"The Garden of Eden is behind us
and there is no road back to innocence;
we can only go forward."
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh,
Earth Shine, p. xii
Month: May 2005
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The Nine
"Nine is a very powerful Nordic number."
-- Katherine Neville, author of The Eight,
in The Magic Circle"To live is to defend a form."
("Leben, das heisst eine Form verteidigen")
-- attributed to HölderlinIn defense of the nine-square grid:
For details on the above picture, see
Translation Plane. -
Art at Princeton
From Princeton University Press,
A. W. Mellon Lectures in the
Bollingen Series:Paths to the Absolute:Mondrian, Malevich, Kandinsky,
Pollock, Newman, Rothko, and Stillby John Golding
Cloth | 2000 | $65.00 | ISBN: 0-691-04896-7
240 pp. | 7 x 10 | 63 color plates 109 halftones
This may illuminate Krauss's remarks on
Mondrian and Malevich at the
conclusion of the previous entry. -
Powers,
continued"Horton Marlais Davies, Putnam professor emeritus of religion at
Princeton and an author of many books about church history, died on
Wednesday at his home in Princeton, N.J. He was 89.... Dr. Davies specialized in the impact of Christianity on the arts."
A book edited by Horton Davies,
apparently first published by Eerdmans
at Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1990The Catholic Encyclopedia (1908) on the communion of saints:
"One cannot read the parables of the kingdom (Matt., xiii) without
perceiving its corporate nature and the continuity which links together
the kingdom in our midst and the kingdom to come. The nature of that
communion, called by St. John a fellowship with one another ('a
fellowship withus' -- I John, i, 3) because it is a fellowship with the
Father, and with his Son, and compared by him to the organic and vital
union of the vine and its branches (John, xv), stands out...."Related material:
Religious art in the entry Art History of 11 AM Wednesday, May 11, the date of Davies's death. See also the following direct and indirect links from that entry:
To a cruciform artifact from the current film Kingdom of Heaven, to an entry quoting John xv, Nine is a Vine, and to Art Theory for Yom Kippur.
For less-religious material on the number nine, see the entries and links in the Log24 archive for June 17-30, 2004.
From Rosalind Krauss, "Grids":"If we open any tract--
Plastic Art and Pure Plastic Art
or The Non-Objective World,
for instance-- we will find that
Mondrian and Malevich are not
discussing canvas or pigment or
graphite or any other form of
matter. They are talking about
Being or Mind or Spirit."Amen.
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Powers
From today's New York Times --
Francesco Marchisano, made a cardinal
on October 21, 2003:"All the saints have powers."
Tonight at 8 PM ET on Fox: X-Men.
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Goodbye Girl
From a goodbye letter
by a girl named
Lucero in Cuernavaca
in the early 1960's:"Si me de veras quieres,
deja me en paz."(See Shining Forth.)
Today's birthdays --
Natasha Richardson,
Martha Quinn,
Frances Fisher --
remind me of
The Sprite and the Synergist
chapter in Bester's The Deceivers:Three drinks later he was suddenly inspired. "What I need right
now is a girl to lose myself in. That's the only way to wait for
a pattern to show."One of his reciprocal Rogues (he had a dozen alternate selves) answered, "Feel free, but you left your big red book in the workshop."
"Why, for jigjeeze sake, can't I have the little black book, famed in song and story?"
"Why can't you remember a phone number? Never mind. Shall we join the ladies?"
He made three calls, all negative. He had three more drinks, all
positive. He stripped, went to his Japanese bed in the monk's
cell, thrashed, swore, and slept at last, dreamingcrazed p a t t e r n s
a t t e r n s
t t e r n s
t e r n s
e r n s
r n s
n s
s -
... y eres tú y soy yo
y es un caminarte en círculo
dar a tus hechos dimensión de arco
y a solas con tu impulso decirte la palabra.
For Lucero:
Established in 1916,
Montreat College
is a private,
Christian college
located in a beautiful valley
in the Blue Ridge
Mountains
of North Carolina. -
Art History
Reuters - "Joe Grant, a legendary Disney
artist who designed the Queen/Witch in 'Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs,' died of a heart attack while doing what he loved most,
drawing, the Walt Disney Co. said Monday.Grant, 96, died at his home in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale last Friday while sitting at his drawing board."
"With a little effort, anything can be
shown to connect with anything else:
existence is infinitely cross-referenced."-- Opening sentence of
Martha Cooley's The ArchivistFrom Log24 last Friday,
a Greek cross:
Click on picture for details.
And from Sunday, May 1
(Orthodox Easter):
Columbia University's
Meyer Schapiro Professor
of Modern Art and Theory:"There is no painter in the West
who can be unaware of
the symbolic
power of
the cruciform shape1
and the Pandora's box
of spiritual
reference2
that is opened
once one uses it."
Click on pictures for details.
Related material:
Nine is a Vine3.1, 2, 3 Today's birthdays:1 Natasha Richardson, born 11 May 1963,
Jedi wife and costar of Nell2 Martha Quinn, born 11 May 1959,
MTV wit3 Frances Fisher, born 11 May 1952,
dazzling redhead -
Europe Marks Nazis' Surrender
-- Boston Globe on events of
Sunday, May 8, 2005"After all, tomorrow is another day."
-- Gone with the WindAdolf
Holl, Jg. 1930, war Kaplan und Dozent an der Katholisch- Theologischen
Fakultät der Universität Wien; 1973 wurde ihm die kirchliche
Lehrerlaubnis entzogen, 1976 das Priesteramt; er lebt und arbeitet als
freier Schriftsteller in Wien. Das Büchlein "Falls ich Papst werden
sollte. Ein Szenario" (1998, List-Verlag), dem die hier abgedruckten
Passagen - mit Ausnahme des Post Skriptums - entnommen sind, ist leider
schon vergriffen; Abdruck mit freundlicher Genehmigung des Autors.Falls ich Papst werden sollte...
Kaum zu glauben: Adolf Holl
wirft alle Papabile-Charts über den Haufen und empfiehlt sich dem am
Montag beginnenden Konklave als Pontifex Sixtus VI. - kursorische
Notizen eines Außenseiters
"Ich bin der
Präfekt der Kongregation für die Glaubenslehre, Eure Heiligkeit. Aber
natürlich. Entschuldigen Sie meine Vergesslichkeit. Möchten Sie einen
Espresso? Mit oder ohne Milch?Den Espresso mache ich lieber
selber, auf einer Pavoni- Maschine. Zum Präfekten der
Glaubenskongregation werde ich sagen: Besorgen Sie mir die besten
Übersetzungen der Werke Ephräm, des Syrers (Kirchenschriftsteller,
gest. 373) ins Deutsche. Und eine kommentierte Liste aller Fachleute,
die über ihn gearbeitet haben. Das wird den Präfekten eine Weile
beschäftigen."
St. Ephrem
the Syrian
(about 306 AD - 373 AD)"He... acquired honor as
a Christian musician and poet.
He was so
accomplished in both arts
that he was called the
'lyre of the Holy Spirit.'" -
Today's Sermon:
"Holl, Adolf" pneumatology.
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