Wednesday, September 4, 2024
Sunday, August 25, 2024
Log Lady Lines
From the post "Log Lady" of June 12, 2020 —
"Battle of White has raged on endlessly.
Everywhere Black will strive to seal his fate."
— Katherine Neville's chess novel The Eight
For Nathalie Emmanuel, star of the recent Francis Ford Coppola
extravaganza "Megalopolis" and, more impressively, of
a John Woo film released to streaming on Aug. 23 . . .
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Saturday, August 24, 2024
From Megalopolis … Back to Paris
Foreword: Emmanuel in this journal.
Prompted by the time 0:47:41 in the above John Woo scene,
some may wish to consult hexagrams 47 and 41.
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Monday, August 5, 2024
Monday, July 29, 2024
Taking the Bull by the Nose . . .
Continues . See other posts now tagged
The Emmanuel Bride.
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
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Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Passage for a Merry Minstrel: The Script Page*
"The bride hath paced into the hall,
Red as a rose is she;
Nodding their heads before her goes
The merry minstrelsy."
* The title is from the following passage . . .
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Annals of Philosophy: Savoir “La Différance”
August 26, 2022, was the opening date of
the Nathalie Emmanuel film "The Invitation."
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Discussing Megalopolis
See as well Emmanuel here on Walpurgisnacht 2024
in "The Invitation" (2022) —
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
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From the end credits for "The Invitation" —
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Thursday, March 2, 2017
Stories
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live." — Joan Didion
The New York Times Magazine online today —
"As a former believer and now a nonbeliever, Carrère,
seeking answers, sets out, in The Kingdom , to tell
the story of the storytellers. He is trying to understand
what it takes to be able to tell a story, any story.
And what he finds, once again, is that you have to find
your role in it."
— Wyatt Mason in The New York Times Magazine ,
online March 2, 2017
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Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Dark Sarcasm
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Thursday, March 8, 2012
Heralds of Light
On Harvard's Memorial Church in 2007—
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"John Harvard left no male heir to carry on the Harvard family name. Instead, the naming of the College in his honor was the undying legacy that his friends decided to grant to him. In so doing, they were saying to every succeeding generation that this was the kind of man whom they wanted others to emulate, whose spirit of courage, self-sacrifice and generosity embodied the very best of what they hoped Harvard College should become. On November 4, 2007, the gift of a tablet was presented to Harvard Memorial Church by the dean of Southwark Cathedral, London, the Rev. Colin Slee, and Emmanuel College, to commemorate the 400th anniversary of John Harvard's baptism. This, along with a combined brief exhibit called 'Heralds of Light,' which consisted in part of showing John Harvard's baptismal page from the Southwark records and his Emmanuel College signature— brought over for the occasion from England by Southwark and Emmanuel representatives—was about all the attention that Harvard University could muster to remember the 400th birthday of its namesake." — Arseny James Melnick (A.M., Harvard University, 1977), |
Related material from the entertainment world—
Phoenix Senior: "As the plaque reads, this is John Harvard,
founder of Harvard University in 1638. It's also called
the Statue of Three Lies. What are the three lies?"
Also on November 4, 2007—
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Wednesday October 24, 2007
Descartes’s Twelfth Step
An earlier entry today (“Hollywood Midrash continued“) on a father and son suggests we might look for an appropriate holy ghost. In that context…
Descartes
A search for further background on Emmanuel Levinas, a favorite philosopher of the late R. B. Kitaj (previous two entries), led (somewhat indirectly) to the following figures of Descartes:
This trinity of figures is taken from Descartes’ Rule Twelve in Rules for the Direction of the Mind. It seems to be meant to suggest an analogy between superposition of colors and superposition of shapes.Note that the first figure is made up of vertical lines, the second of vertical and horizontal lines, and the third of vertical, horizontal, and diagonal lines. Leon R. Kass recently suggested that the Descartes figures might be replaced by a more modern concept– colors as wavelengths. (Commentary, April 2007). This in turn suggests an analogy to Fourier series decomposition of a waveform in harmonic analysis. See the Kass essay for a discussion of the Descartes figures in the context of (pdf) Science, Religion, and the Human Future (not to be confused with Life, the Universe, and Everything).
Compare and contrast:
The harmonic-analysis analogy suggests a review of an earlier entry’s
link today to 4/30– Structure and Logic— as well as
re-examination of Symmetry and a Trinity
(Dec. 4, 2002).
See also —
A Four-Color Theorem,
The Diamond Theorem, and
The Most Violent Poem,
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Wednesday October 24, 2007
Adieu:
A Story for Dobbs
A Story for Dobbs
Internet Movie Database on screenwriter Lem Dobbs:
"Trivia:
Son of painter R.B. (Ron) Kitaj.
Took his pseudonym from the character Humphrey Bogart played
in 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.'"
October 21 was the day
that R. B. Kitaj died.
For what Kitaj called
"midrashic glosses"
on the numbers and
the lucky sums, see
4/30, 5/12, and
Eight is a Gate.
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live….
We interpret what we see, select the most workable of multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the 'ideas' with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.
Or at least we do for a while. I am talking here about a time when I began to doubt the premises of all the stories I had ever told myself, a common condition but one I found troubling."
"He has come to be fascinated… by the kabbalah, finding in it parallels to the world of art and ideas. Every morning, after a long walk, he winds up at a Westwood café surrounded by pretty UCLA students where he studies the writings of Emmanuel Levinas, before working for an hour on his memoirs."
"There is no teacher
but the enemy."
— Orson Scott Card,
Ender's Game
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Wednesday, July 5, 2006
Wednesday July 5, 2006
Entertainment
from today’s
New York Times
from today’s
New York Times
From the obituary of Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, who died at 52 on Monday, July 3, 2006, at her home in Santa Fe:
“If she rarely spoke of her private life, few artists have brought such emotional vulnerability to their work, whether it was her sultry portrayal of Myrtle Wilson, the mistress of wealthy Tom Buchanan in John Harbison’s ‘Great Gatsby,’ the role of her 1999 Metropolitan Opera debut, or her shattering performances several years ago in two Bach cantatas for solo voice and orchestra, staged by the director Peter Sellars, seen in Lincoln Center’s New Visions series, with the Orchestra of Emmanuel Music, Craig Smith conducting.
In Cantata No. 82, ‘Ich Habe Genug’ (‘I Have Enough’), Ms. Hunt Lieberson, wearing a flimsy hospital gown and thick woolen socks, her face contorted with pain and yearning, portrayed a terminally ill patient who, no longer able to endure treatments, wants to let go and be comforted by Jesus. During one consoling aria, ‘Schlummert ein, ihr matten Augen’ (‘Slumber now, weary eyes’), she yanked tubes from her arms and sang the spiraling melody with an uncanny blend of ennobling grace and unbearable sadness.”
Related Entertainment
from Nov. 6, 2003
Today’s birthday:
director Mike Nichols
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