November 22, 2006
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Time and the…
Rock of Ages“Who knows where madness lies?”
– Rhetorical question
in “Man of La Mancha”
(See previous entry.)Using madness to
seek out madness, let us
consult today’s numbers…Pennsylvania Lottery
Nov. 22, 2006:Mid-day 487
Evening 814The number 487 leads us to
page 487 in the
May 1977 PMLA,
“The Form of Carnivalin Under the Volcano“:
“The printing presses’ flywheel
marks the whirl of time*
that will split La Despedida….”Flywheel
From Dana Grove,
A Rhetorical Analysis of
Under the Volcano,
page 92:“… In this way, mystical as well as psychological
dimensions are established. Later on, the two pass by a printer’s shop
window and curiously stop to inspect, amidst wedding portraits and well
in front of the revolving flywheel of the printing machines, ‘a
photographic enlargement purporting to show the disintegration of a
glacial deposit in the Sierra Madre, of a great rock split by forest
fires.’ Significantly the picture is called ‘La Despedida,’ the
Parting. Yvonne cannot help but see the symbolic significance of the
photograph and wishes with all of her might ‘to heal the cleft rock’
just as she wishes to heal the divorce….”Some method in this madness
is revealed by the evening
lottery number, 814, which
leads to an entry of 8/14:
“… a point of common understanding
between the classic and romantic worlds.
Quality, the cleavage term
between
hip and square, seemed to be it.”
– Robert M. Pirsig
Rebecca Goldstein
The 8/14 entry also deals with
Rebecca Goldstein, who
seems to understand
such cleavage
very well.(See also today’s previous entry.)
* Cf. Shakespeare’s “whirligig of time“
linked to in the previous entry.)
