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Friday, March 13, 2015

Stranger than Dreams

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:33 am

(Continued)

For further details, see USA Today.

Friday, February 27, 2015

Stranger than Dreams

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:48 am

For a former president of Notre Dame
who reportedly died at 11:30 PM last night —

"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

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Stranger than Dreams*

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 12:00 am

Illustration from a discussion of a symplectic structure 
in a 4×4 array quoted here on January 17, 2014 —

See symplectic structure in this journal.

* The final words of Point Omega , a 2010 novel by Don DeLillo.
See also Omega Matrix in this journal.

Monday, August 10, 2020

Spirit Birds…

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:05 am

Continues.

“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

Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Sequel

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:11 am

"A sequel lies beyond." — Emily Dickinson —

Actual Being

For example:

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Song for a Night Bird

Filed under: General — m759 @ 8:15 pm

"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

Saturday, September 1, 2012

College of the Desert

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 6:08 am

(Continued from 6:08 AM EDT yesterday and the day before)

"Richard Elster was seventy-three, I was less than half his age. He’d invited me to join him here, old house, under-furnished, somewhere south of nowhere in the Sonoran Desert or maybe it was the Mojave Desert or another desert altogether.* Not a long visit, he’d said."

— Don DeLillo, Point Omega

IMAGE- Detail of John Ritter's NY Times illustration for Geoff Dyer's review of 'Point Omega,' plus link to Twitter beneath illustration

Maybe it was the desert near Twentynine Palms.

IMAGE- Twentynine Palms in Geoff Dyer's review of 'Point Omega'

"Sometimes a wind comes before the rain
and sends birds sailing past the window,
spirit birds that ride the night,
stranger than dreams."

— Ending of Point Omega

* Update of Sept. 2, 2012— A different passage yields a more precise location.

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