Continues from March 14, 2009.
Monday, September 21, 2020
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Companion to Dante*
Commentary on Inferno , Canto XVI, line 84 —
* " when it pleases you to say 'I was' " —
See also a 1992 poem by Thomas Lux.
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Thursday, April 11, 2013
Dante Prize (continued)
For the title, see posts of March 25, 2013.
For little Colva … a tune from November 2005
and a New York Times review.
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Monday, March 25, 2013
The Dante Prize
(Damnation Morning, continued)
For the late, great Bebo Valdés, who
reportedly died on Friday in Stockholm:
"Mr. Valdés never returned to Cuba. He played piano
in Stockholm hotel lounges for more than three decades."
— Ben Ratliff in this morning's New York Times
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Monday, March 14, 2011
A Dante for Our Times
(Continued from this date two years ago)
"Hell is other people." —Sartre
"With a laugh track." —Cullinane
A sequel to Good Will Hunting and Hereafter—
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Thursday, June 25, 2026
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
From the Terrace . . . Continues.
From Dogma Part II: Amores Perros —
"It is night on the fourth of the curving terraces, high above the sea.
The stars are full out, known and unknown. Dante is halfway up the mountain….
It is half through the poem; half the whole is seen and said: hell, where grace
is not known but as a punishment; purgatory where grace and punishment are
two manners of one fact."
— Charles Williams, The Figure of Beatrice, Faber and Faber, 1943
Last night on Wednesday Season 2 , Episode 5 of 8 —
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Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Harvard Hell
From October 29, 2006 —
"Noi siam venuti al loco ov' i' t'ho detto
che tu vedrai le genti dolorose
c'hanno perduto il ben de l'intelletto."
"We have come to where
I warned you we would find
Those wretched souls
who no longer have
The intellectual benefits of the mind."
From a Harvard student's weblog:
|
Heard in Mather I hope you get gingivitis You want me to get oral cancer?! Goodnight fartface Turd. Turd. Turd. Turd. Turd. Make your own waffles!! Blah blah blah starcraft blah blah starcraft blah starcraft. It's da email da email. And some blue hair! Oohoohoo Izod! 10 gigs! Yeah it smells really bad. Only in the stairs though. Starcraft blah blah Starcraft fartface. Yeah it's hard. You have to get a bunch of battle cruisers. 40 kills! So good! Oh ho ho grunt grunt squeal. I'm getting sick again. You have a final tomorrow? In What?! Um I don't even know. Next year we're draggin him there and sticking the needle in ourselves. " … one more line/ unravelling from the dark design/ spun by God and Cotton Mather" — Robert Lowell |
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Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Plan 9 for Helen Vendler
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Saturday, March 30, 2024
Schicksalstag 2003
Meanwhile . . .
The above post is from the date of the Hollywood premiere of
"Looney Tunes: Back in Action." See also tonight's previous post
and . . .
"Directed by Joe Dante" . . . See also "The Harrowing."
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Saturday, April 8, 2023
Annals of Journalism
Update of 12:31 PM ET —
The time of this post, 12:27 PM ET,
suggests a 12/27 flashback:
Click the above image for a related Log24 post of 15 years ago today.
A related literary remark —
"Imagine Raiders of the Lost Ark set in 20th-century London, and then
imagine it written by a man steeped not in Hollywood movies but in Dante
and the things of the spirit, and you might begin to get a picture…."
— Doug Thorpe in an Amazon.com book review, not of Dark Materials.
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Tuesday, December 27, 2022
The Forms of Being
"If the window is this matrix of ambi- or multivalence,
and the bars of the windows-the grid-are what help us
to see, to focus on, this matrix, they are themselves
the symbol of the symbolist work of art. They function as
the multilevel representation through which the work of art
can allude, and even reconstitute, the forms of Being."
— Page 59, Rosalind Krauss, "Grids," MIT Press,
October , Vol. 9 (Summer, 1979), pp. 50-64
Related material —
Click the above image for a related Log24 post of 15 years ago today.
A related literary remark —
"Imagine Raiders of the Lost Ark set in 20th-century London, and then
imagine it written by a man steeped not in Hollywood movies but in Dante
and the things of the spirit, and you might begin to get a picture…."
— Doug Thorpe in an Amazon.com book review, not of Dark Materials.
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Saturday, July 9, 2022
From the Terrace
From Dogma Part II: Amores Perros —
"It is night on the fourth of the curving terraces, high above the sea.
The stars are full out, known and unknown. Dante is halfway up the mountain….
It is half through the poem; half the whole is seen and said: hell, where grace
is not known but as a punishment; purgatory where grace and punishment are
two manners of one fact."
— Charles Williams, The Figure of Beatrice, Faber and Faber, 1943
See also Shining Forth.
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Wednesday, January 29, 2020
The Newman Prize
From "Point," a Log24 post on St. Andrew's Day 2012 —
"….mirando il punto 
a cui tutti li tempi son presenti"
— Dante, Paradiso , XVII, 17-18
For instance…
Related material —
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Monday, December 30, 2019
Death on Becket’s Day
Author Alasdair Gray reportedly died yesterday,
on the feast of St. Thomas à Becket.
