"He rides the ridge between dark and light
Without partners or friends"
— "Ridge Rider" – Russ Giguere's 1971 solo LP, Hexagram 16
"In between the dark and the light"
— Eagles, "One of These Nights" – released on June 10, 1975,
by Asylum Records.
Related lyrics — "Players only love you when they're playing."
Related backstory — http://m759.net/wordpress/?p=916 —
dark and light in a post featuring a younger Megan Follows.
"I look at the name first. The manner of the crime betrayed the touch of
Professor Moriarty to Sherlock Holmes; in chess problems, on the contrary,
the composer's identity tells us, more or less, what to expect."
— Brian Harley, Mate in Two Moves: The Two-Move Chess Problem Made Easy,
1931, commentary on problem 162
This is from a webpage of March 20, 2001.
For a video vignette that may or may not serve to illustrate the Harley remark,
see http://log24.com/log/pix25/250423-Miapensa-black-dog-vignette.jpg.
From Dogma Part II: Amores Perros —
"It is night on the fourth of the curving terraces, high above the sea.
The stars are full out, known and unknown. Dante is halfway up the mountain….
It is half through the poem; half the whole is seen and said: hell, where grace
is not known but as a punishment; purgatory where grace and punishment are
two manners of one fact."
— Charles Williams, The Figure of Beatrice, Faber and Faber, 1943
See also Shining Forth.
The contents page in the previous post is from a novel
by a Los Angeles screenwriter, Robert J. Avrech.
Avrech's story —
LA stories I prefer —
From Dogma Part II: Amores Perros:
"Do Catholics believe that when you die your soul goes up in the sky? To heaven, if they go to heaven?"
— Hope of Heaven, by John O'Hara (1938), Carroll & Graf paperback, 1985, page 162
"My blue dream of being in a basket like a kite held by a rope against the wind…. It's fun to stretch and see the blue heavens spreading once more, spreading azure thighs for adventure."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Last Tycoon (1941), Collier paperback, 1986, page 162
The following work of art
illustrates the above remarks.
Express
You've got to make him
Express himself
Hey, hey, hey, hey
— Madonna
Related material on trains:
Davenport's Express
and End of Days.
Related material on 162:
Dogma Part II: Amores Perros,
The Matthias Defense,
The Still Point and the Wheel,
Mark, and Confession.
Related material on
self-expression:
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Wishmaster 3:
SciFi channel, |
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"This world is not conclusion;
a sequel stands beyond."
— Emily Dickinson
Hounded
7:11:08 PM
"Scalia said he made the decision to stay on the case based on past practice. 'Not a single case was brought up in the motion to recuse, it was based on nothing other than newspaper editorials, and I'll be doggone if I'm to get hounded off the case by newspaper editorials.'"
— Boston Globe, Sept. 29, 2004
Entries related both to the previous entry and to the above (in style, if not in substance):
Funeral March
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John Schlesinger dead at 77; LOS ANGELES – Oscar-winning director John Schlesinger, who daringly brought gay characters into mainstream cinema with Midnight Cowboy and tapped into nightmares with the teeth-drilling torture of Marathon Man, died Friday at 77. The British-born filmmaker…. died about 5:30 a.m…. |
Schlesinger also directed The Day of the Locust, based on a novel by Nathanael West.
See Heaven, Hell, and Hollywood and
From the latter:
“Then you know your body’s sent,
Don’t care if you don’t pay rent,
Sky is high and so am I,
If you’re a viper — a vi-paah.”
— The Day of the Locust,
by Nathanael West (1939),
New Directions paperback,
1969, page 162
This song may be downloaded at
That same site begins with a traditional Mexican song…
“La cucaracha, la cucaracha,
ya no puede caminar,
porque no quiere,
porque le falta
marihuana que fumar.”
(“The cockroach, the cockroach,
can’t walk anymore,
because he doesn’t want to,
because he has no
marihuana to smoke.”)
This suggests an appropriate funeral march for John Schlesinger:
“Ya murió la cucaracha, ya la llevan a enterrar…” – La Cucaracha
Those attending Schlesinger’s wake, as opposed to his funeral, may wish to perform other numbers from the Pot Culture page, which offers a variety of “viper” songs.
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Bright Star and Dark Lady “Mexico is a solar country — but it is also a black country, a dark country. This duality of Mexico has preoccupied me since I was a child.” — Octavio Paz, |
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Bright Star
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Amen.
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Dark Lady
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For the meaning of the above symbols, see
Kubrick’s 1x4x9 monolith in 2001,
the Halmos tombstone in Measure Theory,
and the Fritz Leiber Changewar stories.
Concluding Unscientific Postscript:
Oh, yes… the question of
Heaven or Hell for John Schlesinger…
Recall that he also directed the delightful
Cold Comfort Farm and see
last year’s entry for this date.
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