"I woke last night to the sound of thunder,
How far off, I sat and wondered.
Started humming a song from 1962.
Ain't it funny how the night moves?"
See also . . .
Thursday, January 13, 2022
(Belated) Meditation for New Year’s Day, 2022
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Tuesday, August 7, 2018
The Search for Harmonic Analysis
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Saturday, March 31, 2018
Cube Theory
For Greta Gerwig and Saoirse Ronan —
See also a Log24 post from the above Cube Theory date —
April 12, 2016 — Lyrics for a Cartoon Graveyard — as well as . . .
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Saturday, September 2, 2017
Knight Moves
Ursula K. Le Guin, in Amazing Stories , Sept. 1992, published
"The Rock That Changed Things" (pp. 9-13) and her story from
thirty years earlier, "April in Paris" (Fantastic Stories , Sept. 1962.)
The latter (pp. 14-19) was followed by some brief remarks (p. 19)
comparing the two stories.
For "The Rock," see Le Guin + Rock in this journal.
"April in Paris" is about time travel by means of an alchemist's
pentagram. The following figure from 1962 is in lieu of a pentagram —
See as well a search for 1962 in this journal.
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Saturday, March 25, 2017
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Pulp Fiction Incarnate
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Saturday, March 18, 2017
Back to the Past
"Old men ought to be explorers" — T. S. Eliot
"All on a Saturday night" — Johnny Thunder, 1962
Update of 8:25 PM ET on March 18 —
"Analysis." — Dr. Robert Ford in "Westworld"
"Master theorist and conceptual genius."
— Jon Pareles, front page, online New York Times tonight
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Tuesday, December 27, 2016
The Dark Side
"The record, released on the Diamond label,
became a big hit, rising to no. 4 on the
Billboard Hot 100 in early 1963." — Wikipedia
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