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For the Marvel Comics surgeon  Dr. Stephen Strange —

For a real-life surgeon who reportedly died on Feb. 24,
a quotation from this journal on that date —

"What of the night
That lights and dims the stars?
Do you know, Hans Christian,
Now that you see the night?"

— The concluding lines of "Sonatina to Hans Christian,"
by Wallace Stevens (in Harmonium  (second edition, 1931))

Related material —

"What of the night
That lights and dims the stars?
Do you know, Hans Christian,
Now that you see the night?"

— The concluding lines of
"Sonatina to Hans Christian,"
by Wallace Stevens
(in Harmonium  (second edition, 1931))

". . . in the end the space itself is the star. . . ."

Related material — The death Tuesday night
of Prince Consort Henrik of Denmark, and the
New Year's Eve speech on Dec. 31, 2015, of
Queen Margrethe II of Denmark.

Distantly  related material — Yesterday morning's
post The Search for Child's Play.

In memory of  a Manhattan art figure
who reportedly died on
Wednesday, February Seventh, 2018 —

ABOUT 'ASCENSION VARIATIONS'

“Ascension Variations is a magical adventure
woven from grand and pedestrian touches, and
in the end the space itself is the star —
or Ms. Monk's transformation of it.
For an hour, we've lived in a spiral,
where up is down and down is up.
It's a sacred place.”

— Gia Kourlas, The New York Times , March 6, 2009

See also the previous post — yesterday's Into the Upside Down —
and two posts of February Seventh:

Conceptual Art  and  Conceptual Minimalism.

For some related artistic remarks, see this  journal on March 6-7, 2009.