A music producer pawns his current drum device
and acquires a demonic 1970s machine.
Related material —
This post was suggested by a remark made during the filming
of "Edge of Tomorrow," by a Log24 post on the new Nolan film
about Oppenheimer, and by the work of a different Edge:
"… a reality that only my notes can provide."
— Kinbote in Nabokov's novel Pale Fire
Edward Rothstein last Monday:
"What is being said?
What does it mean?
Where does it come from
and where else is it used?"
A partial answer:
today's previous entry,
"For Philip Rieff,"
and an midrash on
the word "Pahuk"
(as in "Pahuk Pride,"
the name of this week's
Boy Scout gathering
in Iowa at which
a tornado killed four) —
Click on image for further details.
Rieff was the author of
Sacred Order/Social Order,
Volume 1–
My Life among the Deathworks:
Illustrations of the
Aesthetics of Authority
(University of Virginia Press, 2006)
Rieff's concept of sacred order
was Jewish rather than Pawnee,
but his writings still seem relevant.
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