Published on Sept. 15, 2022. See as well this journal on that date.
Sunday, December 25, 2022
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
The Pristine Edge of Darkness
Westworld Season 4 Episode 8 (Finale)
Christina: Where am I?
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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.
Friday, March 30, 2012
Brain Boost*
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
From the release date of the film of Alan Glynn’s
novel The Dark Fields (now retitled “Limitless“)—
“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.”
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
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:
His truth is marching on.