"I need a photo opportunity . . . ." — Paul Simon
Friday, May 17, 2019
A Shot at Redemption
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
A Shot at Redemption
Thursday, July 19, 2018
A Shot at Redemption
“I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.”
— Paul Simon
From a cartoon graveyard on yesterday's date in 1957 —
For the photo opportunity of the Paul Simon song, see
my former sixth-grade teacher on that same 1957 page.
Thursday, January 22, 2015
A Shot at Redemption
(Continued.)
“I need a photo opportunity,
I want a shot at redemption.
Don’t want to end up a cartoon
in a cartoon graveyard.”
— Paul Simon
Photo opportunity
for the late John Bayley and Iris Murdoch —
From a cartoon graveyard, in memory of
a British artist who reportedly died yesterday:
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Shot at Redemption
"I need a photo-opportunity,
I want a shot at redemption.
Don't want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard."
— Paul Simon
For Sabato's photo opportunity, click here.
The link is to a weblog post in Spanish published
on St. Thomas Becket's Day, 2010.
See also Helen Lane in this journal. Lane translated
Sabato's "On Heroes and Tombs."
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Multiversity News
“I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.”
— Paul Simon
See also Lawrence, Kansas, in a Log24 search for August 2, 2002.
Related material: Text Tiles posts and, also from Lawrence, Kansas . . .
Thursday, January 14, 2021
Redemptive Ephiphanic Impression
“ Harry decides his chief peacetime duty is to use his
gift for gab to further his ‘overriding purpose,’ namely:
‘By recalling the past and freezing the present he could
open the gates of time and through them see all
allegedly sequential things as a single masterwork
with neither boundaries nor divisions.’ Once he opens
these gates, Harry will flood his audience with his
redemptive epiphanic impression that ‘the world was
saturated with love.’ ”
— Liesl Schillinger, review of Mark Helprin’s novel
In Sunlight and in Shadow in The New York Times ,
Oct. 5, 2012
"I need a photo-opportunity,
I want a shot at redemption.
Don't want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard."
— Rhymin' Simon
See as well Kristen Stewart in the
film version of . . .
Friday, October 18, 2019
Vibe for Ray Bradbury
On writer Kate Braverman, who reportedly died on Sunday, October 13:
" She wears floor-length black skirts, swirling black coats,
and black stiletto boots; the San Francisco Chronicle once
described her vibe as 'Morticia Addams gone gypsy.' "
— Katy Waldman in The New Yorker , Feb. 22, 2018
"I need a photo opportunity
I want a shot at redemption
Don't want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard"
— Paul Simon, song lyric
For a Braverman photo opportunity, see the dark corner
at lower right in the previous post.
Thursday, November 15, 2018
Nocciolo
"I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard."
– Paul Simon
From the previous post —
From a cartoon graveyard —
See also, in this journal, Smallest Perfect and Nocciolo .
Thursday, January 4, 2018
For T. S. Eliot
“I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.”
— Paul Simon
Sunday, August 27, 2017
Sequel (In Memory of Tobe Hooper)
“I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.”
— Paul Simon
See also John Collier's short story "The Lady on the Grey."
Note that the title of the previous post was "Black Well,"
almost the same as that of Tanner's graphic novel above.
Thursday, October 8, 2015
Redemption
“I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.”
— Paul Simon
A portion of the above photo appeared on the cover of
a German edition of a book by the winner of the 2015 Nobel
Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich. The German title,
Der Krieg hat kein weibliches Gesicht , is closer to the Russian
original than is the title of an English translation, War's Unwomanly Face .
Further book and photo information —
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Photo Opportunity
"I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard."
