“Where past and future are gathered” — T. S. Eliot
From a recent film —
From the Museum of Modern Art —
From this journal 10 years ago today —
Wednesday, June 10, 2020
Saturday, November 30, 2019
Sunday, August 19, 2012
O Marks the Spot
(Continued : See Identity, decomposition, and Sunshine Cleaning . )
"What, one might ask, does the suave, debonaire
Roger Thornhill have to do with the notion of
decomposition (emphasized by the unusual
coffin-shaped 'O') implied in the acronym
formed by his initials?"
— Paul Gordon, Dial "M" for Mother ,
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2008, page 97
"To stay with the context of Cavell's brilliant reading
of the film's relation to Hamlet, 'there is something rot -ten
in North by Northwest ' that also needs to be explained."
— Paul Gordon, op. cit., page 98
Related remarks— Sunday morning, May 20, 2007.
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Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Swing It, Li’l Darlin’ . . .*
. . . At the speed of a slow, comfortable screw —
* On the title music —
“The composition, in the words of jazz writer, Donald Clarke, is
‘an object lesson in how to swing at a slow tempo.’ ”
“X marks the spot” — Indiana Jones
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Wednesday, June 10, 2020
Count to X
“X marks the spot” — Indiana Jones.
Indiana Jones’s love interest in “The Last Crusade” was Alison Doody.
See as well . . .
Howdy, Doody.
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Saturday, May 30, 2020
The Stars and the Gutter
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Friday, May 29, 2020
Where It Used to Be
"Looking for what was, where it used to be"
— Wallace Stevens, "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction," I
"It Must Be Abstract," X
"X marks the spot" — Indiana Jones
Click the above image for a country song.
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Saturday, February 6, 2016
Space Program
X Marks the Spot scene, "The Last Crusade"
For those who prefer the T in SPOT —
Knock, Knock, Knockin' —
A Scene from "Tomorrowland" —
A fan of the declining US space program
knocks on George Clooney's door
For related remarks on the decline of NASA,
see an essay at the World Socialist Web Site
from August 19, 2011.
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Thursday, June 27, 2013
Images
From O Marks the Spot, Jill St. John's birthday, 2012:
"Row, row, row your boat…"
"A kind of liturgical singsong" — John Leonard on Didion
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Friday, September 16, 2011
Art, Jung, Toronto
Related art—
Midnight's Icons,
and…
(Wikipedia figure)
"Visually, a tetrad can be depicted as
four diamonds forming an X…."
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Day 256
Today is day 256 of 2011, Programmers' Day.
Yesterday, Monday, R. W. Barraclough's website pictured the Octad of the Week—
" X never, ever, marks the spot."
See also The Galois Tesseract.
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Friday, August 19, 2011
Crux
"Francis Bacon used the phrase instantia crucis, 'crucial instance,' to refer to something in an experiment that proves one of two hypotheses and disproves the other. Bacon's phrase was based on a sense of the Latin word crux, 'cross,' which had come to mean 'a guidepost that gives directions at a place where one road becomes two,' and hence was suitable for Bacon's metaphor."
– The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Such a cross: St. Andrew's. Some context—
X Marks the Spot scene, "The Last Crusade"
Related symbology for Dan Brown—
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