| Part I | On Linguistic Creation |
| Part II | Saul Bellow |
| Part III | Sequel |
"Call the Vatican.
Ask them if anything's missing."
-- Analyze This
See also the iconology --
what Dan Brown in
The Da Vinci Code
calls "symbology" --
of Pandora's Box
at Log24.net,
March 10, 2005:
"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"
Skewed Mirrors,
Sept. 14, 2003
"Evil did not have the last word."
-- Richard John Neuhaus, April 4, 2005
| Lps. The keys to. Given! A way a lone a last a loved a long the PARIS, |
"There is never any ending to Paris."
-- Ernest Hemingway
For the first word, see Louis Armand on
Lethe, erinnerung, and riverrun.
See also the following passage,
linked to on the Easter Vigil, 2005:
"Just the facts, ma'am" -- Joe Friday
See the entry Lucky (?) Numbers
of Saturday, April 2, 2005, 11:07 AM ET, for links to a few facts
about the historical role of the Number of the Beast in the
Pennsylvania Lottery.
The Pennsylvania Lottery mid-day drawings take place at about 1:10 PM ET.
Pope John Paul II died on Saturday, April 2, at 2:37 PM ET.
Thus the final PA drawing of his lifetime was on that Saturday afternoon.
The winning mid-day number that day was...
In the I Ching, this is the number of
The Power of the Great.
Neuhaus stated that "If any phrase encapsulates the
message that John Paul declared to the world, it is probably 'prophetic
humanism.'" If there is such a thing, it is probably best
exemplified by the I Ching. For further details, see Hitler's Still Point.
Father Neuhaus's argument included the following mysterious phrase:
"God's unfolding covenant with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Jesus."
Compare the following two passages from Holy Scripture:
Genesis 22:13 --
"...behold behind him
a ram caught in a thicket by his horns"
"A goat butts against a hedge
And gets its horns entangled."
A topic for discussion by the foolish:
In the current historical situation,
who is Isaac and who is the goat?
From yet another Holy Scripture,
a topic for discussion by the wise:
“Anyone can create a pretty little bamboo garden in the world. But I
doubt that the gardener would succeed in incorporating the world in his
bamboo grove.”
4:04:04
"My wife took, unnoticed, this picture, unposed, of me in the act of
writing a novel.... The date (discernible in the captured calendar) is
February 27, 1929. The novel, Zashchita Luzhina (The Defense), deals with the defense invented by an insane chess player...."
-- Vladimir Nabokov, note to photograph following page 256 in Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited, Vintage International paperback, August 1989
-- Quoted in The Matthias Defense
From a site titled Meaning of the Twentieth Century --
"Freeman Dyson has expressed some thoughts on craziness. In a
Scientific American article called 'Innovation in Physics,' he began by
quoting Niels Bohr. Bohr had been in attendance at a lecture in which
Wolfgang Pauli proposed a new theory of elementary particles. Pauli
came under heavy criticism, which Bohr summed up for him: 'We are all
agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is
whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own
feeling is that is not crazy enough.' To that Freeman added: 'When a
great innovation appears, it will almost certainly be in a muddled,
incomplete and confusing form. To the discoverer, himself, it will be
only half understood; to everyone else, it will be a mystery. For any
speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no
hope!' "
-- Kenneth Brower, The Starship and the Canoe, 1979, pp. 146, 147
It is my hope that the speculation, implied in The Matthias Defense,
that the number 162 has astonishing mystical properties (as a page
number, article number, etc.) is sufficiently crazy to satisfy Pauli and his friend Jung as well as the more conventional thinkers Bohr and Dyson.
-- Log24.net, Feast of St. Mark, 2003
See also The Black Queen and The Eight.
