Josefine Lyche, sketch for a sculpture: "Truth, Knowledge, Belief."
The sketch itself appears to be in a transparent plastic envelope,
and the triangle figure from Finnegans Wake is apparently from
the envelope, not from the sketch proper.
See also Epistemology in Norway.
See the above title and Barbara Johnson in this journal.
Johnson taught at Harvard for 25 years, starting in 1983.
See also Harvard in the previous post, The Crimson Riddle.
See the above title in this journal.
Related material — The ad where I first encountered
the TV series “A Discovery of Witches.”
See too a related map.
"Ay que bonito es bailar
a las dos de la mañana"
— Adapted from a song lyric
See also . . .
Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer, Helen A. Regenstein
Distinguished Service Professor of Classics
at the University of Chicago,
"currently the lead editor of the journal
KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge."
… at The Restaurant Quarré in Berlin,
with a view of the Brandenburg Gate:
See also versions of the title more suited to 2 AM .
From Iris Murdoch's novel The Bell —
" 'With an engineer to help me,' said Dora,
'I can do anything.' And indeed as she
stood there in the moonlight, looking at
the quiet water, she felt as if by the sheer
force of her will she could make the great
bell rise. After all, and after her own fashion,
she would fight. In this holy community
she would play the witch."
Meditations for 2 AM —
(With apologies to Kipling.)
And as den mother for this Romulus and Remus . . .
"Se necesita una poca de gracia." — Song lyric.
"Ay, que bonito es volar . . ." — Song lyric.
And, for a somewhat different audience —
See also this journal on the above YouTube date — Aug. 23, 2014 —
in a Log24 search for "Signifying Nothing."
"His is a language that is highly charged with
a harmonic resonance and a certain distancing
and abstracting which makes the reference
more universal, less specifically personal."
— Durham University, 1999 Ph.D. thesis
As verse . . .
A harmonic resonance
And a certain distancing
And abstracting which
The above tag "Academy Century" is a nod to an earlier tag,
"Academy Year," that refers to Dec. 7, 2021-Dec. 7, 2022 . . .
the dates of a Deerfield Academy publication and of a Log24 post.
Some remarks from a more advanced academy —
"This year marks the centenary of modernism's annus mirabilis ."
— Johanna Winant in Boston Review, December 7th, 2022.
Some will prefer a different annus mirabilis .
* The word "artification" is from yesterday's Letter of the Law.
The Washington Post pictures an event from
the evening of Sunday, November 1, 2015:
All Saints' Day —
See as well Ay Que Bonito .
* See Google Doodle for today, the
200th anniversary of the Grimms'
Kinder- und Hausmärchen .
See also Ay Que Bonito Es Volar
and The Broom Factory.
(Continued from Sunday, April 22, 2012)
Xbox Background—
Design Sermon from Sunday, November 6, 2011, and
The X Box from Monday, November 7, 2011.
Taymor, it must be said, is a beautiful woman. Her face at fifty-eight has sharp, expressive features— she actually frowns when she's unhappy, and her eyes seem to light up when she laughs— and she still has the long black hair she had when she was a young actress, "a very pretty eighteen-year-old," as she puts it, who "didn't want to play Cinderella or Snow White. I wanted to be the Wicked Witch of the West."
— Richard Dorment, article dated November 14, 2011
The Hogwarts saga may be ending, but there's still…
The Crucible
Related material:
Ay que bonito es volar…
"Humanity's fascination with numbers is ancient and complex. Our present relationship with numbers reveals both a highly developed tool and a highly developed user, working together to measure, create, and predict both ourselves and the world around us. But like every symbiotic couple, the tool we would like to believe is separate from us (and thus objective) is actually an intricate reflection of our thoughts, interests, and capabilities."
— The Secret Lives of Numbers, by New Radio and Performing Arts
(recommended on the Frivolous Linkages page at Daniel Gilbert's Harvard website)
Other linkages:
New York Lottery on October 16: Midday 706, Evening 684.
Related material — 7/06, 2007, and post no. 684 in this journal.
The above "Secret Lives of Numbers" quotation was suggested by Gilbert's "Magic by Numbers" op-ed piece in today's New York Times—
New York Times, January 12, 2010, 12:26 PM–
"Spider-Man" Musical Will Refund Tickets
"With… direction by Julie Taymor ['Frida'], 'Spider-Man' has been marred by delays….
The musical’s troubles have unfolded at the same time that the next “Spider-Man” movie has been descending into disarray…."
Related material:
"No Great Magic," by Fritz Leiber–
"The white cosmetic came away, showing sallow skin and on it a faint tattoo in the form of an 'S' styled like a yin-yang symbol left a little open.
'Snake!' he hissed. 'Destroyer! The arch-enemy, the eternal opponent!'"
“Ay que bonito es volar
A las dos de la mañana….”
— “La Bruja“
A figure from
Nobel Prize day, December 10,
and from Eugene Wigner‘s
birthday, November 17:
Also on December 10:
the death of Constantine–
(Click for details.)
Related material:
Tina Modotti: A Fragile Life,
Photos by Tina Modotti,
Art Wars for Trotsky’s Birthday,
as well as
Art Wars, June 1-15, 2007:
“Ay que bonito es volar
A las dos de la mañana….”
— “La Bruja“
“If Cullinane College
were Hogwarts….”
A word to the wise:
desconvencida.
Related material:
Epiphany: A link in the Log24 entries for Epiphany 2007 leads to Damnation Morning, which in turn leads to Why Me?, a discussion of the mythology of Spiders vs. Snakes devised by Fritz Leiber. Spiders represent the conscious mind, snakes the unconscious.
On Hexagram 18: "The Chinese character ku represents a bowl in whose contents worms are breeding. This means decay." —Wilhelm's commentary
This brings us back to the previous entry with its mention of the date of Rudolf Arnheim's death: Saturday, June 9. In Log24 on that date there was a link, in honor of Aaron Sorkin's birthday, to a short story by Leonard Michaels. That link was suggested, in part, by a review in the Sunday New York Times Book Review (available online earlier, on Friday). Here is a quote from that review related to the Hexagram 18 worm bowl:
"… what grabbed attention for his early collections was Michaels's gruesome, swaggering depiction of the sexual rampage that was the swinging '60s in New York– 'the worm bucket,' as Michaels described an orgy."
Related material for meditation on this, the anniversary (according to Encyclopaedia Britannica) of the birth of author Jerzy Kosinski— his novel The Hermit of 69th Street.
Kosinski was not unfamiliar with Michaels's worm bucket. For related information, see Hermit (or at least a review).
In Leiber's stories the symbol of the Snakes is similar to the famed Yin-Yang symbol, also known as the T'ai-chi tu. For an analysis of this symbol by Arnheim, see the previous entry. See also "Sunday in the Park with Death" (Log24, Oct. 26, 2003):
"'A pretty girl–
is like a melody—- !'
But that was always
Bill Dunnigan's
Song of Victory….
Thus thought the…
press agent for
'The Garden of the Soul.'"
"Ay que bonito es volar
A las dos de la mañana…."
— "La Bruja"
For a rendition by
Salma Hayek, click
on the picture below.
Related material:
Log24 entries for
May 18, 2007.
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