“At the spiritual level, the biggest oeuvre (in my eyes)
accomplished by a man, was the Passion
of the Christ and his death on the cross…”
— Quotation said to be by Grothendieck, replying to
a 1987 letter from Juan Antonio Navarro González .
The quotation is from . . .
The saying of poet Mary Karr that
"there is a body on the cross in my church,"
together with the crosses of the previous post,
suggests a synchronicity check of the
date discussed in that post —
“Be serious, because
The stone may have contempt
For too-familiar hands”
— Adrienne Rich in “The Diamond Cutters” (1955)
Blackboard Jungle , 1955 —
The eight parts of the semaphore circle
in the previous post suggest some context
for Fritz Leiber's eight-limb "spider" symbol:
See Mary Karr, Time on the Cross, and chuahaidong.org.
Quotations for a Memorial
"There is a body on the cross in my church."
"Please Mister please, don't play B-17."
Click to enlarge.
"There is a body
on the cross
in my church."
Sean Penn and Nicole Kidman
in "The Interpreter."
Click to enlarge.
"My card."
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"Is Heart of Darkness the story of Kurtz or the story of Marlow’s experience of Kurtz? Was Marlow invented as a rhetorical device for heightening the meaning of Kurtz’s moral collapse, or was Kurtz invented in order to provide Marlow with the centre of his experience in the Congo? Again a seamless web, and we tell ourselves that the old-fashioned question 'Who is the protagonist?' is a meaningless one."
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“They took all the trees,
put ’em in a tree museum
and they charged the people
a dollar and a half just to see ’em”
From an article (full version contains spoiler) on Bridge to Terabithia:
“In the book, a girl named Leslie Burke moves in next door to a chore-ridden farm boy, Jess Aarons, and imagines for him a kingdom she names Terabithia. Over a fall and winter, they ride the bus home from school together (sharing a seat in spite of catcalls from schoolmates), dump their backpacks at the edge of the road, and run across an empty field to the edge of a creek bed, where ‘someone long forgotten had hung a rope.’ They use the rope to swing across the gully into Terabithia, a wooded glade that Leslie makes magic….”
Art by Wendell Minor from the cover
of Magic Time, by Doug Marlette
From Bridge to Terabithia:
“I know”– she was getting excited– “it could be a magic country like Narnia, and the only way you can get in is by swinging across on this enchanted rope.” Her eyes were bright. She grabbed the rope. “Come on,” she said.
LOS ANGELES – Roger Cardinal Mahony, leader of the Los Angeles Catholic Archdiocese, the nation’s largest, apologized yesterday for what he called a “terrible sin and crime” as the church confirmed it would pay a record $660 million to people sexually abused by priests.
“Magic Time”—Mary Karr,
“Facing Altars:
Poetry and Prayer“–“There is a body
on the cross
in my church.”
In memory of Doug Marlette,
Marlette died in a highway
accident yesterday at about
10 AM CT. He was
"on his way to Oxford
[Mississippi]… to help a
troupe of high school students
put on a play based on
his nationally syndicated
comic strip, Kudzu."
— Chris Joyner,
Clarion-Ledger,
Jackson, Mississippi
Log24 yesterday,
7:59 AM ET:
Mary Karr,
"Facing Altars:
Poetry and Prayer"–
"There is a body
on the cross
in my church."
Corpus Hypercubus,
by Dali.
“Does the word ‘tesseract’
mean anything to you?”
— Robert A. Heinlein
"In the garden of Adding,
Live Even and Odd"
— City of God
Adapted from
Ad Reinhardt
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