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Saturday, April 23, 2011

Vigil

Filed under: General — m759 @ 7:59 pm

"The Easter Vigil is the most important liturgy on the church's calendar, when the faithful mark the passage from Christ's death to his resurrection on Easter Sunday. It is rich with symbols: fire and light signifying Jesus' resurrection, and the water used to baptize people into the faith….

This year, students of the Legion of Christ, the conservative order undergoing a major Vatican-mandated overhaul, provided the liturgical service at the vigil. The Vatican took over the Legion last May 1 after confirming its founder was a pedophile."

— AP story

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Virgil Vigil

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:00 am

Two definitions–

"In Dante's Inferno the Harrowing of Hell is mentioned in Canto IV by the pilgrim's guide Virgil." —Wikipedia

"The Easter Vigil…. is held in the hours of darkness between sunset on Holy Saturday and sunrise on Easter Day." —Wikipedia

Two more, of acronyms coined by Philip Rieff—

"Rieff is critical of the present 'pop' culture that glories in the 'primacies of possibility' and prefers 'both/and' to 'either/or.' … the 'via'— the 'vertical in authority'—… teaches us our place as we assent to and ascend on via’s ladder." —Philip Manning

Related material:

VIA CRUCIS

The infinity symbol, as sketched in a touching
attempt at scholarship by the late
"both/and" novelist David Foster Wallace—

The Cartesian cross—

The lemniscate—

Lemniscate with Cartesian cross—

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A more traditional symbol
that has been described as
the cross of St. Boniface—

http://www.log24.com/log/pix10/100404-%20BonifaceCross.gif

See also The Eight, a novel
by Katherine Neville related
to today's date, 4/4–

http://www.log24.com/log/pix10/100404-TheEight.jpg

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Sunday, March 26, 2023

Agatha’s Question

Filed under: General — Tags: Minority Report — m759 @ 12:37 pm

"It was my first job; I hadn’t yet turned eighteen."

— Mary Gaitskill, "Minority Report," short story
in The New Yorker , March 20, 2023.

Gaitskill's story also contains a film reference that
accounts for the story's title —

"Then suddenly, randomly, I remembered. I was watching
a movie with Jason, the man who, with time, became my
husband. It was a movie about imprisoned clairvoyants
who predict murders before they happen. Sexless and
obedient, the clairvoyants lay in artificial sleep, nearly
submerged in pools of water, connected to a huge machine
monitored by vigilant detectives."

That film in this journal —

For further background, see The New Yorker piece
"Mary Gaitskill on Revisiting Her Story 'Secretary'."

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Sunday, February 5, 2023

Dimensions

Filed under: General — Tags: Literary Transformations, Miller Analogies Test, Riri, Stars at Noon — m759 @ 2:01 am

A Logo for Riri —

The above Nick Romano passage is from Knock on Any Door,
a 1947 novel by Willard Motley. Another Motley novel about
Chicago, from 1958 . . .

Let No Man Write My Epitaph —

Page 41

The city was a blue-black panther that slunk along beside them. The tall, skyscraper night-grass hemmed them in. The thousand neon animal eyes watched their going.

Page 67

The blue-black panther of a city watched their going. The un- blinking neon animal eyes watched their going. Thousands of neon signs lit their way. In an alley behind West Madison Street half an

Page 68

hour before, a bum, drunk, had frozen to death lying in the back doorway of a pawnshop. The blue-black panther crouched over him.

Page 70

First the creak of ice as an automobile goes by. Then the frown into your room of the red brick building across the street, its windows frosted over like cold, unfriendly eyes. Then a bum stumbling along trying to keep warm. Now a drunk, unevenly. And the wind like the howling voice of the blue-black panther, hunting, finding. And the clanging of impersonal streetcars. And each bar of neon, cold, dead. No message. The clown takes his bow and it is Christmas Day.

Page 79

The blue-black panther followed them, sniffing at their heels.

Page 106

Above them the blue-black panther lay on the roof of a tenement house, its feline chin on the cornice, its yellow-green eyes staring down onto the black night street of Maxwell. Its tail, wagging slowly back and forth, was like a lasso, a noose, sending little shivers of pebbles rolling loosely across the roof.

