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From this morning's New York Times…

 "On November 12th and 13th, 2010,
  a meeting of Roman Catholic bishops
  convened to respond to the growing demand
  for exorcism rites."
  — Trailer for the film "The Rite," which opens today

Meanwhile, in this  journal on November 12th and 13th, 2010… Award Show Story.

Related material — God, Time, Hopkins and a Faustian link from November 12th.

Update of 9:57 AM 1/28— The Faustian link suggests readings from
James G. Hart's The Person and the Common Life  (Kluwer Academic, 1992).

See pages 1,  2,  3,  4,  and  5, and note especially the spider metaphor on page 5 —

Katherine Neville, author of perhaps the greatest bad novel of the twentieth century, The Eight, has now graced a new century with her sequel, titled The Fire. An excerpt:

“Our family lodge had been built at about this same period in the prior century, by neighboring tribes, for my great-great-grandmother, a pioneering mountain lass. Constructed of hand-hewn rock and massive tree trunks chinked together, it was a huge log cabin that was shaped like an octagon– patterned after a hogan or sweat lodge– with many-paned windows facing in each cardinal direction, like a vast, architectural compass rose.
……..
From here on the mountaintop, fourteen thousand feet atop the Colorado Plateau, I could see the vast, billowing sea of three-mile-high mountain peaks, licked by the rosy morning light. On a clear day like this, I could see all the way to Mount Hesperus– which the Diné call Dibé Nitsaa: Black Mountain. One of the four sacred mountains created by First Man and First Woman.

Together with Sisnaajinii, white mountain (Mt. Blanca) in the east; Tsoodzil, blue mountain (Mt. Taylor) in the south, and Dook’o’osliid, yellow mountain (San Francisco Peaks) in the west, these four marked out the four corners of Dinétah– ‘Home of the Diné,’ as the Navajo call themselves.

And they pointed as well to the high plateau I was standing on: Four Corners, the only place in the U.S. where four states– Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona– come together at right angles to form a cross.”