Wednesday, June 16, 2021
In Memory of J. Hillis Miller
Thursday, June 17, 2021
“Darkness made visible, silence given speech”
The title is from the previous post,
J. Hillis Miller paraphrasing Milton.
See "Darkness Visible" in this journal.
Thursday, February 29, 2024
Sunday, February 14, 2021
The Wickedly Difficult Tango
Saturday, February 13, 2021
Das Nichts Nichtet
Also on February Seventh —
Sunday, February 7, 2021
Transformers Continues.“Before time began, there was the Cube.” Et cetera . |
Tuesday, April 8, 2003
Tuesday April 8, 2003
Death's Dream Kingdom
April 7, 2003, Baghdad – A US tank blew a huge statue of President Saddam Hussein off its pedestal in central Baghdad on Monday with a single shell, a US officer said…. "One shot, one kill."
"When smashing monuments, save the pedestals; they always come in handy."
"In death's dream kingdom….
Between the idea — T. S. Eliot, Harvard 1910, The Hollow Men
"A light check in the shadow — Edward H. Adelson, Yale 1974, Illusions and Demos "point A / In a perspective that begins again / At B" — Wallace Stevens, Harvard 1901, "The Rock" See also |