Month: July 2004

  • For the Feast of St. Ignatius Loyola:


    In God's Name






    "If Trinity is everything you say it is," she said, "then why in God's name would it be based in North Carolina?"


    This I hadn't expected.  "Aren't you the top Jungian analyst in the world?"


    "Well... one of them."


    "Why are you based in North Carolina?"


    -- The Footprints of God









    Nell

    "Remembering speechlessly we seek the great forgotten language, the lost lane-end into heaven, a stone, a leaf, an unfound door. Where? When?"


    -- Thomas Wolfe

  • The Fullness of Time


    In memory of Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, who died yesterday:


    "Having solved one of the basic mysteries of life here on Earth, Dr. Crick seems happy to skewer any notions of a life beyond. For him, the most profound implication of an operational understanding of consciousness is that 'it will lead to the death of the soul.'

    'The view of ourselves as "persons" is just as erroneous as the view that the Sun goes around the Earth,' he said. He predicted that 'this sort of language will disappear in a few hundred years.'

    'In the fullness of time,' he continued, 'educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.'"


    -- "After the Double Helix: Unraveling the Mysteries of the State of Being," by Margaret Wertheim in The New York Times of April 13, 2004

  • In loving memory of
    Fred "Bubba" LaRue,
    architect of Nixon's
       "southern strategy" --


    Part of a Log24 entry
    for Saturday, July 24,
    LaRue's apparent
    date of death --


    Southern
    Strategy
    Galore:




    The Agony
    and the Ecstasy


    and


    a mandorla,
    symbol of the Episcopal
    Diocese of South Carolina.


    The New York Times quotes
    LaRue's son as saying,
    "His heart failed while he was
    reading a book."
    The title is unknown.

  • Get Your Ticket








    Miami Herald:


    Posted on Wed., July 28, 2004


    Ex-N.H. GOP Director
    Pleads Guilty


    by Holly Ramer, Associated Press


    CONCORD, N.H. - The former director of the New Hampshire Republican Party pleaded guilty Wednesday to jamming Democratic phone banks on Election Day 2002.


    Chuck McGee was accused of arranging to have hundreds of hang-up calls made to phone lines that were installed to help voters get rides to the polls. Among the contests decided that day was the close Senate race in which Republican Rep. John Sununu beat Democratic Gov. Jeanne Shaheen.


    From a Log24 entry
    on Election Day 2002--
    Tuesday, November 5:


    Well if you want to ride
    you gotta ride it like you find it.
    Get your ticket at the station
    of the Rock Island Line.



     

    The Rock Island Line's namesake depot 
    in Rock Island, Illinois

     

    For more Rock Island music, click on
    the picture at the top of this entry.

  • The Freshmen, Part II


    From the Daily Princetonian,
    Feb. 3, 2004    :


     


    Caption: Cate Edwards' Princeton friends support her and her father.


    "... when Sen. John Edwards, father of Cate Edwards '04, decided to run for president, the troop of 17 students sacrificed tans and theses to pile into a fleet of minivans headed to New Hampshire....

        These volunteers... were on a first name basis with the man who had helped them move into freshman dorm rooms and had discussed Senate votes with them over Chinese food."


    Log24 May 22, 2004:


    From Chuck Polisher's
    I Ching Lexicon    :



    "It's claimed that
    if you take a mirror
    and look backwards
    into a well,
    you'll see your future
    down in the water."

    -- Cold Mountain,
         Vintage paperback, 1998,
    page 48


    "Goin' to Carolina in my mind..."
    -- James Taylor

  • End of an Era?



     "To put it simply, in those days we had
    leadership, respect, discipline."


    -- Carmine De Sapio 

    Click on screenshot for details.

  • 4:07


    Note added on 7/28 at 5:01 AM:


    See also Joyce's definition of "epiphany."

  • Happy Birthday

    to Kate Beckinsale
    (star of Cold Comfort Farm)


    and Kevin Spacey
    (star of The Usual Suspects).


    From a novel,
    The Footprints of God,
    published August 12, 2003 --


    A tour guide describes
    stations of the cross in Jerusalem:


    "Ibrahim pointed down the cobbled street to a half circle of bricks set in the street.  'There is where Jesus began to carry the cross.  Down the street is the Chapel of Flagellation, where the Roman soldiers whipped Jesus, set on him a crown of thorns, and said, "Hail, King of the Jews!" Then Pilate led him to the crowd and cried, "Ecce homo!  Behold the man!"'


    Ibrahim delivered this information with the excitement of a man reading bingo numbers in a nursing home."


    In keeping with this spirit of religious fervor and with the spirit of Carl Jung, expositor of the religious significance of the mandala,


    Behold --



    The Mandala of Abraham


    For the religious significance of this mandala, see an entry of May 25, 2003:


    Matrix of the Death God.

  • Happy Birthday,
    Carl Jung








    Jung in Von Franz's
    Psyche and Matter, p. 85:

    "What the formula can only hint at is the higher plane that is reached through the process of transformation.... The change consists in an unfolding of totality into four parts four times, which means nothing less than its becoming conscious."


    Jung's Model
    of the Self:

     
    Four Quartets:

    "... history is a pattern      
    Of timeless moments."


    Cold Mountain, the film:


    Inman: You are all that keeps me from sliding into some dark place.
    Ada: But how did I keep you? We barely knew each other. A few moments.
    Inman: A thousand moments. They're like a bag of tiny diamonds glittering in a black heart.


  • His Way


    Suggested by George Steiner's phrase in the previous entry, "as in inverse canons"--



    1. A revision of Theme and Variations to include a midi of Bach's variations on the Goldberg ground



    2. The following from the screenplay of Cold Mountain--





      EXT. BLACK COVE FARM. DAY.

      A beautiful day,
      the farm peaceful.
      Inman walks up the path
      to the farmhouse....
      He knocks on the door.
      Monroe answers.

                  MONROE
           Mr. Inman.

                  INMAN
           Reverend.

                  MONROE
           What can I do for you?

      Inman hovers, awkward.
      Ada appears, awkward.

                  INMAN
           I have some sheet music.
           Belonged to my father.
           No use to me.

      Ada comes forward,
      takes the package.

      ****** LATER *******

      INT. PARLOUR. 
      BLACK COVE FARM. DAY.

      At the piano, Ada unwraps
      the package of music. 
      Inside the first book of music,
      there's a picture of Inman. 
      Some of the music has left its
      imprint on the picture, the notes
      like a melody over Inman's face.


      Ada picks them out on the piano.




    3.     Bach, BWV 1087 (midi)

      (Fourteen Canons on the First Eight Notes of the Goldberg Ground)



    4.         Bach in the original --
        
         



    5.        "Bach in the Original" --