April 7, 2005

• In the Details

  Wallace Stevens,
  An Ordinary Evening in New Haven:

  
  XXII

  Professor Eucalyptus said, “The search

  For reality is as momentous as

  The search for God.”  It is the philosopher’s search

  For an interior made exterior

  And the poet’s search for the same exterior made

  Interior….

     … Likewise to say of the evening star,
  The most ancient
  light in the most ancient sky,
  That it is
  wholly an inner light, that it shines
  From the sleepy
  bosom of the real, re-creates,
  Searches a
  possible for its possibleness.

  
  Julie Taymor, “Skewed Mirrors” interview:
  
  

  “… they were performing for God. Now God can mean whatever you
  want it to mean. But for me, I understood it so totally. The detail….

  They did it from the inside to the outside. And from the outside
  to the in. And that profoundly moved me then. It was…it was the most
  important thing that I ever experienced.”

  “Skewed Mirrors”
  illustrated:
  

  Click on the above to enlarge.

  Details:

  

  The above may be of interest to students
  of  iconology — what Dan Brown in
  The Da Vinci Code calls “symbology” –
  and of redheads.

  The artist of Details,
  “Brenda Starr” creator
  Dale Messick, died on Tuesday,
  April 5, 2005, at 98.

  
  
  AP Photo
  Dale Messick in 1982
  
  For further details on
  April 5, see
  Art History:
  The Pope of Hope
  

  
  

  
  

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