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Friday, May 5, 2017

For the Gods of Mexico*

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:26 pm

A swimmer who won Olympic gold in 1936 reportedly died today.

Related material from August 4, 2008

Jodie Foster in 'Contact' viewing the opening of the 1936 Olympics

Jodie Foster and the
opening of the 1936 Olympics

“Heraclitus…. says: ‘The ruler
 whose prophecy occurs at Delphi
 oute legei oute kryptei,
 neither gathers nor hides,
 alla semainei, but gives hints.'” 

 — An Introduction to Metaphysics,
 by Martin Heidegger,
Yale University Press
paperback, 1959, p. 170

Posts tagged Swimmer may or may not be relevant.

* See … 

Thursday, July 22, 2021

Shadow Box Profile:  Location, Location, Location

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 6:54 pm

https://navy.togetherweserved.com/usn/
servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?
cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=EventExt&ID=228739

MICHENER: Returning in the dark from a routine mission my pilot kept missing the poorly lit New Caledonia air strip. We braced for a crash landing, just made it, and were badly shaken. If I had died, I would have left nothing behind. I was approaching 40, mind you. That near crash prompted me to draft South Pacific stories running through my mind.

QUESTIONER: Your first draft was written on the island of Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, south of Guadalcanal, in a Quonset hut, by pecking at a typewriter with your two index fingers. What was the story line?

MICHENER: Tales of the South Pacific consisted of 18 loosely connected stories about the comedy, boredom, shenanigans of Navy life on a Pacific island between military battles. The stories showed the interplay of Navy men, Navy nurses, and conniving natives; the funny aspects of military planes, jeeps, bulldozers, canned goods imposed on simple people living on beautiful islands.

Comedy and Boredom —

Shenanigans —

Sunday, July 18, 2021

The Glorification of Kitty

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 5:50 pm

"… you say goodbye I say hello" — Song lyric

Saturday, August 22, 2020

An Object Lesson

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:15 am

Posts tagged Plato's Video continue.

IMAGE- A Jesuit on words and shadows

Related literary remarks from this  journal on Oct. 1, 2016

— A Heart for the Gods of Mexico , Conrad Aiken, 1939

Related imagery this morning from the Gulf of Mexico —

Meanwhile, also on Oct. 1, 2016, related imagery from Star Wars Rebels —

Click here for the video.

Saturday, October 1, 2016

Doris and Oscar

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:00 am

An image from last night's post Brand Name —

"Squared into a matrix of four" 

YouTube data suggested by the above passage —

'Doris Day Deserves an Oscar'— Doris Day on YouTube, 'A Guy Is a Guy'

Related literary remarks —

A Heart for the Gods of Mexico , Conrad Aiken, 1939

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