Monday, October 16, 2023
Saturday, October 14, 2023
“Teaching Position”
The title is from a recent poet's obituary.
Some will prefer other sorts of position …
From a search for "Audrey Grace nude" …
Midrash for Ben Stiller —
Click the above quotation for
other remarks from 2018-05-25.
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Tuesday, September 26, 2023
Private View
The "private view" angle here is perhaps supplied by the plastic sheet
underlying the painting. See posts tagged Portable Door.
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Friday, June 23, 2023
A Little Drama
The broken pencil in a Dial illustration of June 20 —
"I could a tale unfold . . ." — Hamlet's father's ghost
"Thus the entire little drama, from crystallized carbon
and felled pine to this humble implement, to this
transparent thing, unfolds in a twinkle."
— Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things
"… a cardboard tube, more or less the same length as
the inner core of a toilet roll, but thicker. He frowned,
took the roll out, laid it on the desk and poked up it
with the butt end of a pencil. Something slid out.
It looked like a rolled-up black plastic dustbin liner;
but when he unfolded it, he recognised it as the funny
sheet thing he’d found in the strongroom and briefly
described as an Acme Portable Door, before losing
his nerve and changing it to something less facetious."
— Holt, Tom. The Portable Door . Orbit. Kindle Edition.
According to goodreads.com, the Holt book was
"first published March 6, 2003."
See also this journal on March 6, 2003, in a search for
Michelangelo Geometry.
Punchline of the above little drama —
"Try the other end of the pencil, Liz."
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Thursday, June 22, 2023
Unfolded Drama
"I could a tale unfold . . ." — Hamlet's father's ghost
"Thus the entire little drama, from crystallized carbon
and felled pine to this humble implement, to this
transparent thing, unfolds in a twinkle."
— Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things
"… a cardboard tube, more or less the same length as
the inner core of a toilet roll, but thicker. He frowned,
took the roll out, laid it on the desk and poked up it
with the butt end of a pencil. Something slid out.
It looked like a rolled-up black plastic dustbin liner;
but when he unfolded it, he recognised it as the funny
sheet thing he’d found in the strongroom and briefly
described as an Acme Portable Door, before losing
his nerve and changing it to something less facetious."
— Holt, Tom. The Portable Door . Orbit. Kindle Edition.
According to goodreads.com, the Holt book was
"first published March 6, 2003."
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Tuesday, June 20, 2023
… And of Evolution
(Continued from the previous post, Annals of Devolution)
The above seems an improved version of the
beach romp in the 2023 film of "The Portable Door."
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Monday, June 19, 2023
The Original Portable Door
"… a cardboard tube, more or less the same length as
the inner core of a toilet roll, but thicker. He frowned,
took the roll out, laid it on the desk and poked up it
with the butt end of a pencil. Something slid out.
It looked like a rolled-up black plastic dustbin liner;
but when he unfolded it, he recognised it as the funny
sheet thing he’d found in the strongroom and briefly
described as an Acme Portable Door, before losing
his nerve and changing it to something less facetious."
— Holt, Tom. The Portable Door . Orbit. Kindle Edition.
According to goodreads.com, the Holt book was
"first published March 6, 2003."
Compare and contrast the "portable door" as a literary device
with the "tesseract" in A Wrinkle in Time (1962).
See also this journal on March 6, 2003.
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Cinematic Devices
From a 2023 film, "The Portable Door" —
Image from LA's Koreatown in this journal on July 13, 2022 —
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Sunday, June 18, 2023
“Four Is a Door” — Mnemonic Rhyme*
Earlier posts have mentioned a British version of my work.
It currently appears among many other images at . . .
https://www.bsswebsite.me.uk/Puzzlewebsite/for-puzzlers.html —
Related cinema for Hogwarts fans —
* The late John Nash might prefer the version "For Isadore."
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Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
"Bedknobs and Broomsticks is a 1971 American musical fantasy film
directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Bill Walsh for
Walt Disney Productions. It is loosely based upon the books
The Magic Bedknob; or, How to Become a Witch in Ten Easy Lessons
(1944) and Bonfires and Broomsticks (1947) by English children's author
Mary Norton."
Glow with the Flow
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Thursday, January 19, 2023
Of London Bondage . . .
In 2007, April 30 — Walpurgisnacht — was the
release date of the "Back to Black" single . . .
A related music venue —
A related map —
This post was suggested by . . .
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