Page 154

Then he went down to the Shillelagh Club. Through the pane, in the crowded, noisy place, he saw her. She was sitting at a table near the back, alone. Her cigarette had fallen from her lips and rolled away from her on the table top. It had burned itself to a long gray ash. Her head hung loosely on her neck as if she was asleep. A half-empty glass of beer was in front of her. Please, Mother, please come out, he prayed to her. And he stood next door to the tavern, waiting, his small shoulders drawn in, his head down in shame. And often he walked to the window and stood on tiptoe. She was still there. In the same position. He waited. He would be late to school tomorrow. He waited, keeping the long vigil. He waited. Twelve years old. And the thousand neon-animal eyes stared at him savagely. He waited. The blue-black panther lashed out its tail, flicking its furry tip against his ankles. He waited.

Page 250

Alongside the blue-black patrol wagon the blue-black panther walks majestically.

Page 262

Outside the door the blue-black panther rubs its back like a house cat.

Page 409

Nick held the cigarette listlessly. The smoke curled up his wrist and arm like a snake. The blue-black panther licked his hand.

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Sunday, November 1, 2015

Transitions

Filed under: General — m759 @ 5:48 pm

Two transitions from last Monday, Oct. 26, 2015,
according to the online New York Times today —

Leo P. Kadanoff, a physicist who provided critical insights into the transformations of matter from one state to another, died last Monday in Chicago. He was 78.

The cause was respiratory failure, said the University of Chicago, where he was a professor from 1978 until his retirement in 2003.

A member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he received the National Medal of Science in 1999.

“He won basically every prize except the Nobel Prize, and many people thought he should have won the Nobel,” said Emil Martinec, a physics professor at the University of Chicago who directs the university’s Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics.

Dr. Kadanoff’s biggest scientific contribution came in the 1960s as scientists were trying to understand phase transitions, when matter changes from one form to another.

A Cornell chemist, Benjamin Widom, had come up with mathematical relationships that described behavior associated with second-order phase transitions, which include the boiling of water to steam at a particular temperature and pressure. But Dr. Widom did not have an underlying physical explanation for why these relationships existed.

Willis Carto, a reclusive behind-the-scenes wizard of the far-right fringe of American politics who used lobbying and publishing to denigrate Jews and other minorities and galvanize the movement to deny the Holocaust, died last Monday at his home in Virginia. He was 89.

His death was announced by The American Free Press, a newspaper he helped found.

Mr. Carto raised funds to finance a right-wing military dictatorship in the United States, campaigned to persuade blacks to voluntarily return to Africa and, most influentially, started newsletters, a journal and conferences of academics and others to deny the scale, and even the existence, of the Holocaust.

The Anti-Defamation League called him “one of the most influential American anti-Semitic propagandists” and “the mastermind of the hate network.”

His associates included neo-Nazis, Christian vigilantes, John Birch Society members and Ku Klux Klansmen, and his extreme views alienated mainstream conservatives. After William F. Buckley sued Mr. Carto for libel and won in 1985, Mr. Buckley said Mr. Carto epitomized “the fever swamps of the crazed right.’’

Related remarks:

Posts tagged "Steam," the post "On Ice-Breaking" from Oct. 27,
the post "Expanding the Seagram Spielraum" from Oct. 26, and
a 2008 article on the subject of the obituary at right above.

"Integrity, Craftsmanship, Tradition"

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Saturday, April 4, 2015

Control

Filed under: General — Tags: Carré — m759 @ 11:30 pm

For the Easter Vigil:

“This is Control. Do you read me?”*

* Paraphrase based on Contact , Interstellar ,
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy , and The Ghost Writer .

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Wednesday, October 23, 2013

There and Back Again

Filed under: General — m759 @ 8:00 pm

Vigil for a teacher slain yesterday —

"Another student tweeted today to bring a candle
to Danvers High School at 8 p.m. tonight."

"How many miles to Babylon?"

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Sunday, October 20, 2013

Echoes

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:00 pm

From today's online New York Times —

The performance was on Wednesday evening.

