August 9, 2004

• Shape Note

  
  

  A variation on the theme of the previous entry, Quartet.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  The first crossword puzzle:

  Derek Taunt

  
  

  As in the previous entry, the illustration on the left is from a Log24 entry on the date of death of the person on the right.

  
  

  Relevant quotations:

  
  

  “It was rather like solving a crossword puzzle.”

  
  

  – Derek Taunt, on breaking the Enigma Code

  
  

  Four Quartets:

  
  

  “… history is a pattern
  Of timeless moments.”

  
  

  Cambridge News obituary:

  
  

  “He [Dr. Taunt] and Angela [his wife] founded the Friends of Kettle’s Yard when the Arts Council cut its grant in 1984 and together organised countless fundraising activities for the museum and gallery.”

  
  

  “How do we relate to the past? How are our memories affected by the cultural context that shapes our present? How many, and what kind of narratives compete in the representation of a historical moment? Rear View Mirror sets out to explore these questions and examine the devices we use to reconstruct events and people through different lenses….”

  
  

  – On a future Kettle’s Yard exhibition

  
  

  Time past and time future
  What might have been
        and what has been
  Point to one end,
        which is always present.

  
  

  – Four Quartets

  
  

  
  

   ”The diamonds will be shining,
  no longer in the rough.”

  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  

  – Diamonds in the Rough

  
  

  See the Log24 remarks on Jesus College– Taunt’s college– in a web page for June Carter Cash, The Circle is Unbroken.
  
  

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