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"Boron atoms and metal atoms can form a configuration . . . ."

See as well other posts now tagged Death Valley Days.

The title was suggested by the "Crystal Cult" installations
of Oslo artist Josefine Lyche and by a post of May 30 —

Writers of fiction are, of course, also dabblers in the collective unconscious.
For instance . . .

A 1971 British paperback edition of The Dreaming Jewels,  
a story by Theodore Sturgeon (first version published in 1950):

The above book cover, together with the Death Valley location
Zabriskie Point, suggests . . .

Those less enchanted by the collective unconscious may prefer a
different weblog's remarks on the same date as the above Borax post . . .

Italian Director Antonioni
Dies at 94

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: July 31, 2007

Filed with The New York Times at 5:14 a.m. ET

“ROME (AP) — Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni, best known for his movies ‘Blow-Up’ and ‘L’Avventura,’ has died, officials and news reports said Tuesday. He was 94.

The ANSA news agency said that Antonioni died at his home on Monday evening.

‘With Antonioni dies not only one of the greatest directors but also a master of modernity,’ Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni said in a statement.

In 1995, Hollywood honored Antonioni’s career work– 25 films and several screenplays– with a special Oscar for lifetime achievement.”

Related material:

1. “Zabriskie Point” (1970), a film by Antonioni.

   “The name refers to Zabriskie Point in Death Valley, the location of the film’s famous desert love scene, in which members of the Open Theatre simulate an orgy.” —Wikipedia

2. Play It As It Lays (1970), a novel by Joan Didion

     

   

3. Log24: The Word in the Desert

Ground Zero

Today’s birthday: Harrison Ford is 61.

 New York State Lottery:

7-11 Evening Number: 000.

From the conclusion of
Joan Didion’s 1970 novel
Play It As It Lays: 

“I know what ‘nothing’ means,
and keep on playing.”

From a review of the 1970 film Zabriskie Point:

“The real star of Zabriskie Point… is the desolate, parched-white landscape of Death Valley….”

For Harrison Ford and Zabriskie Point, see

Harrison Ford – Le Site En Français

The Harrison Ford of the 1970 film Zabriskie Point and the “Harrison Porter” of the 1970 novel Play It As It Lays may not be completely unrelated.

For the religious significance of the names “Porter” and “BZ” in Play It As It Lays, see both the devilish site

A Wake-Macbeth Intertext:

“Both ‘porter’ and ‘belzey babble’ operate as textual ‘grafts’ and ‘hinges’ …”

and the Princeton site

Macbeth, Act II, Scene 3

{Enter a Porter. Knocking within}

PORTER:
1. Here’s a knocking indeed!
    If a man were porter
2. of hell-gate he should have old
    turning the key.{Knock within}
3. Knock, knock, knock. Who’s there,
    i’ th’ name of
4. Beelzebub?