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Wednesday, August 28, 2002
Wednesday August 28, 2002
Music of the Dark Lady
Two journal notes below deal with the general mythology of the Dark Lady.
This note, more personal, deals with a particular incarnation of this Lady
that certain songs from this 1981 album remind me of.
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Waiting for a Girl Like You,
Urgent, and especially Woman in Black: |
She draws me in
But she teaches me well
I never need any explanation
From that woman in black
She's a mystery
She's everything a woman should be
Woman in black got a hold on me
For sample sound clips of the above, click here.
For a summary of the August 27 note below, see the quote from William Congreve on the cover of the September 2002 Vanity Fair magazine:
"There is in true beauty, as in courage,
somewhat which narrow souls
cannot dare to admire."
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Tuesday, August 27, 2002
Tuesday August 27, 2002
The Hero and the Dark Lady
From a Fictionwise eBooks summary of Mike Resnick's novel The Dark Lady…
Leonardo, an art historian of the far future, is given a mission…
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"His instructions: Search the galaxy for any piece of art bearing the image of his obsession: the mysterious Dark Lady, a beautiful and somber human female whose exact likeness, he has secretly discovered, appears in paintings and sculptures throughout history–dating all the way back to Earth's ancient Rome. |
Leonardo's research reveals the link between the artists of the Dark Lady: human men who voluntarily risk their lives. If she appears to men who court death, she may be their Angel of Death … or, as Leonardo hopes, the female of an ancient… legend–The Mother of All Things."
Today, August 27 (or tomorrow, according to some accounts), is the date of death of a great actor, Robert Shaw, who died at 51 in 1978. If in real life he was anything like the brave men he played… King Henry VIII, SPECTRE assassin Red Grant, Panzer commander Colonel Hessler, and shark hunter Captain Quint… he, if anyone, deserved to be greeted in heaven by the Dark Lady.
For a more scholarly treatment of the Dark Lady, see this Princeton University Press site.
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Monday, August 26, 2002
Monday August 26, 2002
Meditation on the Dark Lady:
Doble-V + Doble-V = W.W.
From Carole A. Holdsworth, Dulcinea and Pynchon's V:
Tanner may have stated it best:
“V. is whatever lights you to the end of the street: she is also the dark annihilation waiting at the end of the street.”
(Tony Tanner, page 36, “V. and V-2.” in Pynchon: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. Edward Mendelson. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, 1978. 16-55).
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