Friday, April 13, 2012

The Primate and the Bee

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:00 am

George Steiner —

"Man is, in Lévi-Strauss's view, a mythopoetic primate
(it's a difficult phrase but we don't have a better one)…."

Wikipedia —

"Primate is a title or rank bestowed on some bishops in certain Christian churches."

Pope Benedict XVI at the 2012 Easter Vigil on April 7 —

"The great hymn of the Exsultet, which the deacon sings at the beginning of the Easter liturgy, points us quite gently towards a further aspect. It reminds us that this object, the candle, has its origin in the work of bees. So the whole of creation plays its part. In the candle, creation becomes a bearer of light.

But in the mind of the Fathers, the candle also in some sense contains a silent reference to the Church. The cooperation of the living community of believers in the Church in some way resembles the activity of bees. It builds up the community of light."

http://twitter.com/#!/skdh —

Sabine Hossenfelder's (Bee's) Easter Tweet

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Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Wednesday April 18, 2007

Filed under: General — Tags: on0418 — m759 @ 2:00 pm

Vigil

Andrew Russell, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Candlelight vigil at Virginia Tech,
Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Virginia Lottery, Tuesday, April 17, 2007

“I love those Bavarians… so meticulous.”

— “In the Garden of Allah“

Click on images to enlarge.

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Thursday, April 5, 2007

Thursday April 5, 2007

Filed under: General — m759 @ 2:02 pm

Poets.org –

The Annual
Maundy Thursday
Dante’s Inferno Reading

“The reading occurs during the Maundy Thursday vigil, the very hours Dante intended the events in the epic poem to take place.”

Featured poets:

Rachel Hadas, Wyatt Prunty, Rachel Wetzsteon, Rika Lesser, David Yezzi, Annie Finch, Honor Moore, Lynn Emanuel, Paul Watsky, Kate Light, Phillis Levin, Michael Palma, Charles Martin

Thursday, April 5, 2007, 9 p.m. to midnight, The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Avenue at 112th St., NYC, NY

Related material –

The Eight Revisited:

Dante Alighieri Academy
continues Dante’s Christian
philosophy of education….

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Tuesday, April 5, 2005

Tuesday April 5, 2005

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: riverrun — m759 @ 3:17 pm

Art History:
The Pope of Hope

At the Vatican on
Shakespeare's Birthday

(See Log24.net,
Oct. 4, 2002)

See also the iconology —
what Dan Brown in
The Da Vinci Code
calls "symbology" —
of Pandora's Box
at Log24.net,
March 10, 2005:

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"Man and woman are a pair of locked caskets,
each containing the key to the other."

— Baroness Karen Blixen

"Karol Wojtyla had looked into
the heart of darkness–
and at the heart of darkness
discovered reason
for an indomitable hope.

He lived on the far side of
the greatest catastrophe
in human history,
the death of the Son of God,
and knew that evil
did not have the last word.
This is the key…."

— Richard John Neuhaus,
April 4, 2005

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Finnegans Wake, p. 293,
"the lazily eye of his lapis"

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Perette Elizabeth Michelli on the Ovato Tondo:

"Notice how the Pope turns out to be
at the center of the breaking and
redefining of the Classical system."

"Derrida on Plato on writing says 'In order for these contrary values (good/evil, true/false, essence/appearance, inside/outside, etc.) to be in opposition, each of the terms must be simply EXTERNAL to the other, which means that one of these oppositions (the opposition between inside and outside) must already be accredited as the matrix of all possible opposition.' "

— Peter J. Leithart

Wednesday, January 1, 2003

Wednesday January 1, 2003

Filed under: General — Tags: La Selva — m759 @ 4:24 pm

ART WARS:

That Old Devil Moon

Kylie Minogue

From The New York Times, Wed., Jan. 1, 2003:

Richard Horner, 82,
Broadway Producer, Is Dead

Richard Horner, a Broadway theater owner and producer who won a Tony Award for the 1974 revival of Eugene O'Neill's "Moon for the Misbegotten," died on Saturday [December 28, 2002] at his home in Palm Springs, Calif. He was 82.

According to one source, the O'Neill revival opened on December 28, 1973 — the same date on which the life of one of its producers was later to close.

