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Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Meet the New Story, Same as the Old Story

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 6:22 pm

Loquitur . . .

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 9:20 am

Continued from July 10, 2023.
 

Barben/Heimer

Related reading —

NY Times Archive: Miller's Paris Roofs, Steve Martin's Two Brains, and Psycho II

Sunday, December 25, 2022

Merry Xmas, Enola.

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 8:48 am

Published on Sept. 15, 2022.  See as well this journal on that date.

Tuesday, August 16, 2022

The Pristine Edge of Darkness

 

Westworld Season 4 Episode 8 (Finale)

Christina: Where am I? 
Maya: You're nowhere. Unplugged from the rest of the world. (Wind swooshing)
Christina: I'm alone again. In the walled garden. 
Maya: You're scared. So you brought me back. Talk to me, Chrissie. 
Christina: Everything is destroyed. Everyone is dying. I don't know. (Wind whooshing) (Leaves rustling) But I think it may be my fault. (Melancholic music playing) 
Maya: You know, people think they know what a tree is. They have no idea. What we see, it's only part of the story. But beneath the ground… everything's connected and working together. There's violence and chaos everywhere. And you can choose to focus on all of that. And that's all you'll see. But if you sit still… (Leaves rustling) …long enough… you'll sense an ancient order. A deep peace. (Breathes deeply) And that's what I choose to see. (Inhales) I see the beauty in this world. 
Christina: Yes. (Chuckles softly) I know the feeling. 
Maya: I thought you might. (Melancholic music concludes)

Read more at
https://tvshowtranscripts.ourboard.org/
viewtopic.php?f=738&t=55566

From a college botany laboratory in the 1915
D. H. Lawrence novel The Rainbow

"Suddenly she had passed away into
an intensely-gleaming light of knowledge."

A later passage in the same novel, under
a metaphorical Tree of Life —

"She passed away as on a dark wind, far, far away,
into the pristine darkness of paradise, into the original
immortality. She entered the dark fields of immortality."

Some will prefer . . .

For further context, see posts tagged Screw Theory.

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

24 Hour Psycho…

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 4:07 pm

Continues.

"24 Hour Psycho" at the Museum of Modern Art in the novel
Point Omega  is illustrated in New York Times  review

IMAGE- NY Times headline 'A Wrinkle in Time' with 24 Hour Psycho and Point Omega scene

Related material — Today's 1 PM post and 

IMAGE- From a Lawrence Block mystery 'A Stab in the Dark'- 'There was a problem in long division worked out in yellow chalk on the blackboard.'

See also yesterday's  1 PM post.

Friday, March 30, 2012

Brain Boost*

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:00 pm

See "Dark Fields" in this journal
and Peter J. Cameron's weblog today.

* Phrase from "Forbidden Planet" (1956).
  See previous post.

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Lines

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:30 pm

From the release date of the film of Alan Glynn’s
novel The Dark Fields  (now retitled “Limitless“)—

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11/110318-NYTobitsWirthlin.jpg

“The time is now.”

Related material—

“Why does the dog wag its tail?
Because the dog is smarter than the tail.
If the tail were smarter, it would wag the dog.”

IMAGE- The perception of doors in 'Sunshine Cleaning'

Above: Amy Adams in “Sunshine Cleaning

“Now, I’ll open up a line of credit for you.
You’ll be wantin’ a few toys.”

Saturday, July 29, 2006

Saturday July 29, 2006

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 5:01 pm

Dark Fields
of the Republic

Today’s birthday: Ken Burns

Charley Reese on the republic:

“The republic died at Appomattox, and it’s been empire ever since.”

Charley Reese on Lincoln:

“Washington and Jefferson created the republic; Lincoln destroyed it.”

In closing…

A link in memory of Donald G. Higman, dead on Feb. 13, 2006, the day after Lincoln’s birthday:

On the Graphs of Hoffman-Singleton and Higman-Sims (pdf)

His truth is marching on.

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