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Sunday, April 6, 2008

Sunday April 6, 2008

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:07 pm

Synchronicity

"Something isn't real until it's on TV."
— Folk saying quoted, for instance,
   in Postmodern Times

Time of this entry: 11:07:48 PM.

Overheard yesterday, on the night
of Charlton Heston's death:

"He's a good gun, and we aren't
  heading for a church social."

— Yul Brynner to Steve McQueen
    in The Magnificent Seven
    (AMC, 8 PM ET Saturday, April 5, 2008)

"Lord, I remember!"
— Bob Seger

Related material:
this date last year
(Good Friday)

Sunday April 6, 2008

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:12 am
For Sunrise

Charlton Heston as Ben-Hur in the New York Times online obituaries, morning of April 6, 2008

Click image to enlarge.

The above tableau, from this morning's
New York Times obituary page,
suggests the following meditations:

1. "Mickey Mouse will see you dead."
   — Robert Stone, A Flag for Sunrise
 
2. "Free!"
 
3. "I graduated in Alabama,
     Alaska, Arizona…."

These three meditations are
consistent with the fable of the
mice and the lion in The Lion,
The Witch, and the Wardrobe
and with the speech of
Aslan at the conclusion of
The Narnia Chronicles:

"The term is over: the holidays
have begun. The dream is
ended: this is the morning."

The rather depressing
"Death Notices" box
that has attracted
Charlton Heston's gaze
in the online obituaries
pictured above might
be replaced as follows:

A Hexagram for Charlton Heston-- Number 35: The sun rises above the earth

The Heston classic pictured
above is, let us recall,
based on a book titled
Ben-Hur: A Tale of
the Christ.

"I know this man!"
— Charlton Heston

Time of this entry:
2:12:35.

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