Month: March 2008

  • For a Shadowed Planet:

    CENTRAL Central Intelligence
     
    A Wrinkle in Time:
    "Holding hands, they crossed the square. The huge CENTRAL Central Intelligence Building had only one door, but it was an enormous one, at least two stories high and wider than a room, made of a dull, bronzelike material.

    'Do we just knock?' Meg giggled."

    Tom Raum story on Obama vs. Clinton with associated Miami Herald CIA ad

    Detail:

    Detail of Tom Raum Obama-Clinton story and associated Miami Herald CIA ad

    "Do we just knock?"

    "Click PLAY."
    _______________________

    Related material:

    Der Einsatz

  • Quarter to Three, continued:

    So Set 'Em Up, Joe...

    NY Times obits: Wm. F. Buckley feature and Kaddish ad

  • All Hallows' Eve continued:

    Practical Magic

    Halloween 2005:

    "They don't understand
    what it is to be awake,
    To be living
    on several planes at once

    Though one cannot speak
    with several voices at once."

    -- T. S. Eliot,
    The Family Reunion

    Margaret Wertheim with fellow tesseract authors

    Several voices:

    Margaret Wertheim in today's
    Los Angeles Times and at
    The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace    ,

    Linda Dalrymple Henderson, and

    Madeleine L'Engle and husband.

    From Wertheim's Pearly Gates:

    Wertheim's 'Pearly Gates of Cyberspace,' page 200
    "There is such a thing
    as a tesseract."

    -- Madeleine L'Engle   

  • Women's History* continued:

    The Well Wrought
    Closure
     
    Star and Diamond, an image based on Plato's poem to Aster: 'asteras eisathreis, aster emos...

    Click on image
    for details.

    Jonathan D. Culler
    in Deconstruction:

    Culler on 'repetition and proliferation' vs. 'crystalline closure'
     
    DILBERT, Sunday, March 2, 2008, on styles of refutation in debate

    "The alternative to 'crystalline closure'
    is not, then,
    an endless and chaotic
    'repetition and proliferation,' but a
    *structured relationship of significance."

    -- The Old New Criticism and Its Critics,
    by R. V. Young, Professor of English
    at
    North Carolina State University

  • Women's History Month

    Doonesbury 2/29/08-- Assignment: Identify Sources

    Heraclitus: '...so deep is its logos'

    -- Heraclitus in
       Death by Philosophy,
       by Ava Chitwood

    Related material:

    International
    Journal of the Classical Tradition    --

    "Ava
    Chitwood, 'The Anonymous Philosopher of Charles Frazier's
    Cold Mountain: A Heraclitean Hero in a Homeric World,'
    IJCT 11 (2004-2005), pp. 232-243.

    1997’s surprise best-seller, Cold Mountain, is
    the first novel of North Carolina native and travel writer, Charles
    Frazier. Two ancient Greek authors shape and drive the novel, set
    in the post-war Southern Appalachians of 1865. Homer's Odyssey
    frames the novel: the hero Inman undergoes epic adventures after
    the war, has his own Penelope waiting, and travels back to a land
    as remote as any island, Cold Mountain, North Carolina. But fragments
    of an anonymous philosopher who can be identified as Heraclitus
    alienate Inman from the Homeric world around him and determine his
    fate. Ada, his Penelope, also casts off her shroud of tradition:
    impatient with the 'glorious war,' no longer content
    to wait, Ada plunges into the new business of living. And just as
    the archaic, post-Homeric Greek world produced new ways of living
    and thought, as exemplified by Heraclitus, so too does the post-bellum
    world of Cold Mountain, as exemplified by Inman and Ada;
    their struggle, and the novel's tension, speak to and about
    all those caught between two worlds, epic and philosophic, whether
    driven by love or strife."