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Friday, June 12, 2020
Friday, January 29, 2016
Pensée
On a stage character named Pascal —
"… the mathematics professor implores Minnie to take
full advantage of her own intelligence and talents,
usually capped off with a non sequitur gift of some kind…."
— Sean T. Collins, " 'I’m better than you, you son of a bitch':
a review of The Diary of a Teenage Girl: The Play ,"
Comic Book Resources , March 30, 2010
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011
The Meadow
From Nabokov's The Gift —
Click for more about the Pushkin verse.
See also Trevanian + meadow and Congregated Light.
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Sunday, January 25, 2009
Sunday January 25, 2009
Review:
The Maker’s Gift
The Maker’s Gift
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Friday, January 25, 2008
Friday January 25, 2008
Requiem for a Curator
"There is a pleasantly discursive treatment
of Pontius Pilate's unanswered question
'What is truth?'"
— H. S. M. Coxeter, 1987,
book introduction quoted
as epigraph to
Art Wars
book introduction quoted
as epigraph to
Art Wars
"I confess I do not believe in time.
I like to fold my magic carpet,
after use, in such a way
as to superimpose
one part of the pattern
upon another."
Figure by Coxeter
reminiscent of the
Ojo de Dios of
Mexico's Sierra Madre
In memory of
National Gallery
of Art curator
Philip Conisbee,
who died on
January 16:
|
"the God's-eye of the author"
— Dorothy Sayers, |
"one complete and free eye, which can simultaneously see in all directions"
— Vladimir Nabokov, |
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Sunday, October 5, 2003
Sunday October 5, 2003
Ado
Born on this date:
Producer Joshua Logan.
March 9, 1975:
Broadway Tribute to Joshua Logan
March 9, 2000:
Is Nothing Sacred?
“Of course there is nothing afterwards.”
— Thoughts of a dying man in Nabokov’s The Gift
“There is nothing like a dame.”
— Oscar Hammerstein II, South Pacific
For more on the religious significance of the date March 9, see
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