See also Icon and a fresh New York Times obituary.
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Midnight in the Garden continues…
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Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Down the Up Rainbow*
Continued from this morning and from earlier posts.
See also Abramson.
Related material: Ken Auletta, “Why Jill Abramson Was Fired.”
* Background for the title phrase: see Down + Up + Staircase.
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Tuesday, August 27, 2013
What Seems Insanity
On a way of seeing— superimposition—
that "seems insanity" (cf. C. S. Lewis's remarks below)
Combining last night's post Spectrum with
the August 14 post Valhalla Is Down…
From An Experiment in Criticism
by C.S. Lewis, 1961–
"If we go steadily through all the myths of any people
we shall be appalled by much of what we read.
Most of them, whatever they may have meant to
ancient or savage man, are to us meaningless and
shocking; shocking not only by their cruelty and
obscenity but by their apparent silliness— almost
what seems insanity. Out of this rank and squalid
undergrowth the great myths— Orpheus, Demeter
and Persephone, the Hesperides, Balder, Ragnarok,
or Ilmarinen's forging of the Sampo– rise like elms."
Voilà —
The Aug. 14 post Valhalla Is Down referred to a New York Times blackout.
(Jill Abramson, on earlier being named executive editor at the Times, had
said it was like "ascending into Valhalla.")
Another Times blackout occurred today.
Lewis's term Ragnarok refers to the twilight of the gods of Valhalla.
A more conventional illustration from the gamer website Ragnarok/Valhalla Wiki —
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Sunday, November 27, 2011
The Word
The new executive editor of The New York Times , Jill Abramson, flatly declared:
“‘In my house growing up, The Times substituted for religion.'” —The Daily Beast
Detail —
“Words are events.” — Walter J. Ong, S.J.
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Sunday, November 13, 2011
Brinksmanship…
Where Entertainment is God (continued)
On the re-editing of a news story by The New York Times—
"…in the original versions of a Times report by Jeremy W. Peters, [the new executive editor, Jill Abramson] flatly declared: 'In my house growing up, The Times substituted for religion.'" —The Daily Beast
The Times this afternoon—
See also a follow-up from last June
to this morning's "lost in space" quote—
NYT quote removal sparks web buzz
"It's obvious that an editorial decision was made to 'rectify' a quote that made the Times look foolish."
Not so, Times spokeswoman Eileen Murphy told POLITICO. “Space was clearly a consideration.”
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Friday, June 3, 2011
MIT Day
Today is Commencement Day at MIT.
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“To measure the changes — Shing-Tung Yau, To measure the changes:
The smartest are nothing:
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Well, perhaps not quite nothing.
The above pictures were posted here on the day the following book was published—
The lives of the nine Jews in the above book amount to more than Yau's "nothing."
Note, however, that claims by Jews (see Jill Abramson yesterday)
that their secular publications constitute a substitute for religion
and contain only "absolute truth" should be viewed with at least one
raised eyebrow.
Abramson's remark yesterday that her promotion to New York Times executive editor
was like "ascending to Valhalla" had a religious flavor worthy of yesterday's
Feast of the Ascension.
In related news from yesterday's Times—
See also a symbol related to Apollo, to nine, and to "nothing"—
A minimalist 3×3 matrix favicon—
This may, if one likes, be viewed as the "nothing"
present at the Creation. See Jim Holt on physics.
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Thursday, June 2, 2011
Exit Keller
See posts on Keller in this journal.
A sample piece by the new editor— “The Lionesses” (2006 book review).
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