April 30, 2004
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Notes
On “Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction,” by Wallace Stevens:
“This third section continues its play of opposing forces, introducing in the second canto a ‘blue woman,’ arguably a goddess- or muse-figure, who stands apart from images of fecundity and sexuality….”
From a Beethoven’s Birthday entry:
Kaleidoscope turning…
Shifting pattern
within unalterable structure…
– Roger Zelazny, Eye of Cat
See, too, Blue Matrices, and
a link for Beethoven’s birthday:
Song for the
Unification of Europe
(Blue 1)
From today’s news:
PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) – Ushering in a bold new era, hundreds of thousands of people packed streets and city squares across Europe on Friday for festivals and fireworks marking the European Union’s historic enlargement to 25 countries from 15.
The expanded EU, which takes in a broad swath of the former Soviet bloc – a region separated for decades from the West by barbed wire and Cold War ideology – was widening to 450 million citizens at midnight (6 p.m.EDT) to create a collective superpower rivalling the United States.
“All these worlds are yours
except Europa.
Attempt no landing there.”
