April 8, 2007
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Hollywood Easter (again):
Midnight in the Gardencontinued from Sept. 30, 2004
Tonight this journal had two Xanga footprints from Italy….
At 11:34 PM ET a visitor from Italy viewed a page containing an entry from Jan. 8, 2005, Splendor of the Light, which offers the following quotation–
From an essay on Guy Davenport–
“A disciple of Ezra Pound, he adapts to the short
story the ideogrammatic method of The Cantos, where a grammar of
images, emblems, and symbols replaces that of logical sequence. This
grammar allows for the grafting of particulars into a congeries of
implied relation without subordination. In contrast to postmodernists,
Davenport does not omit causal connection and linear narrative
continuity for the sake of an aleatory play of signification but in
order to intimate by combinational logic kinships and correspondences
among eras, ideas and forces.”– “When Novelists Become Cubists: The Prose Ideograms of Guy Davenport,” by Andre Furlani
The visitor from Italy may, of course, have instead intended to view
one of the four earlier entries on the page. In particular, the visitor may have seen
The Star
of Venus“He looked at the fading light
in the western sky and saw Mercury,
or perhaps it was Venus,
gleaming at him as the evening star.
Darkness and light,
the old man thought.
It is what every hero legend is about.
The darkness which is more than death,
the light which is love, like our friend
Venus here, or perhaps this star is
Mercury, the messenger of Olympus,
the bringer of hope.”– Roderick MacLeish, Prince Ombra.
At 11:38 PM ET, a visitor from Italy (very likely the 11:34 visitor returning) viewed the five Log24 entries ending at 12:06 AM ET on Sept. 30, 2004.
These entries included Midnight in the Garden and…
A Tune for Michaelmas
The entries on this second visited page also included some remarks on Dante, on time, and on Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano that are relevant to Log24 entries earlier this week on Maundy Thursday and on Holy Saturday.
Here’s wishing a happy Easter to Italy, to Francis Ford Coppola and Russell Crowe (see yesterday’s entry), and to Steven Spielberg (see the Easter page of April 20, 2003).
Image courtesy of
Hollywood Jesus:When you wish
upon a star…
