Song lyric — "Away out here they got a name for wind and rain and fire."
Plato quote — "One, two, three… but where is the fourth?"
Miss Earth — "I'm here for all of the witches."
Thursday, August 24, 2023
Saturday, December 12, 2020
The Craft
From The New York Times on October 29 —
Zoe Lister-Jones on ‘The Craft’ and Women’s Power
by Melena Ryzik
See as well Ryzik in yesterday’s post “After Valentine’s” —
Related material —
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
The Craft
See “Charles Williams” + Witchcraft in this journal.
Williams was one of the Inklings, a group of Christian
writers that included C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien.
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Monday, October 17, 2011
The Craftsman
A follow-up to yesterday's Sunday School—
(Click on images for some background.)
Backstory— "Plan 9 is an operating system kernel …."
Meditation— "How can you tell the craftsman from the craft?"
(Apologies to William Butler Yeats.)
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Friday, April 16, 2010
The Craft, continued
"Honesty's the best policy."
— Miguel de Cervantes
"Liars prosper."
— Anonymous
— Epigraphs to On Writing:
A Memoir of the Craft,
by Stephen King
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The cruelest month continues…
"…as Newton conceived it, the distinction between
the individualities of two particles is so marked that
it is impossible for them ever to coincide or for
either of them to alter the being of the other…."
"Waves interfere with each other because they are
interchangeable and thus not distinguishable;
two processes can coincide in space and time
but two substances cannot. Thus the wave
reveals a whole new possibility of identity…."
"The concept of a field is elusive."
— Peter Pesic, Seeing Double: Shared Identities
in Physics, Philosophy, and Literature,
Chapter 6, "The Fields of Light"
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Monday, March 15, 2010
The Craft, continued
Phoebe Halliwell of "Charmed"
Review of a new film — "She’s Out of My League has moments of humor and insight, but it’s bogged down by excessive vulgarity and cartoonishness."
Sometimes that's what it takes —
"For every kind of vampire,
there is a kind of cross."
— Gravity's Rainbow
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Sunday, November 10, 2024
Numberland: The Talladega Craftsman
Monday, October 17, 2011
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From Summer Solstice 2023 —
Related tunes — "Hot Rod Lincoln" and
"Junk in the Trunk" (Planet Booty, YouTube, Feb. 27, 2019)
Monday, November 22, 2021
Monday, September 6, 2021
Classics Illustrated
Related material:
Click the above image for the
"Philosopher at the Orgy" article.
See also Plato's Cave in this journal.
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Thursday, June 11, 2020
Spacek’s File*
From a search in this journal for Spacek —
"Honesty's the best policy."
— Miguel de Cervantes
"Liars prosper."
— Anonymous
— Epigraphs to On Writing:
A Memoir of the Craft,
by Stephen King
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* A title suggested by the previous post.
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Thursday, June 4, 2015
Thursday, October 16, 2014
Broom Bridge Day
Wikipedia on Broom (or Broome, or Brougham) Bridge,
where on 16 October 1843 Hamilton discovered quaternions:
"The 16 October is sometimes referred to as
Broomsday (in reference to Broome Bridge)
and as a nod to the literary commemorations
on 16 June (Bloomsday in honour of James Joyce)."
See also, in this journal, The Craft.
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011
The Talented
"It's going to be accomplished in steps, this establishment of the Talented in the scheme of things."
— Anne McCaffrey, Radcliffe ’47, To Ride Pegasus
"Character, as we have stated, is revealed through action.
We are not yet telepathic; we must embody even the most intellectual traits
and express them physically."
— The Craftsmen of Dionysus: An Approach to Acting by Jerome Rockwood
Dionysus Meets Apollo
in "Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould"—
Step I — Tiny Dancer in My Hand (0.48.46)
Step II — The Bridge (0.52.46)
Step III — Liftoff (1.27.37)
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Sunday, April 18, 2010
Sermon for the Cruelest Month
In the Details
For kids– NY Times— "Hit-Girl survives."
For adults– LA Times—
"Dede Allen dies at 86; editor revolutionized
imagery, sound and pace in U.S. films
Her work on 1967's 'Bonnie and Clyde' ushered in
a new aesthetic that's now the standard in American film"
Claudia Luther of the LA Times on Allen, who died yesterday—
"… she learned the craft of editing: the assemblage of various scenes to create a coherent film.
In the early days of Hollywood, the cutters, as they were called, were often women, perhaps because, as Allen once commented to author Ally Acker, 'women have always been good at little details, like sewing.'"….
"Ebert wrote of Allen's work on 'The Hustler' that she found the rhythm in the pool games— 'the players circling, the cue sticks, the balls, the watching faces— that implies the trance-like rhythm of the players. Her editing "tells" the games so completely that if we don't understand pool, we forget that we don't.'"
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“Oscar is your name,” she said firmly.
“Oscar and Aster. Scar and Star.”
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The Hustler |
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
Thursday May 28, 2009
Spelling
At right below, an image from the opening of Fox Studios Australia in Sydney on November 7, 1999. The Fox ceremonies included, notably, Kylie Minogue singing “Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend.”
For the mathematical properties of the red windmill (moulin rouge) figure at left, see Diamond Theory. |
“There comes a time when you have
learned enough to decide whether
the way of the Craft is for you….
learned enough to decide whether
the way of the Craft is for you….
First you will need to
prepare your sacred space….
Calling the Corners (or Quarters)
is something you will always do.”
Happy birthday, Kylie.
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Tuesday May 26, 2009
For Daedalus
“Some writers describe the
first draft as ‘making clay’….”– Janet Burroway
first draft as ‘making clay’….”– Janet Burroway
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”
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Sunday, March 22, 2009
Sunday March 22, 2009
The Craft
“Pope tells clergy in Angola
to work against
belief in witchcraft”
— Headline in tonight’s
online New York Times
“Do you think I am trying to weave a spell? Perhaps I am; but remember your fairy tales. Spells are used for breaking enchantments as well as for inducing them.”
— C. S. Lewis in The Weight of Glory
Related material:
Fantasy and Fugue
and the same words
as rendered by
Bach and Schweitzer
See also
Yesterday’s entries
and
Midsummer Night
in the Garden
of Good and Evil.
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Friday, January 9, 2009
Friday January 9, 2009
Teaser head from the
online NY Times
this morning:
online NY Times
this morning:
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Monday, May 26, 2008
Monday May 26, 2008
Crystal Vision
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
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Friday, February 15, 2008
Friday February 15, 2008
Door
Step:
“Many dreams have been
brought to your doorstep.
They just lie there
and they die there.”
— Lyricist Ray Evans,
who died at 92
one year ago today
Associated Press –
Today in History –
Thought for Today:
“Like all dreamers I confuse
disenchantment with truth.”
–Jean-Paul Sartre
disenchantment with truth.”
–Jean-Paul Sartre
The Return of the Author, by Eugen Simion:
On Sartre’s Les Mots —
“Writing helps him find his own place within this vast comedy. He does not take to writing seriously yet, but he is eager to write books in order to escape the comedy he has been compelled to take part in.
The craft of writing appeared to me as an adult activity, so ponderously serious, so trifling, and, at bottom, so lacking in interest that I didn’t doubt for a moment that it was in store for me. I said to myself both ‘that’s all it is’ and ‘I am gifted.’ Like all dreamers, I confused disenchantment with truth.”
This is given in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1999) as
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
Also from the AP’s
Today in History —
Today’s Birthdays:
Actor Kevin McCarthy is 94.
Related material:
Hopkins at Heaven’s Gate
(In context: October 2007)–
“Dolly’s Little Diner–
Home from Home”
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