— Niall Ferguson, Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist
From this journal on Guy Fawkes Day, 2011—
Shadows
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Thursday, November 30, 2023
The Chronic Gap
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Saturday, November 11, 2023
A Star for David
In memory of poet David Ferry, who reportedly died
at 99 last Sunday — Guy Fawkes Day —
an image linked to here on that day . . .
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Friday, November 10, 2023
Logos
Related art —
(For some backstory, see Geometry of the I Ching
and the history of Chinese philosophy.)
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Sunday, November 5, 2023
Old-Guy Aesthetics
For Guy Fawkes Day, images from first and last posts —
an alpha and an omega of sorts —
from this journal in the month of December 2021 . . .
Some remarks on an artist who reportedly died
on the second day of that month —
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Tuesday, October 17, 2023
The Venice Mirror: July 21, 2023
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Friday, November 6, 2020
Fuse
From a link in the previous post —
From Log24 on October 25, 2013 —
Rhetorical questions by art critic Michael Glover—
“Has this kind of abstraction to do with ideas
of the spiritual? Are we supposed to see behind
what we have here some kind of evidence of
superhuman energies at work in the universe?
Is this some kind of manifestation of the force
that through the green fuse drives the flower—
to quote a line from Dylan Thomas?”
Rhetorical answer —
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“To Illustrate My Last Remark . . .”
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Tuesday, November 5, 2019
Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November
Cloak and dagger —
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Monday, August 22, 2016
Minimal ABC Art
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Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Cut to the Chase
Backstory for the previous post —
A Log24 post from the release date of the above Mat Zo album:
Remember, Remember the Fifth of November —
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Thursday, November 6, 2014
Working Backward
“This setting of the Ave Verum Corpus text was composed
to celebrate the feast of Corpus Christi .” — Wikipedia
“Ave Verum Corpus .”— Madison in the BBC America TV series
“Intruders,” Season 1, Episode 3: “Time Has Come Today.”
See also the Eucharistic meditation of Feb. 13, 2006, linked to in yesterday’s post
on Guy Fawkes Day. (That British holiday originally commemorated the Catholic
Gunpowder Plot of 1605.)
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Saturday, January 19, 2013
Tears in the Rain
Top of the front page, tonight's online New York Times—
Click the above image for the story of a rather different cyclist.
See also some images from Guy Fawkes Day, 2003—
Related material:
Blade Runner in this journal and posts tagged "Fawkes"—
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Monday, December 3, 2012
The Revisiting
Alan Cowell in the The New York Times ,
October 21, 2006—
"Mr. Pinter played the role of Krapp,
a 69-year-old man revisiting
a tape recording he had made at 39…."
See also a weblog post by a 69-year-old man
revisiting a drawing he had made at 39.
The revisiting:
On Guy Fawkes Day 2011,
a return to Guy Fawkes day 2005—
Contrapuntal Themes in a Shadowland.
The drawing:
A clearer version, from 1981, of the central object below —
For commentary on the original 1981 drawing, see
Diamond-Faceted: Transformations of the Rock.
(A link in that page to "an earlier note from 1981"
leads to remarks from exactly thirty years before
the 2011 post, made on another Guy Fawkes Day.)
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Monday, November 5, 2012
For the Hollow Men
"Remember, remember the Fifth of November."
Very well. See a post of Nov. 5, 2005, and the related posts
Shadows, Cuber, Cube Partitions, and Cube Review.
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Saturday, November 12, 2011
For the Old Guy
From this journal on Guy Fawkes Day, 2011—
ShadowsBetween the idea — T. S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men" |
This year's Lamont Cranston award goes to…
Norton Dodge, who died at 84 on Guy Fawkes Day.
"Professor Dodge and the underground artists
whose work he helped save are the subjects of
a book, The Ransom of Russian Art (1994),
by John McPhee."
— Margalit Fox in today's New York Times
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Friday, November 5, 2010
V Day for Natalie
This morning's post mentioned the new film "Black Swan," starring Natalie Portman, that opens December 3.
Portman also starred in the 2006 film "V for Vendetta," based very loosely on today's date— November 5, Guy Fawkes Day.
Some background on Alan Moore, the creator of the graphic novel underlying that film—
1. The New York Times , March 12, 2006
2. Panelling Parallax: The Fearful Symmetry of William Blake and Alan Moore
3. This journal on March 24, 2009
Also from March 24, 2009— An image for what Thomas Pynchon, in this morning's post, called "the watchful scavengers of Epiphany."
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Wednesday November 15, 2006
"Many modern Grail stories have a root in the early romances of von Eschenbach….
They live from a Stone whose essence is most pure. If you have never heard of it I shall name it for you here. It is called Lapsit exillis.
Click on picture for details.
For an interpretation
of 588, see
Guy Fawkes Day: Twilight Kingdom,
Grail: The Hermeneutics of Chance,
Camelot: The Legend Continues,
A Case for Indiana Jones,
Spots of Time Revisited.
For an interpretation
of 715, see
7/15, Ein Bild:
"Und was fur
ein Bild des Christentums
ist dabei herausgekommen?"
The number 588 above
is clearly a MacGuffin.
Whether it represents
any deeper reality is
an open question.
"It is a very difficult
philosophical question,
the question of
what 'random' is."
— Herbert Robbins, co-author
of What is Mathematics?
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Monday, March 20, 2006
Monday March 20, 2006
Storyboard
From last year’s
Guy Fawkes Day entries:
“Contrapuntal Themes
in a Shadowland” and
“Area Catholics Receive
St. Thomas Aquinas Awards.”
From last year’s
Halloween season:
The Judeo part:
“It was like a 1930s comic book
set in the future,”
[producer Joel] Silver says.
“I can’t say what it was, but
there was something about it
that made me think
it would work as a movie.”
The Christian part:
“Joseph Goebbels was brought up
in a devoutly Catholic home.
His parents hoped he
would be a priest….”
Flashback to March 18, 2003:
“It’s Springtime for Esther and Israel!”
and to Grammy night, 2006:
Happy vernal equinox.
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