April 15, 2005
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Leonardo Day
In memory of Leonardo and of Chen Yifei (previous entry), a link to the Sino-Judaic Institute’s review of Chen’s film “Escape to
Shanghai” – 
Click on the above for details.Related material
from Log24.net:
Saturday, December 27, 2003 10:21 PM
Toy
“If little else, the brain is an educational toy. While it may be a
frustrating plaything — one whose finer points recede just when you think you
are mastering them — it is nonetheless perpetually fascinating, frequently
surprising, occasionally rewarding, and it comes already assembled; you don’t
have to put it together on Christmas morning.The problem with possessing such an engaging toy is that other people want to
play with it, too. Sometimes they’d rather play with yours than
theirs. Or they object if you play with yours in a different manner from
the way they play with theirs. The result is, a few games out of a toy
department of possibilities are universally and endlessly repeated. If you
don’t play some people’s game, they say that you have ‘lost your marbles,’ not
recognizing that,
while Chinese checkers is indeed a fine pastime, a person may also play
dominoes, chess, strip poker, tiddlywinks, drop-the-soap or Russian roulette
with his brain.One brain game that is widely, if poorly, played is a gimmick called
‘rationalthought.’ “ – Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues “I took the number twenty-four and there’s twenty-four ways of expressing the
numbers one, two, three, four. And I assigned one kind of line to one, one
to two, one to three, and one to four. One was a vertical line, two was a
horizontal line, three was diagonal left to right, and four was diagonal right
to left. These are the basic kind of directions that lines can take….
the absolute ways that lines can be drawn. And I drew these things
as parallel lines very close to one another in boxes. And then there was a
system of changing them so that within twenty-four pages there were different
arrangements of actually sixteen squares, four sets of four. Everything
was based on four. So this was kind of a… more of a… less of a
rational… I mean, it gets into the whole idea of methodology.”Yes, it does.
See Art Wars, Poetry’s Bones, and Time
Fold.
Friday, December 26, 2003 7:59 PM
ART WARS, St. Stephen’s Day:
The Magdalene Code
Got The Da Vinci Code for Xmas.
From page 262:
When Langdon had first seen The Little Mermaid, he had actually
gasped aloud when he noticed that the painting in Ariel’s underwater home was
none other than seventeenth-century artist Georges de la Tour’s The
Penitent Magdalene — a famous homage to the banished Mary Magdalene —
fitting decor considering the movie turned out to be a ninety-minute collage
of blatant symbolic references to the lost sanctity of Isis, Eve, Pisces the
fish goddess, and, repeatedly, Mary Magdalene.Related Log24 material –
The Da Vinci Code, pages 445-446:
“The blade and chalice?” Marie asked. “What exactly do they look
like?”Langdon sensed she was toying with him, but he played along, quickly
describing the symbols.A look of vague recollection crossed her face. “Ah, yes, of
course. The blade represents all that is masculine. I believe it
is drawn like this, no?” Using her index finger, she traced a shape on
her palm.
“Yes,” Langdon said. Marie had drawn the less common “closed” form of
the blade, although Langdon had seen the symbol portrayed both ways.“And the inverse,” she said, drawing again upon her palm, ”is the
chalice, which represents the feminine.”
“Correct,” Langdon said….
… Marie turned on the lights and pointed….
“There you are, Mr. Langdon. The blade and chalice.”….
“But that’s the Star of Dav–”
Langdon stopped short, mute with amazement as it dawned on him.
The blade and chalice.
Fused as one.
The Star of David… the perfect union of male and female… Solomon’s
Seal… marking the Holy of Holies, where the male and female
deities — Yahweh and Shekinah — were thought
to dwell.Related Log24 material –
May 25, 2003:
Star Wars.
Concluding remark of April 15, 2005:
For a more serious approach to portraits of
redheads, see Chen Yifei’s work.
Comments (1)
It’s just so much information.
And then: Schindler spared the fate of a thousand Jews and during the very same time Shanghai had saved 25,000.
Amazing.