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See also Concepts of Space and  “Launched from Cuber.”

(Continued)

See also the above upload date in this journal.

"You've got to pick up every stitch." — Donovan

In honor of a famed architecture critic,
here is a link to Bruno's Atria.

See also Giordano Bruno  in this journal.

1. "Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read"
2. "Alpha Dog"
3. "B. J. Leggett is professor emeritus at UT Knoxville"
4. "Seven is Heaven, Eight is a Gate, Nine is a Vine"

Update of about 6:40 AM ET on June 22, 2016 —

"Que cantaba el rey David."  Happy birthday to Kris Kristofferson.

Seven is Heaven, Eight is a Gate, Nine is a Vine…

"And the serpent's eyes shine…."

“Beauty is a riddle.”

— Dostoevsky

“Seven is Heaven
 Eight is a Gate
 Nine is a Vine”

— Folk rhyme

For the feast of
St. Ignatius Loyola…

Final Arrangements,
continued:

“Now you has jazz.”
– High Society, 1956 

— Today’s online New York Times

Also from today’s New York Times: Kurt Kreuger in the 1945 film “Paris Underground.”   Kurt Kreuger, a German-born actor who reluctantly played Nazi soldiers in many films about World War II, died July 12 in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 89.

Log24, Wednesday, July 12, 2006: Band Numbers “Some friends  of mine  are in  this band…” — David    Auburn,    Proof Seven is Heaven, Eight is a Gate, Nine is a Vine. — The Prime Powers

Related material:

A Log24 entry commemorating
the murder of six Jesuits
in El Salvador.

Band Numbers

“Some friends of mine
are in this band…”
— David Auburn, Proof

Seven is Heaven,
Eight is a Gate,
Nine is a Vine.

— The Prime Powers

Dance of the Numbers
continued–

A music review:

“… in the mode of a film noir murder mystery“

“For Bach, as Sellars explains,
 death is not an exit but an entrance.”

Seven is Heaven,
Eight is a Gate,
Nine is a Vine.

Big Dreams

“For more than a century, Los Angeles has been synonymous with big dreams. The Australian writer and critic Clive James said it this way. ‘Call Los Angeles any dirty name you like… The fact remains that you are already living in it before you get there.'”

— Today’s inaugural address by Mayor Villaraigosa

See also the previous entry.

Update of 2:24 PM July 2:

Yesterday afternoon I picked up a copy of George Steiner’s Grammars of Creation I had ordered.  A check of Amazon.com to see what others had to say about this book yielded the following:

“Steiner’s account of Hope as something exclusively transcendental and relative to the future is poor and superficial: the person who hopes is not only walking ‘towards’ Eternal Life, but is already walking ‘in’ Eternal Life, walking the Kingdom.”

— Matías Cordero, Santiago, Chile

See also an entry of April 7, 2005, Nine is a Vine.

Today’s New York Times:

“Horton Marlais Davies, Putnam professor emeritus of religion at Princeton and an author of many books about church history, died on Wednesday at his home in Princeton, N.J. He was 89…. Dr. Davies specialized in the impact of Christianity on the arts.”

The Catholic Encyclopedia (1908) on the communion of saints:

“One cannot read the parables of the kingdom (Matt., xiii) without perceiving its corporate nature and the continuity which links together the kingdom in our midst and the kingdom to come. The nature of that communion, called by St. John a fellowship with one another (‘a fellowship with us’ — I John, i, 3) because it is a fellowship with the Father, and with his Son, and compared by him to the organic and vital union of the vine and its branches (John, xv), stands out….”
 
Related material:

Religious art in the entry Art History of 11 AM Wednesday, May 11, the date of Davies’s death.  See also the following direct and indirect links from that entry:

To a cruciform artifact from the current film Kingdom of Heaven, to an entry quoting John xv, Nine is a Vine, and to Art Theory for Yom Kippur.

For less-religious material on the number nine, see the entries and links in the Log24 archive for June 17-30, 2004.

Reuters – "Joe Grant, a legendary Disney artist who designed the Queen/Witch in 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,' died of a heart attack while doing what he loved most, drawing, the Walt Disney Co. said Monday.

Grant, 96, died at his home in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale last Friday while sitting at his drawing board."
 

— Opening sentence of
Martha Cooley's The Archivist

From Log24 last Friday,
a Greek cross:

Click on picture for details.
 
And from Sunday, May 1
(Orthodox Easter):

Rosalind Krauss,

Columbia University's
Meyer Schapiro Professor
of Modern Art and Theory:

"There is no painter in the West
who can be unaware of
the symbolic power of
the cruciform shape¹
and the Pandora's box

of spiritual reference²
that is opened
once one uses it."