April 5, 2005
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Art History:
The Pope of Hope
At the Vatican on
Shakespeare’s Birthday(See Log24.net,
Oct. 4, 2002)See also the iconology –
what Dan Brown in
The Da Vinci Code
calls “symbology” –
of Pandora’s Box
at Log24.net,
March 10, 2005:
“Man and woman are a pair of locked caskets,
each containing the key to the other.”“Karol Wojtyla had looked into
the heart of darkness–
and at the heart of darkness
discovered reason
for an indomitable hope.He lived on the far side of
the greatest catastrophe
in human history,
the death of the Son of God,
and knew that evil
did not have the last word.
This is the key….”– Richard John Neuhaus,
April 4, 2005
Finnegans Wake, p. 293,
“the lazily eye of his lapis”
“Notice how the Pope turns out to be
at the center of the breaking and
redefining of the Classical system.”“Derrida
on Plato on writing says ‘In order for these contrary values
(good/evil, true/false, essence/appearance, inside/outside, etc.) to be
in opposition, each of the terms must be simply EXTERNAL to the other,
which means that one of these oppositions (the opposition between
inside and outside) must already be accredited as the matrix of all
possible opposition.’ “
Skewed Mirrors,
Sept. 14, 2003“Evil did not have the last word.”
— Richard John Neuhaus, April 4, 2005Lps. The keys to. Given! A way a lone
a last a loved a long thePARIS,
1922-1939“There is never any ending to Paris.”
— Ernest HemingwayFor the first word, see Louis Armand on
Lethe, erinnerung, and riverrun.See also the following passage,
linked to on the Easter Vigil, 2005:You will find to the left of the House of Hades
a spring,
And by the side thereof standing
a white cypress.
To this spring approach not near.
But you shall find another,
from the lake of Memory
Cold water flowing forth, and there are
guardians before it.
Say, “I am a child of Earth and starry Heaven;
But my race is of Heaven alone.
This you know yourselves.
But I am parched with thirst and I perish.
Give me quickly
The cold water flowing forth
from the lake of Memory.”
