The previous post suggests a review . . .
Related meditation: "He had to find his own path."
Thursday, July 20, 2023
Data Location
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Thursday, May 4, 2023
Into the West: Coachella* Concert
A trip down Memory Lane with the Eurythmics, and
a lullaby from Steely Dan.
"Some prefer more rural tunes . . . "
"I want to ride to the ridge where the West commences . . ."
* See a Log24 post of April 26, 2023.
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Friday, January 14, 2022
Infectious
The record-label address in the previous post suggests . . .
"The infectious '1650 Broadway Medley,' a mash-up
of the sounds from the era, spanning 'Yakety Yak,' to
'Love Potion No. 9,' is also joyously performed by the
ensemble."
Some prefer more rural tunes —
"I want to ride to the ridge where the West commences . . ."
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Wednesday, April 21, 2021
Wednesday, November 27, 2019
A Companion-Piece for the Circular Rectangle:
For the circular rectangle, see today's earlier post "Enter Jonathan Miller…."
A recent view of the above address —
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Enter Jonathan Miller, with Circular Rectangle
The late Jonathan Miller on the existence of the soul:
"The idea of a disembodied person makes no sense
at all, any more than the idea of a circular rectangle
makes sense."
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Friday, June 20, 2014
Into the West
Tonight I finally got around to seeing "Return of the King,"
the end of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, and
listened to Annie Lennox sing "Into the West"* over the
closing credits.
Searching for some background on the song, I found it
was said to have been first publicly performed at the funeral
of a young New Zealand filmmaker, Cameron Duncan.
Duncan reportedly died in Houston, Texas,
on November 12, 2003. See posts from that day and
the day before now tagged 'For Cameron Duncan."
* There is a 1992 film with the same title about Irish Travellers.
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Friday, March 5, 2004
Friday March 5, 2004
Songs for Shakespeare
from Willie and Waylon
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by Ben Brantley …."Dost thou know me, fellow?" thunders Christopher Plummer, who is giving the performance of a lifetime in the title role of "King Lear"…. Throughout Jonathan Miller's engrossing production of Shakespeare's bleakest tragedy, which opened last night, Mr. Plummer bestrides the boundary between being and nothingness….
The Line, |
LEAR:
Now you better do some thinkin'
then you'll find
You got the only daddy
that'll walk the line.
FOOL:
I've always been different
with one foot over the line….
I've always been crazy
but it's kept me from going insane.
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FOOL:
174. …. Now thou art an 0 without |
"…. in the last mystery of all the single figure of what is called the World goes joyously dancing in a state beyond moon and sun, and the number of the Trumps is done. Save only for that which has no number and is called the Fool, because mankind finds it folly till it is known. It is sovereign or it is nothing, and if it is nothing then man was born dead."
— The Greater Trumps,
by Charles Williams, Ch. 14
Follow-up of Friday, March 5
From Arts & Letters Daily,
Weekend Edition, March 6-7, 2004 —
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Some readers crave awe more than understanding, and lurid pop science is always there to feed their addiction to junk ideas… more» |
Does Shakespeare’s Lear have a spiritual dimension? “No,” insists Jonathan Miller. “That’s modern, New Age drivel…." more» |
The "more" link of the item at left above leads to an American Scientist article titled
The Importance of
Being Nothingness.
The appearance of these two items side-by-side at Arts & Letters Daily, together with Brantley's remark above, is an example of Jungian synchronicity — a concept that the American Scientist author and Jonathan Miller probably both sneer at. Sneer away.
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Monday, September 15, 2003
Monday September 15, 2003
All the King's Horses
Johnny Cash's funeral was today.
Today is also the feast day of the Protestant saint Robert Penn Warren.
Here is how Stanley Kubrick might
make a memorial stone for Cash.
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"He is |
The title of this entry, "All the King's Horses," is of course a slightly altered version of the title of Robert Penn Warren's famous novel. For the connection with horses, see my entries of
September 12, 2003, and of
See also
as well as the beginning of Mark Helprin's novel
"There was a white horse, on a quiet winter morning when snow covered the streets gently…."