– Paul Simon
"The theory of poetry, that is to say, the total of the theories of poetry, often seems to become in time a mystical theology or, more simply, a mystique. The reason for this must by now be clear. The reason is the same reason why the pictures in a museum of modern art often seem to become in time a mystical aesthetic, a prodigious search of appearance, as if to find a way of saying and of establishing that all things, whether below or above appearance, are one and that it is only through reality, in which they are reflected or, it may be, joined together, that we can reach them. Under such stress, reality changes from substance to subtlety, a subtlety in which it was natural for Cézanne to say: 'I see planes bestriding each other and sometimes straight lines seem to me to fall' or 'Planes in color…. The colored area where shimmer the souls of the planes, in the blaze of the kindled prism, the meeting of planes in the sunlight.' The conversion of our Lumpenwelt went far beyond this. It was from the point of view of another subtlety that Klee could write: 'But he is one chosen that today comes near to the secret places where original law fosters all evolution. And what artist would not establish himself there where the organic center of all movement in time and space– which he calls the mind or heart of creation– determines every function.' Conceding that this sounds a bit like sacerdotal jargon, that is not too much to allow to those that have helped to create a new reality, a modern reality, since what has been created is nothing less.
— Wallace Stevens, Harvard College Class of 1901, "The Relations between Poetry and Painting" in The Necessary Angel (Knopf, 1951) |
For background on the planes illustrated above,
see Diamond theory in 1937.
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Through the Vanishing Point*
Marshall McLuhan in "Annie Hall" —
"You know nothing of my work."
Related material —
"I need a photo opportunity
I want a shot at redemption
Don't want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard"
— Paul Simon
It was a dark and stormy night…
— Page 180, Logicomix
A photo opportunity for Whitehead
(from Romancing the Cube, April 20, 2011)—
See also Absolute Ambition (Nov. 19, 2010).
* For the title, see Vanishing Point in this journal.
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Shine On
"I need a photo-opportunity,
I want a shot at redemption.
Don't want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard." — Rhymin' Simon
See also Uncertainty and More Uncertainty.
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Hilarious
Hilarious in his high city — Anne Carson's new translation of |
One possible answer—
"I need a photo-opportunity,
I want a shot at redemption.
Don't want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard."
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
To a Stand-Up Philosopher
Simon Says I need a photo opportunity, — Paul Simon |
See also the page linked to on
Becket’s Day last year,
as well as…
Friday, September 5, 2008
Friday September 5, 2008
For Mike Hammer
Block That Metaphor
“Michael Hammer, an engineer and author on management who helped popularize the ‘re-engineering’ movement in the 1990s, died Thursday [Sept. 4, 2008].
A spokesman for Mr. Hammer’s consulting firm, Hammer and Co., said Mr. Hammer died from cranial bleeding that began Aug. 22 while he was vacationing in Massachusetts. He was 60 years old.
Mr. Hammer was the co-author of the bestselling management book Reengineering the Corporation and founder and president of Hammer and Co., Cambridge, Mass.”
“An engineer by training, Hammer focused on the operational nuts and bolts of business.
Hammer’s relentless pursuit of ‘why?’ drove his entire career. ‘My modus operandi is simple,’ he once wrote, ‘though not always easy to carry out. I take nothing at face value. I approach all business issues and practices with the same skepticism: Why?’
A funeral will be held at 9:30 a.m. Friday, Sept. 5 in Stanetsky Memorial Chapel, 1668 Beacon St., Brookline. Interment will follow at the Shaarei Tefillah Section of the Chevra Shaas Cemetery at Baker Street Jewish Cemeteries in West Roxbury.”
Related material:
“I need a photo opportunity,
I want a shot at redemption.
Don’t want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard…”
— Paul Simon
Friday, July 4, 2008
Friday July 4, 2008
"I need a photo-opportunity,
I want a shot at redemption.
Don't want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard."
— Paul Simon
From Log24 on June 27, 2008,
the day that comic-book artist
Michael Turner died at 37 —
Van Gogh (by Ed Arno) in
The Paradise of Childhood
(by Edward Wiebé):
For Turner's photo-opportunity,
click on Lara.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Thursday July 3, 2008
This week, we the people of North America are staging two celebrations. The Fourth of July is the 232nd birthday of the United States….
In Canada, today, another ceremony will mark the 400th anniversary of Quebec City, the first permanent settlement in New France.
“I need a photo opportunity,
I want a shot at redemption….”