From a CurtainUp review:

The revival at the Morosco was dubbed by its company "The Resurrection Play" since Jason Robards undertook the part just after a near fatal car accident and its legendary director José Quintero had just given up drinking.

According to the Internet Broadway Database, this revival, or resurrection, took place officially not on December 28 — the date of Horner's death — but, appropriately, a day later.

At any rate, O'Neill's title, along with my weblog entry of December 28, 2002,

"On This Date," featuring Kylie Minogue,

suggests the following mini-exhibit of artistic efforts:

Curtain Up!

July 2000
issue of GQ:
Australian pop star Kylie Minogue strikes a pose. The cover is a takeoff on an Athena tennis poster.

Under the Volcano:

A painting based on Malcolm Lowry's classic novel.

Having played tennis, Dr. Vigil and M. Laruelle talk about the events a year earlier.

The view is of Cuernavaca from the Casino de la Selva hotel.

Painting by
Julian Heaton Cooper.

For further details on Kylie, Mexico, tequila, and
Under the Volcano,
see my entry of November 5, 2002.

For today's site music, click "Old Devil Moon" here.

Addendum of 9:30 pm 1/1/03:

For a politically correct view
of the above GQ cover,
see Charlotte Raven's essay,
"The Opposite of Sexy,"
from The Guardian, June 13, 2000.

For a more perceptive analysis,
see George Orwell's essay,
"The Art of Donald McGill,"
from Horizon, September 1941.

An Example of McGill's Art

If there is a devil here,
I suspect it is less likely to be
Kyllie Minogue than Charlotte Raven.

Today's birthdays:

J. D. Salinger (Nine Stories),
E. M. Forster ("Only connect"), and
Sir James Frazer (The Golden Bough).

Frazer might appreciate the remarks in
the SparkNotes essay on The Natural,
cited in my note "Homer" of Dec. 30, 2002,
on bird symbolism and vegetative myths.

Not amused: Charlotte Raven

Raven, take a bough.

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Tuesday, October 1, 2002

Tuesday October 1, 2002

Filed under: General — Tags: Dimensión de Arco, Impulse — m759 @ 12:25 am

Who’s on First?

To Lucero on October First, 2002:
A Poem by Homero Aridjis

ES TU NOMBRE Y ES TAMBIÉN OCTUBRE…

Es tu nombre y es también octubre
es el diván y tus ungüentos
es ella tú la joven de las turbaciones
y son las palomas en vuelos secretos
y el último escalón de la torre
y es la amada acechando el amor en antemuros
y es lo dable en cada movimiento y los objetos
y son los pabellones
y el no estar del todo en una acción
y es el Cantar de los Cantares
y es el amor que te ama
y es un resumen de vigilia
de vigilancia sola al borde de la noche
al borde del soñador y los insomnios
y también es abril y noviembre
y los disturbios interiores de agosto
y es tu desnudez
que absorbe la luz de los espejos
y es tu capacidad de trigo
de hacerte mirar en las cosas
y eres tú y soy yo
y es un caminarte en círculo
dar a tus hechos dimensión de arco
y a solas con tu impulso decirte la palabra.

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Saturday, September 7, 2002

Saturday September 7, 2002

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:11 pm

For Elia Kazan:

A Birthday Song:
Las Mañanitas

(Song, lyrics, and animated story)

Today is the anniversary of the opening of the New York Post Office Building in 1914.

Today is National Postal Workers Day.

From the website Elia Kazan: Postage Paid…

Kazan on the set of Viva Zapata, with Marlon Brando, and Jean Peters

“Many years later Kazan said ‘Viva Zapata!,’ which he was filming during the time of his committee testimony, ‘was structured to expose the ineffectiveness of idealistic revolutionaries, I believe that democracy progresses through internecine war, through constant tension – we grow only through conflict. And that’s what democracy is. In that sense, people have to be vigilant, and that vigilance is effective. I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.’ This was a profound statement about his values and beliefs. Kazan never backed away from his statements.”

Note: In honor of Kazan and of Brando, who really is a contender, the background music of this website has been hushed, so that those who click “A Birthday Song” above can hear it clearly.

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