For Jennifer Connelly
on Her Birthday:
on Her Birthday:
Collector's Edition
And the price is right!
Related material:
Month: December 2005
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For Rita Moreno
on Her Birthday:Sex and Art in
a Chinese Poem
In the box-style I Ching
Hexagram 34,
The Power of the Great,
is represented by
.Art is represented
by a box
(Hexagram 20,
Contemplation, View)
.And of course
great art
is represented by
an X in a box.
(Hexagram 2,
The Receptive)
.The combination of these
three symbols may be viewed
as "Power in a Box," or,
according to some scholars,
"The Art of Great Sex."
From Xinhua News Agency tonight:
Xbox 360 meets
cold shoulder in Japan.But in another time and place...
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Classic Sixties
"And Jesus was a sailor
When he walked
upon the water..."
-- Leonard Cohenmeets the timeless
Satori at Pearl Harbor:
"Mercilessly tasteful."
-- Andrew Mueller,
review of Suzanne Vega's
"Songs in Red and Gray"Related material:
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Intelligence/
Counterintelligence
continued:Intelligence: A file on James Jesus Angleton at namebase.org, a site run by Daniel Brandt.
Counterintelligence: Hollywood on James Jesus Angleton--"From a
screenplay by 'Forrest Gump' screenwriter Eric Roth, 'The Good
Shepherd' tells the mostly true story of James Wilson (a character
reported to be based on legendary CIA spymaster James Jesus Angleton,
and played in the film by Matt Damon), one of the founding members of
the Central Intelligence Agency. Beginning as an scholar at Yale, the
film follows Wilson as he is recruited to join the secret Skull and
Bones fraternity, a brotherhood and breeding ground for future world
leaders, where his acute mind, spotless reputation and sincere belief
in the American way of life render him a prime candidate for a career
in intelligence."
-- Edward Havens, FilmJerk.com, 8/30/2005
The Forrest Gump Award goes to Good Will Hunting* for this choice of roles.
Counterintelligence
illustrated:
Forrest Gump (l.)
and JFK (r.)
* See Log24, April 4, 2003, Mathematics Awareness Month. For some related material, see Mathematics and Narrative.
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Midnight Blue
Stanley Kubrick's
"Eyes Wide Shut""Midnight
Blue's your online source
for top quality BDSM Gear,
Bondage Gear,
BDSM Toys...."Related material:
Roger Shattuck's
Forbidden Knowledge:
From Prometheus to
Pornography,and from Log24 --
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Prequel on
Saint Cecilia's Day"Death itself would start
working backward."-- Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia
Celebrity Obits, Nov. 22, 2005 --
Intelligence and
Counterintelligence(continued):
Aldous Huxley &
C.S. Lewis both died on Nov.22, 1963. For some reason, their deaths
went largely unnoticed...The doors of perception lead to
NarniaNovember 22,
08:51:20amShemp Howard died 50 years ago today Moe November 22, 09:17:18am See also the previous entry, and this follow-up:
"Shattuck's death on Thursday... was reported by his
nephew, John Shattuck, head of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation,
The Boston Globe reported Saturday."- Boston.com Related material:
"The White Witch rules Narnia,
and has brought to it
the Hundred Years of Winter."
-- The Narnia Academyand the foundation of the
David Morrell Counterintelligence Library:
Shemp
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Roger Shattuck, Scholar,
Is Dead at 82In 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:
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. -
For the birthday of
Emily Dickinson:"This world is not conclusion; A sequel stands beyond, Invisible, as music, But positive, as sound. It beckons and it baffles; 5 Philosophies don’t know, And through a riddle, at the last, Sagacity must go. To guess it puzzles scholars; To gain it, men have shown 10 Contempt of generations, And crucifixion known."
Santa's RiddleHow do you add a single
point to a plane to
give it the shape
of a globe?Hint:
"The lunatic,
the lover, and
the poet...."Answer: See
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Intelligence
and
Counterintelligence
A film by Robert De Niro,
now in production:"Will follow James Wilson, a Yale graduate recruited
as one of the founders of the CIA. The character is
said to be based on the legendarily shrewd but paranoid
counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton."- The Z Review Recommended
reading:
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Fairy Tales
"It's all in Plato."
-- C. S. LewisTalking Narnia to Your Neighbors
ChristianityToday.com
by Keri Wyatt Kent"The summer Lindy Lowry was 20,
she rejected the Christian faith
she'd had since childhood--
dismissing it as a fairy tale
that made no sense
in a world full of evil."Tales from
The New Yorker:
“Brokeback Mountain” and
“The Chronicles of Narnia.”by ANTHONY LANE
"This slow and stoic movie, hailed as a gay Western, feels neither gay nor especially Western...."
The Chronicles of Narnia:"If the movie has to forgo Lewis’s narrative tone, with its grimly
Oxonian blend of the bluff and the twee ('And now we come to one of the
nastiest things in this story'), that is fine by me. And, if there is
Deep Magic, as Lewis called it, in his tale, it resides not in the
springlike coming of Aslan but in the dreamlike, compacted poetry of
Lewis’s initial inspiration—the sight of a faun...."Concluding Unscientific Postscript
From The Circle is Unbroken,
a web page in memory of
June Carter Cash:Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch ("Q"), quoting Socrates--
"By Hera," says Socrates, "a fair resting-place, full of summer sounds and scents! This clearing, with the agnus castus
in high bloom and fragrant, and the stream beneath the tree so
gratefully cool to our feet! Judging from the ornaments and statues, I
think this spot must be sacred to Acheloüs and the Nymphs."See, too, Q's quoting of Socrates's prayer to Pan, as well as the cover of the May 19, 2003, New Yorker:
For a discussion of the music that
Pan is playing (today's site music),
see my entry of Sept. 10, 2002,
"The Sound of Hanging Rock."
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