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Tuesday March 14, 2006
Burning Bright
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Thursday, April 29, 2004
Thursday April 29, 2004
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Tonight on PBS:
The Jesus Factor
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“There is a suggestion of Christ descending into the abyss for the harrowing of Hell. But it is the Consul whom we think of here, rather than of Christ. The Consul is hurled into this abyss at the end of the novel.” — Introduction to Couleurs
In memory of On the former: “The predominant use On the latter: |
“…a ‘dead shepherd who brought
tremendous chords from hell
And bade the sheep carouse’ “
(p. 227, The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play. Ed. Holly Stevens. New York: Vintage Books, 1990)
— Wallace Stevens
as quoted by Michael Bryson
See also the entries of 5/12.
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Saturday, April 10, 2004
Saturday April 10, 2004
Couleurs
In memory of
René Descartes
(born March 31)
and
René Gruau
(died March 31)
On the former:
“The predominant use of the letter x
to represent an unknown value
came about in an interesting way.”
On the latter:
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Monday, February 24, 2003
Monday February 24, 2003
Moulins Rouges
Today is the birthday of composer Michel Legrand (“The Windmills of Your Mind”) and of philologist Wilhelm Grimm (Grimms’ Fairy Tales).
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See the following past entries:
October 6, 2002: “Twenty-first Century Fox”
November 7, 2002: “Endgame”
November 8, 2002: “Religious Symbolism at Princeton”
January 5, 2003: “Whirligig”
January 5, 2003: “Culinary Theology”
January 6, 2003: “Dead Poet in the City of Angels”
January 31, 2003: “Irish Fourplay”
February 1, 2003; “Time and Eternity”
February 5, 2003: “Release Date”
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Friday, November 8, 2002
Friday November 8, 2002
Religious Symbolism
at Princeton
In memory of Steve McQueen (“The Great Escape” and “The Thomas Crown Affair”… see preceding entry) and of Rudolf Augstein (publisher of Der Spiegel), both of whom died on November 7 (in 1980 and 2002, respectively), in memory of the following residents of
The Princeton Cemetery
of the Nassau Presbyterian Church
Established 1757
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SYLVIA BEACH (1887-1962), whose father was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, founded Shakespeare & Company, a Paris bookshop which became a focus for struggling expatriate writers. In 1922 she published James Joyce’s Ulysses when others considered it obscene, and she defiantly closed her shop in 1941 in protest against the Nazi occupation. KURT GÖDEL (1906-1978), a world-class mathematician famous for a vast array of major contributions to logic, was a longtime professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, founded in 1930. He was a corecipient of the Einstein Award in 1951. JOHN (HENRY) O’HARA (1905-1970) was a voluminous and much-honored writer. His novels, Appointment in Samarra (1934) and Ten North Frederick (1955), and his collection of short stories, Pal Joey (1940), are among his best-known works. |
and of the long and powerful association of Princeton University with the Presbyterian Church, as well as the theological perspective of Carl Jung in Man and His Symbols, I offer the following “windmill,” taken from the Presbyterian Creedal Standards website, as a memorial:
The background music Les Moulins de Mon Coeur, selected yesterday morning in memory of Steve McQueen, continues to be appropriate.
“A is for Anna.”
— James Joyce
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Thursday, November 7, 2002
Thursday November 7, 2002
16 Years Ago Today:
Endgame
Metaphor for Morphean morphosis,
Dreams that wake, transform, and die,
Calm and lucid this psychosis,
Joyce’s nightmare in Escher’s eye.
At the end there is a city
With cathedral bright and sane
Facing inward from the pity
On the endgame’s wavy plane.
Black the knight upon that ocean,
Bright the sun upon the king.
Dark the queen that stands beside him,
White his castle, threatening.
In the shadows’ see a bishop
Guards his queen of love and hate.
Another move, the game will be up;
Take the queen, her knight will mate.
The knight said “Move, be done. It’s over.”
“Love and resign,” the bishop cried.
“When it’s done you’ll stand forever
By the darkest beauty’s side.”
Dabo claves regni caelorum. By silent shore
Ripples spread from castle rock. The metaphor
For metamorphosis no keys unlock.
— Steven H. Cullinane, November 7, 1986
Accompaniment from
“The Thomas Crown Affair”:
Michel Legrand, “Les Moulins de Mon Coeur”
Lyrics by Eddy Marnay:
Comme une pierre que l’on jette
Dans l’eau vive d’un ruisseau
Et qui laisse derrière elle
Des milliers de ronds dans l’eau….