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An Ordinary Evening in New Haven (iv)
Stanza: 61; Line Number: 7
     They only know a savage assuagement cries
Stanza: 62; Line Number: 8
     With a savage voice; and in that cry they hear
Stanza: 64; Line Number: 10
     In a savage and subtle and simple harmony,
 
Credences of Summer (vii)
Stanza: 101; Line Number: 11
     The object, grips it in savage scrutiny,
 
Examination of the Hero in a Time of War (ii)
Stanza: 26; Line Number: 12
     And rainbow sortilege, the savage weapon
 
Exposition of the Contents of a Cab (OP)
Line Number: 12
     And savage blooms;
 
From the Journal of Crispin (II) (OP)
Stanza: 114; Line Number: 20
     Into a savage color he goes on.
 
Gubbinal
Line Number: 9
     That savage of fire,
 
Less and Less Human, O Savage Spirit
Title
     Less and Less Human, O Savage Spirit
 
Page from a Tale
Line Number: 20
     They looked back at Hans’ look with savage faces.
 
Sunday Morning (vii)
Stanza: 95; Line Number: 5
     Naked among them, like a savage source.
 
The Comedian as the Letter C, ii: Concerning the Thunderstorms of Yucatan
Stanza: 14; Line Number: 14
     Into a savage color he went on.
 
The Man with the Blue Guitar (iii)
Stanza: 29; Line Number: 9
     To bang it from a savage blue,
 
The Pediment of Appearance
Line Number: 10
     The savage transparence. They go crying
 
The World as Meditation
Line Number: 6
     Whose mere savage presence awakens the world in which she dwells.
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Online Concordance to Wallace Stevens’s Poetry

Or:  Je repars .

From Wallace Stevens —

"Reality is the beginning not the end,
Naked Alpha, not the hierophant Omega,
Of dense investiture, with luminous vassals."

— “An Ordinary Evening in New Haven” VI

Mathematician Hanfried Lenz reportedly died in Berlin on June 1, 2013.

This journal that weekend —

From the Hannah Goldfield link in today's 7 AM ET
post "In the Bag" —

"… the bride . . . . is a daughter of Gaylord Bourne and
Carl Goldfield of New Haven."

— Wedding story, New York Times , Oct. 18, 2015

A search indicates that Bourne may be the person of that name 
associated with Achievement First charter schools.

Here is a related story from today's online New York Times —

"Can a ‘No Excuses’ Charter Teach Students
to Think for Themselves?"  (11:40 AM ET)

Continued from Deo Gratias , a post at noon last Saturday
that featured blues singer R. L. Burnside.

"It is a fresh spiritual that he defines"
— "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven"

A Yale death between Saturday night and Sunday morning—

"Got to keep the loonies on the path."

— Lyrics to Dark Side of the Moon

For those who, like Tom Stoppard, prefer the dark side—

Not quite so dark—

"And then one day you find ten years have got behind you."

— Lyrics to Dark Side of the Moon

This journal ten years ago, on August 25, 2003—

"A view of New Haven, say…." —

"This is the garden of Apollo,
the field of Reason…."
John Outram, architect 

A similar version of this Apollonian image —

  Detail:

Related material for the loonies:

"the spirit's alchemicana."

From yesterday's Random Walk—

Followup—

"Oh, hello, old sport."

— The Great Gatsby

New York Lottery, evening of 
Monday, February 6th, 2012:
558 and 0608.

See also posts  558 and 0608.

This morning's online New York Times  on Paul Simon's latest show—

"Here was salvation and succor…."

The review mentions a song from Simon's new album that he did not  play at last night's show—

The Afterlife.

Salvation:

After you climb up the ladder of time
The Lord God is near
Face-to-face in the vastness of space
Your words disappear

Succor:

You got to fill out a form first
And then you wait in the line

Simon is an accomplished poet, but I prefer Wallace Stevens.

                         … A figure like Ecclesiast,
Rugged and luminous, chants in the dark
A text that is an answer, although obscure.

— Wallace Stevens, “An Ordinary Evening in New Haven”

For clues about such a text, see yesterday's New York Lottery numbers.

An image suggested by last night's PBS hour "Chautauqua: An American Narrative"—

Click for larger versions of the image search and of the Hall of Philosophy.

Both the screenshot and the Chautauqua photo (by jbi46 at flickr.com) were taken on July 19th, 2010.

The screenshot appeared in the post "Pediments of Appearance" (which also included two much less complex images).

Some background —  A webpage on  Analytical Cubism and a related search in this journal.

From Wallace Stevens, who appears at top center in the image above—

An Ordinary Evening in New Haven, XXII

Professor Eucalyptus said, “The search
For reality is as momentous as
The search for god.” It is the philosopher’s search

For an interior made exterior
And the poet’s search for the same exterior made
Interior: breathless things broodingly abreath

With the Inhalations of original cold
And of original earliness. Yet the sense
Of cold and earliness is a daily sense,

Not the predicate of bright origin.
Creation is not renewed by images
Of lone wanderers. To re-create, to use

The cold and earliness and bright origin
Is to search. Likewise to say of the evening star,
The most ancient light in the most ancient sky,

That it is wholly an inner light, that it shines
From the sleepy bosom of the real, re-creates,
Searches a possible for its possibleness.

The Shining of Park Place

Today is the birthday of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., writer, dean of Harvard Medical School, father of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and author of at least seven hymns.

It is also the feast day of Saint Lewis Henry Redner, author of the tune now known as “O Little Town of Bethlehem.”  Redner was church organist for Phillips Brooks, who wrote the “Bethlehem” lyrics but then published the hymn under the facetious name “St. Louis,” a deliberate misspelling of Redner’s name.

Redner died on August 29, 1908, at the Marlborough Hotel in Atlantic City.

Since Holmes Sr. was both a poet and the father of a famous lawyer, a reference to poet-lawyer Wallace Stevens seems in order.

To wit:

“We keep coming back and coming back
To the real: to the hotel
instead of the hymns….”

— Wallace Stevens,
“An Ordinary Evening in New Haven”

From Best Atlantic City Hotels:

Bally’s Park Place, located at Park Place and Boardwalk, partially stands on the site of the former Marlborough Hotel.

For some background on the theology of hotels, see Stephen King’s classic The Shining and my own note, Shining Forth.

Let us pray that any haunting at the current Park Place and Boardwalk location is done by the blessed spirit of Saint Lewis Redner.

Atlantic City

Bally’s Park Place

Wallace Stevens

Postscript of 7:11 PM —

From an old Dave Barry column:

“Beth thinks the casinos should offer more of what she described as ‘fun’ games, the type of entertainment-for-the-whole-family activities that people engage in to happily while away the hours. If Beth ran a casino, there would be a brightly lit table surrounded by high rollers in tuxedos and evening gowns, and the air would be charged with excitement as a player rolled the dice, and the crowd would lean forward, and the shout would ring out…

‘He landed on Park Place!’ “

Charles Lindbergh seems to have done
just that.  See yesterday’s entry

Spirit

and today’s New York Times story

Lindbergh the Family Man.