See also Dome Rock in this journal.
Wednesday, December 6, 2017
Sunday, January 5, 2020
The Vulgate of Experience
"The eye’s plain version is a thing apart,
The vulgate of experience."
— Wallace Stevens, opening lines of
"An Ordinary Evening in New Haven"
Real architectural detail from a New Year's
Netflix fiction —
Click for context.
See as well a similar architectural detail in
a Log24 post of June 21, 2010.
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Sunday, August 28, 2016
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
The Tummelplatz of Jerusalem
A check of recent tweets by Alexander Bogomolny, who was
mentioned in the previous post, yields a remark of Oct. 26, 2015…
This is not unrelated to a word from Freud:
See as well "Digging Out the Truth?" (Jerusalem Post 2/25/2010)
and Michener's The Source in this journal.
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Sunday, November 11, 2012
Lincoln Porn
Tablet magazine, November 9th, 2012,
on Spielberg's Lincoln :
"… the movie’s lone Rocky moment
of ecstatic self-congratulation
is reserved for the amendment’s climactic
passage with the victorious congressmen
spontaneously bursting into
'The Battle Hymn of the Republic.' "
"Mine eyes have seen the glory…"
Both images above refer to this morning's post
Professor Lavery's Sunday School.
For other porn from Tablet magazine, see
Minimalist Whirl.
For other porn from Lincoln's seat of government, see
Physical Poetry and All In .
For further blasphemy, see The Apotheosis of Washington:
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Friday, May 20, 2011
Lottery Hermeneutics (continued)
Recent New York Lottery numbers—
The interpretation of "056" in yesterday's
The Aleph, the Lottery, and the Eightfold Way
was not without interest, but the interpretation there
of "236" was somewhat lacking in poetic resonance.
For aspiring students of lottery hermeneutics,
here are some notes that may help. The "236" may
be reinterpreted as a page number in Stevens's
Collected Poems . It then resonates rather nicely
("answers when I ask," "visible and responsive")
with yesterday evening's "434"—
For today's midday "022," see Hexagram 22: Grace in the context of the following—
As for yesterday afternoon's 609, see a particular Stevens-related page with that number…
For "a body of thought or poetry larger than the subject's," see The Dome of the Rock.
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Sunday, November 15, 2009
A Sermon for Hogwarts
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Thursday, February 24, 2005
Thursday February 24, 2005
Three Days
Religious symbols that might
have been appropriate for
February 20, 21, and 22:
Recall that this is Black History Month,
and that the octagon has a special
religious significance (here and here).
The second and third symbols
are derived from the first symbol,
which is itself derived from
a well-known commandment on
the New York Times obituary page:
Sunday, December 19, 2004
Sunday December 19, 2004
Sunday Sermon
on Saturday’s Numbers
on Saturday’s Numbers
Today’s New York Times on a rabbi who died in Jerusalem on Sunday, Dec. 5:
“In the 1950’s, he was a vocal advocate for the relaxation of New York City’s blue laws, which forbade many kinds of commerce on Sundays but not on Saturdays. The laws were repealed in the 1970’s. Solomon Joseph Sharfman was born on Nov. 1, 1915, in Treblinka, Poland; his family immigrated to the United States five years later. His father, Rabbi Label Sharfman, worked as a shochet, or ritual slaughterer….”
Saturday’s lottery numbers from Pennsylvania, the State of Grace:
Saturday Midday: 144
Saturday Evening: 360
Saturday Evening: 360
A Sunday Sermon:
“Once upon a time there was a sensible straight line who was hopelessly in love with a beautiful dot. But the dot, though perfect in every way, only had eyes for a wild and unkempt squiggle. All of the line’s romantic dreams were in vain, until he discovered . . . angles! Now, with newfound self-expression, he can be anything he wants to be–a square….”
Related material:
(See Song in Red and Gray
and The Dot and the Line.)
Thursday, December 9, 2004
Thursday December 9, 2004
Rock On
“Flowers and a bottle of Rogue ‘Dead Guy Ale’ sit on a rock outside of the Alrosa Villa nightclub in Columbus, Ohio, December 9, 2004. A man charged on stage and opened fire at a heavy metal band and fans at the crowded bar, killing four people and wounding two others before being killed by police, officials said on Thursday. Photo by Matt Sullivan/Reuters”
— Reuters, story of 2:04 PM ET today
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