And an especially Faustian
Walpurgis Night to
Harvard University, home of
Robert Langdon, fictional professor
of Religious Symbology —
“That corpse you planted
last year in your garden,
Has it begun to sprout?
Will it bloom this year?
Or has the sudden frost
disturbed its bed?”
— T. S. Eliot, “The Waste Land”
A man returns a crucifix
to a Huichol village chapel.
Photo by Rachel Cobb
for National Geographic
Lucy in the Sky
with Diamonds
and Sacred Heart
PARIS — Albert Hofmann, the mystical Swiss chemist who gave the world LSD, the most powerful psychotropic substance known, died Tuesday at his hilltop home near Basel, Switzerland. He was 102.
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and
a film by Julie Taymor,
Across the Universe:
Detail of the
Strawberry Fields Forever
Sacred Heart:
A song:
Julie Taymor
“Shinin’ like a diamond,
she had tombstones
in her eyes.”— Album “The Dark,”
by Guy ClarkFor related tombstones,
see May 16-19, 2006,
and April 19, 2008.Further background:
Art Wars for
Red October.
Q: If the opposite of Christmas (December 25) is AntiChristmas (June 25), and the opposite of Halloween (October 31) is May Day (May 1), then what is the opposite of April 30?
A: October 30… Devil's Night!
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