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The Hunger Game —

The Ellenberg Epigraph —

The Epigraph Source —

The title is a phrase by Wallace Stevens.
See Staats-Oper , a post of Thursday, June 3.

See as well posts of 9/11, 2014 . . . a date suggested by the song lyric
"Oh, moon of Alabama" in one of those posts. The song lyric was in turn
suggested by a New York Times  obituary this evening.

For other suggestive remarks, see Bowie in this  journal.

Susan Sarandon in “White  Palace” (1990, based on a 1987 novel).

Sarandon also starred in “The Hunger” (1983), along with David Bowie
and Catherine Deneuve (above).

Update of 8:09 PM ET on Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021 —

Plato’s Diamond.

For Radu Surdulescu, who . . .

"participated in the 1956 reclamatory movements 
of the students in Bucharest. He was among the
organizers of the demonstration to be held in
the University Square on November 5, 1956."
— Wikipedia (Google translation from Romanian)

See also squares and Surdulescu in "From Tate to Plato"
(Log24, November 19, 2004).

Those who prefer fiction  may consult William Boyd and
Terry Gilliam.

Two items from November 24, 2015 —

Related material —

 David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve star in "The Hunger" (1983).

Vampira and Loki at Cannes

See as well Faustus in this  journal.

From Blockbuster, a post of Friday, August 4, 2017 —

The article suggests a look at  a July 3 Times  review of the life
of Jan Fontein, a former Boston Museum of Fine Arts director —

"Mr. Fontein’s time as director coincided with
the nationwide rise of the blockbuster exhibition,
and he embraced the concept. 'There was such a thing
as a contemplative museum, but I don’t think that can
survive anymore,' he told Newsweek  in 1978."

From The New York Times  this evening —

"Mr. Roth made his mark at the Victoria and Albert
with record-breaking exhibitions focused on
David Bowie in 2013, Alexander McQueen in 2015
and The Beatles and the youth revolution of the 1960s
in 2016."

Related material —

Record-breaking in this journal and Sunday in the Park with Death.

This post is thanks to Nicole Kidman …

E! Online  today reminds us that "Bowie's song 'Nature Boy' 
was ... featured in Kidman's 2001 film Moulin Rouge ."

A YouTube video of the Moulin Rouge  "Nature Boy"
was uploaded on April 1, 2011. That date in this journal —

James Joyce reportedly died on today's date in 1941.

(Continued from Sousa vs. Boulez, Epiphany 2016)

From Sigla (December 22, 2014) —

"Time is irrelevant in these matters.
Joyce and the monastic brethren who
painted their manuscript ornaments
a thousand years ago were working on
the same project. There was a pattern
to be abstracted…."

— Adolf Holl, The Left Hand of God

The time of the previous post, 3:10 (AM), suggests, in a
surreal manner that the spirit of the late David Bowie might
find amusing, a review of Log24 posts last year on 3/10 —

An Obit for Dooley and The Big Screw.

As for the time, 6:25, of this  post, see Apocatastasis.

The above new David Bowie video may be
viewed, by those who like such things, as
a memorial to a composer who died on
Twelfth Night (Jan. 5), 2016.

Related material: Faustus in this journal.

To Feb. 11, 2012:

“News and Traffic. Sports and Weather. These were his acid terms
for the life he’d left behind, more than two years of living with
the tight minds that made the war. It was all background noise,
he said, waving a hand. He liked to wave a hand in dismissal.”

— DeLillo, Don (2010-02-02), Point Omega 

Send in the Clowns.   (Click to enlarge.)

The above flashback was suggested by Lev Grossman’s verb “trafficked”
in yesterday’s posts, and by the song lyric “show us the way to
the next little girl.”

From The Thin White Duke:

“When I was living in my apartment in Berlin,
I would sing this at breakfast every morning.”

Oh, show me the way to the next whiskey bar
Oh, don’t ask why, no, don’t ask why
For we must find the next whiskey bar

Or if we don’t find the next whiskey bar
I tell you we must die, I tell you we must die
I tell you, I tell you, I tell you we must die

Read more:  David Bowie – Alabama Song Lyrics | MetroLyrics

See also…

“Wir trauern um Otto Piene, der unerwartet am 17.7 in Berlin gestorben ist.”