See also
This post was suggested by Log24 remarks on May 4, 2014,
the date of Garrett Lisi's Twitter post announcing the opening
of his Pacific Science Institute (see previous post).
Saturday, August 4, 2018
Triple Cross
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Sunday, May 4, 2014
Sequel to the Summerisle Cross…
The Jerusalem Cross
The New York Times reports the May Day death
of a son of “a charismatic figure” in Israel:
The center image above is from “A Walk with Love and Death.”
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Saturday, February 6, 2021
Really Simple Syndication
He reportedly died on Jan. 31 at a hospital in Jerusalem.
See also “Deutsche Ordnung ,” the phrase (and film) “Triple Cross,”
and “Circle of Positivity” (Christmas Day, 2020).
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Sunday, December 29, 2019
Morning of the Iguana
Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker this morning —
" … mysteriously durable manner of mythical depiction,
which runs forward to Egyptian wall paintings and,
for that matter, to modern animation. Therianthropes,
it seems, reflect the symbolic practice of giving to
humans the powers of animals, a shamanistic rite
that seems tied to the origins of religion, and here it is,
for the first time, a startup.
… one of the human figures, we’re told, has
'a tapering profile that possibly merges into the base
of a thick tail and with short, curved limbs splayed out
to the side. In our opinion, this part of the body resembles
the lower half of a lizard or crocodile. …' "
Related art —
Logo by Saul Bass.
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Friday, May 2, 2014
Midrash
From today's 3 AM (ET) post "Quote":
“You’ve got to decide which side of the cross you’re on."
Perhaps both? See yesterday morning's Jerusalem Post —
"Although he was one of Israel’s best known
secular, leftwing bohemians, he achieved
some of his greatest success as an actor
playing as ultra-Orthodox and national-religious
characters."
See also a similar ambiguity in Damnation Morning.
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Saturday, March 13, 2010
ART WARS continued…
Wikipedia states that painter R.B. Kitaj (see previous references) was the model for the protagonist of the Philip Roth novel Sabbath's Theater.
A Google search shows that the article (no longer online) on Kitaj cited as a source by Wikipedia does indeed make this claim–
In-Your-Face Outsider | Jerusalem Report | Jerusalem Post
By MATT NESVISKY … not least, Philip Roth, who modeled
the protagonist of the 1995 novel "Sabbath's Theater" largely after Kitaj. …
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?apage=2&cid=1192380767901…
The rest of Nesvisky's article may or may not support his claim. It is available by subscribing to HighBeam.
Related material–
The New York Times on Oct. 24, 2007–
R. B. Kitaj, Painter of Moody Human Dramas, Dies at 74Ileana Sonnabend, Art World Figure, Dies at 92Ileana Sonnabend’s eye, shrewdness and lasting alliance with her first husband, Leo Castelli, made her one of the most formidable contemporary art dealers of her time. |
"Sonnabend" means "Saturday" in German.
Some say the Sabbath is Saturday, others say Sunday.
Here is the Log24 entry for the day that
Kitaj and Sonnabend died– a Sunday—
Sunday October 21, 2007Halloween “The Game in the Ship cannot be approached as a job, a vocation, a career, or a recreation. To the contrary, it is Life and Death itself at work there. In the Inner Game, we call the Game Dhum Welur, the Mind of God. And that Mind is a terrible mind, that one may not face directly and remain whole. Some of the forerunners guessed it long ago– first the Hebrews far back in time, others along the way, and they wisely left it alone, left the Arcana alone.”
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The New York Times on Sonnabend:
… Also talked about was the Sonnabend 1991 show of Jeff Koons’s “Made in Heaven” series of paintings and sculptures that showed the artist engaged in sexual acts with his wife, Ilona Staller.
Mrs. Sonnabend was variously described as “an iron marshmallow” and “a cross between Buddha and Machiavelli.” Short and plump, she was grandmotherly in appearance from a relatively early age due in part to an illness that necessitated a wig.
Her genteel, old Europe manner belied an often imperious yet bohemian and self-deprecating personality. Her soft, fluty voice often left a listener unprepared for the force of her comments, which she could deliver in at least five languages.
Happy Women's History Month.
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Saturday, July 28, 2007
Saturday July 28, 2007
The Third Cross
“… he triumphed again with The Goldberg Variations. Mr Jay, assisted by Goldberg, a concentration camp survivor, is rehearsing a montage of biblical scenes in Jerusalem. It is inspired satire, laced with Jewish and Christian polemics, sparkling wit and dazzlingly simple effects. For Golgotha a stagehand brings on three crosses. ‘Just two,’ says Jay. ‘The boy is bringing his own.’ Tabori often claimed that the joke was the most perfect literary form.”
Related material:
Log24 on
the date of
Tabori’s death:
Click on image
for variations
on the theme.
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Tuesday, January 2, 2007
Tuesday January 2, 2007
Introduction to
This time slot, 7:00 AM EST,
Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2007,
was reserved earlier.
It now (mid-day Jan. 3)
seems an appropriate place
for the following
illustration —
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Monday, July 26, 2004
Monday July 26, 2004
Happy Birthday
to Kate Beckinsale
(star of Cold Comfort Farm)
and Kevin Spacey
(star of The Usual Suspects).
From a novel,
The Footprints of God,
published August 12, 2003 —
A tour guide describes
stations of the cross in Jerusalem:
"Ibrahim pointed down the cobbled street to a half circle of bricks set in the street. 'There is where Jesus began to carry the cross. Down the street is the Chapel of Flagellation, where the Roman soldiers whipped Jesus, set on him a crown of thorns, and said, "Hail, King of the Jews!" Then Pilate led him to the crowd and cried, "Ecce homo! Behold the man!" '
Ibrahim delivered this information with the excitement of a man reading bingo numbers in a nursing home."
In keeping with this spirit of religious fervor and with the spirit of Carl Jung, expositor of the religious significance of the mandala,
Behold —
The Mandala of Abraham
For the religious significance of this mandala,
see an entry of May 25, 2003:
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Tuesday, February 3, 2004
Tuesday February 3, 2004
Retiring Faculty
The following is related to
today's previous four log24 entries.
From my paper journal, a Xeroxed note, composed entirely of cut copies
of various documents,
from July 11, 1990….
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Harvard Alumni Gazette June 1990 Retiring Faculty Continue their Love of Learning, Creativity Thought for today: "He who tells the truth must have one foot in the stirrup." — Armenian Proverb Preserve me from the enemy — T. S. Eliot, Choruses from the Rock — 1934 Pattern in Islamic Art is the most thorough study yet published of the structure of the art.
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Sources: Harvard Alumni Gazette, local newspaper, a volume of the poems of T. S. Eliot, David Wade's Pattern in Islamic Art, and a paperback novelization of Pale Rider