Log24 on August 8, 2002 —
The cast of “Some Girls,”
a film set in Quebec City:
“Don’t want to end up a cartoon
in a cartoon graveyard.”
Amen, sister.
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Sunday June 15, 2008
I want a shot at redemption.
Don’t want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard.”
— Paul Simon
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Tuesday May 27, 2008
Cartoon Graveyard
The above is from
The Paradise of Childhood,
a work first published in 1869.
For the late Thelma Keane,
wife of “Family Circus“
cartoonist Bil Keane of
Paradise Valley, Arizona:
I want a shot at redemption.*
Don’t want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard.”
— Paul Simon
*
Mrs. Keane died May 23
(St. Sarah’s Eve)
according to
The Washington Post.
Related material:
Log24 on May 23,
Saints in Australia.
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Sunday May 18, 2008
From the Grave
in yesterday's New York Times:
"From the grave, Albert Einstein
poured gasoline on the culture wars
between science and religion this week…."
An announcement of a
colloquium at Princeton:
Above: a cartoon,
"Coxeter exhuming Geometry,"
with the latter's tombstone inscribed
"GEOMETRY
600 B.C. —
1900 A.D.
R.I.P."
The above is from
The Paradise of Childhood,
a work first published in 1869.
"I need a photo-opportunity,
I want a shot at redemption.
Don't want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard."
— Paul Simon
Albert Einstein,
1879-1955:
"It is quite clear to me that the religious paradise of youth, which was thus lost, was a first attempt to free myself from the chains of the 'merely-personal,' from an existence which is dominated by wishes, hopes and primitive feelings. Out yonder there was this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking. The contemplation of this world beckoned like a liberation…."
— Autobiographical Notes, 1949
Related material:
A commentary on Tom Wolfe's
"Sorry, but Your Soul Just Died"–
"The Neural Buddhists," by David Brooks,
in the May 13 New York Times:
"The mind seems to have
the ability to transcend itself
and merge with a larger
presence that feels more real."
A New Yorker commentary on
a new translation of the Psalms:
"Suddenly, in a world without
Heaven, Hell, the soul, and
eternal salvation or redemption,
the theological stakes seem
more local and temporal:
'So teach us to number our days.'"
and a May 13 Log24 commentary
on Thomas Wolfe's
"Only the Dead Know Brooklyn"–
"… all good things — trout as well as
eternal salvation — come by grace
and grace comes by art
and art does not come easy."
"Art isn't easy."
— Stephen Sondheim,
quoted in
Solomon's Cube.
For further religious remarks,
consult Indiana Jones and the
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
and The Librarian:
Return to King Solomon's Mines.
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Wednesday January 3, 2007
11:32:56
“What on earth is
a concrete universal?”
— Robert M. Pirsig
From A Shot at Redemption—
Grand Rapids Revisited
John Constantine,
cartoon character, and
Donald E. Knuth,
Lutheran mathematician
further to Calvin College’s
unparalleled leadership
in the field of
Christian historiography….”
A photo opportunity —
and a recent cartoon:
From Calvin College,
today’s meditation:
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Tuesday December 19, 2006
at the Apollo
Click on picture
for related symbolism.
“This is the garden of Apollo,
the field of Reason….”
John Outram, architect
I need a photo-opportunity
I want a shot at redemption
Don’t want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard
— Paul Simon
In memory of Joseph Barbera–
co-creator ot the Flintstones–
who died yesterday, a photo
from today’s Washington Post:
Playing the role of
recording angel —
Halle Berry as
Rosetta Stone:
Related material:
“Citizen Stone“
and
“Putting the X in Xmas.”
Tuesday, August 8, 2006
Tuesday August 8, 2006
“I need a photo-opportunity,
I want a shot at redemption.
Don’t want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard.”
Mel Gibson in
“Conspiracy Theory”
Hence it was,
Preferring text to gloss, he humbly served
Grotesque apprenticeship to chance event,
A clown, perhaps, but an aspiring clown.
