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Thursday, March 7, 2024

State of the Intersection

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 1:12 pm

T. S. Eliot on the intersection of the timeless with time

See as well a post from this  journal on 26 Oct. 2017
and other posts now tagged Nowhere Legitimated.

Tuesday, August 16, 2022

The Pristine Edge of Darkness

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , , , , , — m759 @ 6:44 am
 

Westworld Season 4 Episode 8 (Finale)

Christina: Where am I? 
Maya: You're nowhere. Unplugged from the rest of the world. (Wind swooshing)
Christina: I'm alone again. In the walled garden. 
Maya: You're scared. So you brought me back. Talk to me, Chrissie. 
Christina: Everything is destroyed. Everyone is dying. I don't know. (Wind whooshing) (Leaves rustling) But I think it may be my fault. (Melancholic music playing) 
Maya: You know, people think they know what a tree is. They have no idea. What we see, it's only part of the story. But beneath the ground… everything's connected and working together. There's violence and chaos everywhere. And you can choose to focus on all of that. And that's all you'll see. But if you sit still… (Leaves rustling) …long enough… you'll sense an ancient order. A deep peace. (Breathes deeply) And that's what I choose to see. (Inhales) I see the beauty in this world. 
Christina: Yes. (Chuckles softly) I know the feeling. 
Maya: I thought you might. (Melancholic music concludes)

Read more at: 
https://tvshowtranscripts.ourboard.org/
viewtopic.php?f=738&t=55566

From a college botany laboratory in the 1915
D. H. Lawrence novel The Rainbow —

"Suddenly she had passed away into
an intensely-gleaming light of knowledge."

A later passage in the same novel, under
a metaphorical Tree of Life —

"She passed away as on a dark wind, far, far away,
into the pristine darkness of paradise, into the original
immortality. She entered the dark fields of immortality."

Some will prefer . . .

For further context, see posts tagged Screw Theory.

Thursday, January 16, 2020

NowHere

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

The title is suggested by the word "NowHere" on a map
that I encountered in a personal weblog post tonight.

Related Google search —

Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

Thursday, October 26, 2017

A Center

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 8:40 pm

This post was suggested by a New York Times  obituary this evening —

"Tom Mathews, Promoter of Liberal Causes and Candidates, Dies at 96."

Mathews reportedly died on October 14, 2017.

"Mr. Mathews and his business partner Roger Craver 'dreamed for years
of finding the perfect citizen-candidate,' the authors wrote, 'a man or
woman of the center-left with a feel for issues, a history of independence,
a winning television manner and, most important of all, a center — a core
of beliefs more important to him or her than getting elected.'

Dream on.

From the date of Mathews's death:

Posts now tagged A Center for Krauss —

"Let no one ignorant of geometry enter"

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Status Symbols

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , , — m759 @ 2:02 pm

"Status: Defunct" … 

As is now its owner, who reportedly
died at 80 on Sunday, October 15, 2017.

In memoriam —

Excerpts from Log24 posts on Sunday night 
and yesterday evening —

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11/110203-Scholia.jpg.

" … listen: there's a hell
of a good universe next door; let's go"

— e. e. cummings

Some literary background —

"At the point of convergence
the play of similarities and differences
cancels itself out in order that 
identity alone may shine forth. 
The illusion of motionlessness,
the play of mirrors of the one: 
identity is completely empty;
it is a crystallization and
in its transparent core
the movement of analogy 
begins all over once again."

— The Monkey Grammarian 

by Octavio Paz, translated by Helen Lane 

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