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See as well this  journal on the above date — May 1, 2013 —
within a search for Law+Day+Harvard+Oprah+Uma.

I, like Freeman Dyson, prefer the fiction of Octavia Butler.

Continued from Day at the Museum, last Sunday, October 19, 2014.

This post was suggested by…

1.  A piece in the Bookends section of the New York Times
   Sunday Book Review  (page BR31 last Sunday, Oct. 19):
   Daniel Mendelsohn on rereading The Catcher in the Rye .
2. A detail in Day at the Museum— The New York Times ‘s
   appraisal of Joan Rivers: “A Comic Without a Shut-Off Switch.”
3. A Sept. 7 Log24 post, Sunday School, in memory of Joan Rivers.

From The Catcher in the Rye , a passage just before the
museum passage quoted by Mendelsohn:

“She was having a helluva time tightening her skate.
She didn’t have any gloves on or anything and her hands
were all red and cold. I gave her a hand with it. Boy, I
hadn’t had a skate key in my hand for years. It didn’t feel
funny, though. You could put a skate key in my hand
fifty years from now, in pitch dark, and I’d still know
what it is. She thanked me and all when I had it tightened
for her. She was a very nice, polite little kid. God, I love it
when a kid’s nice and polite when you tighten their skate
for them or something. Most kids are. They really are.
I asked her if she’d care to have a hot chocolate or something
with me, but she said no, thank you. She said she had to meet
her friend. Kids always have to meet their friend. That kills me.

Even though it was Sunday and Phoebe wouldn’t be there
with her class or anything, and even though it was so damp
and lousy out, I walked all the way through the park over to
the Museum of Natural History. I knew that was the museum
the kid with the skate key meant.”

The News Today:

Van Cliburn Dies

Pope Bids Farewell

Image search from 2011:

Claves  (2 MB)

The Praised and the Damned

Albeck died on September 29, the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels.

Robin Williams and the Stages of Math

i)   shock & denial
ii)  anger
iii) bargaining
iv) depression
v)  acceptance

And then…

vi)  checking
vii) Joan Rivers

See also

• today’s previous post, Claves Regni Caelorum ,
• Robin Williams in “The Final Cut,” and
• a book with a related title (illustrated below).

From a review of the film "Wild Palms" in The New Yorker  by James Wolcott
(issue dated May 17, 1993, pages 104-106)—

"The MacGuffin that will determine the outcome is a piece of
software [sic ] called the Go chip, its name taken from the
strategy board game. (There's a nod in the script to the Japanese
novelist Yasunari Kawabata, author of 'The Master of Go.')
Whoever possesses the Go chip possesses the
'techno-shamanistic key to eternity'…."

"In tomorrow's techno-pop tyranny, reruns are the basis of order."

"As Kreutzer's mistress, Kim Cattrall has excellent posture."

From Saturday Night Live on December 10, 2011, a portrayal of Kim Cattrall—

See also "Sex and the City" fans in The Crimson Passion.

For other keys (perhaps related to the Wild Palms "image sickness"),
see "Claves Regni Caelorum (Escher)" — Images, 1.9 MB.

For the morning of Yom Kippur

"Amanecer— ¿Tienes una Bandera para mí?"

— Emily Dickinson

The link above leads to an anonymous photo taken on July 18, 2006.

See also a large image search (1.9 MB) from yesterday
and a Log24 post from July 18, 2006, Sacred Order.

"The film-within-the-film represents no movie ever made by anyone at any time."

— Vincent Canby on a Blake Edwards production

Dabo claves regni caelorum.  By silent shore
Ripples spread from castle rock.  The metaphor
For metamorphosis no keys unlock.

— "Endgame," November 7, 1986

Claves Regni Caelorum**

* "Bonnie and Clyde" director Arthur Penn, who died last night.

** See also Escher's "Inside St. Peter's" and some related images.

The Dark Door

From Log24.net, Dec. 22, 2003:

“One, two, three, and we began to sing, our voices high and seemingly distant in the snow-felted darkness round the house that was occupied by nobody we knew. We stood close together, near the dark door.

Good King Wenceslas looked out
On the Feast of Stephen.”

— Dylan Thomas,
A Child’s Christmas in Wales

“The day after Christmas
turned out to be a living nightmare.”

— Arthur C. Clarke, Dec. 27, 2004

Adapted from the logo of the
Arthur C. Clarke Foundation:

Dabo claves regni caelorum.  By silent shore
Ripples spread from castle rock.  The metaphor
For metamorphosis no keys unlock.

— “Endgame,” Steven H. Cullinane,
November 7, 1986

Claves Part II

http://www.skytopia.com/project/scale.html

http://www.tunesmithy.connectfree.co.uk/
musical_note_intervals.htm

http://www.kirnberger.fsnet.co.uk/

“Through the unknown, remembered gate….”
— T. S. Eliot, epigraph to
Parallelisms of Complete Designs, by

Peter J. Cameron

16 Years Ago Today:

Endgame

Metaphor for Morphean morphosis,
Dreams that wake, transform, and die,
Calm and lucid this psychosis,
Joyce’s nightmare in Escher’s eye.

At the end there is a city
With cathedral bright and sane
Facing inward from the pity
On the endgame’s wavy plane.

Black the knight upon that ocean,
Bright the sun upon the king.
Dark the queen that stands beside him,
White his castle, threatening.

In the shadows’ see a bishop
Guards his queen of love and hate.
Another move, the game will be up;
Take the queen, her knight will mate.

The knight said “Move, be done.  It’s over.”
“Love and resign,” the bishop cried.
“When it’s done you’ll stand forever
By the darkest beauty’s side.”

Dabo claves regni caelorum.  By silent shore
Ripples spread from castle rock.  The metaphor
For metamorphosis no keys unlock.

— Steven H. Cullinane, November 7, 1986

Accompaniment from
“The Thomas Crown Affair”:
Michel Legrand, “Les Moulins de Mon Coeur”

Lyrics by Eddy Marnay:

Comme une pierre que l’on jette
Dans l’eau vive d’un ruisseau
Et qui laisse derrière elle
Des milliers de ronds dans l’eau….