Month: June 2006

  • For a

    Dark Lady
     
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    Hypercube and Cube

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    Hypercube and Cube
    Unfolding

    For every kind of vampire,
    there is a kind of cross.
    -- Gravity's Rainbow

    The above crosses are from an animation that "illustrates... unfolding of the nets of a hypercube (left) and cube (right)." -- Christopher Thomas

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    Kate Beckinsale, poster for
    Underworld: Evolution
    (DVD release date 6/6/6)

    evolve:
    1641, "to unfold, open out, expand,"
    from L. evolvere "unroll," from ex- "out"
    + volvere "to roll" (see vulva).
    -- Online Eymology Dictionary 

    Related material:

    Introduction to Multispeech,
    All Hallows' Eve, 2005

  • Shining Appearance

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    Related material on philosophy:

    The death of Hollywood agent
    Ingo Preminger, brother of
    Otto Preminger, on June 7,

    the Log24 entry of June 7,
    Figures of Speech, and

    Lichtung!

    Ingo Preminger was also
    the producer of the 1970 film MASH.

    Related material on brotherhood
    and the Korean War:


    He Ain't Heavy    .

  • The Meadow
    continued from
    December 18, 2005

    "After I had advanced a good while I came finally to a lovely meadow
    hedged about with a round circle of fruit bearing trees, and called by
    the dwellers Pratum felicitatis [the meadow of felicity]."

    -- From page 2 of   
    Problems of Mysticism
    and Its Symbolism, by
    Herbert Silberer, 1914
     (English translation
    published in 1917)

    "And we may see
    the meadow in December,
    icy white and crystalline."

    -- Johnny Mercer,

      "Midnight Sun"

    "The author of the preceding narrative calls it a parable. Its significance
    may have indeed appeared quite transparent to him, and he presupposes
    that the readers of his day knew what form of learning he masked in it.
    The story impresses us as rather a fairy story or a picturesque dream."

    -- Silberer, Problems of Mysticism online

  • Ursprache Revisited

    "Rilke's poems operate at this balancing point between openness and
    closure, between centripedal and centrifugal motion, the poem being all
    symbol and being all object.  Rilke developed the inwardness of
    poetry begun in Baudelaire and refined in Mallarmé into new depths of
    self-referentiality.  Verinnerlichung was the term for this transmutation from outer to inner...."

    -- Rainer Maria Rilke: Life and Work,
        by Jeremy Robinson

    For a symbol of
    Verinnerlichung,
    see a figure from
    April 5, 2005:
     

    Related material: Herbert Silberer on Verinnerlichung in Problems of Mysticism and the Log24 entry Figures of Speech
    of 10 AM Wednesday, June 7-- the date of death of theatrical agent
    Howard Rosenstone    .  See also the work of playwrights Donald Margulies and William Finn, clients of Rosenstone.

    For Margulies, see a review of "Brooklyn Boy"--


    "It's
    like stringing beads on a necklace. By the time the play ends, you have
    the whole necklace. But it's not like a typical play, where you know
    where you're going at the end of Act I. In this case, you'll learn
    something in one scene that will make you realize Eric was lying in a
    previous scene.  And the play is partly about the lies we tell
    each other, the lies we tell ourselves and the identity we project to
    other people." -- Actor Robert Gomes

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    For Finn, see
    circle-in-the-square.com.

    "Finn, again!"
    -- James Joyce  

  • For the Clowns of Harvard
    on Commencement Day,
    a Reading from 2003's


    The Word in the Desert    :


    Ground Zero 

    Today's birthday: Harrison Ford is 61.

               
     From The
    Gag

    Seven - Eleven Dice 

    Throw a seven or eleven every time. Set
    consists of a pair of regular dice and another set that can't
    miss. A product of the S. S. Adams Company. Make your friends
    and family laugh with this great
    prank!

     New York State
    Lottery    :

    7-11 Evening
    Number:     000.

    From the conclusion of
    Joan Didion's 1970
    novel
    Play It As It Lays: 

    "I know what 'nothing' means,
    and
    keep on playing."

  • From the
    Library of Congress:

    A Reading for
    the Eighth of June

    Library of Congress
    subject headings
    for this publication
    include:

    College teachers -- Fiction.

    Good and evil -- Fiction.

    Philologists -- Fiction.

    Linguists -- Fiction.

  • Figures of Speech

    Omen
    (x)

    in memory of
    Arnold Newman,
    dead on 6/6/6.

    TIME magazine, issue dated June 12, 2006, item posted Sunday, June 4, 2006:

    IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED ...

    By JULIE RAWE

    "Nervous kids and obscure
    words are not the stuff of big-time TV, but this year's Scripps
    National Spelling Bee was an improbable nail-biter. One of the 13
    finalists got reinstated after judges made a spelling error, a Canadian
    came in second--who knew foreign kids could compete?--and KATHARINE
    CLOSE, 13, prevailed in her fifth year. The eighth-grader from Spring
    Lake, N.J., won with ursprache. It means protolanguage. Now try to use
    it in conversation."

    John T. Lysaker (pdf)
    quoting Heidegger:

    "Poetry is the
     originary language
        (Ursprache)..."

    -- Heidegger, Erlauterungen
    zu Holderlins Dichtung    .
     Frankfurt am Main:
    Klostermann, 1971: 41.

    See also a figure from
    D-Day morning,
    6/6/6:

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    and a figure from
    April 5, 2005:
     


    (Skewed Mirrors    ,
    Sept. 14, 2003)

    "Evil did not have
    the last word."
    -- Richard John Neuhaus,
    April 4, 2005

    "This is the exact opposite
    of what echthroi do in
    their X-ing or un-naming."
    -- Wikipedia on
    A Wind in the Door


    "Lps. The keys to. Given!
     A way a lone a last
     a loved a long the
     PARIS,
     1922-1939"
     -- James Joyce,
         Finnegans Wake

    "There is never any ending
    to Paris."
    -- Ernest Hemingway    

  • The Omen:
     
    Now we are...

    6!

  • From Jan. 1, 2006:

     
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  • D-Day Morning,
    62 Years Later

    Review: ART WARS
    on Sept. 12, 2002:

    Und was fur ein Bild des Christentums 
    ist dabei herausgekommen?

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    (Pentecost was Sunday, June 4, 2006.
    The following Monday was formerly a
    French public holiday.)

    This morning's meditation:

    Sous Rature

    "... words must be written
    sous
    rature    , or 'under erasure.'"

    -- Deconstruction:

     Derrida, Theology,
    and John of the Cross

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    The above Bild, based
     on Weyl's Symmetry,
    might be titled
    Rature sous Rature.