From Monday morning's post in memory of actor Tom Wilkinson —
Related material — Plato's "form of the Good" and . . .
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Related reading: The previous post and the March 5, 2004,
New York Times review of the movie titled "Starsky & Hutch" —
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Friday, March 5, 2004
Friday March 5, 2004
Signifying Nothing
Fred Benninger, the former chairman of MGM Grand and the MGM studio, died at 86 at his home in Las Vegas on Sunday, Feb. 29, 2004.
"Mr. Benninger was well known in the business world for decades, but he made his biggest mark in the gambling industry."
For Benninger, who died on Oscar Day, a two-part story.
Part One
From an entry for
Oscar Day:
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Types of Ambiguity
1. Oscar: military phonetic ….
6. Macbeth "…. a tale 7. Enter a Messenger. |
Part Two
From an entry for
Columbus Day, 2003:
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Friday March 5, 2004
Songs for Shakespeare
from Willie and Waylon
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by Ben Brantley …."Dost thou know me, fellow?" thunders Christopher Plummer, who is giving the performance of a lifetime in the title role of "King Lear"…. Throughout Jonathan Miller's engrossing production of Shakespeare's bleakest tragedy, which opened last night, Mr. Plummer bestrides the boundary between being and nothingness….
The Line, |
LEAR:
Now you better do some thinkin'
then you'll find
You got the only daddy
that'll walk the line.
FOOL:
I've always been different
with one foot over the line….
I've always been crazy
but it's kept me from going insane.
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FOOL:
174. …. Now thou art an 0 without |
"…. in the last mystery of all the single figure of what is called the World goes joyously dancing in a state beyond moon and sun, and the number of the Trumps is done. Save only for that which has no number and is called the Fool, because mankind finds it folly till it is known. It is sovereign or it is nothing, and if it is nothing then man was born dead."
— The Greater Trumps,
by Charles Williams, Ch. 14
Follow-up of Friday, March 5
From Arts & Letters Daily,
Weekend Edition, March 6-7, 2004 —
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Some readers crave awe more than understanding, and lurid pop science is always there to feed their addiction to junk ideas… more» |
Does Shakespeare’s Lear have a spiritual dimension? “No,” insists Jonathan Miller. “That’s modern, New Age drivel…." more» |
The "more" link of the item at left above leads to an American Scientist article titled
The Importance of
Being Nothingness.
The appearance of these two items side-by-side at Arts & Letters Daily, together with Brantley's remark above, is an example of Jungian synchronicity — a concept that the American Scientist author and Jonathan Miller probably both sneer at. Sneer away.
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