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… who reportedly died on March 11 —

Posts now tagged Labyrinth for Penelope.

See also the previous post and this journal on the above date.

The Diamond in the Labyrinth

From the labyrinth of Solitude:

1. An Invariant Feast
2. Columbia News obituary of Robert D. Cumming
3. Solitude

   (Phenomenology and Deconstruction, Vol 4
   by Robert Denoon Cumming)

   On page 13 of Solitude —

   From Heidegger’s “Letter on Humanism” —
   “… so long as philosophy merely busies itself with continually obstructing the possibility of admission to the subject of thinking– that is, the truth of being– it escapes the danger of ever being broken against the hardness of that subject.  Thus ‘philosophizing’ about the shattering is separated by an abyss from a thinking that is shattered.”

   This suggests a search for
   “Heidegger” + “diamond,” which yields —

4. The Diamond at the End of Time,
   which leads to
5. Orson Welles Interviews Jilly Dybka,
   which leads to
6. Poetry Hut Blog,
   which leads to
   
   
7. Fair Territory, by Jilly Dybka,
   which contains the following —
8. The Quickening

   I hold my breath, the plane’s
      wheels under me
   still suspended in the minutes after
   takeoff, when the planet’s brute gravity
   statistically can cause a disaster.
   We are flying low enough that I scan
   civilization in miniature.
   Blue pill swimming pools, and
      roadways that fan
   out like ribbons in the wind. On the sure
   crust, too, a baseball diamond.
      Young boys race
   across the tilted surface, mute and small,
   kicking up red dust. First base, Second base,
   Third Base, Home. We ascend into nightfall
   and beneath the broken stars one kid bunts.
   I remember I was a rookie once.

9. From yesterday’s online New York Times:

   

Nine is a Vine.

From Margalit Fox in today’s New York Times:

“Eddie Barclay, who for three decades after World War II was arguably the most powerful music mogul in Europe and inarguably the most flamboyant, died on [Friday] May 13 in Paris. He was 84….

… Mr. Barclay was best known for three things: popularizing American jazz in France in the postwar years; keeping the traditional French chanson alive into the age of rock ‘n’ roll; and presiding over parties so lavish that they were considered just the tiniest bit excessive even by the standards of the French Riviera….

Among the guests at some of his glittering parties… Jack Nicholson….”

Related material:

“Joyce’s confidant in Zurich in 1918, Frank Budgen, luckily for us described the process of writing Ulysses…. ‘Not Bloom, not Stephen is here the principal personage, but Dublin itself… All towns are labyrinths…’  While working… Joyce bought a game called Labyrinth, which he played every evening for a time with his daughter, Lucia. From this game he cataloged the six main errors of judgment into which one might fall in seeking a way out of a maze.”

— quoted by Bruce Graham from The Creators by Daniel Boorstin

“We’ll always have Paris.”

— An Invariant Feast, Log24, Sept. 6, 2004

 “Mathematical realism holds that mathematical entities exist independently of the human mind.  Thus humans do not invent mathematics, but rather discover it, and any other intelligent beings in the universe would presumably do the same. The term Platonism is used because such a view is seen to parallel Plato’s belief in a “heaven of ideas”, an unchanging ultimate reality that the everyday world can only imperfectly approximate. Plato’s view probably derives from Pythagoras, and his followers the Pythagoreans, who believed that the world was, quite literally, built up by the numbers. This idea may have even older origins that are unknown to us.” — Wikipedia

Agon

for Penelope Doob,
Radcliffe '64:

"How much story do you want?"
— George Balanchine