Also on January 14, 2021 —
Tuesday, November 8, 2022
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Vuelo de Brujas
"Ay, que bonito es volar . . ." — Song lyric.
And, for a somewhat different audience —
See also this journal on the above YouTube date — Aug. 23, 2014 —
in a Log24 search for "Signifying Nothing."
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Wednesday, July 26, 2023
The Abstracting Which
"His is a language that is highly charged with
a harmonic resonance and a certain distancing
and abstracting which makes the reference
more universal, less specifically personal."
— Durham University, 1999 Ph.D. thesis
As verse . . .
A harmonic resonance
And a certain distancing
And abstracting which
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Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Ay Que Bonito
Meditations for 2 AM —
- Hylton's Quine in the previous post
- Hopkins on the paperback publication date of Hylton's Quine
- Ay Que Bonito Es Volar
- The Hallowed Crucible
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Thursday, December 20, 2012
For Grimm Day*
* See Google Doodle for today, the
200th anniversary of the Grimms'
Kinder- und Hausmärchen .
See also Ay Que Bonito Es Volar
and The Broom Factory.
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Xbox Games
(Continued from Sunday, April 22, 2012)
Xbox Background—
Design Sermon from Sunday, November 6, 2011, and
The X Box from Monday, November 7, 2011.
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Monday, December 26, 2011
It Must Be Said
Taymor, it must be said, is a beautiful woman. Her face at fifty-eight has sharp, expressive features— she actually frowns when she's unhappy, and her eyes seem to light up when she laughs— and she still has the long black hair she had when she was a young actress, "a very pretty eighteen-year-old," as she puts it, who "didn't want to play Cinderella or Snow White. I wanted to be the Wicked Witch of the West."
— Richard Dorment, article dated November 14, 2011
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Friday, July 15, 2011
Crucible
The Hogwarts saga may be ending, but there's still…
The Crucible
Related material:
Ay que bonito es volar…
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Thursday, April 14, 2011
Sunday, October 17, 2010
An Intricate Reflection
"Humanity's fascination with numbers is ancient and complex. Our present relationship with numbers reveals both a highly developed tool and a highly developed user, working together to measure, create, and predict both ourselves and the world around us. But like every symbiotic couple, the tool we would like to believe is separate from us (and thus objective) is actually an intricate reflection of our thoughts, interests, and capabilities."
— The Secret Lives of Numbers, by New Radio and Performing Arts
(recommended on the Frivolous Linkages page at Daniel Gilbert's Harvard website)
Other linkages:
New York Lottery on October 16: Midday 706, Evening 684.
Related material — 7/06, 2007, and post no. 684 in this journal.
The above "Secret Lives of Numbers" quotation was suggested by Gilbert's "Magic by Numbers" op-ed piece in today's New York Times—
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
That’s Showbiz
New York Times, January 12, 2010, 12:26 PM–
"Spider-Man" Musical Will Refund Tickets
"With… direction by Julie Taymor ['Frida'], 'Spider-Man' has been marred by delays….
The musical’s troubles have unfolded at the same time that the next “Spider-Man” movie has been descending into disarray…."
Related material:
"No Great Magic," by Fritz Leiber–
"The white cosmetic came away, showing sallow skin and on it a faint tattoo in the form of an 'S' styled like a yin-yang symbol left a little open.
'Snake!' he hissed. 'Destroyer! The arch-enemy, the eternal opponent!'"
“Ay que bonito es volar
A las dos de la mañana….”
— “La Bruja“
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Saturday, July 4, 2009
Saturday July 4, 2009
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Sunday, December 14, 2008
Sunday December 14, 2008
Symmetry
and
Reflections
and
Reflections
A figure from
Nobel Prize day, December 10,
and from Eugene Wigner‘s
birthday, November 17:
Also on December 10:
the death of Constantine–
(Click for details.)
Related material:
Tina Modotti: A Fragile Life,
Photos by Tina Modotti,
Art Wars for Trotsky’s Birthday,
as well as
Art Wars, June 1-15, 2007:
“Ay que bonito es volar
A las dos de la mañana….”
— “La Bruja“
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Friday, July 6, 2007
Friday July 6, 2007
Log24, June 6:
“If Cullinane College
were Hogwarts….”
A word to the wise:
desconvencida.
Related material:
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Thursday, June 14, 2007
Thursday June 14, 2007
Unscholarly Notes
The time of the previous entry, 1:06:18, suggests both the date of Epiphany, 1:06, and Hexagram 18 of the I Ching: Ku, Work on what has been spoiled (Decay).
Epiphany: A link in the Log24 entries for Epiphany 2007 leads to Damnation Morning, which in turn leads to Why Me?, a discussion of the mythology of Spiders vs. Snakes devised by Fritz Leiber. Spiders represent the conscious mind, snakes the unconscious.
On Hexagram 18: "The Chinese character ku represents a bowl in whose contents worms are breeding. This means decay." —Wilhelm's commentary
This brings us back to the previous entry with its mention of the date of Rudolf Arnheim's death: Saturday, June 9. In Log24 on that date there was a link, in honor of Aaron Sorkin's birthday, to a short story by Leonard Michaels. That link was suggested, in part, by a review in the Sunday New York Times Book Review (available online earlier, on Friday). Here is a quote from that review related to the Hexagram 18 worm bowl:
"… what grabbed attention for his early collections was Michaels's gruesome, swaggering depiction of the sexual rampage that was the swinging '60s in New York– 'the worm bucket,' as Michaels described an orgy."
Related material for meditation on this, the anniversary (according to Encyclopaedia Britannica) of the birth of author Jerzy Kosinski— his novel The Hermit of 69th Street.
Kosinski was not unfamiliar with Michaels's worm bucket. For related information, see Hermit (or at least a review).
In Leiber's stories the symbol of the Snakes is similar to the famed Yin-Yang symbol, also known as the T'ai-chi tu. For an analysis of this symbol by Arnheim, see the previous entry. See also "Sunday in the Park with Death" (Log24, Oct. 26, 2003):
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Sunday, June 10, 2007
Sunday June 10, 2007
Like a Melody
An excerpt from
The Miracle of the Bells
quoted in
A Mass for Lucero—
The Miracle of the Bells
quoted in
A Mass for Lucero—
"'A pretty girl–
is like a melody—- !'
But that was always
Bill Dunnigan's
Song of Victory….
Thus thought the…
press agent for
'The Garden of the Soul.'"
"Ay que bonito es volar
A las dos de la mañana…."
— "La Bruja"
For a rendition by
Salma Hayek, click
on the picture below.
Related material:
Log24 entries for
May 18, 2007.
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