Credit Where Credit Is Due
Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:23 AM
I mean, seriously...
Saturday, April 14, 2007 10:31 PM
But seriously...
"What is the spirit of the bayonet?"
-- United States Army
training question, 1964
A partial answer
in two parts:
Part I --
Another question --
"Know the one about
the Demiurge and the
Abridgment of Hope?"
-- Robert Stone,
A Flag for Sunrise,
Knopf, 1981,
the final page, 439,
cited by page number
here this morning
Part II --
Today's numbers, in
this morning's context,
strongly suggest
a look at
A Flag for Sunrise,
by Robert Stone,
Knopf, 1981,
| page 431, and at Hexagram 34, |
The Power of the Great,
in the context of a
Log24 entry for
October 8, 2005.
"There is no teacher
but the enemy."
-- Orson Scott Card,
Ender's Game
Related entertainment:
the previous entry
and the Vietnam memoir
Black Virgin Mountain.
Saturday, April 14, 2007 8:30 PM
Cafe Society
Cafe Society Part I -
Jack Torrance at
the Overlook Hotel:
Cafe Society Part II -
Don Imus at The FanHouse,
Friday the 13th:
Cafe Society Part III -
The Bank Dick at
the Black Pussy Cafe:
"Which way to the egress?"
Saturday, April 14, 2007 2:12 PM
Final Arrangements, continued:
Related material:
The Log24 entry for
this date last year
(Good Friday and
the opening date of
HARD CANDY),
and
"Apart from that, Mrs. Imus,
how did you like the play?"
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:30 AM
The Sun Also Sets, or...
the Egress
Continued from April 12:
"I have only come here
seeking knowledge,
Things they would not
teach me of in college...."
-- Synchronicity lyrics
| Quoted in Log24, Time's Labyrinth continued: "The sacred axe was used to kill the King. The ritual had been the same since the beginning of time. The game of chess was merely a reenactment. Why hadn't I recognized it before?" -- Katherine Neville, The Eight, Ballantine reprint, 1990, |
"Know the one about
the Demiurge and the
Abridgment of Hope?"
-- Robert Stone,
A Flag for Sunrise,
Knopf, 1981,
the final page:
page 439
Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:06 AM
In the Dreamtime
"I sit now in a little room off the bar at four-thirty in the morning drinking ochas and then mescal and writing this on some Bella Vista notepaper I filched the other night.... But this is worst of all, to feel your soul dying. I wonder if it is because to-night my soul has really died that I feel at the moment something like peace. Or is it because right through hell there is a path, as Blake well knew, and though I may not take it, sometimes lately in dreams I have been able to see it? ...And this is how I sometimes think of myself, as a great explorer who has discovered some extraordinary land from which he can never return to give his knowledge to the world: but the name of this land is hell. It is not Mexico of course but in the heart."-- Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
Friday, April 13, 2007 6:23 PM
Happy Birthday
and friend:
| NPR : TV Host Fred Rogers Mr. ROGERS: And so his birthday, King Friday's birthday, is always every Friday the 13th. And I hear from people all over the world, you know, it's a joyous ... www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1576077 |
For further details,
click here.
See also
The Presbyterian Exorcist.
Thursday, April 12, 2007 1:09 AM
Exit Strategy
Wednesday, April 11, 2007 12:00 PM
The Color of Money:
Being Green
Don Imus, 1974 album
Rutgers women's basketball
coach C. Vivian Stringer:
"It's about us as people-- black, white, purple or green. And as much as I speak about that, it's not even black and white-- the color is green."
Imus flap about
black, white, and green
David Lieberman, Laura Petrecca and Gary Strauss in USA Today:
"So amid all the uproar over Imus' remarks and the national discussion over race relations that they ignited, why wasn't he fired?
Stringer and others think that has less to do with relations between blacks and whites than it does with another color.
'The color is green-- if we can tolerate as a society what's just taken place,' she said. 'I don't know how anyone could have heard this and not been offended.'
As one of the country's most popular radio talk show hosts, Imus is the centerpiece of a multimillion-dollar business that would collapse without him.
To get a sense of its size: Advertisers spent $11.3 million last year on his show at just one station, New York's WFAN, according to Nielsen. That accounted for nearly 24% of all the station's ad sales.
Sponsors paid MSNBC an additional $8.4 million last year for spots on Imus' show, according to TNS Media Intelligence."Mike Lupica in the
New York Daily News,
April 11, 2007:
"Essence Carson talked about what Imus had said about her and her teammates, and about everything that has happened since.
'It has stolen a moment of pure grace from us,' she said.
