Saturday, December 23, 2023
Friday, December 22, 2023
Wiki’d
Lewis Carroll's chess Red Queen, from Through the Looking Glass,
is "often confused with" the playing cards Queen of Hearts,
from Alice in Wonderland —
" The King turned pale, and shut his notebook hastily.
'Consider your verdict,' he said to the jury in a low, trembling voice….
. . . . 'No, no!' said the Queen. 'Sentence first—verdict afterward.' "
— Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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The figure at right in the video of today's previous post,
"In Alice in Wonderland , the Red Queen
— College of Natural Resources commencement address,
Berck's address was titled "The Red Queen." |
Berck's dies natalis — "birth into heaven," in Catholic parlance —
was reportedly August 10, 2018. A Log24 synchronology check
yields a different chess-related figure … Actor/director John Huston:
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Thursday, March 3, 2022
Reverse Cowgirl Lyrics
Giddy up a oom papa oom papa mow mow
Giddy up a oom papa oom papa mow mow
G7 C
Hi-yo silver away
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Sunday, October 29, 2006
Sunday October 29, 2006
Decrease
(Readings for the
Halloween season)
Halloween season)
In 1692 on July 31, at the time of the Salem witchcraft trials, Increase Mather reportedly "delivered a sermon… in Boston in which he posed the question… 'O what makes the difference between the devils in hell and the angels of heaven?'"
Increase, the father of Cotton Mather, was president of Harvard from June 27, 1692, to Sept. 6, 1701. His name is memorialized by Harvard's Mather House.
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Locating Hell
"Noi siam venuti al loco ov' i' t'ho detto
"We have come to where From a Harvard student's weblog: Heard in Mather I hope you get gingivitis You want me to get oral cancer?! Goodnight fartface Turd. Turd. Turd. Turd. Turd. Make your own waffles!! Blah blah blah starcraft blah blah starcraft blah starcraft. It's da email da email. And some blue hair! Oohoohoo Izod! 10 gigs! Yeah it smells really bad. Only in the stairs though. Starcraft blah blah Starcraft fartface. Yeah it's hard. You have to get a bunch of battle cruisers. 40 kills! So good! Oh ho ho grunt grunt squeal. I'm getting sick again. You have a final tomorrow? In What?! Um I don't even know. Next year we're draggin him there and sticking the needle in ourselves. " … one more line/ unravelling from the dark design/ spun by God and Cotton Mather" — Robert Lowell |
To honor Harvard's Oct. 28 founding,
here are yesterday's numbers from
the state of Grace (Kelly, of Philadelphia):
The Image
here are yesterday's numbers from
the state of Grace (Kelly, of Philadelphia):
Related material:
Log24 on 1/16,
and Hexagram 41,
Decrease
The Image
At the foot of the mountain, the lake:
The image of Decrease.
Thus the superior man controls his anger
And restrains his instincts.
This suggests thoughts of
the novel Cold Mountain
(see yesterday morning)
and the following from
Log24 on St. Luke's Day
this year:
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Established in 1916, Montreat College is a private, Christian college located in a beautiful valley in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. |
"The valley spirit never dies…"
See also St. Luke's Day, 2004,
as well as a journal entry
prompted by both
the ignorant religion
of Harvard's past
and the ignorant scientism
of Harvard's present–
Hitler's Still Point:
A Hate Speech for Harvard.
This last may, of course, not
quite fit the description of
the superior man
controlling his anger
so wisely provided by
yesterday's lottery and
Hexagram 41.
Nobody's perfect.
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