Friday, July 8, 2022
Monday, August 26, 2019
“I need a photo opportunity” — Paul Simon
Photo Opportunity , courtesy of Leni Riefenstahl — Click to enlarge.
From Paul Simon's dreaded Cartoon Graveyard —
The Riefenstahl publication above was suggested by . . .
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Wednesday, September 6, 2023
“I need a photo opportunity” *
Caption from Getty Images (Wikipedia links added) —
"Philosophers James O Urmson (1915 – 2012, left), a fellow of
Christ Church, Oxford, and Professor James** Langshaw Austin
(1911 – 1960) of Magdalen College, Oxford, at a joint session of
the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, Birmingham
University, August 1952. Original publication: Picture Post – 6001 –
It All Depends On What You Mean – pub. 16th August 1952
(Photo by George Douglas/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)"
** Getty Images error. Should be John Langshaw Austin.
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Friday, June 7, 2019
Photo Opportunity
A post for those who, like Paul Simon,
fear and loathe cartoon graveyards
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/obituaries/
rudolf-von-ribbentrop-dead.html
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Friday, March 8, 2019
Photo Opportunity
"I need a photo opportunity . . . ." — Paul Simon
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Photo Opportunity
"I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard."
– Paul Simon
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"The theory of poetry, that is to say, the total of the theories of poetry, often seems to become in time a mystical theology or, more simply, a mystique. The reason for this must by now be clear. The reason is the same reason why the pictures in a museum of modern art often seem to become in time a mystical aesthetic, a prodigious search of appearance, as if to find a way of saying and of establishing that all things, whether below or above appearance, are one and that it is only through reality, in which they are reflected or, it may be, joined together, that we can reach them. Under such stress, reality changes from substance to subtlety, a subtlety in which it was natural for Cézanne to say: 'I see planes bestriding each other and sometimes straight lines seem to me to fall' or 'Planes in color…. The colored area where shimmer the souls of the planes, in the blaze of the kindled prism, the meeting of planes in the sunlight.' The conversion of our Lumpenwelt went far beyond this. It was from the point of view of another subtlety that Klee could write: 'But he is one chosen that today comes near to the secret places where original law fosters all evolution. And what artist would not establish himself there where the organic center of all movement in time and space– which he calls the mind or heart of creation– determines every function.' Conceding that this sounds a bit like sacerdotal jargon, that is not too much to allow to those that have helped to create a new reality, a modern reality, since what has been created is nothing less.
— Wallace Stevens, Harvard College Class of 1901, "The Relations between Poetry and Painting" in The Necessary Angel (Knopf, 1951) |
For background on the planes illustrated above,
see Diamond theory in 1937.
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Photo Opportunity
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Friday, September 26, 2025
Singage
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Thursday, December 26, 2024
For Harlan Kane: The 713 Redemption
"I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard."
– Paul Simon
From The Queen's Gambit , by Walter Tevis (1983) —
"She stopped and turned to Beth. 'There is no hint of a
Protestant ethic in Mexico. They are all Latin Catholics,
and they all live in the here and now.' Mrs. Wheatley
had been reading Alan Watts. 'I think I’ll have just one
margarita before I go out. Would you call for one, honey?'
Back in Lexington, Mrs. Wheatley’s voice would sometimes
have a distance to it, as though she were speaking from
some lonely reach of an interior childhood. Here in Mexico City
the voice was distant but the tone was theatrically gay, as though
Alma Wheatley were savoring an incommunicable private mirth.
It made Beth uneasy. For a moment she wanted to say something
about the expensiveness of room service, even measured in pesos,
but she didn’t. She picked up the phone and dialed six. The man
answered in English. She told him to send a margarita and a large
Coke to 713."
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Thursday, October 17, 2024
October Harvest . . . “Who’s on First?”
"I need a photo opportunity . . . ." — Paul Simon song lyric
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Saturday, August 17, 2024
Weir’d II —
For “the stuffed men,” “the hollow men” —
A “Project Hail Mary” from the Feast of the Assumption
"I need a photo opportunity . . . ." — Paul Simon
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For “the stuffed men,” “the hollow men” —
A “Project Hail Mary” from the Feast of the Assumption
For “the stuffed men,” “the hollow men” —
A “Project Hail Mary” from the Feast of the Assumption
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Macbeth and the Black Arts
“I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.”
— Paul Simon
Rhymin' Simon's lyrics seem particularly appropriate
in the case of the actor below, who reportedly died
on October 31 — Halloween — last year.
Earlier last October . . .
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Monday, July 17, 2023
Harry G. Frankfurt, May 29, 1929 – July 16, 2023
See as well this journal on the morning of July 16,
and also "Cartoon Graveyard."
“I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.”
— Paul Simon
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Monday, May 23, 2022
A Long March
"'Night Sky' is an absorbing series with an interesting premise
that marches to its own drummer…." — NY Post , May 18.
See as well posts tagged "Bedrock" in this journal.
"I need a photo opportunity . . . " — Paul Simon
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Friday, January 28, 2022
Escape from a Cartoon Graveyard
“I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.”
