Tuesday, September 17, 2024
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
Annals of Symbology:
For a New York Times Pilot Fish*
From other posts now tagged Dark Symbol —
The apparent symbols for "times" and "plus"
in the above screenshot are, of course, icons for
browser functions. Readers who prefer the
fanciful may regard them instead as symbols for
"a gateway to another realm," that of number theory.
* See Hemingway on pilot fish and an Instagram post
from Boxing Day, 2016.
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For a New York Times Pilot Fish*
For a New York Times Pilot Fish*
Sunday, June 9, 2024
Art for Pilot Fish
The Pilot Fish
"That year the rich came led by the pilot fish.
A year before they would never have come.
There was no certainty then.
The work was as good and the happiness was greater
but no novel had been written, so they could not be sure.
They never wasted their time nor their charm
on something that was not sure. Why should they?"
Note the making of a matching pattern.
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Saturday, May 11, 2024
The Pilot Fish
"That year the rich came led by the pilot fish.
A year before they would never have come.
There was no certainty then.
The work was as good and the happiness was greater
but no novel had been written, so they could not be sure.
They never wasted their time nor their charm
on something that was not sure. Why should they?"
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Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Tuesday September 1, 2009
Back to the Garden
The previous entry dealt with an artist who died last Wednesday (August 26).
Dominick Dunne, producer of the film version of "The Boys in the Band," also died last Wednesday.
In his memory, four readings:
1. "Pilot Fish," by Hemingway
2. Self-profile by Stephen Vider, author of "American Mystic" (see previous entry)
3. "Party Animal," Vider's essay on "The Boys in the Band" published on Sinatra's birthday, 2008
4. Back to the Garden of Forking Paths (also on Sinatra's birthday, 2008)
Related material
from last Sunday morning:
from last Sunday morning:
"'Soul' of a Party Is Memorialized"
—New York Times online front page
and
"In the Details."
The following illustration from
August 16th may also be relevant:
Click cover to enlarge.
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