"His Collected Verse (2010) was followed by
Every Short Story 1951-2012 . Hell and Purgatory ,
the first two parts of his version of Dante’s
Divine Comedy , “decorated and Englished in
prosaic verse”, appeared in 2018 and 2019.
In November Gray received the inaugural
Saltire Society Scottish Lifetime Achievement award."
— https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/29/
alasdair-gray-obituary
See some related remarks from May 15, 1998.
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Thursday, December 26, 2019
Saturday, April 16, 2016
Matinee (continued)
Today is Kelli O'Hara's last Saturday matinee in "The King and I."
A show that some may prefer —
Related to the plot of Dante's film —
|
"…it would be quite a long walk
Swiftly Mrs. Who brought her hands… together.
"Now, you see," Mrs. Whatsit said,
– A Wrinkle in Time , Chapter 5, "The Tesseract" |
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Thursday, February 4, 2016
Dating a Tigress
Continued from January 18, 2005 —
See Lili Anolik, "Tiger of the Week," in Princeton Alumni Weekly
on April 29, 2015, and this journal on that date.
(This post was suggested by the following sentence
by Anolik in Vanity Fair 's current Hollywood issue —
"I think that for the city of Los Angeles,
Didion is the Ángel de la Muerte.")
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Sunday, October 4, 2015
Rima
On a professor of literature who reportedly
died on Michaelmas 2015, a remark by his daughter —
“He was really an artist,” she said.
That’s evident in the 60 years Raffel spent contemplating
how to translate the terza rima style of Dante Alighieri’s
The Divine Comedy — speaking of the three-line rhyme
scheme first used by the author — before he published
a translation of which he was “most proud” in 2010,
his wife said.
It was his final work.
— Lanie Lee Cook, Baton Rouge Advocate
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Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Balance*
See the circle of keys.
Related material: The links in a Log24 search for Doctor Sax.
* For the title, see posts tagged Dante Time.
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Monday, June 29, 2015
Barbara Reynolds, 1914-2015
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Sunday, June 14, 2015
Autistic Enchantments
( Continued )
Log24 on January 31, 2015 —Spellbound (continued)The New York Times this morning, in an “… the first known crossword puzzle appeared in See St. Nicholas magazine, November 1874, p. 59 :
|
For the answer, see this journal on 
On that same date …
| The Seattle Times , Feb. 8, 2015, updated Feb. 12—
“… you begin by filling in the missing words Dice, yAhtzee, woN, yahTzee, twicE; The capital letters help to show what comes next, You take the first letter of the first inserted word, |
See also two other dates, June 3, 2015, and June 10, 2015,
in this journal and in the life of the puzzle author.
The date of the puzzle’s answer, Feb. 8, 2015, is also
not without interest.
“Click on fanciful .”
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Monday, May 4, 2015
Light to Light
From yesterday —
Another remark on "still light" —
" . . . After the kingfisher's wing
Has answered light to light, and is silent, the light is still
At the still point of the turning world." — Four Quartets
Note the page number, 168, in the above quote from Capobianco.
From another page 168,* a reproduction of a title page —
"In quella parte del libro…."
* In Jewel Spears Brooker's book
T.S. Eliot: The Contemporary Reviews ,
Cambridge University Press, 2004
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Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Thursday, February 26, 2015
Brit Award
"The Brit Awards are… the British equivalent
of the American Grammy Awards." — Wikipedia
Detail of an image from yesterday's 5:30 PM ET post:
Related material:
From a review: "Imagine 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'
set in 20th-century London, and then imagine it
written by a man steeped not in Hollywood movies
but in Dante and the things of the spirit, and you
might begin to get a picture of Charles Williams's
novel Many Dimensions ."
See also Solomon's Seal (July 26, 2012).
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Saturday, August 16, 2014
The Grossman Chronicles
"Shakespeare, Dante, Milton, Homer: those writers trafficked in
witches and fairies and ghosts and monsters. Why shouldn’t I?"
— Novelist Lev Grossman in The New York Times this afternoon
Grossman's father was the poet Allen Grossman.
See that Grossman in this journal, as well as a search for Holy Water.
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Thursday, May 9, 2013
An Education
Click a course description below for some related material.
See also Strike That Pose and Gone to China.
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Friday, January 11, 2013
Grapevine Hill
See also the song at the end of yesterday morning's
"For Your Consideration."
The setting for that song, "Hot Rod Lincoln," is—
according to Wikipedia— the road described in Ch. 3
of Eugene Burdick's classic 1956 novel
The Ninth Wave . (See above.)
See also A Dante for Our Times.
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Friday, November 30, 2012
Point
"….mirando il punto
a cui tutti li tempi son presenti"
— Dante, Paradiso , XVII, 17-18
For instance…
Click image for higher quality.
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Thursday, November 8, 2012
Animula
Dante, Purgatorio XVI
Esce di mano a Lui, che la vagheggia
Prima che sia, a guisa di fanciulla,
Che piangendo e ridendo pargoleggia, 87
L’anima semplicetta, che sa nulla,
Salvo che, mossa da lieto fattore,
Volontier torna a ciò che la trastulla. 90
Related material:
- T. S. Eliot's "Animula,"
- Fitz-James O'Brien's "The Diamond Lens,"
and, in this journal,
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