"And well-lighted." — Hemingway
Friday, November 17, 2023
Monday, August 5, 2019
The Structure of Nada
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“What did he fear? It was not a fear or dread, It was a nothing that he knew too well. It was all a nothing and a man was a nothing too. It was only that and light was all it needed and a certain cleanness and order. Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada. Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee. He smiled and stood before a bar with a shining steam pressure coffee machine.”
— From Ernest Hemingway, |
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Sanskrit (transliterated) —
nada:
“So Nada Brahma means not only: God the Creator
— Joachim-Ernst Berendt, |
Grace under Pressure meets Phonons under Strain .
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Thursday, February 13, 2014
Plan 9
The final link in today's previous post leads to
a post whose own final link leads to…
Thursday, December 13, 2012
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Thursday, December 13, 2012
Space
… The sequel to Vibrations
Charles Taylor, "Epiphanies of Modernism,"
Chapter 24 of Sources of the Self
(Cambridge U. Press, 1989, p. 477) —
“… the object sets up a kind of
frame or space or field
within which there can be epiphany.”
Or place.
See A Prince of Darkness
and "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place."
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Monday, April 10, 2006
Monday April 10, 2006
Backstory
for the previous entry,
“Once Upon a Time“
- Ernest Hemingway,
“A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” - Ernest Hemingway,
“The Killers” - Joan Didion,
Play It As It Lays - The Devil’s Bible
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Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Tuesday March 28, 2006
A Prince of Darkness
“What did he fear? It was not a fear or dread, It was a nothing that he knew too well. It was all a nothing and a man was a nothing too. It was only that and light was all it needed and a certain cleanness and order. Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada. Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.”
— From Ernest Hemingway,
“A Clean, Well-Lighted Place“
“A Clean, Well-Lighted Place“
| “By groping toward the light we are made to realize how deep the darkness is around us.” — Arthur Koestler, The Call Girls: A Tragi-Comedy, Random House, 1973, page 118 |
From a review of
Teilhard de Chardin’s
The Phenomenon of Man:
Teilhard de Chardin’s
The Phenomenon of Man:
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“It would have been |
“He’s good.”
“Good? He’s the fucking
Prince of Darkness!”
— Paul Newman
and Jack Warden
in “The Verdict“
| Sanskrit (transliterated) —
nada: “So Nada Brahma means not only: — Joachim-Ernst Berendt, |
“This book is the outcome of
a course given at Harvard
first by G. W. Mackey….”
— Lynn H. Loomis, 1953, preface to
An Introduction to
Abstract Harmonic Analysis
For more on Mackey and Harvard, see
the Log24 entries of March 14-17.
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