(Continued from St. Augustine's Day, 2012)
"Plan 9 deals with the resurrection of the dead."
Epigraph to "No Great Magic," a story by Fritz Leiber:
To bring the dead to life
Is no great magic.
Few are wholly dead:
Blow on a dead man’s embers
And a live flame will start.
—Graves
The title phrase appears in today's noon post and also
in a post of October 29, 2007, 'Home from Home.'
A note from the director of the 2014 Scarlett Johansson film Lucy :
Revised version of a post of February 9, 2006, with links repaired:
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Space, Time, and Scarlett
From last night’s Grammy awards, lyrics:
“a place where there’s no space or time” Aguilera's version wasn't bad, but …
“Scarlett Johansson does this ‘old Hollywood glam’ look
For a reference to the place described in Russell’s lyrics, |
The "point of reference" outside space and time
in the 2006 Johansson post above is of course "265."
For Plato's remarks at this reference point, see Phaedrus
265d and 265e in this morning's post.
An image related to the recent posts Sense and Sensibility:
A quote from yesterday's post The Eight:
A possible source for the above phrase about phenomena "carved at their joints":
See also the carving at the joints of Plato's diamond from the Meno :
Related material: Phaedrus on Kant as a diamond cutter
in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance .
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