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From today's online NY Times:
Obituaries in the
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Robert
M. Pirsig in
Zen and the
Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
(April 1974) --
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erat
demonstrandum.
For
more information,
click on the black monolith.
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material:
Doonesbury 11/23/07:
For standards of comedy,
see Angels in Arabia.
For standards of tragicomedy,
see Molly Ivins on the owner
of Condé Nast Publications:
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Happy Holidays from Roy Cohn,
Mike Nichols, Al Pacino, and Elvis:
The magazine, which covers music and its impact on filmmaking,
launches in November as a supplement in the December subscriber issues
of 14 Condé Nast publications."
"It seems, as one becomes older,
That the past has another pattern,
and ceases to be
a mere sequence...."
-- T. S. Eliot, Harvard '10
Quoted in Log24 on
November 11, 2003
A search at the New York Times
for the subject of the previous entry
reveals another aspect of that date:
What Happened Before the Big Bang?
"...trying to imagine how the universe made its 'quantum leap from eternity into time,' as the physicist Dr. Sidney Coleman of Harvard once put it. Some physicists speculate that on the other side of the looking glass of Time Zero is another..."
- By DENNIS OVERBYE
- Technology
- 819 words
Related material:
Peter Woit in his weblog
on Nov. 12, 2007:
Or to T.S. Eliot,
Annie Dillard, and
William Shakespeare?
For more on the date
11/11, see
Plato, Pegasus, and
the Evening Star.
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Above: PA Lottery on
Friday, November 16th,
the date of death
for noted leftist attorney
Victor Rabinowitz
"Mr. Rabinowitz was a member
of the Communist Party
from 1942 until the
early 1960s,
he wrote in his memoir,
Unrepentant Leftist (1996).
He
said the party
seemed the best vehicle
to fight for social justice."
-- The
New York Times,
Nov.
20, 2007
Related material:
From the Harvard Crimson on Friday:
"Robert Scanlan, a
professor of theater
who knew Beckett personally,
directed the
plays....
He said that performing Beckett as part of
the New College
Theatre's inaugural series
represents an auspicious beginning."
From Log24 on 4/19--
"Drama Workshop"--
a note of gratitude
from the Virginia Tech killer:
"Thanks to you, I die like Jesus Christ,
to inspire generations of the weak
and the defenseless people.''
"It's not for me. For my children,
for my brothers and sisters...
I did it for them.''
Party on, Victor.
For further drama, see
In memory of Philadelphia DJ Hy Lit, who died on Saturday at 73:
"Chuck Berry didn't need prompting to insert, in his 'Sweet Little
Sixteen,' the lines 'Well, they'll be rockin' on Bandstand, Philadelphia, P.A.'
I remember 'Bandstand' before it was 'American...' It
started in 1952, when Walter Annenberg, whose Triangle Publications
owned the WFIL radio and television stations, suggested an afternoon TV
dance party...."
-- Richard Corliss, TIME magazine, July 14, 2001
Related material: Back to the Future (Log24 on Sunday)
on his birthday, from
the New York Lottery:
Words and Music
Words:
In the Details
"It was only in retrospect
that the silliness became profound.
The
players were becoming possessors
of 'a truth with implicit powers
of
good and evil,' Gino Segrè writes
in Faust in Copenhagen...
And 'the devil... was in the
details.'"
-- George Johnson of
The New York Times,
quoted in Log24 on 6/23.
Music:
A Black Berry
"Her wallet's filled with pictures,
she gets 'em one by one...."
Chuck Berry, quoted
in Log24 on 2/13.
Related material:
Yesterday's Log24 entry...
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