— Paul Simon
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Thursday, September 30, 2021
Carthago
Augustine Confessiones 3 3.1.1
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veni Carthaginem, et circumstrepebat me |
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venio, venire, veni, ventus come |
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Carthago, Carthaginis F Carthage |
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circumstrepo, circumstrepere, circumstrepui, circumstrepitus make a noise around; surround with noise; shout/cry clamorously around |
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undique from every side/direction/place/part/source; on all/both sides/surfaces |
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sartago, sartaginis F frying pan; mixture/medley/jumble/farrago; stove |
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flagitiosus, flagitiosa -um, flagitiosior -or -us, flagitiosissimus -a -um disgraceful, shameful; infamous, scandalous; profligate, dissolute |
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amor, amoris M love; affection; the beloved; Cupid; affair; sexual/illicit/… etc. etc. etc. |
Related meditations —
A more straightforward image —
"I need a photo opportunity . . ." — Song lyric, Paul Simon
For those who are
less than thrilled
by St. Augustine:
See also Margaret Qualley's "Kenzo World" dance.
Those less than thrilled by Qualley's highly energetic,
but very unclassical, dance may review the Log24 post
Raiders of the Lost Images (Feb. 27, 2018).
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Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Multiversity News
“I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.”
— Paul Simon
See also Lawrence, Kansas, in a Log24 search for August 2, 2002.
Related material: Text Tiles posts and, also from Lawrence, Kansas . . .
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Thursday, January 14, 2021
Redemptive Ephiphanic Impression
“ Harry decides his chief peacetime duty is to use his
gift for gab to further his ‘overriding purpose,’ namely:
‘By recalling the past and freezing the present he could
open the gates of time and through them see all
allegedly sequential things as a single masterwork
with neither boundaries nor divisions.’ Once he opens
these gates, Harry will flood his audience with his
redemptive epiphanic impression that ‘the world was
saturated with love.’ ”
— Liesl Schillinger, review of Mark Helprin’s novel
In Sunlight and in Shadow in The New York Times ,
Oct. 5, 2012
"I need a photo-opportunity,
I want a shot at redemption.
Don't want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard."
— Rhymin' Simon
See as well Kristen Stewart in the
film version of . . .
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Friday, October 18, 2019
Vibe for Ray Bradbury
On writer Kate Braverman, who reportedly died on Sunday, October 13:
" She wears floor-length black skirts, swirling black coats,
and black stiletto boots; the San Francisco Chronicle once
described her vibe as 'Morticia Addams gone gypsy.' "
— Katy Waldman in The New Yorker , Feb. 22, 2018
"I need a photo opportunity
I want a shot at redemption
Don't want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard"
— Paul Simon, song lyric
For a Braverman photo opportunity, see the dark corner
at lower right in the previous post.
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Tuesday, May 21, 2019
The Toronto Plot*
* A title for Harlan Kane, suggested by obituaries
from The New York Times (this afternoon) and from
CBC News (on May 14, below) . . .
. . . as well as by illustrations shown here on May 13 and by
a screenwriter quoted here on May 12 —
“When I die,” he liked to say, “I’m going to have written
on my tombstone, ‘Finally, a plot!’”
— Robert D. McFadden in The New York Times
Another quote that seems relevant —
“I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.”
— Paul Simon
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Friday, May 17, 2019
A Shot at Redemption
"I need a photo opportunity . . . ." — Paul Simon
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Monday, April 29, 2019
Like Decorations in a Cartoon Graveyard
(Continued.)
“I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.”
— Paul Simon
A death on the date of the above New Yorker piece — Oct. 15, 2018 —
See as well the Pac-Man-like figures in today's previous post
as well as the Monday, Oct. 15, 2018, post "History at Bellevue."
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Friday, February 22, 2019
Desperately Seeking Comedy
"I need a photo opportunity . . ." — Paul Simon
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Thursday, November 15, 2018
Nocciolo
"I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard."
– Paul Simon
From the previous post —
From a cartoon graveyard —
See also, in this journal, Smallest Perfect and Nocciolo .
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Thursday, July 19, 2018
A Shot at Redemption
“I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.”
— Paul Simon
From a cartoon graveyard on yesterday's date in 1957 —
For the photo opportunity of the Paul Simon song, see
my former sixth-grade teacher on that same 1957 page.
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Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Thursday, January 4, 2018
For T. S. Eliot
“I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.”
— Paul Simon
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Sunday, August 27, 2017
Sequel (In Memory of Tobe Hooper)
“I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.”
— Paul Simon
See also John Collier's short story "The Lady on the Grey."
Note that the title of the previous post was "Black Well,"
almost the same as that of Tanner's graphic novel above.
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Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Mystery Woman
From a book review quoted here in yesterday’s post
of 12:41 PM ET, “Special Topics” —
“That teacher, Hannah Schneider, has the magnetism of
Miss Jean Brodie and the film-noir mystique of Lauren Bacall.
When Blue meets her, in a ‘Hitchcock cameo,’ by the frozen-food
section at a grocery store, she falls under her spell. ‘She had an
elegant sort of romantic, bone-sculpted face, one that took well to
both shadows and light,’ Blue recalls. ‘Most extraordinary though
was the air of a Chateau Marmont bungalow about her, a sense
of RKO, which I’d never before witnessed in person.’ Hannah
teaches a course on cinema in a room lined with posters . . . .“
From a Facebook page related to the death yesterday morning at
Webster University of the teacher of a course on cinema —
“I need a photo opportunity . . . .” — Paul Simon
The title of the film in the cover photo above is not without relevance.
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