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Flashback to April 20, 2017 —
"Drop me a line" — Request attributed to Emma Stone.
Meditation on the dropped line —
Stone herself might prefer the not-so-mean shapes
of "A Quiet Weekend in Mykonos."
Related reading: "Ominous" in this journal.
Continues . See other posts now tagged
The Emmanuel Bride.
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
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A hat tip to . . .
That post suggested . . .
The Source —
https://depositphotos.com/vectors/am.html?qview=157300120
and
Today's Google Doodle, honoring soccer at the Paris games,
suggests a review of Hillman's "acorn theory" of the soul in
a Log24 post of September 10, 2022 . . .
"… I loved Gigi. It fed directly into my Francophilia.
I was convinced that at some future date, I, like
Gigi, would be trained as a courtesan. I, too, would
cause some hard case, experienced roué to abandon
his chill and irony." — Jessica Kardon
Related reading:

From this journal on Bastille Day 2021 —
On that same date this year . . .
Related reading: other posts tagged Laurel, and
"The Generous Gambler," by Baudelaire.
A post in this journal from July 3, 2024 — see The Chinatown Omega —
suggests a look at a death in Paris on that date . . .

Wednesday, June 26, 2024
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This year's April –
For my own views on this theme as it applies
For some other views, see this year's
One of the authors at that site,
"'The discovery of non-Euclidean geometries
contradicted the "absolute truth" view
of the Platonists.'"
— Sarah J. Greenwald,
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
Damned nonsense. See Math16.com.
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This post was suggested by a mention of Boone
in an Atlantic article yesterday, "OopsGPT."
One of Carl Jung's favorite quotations —
"One, two, three . . . but where is the fourth?" (Plato, Timaeus)
Related reading —
This post was suggested by the Lewis Lapham 2005 documentary
"The American Ruling Class."
Update of 7:54 AM EDT —
"… always self-discovery and self-defniiton"
— Jill Schary Robinson at the end of the previous post
In memory of Lewis Lapham, who reportedly died yesterday —
Self-Discovery:
Self-Definition (from 11/27/2019):
For a British blues pioneer who reportedly died on Monday, July 22, 2024 —
"Got the sun and trees and silence
I'm in my Laurel Canyon home"
— Song lyric by John Mayall
Update of 11 AM EDT Wednesday, July 24, 2024 —
From a 2023 novel by Jill Schary Robinson —
"Introduction: A Canyon of the Heart" — An excerpt:

"Wisconsin is a home state of sorts for the presumptive
Democratic presidential nominee, who briefly lived in Madison
as a young child."
Say "cheese."
"Today, Teddy Roosevelt’s man in the arena has a name. . . ."
— Speaker at the Republican National Convention, 2024
And then there is woman in the arena . . . .
See as well a related YouTube video —
See "Four Tops" in this journal.
See also posts now tagged The Tenor Metaphor.
See as well . . .
Fans of hallucinatory fiction might recall a saying of Philip Pullman:
"The meaning of a story emerges in the meeting
between the words on the page
and the thoughts in the reader's mind.
So when people ask me what I meant by this story,
or what was the message I was trying to convey in that one,
I have to explain that I'm not going to explain.
Anyway, I'm not in the message business;
I'm in the 'Once upon a time' business."
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