October 26, 2003
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ART WARS for
Trotsky’s Birthday
Part I:
Symbols
From my entry of July 26, 2003, in memory
of Marathon Man director John Schlesinger:
Bright Star and Dark Lady
“Mexico is a solar country — but it is also a black country, a dark country. This duality of Mexico has preoccupied me since I was a child.”
– Octavio Paz,
quoted by Homero Aridjis
Bright Star
Amen.
Dark Lady
For the meaning of the above symbols, see
Kubrick’s 1x4x9 monolith in 2001,
the Halmos tombstone in Measure Theory,
and the Fritz Leiber Changewar stories.
Part II:
Sunday in the Park with Death
To Leon from Diego –
Details of a mural,
A Dream of a Sunday Afternoon
in Alameda Park,
Fresco, 1947-48,
Alameda Hotel, Mexico City:
Three’s a Crowd:
Symbol:
