Denis Mostyn Norden, writer, broadcaster and television presenter,
born 6 February 1922; died 19 September 2018.
For Abraham Warburg —
"Que cantaba el Rey David."
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
In Memoriam:
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Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Fragments Against My Ruins, by Odd Thomas
- "Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read"
- "Alpha Dog"
- "B. J. Leggett is professor emeritus at UT Knoxville"
- "Seven is Heaven, Eight is a Gate, Nine is a Vine"
Update of about 6:40 AM ET on June 22, 2016 —
"Que cantaba el rey David." Happy birthday to Kris Kristofferson.
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Friday, May 22, 2015
You Can’t Make This Stuff Up
Synchronicity check on the date of the above Salon story:
Two posts from Log24 on Jan. 5, 2014 —
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Sunday, January 5, 2014
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Beans Talk II
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Thursday, September 12, 2013
A Beginning
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Saturday, January 7, 2012
Friday, October 1, 2010
Volcano Dawn
Estas son las mañanitas
Que cantaba el rey David
Who is she that looketh forth as the morning,
fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?
Good question.
From The Hunchback of Notre Dame :
Un cofre de gran riqueza
Hallaron dentro un pilar,
Dentro del, nuevas banderas
Con figuras de espantar.
A coffer of great richness
In a pillar’s heart they found,
Within it lay new banners,
With figures to astound.
Those who prefer more commercial banners may consult this morning's New York Times.
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Friday, September 27, 2002
Friday September 27, 2002
The Dark Lady
O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark….
— T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
From a list of people who died during 1991:
| September 27 | Oona Chaplin, daughter of Eugene O'Neill/wife of Charles, dies at 66 |
"Is that the name? Well! Well! Well! That's a fine old name in the west here."
"It is so, indeed," said the landlady. "For they were kings and queens in Connaught before the Saxon came. And herself, sir, has the face of a queen, they tell me."
"They're right"….
— John Collier, "The Lady on the Grey," Fancies and Goodnights, Bantam paperback, first printing, March 1953, page 131
See also my note of Friday, September 20, 2002.
"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."
— Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon, Ch. 11
"Love is strong as death." — Song of Songs 8:6
("…que cantaba el rey David" — "Las Mañanitas")
"I'm not even sure he has a heart. (…) He's an American."
— Audrey Hepburn in "Love in the Afternoon"
"There is never any ending to Paris…."
— Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
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