Month: July 2007

  • Last to the Lost:

    Mozart
    by the Numbers

    PA Lottery June 30, 2007: Mid-day 221, Evening 127

    2/21


    A Superficial Beauty:

    Structural Certainty:

    murphy plant, murphy grow, a maryamyria- 10
    meliamurphies, in the lazily eye of his lapis, 11

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    Geometry lesson 13

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    Uteralterance or Vieus Von DVbLIn, 'twas one of dozedeams 15
    the Interplay of a darkies ding in dewood) the Turnpike under 16
    Bones in the the Great Ulm (with Mearingstone in Fore 17
    Womb. ground). 1 Given now ann linch you take enn 18
    all. Allow me! And, heaving alljawbreakical 19
    expressions out of old Sare Isaac's 2 universal 20
    The Vortex. of specious aristmystic unsaid, A is for Anna 21
    Spring of Sprung like L is for liv. Aha hahah, Ante Ann you're 22
    Verse. The Ver- apt to ape aunty annalive! Dawn gives rise. 23
    tex. Lo, lo, lives love! Eve takes fall. La, la, laugh 24
    leaves alass! Aiaiaiai, Antiann, we're last to 25
    the lost, Loulou! Tis perfect. Now (lens 26

    -- Finnegans Wake, Book II,
        Episode 2, page 293


    1/27

    "Mozart is a menace to
    musical progress, a relic of rituals that were losing relevance in his
    own time and are meaningless to ours. Beyond a superficial beauty and
    structural certainty, Mozart has nothing to give to mind or spirit in
    the 21st century. Let him rest." --Norman Lebrecht

  • 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