"Yes, you'll be goin' loco
down in Acapulco,
the magic down there
is so strong."
This song is from the 1988 film "Buster."
(Wikipedia: "Buster is a 1988 British
romantic crime comedy-drama
based on events from the Great Train Robbery,
starring Phil Collins….")
For a related religious use of that name —
"Look, Buster, do you want to live?" —
see Fritz Leiber's "Damnation Morning."
Yesterday, January 30, 2024, was Phil Collins's birthday.
An AI image created today by https://neural.love —
"Lily Collins Playing Chess" —
Perhaps some Dreaming Jewels have mated.
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From The Dreaming Jewels , by Theodore Sturgeon: "Oh. And the crystals make things — even complete things — like Tin Pan Alley makes songs." "Something like it." Zena smiled. It was the first smile in a long while. "Sit down, honey; I'll bring the toast. Now — this is my guess — when two crystals mate, something different happens. They make a whole thing. But they don't make it from just anything the way the single crystals do. First they seem to die together. For weeks they lie like that. After that they begin a together-dream. They find something near them that's alive, and they make it over. They replace it, cell by cell. You can't see the change going on in the thing they're replacing. It might be a dog; the dog will keep on eating and running around; it will howl at the moon and chase cats. But one day — I don't know how long it takes — it will be completely replaced, every bit of it." "Then what?" "Then it can change itself — if it ever thinks of changing itself. It can be almost anything if it wants to be." Bunny stopped chewing, thought, swallowed, and asked, "Change how?" "Oh, it could get bigger or smaller. Grow more limbs. Go into a funny shape — thin and flat, or round like a ball. If it's hurt it can grow new limbs. And it could do things with thought that we can't even imagine. Bunny, did you ever read about werewolves?" "Those nasty things that change from wolves to men and back again?" Zena sipped coffee. "Mmm. Well, those are mostly legends, but they could have started when someone saw a change like that." |
See this journal on January 1, 2011, said to be the day that
an interesting Czech girl (see "Blue Czech Marks") turned 18.
* For the title, see an appealing 2013 fantasy starring Lily Collins.
Collins herself turned 18 on March 18, 2007.
"Leave a space." — Tom Stoppard, "Jumpers"
See also Lily Collins's recent ice-cream-cone post.
The number 105 displayed in that post may suggest,
to sufferers from apophenia, the date 1/05.
See that date in this journal. For the color of Collins's
ice cream — lavender — see posts now tagged Space X.
The parquet floor supporting Lily Collins in today's noon-hour post
suggests a search in this journal for parquet.
A resulting quote from Henry James —
"… the high party-walls,
on the other side of which
grave hôtels stood off for privacy,
spoke of survival, transmission, association,
a strong indifferent persistent order."
As do the three Dark Materials images in the search.
From the previous post —
Lily Collins in a more recent mattress meditation —
See as well Plaid in this journal.
"Eight strangers from cities around the globe
begin having experiences that defy explanation."
As do "Burnt Norton" and "Bird Box."
The recent post "Tales from Story Space," about the 18th birthday
of the protagonist in the TV series "Shadowhunters" (2016-),
suggests a review of the actual 18th birthday of actress Lily Collins.
Collins is shown below warding off evil with a magical rune as
a shadowhunter in the 2013 film "City of Bones" —
She turned 18 on March 18, 2007. A paper on symmetry and logic
referenced here on that date displays the following "runes" of
philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce —
See also Adamantine Meditation (Log24, Oct. 3, 2018)
and the webpage Geometry of the I Ching.
"When you cast a spell . . . ."
See Lily Collins in The Telegraph today. A related tale —
"On August 30, 2017, Lily Collins was cast … as Edith Tolkien,
love and later wife of Tolkien, who was also the inspiration of
the princess characters in The Lord of the Rings ."
— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolkien_(film)
The Log24 posts of August 30, 2017, are now tagged Verbum 2017.
” ‘Harriet Burden has been really great to me,’
Rune says in an interview, ‘not only as a collector
of my work but as a true supporter. And I think of her
as a muse for the project … ‘ “
— In The Blazing World , the artist known as Rune
(See also Rune + Muse in this journal.)
Lily Collins in a Log24 post of Jan. 15, 2014— “Entertainment Theory“—
Related material from Trish Mayo—
From "Entertainment," a 1981 story by M. A. Foster—
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"For some time, Cormen had enjoyed a peculiar suspicion, which he had learned from his wanderings around the city, and cultivated with a little notebook, in which he had made a detailed series of notes and jottings, as well as crude, but effective, charts and maps of certain districts. 'Cormen's Problem,' as it was known, was familiar to the members of the circle in which he moved; in fact, if he had not been so effective with his productions and so engaging in his personality, they might have considered him a bore. It seemed, so the suspicion went, that the city was slowly shrinking, as evidenced by abandoned districts along the city edges. Beyond the empty houses were ruins, and beyond that, traces of foundations and street lines. Moreover, it had recently dawned on him that there were no roads out of the city, although there were no restraints. One hardly noticed this—it was the norm. But like many an easy assumption, once broken it became increasingly obvious. Cormen's acquaintances were tolerant of his aberration, but generally unsympathetic. What he needed was proof, something he could demonstrate in black and white—and color if required. But the city was reluctant, so it appeared, to give up its realities so easily. The Master Entertainment Center, MEC, would not answer direct queries about this, even though it would obediently show him presentations, pictorial or symbolic as he required, of the areas in question. But it was tiresome detail work, in which he had to proceed completely on his own." |
Lily Collins in City of Bones (2013)—
American Folk Art (see August 23, 2011) —
See as well Ballet Blanc .
The premiere of the Lily Collins film Abduction
(see previous post) was reportedly in Sydney, Australia,
on August 23, 2011.
From that date in this journal—
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For the eight-limbed star at the top of the quaternion array above, She drew from her handbag a pale grey gleaming implement that looked by quick turns to me like a knife, a gun, a slim sceptre, and a delicate branding iron—especially when its tip sprouted an eight-limbed star of silver wire. “The test?” I faltered, staring at the thing. “Yes, to determine whether you can live in the fourth dimension or only die in it.” — Fritz Leiber, short story, 1959 |
Related material from Wikipedia, suggested by the reference quoted
in this morning's post to "a four-dimensionalist (perdurantist) ontology"—
"… perdurantism also applies if one believes there are temporal
but non-spatial abstract entities (like immaterial souls…)."
Elizabeth Taylor in National Velvet (1944),
Lily Collins in Abduction (2011).
For Blancanieves, Elizabeth Taylor, and Lily Collins.
See also this journal on the above upload date— June 21, 2012.
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