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Thursday, February 15, 2024

For Harlan Kane: The Aggies Prayer

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:57 pm

"Pray for the grace of accuracy" — Robert Lowell

See also . . .

Monday, May 11, 2020

Nietzsche for Comedians

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:33 am

See also Shangri-La  and  “At the Back of the North Wind .”

Update from the Times —

Some things that happen for the first time….” — Song lyric

Sunday, May 10, 2020

Plato Again Thanks the Academy

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:41 pm

I prefer  The Pride of Lowell —

IMAGE- Scenes from 'The Fighter'- Amy Adams, Christian Bale

Some literary background— Doctor Sax.

Friday, November 26, 2010

Shining Forth

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:00 pm

continued from 2001

A quotation from Robert Lowell in this journal —

From “Epilogue,” in Robert Lowell’s Day by Day , 1977:

The painter’s vision is not a lens,
it trembles to caress the light.

….
All’s misalliance.
Yet why not say what happened?
Pray for the grace of accuracy
Vermeer gave to the sun’s illumination….

Lowell’s stepdaughter published a memoir, Why Not Say What Happened? , on October 19th, 2010.

What happened in this journal on that date was “Savage Logic and the New York Lottery.”

That post includes the quoted rhetorical question

“Is it a genuine demolition of the walls which seem to separate mind from mind…?”

Here is the context of October 19th—

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For a different, and to me more interesting, context for the “walls” question, see Party Phone  (August 31st, 2006).

Friday, March 12, 2010

Meanwhile, back in 1963…

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:29 pm

Today’s Harvard Crimson

Lowell House alumni include novelists John H. Updike ’54 and Michael Crichton ’64. Lowell House can also count several famous actors as alumni—Natalie Portman ’03 and Matt P. Damon (formerly ’92) both resided in Lowell House as undergraduates. Several Lowell alumni—such as Nicholas D. Kristof ’81 and Chris Wallace ’69—have pursued careers in journalism. Other famous names include former Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter ’61 and Japenese [sic] Crown Princess Masako ’85.

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