June 17, 2007
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Father’s Day Part II:
No Place Like Home:
A Father’s Day Specialfor Stephen King
“… the poet’s search
for the same exterior
made / Interior”
– Wallace Stevens“Imago. Imago. Imago.”
– Wallace Stevens
(See previous entry.)Stevens’s phrase was
the epigraph to
The Imago Sequence,
a novella published
in May 2005.From a review
(containing a spoiler)
of the novella:“The Imago Sequence
are three notable photographs taken by an otherwise unnotable
photographer. They are photographs taken underground, location a well
kept secret, and show either a bizarre rock formation carved out over
millenia, or perhaps the imprint of a fossiled hominid in an anguished
pose. The photographs can have
an impact on the viewer, and have had a history of having a major
impact on the owners. One has changed hands, and the new owner shows
off his new prized objet d’art, and sets one of his employees the tasks
[sic] of identifying the location of the third in the sequence….”
Greensburg, Kansas
prior to
May 4, 2007:
This may be taken
as a reference to
today’s previous entry.That entry, like
the novella
The Imago Sequence,
contains a sequence
of three photographs.
The sequence was made
a month or so after the
novella was published,
but I was unaware
until this afternoon
that the novella existed.Besides
“Imago Imago Imago,”
two other phrases
come to mind…The real estate motto
“Location, Location, Location“
and Stevens again–
“Adam in Eden was the
father of Descartes.”Happy Father’s Day.