The moment of pure grace was Essence Carson...."From ESSENCE.com:
"Essence Communications Inc. (ECI) was founded in 1968. In October 2000, ECI signed an agreement with Time Inc., a subsidiary of Time Warner Inc., to form a joint venture known as Essence Communications Partners. ESSENCE was the majority owner of the venture. In March 2005, Time Inc. acquired the portion it did not already own. The company's name changed back to Essence Communications Inc. The ECI corporate headquarters are in New York City, with offices in Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Detroit.
ESSENCE magazine
During the past 36 years, the company has grown into a vital business of diverse media properties and communications systems that include ESSENCE, its flagship magazine launched in 1970. Its success is linked to its unique relationship with the readers of ESSENCE magazine and the strong alliances it has forged with America's leading corporations and financial institutions."
Monday, April 9, 2007 9:00 PM
Matthew 7:20 continued:
"And the fruit is rotten;
the serpent's eyes shine
as he wraps around the vine
in the Garden of Allah."
-- Don Henley
But not, perhaps,
in the Garden of Apollo:
Click on the image
for further details.
Monday, April 9, 2007 7:20 PM
Mathematics and Narrative continued:
for Beavis and Butt-Head
(An illustration from
Mathematics and Narrative;
the "Book" is The Gospel
According to St. Matthew.)
a review by famed vulgarizer
Martin Gardner of the new book
by his fellow vulgarizer Ian Stewart
in the April 2007 Scientific American:
asked jesting Gardner...
The reasoned reply of
Beavis and Butt-Head:
"Sixty degrees, a hundred
and twenty degrees, who
gives a rat's ass?"
Monday, April 9, 2007 1:00 PM
Nine is a Vine
ART WARS
in Poetry Month
Related Log24
entries from
last April:
7
8
9
Related Log24
entry from
this April
Sunday, April 8, 2007 11:09 PM
ART WARS continued
Sunday, April 8, 2007 11:00 AM
Eleven
Today's sermonSamuel Beckett on Dante and Joyce:
"Another point of comparison is the preoccupation with the significance of numbers. The death of Beatrice inspired nothing less than a highly complicated poem dealing with the importance of the number 3 in her life. Dante never ceased to be obsessed by this number. Thus the poem is divided into three Cantiche, each composed of 33 Canti.... Why, Mr. Joyce seems to say, should.... the Armistice be celebrated at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month? He cannot tell you because he is not God Almighty, but in a thousand years he will tell you... He is conscious that things with a common numerical characteristic tend towards a very significant interrelationship. This preoccupation is freely translated in his present work...."
-- "Dante... Bruno. Vico.. Joyce," in James Joyce/Finnegans Wake: A Symposium (1929), New Directions paperback, 1972
See also Plato, Pegasus, and the Evening Star.
Sunday, April 8, 2007 12:00 AM
Hollywood Easter (again):
continued from Sept. 30, 2004
Tonight this journal had two Xanga footprints from Italy....
At 11:34 PM ET a visitor from Italy viewed a page containing an entry from Jan. 8, 2005, Splendor of the Light, which offers the following quotation--
From an essay on Guy Davenport--
"A disciple of Ezra Pound, he adapts to the short story the ideogrammatic method of The Cantos, where a grammar of images, emblems, and symbols replaces that of logical sequence. This grammar allows for the grafting of particulars into a congeries of implied relation without subordination. In contrast to postmodernists, Davenport does not omit causal connection and linear narrative continuity for the sake of an aleatory play of signification but in order to intimate by combinational logic kinships and correspondences among eras, ideas and forces."
-- "When Novelists Become Cubists: The Prose Ideograms of Guy Davenport," by Andre Furlani
The visitor from Italy may, of course, have instead intended to view
one of the four earlier entries on the page. In particular, the
visitor may have seen
The Star
of Venus
"He looked at the fading light
in the western sky and saw Mercury,
or perhaps it was Venus,
gleaming at him as the evening star.
Darkness and light,
the old man thought.
It is what every hero legend is about.
The darkness which is more than death,
the light which is love, like our friend
Venus here, or perhaps this star is
Mercury, the messenger of Olympus,
the bringer of hope."
-- Roderick MacLeish, Prince Ombra.
At 11:38 PM ET, a visitor from Italy (very likely the 11:34 visitor returning) viewed the five Log24 entries ending at 12:06 AM ET on Sept. 30, 2004.
These entries included Midnight in the Garden and...
A Tune for Michaelmas
The entries on this second visited page also included some remarks on Dante, on time, and on Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano that are relevant to Log24 entries earlier this week on Maundy Thursday and on Holy Saturday.
Here's wishing a happy Easter to Italy, to Francis Ford Coppola and Russell Crowe (see yesterday's entry), and to Steven Spielberg (see the Easter page of April 20, 2003).
Image courtesy of
Hollywood Jesus:
When you wish
upon a star...
