“Nine is a very powerful Nordic number.”
— Katherine Neville, The Magic Circle
See also Arcade Fire in this journal.
Saturday, October 4, 2014
Monday, February 13, 2023
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
Der Einsatz . . . Continues.
Katherine Neville, author of The Eight —
"Nine is a very powerful Nordic number."
in The Magic Circle , Ballantine paperback, 1999, p. 339.
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Saturday, August 21, 2021
Comment
A Bon Jovi "Stripped" video released May 1, 2007 —
Synchronology check —
This journal in the early morning of the above release date —
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Tuesday, June 9, 2020
Number
“Nine is a very powerful Nordic number.“
— Katherine Neville, author of The Eight
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Saturday, March 23, 2019
Plan 9 Manifesto
"Arnheim was a particularly important source
for Norway's principal architectural theorist,
Christian Norberg-Schulz."
— Andrew Peter Steen, University of Queensland
doctoral thesis, 2015
See
- "Field of Manifestation,"
- "A Study in Art Education," and
-
"The Concept of Phenomenology in Architecture as Developed
by the Norwegian Theorist Christian Norberg-Schulz"
"Nine is a very powerful Nordic number."
— Katherine Neville, The Magic Circle
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Thursday, October 9, 2014
October Nine: Lyche at Bodø
Click to enlarge.
See also Apollo in this journal.
“Nine is a very powerful Nordic number.”
— Katherine Neville, who deserves some sort of prize for literature.
— Heidegger, “Hölderlin and the Essence of Poetry,”
translated by Douglas Scott, in Existence and Being ,
Regnery, 1949
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Monday, October 6, 2014
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Sunday School
"Mathematics is forever."
— Gian-Carlo Rota
"Nine is a very powerful
Nordic number."
— Katherine Neville
"Nine tailors make a man."
— Dorothy Sayers
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Monday, September 21, 2009
Monday September 21, 2009
Keys
A Google search for "Das Scheinen," a very rough translation into Heidegger's German of "The Shining," leads to a song. A search for the English version of the song leads to a site with a sidebar advertising Pearl Jam's new (Sept. 20) album "Backspacer."
Packaging:
Happy birthday,
Stephen King.
Background:
Yesterday's entries
and the plot of
L'Engle's classic
A Wrinkle in Time.
(See this journal's entries
for March 2008.)
The Pearl Jam album cover art
is of particular interest in light
of King's story "Apt Pupil" and
of Katherine Neville's remark
"Nine is a very powerful
Nordic number."
Those who prefer more sophisticated
aesthetic theory may click on the
following keys:
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Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Tuesday May 1, 2007
May 1, 2007
2:45 AM
I could tell you a lot,
but you gotta be
true to your code.
— Sinatra
2:45 AM
I could tell you a lot,
but you gotta be
true to your code.
— Sinatra
At the still point…
— Eliot
…da ist der Tanz;
Doch weder Stillstand noch Bewegung.
Und nenne es nicht Beständigkeit,
Wo Vergangenheit und Zukunft sich sammeln.
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bei etwas Einsatz zeigen |
| to up the ante |
den Einsatz erhöhen |
| to debrief | den Einsatz nachher besprechen |
| to be on duty |
im Einsatz sein |
| mil.to be in action | im Einsatz sein |
| to play for high stakes |
mit hohem Einsatz spielen |
"Nine is a very
powerful Nordic number."
— Katherine Neville,
The Magic Circle
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Thursday, November 9, 2006
Thursday November 9, 2006
Hour of the Wolf
Today is Schicksalstag, the “day of fate” in German history.
This entry’s time slot, 3:00 AM ET– which some say is the beginning of “the hour of the wolf*”– was reserved earlier for some entry appropriate to the day. (Actual time of this entry: about 12:48 PM ET).
| Markus Wolf, East German Spymaster, Dies at 83 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: Thursday, Nov. 9, 2006 Filed at 11:16 a.m. ET BERLIN (AP) — Markus Wolf, the ”man without a face” who outwitted the West as communist East Germany’s long-serving spymaster, died Thursday [Nov. 9, 2006]. He was 83. Wolf died in his apartment in Berlin, his stepdaughter Claudia Wall said in a statement. The cause of his death, on the 17th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, was not released. |
Related material
from Aug. 6, 2006:
| Game Boy
Click on picture for details.
“Nine is a very
powerful Nordic number.” — Katherine Neville
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* “Wolf” — See the etymological notes
in The Shining of May 29.
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Saturday, September 16, 2006
Saturday September 16, 2006
The Pope in
Plato's Cave
Those who find the Pope's recent remarks (see the previous entry) on a Byzantine emperor lacking in literary depth may consult the writings of William Butler Yeats on Byzantium quoted in Log24 entries of February 14-16, 2003. Those entries also refer to a modern version of Plato's cave– the movie theater– and the film "The Recruit." See also a more recent Log24 discussion of that film:
This supplies a different illustration
of the previous entry's conclusion:
"Nine is a very powerful
Nordic number."
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Saturday September 16, 2006
Pandora's Box
Part I:
The Pandora Cross
"There is no painter in the West who can be unaware of the symbolic power of the cruciform shape and the Pandora's box of spiritual reference that is opened once one uses it."
