July 1, 2007

  • Jewel in the Lotus, revised:

    At the still point,
    there the dance is.
    -- T. S. Eliot

    Humphrey Carpenter in The Inklings, his book on the Christian writers J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and Charles Williams, says that

    "Eliot by his own admission took the 'still point of the turning world' in Burnt Norton from the Fool in Williams's The Greater Trumps."

    — The Inklings, Ballantine Books, 1981, p. 106

    Today's Birthdays: .... Actress-dancer Leslie Caron is 76.... Movie
    director Sydney Pollack is 73....  Dancer-choreographer Twyla
    Tharp is 66. --AP, "Today in History," July 1, 2007

    The Diamond within the Mandorla

    The Diamond
    in the Mandorla