From the Graf Dies Mortis posts —
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A flashback from today's previous post —
* For the Mobius of the title, see a 2004 novel by Andrew Crumey.
♫ "Make me a palette on your floor . . . ."
http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=Pearl+Jam . . .
In other news from the Northwest . . . Stephanie Dick.
Mathematics and Narrative, continued…
Out of What Chaos, a novel by Lee Oser—
"This book is more or less what one would expect if Walker Percy wrote about a cynical rock musician who converts to Catholicism, and then Nabokov added some of his verbal pyrotechnics, and then Buster Keaton and the Marquis de Sade and Lionel Trilling inserted a few extra passages. It is a loving and yet appalled description of the underground music scene in the Pacific Northwest. And it is a convincing representation of someone very, very smart."
"If Evelyn Waugh had lived amid the American Northwest rock music scene, he might have written a book like this."
–Anonymous Amazon.com reviewer
A possible source for Oser's title–
"…Lytton Strachey described Pope's theme as 'civilization illumined by animosity; such was the passionate and complicated material from which he wove his patterns of balanced precision and polished clarity.' But out of what chaos did that clarity and precision come!"
—Authors at Work, by Herman W. Liebert and Robert H. Taylor, New York, Grolier Club, 1957, p. 16
Related material:
and the
Midnight in the Garden, Autumn 2009
Review:
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From this journal on the following day, Sept. 21:
Happy birthday, Stephen King.
Today's previous entry is based on a song, "Unthought Known,"
from the above album; the cover of the album uses the 3×3 grid
shown in Sept. 20's midnight review. For related material
on the unconscious, see June 13-15, 2005.
I know more than Apollo,
For oft when he lies sleeping
I see the stars at mortal wars
In the wounded welkin weeping.
Who Knows
What Evil Lurks…
The brain-in-a-jar on the cover of the new Pearl Jam album "Backspacer" (previous two entries) is apparently there because of a song on the album, "Unthought Known"–
"All the thoughts you never see
You are always thinking
Brain is wide, the brain is deep
Oh, are you sinking?"
The song title is from a book, The Shadow of the Object (Columbia U. Press, 1987), by psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas.
The "unthought known" phrase has been quoted widely by second-rate psychologizers and by some not so second-rate. Their lucubrations suggest that sinking brain-worshippers should seek a…
Backspacing
Some background for the images in the previous entry's album cover:
See PearlJamEvolution.com, Aug. 3, 2009, and Aug. 6, 2009.
The brain image is apparently based on a photo at Flickr.
A Google search for "Das Scheinen," a very rough translation into Heidegger's German of "The Shining," leads to a song. A search for the English version of the song leads to a site with a sidebar advertising Pearl Jam's new (Sept. 20) album "Backspacer."
Happy birthday,
Stephen King.
Background:
Yesterday's entries
and the plot of
L'Engle's classic
A Wrinkle in Time.
(See this journal's entries
for March 2008.)
The Pearl Jam album cover art
is of particular interest in light
of King's story "Apt Pupil" and
of Katherine Neville's remark
"Nine is a very powerful
Nordic number."
Those who prefer more sophisticated
aesthetic theory may click on the
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