January 7, 2007

  • Happy 007, continued:

    Thursday, April 7, 2005 
    7:26 PM

    In the Details

    Wallace Stevens,
    An Ordinary Evening in New Haven:

    XXII

    Professor Eucalyptus said, "The search
    For reality is as momentous as
    The search for God."  It is the philosopher's search
    For an interior made exterior
    And the poet's search for the same exterior made
    Interior....

       ... Likewise to say of the evening star,
    The most ancient light in the most ancient sky,
    That it is wholly an inner light, that it shines
    From the sleepy bosom of the real, re-creates,
    Searches a possible for its possibleness.

    Julie Taymor, "Skewed Mirrors" interview:

    "...
    they were performing for God. Now God can mean whatever you want it to
    mean. But for me, I understood it so totally. The detail....

    They
    did it from the inside to the outside. And from the outside to the in.
    And that profoundly moved me then. It was...it was the most important
    thing that I ever experienced."

    "Skewed Mirrors"
    illustrated:


    Click on the above to enlarge.

    Details:

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    The above may be of interest to students
    of  iconology -- what Dan Brown in
    The Da Vinci Code calls "symbology" --
    and of redheads.

    The artist of Details,
    "Brenda Starr" creator
    Dale Messick, died on Tuesday,
    April 5, 2005, at 98.

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     AP Photo
    Dale Messick in 1982

    For further details on
    April 5, see
    Art History:
    The Pope of Hope