Saturday, April 7, 2007 12:25 PM
From the Workshop
Francis Ford Coppola
and Russell Crowe
Gift of the Third Kind
Background:
Art Wars and
Russell Crowe as
Santa's Helper.
From Friedrich Froebel,
who invented kindergarten:
From Christmas 2005:
Related material from
Pittsburgh:
Click on pictures for details.
Friday, April 6, 2007 2:56 PM
For St. Dismas
Thursday, April 5, 2007 2:02 PM
Poetry Month continues...
Poets.org -The Annual
Maundy Thursday
Dante's Inferno Reading
"The reading occurs during the Maundy Thursday vigil, the very hours Dante intended the events in the epic poem to take place."
Featured poets:
Rachel Hadas, Wyatt Prunty, Rachel Wetzsteon, Rika Lesser, David Yezzi, Annie Finch, Honor Moore, Lynn Emanuel, Paul Watsky, Kate Light, Phillis Levin, Michael Palma, Charles Martin
Thursday, April 5, 2007, 9 p.m. to midnight, The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Avenue at 112th St., NYC, NY
The Eight Revisited:
Dante Alighieri Academy
continues Dante's Christian
philosophy of education....
Wednesday, April 4, 2007 2:02 PM
Phrase and Fable
Phrase:Spy Wednesday --
"The Wednesday before Good Friday, when Judas bargained to become the spy of the Jewish Sanhedrim. (Matt. xxvi. 3–5, 14–16.)"
-- E. Cobham Brewer, 1810–1897, Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1898
Nature morte à l'échiquier (les cinq sens),
vers 1655, une narration
à valeur symbolique...
Huile sur bois, 73 x 55 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Related material:
April 4, 2001,
The Black Queen
Tuesday, April 3, 2007 10:10 PM
ART WARS continued:
Heritage -
Lottery
Hermeneutics
| The Lottery 12/9/06 | Mid-day | Evening |
| New York | 036 See The Quest for the 36 | 331 See 3/31-- "square crystal" and "the symbolism could not have been more perfect." |
| Pennsylvania | 602 See 6/02-- Walter Benjamin on "Adamic language." | 111 See 1/11-- "Related material: Jung's Imago and Solomon's Cube." |
| The Lottery 4/3/07 | Mid-day | Evening |
| New York | 115 See 1/15-- Inscape | 017 See  |
| Pennsylvania | 604 See 6/04-- Death Valley and the Fisher King | 714 See 7/14-- Happy Birthday, Esther Dyson |
It is perhaps relevant to
this Holy Week that the
date 6/04 (2006) above
refers to both the Christian
holy day of Pentecost and
to the day of the
facetious baccalaureate
of the Class of 2006 in
the University Chapel
at Princeton.
For further context for the
Log24 remarks of that same
date, see June 1-15, 2006.
Tuesday, April 3, 2007 1:00 AM
One Story
"But what is it?"
Calvin demanded.
"We know that it's evil,
but what is it?"
"Yyouu hhave ssaidd itt!"
Mrs. Which's voice rang out.
"Itt iss Eevill. Itt iss thee
Ppowers of Ddarrkknesss!"
-- A Wrinkle in Time
"After A Wrinkle in Time was finally published, it was pointed out to me that the villain, a naked disembodied brain, was called 'It' because It stands for Intellectual truth as opposed to a truth which involves the whole of us, heart as well as mind. That acronym had never occurred to me. I chose the name It intuitively, because an IT does not have a heart or soul. And I did not understand consciously at the time of writing that the intellect, when it is not informed by the heart, is evil."
-- Freeman Dyson,
New York Review of Books,
issue dated May 28, 1998
"Does the word 'tesseract'
mean anything to you?"
Monday, April 2, 2007 4:00 AM
Continued from last April:
in Poetry Month
Related Log24
entries from
last April:
7
8
9
Related story:
Yesterday's
April 1 PA
numbers --
407, 214.
Sunday, April 1, 2007 12:00 PM
A Visitor from France:
From Log24's Xanga footprints this morning:
| France | Weblog | http://search.ke.voila.... | 4/1/2007 8:33 AM |
The first impression one has on clicking "Weblog" is that the visitor was interested in George Steiner, C. S. Lewis, and a game of chess with God-- appropriate topics for today, Palm Sunday.
This, however, is just the top entry of the five on the page. A check of the referring link shows the visitor to have been interested in neither chess nor God, but rather in sombreros-- an appropriate topic for today, April Fools' Day.
Related material:
Sunday, April 1, 2007 12:00 AM
Rings, continued:
and Endings
"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."
-- Ernest Hemingway,
Death in the Afternoon
Today is both Palm Sunday and April Fools' Day.
"There is never any ending to Paris...."
-- Ernest Hemingway,
A Moveable Feast