"We have much to discover." — Actor portraying
Christopher Marlowe to actress Elaine Cassidy in a TV series.
Thursday, June 24, 2021
Much to Discover… Effectively Conjured
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Persons of Interest
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Margaret Atwood on Lewis Hyde's "Trickster is among other things the gatekeeper who opens the door into the next world; those who mistake him for a psychopath never even know such a door exists." (159) What is "the next world"? It might be the Underworld…. The pleasures of fabulation, the charming and playful lie– this line of thought leads Hyde to the last link in his subtitle, the connection of the trickster to art. Hyde reminds us that the wall between the artist and that American favourite son, the con-artist, can be a thin one indeed; that craft and crafty rub shoulders; and that the words artifice, artifact, articulation and art all come from the same ancient root, a word meaning "to join," "to fit," and "to make." (254) If it’s a seamless whole you want, pray to Apollo, who sets the limits within which such a work can exist. Tricksters, however, stand where the door swings open on its hinges and the horizon expands: they operate where things are joined together, and thus can also come apart. |
Punch Line . . .
Wrap Party!
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Wednesday, June 23, 2021
Spring Break Song
"There's a concert hall in Vienna
Where your mouth had a thousand reviews"
— Leonard Cohen lyric, "Take This Waltz" *
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Garden Party
From the June 22 Architectural Digest video of
Cara Delevingne's home —
"I went to a garden party to reminisce with my old friends:
A chance to share old memories and play our songs again.
When I got to the garden party, they all knew my name…
No one recognized me, I didn't look the same."
From a June 21 Instagram story —
From Ernest Hemingway's The Garden of Eden —
She slipped out of bed and stood straight with her long brown legs
and her beautiful body tanned evenly from the far beach where they
swam without suits. She held her shoulders back and her chin up
and she shook her head so her heavy tawny hair slapped around
her cheeks and then bowed forward so it all fell forward and covered
her face. She pulled the striped shirt over her head and then shook
her hair back and then sat in the chair in front of the mirror on the
dresser and brushed it back looking at it critically. It fell to the top of
her shoulders. She shook her head at the mirror. Then she pulled on
her slacks and belted them and put on her faded blue rope-soled shoes.
"I have to ride up to Aigues Mortes," she said.
"Good," he said. "I'll come too."
"No. I have to go alone. It's about the surprise."
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Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Do Androids Dream?
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Why the Playboy pinball backglass art flashed briefly into the video
at 2:03, I do not know. It appears in full later in the video.
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Bloomsday for Circe*
* See (for instance) https://www.ulyssesguide.com/15-circe.
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Naked of Hindrance
The title is a phrase by Wallace Stevens suggested by
the time of the previous post, 10:06, as a date .
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An Apple for Allison
From a search in this journal for Nocturnal —
"But it's the pelvic thrust
That really drives you insane
Let's do the Time Warp again"
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