Month: April 2008

  • Night Moves:

    Synchronicity

    "Something isn't real until it's on TV."
    -- Folk saying quoted, for instance,
       in Postmodern Times

    Time of this entry: 11:07:48 PM.

    Overheard yesterday, on the night
    of Charlton Heston's death:

    "He's a good gun, and we aren't
      heading for a church social."

    -- Yul Brynner to Steve McQueen
        in The Magnificent Seven
        (AMC, 8 PM ET Saturday, April 5, 2008)

    "Lord, I remember!"
    -- Bob Seger

    Related material:
    this date last year
    (Good Friday)

  • Judgment at Hollywood, continued:

    For Sunrise

    Charlton Heston as Ben-Hur in the New York Times online obituaries, morning of April 6, 2008

    Click image to enlarge.

    The above tableau, from this morning's
    New York Times obituary page,
    suggests the following meditations:

    1. "Mickey Mouse will see you dead."
       -- Robert Stone, A Flag for Sunrise
    2. "Free!"

    3. "I graduated in Alabama,
         Alaska, Arizona...."

    These three meditations are
    consistent with the fable of the
    mice and the lion in The Lion,
    The Witch, and the Wardrobe
    and with the speech of
    Aslan at the conclusion of
    The Narnia Chronicles:

    "The term is over: the holidays
    have begun. The dream is
    ended: this is the morning."

    The rather depressing
    "Death Notices" box
    that has attracted
    Charlton Heston's gaze
    in the online obituaries
    pictured above might
    be replaced as follows:

    A Hexagram for Charlton Heston-- Number 35: The sun rises above the earth

    The Heston classic pictured
    above is, let us recall,
    based on a book titled
    Ben-Hur: A Tale of
    the Christ    .

    "I know this man!"
    -- Charlton Heston

    Time of this entry:
    2:12:35.

  • ART WARS continued:

    Class
     
    Without Classes

    VANITAS: emblem of Harvard University (revisited)

    From Log24 on
    this date four years ago:

    LET NO ONE IGNORANT OF GEOMETRY ENTER 
    -- Motto of
    Plato's Academy

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    ART WARS