In accordance with the theology of the previous entry, based on Zein's list of the most common Chinese characters, here are some
meanings
of
[si4] {sì} /to watch/to wait/to examine/to spy/
[si4] {sì} /to seem/to appear/similar/like/to resemble/
[si4] {sì} /until/wait for/
[si4] {sì} /rhinoceros indicus/
[si4] {sì} /four/
[si4] {sì} /(surname)/wife of older brother/
[si4] {sì} /Buddhist temple/
[si4] {sì} /6th earthly branch/9-11 a.m./
[si4] {sì} /stream which returns after branching/
[si4] {sì} /place name/snivel/
[si4] {sì} /offer sacrifice to/
[si4] {sì} /hamper/trunk/
[si4] {sì} /plough/ploughshare/
[si4] {sì} /four (fraud-proof)/market/
[si4] {sì} /to feed/
[si4] {sì} /to raise/to rear/to feed/
[si4] {sì} /team of 4 horses/
[si4 bai3 wan4] {sì bǎi wàn} /four million/
[si4 bai3 yi4] {sì bǎi yì} /40 billion/
[si4 cao2] {sì cáo} /feeding trough/
[si4 cao3] {sì cǎo} /forage grass/
[si4 chu4] {sì chù} /all over the place/everywhere and all directions/
[si4 chuan1] {sì chuān} /Sichuan province, China/
[si4 chuan1 sheng3] {sì chuān shěng} /(N) Sichuan, a south west China province/
[si4 de5] {sì de} /seem as if/rather like/
[si4 fang1] {sì fāng} /four-way/four-sided/
[si4 fen1 zhi1 yi1] {sì fēn zhī yī} /one-quarter/
[si4 fu2] {sì fú} /servo/
[si4 fu2 qi4] {sì fú qì} /server (computer)/
[si4 ge4 xiao3 shi2] {sì gè xiǎo shí} /four hours/
[si4 hu5] {sì hu} /apparently/to seem/to appear/as if/seemingly/
[si4 hu5 hen3 an1 quan2] {sì hu hěn ān quán} /to appear (to be) very safe/
[si4 ji1] {sì jī} /to watch for one's chance/
[si4 ji4] {sì jì} /(n) the four seasons/
[si4 liao4] {sì liào} /feed/fodder/
[si4 lun2 ma3 che1] {sì lún mǎ chē} /chariot/
[si4 men2 jiao4 che1] {sì mén jiào chē} /sedan (motor car)/
[si4 mian4 ba1 fang1] {sì miàn bā fāng} /in all directions/all around/far and near/
[si4 mian4 ti3] {sì miàn tǐ} /tetrahedron/
[si4 miao4] {sì miào} /temple/monastery/shrine/
[si4 nian2] {sì nián} /four years/
[si4 nian2 qian2] {sì nián qián} /four years previously/
[si4 nian2 zhi4 de5 da4 xue2] {sì nián zhì de dà xué} /four-year university/
[si4 qian1] {sì qiān} /four thousand/4 000/
[si4 shi2] {sì shí} /forty/40/
[si4 shi2 duo1] {sì shí duō} /more than 40/
[si4 shi2 liu4] {sì shí liù} /forty six/46/
[si4 shi2 san1] {sì shí sān} /43/forty three/
[si4 shi4 er2 fei1] {sì shì ér fēi} /(saying) appeared right but actually was wrong/
[si4 tian1] {sì tiān} /four days/
[si4 xiao4 fei1 xiao4] {sì xiào fēi xiào} /(saying) resemble a smile yet not smile/
[si4 xue3] {sì xuě} /snowy/
[si4 yang3] {sì yǎng} /to raise/to rear/
[si4 yang3 zhe3] {sì yǎng zhě} /feeder/
[si4 yuan4] {sì yuàn} /cloister/
[si4 yue4] {sì yuè} /April/fourth month/
[si4 yue4 shi2 qi1 hao4] {sì yuè shí qī hào} /April 17/
[si4 zhi1] {sì zhī} /(n) the four limbs of the body/
[si4 zhou1] {sì zhōu} /all around/
| 689 |  |
[fú] blessing, good fortune |
Pennsylvania Lottery Daily Number
Related material:
From 6/13 2004 --
An 8-rayed star:
Another 8-rayed star:
St. Peter's Square in Rome
From 6/13 2003 --
A link to a 2001 First Things essay,
The underwriting of Hebraic–Hellenic
literacy, of the normative analogue between divine and mortal acts of creation,
was, in the fullest sense, theological. As was the wager (pronounced lost in
deconstruction and postmodernism) on ultimate possibilities of accord between
sign and sense, between word and meaning, between form and phenomenality. The
links are direct between the tautology out of the Burning Bush, that 'I am'
which accords to language the privilege of phrasing the identity of God, on
the one hand, and the presumptions of concordance, of equivalence, of translatability,
which, though imperfect, empower our dictionaries, our syntax, our rhetoric,
on the other. That 'I am' has, as it were, at an overwhelming distance, informed
all predication. It has spanned the arc between noun and verb, a leap primary
to creation and the exercise of creative consciousness in metaphor. Where that
fire in the branches has gone out or has been exposed as an optical illusion,
the textuality of the world, the agency of the Logos in logic—be it Mosaic,
Heraclitean, or Johannine—becomes 'a dead letter.'
