December 10, 2005

• 
  Roger Shattuck, Scholar,
  Is Dead at 82

  In his honor, some excerpts from previous entries:

  Wednesday, January 19, 2005 –
  

  I just subscribed to The New York Review of Books online for another year, prompted by my desire to read Roger Shattuck on Rimbaud….

  “How did this poetic sensibility come to burn so bright?”

  The Shattuck piece is from 1967, the year of The Doors’ first album.

  (See Death and the Spirit, Part II.)

  The photo of Nicole Kidman
  is from Globe Song
  (Log24, Jan. 18, 2005).

  The Times says Shattuck died
  on Thursday (Dec. 8, 2005).

  Here, from 4:00 AM on the
  morning of Shattuck’s death,
  is a brief companion-piece
  to Eight is a Gate:

  Four is a Door:

  From Carole A. Holdsworth, Dulcinea and Pynchon’s V: Tanner may have stated it best: “V. is whatever lights you to  the end of the street:  she is also the dark annihilation  waiting at the end of the street.” (Tony Tanner, page 36,  ”V. and V-2,” in  Pynchon: A Collection  of Critical Essays.  Ed. Edward Mendelson.  Englewood Cliffs, N. J.:  Prentice-Hall, 1978. 16-55). She’s a mystery She’s everything    a woman should be Woman in black    got a hold on me – Foreigner 4

  She’s in midnight blue,
   still
  the words ring true;
  woman in blue
  got a hold on you.

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