Friday, December 13, 2019
Database Requiem
Apollo’s 13 Revisited
Thursday, December 12, 2019
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Lyric Intelligence
Тут Аполлон — идеал, там Ниобея — печаль….
The source: The link from St. Lucia's Day to "Congregated Light,"
and the link from there to the Pushkin verse.
See also St. Lucia's Day ten years ago in posts tagged Meadow-down.
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Interplay
Review:
Cubic models of finite geometries
display an interplay between
Euclidean and Galois geometry.
Related literary remarks: Congregated Light.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
The Meadow
From Nabokov's The Gift —
Click for more about the Pushkin verse.
See also Trevanian + meadow and Congregated Light.
Monday, June 28, 2010
Shall I Compare Thee
Margaret Soltan on a summer's-day poem by D.A. Powell—
first, a congregated light, the brilliance of a meadowland in bloom
and then the image must fail, as we must fail, as we
graceless creatures that we are, unmake and befoul our beds
don’t tell me deluge. don’t tell me heat, too damned much heat
"Specifically, your trope is the trope of every life:
the organizing of the disparate parts of a personality
into a self (a congregated light), blazing youth
(a meadowland in bloom), and then the failure
of that image, the failure of that self to sustain itself."
Alternate title for Soltan's commentary, suggested by yesterday's Portrait:
Smart Jewish Girl Fwows Up.
Midrash on Soltan—
Wert thou my enemy, O thou my friend,
How wouldst thou worse, I wonder, than thou dost
Defeat, thwart me?
"…meadow-down is not distressed
For a rainbow footing…."