Final Arrangements

Trude Rittmann, an Arranger
of Broadway Favorites, Dies at 96

Ms. Rittmann died on February 22.
For related arrangements, see the
five log24.net entries ending on that date.

"It's quarter to three..."

"The entertaining script was adapted from the novel
by Charles Portis, by well-known, long time writer, Marguerite Roberts
who liked to write scripts for tough men. She wrote scripts for MGM
in the '30's, '40's, until she was blacklisted in 1952, for not revealing
names to The Committee on Un-American Activities."

Ch-ch-Changes

"Everything
changes but the law of change does not change."

-- Khalifa Abdul Hakim

"He who has perceived the meaning of change fixes his attention no
longer on transitory individual things but on the immutable, eternal
law at work in all change. This law is the tao of Lao-Tse, the course
of things, the principle of the one in the many."

-- Richard Wilhelm (1923), introduction to the Book of Changes

White Stone

"I have stolen more quotes and thoughts and purely elegant little starbursts of writing
from the Book of Revelation than anything else in the English
language-- and it is not because I am a biblical scholar, or because of
any religious faith, but because I love the wild power of the language
and the purity of the madness that governs it and makes it music."

-- Hunter S. Thompson, Author's Note, Generation of Swine

Revelation 2:17:

"And I will give him a white stone...."

Related material:

2003 2/17: "immortal diamond"
2004 2/17:  "hard core"           
2005 2/17:  "the diamond"       

For an "elegant starburst," see

"Starflight," from 10/10, 2004 --

the date of
Christopher Reeve's death.

See also
Revelation 10:10 --

"And I took the
little book
out of the angel's hand,
and ate it up; and it was in my
mouth
sweet as honey: and as soon as I had
eaten it, my belly was
bitter."

For the relationship of this verse to
the style of Hunter Thompson, see

From the Department of Justice:
"LSD generally is taken by mouth.
The drug is colorless
and odorless
but has a slightly bitter taste."
Among the street terms for LSD
is "Superman."

3/16 Continued

The New Yorker, issue dated March 7, 2005, on Hunter S. Thompson:

"... his true model and hero was F. Scott Fitzgerald. He used to type out
pages from 'The Great Gatsby,' just to get the feeling, he said, of
what it was like to write that way, and Fitzgerald's novel was
continually on his mind while he was working on 'Fear and Loathing in
Las Vegas,' which was published, after a prolonged and agonizing
compositional nightmare, in 1972. That book was supposed to be called
'The Death of the American Dream,' a portentous age-of-Aquarius cliché
that won Thompson a nice advance but that he naturally came to
consider, as he sat wretchedly before his typewriter night after night,
a millstone around his neck."

-- Louis Menand

"I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."

-- Daisy Buchanan in Chapter I of The Great Gatsby

"Thanks for the tip, American Dream."

-- Spider-Girl, in Vol. 1, No. 30, March 2001

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