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In memory of Jimmy Breslin, who reportedly died today at 88 —

From "Dimensions," (Log24, Feb. 15, 2015) —

"Hello  darkness,  my  old  friend.
I’ve  come  to  talk  with  you  again."

"Hello  darkness,  my  old  friend.
I’ve  come  to  talk  with  you  again."

A Presbyterian meditation —

A scene from the film of the above book —

“Looking carefully at Golay’s code is like staring into the sun.”

— Richard Evan Schwartz

For more of the story, see Golay in this journal.

For film producer and studio head John Calley, who died today at 81—

"When Death tells a story, you really have to listen." —The Book Thief  (cover)

New York Lottery on Tuesday, September 13th, 2011

This suggests the following random thoughts—

"When Death tells a story,
you really have to listen."
— Cover, The Book Thief

An image from a post linked to in Tuesday's Koan for Larsson—

An image from today's New York Times  obituaries—

Wikipedia  on singer Loleatta Holloway, who died Monday—

[Her] "Like a Prayer," a Madonna cover, was a track on the Madonna tribute album Virgin Voices.

New York Times  on actress Helen Stenborg, who died Tuesday—

A Minnesotan of Swedish descent, she naturally brought to all her roles the kind of reserve that reflected her upbringing.



See also The Book Thief,
The Devil’s Arithmetic—

–and The Story of 2/13.