Above: Episode 2 of "3 Body Problem" on Netflix. This suggests
a review of the phrase "Set the controls for the heart of the sun."
That phrase appeared here in a post of Wednesday, March 6.
Related material from Boxing Day, 2016 —
"Who knows, really…" — Perhaps James Joyce.
The phrase "one of a kind malfunction" from the previous post
suggested the title of this post.
For what that title might mean, see remarks on the concept
"beauty bare" in posts tagged The Utrecht Models.
An illustration from those posts —
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* Ray-circle. See an image search.
One of a Kind Malfunction
Related literary remarks —
See also "Circle in the Square" and Fulcrum.
*For the title phrase, vide Wikipedia.
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“That summer of ’68, I was in a vast crowd in London’s sunlit Hyde Park listening to Pink Floyd’s free concert: One inch of love is one inch of shadow Right on! Anything seemed possible….” — Roger Cohen, May 28, 2008, on 1968, “Much of Badiou’s life has been shaped by his dedication to the consequences of the May 1968 revolt in Paris.” |
“The Event of Truth,”
European Graduate School video:
Quoted by Badiou at
European Graduate School,
August 2002:
| We live in a constellation Of patches and of pitches, Not in a single world, In things said well in music, On the piano and in speech, As in a page of poetry— Thinkers without final thoughts In an always incipient cosmos. The way, when we climb a mountain, Vermont throws itself together. — Wallace Stevens, Or Pennsylvania:
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(in memory of George Latshaw,
who died on Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2006)
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Brightness Doubled Seven is Heaven “Love is the shadow Witness the man who — Roger Waters, quoted in |
Garrett comments on Wordsworth’s approach to landscape, citing Karl Mannheim, Ideology and Utopia, translated by Louis Wirth and Edward Shils (page numbers below refer to the 1998 Routledge edition):
“… ‘the present becomes the breach through which what was previously inward, bursts out suddenly, takes hold of the outer world and transforms it’ [p. 193]. This breaking through into ecstasy can only be brought about through ‘Kairos‘ or ‘fulfilled time'”….
See translators’ note, p. 198: “In Greek mythology Kairos is the God of Opportunity– the genius of the decisive moment. The Christianized notion of this is given thus in Paul Tillich‘s The Religious Situation [1925, translation by H. Richard Niebuhr, New York, Holt, 1932, pp. 138-139]: ‘Kairos is fulfilled time, the moment of time which is invaded by eternity. But Kairos is not perfection or completion in time.'”
Garrett quotes Wordsworth’s 1850 Prelude:
There are in our existence spots of time,
That with distinct pre-eminence retain
A renovating virtue … (12.208-210)
“And in book 14 Wordsworth…. symbolizes how man can find transcendent unity with the universe through the image of himself leading his group to the peak of Mt. Snowdon. Climbing at night in thick fog, he almost steps off a cliff, but at the last instant, he steps out of the mist, the moon appears, and his location on the brink is revealed. Walking in the darkness of reason, his imagination illumed the night, revealed the invisible world, and spared him his life.”
See also Charles Frazier on the edge of eternity:
“They climbed to a bend and from there they walked on great slabs of rock. It seemed to Inman that they were at the lip of a cliff, for the smell of the thin air spoke of considerable height, though the fog closed off all visual check of loftiness…. Then he looked back down and felt a rush of vertigo as the lower world was suddenly revealed between his boot toes. He was indeed at the lip of a cliff, and he took one step back….”
Christopher Fry’s obituary
in The New York Times—
“His plays radiated
From Log24 on October 7, 2005,
the day that Dr. Michael Ward died:
Seven is Heaven
“Love is the shadow that ripens the vine.
Set the controls for the heart of the Sun.
Witness the man who raves at the wall
Making the shape of his questions to Heaven.
Knowing the sun will fall in the evening,
Will he remember the lessons of giving?
Set the controls for the heart of the Sun.
Set the controls for the heart of the Sun.”
— Roger Waters, quoted in
Allusions to Classical
Chinese Poetry in Pink Floyd
Seven is Heaven
“Love is the shadow that ripens the vine.
Set the controls for the heart of the Sun.
Witness the man who raves at the wall
Making the shape of his questions to Heaven.
Knowing the sun will fall in the evening,
Will he remember the lessons of giving?
Set the controls for the heart of the Sun.
Set the controls for the heart of the Sun.”
— Roger Waters, quoted in
Allusions to Classical
Chinese Poetry in Pink Floyd
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