For Jena Malone's new Word Farm —
"The clouds never expect it when it rains
But the sea changes colours
But the sea does not change
So with the slow, graceful flow of age
I went forth with an age old desire to please
On the edge of seventeen" — Stevie Nicks
See All Saints 2014 in this journal and listen to
the new Stevie Nicks reissue of Bella Donna.
Related religious imagery —
"Sometimes a wind comes before the rain
and sends birds sailing past the window,
spirit birds that ride the night,
stranger than dreams."
— The end of DeLillo's Point Omega
Cross of Gold:
"I would tell them about Rhiannon,
and about my treasured gold cross…."
— Stevie Nicks
Dagger Cross:
See Dagger Definitions, by James Joyce:
"Hold to the now, the here, through which
all future plunges to the past."
A Jew's View:
"… as though echoing the road's vanishing point
up ahead…." — Album review, 2002
See Vanishing Point in this journal.
See as well Rolling Stone four days ago
on Stevie Nicks in 1976:
Keep in mind, the audience has
no idea who Stevie Nicks is.
“We are not saints.” — Alcoholics Anonymous , Chapter 5
The New York Times on AA’s co-founder Bill Wilson in 1934:
Click for the rest of the story.
New York Lottery today—
Without imagination, these digits are a meaningless jumble.
With imagination…
608 might refer to June 8, the Saint's Day of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
(See the date July 29, 2002, that appeared in an earlier post today
as the publication date of Geometrical Landscapes . In this
journal, a post on that date, "At Random," referred to Hopkins.)
8516 might refer to 8/5/1916. A check of a hometown newspaper
on that date yields…
"St. Joseph's Garden Party and Bazaar 22, 23, 24.
Pictures. Everybody Welcome. Admission to Garden Ten Cents"
And in the evening…
937 might refer to a post on the nihilistic philosophy of Joan Didion, and
7609 might refer to an occurrence of these digits in a link
to "7/11" in a post from the feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola last year.
For a more cynical view of lottery hermeneutics, see
"High on RAM (overload)," by Jo Lyxe.
Happy birthday to Stevie Nicks.
On Halloween…
"Remember that for Ockham there is nothing in the universe that is
in any way universal except a concept or word: there are no real
natures shared by many things. However, things do resemble one
another, some things more closely than others. So the various
degrees of resemblance give a foundation in reality for our conceptual
structures, such as Porphyry's tree.
Now resemblance (or similitude or likeness) is a relation.
If such relations are realities, then we can say that there are realities
out there that correspond to our conceptual structures."
— R.J. Kilcullen at Macquarie University, course labeled Phil360
"The kernel of a homomorphism is always a congruence.
Indeed, every congruence arises as a kernel."
— Congruence Relation, section on Universal Algebra, in Wikipedia
"Beauty then is a relation."
"An Attempt to Understand the Problem of Universals"
is the title of a talk by Fabian Geier, University of Bamberg—
"The talk was held at Gdańsk University on May 26th 2008."
Related material— Stevie Nicks turns 60.
Quoted here
a year ago today:
“… she explores
the nature of identity
in a structure of
crystalline complexity.”
— Janet Burroway
(See ART WARS.)
Related material:
Amy Adams in Doubt
Amy Adams and Meryl Streep
at premiere of Doubt
Above:
Craft, 1999
“The matron had given her
leave to go out as soon as
the women’s tea was over….”
— James Joyce, “Clay”
Stevie Nicks
is 60 today.
On the author discussed
here yesterday,
Siri Hustvedt:
“… she explores
the nature of identity
in a structure* of
crystalline complexity.”
— Janet Burroway,
quoted in
ART WARS
“Is it safe?”
— Annals of Art Education:
Geometry and Death
* Related material:
the life and work of
Felix Christian Klein
and
Report to the Joint
Mathematics Meetings
"… and the girl in the corner
is everyone's mourner…."
The Priest quotation appeared here
on Grammy Night 2003 with
another musical meditation:
"Her wall is filled with pictures,
She gets 'em one by one."
— "Sweet Little Sixteen,"
by Chuck Berry
(Chess Records, January 1958)
“The quidditas or essence
of an angel is
the same as its form.”
— William T. Noon, Society of Jesus,
Joyce and Aquinas, Yale, 1957
Related material
from Oct. 27, 2003:
See the picture
in the web page
Poetry’s Bones.
“It does, indeed, look more
like Proginoskes than any of
the pictures on the book jackets.”
— Madeleine L’Engle, letter of
November 28, 1976
“Heaven is a state, a sort of
metaphysical state.”
— John O’Hara,
Hope of Heaven, 1938
“Frère Jacques, Cuernavaca,
ach du lieber August.”
— John O’Hara, Hope of Heaven
Frère Jacques
is a
“canon à quatre voix.”
For another, purely visual,
four-part canon, see the
owl-like picture
in the web page
Poetry’s Bones.
See, too, the Wallace Stevens poem
“The Owl in the Sarcophagus,”
and hear Stevie Nicks as the voice
of The Wizard Owl in a story titled
Frère Jacques.
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