In lieu of a hip Jesuit, vide "Sofia Coppola and All the Sad Girls"
by Emily Yoshida in The New York Times on the date of the above
"Teorema" post . . . November 10, 2023.
Monday, October 21, 2024
Coppola Family Values
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Sunday, October 20, 2024
For a Tim Burton Fan: Amityville Serenade
"By a knight of ghosts and shadows . . . ."
The "Lindenhurst" on the above map suggests an Irrelevant
geographic history note, and a scholium . . .
A Wroclaw image from 2011 in which a version of my own work appears —
Ekphrasis of the Cullinane-Lyche wall above . . .
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From The Golden Key by George MacDonald "We must find the country from which the shadows come," said Mossy. "We must, dear Mossy," responded Tangle. "What if your golden key should be the key to it?" "Ah! that would be grand," returned Mossy. |
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Sunday Spotlight* for Beetlejuice
* See also, in this journal, Saturday night's Spotlight Revisited.
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Sunday, October 8, 2023
Einführung
Metaphysics for the damned —
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From the 1979 film "A Little Romance" —
Reading something you It's just a book. I used to read those too. What is it?
An Introduction to Metaphysics,
School has changed I'm just reading it for fun.
Fun?
Most people think anyone
I don't. But I have to admit
Heidegger.
Heidegger isn't all that hard.
Like, "Why is there something |
… And for the not so damned —
The Source —
https://www.bard.edu/library/arendt/pdfs/
Heidegger-EinfuhrungMetaphysik.pdf
The actress playing the teen reading Heidegger in the 1979 film
"A Little Romance" was Diane Lane. The film was set in Venice.
Later in Venice . . .
Ben Affleck and Diane Lane at the 2006 Venice Film Festival
premiere of "Hollywoodland" :
An antidote to Hollywoodland . . .
The classic novel Under the Volcano :
"Here was finality indeed, and cleavage!"
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Monday, May 8, 2023
The Eighth Day… Continues.
From my hometown newspaper
on the eve of my 16th birthday —
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Saturday, August 15, 2015
Schoolboy Problem
Sir Laurence Olivier, in "Term of Trial" (1962), dangles
a participle in front of schoolboy Terence Stamp:
"Walking to school today
my arithmetic book
fell into the gutter"
Were Stamp a Galois, the reply might be "Try this one, sir."
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