Friday, March 28, 2025
Early James† Reads Krysten Ritter*
"You are everywhere and nowhere.
You melt into the crowd. Swipe your boarding pass
over the small red laser beam and hear its reassuring beep.
You board the plane and take your first-class seat.
You lift into the air."
— Ritter, Krysten. Retreat: A Novel (p. 260).
HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.
† "I've got this problem when I'm reading a book.
Know there's an ending, so I can't help but look."
* See this morning's Ritter post.
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Minimalist Space
See the March 24 New York Times obituary of a former Venice Beach artist
who reportedly died at 83 in Manhattan on March 14.
Related material from this journal on March 14 — Modernist Testament.
Friday, March 21, 2025
Conway Scenic Locomotion
See as well Conway and Congregated Light . . .
and, for Hotel New Hampshire fans,
Conway Scenic Railroad . . .
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Through a Glass, Very Darkly . . .
The Two Towers
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The Two Towers
The Two Towers
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
For the Orgy Dome Cleanup Crew
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Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Applied Eliot
This post was suggested by the date of an Artforum article . . .
The New York Times reported yesterday that Arn is art critic
of The New Yorker no longer, due to alleged misbehavior
in February at the publication's 100th anniversary party.
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Eindhoven Playgrounds
For other approaches to that venue, see Eindhoven
in this journal … in particular, the post Oeuvre of July 21, 2020.
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Thursday, March 13, 2025
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
“Prime Target” Scholium:
Brick Space for Apple TV
For Astra herself, see . . .
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Brick Space for Apple TV
Brick Space for Apple TV
Sunday, March 9, 2025
Coxeter’s “Pleasantly Discursive”
“What Is Truth?” . . . Continues.
See as well the post "Advanced Study" of October 2, 2017, and …
Update . . .
https://x.com/LGBTMath/status/1641817634349133824 —
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“What Is Truth?” . . . Continues.
“What Is Truth?” . . . Continues.
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Brick-Space News
Earlier in this journal, a more abstract approach . . .
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Tuesday, February 25, 2025
L.A. Venue: Marmont Lane
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Tuesday, August 27, 2024
“Accomplished in Steps”
"It's going to be accomplished in steps,
this establishment of the Talented
in the scheme of things."
— To Ride Pegasus ,
by Anne McCaffrey* (Radcliffe '47)
An AI image created on Feb. 24, 2024, by https://neural.love —
"Lily Collins Playing Chess" —
* Dies Natalis: November 21, 2011.
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Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Documentary Shorts: Operation Pinocchio
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Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Garden Party: “No Ordinary Venue”
"It's all right now, I learned my lesson well." — Song lyric
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Wednesday, November 23, 2022
Prescott Street: “Second-Rate Venue?” Discuss.
In memory of an economist who reportedly died on Nov. 6 —
See also a Log24 post from Prescott's reported death date,
and a search in this journal for Prescott Street.
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Sunday, November 6, 2022
The ’64-’65 Gambit
"… the 1964-65 competition was not even held."
— Dylan Loeb McClain in The New York Times , Nov. 3, 2020.
But in other games . . .
"The metaphor for metamorphosis no keys unlock."
— Steven H. Cullinane, November Seventh, 1986
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Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Small Venues
“… her art was rarely exhibited until the 1970s,
and then only sporadically and in small venues . . . .”
— New York Times obituary suggested by
today’s review,
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/
arts/artists-who-died-2020.html
“No ordinary venue.” — Song lyric
Related material now linked to in the previous post —
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Monday, December 21, 2020
Re Volvo
“The crystal was a sort of magnifying glass,
vastly enlarging the things inside the block.
Strange things they were, too.”
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Sunday, December 20, 2020
Principles Before Personalities
“I Know Him So Well” — The Beckinsale Version —
datetime=”2020-12-21T01:08:17.000Z” title=”Dec 20, 2020″
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Tuesday, December 15, 2020
Christmas Carol Carré
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Monday, December 14, 2020
Espace Carré
"Leave a space." — Tom Stoppard, "Jumpers."
Obituary of a novelist in The Washington Post yesterday —
"He gave various explanations for how he chose his nom de plume —
le Carré means 'the square' in French —
before ultimately admitting he didn’t really know."
Related material for Dan Brown — Imperial Symbology and . . .
"Together with Tolkien and Lewis, this group forms
the Oxford School of children’s fantasy literature. . . .
They all celebrate the purported wisdom of old stories,
and follow the central tenet that Tolkien set out
for fairy-stories: ‘one thing must not be made fun of,
the magic itself. That must in the story be taken seriously,
neither laughed at nor explained away.’ "
— A leftist academic's essay at aeon.co, "Empire of Fantasy,"
on St. Andrew's Day, 2020.
A more respectable writer on literature and magic —
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Sunday, December 13, 2020
Friday, January 27, 2017
In Memory of Actor John Hurt
Hurt, who reportedly died today, played a purveyor
of magic wands in the Harry Potter series and also
Control in “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.”
“In the original screenplay for the film adaptation
of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Smiley muses that
Control had once told him that Howard Staunton
was the greatest chess master Britain had ever
produced. ‘Staunton’ later turns out to be the name
that Control used for the rental of his flat.”
— Wikipedia, Control (fictional character)
Related images —
Happy Chinese New Year.
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