♫ "One of sixteen Vestal Virgins . . . ."
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No Ordinary Venue
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Note from the Underground
(The Apple Entertainment Version)
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Roots Rising: Archetypes, Figurations, Icons
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"Entering into us, the painting, the sonata, the poem brings us into reach of our own nativity of consciousness. It does so at a depth inaccessible in any other way. Literature and the arts are the perceptible witness to that freedom of coming into being of which history can give us no account. Hence the utterly arresting congruence between Aristotle’s assertion in the Poetics that fiction is 'truer and more universal than history' and Jung’s inference of archetypes, of inherited figurations and narrative icons, at the roots of human consciousness. I find this congruence seductive. But there is, I repeat, no external evidence for it whatever. It may be pure fantastication."
— Steiner, George. Real Presences (p. 182). |
See also "divine universals" in this journal
and a "three coins" meditation from 2003 . . .
From Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle :
Juliana said, “Oracle, why did you write The Grasshopper Lies Heavy?
What are we supposed to learn?”
“You have a disconcertingly superstitious way of phrasing your question,”
Hawthorne said. But he had squatted down to witness the coin throwing.
“Go ahead,” he said; he handed her three Chinese brass coins with
holes in the center. “I generally use these.”
This suggests … The Man in the High Tower —
[Actually “The Gorge” script by Zach Dean.]
Cue the Bernstein.
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Wednesday August 27, 2008
"One Shot"
— Keynote Address,
Democratic
National Convention
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Of the People,
by the People, for the People From the autobiography of Reba McEntire: "…my major field of study was elementary education and my minor was music. I received my bachelor's degree, but never taught school as my Mama and Grandma had done before me…." —My Story, Bantam, 1994 From a notable production of "Annie Get Your Gun" starring Reba McEntire:
"Doin' what comes naturally…." From Zenna Henderson's first story of the People: "Suddenly I felt her, so plainly that I knew with a feeling of fear and pride that I was of my grandmother, that soon I would be bearing the burden and blessing of her Gift — the Gift that develops into free access to any mind, one of the People or an Outsider, willing or not. And besides the access, the ability to counsel and help, to straighten tangled minds and snarled emotions…. It was the first time I had ever sorted anybody." — "Ararat," in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October 1952 (reprinted in Ingathering, NESFA Press, 1995) |
"You know, I spent 20 years in business. If you ran a company whose only strategy was to tear down the competition, it wouldn't last long. So why is this wisdom so hard to find in Washington?
I know we're at the Democratic convention, but if an idea works, it really doesn't matter if it has an 'R' or 'D' next to it. Because this election isn't about liberal versus conservative. It's not about left versus right. It's about the future versus the past.
In this election, at this moment in our history, we know what the problems are. We know that at this critical juncture, we have only one shot to get it right….
Let me tell you about a place called Lebanon– Lebanon, Virginia."
— Last night's keynote address at the Democratic National Convention
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"The lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact." — Shakespeare
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