See also Hamill in this journal.
Wednesday, August 5, 2020
Thursday, August 6, 2020
After Personalities . . . Principles
In memory of New York personality Pete Hamill ,
who reportedly died yesterday —
Seven years ago yesterday —
In memory of another New York personality, a parking-garage mogul
who reportedly died on August 9, 2005 —
Icon Parking posts and . . .
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Tuesday, June 24, 2003
Tuesday June 24, 2003
In memory of Leon Uris:
Mate Change Problem
White to mate in 2 moves
H.W.Grant, 1st Prize,
Australian Column 1924
The concept of “mate change,” appropriate on this, the coronation date of Henry VIII, is explained at Chathurangam.com, my source for the above problem.
For the connection with Leon Uris, find the “key” to the above chess problem… i.e., the notation for White’s first move.
From the New York Times, June 24:
“Reviewing Mr. Uris’s 1976 novel Trinity in The
Uris, 78, died at the summer solstice… Saturday, June 21, 2003.
See also Force Field of Dreams.
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Thursday, October 3, 2002
Thursday October 3, 2002
Literary Landmarks
From Dr. Mac's Cultural Calendar for Oct. 3:
"On this day in 1610, Ben Jonson's funniest comedy The Alchemist was entered into the Stationer's Register. It involves a servant who when the masters are away sets up a necromantic shop, tricking all and everyone."
From Literary Calendar for tomorrow, Oct. 4:
"1892 — Robert Lawson, the only author/illustrator to win both the Caldecott Award and the Newbery Award—both coveted awards in the United States for children's literature, is born."
As a child I was greatly influenced by Robert Lawson's illustrations for the Godolphin abridgement of Pilgrim's Progress. Later I was to grow up partly in Cuernavaca, Mexico, an appropriate setting for The Valley of the Shadow of Death and other Bunyan/Lawson themes. Still later, I encountered Malcolm Lowry's great novel Under the Volcano, set in Cuernavaca. Lowry's novel begins with an epigraph from Bunyan. For the connection with Ben Jonson, see Pete Hamill's article "The Alchemist of Cuernavaca" in Art News magazine, April 2001, pages 134-137. See also my journal note of April 4, 2001, The Black Queen.
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