See the 2005 post Structure and a Log24 search for Bumblebee.
Thursday, March 12, 2020
Monday, August 12, 2019
Never-Ending Toy Story
" … this beautiful love story . . . ."
An image from the previous post:
The above line "From the producer of Transformers " suggests
a story from March 18, 2019 . . .
Misreading the words of di Bonaventura
yields a phrase that might be applied to
the Church of Rome . . .
"A franchise based on release dates."
See dies natalis in this journal.
For the Church of Synchronology, see
the above di Bonaventura date, March 18.
Then there is the Church of Cubism . . .
"Before time began, there was the Cube."
— Optimus Prime, Transformers , 2007
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Sunday, December 30, 2018
Mechanical Parable
Raiders of the Lost Crucible and Bee Season continue …
"Walter Kerr, in his 1953 review in the New York Herald Tribune ,
wrote, 'The Crucible , which opened at the Martin Beck Thursday,
…seems to me to be taking a step backward into mechanical parable,
into the sort of play which lives not in the warmth of humbly observed
souls but in the ideological heat of polemic.' For Kerr, Miller’s play is
an analytical argument, a treatise, rather than a heartfelt play about
human lives."
— http://www.americanpopularculture.com/
archive/bestsellers/authur_miller.htm
A more heartfelt approach —
" … this beautiful love story . . . ."
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Also Sprach Aitchison
The New Yorker reviewing "Bumblebee" —
"There is one reliable source for superhero sublimity,
and it’s all the more surprising that it’s a franchise with
no sacred inspiration whatsoever but, rather, of purely
and unabashedly mercantile origins: the 'Transformers'
series, based on a set of toys, in which Michael Bay’s
exhilarating filmmaking offers phantasmagorical textures
of an uncanny unconscious resonance."
— Richard Brody on December 29, 2018
"Before time began, there was the Cube."
— Optimus Prime
Some backstory — A Riddle for Davos, Jan. 22, 2014.
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Saturday, December 29, 2018
Annals of Style: Perfecting the New Yorker Sneer
See also the Verwandlungslehre link from the previous post
and The Hassenfeld Legacy (for Harlan Kane).
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Saturday, December 15, 2018
Bee Season continues.
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