"Even though he’s not currently part of a Star Wars movie,
Lindelof seems open to working on the franchise down the line.
'Will I get back in line outside the club and try to get back in again?
Of course,' he added. '[Star Wars ] was the alpha and the omega.
It’s the first movie I saw in a movie theater. I love all of the storytelling
in that world. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Or again, again,
try, as Yoda would say.' ” — Jay Peters, The Verge , April 28, 2023
The title is a phrase from Tom Wolfe's The Painted Word —
"the seemingly innocuous obiter dicta ,
the words in passing, that give the game away"
The President on July 23, per USA TODAY —
"And there’s a need, whether it is true or not,
there is a need to project a different picture."
Related material —
EVERY LAST EASTER EGG AND REFERENCE
IN EPISODE 6 OF HBO'S WATCHMEN .
Wikipedia — "For the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards,
Damon Lindelof and Cord Jefferson won the award
for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series, Movie,
or Dramatic Special for this episode."
See also . . . The Bard of Teaneck —
"What if Shakespeare had been born in Teaneck, N.J., in 1973?
He would call himself Spear Daddy. His rap would exhibit a profound,
nuanced understanding of the frailty of the human condition, exploring
the personality in all its bewildering complexity: pretension, pride,
vulnerability, emotional treachery, as well as the enduring triumph of love.
Spear Daddy would disappear from the charts in about six weeks."
— Gene Weingarten in the Washington Post,
Sunday, Oct. 2, 2005
Weingarten's remarks were quoted here on that Sunday, along with
the following illustration —
Spear Daddy!
Happy Birthday, Wallace Stevens
Readings for today:
At the Wallace Stevens online concordance, search for X and for primitive.
In the e-book edition of Bester's The Deceivers, search for X.
"We seek
Nothing beyond reality. Within it,
Everything, the spirit's alchemicana
Included, the spirit that goes roundabout
And through included, not merely the visible,
The solid, but the movable, the moment,
The coming on of feasts and the habits of saints,
The pattern of the heavens and high, night air."
— Wallace Stevens,
Oct. 2, 1879 – Aug. 2, 1955,
"An Ordinary Evening in New Haven"
IX.1-18, from The Auroras of Autumn,
Knopf, NY (1950)
Related material:
(Added Monday, Oct. 3, 8:45 AM)
"What if Shakespeare had been born in Teaneck, N.J., in 1973?
He would call himself Spear Daddy. His rap would exhibit a profound, nuanced understanding of the frailty of the human condition, exploring the personality in all its bewildering complexity: pretension, pride, vulnerability, emotional treachery, as well as the enduring triumph of love.
Spear Daddy would disappear from the charts in about six weeks."
— Gene Weingarten in the Washington Post,
Sunday, Oct. 2, 2005
Presenting…
Continuing Bester's Maori theme,
students from Cullinane College:
(See Literature and Geography.)
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