— The Comedian as the Letter C
Related material:
Mental Health Month, Day 27
Tuesday, August 1, 2006
Tuesday August 1, 2006
Revisited
John Constantine,
cartoon character, and
Donald E. Knuth,
Lutheran mathematician
“I need a photo-opportunity,
I want a shot at redemption.
Don’t want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard.”
Mel Gibson,
7/28/06,
photo by
Los Angeles County
Sheriff’s Department
This meditation is prompted by memories of suicidal alcoholics Hunter S. Thompson and Ernest Hemingway, as well as by the title of Mel Gibson’s latest project, “Apocalypto.”
A search on Gibson’s film title leads to this quotation:
“And what does apocalypse mean? It means revelation: apocalypto means to open up and to show the truth. But it also means absolute violence, so the apocalypse is a violent revelation and a revelation of violence and immediately you see the relevance of this.”
— Interview with Rene Girard in the June 1996 issue of UCLA’s Anthropoetics: The Journal of Generative Anthropology
It is by no means clear that “apocalypse” means “violence,” let alone “absolute violence,” except in the Christian tradition.
For apocalyptic Christian violence, see “Apocalypse and Violence: The Evidence from the Reception History of the Book of Revelation” (pdf), by Christopher Rowland of Oxford University.
As for “the relevance of this,” see the definition of “generative anthropology” (GA) at
anthropoetics.ucla.edu/purpose.htm:
“The originary hypothesis of GA is that human language begins as an aborted gesture of appropriation representing–and thereby renouncing as sacred– an object of potential mimetic rivalry. The strength of our mimetic intelligence makes us the only creatures for whom intraspecific violence is a greater threat to survival than the external forces of nature. Human language defers potential conflict by permitting each to possess the sign of the unpossessable object of desire– the deferral of violence through representation.”
Compare with the remarks of Jung on Transformation Symbolism in the Mass:
Antecedents and parallels are found for the ritual of the Christian religious Mass in Aztec, Mithraic and pagan religious practices. “The Aztecs make a dough figure of the god Huitzilopochtli, which is then symbolically killed, divided and consumed….”
Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Vol. 11. 2nd ed., Princeton University Press, 1969. (pp. 222-225)
Mel Gibson’s interest in religion and violence is well known. His film “Apocalypto,” scheduled for release on Dec. 8, 2006, deals with human sacrifice among the Maya, rather than the Aztecs or Jews. (Cf. Abraham and “Highway 61 Revisited.”)
It seems unlikely that Mel will learn more about these issues in his recovery program. Too bad.
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Tuesday November 22, 2005
Cartoon Graveyard
(continued)
From yesterday’s New York Post:
By LARRY CELONA, JOHN MAZOR and DAN MANGAN
November 21, 2005 — The former tour manager for superstars Paul Simon and Billy Joel was stabbed to death yesterday by his prostitute girlfriend on his 57th birthday less than a block from Gracie Mansion, cops said.
“It looked like a horror movie in there,” said an NYPD detective after seeing the blood-drenched bed in the couple’s sixth-floor studio at 530 East 89th St., where cops say music producer Danny Harrison was stabbed twice in the chest with a long butcher knife by his live-in lover just before 1 p.m.
I need a photo opportunity
I want a shot at redemption
Don’t want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard
— Paul Simon
Below: cartoonist Lou Myers,
who also died on Sunday, Nov. 20,
with a horse from yesterday’s entry.
“... and behold: a pale horse.
And his name, that sat on him,
was Death. And Hell
followed with him.”
Related material:
Log24 entries of
Sept. 15, 2003.
Saturday, October 29, 2005
Saturday October 29, 2005
For Kate Jackson on her birthday:
Drop-Dead Gorgeous
I want a shot at redemption
Don't want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard
— Paul Simon
"The idea that this Sad Geezer may fancy a cartoon character is, of course, ludicrous (even if she is drop-dead gorgeous…)."
"Dr. Cameron was also interested in how chemical elements are formed inside stars, a field known as nucleosynthesis."
