From a search in this journal for Spacek —
"Honesty's the best policy."
— Miguel de Cervantes
"Liars prosper."
— Anonymous
— Epigraphs to On Writing:
A Memoir of the Craft,
by Stephen King
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* A title suggested by the previous post.
* Sissy Spacek (1976). Some will prefer a more recent version.
"'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
"Elmore Rual 'Rip' Torn Jr. (February 6, 1931 – July 9, 2019)
was an American actor, voice artist … Torn was born in
Temple, Texas,
on February 6, 1931, the son of Elmore Rual "Tiger" Torn Sr. and
Thelma Mary Torn (née Spacek)."
For the Church of Synchronology —
The above photo was reportedly taken on March 10, 2011.
An image from this journal on that date —
Found in translation — See "Ex Fano " in this journal
and the Fano post "In Nomine Patris."
Or: Spectral Theory
(continued from Oct. 2, 2013, and earlier)
A memorable phrase by Verity Stob
at theregister.co.uk on Jan. 26:
"… remember you're not just an emotionless Dalek.
You are in the lavender band of the autistic spectrum."
See also lavender in this journal…
("Dalek, Spacek. Spacek, Dalek.")
Verity herself —
Verity's column, illustrated above, on Nov. 12, 2013,
was titled "Three Men in a Tardis."
Connoisseurs of synchronicity may consult my own
remarks on that date. Three men discussed there
are the two X-Men patriarchs Patrick Stewart and
Ian McKellen, as well as a more interesting character,
composer Sir John Tavener.
See Prime Cut and Lavender Blue, Dilly Dilly
as well as Sissy Spacek on "Big Love."
William Lubtchansky, a cinematographer, was born on October 26, 1937, and died on May 4, 2010.
Yesterday's post included an illustration from this journal on the date of his death.
Here is a Log24 entry from last year on the date of his birth—
| Monday, October 26, 2009 The Keys Enigma
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Clicking on the Shift Lock key leads to the following page—
—The Philosopher's Gaze,
by David Michael Levin,
University of California Press, 1999
Related images—
Detail from May 4 image:
Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC:
(http://www.scrapbookpages.com/USHMM/Exterior.html)
See also Lubtchansky's Duelle and
Art Wars for Trotsky's Birthday, 2003.
"Honesty's the best policy."
— Miguel de Cervantes
"Liars prosper."
— Anonymous
— Epigraphs to On Writing:
A Memoir of the Craft,
by Stephen King
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The cruelest month continues…
"…as Newton conceived it, the distinction between
the individualities of two particles is so marked that
it is impossible for them ever to coincide or for
either of them to alter the being of the other…."
"Waves interfere with each other because they are
interchangeable and thus not distinguishable;
two processes can coincide in space and time
but two substances cannot. Thus the wave
reveals a whole new possibility of identity…."
"The concept of a field is elusive."
— Peter Pesic, Seeing Double: Shared Identities
in Physics, Philosophy, and Literature,
Chapter 6, "The Fields of Light"
A Google search for "Das Scheinen," a very rough translation into Heidegger's German of "The Shining," leads to a song. A search for the English version of the song leads to a site with a sidebar advertising Pearl Jam's new (Sept. 20) album "Backspacer."
Happy birthday,
Stephen King.
Background:
Yesterday's entries
and the plot of
L'Engle's classic
A Wrinkle in Time.
(See this journal's entries
for March 2008.)
The Pearl Jam album cover art
is of particular interest in light
of King's story "Apt Pupil" and
of Katherine Neville's remark
"Nine is a very powerful
Nordic number."
Those who prefer more sophisticated
aesthetic theory may click on the
following keys:
The Zen of Abraham
Today’s Zen Chautauqua, prompted by the fact that this is Abrahamic week at the real Chautauqua, consists of links to
Happy Birthday, Kate and Kevin.
The real Chautauqua’s program this week is, of course, Christian rather than Zen. Its theme is “Building a Global Neighborhood: The Abrahamic Vision 2004.” One of the featured performers is Loretta Lynn; in her honor (and, of course, that of Sissy Spacek), I will try to overcome the fear and loathing that the Semitic (i. e., “Abrahamic”) religions usually inspire in me.
