In memory of American author Ella Leffland,* who reportedly
died on September 18, 2024 —
* Leffland wrote, notably, The Knight, Death, and the Devil .
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“The serpent’s eyes shine . . .” — Song lyric by Don Henley
In memory of British author Clive Sinclair,* who reportedly
died on March 5, 2018 —
* Sinclair was "born into a Jewish family originally named Smolensky."
— Wikipedia
Sunday, July 1, 2007
Sunday July 1, 2007
At the still point,
there the dance is.
— T. S. Eliot
there the dance is.
— T. S. Eliot
Humphrey Carpenter in The Inklings, his book on the Christian writers J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and Charles Williams, says that
"Eliot by his own admission took the 'still point of the turning world' in Burnt Norton from the Fool in Williams's The Greater Trumps."
— The Inklings, Ballantine Books, 1981, p. 106
Today's Birthdays: …. Actress-dancer Leslie Caron is 76…. Movie director Sydney Pollack is 73…. Dancer-choreographer Twyla Tharp is 66. –AP, "Today in History," July 1, 2007
The Diamond
in the Mandorla
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