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Danny Flores HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- Danny Flores, Flores, who lived The man sometimes called In 1957, Flores ''Tequila!'' went to No. 1 on |
Related material:
"Echoes (Aug. 11)" --
-- and
Two-Bar Hook
"A corpse will be -- Under the Volcano, like a half-forgotten dream." -- Poppy (Gene Tierney) in
transported by express!"
by Malcolm Lowry (1947)
Dietrich
Minogue
Temptation The Star
Locomotive
of Venus
Locomotion
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live.... We interpret what we see, select the most workable of multiple Or at least we do for a while. I am talking here about a time when From Patrick Vert, "There are plenty of anecdotes to highlight ... a unique study on phantasmagoria and the history of imagination. ... thought becomes a phantasmagorical process, a spectral, This phantasmagoria became more mediated over For such a narrative, see
choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the
imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the 'ideas'
with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which
is our actual experience.
I began to doubt the premises of all the stories I had ever
told myself, a common condition but one I found troubling."
The Narrative of Acceleration:
the personal, phenomenological experience of railway passage...
The word originates [in] light-projection, the so-called ghost-shows of the early 19th century....
representative location for the personal imagination that had been
marginalized by scientific rationalism....
time.... Perception became increasingly visually oriented.... As this
occurred, a narrative formed to encapsulate the phenomenology of it
all...."
the Log24.net entries of
Aslan is given the last word in these quiet but "[...] that was not the real Narnia. That had a beginning and an
From a Christian fairy tale:
Aslan's last words come at the end of The Last Battle: 'There was
a real railway accident [...] Your father and mother and all of you
are--as you used to call it in the Shadow-Lands--dead. The term is
over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the
morning.'....
emphatic lines. He is the ultimate arbiter of reality: "'There was a
real railway accident.'" Plato, in addition to the Christian tradition,
lies behind the closing chapters of The Last Battle. The references
here to the Shadowlands and to the dream refer back to an earlier
explanation by Digory, now the Lord Digory:
end. It was only a shadow or a copy of the real Narnia, which has
always been here and always will be here: just as our world, England
and all, is only a shadow or copy of something in Aslan's real world.
[....] Of course it is different; as different as a real thing is from
a shadow or as waking life is from a dream. [...] It's all in Plato,
all in Plato: bless me, what do they teach them at these schools!"
Whether any of the above will be of use in comforting the families of
"I was reading Durant's section
on Plato, struggling to understand his theory of the ideal Forms that lay in
inviolable perfection out beyond the phantasmagoria. (That was the first, and
I think the last, time that I encountered that word.)"
those killed in yesterday morning's train wreck in Germany
is not
clear. Pope Benedict XVI, like C. S. Lewis, seems to think Greek
philosophy may be of some use to those dealing with train wrecks:
"Modifying the first
verse of the Book of Genesis, the first verse of the whole Bible, John began
the prologue of his Gospel with the words: 'In the beginning was the logos.' This is the very word used by the emperor: God acts, syn logo, with logos.
Logos means both reason and word-- a reason which is creative and
capable of self-communication, precisely as reason. John thus spoke the final
word on the biblical concept of God, and in this word all the often toilsome
and tortuous threads of biblical faith find their culmination and synthesis.
In the beginning was the logos, and the logos is God, says the
Evangelist."
-- Remarks of the Pope at the University of Regensburg on Sept. 12, 2006
The Grace of Accuracy
In this morning's New York Times:
The Times describes yesterday's
memorial to Cy Feuer,
producer, notably, of the 1972
film version of "Cabaret"--
"Joel Grey sang 'Willkommen....'"
Related material:
a Log24 entry
from October 29, 2002--
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Our Judeo-Christian Heritage: Two Sides of the Same Coin
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-- and Echoes
(August 11, 2006).
The New York Times on Sven Nykvist,
a cinematographer who died on Wednesday:
"Pray for the grace of accuracy
Vermeer gave to the sun's illumination...."
