July 2, 2007

  • An Answer:

    A figure like Ecclesiast/
    Rugged and luminous,
     chants in the dark/
    A text that is an answer,
    although obscure.

    -- Wallace Stevens,
    "An Ordinary Evening
    in New Haven"

    A Text

    Time and Chance

    today in the

    Keystone State:

    PA Lottery July 2, 2007: Mid-day 004, Evening 802


    From 8/02
    in 2005:



    50 Years Ago

    on this date, poet

    Wallace Stevens died.




    Memorial: at the


    Wallace Stevens


    Concordance,

    enter center.


    Result:

    The Man with the Blue Guitar
    line 150 (xiii.6): The heraldic center of the world
    Human Arrangement
    line 13: The center of transformations that
    This Solitude of Cataracts
    line 18: Breathing his bronzen breath at the azury center of time.
    A Primitive Like an Orb
    line 1 (i.1): The essential poem at the center of things,
    line 87 (xi.7): At the center on the horizon, concentrum, grave
    Reply to Papini
    line 33 (ii.15): And final. This is the center. The poet is
    Study of Images II
    line 7: As if the center of images had its
    An Ordinary Evening in New Haven
    line 291 (xvii.3): It fails. The strength at the center is serious.
    line 371 (xxi.11): At the center, the object of the will, this place,
    Things of August
    line 154 (ix.18): At the center of the unintelligible,
    The Hermitage at the Center
    Title: The Hermitage at the Center
    Owl's Clover, The Old Woman and the Statue (OP)
    line 13 (ii.9): At the center of the mass, the haunches low,
    The Sail of Ulysses (OP)
    line 50 (iv.6): The center of the self, the self
    Someone Puts a Pineapple Together (NA)
    line 6 (i.6): The angel at the center of this rind,
    Of Ideal Time and Choice (NA)
    line 29: At last, the center of resemblance, found
    line 32: Stand at the center of ideal time,

    For a text on today's

    mid-day number, see


      Theme and Variations.