"Pilgrims to James Joyce's grave in Zurich, Switzerland,
continue to have their reveries fed by Hebald's 1966
life size bronze capturing the great modernist author
deep in thought, with open book in hand."
— LA Times obituary for Milton Hebald, sculptor,
who reportedly died at 97 on Twelfth Night
(Monday, January 5, 2014)
Related material: Joyce + Zurich + Serpent
in this journal.
Some sources of identity…
| For Jason Bourne–
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(co-writer of "Romancing the Stone"), from March 22, 2005 – "The Enemy"–
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Tuesday October 5, 2004The Joyce Identity, From The Bourne Identity: ABBOTT: Can you really bring him in?
CONKLIN: Well why don’t you go upstairs and book a conference room. Maybe you can talk him to death. |
Related material: Stanley Fish's column on Habermas in today's NY Times and Habermas in this journal. (Some references to Habermas occur only in links.)
Material with some relevance to the concept of romancing the stone—
Entries of June 28-29, 2008, and March 22, 2005, and
Object lesson (Sunday, July 1, 2007)
See Remembering Jacques Derrida.
"There is no teacher but the enemy."
"Différance is, for Derrida, the key concept
in order to understand what is here at stake."
— Lacan 
Derrida, by Frida Saal
The following entries from October 2004
are related to the death of Jacques Derrida.
| Saturday, October 9, 2004 6:40 PM
Derrida Dead "Jacques Derrida, the Algerian-born, French intellectual who became one of the most celebrated and unfathomable philosophers of the late 20th century, died Friday at a Paris hospital, the French president's office announced. He was 74." — Jonathan Kandell, New York Times "There is no teacher but the enemy." — Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game, Saturday, October 9, 2004 2:22 AM Belief KERRY: "I'm going to be a president who believes in science." KERRY: "I'm a Catholic – raised a Catholic. I was an altar boy. Religion has been a huge part of my life, helped lead me through a war, leads me today." BUSH: "Trying to decipher that." Friday, October 8, 2004 5:07 PM Behush the Bush
"There's where. First. "… we all gain an appreciation of how each of us can provide readings that others are blind to and how each of us is temporarily blind to other feasible readings. Reading the text becomes a communal act of discovery…. No one has much to say, for now, about the grass reference…." — Reading Finnegans Wake (1986) The phrase "snake in the grass" seems relevant, as does the opening of Finnegans Wake:
Related material: and, for Matt Damon, |
Behush the Bush
James Joyce statue, Zurich
“There’s where. First.
We pass through grass
behush the bush to.”
— Final page of
Finnegans Wake
“… we all gain an appreciation of how each of us can provide readings that others are blind to and how each of us is temporarily blind to other feasible readings. Reading the text becomes a communal act of discovery….
No one has much to say, for now, about the grass reference….”
— Reading Finnegans Wake (1986)
The phrase “snake in the grass” seems relevant, as does the opening of Finnegans Wake:
riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s….
Related material:
Serpent’s Tail Publishing,
and, for Matt Damon,
whose birthday is today —
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