The title is from a poem by Robert Lowell.
Sunday, September 6, 2020
Thursday, February 15, 2024
For Harlan Kane: The Aggies Prayer
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Monday, June 14, 2021
For James Franco and Stephen King: Gutter Geometry
"Pray for the grace of accuracy." — Robert Lowell
What is wrong with this picture?
Related material from November 22, 2018 —
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Sunday, January 17, 2021
Entertainment News
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Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Blackboard Jungle Continues
Images from a post titled For Stephen King —
Related images —
"Pray for the grace of accuracy" — Robert Lowell
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Friday, November 26, 2010
Shining Forth
A quotation from Robert Lowell in this journal —
From “Epilogue,” in Robert Lowell’s Day by Day , 1977:
The painter’s vision is not a lens,
it trembles to caress the light.
….
All’s misalliance.
Yet why not say what happened?
Pray for the grace of accuracy
Vermeer gave to the sun’s illumination….
Lowell’s stepdaughter published a memoir, Why Not Say What Happened? , on October 19th, 2010.
What happened in this journal on that date was “Savage Logic and the New York Lottery.”
That post includes the quoted rhetorical question
“Is it a genuine demolition of the walls which seem to separate mind from mind…?”
Here is the context of October 19th—
For a different, and to me more interesting, context for the “walls” question, see Party Phone (August 31st, 2006).
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Thursday, July 22, 2010
By Chance
PA Lottery 7/21— Midday 312, Evening 357.
Related material:
and a .357—
Related philosophy—
"Character is fate." — Heraclitus
"Pray for the grace of accuracy." — Robert Lowell
Oh, and a belated happy 7/21 birthday to Ernest Hemingway and Robin Williams.
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Saturday, September 29, 2007
Saturday September 29, 2007
From The New York Times
on the Feast of
St. Michael and All Angels:
Recommended reading in the afterlife
for Rabbi Shapira:
“The Man as Pure as Lucifer,”
by Graham Greene
Recommended viewing in the afterlife
for Dr. Panofsky, son of Erwin Panofsky:
“Pray for the grace of accuracy.”
— Robert Lowell, quoted in
a web page titled
“Is Nothing Sacred?“
“The page numbers are
generally reliable.”
— Steven H. Cullinane,
“Zen and Language Games“
Related material:
Sacred Passion:
The Art of William Schickel,
U. of Notre Dame Press, 1998
Click on the fingerpost
for further details.
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Friday, September 22, 2006
Friday September 22, 2006
Shining Forth continued:
The Grace of Accuracy
In this morning's New York Times:
The Times describes yesterday's
memorial to Cy Feuer,
producer, notably, of the 1972
film version of "Cabaret"–
"Joel Grey sang 'Willkommen….'"
Related material:
a Log24 entry
from October 29, 2002–
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Our Judeo-Christian Heritage: Two Sides of the Same Coin
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— and Echoes
(August 11, 2006).
The New York Times on Sven Nykvist,
a cinematographer who died on Wednesday:
"In his films, especially those with Mr. Bergman, light assumed a metaphysical dimension that went beyond mood. It distilled and deepened the feelings of torment and spiritual separation that afflicted Bergman characters." –Stephen Holden
"Pray for the grace of accuracy
Vermeer gave to the sun's illumination…."
— "Epilogue," by Robert Lowell,
in Day by Day, 1977
For further remarks on light,
see Shining Forth as well as
Tombstone (from May 17,
the date of Feuer's death).
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