From a post last month —
"You're gonna need a bigger boat."
— Roy Scheider in "Jaws"
"We're gonna need more holy water."
— "Season of the Witch"
… and for Tom Hanks, Dan Brown, and Francine Prose —
"You're gonna need more typewriters!"
Friday, October 20, 2017
Punch Lines
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Wednesday, September 6, 2017
National Comedy
From a search in this journal for "More Holy Water" —
A post of January 7, 2011, has the following:
"Infinite Jest… now stands as the principal contender
for what serious literature can aspire to
in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries."
— All Things Shining, a work of pop philosophy
published January 4th
"You're gonna need a bigger boat."
— Roy Scheider in "Jaws"
"We're gonna need more holy water."
— "Season of the Witch"
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Where Entertainment is God
A May 27, 2013, Washington Post story by Ellen Nakashima:
Confidential report lists U.S. weapons system designs
compromised by Chinese cyberspies
Related entertainment:
From Ayn Sof (January 7, 2011):
"You're gonna need a bigger boat." — Roy Scheider in Jaws
"We're gonna need more holy water." — Season of the Witch
Liam Neeson (right) and Taylor Kitsch
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Monday, July 11, 2011
The Witch of And/Or
AND: Logical conjunction, symbolized as… ∧
OR: Logical disjunction, symbolized as… ∨
AND/OR: Logical confusion, symbolized as… 
according to a woman Lacanian analyst in this journal.
See also another female disciple of Lacan
writing as co-author with a philosophy professor
in Saturday's online New York Times 's "The Stone"—
Let Be: An Answer to Hamlet’s Question."
Perhaps they thought the question was…
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Wikipedia portrait of New School "To be and/or not to be?" |
For a more philosophically respectable approach to
the same shape, see Sunday morning's Wittgenstein's Diamond.
"We're gonna need more holy water." —Hollywood saying
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Sunday, January 9, 2011
Sermon
Another topic from today's newspaper —
Commentary —
"We're gonna need more holy water." — "Season of the Witch," a film that opened Friday
See also —
This morning's post Inception and the following site:
Note the ninefold favicon at the above site. Some background—
The Ninth Gate in yesterday's post and this image from last September—
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Friday, January 7, 2011
Ayn Sof
(A continuation of this morning's Coxeter and the Aleph)
"You've got to pick up every stitch… Must be the season of the witch."
— Donovan song at the end of Nicole Kidman's "To Die For"
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"As is well known, the Aleph is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
Its use for the strange sphere in my story may not be accidental.
For the Kabbala, the letter stands for the En Soph ,
the pure and boundless godhead; it is also said that it takes
the shape of a man pointing to both heaven and earth, in order to show
that the lower world is the map and mirror of the higher; for Cantor's
Mengenlehre , it is the symbol of transfinite numbers,
of which any part is as great as the whole."
— Borges, "The Aleph"
From WorldLingo.com —
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"Infinite Jest… now stands as the principal contender
for what serious literature can aspire to
in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries."
— All Things Shining, a work of pop philosophy published January 4th
"You're gonna need a bigger boat." — Roy Scheider in "Jaws"
"We're gonna need more holy water." — "Season of the Witch," a film opening tonight
See also, with respect to David Foster Wallace, infinity, nihilism,
and the above reading of "Ayn Sof" as "nothingness,"
the quotations compiled as "Is Nothing Sacred?"
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