Reynolds Price died today. See Lore of the Manhattan Project in this journal.
In memoriam : Descartes's Twelfth Step and Symmetry and a Trinity.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Brightness at Noon, continued
"One wild rhapsody a fake for another."
– Wallace Stevens, "Arrival at the Waldorf," in Parts of a World (1942)
"Camelot is an illusion.
That doesn't matter, according to Catherine.
Camelot is an artificial construction, a public perception.
The things that matter are closer, deeper, self-generated, unkillable.
You've got to grow up to discover what those things are."
— Dan Zak, Washington Post movie review on Feb. 27, 2009. See also this journal on that date.
See as well a note on symmetry from Christmas Eve, 1981, and Verbum in this journal.
Some philosophical background— Derrida in the Garden.
Some historical background— A Very Private Woman and Noland.
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