Two images from a post of April 11, 2014 —
Tom Cruise at the Vatican in MI3
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Michelle Monaghan, star of "The Path," in MI3 —
Thursday, October 25, 2018
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Tuesday June 19, 2007
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Monday, October 17, 2005
Monday October 17, 2005
Place
“Critics have compared Mr. Stone to Conrad, Faulkner, Hemingway, Graham Greene, Malcolm Lowry, Nathanael West; all apt enough, but there’s a James T. Farrell, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett strain as well – a hard-edged, lonely intelligence that sets bright promise off against stark failure and deals its mordant hand lightly. In A Flag for Sunrise (1981), an anthropologist observes: ‘There’s always a place for God. . . . There is some question as to whether He’s in it.'”
— Jean Strouse on Robert Stone
“When times are mysterious
Serious numbers will always be heard
And after all is said and done
And the numbers all come home
The four rolls into three
The three turns into two
And the two becomes a
One”
— Paul Simon,
“When Numbers Get Serious,” from
“Hearts and Bones” album, 1983
“Hickory Dickory Dock….”
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Thursday, October 7, 2004
Thursday October 7, 2004
Metaphysics, cont.
“Logocentrism is… described by Derrida as a ‘metaphysics of presence.'”
1:00:00 AM:
Hickory dickory dock…
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Tuesday, June 17, 2003
Tuesday June 17, 2003
On actor Gregory Peck, who died Thursday, June 12, 2003:
"He had early success in 'The Keys of the Kingdom,' in which he played a priest."
As Peck noted in a videotape played at his memorial service June 16,
"As a professional," he added, "I think I'd like to be thought of as a good storyteller; that's what's always interested me."
June 16, besides being the day of Peck's memorial, was also Bloomsday. My entry for 1 PM on Bloomsday, a day celebrating the Ulysses of James Joyce, consists of the three words "Hickory, Dickory, Dock." A comment on that entry:
"I prefer the Wake."
The following, from the Discordian Scriptures, provides a connection between the Bloomsday mouse and the Wake of patriarch Gregory Peck.
Hickory Dickory Dock
Hickory, dickory, dock!
Here we are on higher ground at once. The clock symbolizes the spinal column, or if you prefer it, Time, chosen as one of the conditions of normal consciousness. The mouse is the Ego; "Mus", a mouse, being only "Sum", "I am", spelt Qabalistically backwards. This Ego or Prana or Kundalini force being driven up the spine, the clock strikes one, that is, the duality of consciousness is abolished. And the force again subsides to its original level. "Hickory, dickory, dock!" is perhaps the mantra which was used by the adept who constructed this rime, thereby hoping to fix it in the minds of men; so that they might attain to Samadhi by the same method. Others attribute to it a more profound significance — which is impossible to go into at this moment, for we must turn to:
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall….
The Bloom of Ulysses has a certain philosophical kinship with Yale literary critic Harold Bloom. For material related to the latter Bloom's study of Gnosticism, see Chaos Matrix. For the conflict between Gnostic and Petrine approaches to religion, see Poul Anderson's Operation Chaos.
From an account of Peck's memorial service:
"Mourners included… Piper Laurie…."
OK, he's in.
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