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Sunday, March 1, 2026

With a Knick-Knack Paddy Whack

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 9:44 am

But this is beginning to feel like the dog wants a bone, say

[Chorus]
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

 

Also on September 16, 2008 . . .

Wizard of Id on the Birthday of Anne Francis (2008)

Friday, December 22, 2023

Wiki’d

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 11:14 am

Lewis Carroll's chess  Red Queen, from Through the Looking Glass,
is "often confused with" the playing cards  Queen of Hearts, 
from Alice in Wonderland —

" The King turned pale, and shut his notebook hastily.
'Consider your verdict,' he said to the jury in a low, trembling voice….

. . . . 'No, no!' said the Queen. 'Sentence first—verdict afterward.' "

— Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

The figure at right in the video of today's previous post,
Peter Berck —

"In Alice in Wonderland , the Red Queen
does everything backwards—
she demands the punishment first, and then
the trial, and then the crime comes last of all.
Today, the Red Queen is everywhere."

— College of Natural Resources commencement address,
May 12, 2018, University of California, Berkeley

Berck's address was titled "The Red Queen."
It would have had diminished rhetorical effect if
correctly  titled "The Queen of Hearts."

Berck's dies natalis — "birth into heaven," in Catholic parlance —
was reportedly August 10, 2018.  A Log24 synchronology check
yields a different chess-related figure … Actor/director John Huston:

Wednesday, June 7, 2006

Wednesday June 7, 2006

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 10:00 am

Figures of Speech
Omen

(x)

in memory of
Arnold Newman,
dead on 6/6/6.
 

TIME magazine, issue dated June 12, 2006, item posted Sunday, June 4, 2006:

IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED …

By JULIE RAWE

"Nervous kids and obscure words are not the stuff of big-time TV, but this year's Scripps National Spelling Bee was an improbable nail-biter. One of the 13 finalists got reinstated after judges made a spelling error, a Canadian came in second–who knew foreign kids could compete?–and KATHARINE CLOSE, 13, prevailed in her fifth year. The eighth-grader from Spring Lake, N.J., won with ursprache. It means protolanguage. Now try to use it in conversation."

John T. Lysaker (pdf)
quoting Heidegger:
"Poetry is the
 originary language
    (Ursprache)…"

— Heidegger, Erlauterungen
zu Holderlins Dichtung.
 Frankfurt am Main:
Klostermann, 1971: 41.

See also a figure from
D-Day morning,
6/6/6:

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and a figure from
April 5, 2005: 


(Skewed Mirrors,
Sept. 14, 2003)

"Evil did not have
the last word."
— Richard John Neuhaus,
April 4, 2005

"This is the exact opposite
of what echthroi do in
their X-ing or un-naming."
— Wikipedia on
A Wind in the Door
 

"Lps. The keys to. Given!
 A way a lone a last
 a loved a long the
 PARIS,
 1922-1939"
 — James Joyce,
     Finnegans Wake


"There is never any ending
to Paris."
— Ernest Hemingway    

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