"Quizá yo acabe por gastar el Zahir a fuerza de pensarlo
y de repensarlo, quizá detrás de la moneda esté Dios."
Related images . . .
Monday, July 1, 2024
The Coin
The Powered Woman (Not Jessica Jones)
An article by Olga Holtz at the American Mathematical Society
website suggests . . .
"Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera."
See also other instances of "Zahir" in this journal.
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
Aleph Meets Zahir
For the "Aleph" of the title in the seal of
the College of the Desert, see the final post
in a search for the College in this journal.
A better-known Aleph appears in a story by Borges.
See Borges + Aleph in this journal.
For the "Zahir" of the title, see another story by Borges
and the coin scenes in the films "No Country for Old Men"
(2007) and "Mojave" (2015).
The word "Zahir" has appeared previously in this journal
in a post of January 11, 2011, Soul and Spirit.
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Soul and Spirit
This morning's post, "Shining," gave James Hillman's 1976 remarks
on the distinction between soul and spirit .
The following images may help illustrate these concepts.
The distinction as illustrated by Jeff Bridges —
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Soul
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Spirit
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The mirror has two faces (at least).
Postscript from a story, "The Zahir," in the Borges manner,
by Mark Jason Dominus (programmer of the quilt designs above)—
"I left that madhouse gratefully."
Dominus is also the author of…
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