See also World's Columbian Exposition and an October 12th death.
Saturday, November 4, 2023
Matters of Exposition
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Friday, November 3, 2023
Doubleday Date
"Birthday, death-day — what day is not both?" — Updike
See today's New York Times report of
an October 12th death, and Log24 posts
tagged Oct. 12 2023.
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Saturday, June 9, 2012
Literary Symbolism
From a transcript of the Charlize Theron film
"The Astronaut's Wife"—
Schoolchildren —
"Down came the rain,
and washed the spider out,
out came the sun,
and dried up all the rain,
and the itsy-bitsy spider
climbed up the spout again."
See also The Patterning Windows.
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Wednesday, June 6, 2012
The Patterning Windows
Suggested by the previous posts "Venus Winks" and "Ray Bradbury, 1920-2012"—
And then, of course, the biggest crime of all was that she had come here only five years ago from Earth, and she remembered the sun and the way the sun was and the sky was when she was four in Ohio. And they, they had been on Venus all their lives, and they had been only two years old when last the sun came out and had long since forgotten the color and heat of it and the way it really was. But Margot remembered.
"It's like a penny," she said once, eyes closed.
"No it's not!" the children cried.
"It's like a fire," she said, "in the stove."
"You're lying, you don't remember!" cried the children.
But she remembered and stood quietly apart from all of them and watched the patterning windows.
— From the 1954 Ray Bradbury story "All Summer in a Day"
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