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Happy birthday to Mira Sorvino.

Related material:

Today’s posts Hitchcockian,  Darkness and Light,
and Requiem for Abse.

Some context for the last of these:

The conclusion of last night’s episode of Intruders .

Click to enlarge.

“I call it Hitchcockian.”

— Helen Mirren on her 2010 film “The Debt”

An obituary from BBC News on Sept. 22, 2014:

Israeli Mossad spy Mike Harari dies, aged 87

BBC News did not give a date for the death.

The New York Times  now says that Harari died on Sunday, Sept. 21, 2014.

This journal on that date —

From the BBC America TV series “Intruders,” Season 1, Episode 4,
“Ave Verum Corpus “ (33:34 of 45 min.):

Mira Sorvino pays her respects to a distinguished corpse.

“… just as God defeats the devil: this bridge exists….” — André Weil

The bridge illustration is thanks to Magneto.

In memory of Nicholas Romanov, who reportedly died on Sept. 15, 2014 (British time).

Frank Rich in a New York Times  book review with online date July 31, 2014:

” The Invisible Bridge  takes its title from a bit of cynical political advice
bestowed on Nixon by Nikita Khrushchev: ‘If the people believe there’s
an imaginary river out there, you don’t tell them there’s no river there.
You build an imaginary bridge over the imaginary river.’ “

The book under review discusses a span of history beginning in 1973.

— Wallace Stevens, Collected Poems

See also Logan and Xavier discussing history at the end of
“X-Men: Days of Future Past.”

“Pinker’s love for the nuts and bolts of language
(he calls verbs his ‘little friends’)
is equally matched by his appreciation for,
and command of, the way it’s put together,
making him the ideal guide to the subject.”

— Laurence Phelan, review of The Stuff of Thought:
Language as a Window into Human Nature ,
by Steven Pinker, in The Independent  on Sunday,
June 22, 2008

“Say hello to my little friend.”

Happy birthday, sweet sixteen.

Above: Frank Langella in “Starting Out in the Evening” Right: Johnny Depp in “The Ninth Gate“

“One must proceed cautiously, for this road— of truth and falsehood
in the realm of fiction— is riddled with traps and any enticing oasis
is usually a mirage.”

– “Is Fiction the Art of Lying?” by Mario Vargas Llosa,
New York Times  essay of October 7, 1984

For the title plan, see Sisteen in this journal.

“You can play things stylishly on the wrong instruments
or unstylishly on the right instruments;
I hope we’ll get it stylish on the right instruments.”

— The late Christopher Hogwood, founder of  the
Academy of Ancient Music

Hogwood reportedly died at his home in Cambridge, England,
on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014.

In memoriam—

This journal on Wednesday—

The notes of the just intonation major scale:

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See also Hogwood on Mozart.

For Amy and Josefine:  Keane .

The 2008 “Perfect Symmetry” album cover illustrated
in the “Keane” search linked to above is by Osang Gwon.

Recommended reading for Josefine Lyche:

See also Ayn Sof (Jan. 7, 2011).

“Welcome to America.” — Harrison Ford in “The Devil’s Own” (1997)

To thine own selfie be true .

* Title suggested by The Tiffany Puzzle (Dec. 7, 2010).

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
The princess is caged in the consulate.
The man with the candy will lead the children into the sea.
The naked woman on the ledge outside the window
on the sixteenth floor is a victim of accidie, or
the naked woman is an exhibitionist, and it would be
‘interesting’ to know which. We tell ourselves that it makes
some difference whether the naked woman is about to
commit a mortal sin or is about to register a political protest
or is about to be, the Aristophanic view, snatched back to the
human condition by the fireman in priest’s clothing just visible
in the window behind her, the one smiling at the telephoto lens.
We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral
lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select
the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely,
especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line
upon disparate images, by the ‘ideas’ with which we have learned
to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual
experience.”

― Joan Didion

This evening’s New York Lottery:  659 and 7326.

“The film captures the offbeat time warp of the present-day
desert cities around Palm Springs, with the movie being
partly filmed in Palm Desert.”

See also posts on College of the Desert.