The previous post, "Dream of Plenitude," suggests . . .
"So here's to you, Nordstrom-Robinson . . . ."
Thursday, March 28, 2019
Dream of Plenitude
"This time-defying preservation of selves,
this dream of plenitude without loss, is like
a snow globe from heaven, a vision of Eden
before the expulsion."
— Judith Shulevitz on Siri Hustvedt in
The New York Times online, March 26.
See also, in this journal, the dream of Edenic plenitude
in the March 20 post "Secret Characters."
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Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Secret Characters
"Cell 461" quote from Curzio Malaparte superimposed on a scene from
the 1963 Godard film "Le Mépris " ("Contempt") —
"The architecture… beomes closely linked to the script…."
Malaparte's cell number , 461, is somewhat less closely linked
to the phrase "eternal blazon" —
Irving was quoted here on Dec. 22, 2008 —
The Tale of
the Eternal Blazon
by Washington Irving
“Blazon meant originally a shield , and then
the heraldic bearings on a shield .
Later it was applied to the art of describing
or depicting heraldic bearings in the proper
manner; and finally the term came to signify
ostentatious display and also description or
record by words or other means . In Hamlet ,
Act I Sc. 5, the Ghost, while talking with
Prince Hamlet, says:
‘But this eternal blazon must not be
To ears of flesh and blood.’
Eternal blazon signifies revelation or description
of things pertaining to eternity .”
— Irving’s Sketch Book , p. 461
Update of 6:25 PM ET —
"Self-Blazon… of Edenic Plenitude"
(The Issuu text is taken from Speaking about Godard , by Kaja Silverman
and Harun Farocki, New York University Press, 1998, page 34.)
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