— Rosalind Krauss in "Grids"
Part II:
The Opening
Remarks by the Pope on Sept. 12,
as reported by the Vatican:
Faith, Reason, and the University:
Memories and Reflections
For the result of
the Pope's remarks, see
a transcript of
yesterday's Google News
and the following
from BBC today:
Click to enlarge the screenshot.
Part III:
Hope
The New Yorker (issue of June 5, 2006) on the late Oriana Fallaci:
"In September [2005], she had a private audience with Pope Benedict XVI at Castel Gandolfo, his summer residence outside Rome. She had criticized John Paul II for making overtures to Muslims, and for not condemning terrorism heartily enough, but she has hopes for Joseph Ratzinger."
For further details, see yesterday's Log24.
Part IV:
The Sibyl's Song
— From The Magic Circle,
a spiritual narrative
by Katherine Neville
For more on "the long-mute voice
of the past," on "darkness beneath
the volcano," and on uncorking,
see Glory Season and Harrowing.
Related material from
Log24 on Dec. 2, 2005:
Benedict XVI, before he became Pope:
"… a purely harmonious concept of beauty is not enough…. Apollo, who for Plato's Socrates was 'the God' and the guarantor of unruffled beauty as 'the truly divine' is absolutely no longer sufficient."
and a related
Christian symbol,
the Greek Cross
(adapted from
Ad Reinhardt).
Moral of the Pandora Cross:
"Nine is a very powerful Nordic number."
— Katherine Neville in The Magic Circle…
quoted in The Nine, a Log24 entry
for Hermann Weyl's birthday,
November 9, 2004.
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Sunday, August 6, 2006
Sunday August 6, 2006
Click on picture for details.
"Nine is a very
powerful Nordic number."
— Katherine Neville
powerful Nordic number."
— Katherine Neville
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bei etwas Einsatz zeigen |
| to up the ante |
den Einsatz erhöhen |
| to debrief | den Einsatz nachher besprechen |
| to be on duty |
im Einsatz sein |
| mil.to be in action | im Einsatz sein |
| to play for high stakes |
mit hohem Einsatz spielen |
Score:
"His music had of course come from Russian folk sources and from Rimsky-Korsakov and from other predecessors, in the way that all radical art has roots. But to be a true modernist, a cosmopolitan in the twentieth century, it was necessary to seem to disdain nationalism, to be perpetually, heroically novel– the more aloof, the better. 'Cold and transparent, like an "extra dry" champagne, which gives no sensation of sweetness, and does not enervate, like other varieties of that drink, but burns,' Stravinsky said about his own Octet, Piano Concerto, and Piano Sonata. The description might be applied to works by Picasso or Duchamp."
— Michael Kimmelman in
The New York Review of Books,
issue dated Aug. 10, 2006
Perhaps.
But the description
certainly applies to
Bridget Moynahan:
"… like an 'extra dry' champagne,
which gives no sensation of
sweetness, and does not enervate."
For more on the
"Ice 9" figure, see
Balanchine's Birthday.
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Friday, August 4, 2006
Friday August 4, 2006
ART WARS
continued from
previous entry
In memory of
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf:
"Who is the fairest of them all?"
This question might
well be posed by…
Rosalind Krauss,
Meyer Schapiro Professor
of Modern Art and Theory
at Columbia University
(Ph.D., Harvard U., 1969).
"The grid is a staircase to the Universal….
We could think about Ad Reinhardt, who,
despite his repeated insistence that
'Art is art,'
ended up by painting a series of…
nine-square grids in which the motif
that inescapably emerges is
a Greek cross.
Adapted from
Ad Reinhardt
There is no painter in the West
who can be unaware of
the symbolic power
of the cruciform shape and the
Pandora's box of spiritual reference
that is opened once one uses it."
— Rosalind Krauss in "Grids"
"Nine is a very powerful Nordic number."
— Katherine Neville, author of The Eight
Related material:
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Saturday, May 14, 2005
Saturday May 14, 2005
The Nine
"Nine is a very powerful Nordic number."
— Katherine Neville, author of The Eight,
in The Magic Circle
"To live is to defend a form."
("Leben, das heisst eine Form verteidigen")
— attributed to Hölderlin
In defense of the nine-square grid:
For details on the above picture, see
Translation Plane.
Tuesday, November 9, 2004
Tuesday November 9, 2004
The Nine
(Readings for
Weyl’s birthday)
“The grid is a staircase to the Universal….
We could think about Ad Reinhardt, who,
despite his repeated insistence that
‘Art is art,’
ended up by painting a series of…
nine-square grids in which the motif
that inescapably emerges is
a Greek cross.
Greek Cross
There is no painter in the West
who can be unaware of
the symbolic power
of the cruciform shape and the
Pandora’s box of spiritual reference
that is opened once one uses it.”
— Rosalind Krauss,
Meyer Schapiro Professor
of Modern Art and Theory
at Columbia University
(Ph.D., Harvard U., 1969),
in “Grids”
“Nine is a very powerful Nordic number.”
— Katherine Neville, author of The Eight,
in The Magic Circle,
Ballantine paperback,
1999, p. 339
“To live is to defend a form.”
(“Leben, das heisst eine Form verteidigen“)
— attributed to Hölderlin
For details on the above picture,
which deals with properties of the
nine-square grid, see
For more on the defense
of this form,
see the Log24.net entry of
June 5, 2004, A Form,
and the Art Wars entries
for St. Peter’s Day, 2004.
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