Bloomsday, and then Galois's birthday, and then . . . Square Space!
"Ride a painted pony, let the spinning wheel spin."
Saturday, September 7, 2024
Sunday, October 1, 2023
From the Vulgar Latin Muse — Pint, Pinter, Pinterest
"Pint comes from the Old French word pinte and perhaps ultimately
from Vulgar Latin pincta meaning 'painted,' for marks painted on
the side of a container to show capacity.*
* "Pint," Merriam-Webster.com. 2013. Retrieved 31 May 2013."
"Ride a painted pony . . ." — Play It as It Lays song
"I love you Mony Mony . . . ." — Another song
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Sunday, March 22, 2009
Sunday March 22, 2009
The Storyteller
in Chance
(continued from
last night)
“… we tell ourselves that
the old-fashioned question
‘Who is the protagonist?’
is a meaningless one.”
the old-fashioned question
‘Who is the protagonist?’
is a meaningless one.”
— — Wayne C. Booth, p. 346 in
The Rhetoric of Fiction (1961),
as quoted by Paul Wake in
“The Storyteller in Chance“
The Rhetoric of Fiction (1961),
as quoted by Paul Wake in
“The Storyteller in Chance“
“I argue that Sophocles did not intend to present either Antigone or Creon as the hero/heroine for his tragic play, as Hegel, Kierkegaard, and others stipulate. Rather, Sophocles presents the Chorus and the Watchman as the true heroic figures.”
–“A Burkean Reading of the Antigone: Comical and Choral Transcendence,” by Rebecca McCarthy, Kaplan University
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Monday, May 5, 2008
Monday May 5, 2008
"All our words from loose using
have lost their edge."
— Ernest Hemingway
have lost their edge."
— Ernest Hemingway
Look Homeward, Norman
New York Lottery
May 5, 2008:
May 5, 2008:
The evening number,
411, may be interpreted
as 4/11. From Log24
on that date:
As for the mid-day number
098, a Google search
(with the aid of, in retrospect,
the above family tribute)
on "98 'Norman Mailer'"
yields
|
Amazon.com: The Time of Our Time (Modern Library Paperbacks …
With The Time of Our Time (1998) Norman Mailer has archetypalized himself and in the seven years since publication, within which films Fear and Loathing in …
|
From an unattributed
"editorial review" of
The Time of Our Time
at Amazon.com:
"editorial review" of
The Time of Our Time
at Amazon.com:
"Surely this sense of himself
as the republic's recording angel
accounts for the structure
of Mailer's anthology…."
Related material:
From Play It As It Lays,
the paperback edition of 1990
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux) —
|
Page 170:
"… In her half sleep
By the end of a week she was thinking constantly
170
even one micro-second she would have what she had |
The number 411 from
this evening's New York Lottery
may thus be regarded as naming the
"exact point in space and time"
sought in the above passage.
For a related midrash
on the meaning of the
passage's page number,
see the previous entry.
For a more plausible
recording angel,
see Sinatra's birthday,
December 12, 2002.
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Friday, April 11, 2008
Friday April 11, 2008
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