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Wednesday, March 3, 2004
Wednesday March 3, 2004
An Association of Ideas
"The association is the idea." — Ian Lee
"One of my teachers told me I was a nihilist… I took it as a compliment."
— Susanna Kaysen in Girl, Interrupted
MIT biography of Carl Kaysen, Susanna Kaysen's father:
"His scholarly work has ranged widely in the areas where economics, sociology, politics and law overlap."
From Venn Diagram
by Alejandro Fuentes Penna and
Oscar de la Paz Arroyo,
ITESM Campus Cuernavaca,
Lomas de Cuernavaca,
Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
"Ahí construyó Félix Candela la Capilla abierta (1959, junto con Guillermo Rosell y Manuel Larrosa)
que iba a ser un templo para todas las religiones, pero que no fue autorizada por las autoridades. Más adelante la Capilla habría de convertirse en restaurante, como el de Xochimilco construido en 1957, discoteca, bar y teatro. En el Casino de la Selva vivieron personajes famosos. Uno de ellos fue el escritor inglés Malcolm Lowry…."
— El Casino de la Selva,
Octavio Rodríguez Araujo
"No se puede vivir sin amar."
— Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
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Wednesday, January 8, 2003
Wednesday January 8, 2003
Into the Woods
From the Words on Film site:
"The proximal literary antecedents for Under the Volcano are Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, especially The Inferno, on the one hand, and on the other, the Faust legend as embodied in the dramatic poem Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and the play Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe."
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"In the opening page of the novel, we find the words "The Hotel Casino de la Selva stands on a slightly higher hill …" (Lowry, Volcano p. 3). "Selva" is one of the Spanish words for "woods." One of the cantinas in the novel is named El Bosque, and bosque is another Spanish word for "woods." The theme of being in a darkling woods is reiterated throughout the novel." |
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Tonight's site music is "Children Will Listen,"
by Stephen Sondheim, from "Into the Woods."
Stephen Hawking is 61 today.
An appropriate gift might be a cassette version of
The Screwtape Letters, by C. S. Lewis,
narrated by John Cleese.
See also this review of Lewis's That Hideous Strength
and my entries of Dec. 31, 2002, and Jan. 4, 2003.
Wednesday, January 1, 2003
Wednesday January 1, 2003
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ART WARS: That Old Devil Moon |
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From The New York Times, Wed., Jan. 1, 2003:
Richard Horner, 82,
Broadway Producer, Is DeadRichard Horner, a Broadway theater owner and producer who won a Tony Award for the 1974 revival of Eugene O'Neill's "Moon for the Misbegotten," died on Saturday [December 28, 2002] at his home in Palm Springs, Calif. He was 82.
According to one source, the O'Neill revival opened on December 28, 1973 — the same date on which the life of one of its producers was later to close.
From a CurtainUp review:
The revival at the Morosco was dubbed by its company "The Resurrection Play" since Jason Robards undertook the part just after a near fatal car accident and its legendary director José Quintero had just given up drinking.
According to the Internet Broadway Database, this revival, or resurrection, took place officially not on December 28 — the date of Horner's death — but, appropriately, a day later.
At any rate, O'Neill's title, along with my weblog entry of December 28, 2002,
"On This Date," featuring Kylie Minogue,
suggests the following mini-exhibit of artistic efforts:
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Curtain Up!
July 2000
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Under the Volcano: A painting based on Malcolm Lowry's classic novel. Having played tennis, Dr. Vigil and M. Laruelle talk about the events a year earlier. The view is of Cuernavaca from the Casino de la Selva hotel.
Painting by
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For further details on Kylie, Mexico, tequila, and
Under the Volcano,
see my entry of November 5, 2002.
For today's site music, click "Old Devil Moon" here.
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Addendum of 9:30 pm 1/1/03:
For a politically correct view
For a more perceptive analysis,
If there is a devil here,
J. D. Salinger (Nine Stories),
Frazer might appreciate the remarks in
Not amused: Charlotte Raven
Raven, take a bough.
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