See as well Jonathan Miller in this journal.
Sunday, April 7, 2024
Annals of Complex Results: Miller’s Art
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Wednesday, November 27, 2019
A Companion-Piece for the Circular Rectangle:
For the circular rectangle, see today's earlier post "Enter Jonathan Miller…."
A recent view of the above address —
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Enter Jonathan Miller, with Circular Rectangle
The late Jonathan Miller on the existence of the soul:
"The idea of a disembodied person makes no sense
at all, any more than the idea of a circular rectangle
makes sense."
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Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Analogies Test
Obituary for Wilford Stanton Miller, author in 1926
of the Miller Analogies Test —
Marshall McLuhan writing to Ezra Pound on Dec. 21, 1948—
"The American mind is not even close to being amenable
to the ideogram principle as yet. The reason is simply this.
America is 100% 18th Century. The 18th century had
chucked out the principle of metaphor and analogy—
the basic fact that as A is to B so is C to D. AB:CD.
It can see AB relations. But relations in four terms are still
verboten. This amounts to deep occultation of nearly all
human thought for the U.S.A.
I am trying to devise a way of stating this difficulty as it exists.
Until stated and publicly recognized for what it is, poetry and
the arts can’t exist in America."
A line for W. S. Miller, taken from "Annie Hall" —
"You know nothing of my work."
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Friday, March 5, 2004
Friday March 5, 2004
Songs for Shakespeare
from Willie and Waylon
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by Ben Brantley …."Dost thou know me, fellow?" thunders Christopher Plummer, who is giving the performance of a lifetime in the title role of "King Lear"…. Throughout Jonathan Miller's engrossing production of Shakespeare's bleakest tragedy, which opened last night, Mr. Plummer bestrides the boundary between being and nothingness….
The Line, |
LEAR:
Now you better do some thinkin'
then you'll find
You got the only daddy
that'll walk the line.
FOOL:
I've always been different
with one foot over the line….
I've always been crazy
but it's kept me from going insane.
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FOOL:
174. …. Now thou art an 0 without |
"…. in the last mystery of all the single figure of what is called the World goes joyously dancing in a state beyond moon and sun, and the number of the Trumps is done. Save only for that which has no number and is called the Fool, because mankind finds it folly till it is known. It is sovereign or it is nothing, and if it is nothing then man was born dead."
— The Greater Trumps,
by Charles Williams, Ch. 14
Follow-up of Friday, March 5
From Arts & Letters Daily,
Weekend Edition, March 6-7, 2004 —
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Some readers crave awe more than understanding, and lurid pop science is always there to feed their addiction to junk ideas… more» |
Does Shakespeare’s Lear have a spiritual dimension? “No,” insists Jonathan Miller. “That’s modern, New Age drivel…." more» |
The "more" link of the item at left above leads to an American Scientist article titled
The Importance of
Being Nothingness.
The appearance of these two items side-by-side at Arts & Letters Daily, together with Brantley's remark above, is an example of Jungian synchronicity — a concept that the American Scientist author and Jonathan Miller probably both sneer at. Sneer away.
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