(billion year-old carbon)
We are golden
(caught in the Devil's bargain)
— Joni Mitchell,
lyrics on the album
"Ladies of the Canyon"
Related material:
The upcoming film
of Aeon Flux
and
as well as…
and
Kate Jackson in
Satan's School
for Girls.
Saturday, September 10, 2005
Saturday September 10, 2005
x
I need a photo-opportunity. I want a shot at redemption. Don’t want to end up a cartoon In a cartoon graveyard. — Paul Simon |
Related material:
Nine Gates to the
Temple of Poetry
and
Law Day 2001:
The Devil and Wallace Stevens
Sunday, May 1, 2005
Sunday May 1, 2005
Harvard's Barry Mazur on
one mathematical style:
"It’s the barest, most Beckett-like vocabulary
that incorporates the theory and nothing else."
Samuel Beckett, Quad (1981):
A Jungian on this six-line logo:
"They are the same six lines
that exist in the I Ching….
Now observe the square more closely:
four of the lines are of equal length,
the other two are longer….
For this reason symmetry
cannot be statically produced
and a dance results."
— Marie-Louise von Franz,
Number and Time (1970),
Northwestern U. Press
paperback, 1979, p. 108
A related logo from
Columbia University's
Department of Art History
and Archaeology:
Also from that department:
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 shape
and the Pandora's box
of spiritual reference
that is opened
once one uses it."
"In the garden of Adding
live Even and Odd…"
— The Midrash Jazz Quartet in
City of God, by E. L. Doctorow
THE GREEK CROSS
are the same length.
Here, for reference, is a Greek cross
within a nine-square grid:
Related religious meditation for
Doctorow's "Garden of Adding"…
Types of Greek cross
illustrated in Wikipedia
under "cross":
THE BAPTISMAL CROSS
a Greek cross, which is superimposed
on a Greek 'chi,' the first letter
of the Greek word for 'Christ.'
Since the number eight is symbolic
of rebirth or regeneration,
this cross is often used
as a baptismal cross.
Related material:
Fritz Leiber's "spider"
or "double cross" logo.
See Why Me? and
A Shot at Redemption.
Happy Orthodox Easter.
Monday, February 28, 2005
Monday February 28, 2005
The Meaning of 3:16
From The New Yorker, issue dated Feb. 28, 2005:
"Time Bandits," by Jim Holt, pages 80-85:
"Wittgenstein once averred that 'there can never be surprises in logic.'"
"Miss Gould," by David Remnick, pages 34-35:
"She was a fiend for problems of sequence and logic…. Her effect on a piece of writing could be like that of a master tailor on a suit; what had once seemed slovenly and overwrought was suddenly trig and handsome."
Suddenly:
See Donald E. Knuth's Diamond Signs, Knuth's 3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated, and the entry of 3:16 PM today.
Trig and handsome:
Remnick on Miss Gould again:
"She shaped the language of the magazine, always striving for a kind of Euclidean clarity– transparent, precise, muscular."
3/16 2004:
Einstein on his
"holy geometry book" —
"Here were assertions, as for example the intersection of the three altitudes of a triangle in one point, which– though by no means evident– could nevertheless be proved with such certainty that any doubt appeared to be out of the question. This lucidity and certainty made an indescribable impression upon me."
"I need a photo opportunity,
I want a shot at redemption…."
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Tuesday February 22, 2005
Grand Rapids Revisited
Log24 entries of Feb. 18-20, 2005,
which include the following illustration:
John Constantine,
cartoon character, and
Donald E. Knuth,
Lutheran mathematician
“…. recent books testify further to Calvin College’s unparalleled leadership in the field of Christian historiography. More than anyone else, the historians at Calvin (along with their Dutch Reformed publishers at Eerdmans) have led the way in first-rate thinking about the relationship between faith and history. One does not need to be a Calvinist, or a historian for that matter, to appreciate this thinking and its influence on a wide variety of intellectuals. I say this as a Lutheran who must confess in all honesty that his own American Lutheran tradition cannot hold a candle to the Calvinists in Grand Rapids….”