To a mathematician, the phrase “global neighborhood” sounds like meaningless politico-religious bullshit — a phrase I am sure accurately characterizes most of the discourse at Chautauqua this week. But a Google search reveals an area of
This article includes the following:
Given the sophistication of his writing, I am surprised at Schlansker’s Christian background:
A good omen for the future is the fact that Schlansker balances the looney Semitic (or “Abrahamic”) teachings of Christianity with good sound Aryan religion, in the form of the goddess Themis.
Themis, often depicted as “Justice”
For those who must have an Abraham, Schlansker’s paper includes the following:
A Themis figure I prefer to the above:
For more on religious justice
at midnight in the garden of
good and evil, see the Log24
entries of Oct. 1-15, 2002.
For material on Aryan religion that is far superior to the damned nonsense at Chautauqua, New York, this week, see
Jane Ellen Harrison’s Themis: a Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion, with an excursus on the ritual forms preserved in Greek tragedy by Gilbert Murray and a chapter on the origin of the Olympic games by F. M. Cornford. Rev. 2nd ed., Cambridge, Cambridge U.P., 1927.
Those who prefer the modern religion of Scientism will of course believe that Themis is purely imaginary, and that truth is to be found in modern myths like that of Carl Sagan’s novel Contact, illustrated below.
Jodie Foster (an admirer of
Leni Riefenstahl) and the
opening of the 1936 Olympics
“Heraclitus…. says: ‘The ruler whose prophecy occurs at Delphi oute legei oute kryptei, neither gathers nor hides, alla semainei, but gives hints.'”
— An Introduction to Metaphysics, by Martin Heidegger, Yale University Press paperback, 1959, p. 170
“The lord whose oracle is in Delphi neither indicates clearly nor conceals, but gives a sign.”
— Adolf Holl, The Left Hand of God, Doubleday, 1998, p. 50
Some comments on yesterday’s entry that are too good to be hidden under a “comments” link. References are to Through the Looking Glass.
My understanding of the “Red Queen” was that it was a metaphorical reference to a womans menstrual cycle.
The two queens were representative of a womans behaviors throughout. Or some such thing.
Posted 6/24/2003 at 11:12 AM by oOMisfitOo
Humn. [affects very proper British Accent:] I suppose then the good reverend is out of his bloody mind?
Posted 6/24/2003 at 11:14 AM by oOMisfitOo
Speaking of religion, blood, and the 23rd, perhaps Sissy Spacek should play both the Red and the White Queen in Looking Glass. Remember her prom night?
See my entry of May 23rd, The Prime Cut Gospel.
Posted 6/24/2003 at 2:46 PM by m759
For today’s musical offering, click here.
Mental Health Month, Day 23:
The Prime Cut Gospel
On Christmas Day, 1949,
Mary Elizabeth Spacek was born in Texas.
Lee Marvin, Sissy Spacek in “Prime Cut”
Exercises for Mental Health Month:
Read this discussion of the phrase, suggested by Spacek’s date of birth, “God’s gift to men.”
Read this discussion of the phrase “the same yesterday, today, and forever,” suggested by the previous reading.
Read the more interesting of these discussions of the phrase “the eternal in the temporal.”
Read this discussion of eternal, or “necessary,” truths versus other sorts of alleged “truths.”
Read this discussion of unimportant mathematical properties of the prime number 23.
Read these discussions of important properties of 23:
Introduction to the Theory of Groups of Finite Order, Ginn, Boston, 1937 (reprinted by Dover in 1956), final chapter, “Tactical Configurations,” and
J. H. Conway, “Three Lectures on Exceptional Groups,” pp. 215-247 in Finite Simple Groups (Oxford, 1969), edited by M. B. Powell and G. Higman, Academic Press, London, 1971….. Reprinted as Ch. 10 in Sphere Packings, Lattices, and Groups
Read this discussion of what might be called “contingent,” or “literary,” properties of the number 23.
Read also the more interesting of these discussions of the phrase “the 23 enigma.”
Having thus acquired some familiarity with both contingent and necessary properties of 23…
Read this discussion of Aquinas’s third proof of the existence of God.
Note that the classic Spacek film “Prime Cut” was released in 1972, the year that Spacek turned 23:
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