-- "Epilogue," by Robert Lowell,
in Day by Day, 1977
For further remarks on light,
see Shining Forth as well as
Tombstone (from May 17,
the date of Feuer's death).
A related symbol, in memory of
two-time Academy Award winning
cinematographer Sven Nykvist,
who died yesterday:
(See Why Me?, Show Business,
and the cover of the DVD of
an Ingmar Bergman trilogy
photographed by Nykvist.)
Public Space
"...
the Danish cartoons crisis last March showed 'two world views colliding
in public space with no common point of reference.'"
-- George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1991 to 2002, quoted in today's London Times.
Related material:
Geometry and Christianity
(Google search yielding
"about 1,540,000" results)
Geometry and Islam
(Google search yielding
"about 1,580,000" results)
-- Motto of
Plato's Academy
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If
we replace the Chinese word "I" (change, transformation) with the word "permutation," the relevance of Western mathematics (which some might call "the Logos") to the I Ching ("Changes Classic") beomes apparent.
Related material:
Hitler's Still Point, Jung's Imago, Solomon's Cube, Geometry of the I Ching, and Globe Award. |
For the relevance of Plato to
Islam, see David Wade's
Pattern in Islamic Art
and a Google search on
Plato and Islam
("about 1,680,000" results).
-- Heraclitus of Ephesus, about 500 B.C.
For a Dark Lady,
Soledad O'Brien,
Who Turns 40 Today:
Jerezana, by Paco de Lucia
(Requires RealPlayer and broadband)
From a 1967 album.
For a more recent look at de Lucia,
see his Cositas Buenas video
(wmv format) at flamenco-world.com.
by Anna Megill, Princeton '06
Related material:
"Prepare for the Weirdness."
-- Hunter S. Thompson
(see entry of Sept. 17,
At Midnight),
and
NBC's "Crazy Christians" Show
(or, "Taking Christ to Studio 60")
10 PM ET tonight on NBC.
| Excerpts from Log 24, January 18, 2004: A Living Church
"Plato has told you a truth; but Plato is dead. Shakespeare has -- G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy C. P. Snow on G. H. Hardy in the foreword to A Mathematician's Apology: "... he had another favourite entertainment...."
... If, as Chesterton might surmise, he... met * Footnote of 9/18/06: For the Platonic form of 17, see Feast of the Triumph of the Cross (9/14/06) and Medal (9/15/06). |
A Living Church,
continued...
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ON 6-6-6 -- stars in a scene from the R-rated movie 'The Omen.' An official of the Australian bishops conference took on the superstition surrounding the movie's release date of June 6, 2006, noting that 'I take evil far too seriously to think "The Omen" is telling me anything realistic or important.'" (CNS/20th Century Fox) |
and
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At Midnight
"At midnight
on the Emperor's pavement
flit
Flames that no faggot feeds,
nor
steel has lit,
Nor storm disturbs, flames
begotten
of flame,
Where blood-begotten spirits come
And all complexities of fury leave,
Dying into a dance,
An agony of trance,
An agony of flame that cannot
singe
a sleeve."
-- From Byzantium, by
William Butler Yeats
"The only hope, or else despair
Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre--
To be redeemed from fire by fire."
-- From Four Quartets, by
Thomas Stearns Eliot
"Look around you. There is an eerie sense of Panic in the air, a silent
Fear and Uncertainty that comes with once reliable faiths and truths
and solid Institutions that are no longer safe to believe in..."
-- Prepare for the Weirdness, by Hunter S. Thompson, quoted in a sermon for Pentecost Sunday, 2005
"If you passed, you got to live, and if you failed you were burned alive on a pyre that's now the Transgender Studies Building."
-- Baccalaureate address at the interfaith worship service, Princeton University, on Pentecost Sunday, June 4, 2006
Review:
"At midnight on the Emperor's pavement...."
This supplies a different illustration
of the previous entry's conclusion:
"Nine is a very powerful
Nordic number."
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