Tuesday February 22, 2005
Hunter S. Thompson, photos
from The New York Times
Excerpt from Fritz Leiber's
"Damnation Morning," 1959:
"Time traveling, which is not quite the good clean boyish fun it's cracked up to be, started for me when this woman with the sigil on her forehead looked in on me from the open doorway of the hotel bedroom where I'd hidden myself and the bottles and asked me, 'Look, Buster, do you want to live?'"
"I need a photo-opportunity,
I want a shot at redemption.
Don't want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard."
Monday, July 12, 2004
Monday July 12, 2004
In response to this morning’s Wizard-of-Id example (see 1:22 PM entry) of a political Bob-Hope-style Christian wisecrack (a style more apt to make me gag than laugh), some further quotations:
I need a photo-opportunity, I want a shot at redemption. Don’t want to end up a cartoon In a cartoon graveyard. — Paul Simon |
The Washington Post on the gigolo candidate in Boston Monday:
“In a lunch speech to more than 1,000 women who had donated $500 to $2,000 to his campaign or the Democratic Party, Kerry was joined on stage by his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry…. He focused his comments on improving health care and creating more jobs — notions that he said ‘are not Democratic values. They’re not Republican values. They are American values.’ “
Let us pass over Kerry’s ignorance of the difference between desiderata (things considered desirable) and values (principles, standards, or qualities considered desirable).
A definition of “values” in a different sense, one that might appeal to the late St. Laurance Rockefeller, dead on 7/11, who majored in philosophy at Princeton:
“In an artistical composition, the character of any one part in its relation to other parts and to the whole — often used in the plural: as, the values are well given, or well maintained.”
— Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Rockefeller is, I hope, now in a place where he can discuss this definition with Bach as it applies to, say, that composer’s “Goldberg Variations.”
Here below, another sort of Goldberg Variations seems appropriate to the times we live in …
The following composition was inspired by Whoopi Goldberg’s remarks at last Thursday’s Radio City Music Hall Democratic Party fund-raiser.
Motherhood and Apple Pie
Sources:
Ike Turner, Bad Dreams album,
Mom’s Apple Pie album (X-rated),
and Log24 entries of
July 9-10 and July 12.
Update of 3:17 AM July 13, 2004:
A place in Heaven next to St. Laurance
seems to have been reserved:
Tuesday, January 21, 2003
Tuesday January 21, 2003
Cartoon Graveyard,
or Betty and the Third Eye
I need a photo opportunity
I want a shot at redemption
Don’t want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard
— Paul Simon
The New York Times, Jan. 21, 2003: |
One of my favorite movie scenes is the entry into paradise, through a looking glass, of Kilgore Trout (played by Albert Finney) in “Breakfast of Champions.” Trout encounters a beautiful (indeed, angelic) maiden on the other side of the looking glass and asks of her, “Make me young again.” His wish is granted. Those who wish to may imagine — through a glass, darkly — a great artist’s entry into heaven with the aid of the very popular website Betty and Veronica.
PARENTAL ADVISORY:
The “Betty and Veronica” link above is more suited to Kilgore Trout’s usual publisher, The World Classics Library, than to, say, the Harvard Classics. Since Betty and Veronica have been attending Riverdale High for about 60 years now, I think we can assume they are 18 by this time, and can appear in an adult website. Their cartoonish appearance may be helpful to newcomers to paradise; it does not mean, as Paul Simon fears, that the afterlife consists only of cartoon characters.
For further details, see I Corinthians 13:11-13.
Tuesday, December 17, 2002
Tuesday December 17, 2002
Not Amusing Anymore
I need a photo-opportunity
I want a shot at redemption
Don’t want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard
— Paul Simon
From The New York Times, Dec. 16, 2002
(See yesterday’s notes) —
John Patrick Naughton |
“Rebecca Goldstein remembers discovering Plato at the age of 12 or 13 in Will Durant’s ‘Story of Philosophy’ and feeling ‘that I was out beyond myself, had almost lost all touch with who I even was, and it was . . . bliss.'” |