,
burnished clean by mountain torrents,
green and blue and yellow and red.
In the darkness, he could feel them burning,
like fire and water of the universe, distilled."
— At Play in the Fields of the Lord ,
by Peter Matthiessen (Random House, 1965)
Related Log24 posts are now tagged Fire Water.
See as well, from posts tagged Heartland Sutra —
♫ "Red and Yellow, Blue and Green"
— "Prism Song," 1964
( Sequel to the post of 12 AM Wednesday )
The following highlighted phrase was found, with a different spelling,
in The New Yorker issue dated Sept. 12, 2016.
The article in which the phrase was embedded is not recommended.
Neither is the book (which the foolhardy explorer may easily find)
from which the above snippet was taken.
* That of Fields of the Lord .
For Julie Taymor on Fashion's Night Out…
This morning's post had a link to a video meditation from the director of
the 1985 film "Kiss of the Spider Woman"—
This film clip is echoed by lyrics, broadcast this morning, from Taymor's new Spider-Man musical—
You can fly too high and get too close to the sun.
See how the boy falls from the sky.
This morning's post and the "At Play" film it linked to featured class conflict and Brazilian natives.
For a more down-to-earth approach to these topics, see Fox Broadcasting's new series "Running Wilde."
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