Friday, November 27, 2020
Sunday, January 12, 2020
Seeking a Moral
From the previous post —
Psychiatrist Irvin Yalom on Philip Roth's Exit Ghost ,
in an undated interview published in 2008:
"Philip Roth has got a new book out called Exit Ghost ,
which I find touching. He’s ageing and pursuing the
question of what ageing does to a writer’s skills. I’m
dealing with that myself so that book speaks for me
a great deal."
Related material from October 2, 2007 —
See as well this journal on the days before and after
the Kakutani review above:
October 1, 2007 — Bright as Magnesium
October 3, 2007 — Janitor Monitor .
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Cross of the Stations
From the previous post —
"… a single station point for naturalistic representation."
— S. Giedion, introduction to Language of Vision by Gyorgy Kepes
Cf. The Last Station, not The Finland Station.
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Monday, December 2, 2019
Gray Space
See as well a search for Gray Space in this journal.
Related material: The Schwartz Omega .
“Looking carefully at Golay’s code
is like staring into the sun.”
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D8: The Black Queen’s Square
The previous post quoted some dialogue from Victor Hugo's
novel about the French Revolution, Ninety-Three.
This suggests a look at the following non-fiction book:
Compare and contrast with the novel The Eight , by Katherine Neville,
about chess and the French Revolution.
Neville's birthday, April 4, plays a major role in her novel. The dies natalis
(in the Roman Catholic sense) of the above Birth of the Chess Queen
author, on the other hand, was reportedly November 20, 2019.
Following a link in this journal from November 20 leads to remarks
that might interest the subjects of an upcoming film, "The Two Popes."
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