From a Log24 search for "Strand" —

Related literary remarks —

From Didion’s Play It As It Lays :

Everything goes.  I am working very hard at
not thinking about how everything goes. 
I watch a hummingbird, throw the I Ching
but never read the coins, keep my mind in the now.
— Page 8

From Joni Mitchell —

"Don't it always seem to go . . . ."

From Wallace Stevens:

"Let be be finale of seem."

A film referenced at the end of the May 10, 2020, post

Film Theory Love Call —

* Illustration from a related 2003 Log24 post —

Da Capo

“The story bent and climbed and went into weird areas.
For instance, at one time Simon Peter was a cave-dweller;
at another, he only appeared in other characters’ dreams….”

— Keri Hulme on The Bone People

"Redgrave proceeded to focus on the end of Blue Nights ,
and Didion’s determination to maintain momentum after
the death of Quintana, when she and Redgrave mounted
their production of The Year of Magical Thinking . Here,
St John the Divine became a setting in the narrative of
Blue Nights  yet again – this time, as Quintana’s final resting
place in St Ansgar’s Chapel within the cathedral."

The feast of St. Ansgar is Feb. 3. See that date this year.

Related song lyric from "Finian's Rainbow" —

Necessity,
That's the maximum that a minimum thing could be,
There's nothing lower than less unless it's Necessity.

"Jean-Marc Vallée has died suddenly at age 58." 

See as well a post from Joan Didion's Dec. 5th birthday.

"You look in her eyes, the music begins to play" 
— Eagles, "New Kid in Town"

Related material — Postman.

"If so much information is needed
to identify their expressive content,
then it’s obvious that the pictures don’t
effectively communicate on their own."

— An article selected for
Arts & Letters Daily today:

"Sense of Place" —

"Place" —