That passage bears rereading."
-- Richard John Neuhaus quoting
George Steiner's Grammars of Creation
(Yale University Press, April 1, 2001)
From Dogma, a link in yesterday's noon entry:
"Sky is high and so am I,
If you're a viper -- a vi-paah."
-- The Day of the Locust, by Nathanael West (1939),
New Directions paperback, 1969, page 162
"Mystery surrounds the death of young actor River Phoenix.... The
actor... was declared dead at 1:51 a.m. PT Sunday. Phoenix died about
50 minutes after collapsing in front of the Viper Room, a new club on
the Sunset Strip...."
-- Karen Thomas, USA Today,
Monday, November 1, 1993
On the night of October 30-31, 1993, also known as Devil's
Night, there was a full Hunter's Moon and the Pennsylvania Lottery
number was 666.
-- Steven H. Cullinane, 03/20/01
"Do Catholics believe that when you die your soul goes up in the sky? To heaven, if they go to heaven?"
-- Hope of Heaven, by John O'Hara (1938),
Carroll & Graf paperback, 1985, page 162
April 1 at Noon
"Philosophers ponder the idea of identity: what it
is to give something a name on Monday and have it respond to that name
on Friday."
-- Bernard Holland, C12, N.Y. Times, 5/20/96
From Nov. 24, 2002:
Searched the web for "Joyce and Aquinas" "William T. Noon". Results 1-5 of about 15:
Dogma
... Dogma, theological" -- entry in the index (paper, not marble) to Joyce and Aquinas, by William T. Noon, SJ, Yale U. Press 1957, 2nd printing 1963, page 162. ...
m759.freeservers.com/2001-03-20-dogma.html - 9k
The Matthias Defense
... Contemplatio: aesthetic joy of, 54-5" -- index to Joyce and Aquinas, by William T. Noon, SJ, Yale University Press, second printing, 1963, page 162. ...
m759.freeservers.com/2001-03-22-matthias.html - 6k
Wag the Dogma
... One economy would be to teach the trivium using only one book -- Joyce and Aquinas, by William T. Noon (Yale, 1957), which ties together philology, logic, and ...
m759.freeservers.com/2001-04-06-wag.html - 6k
Shining Forth
... Please go away, Paz begged silently.... "De veras! It's so romantic!". -- Let Noon Be Fair William T. Noon, SJ, Chapter 4 of Joyce and Aquinas, Yale University ...
m759.freeservers.com/2001-03-15-shining.html - 10k
Midsummer Eve's Dream
... notions... The quidditas or essence of an angel is the same as its form. (See William T. Noon, SJ, Joyce and Aquinas, Yale, 1957). ...
m759.freeservers.com/1995-06-23-midsummer.html - 12k
See also Monday's entry.
April 1 continued
"In Finnegans Wake, the number 1132 appears
in each chapter in one way or another."
-- noseyflynn.com
Time of this entry -- 11:32:55.
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