July 13, 2003

• Ground Zero

  
  

  Today’s birthday: Harrison Ford is 61.

  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  

  From The Gag Seven – Eleven Dice  Throw a seven or eleven every time. Set consists of a pair of regular dice and another set that can’t miss. A product of the S. S. Adams Company. Make your friends and family laugh with this great prank!

  
  

   New York State Lottery:

  
  

  7-11 Evening Number: 000.

  
  

  From the conclusion of
  Joan Didion’s 1970 novel
  Play It As It Lays: 

  
  

  

  
  

  “I know what ‘nothing’ means,
  and keep on playing.”

  
  

  From a review of the 1970 film Zabriskie Point:

  
  

  “The real star of Zabriskie Point… is the desolate, parched-white landscape of Death Valley….”

  
  

  For Harrison Ford and Zabriskie Point, see

  
  

  Harrison Ford – Le Site En Français

  
  

  The Harrison Ford of the 1970 film Zabriskie Point and the “Harrison Porter” of the 1970 novel Play It As It Lays may not be completely unrelated.

  
  

  For the religious significance of the names “Porter” and “BZ” in Play It As It Lays, see both the devilish site

  
  

  A Wake-Macbeth Intertext:

  
  

  
  

  “Both ‘porter’ and ‘belzey babble’ operate as textual ‘grafts’ and ‘hinges’ …”

  
  

  and the Princeton site

  
  

  Macbeth, Act II, Scene 3

  
  

  
  

  {Enter a Porter. Knocking within}

  
  

  PORTER:
  1. Here’s a knocking indeed!
      If a man were porter
  2. of hell-gate he should have old
      turning the key.{Knock within}
  3. Knock, knock, knock. Who’s there,
      i’ th’ name of
  4. Beelzebub?

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