"The loveliness of Paris seems somehow sadly gay." — Song lyric
Former logo of the American
Mathematical Society —
Note the resemblance to
Harvard's Memorial Church.
A rather different four-column logo —
Related lyrics —
"Spread your wings and let me come inside."
— Rod Stewart, October 1976
Kristen, Rod . . . Rod, Kristen.
In memory of Ed Wood:
"Such a brilliant director, a fucking powerhouse…."
— Recent Instagram comment
"Twilight was theatrically released on November 21, 2008;
it grossed over US$393 million worldwide. It was released
on DVD March 21, 2009 and became the most purchased
DVD of the year." — Wikipedia
See also November 21, 2008, in posts tagged Olaf Gate.
Related material —
As inquisitions go, I prefer the Holy Office of Philip Pullman.
Before thir eyes in sudden view appear The secrets of the hoarie deep, a dark Illimitable Ocean without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and highth, And time and place are lost; where eldest Night And Chaos, Ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal Anarchie, amidst the noise Of endless warrs and by confusion stand. For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four Champions fierce Strive here for Maistrie, and to Battel bring amidst the noise Thir embryon Atoms.... ... Into this wilde Abyss, The Womb of nature and perhaps her Grave, Of neither Sea, nor Shore, nor Air, nor Fire, But all these in thir pregnant causes mixt Confus'dly, and which thus must ever fight, Unless th' Almighty Maker them ordain His dark materials to create more Worlds, Into this wilde Abyss the warie fiend Stood on the brink of Hell and look'd a while, Pondering his Voyage.... -- John Milton, Paradise Lost , Book II
“ Harry decides his chief peacetime duty is to use his
gift for gab to further his ‘overriding purpose,’ namely:
‘By recalling the past and freezing the present he could
open the gates of time and through them see all
allegedly sequential things as a single masterwork
with neither boundaries nor divisions.’ Once he opens
these gates, Harry will flood his audience with his
redemptive epiphanic impression that ‘the world was
saturated with love.’ ”
— Liesl Schillinger, review of Mark Helprin’s novel
In Sunlight and in Shadow in The New York Times ,
Oct. 5, 2012
"I need a photo-opportunity,
I want a shot at redemption.
Don't want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard."
— Rhymin' Simon
See as well Kristen Stewart in the
film version of . . .
Who is the Red Pawn?
One answer, from the author of a book pictured here yesterday—
"Breaking Dawn 's cover is a metaphor for Bella's progression
throughout the entire saga. She began as the weakest
(at least physically, when compared to vampires and werewolves)
player on the board: the pawn. She ended as the strongest: the queen."
An answer I personally prefer— the Saturday Night Live version.
See also, in this journal, The Eight .
Today's showtimes at ArcLight Hollywood—
Meanwhile…
Related (?) material—
A quote from the 2007 Anthony Hopkins film "Slipstream"—
"We've lost the plot!"—
as it has appeared in this journal.
See also the Dec. 7th note on Don Sebastian de Villanueva and…
Happy birthday, Kirk Douglas.
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