August 30, 2008
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On Style, continued:
Poetry and Politics* -- Movie-Teller
"... maybe it was McCain's role as 'movie-teller' that
he cherishes most-- the man who used to narrate the plots of films to
his fellow PoWs in the compound. 'I must have told a hundred movies,'
says McCain. 'Of course I don't know a hundred movies-- I made them
up.'"-- The Guardian, quoted here on McCain's birthday, August 29, 2006. (McCain's birthday nine years earlier was the date of Judgment Day in "Terminator 2.")
A story from McCain's
birthday this year:"Hail Sarah!"
-- Newsweek
"At the still point,
there the dance is."-- Four Quartets"... the Four Quartets themselves appear, in all their
complexity, as the poetry of simple civic virtue-- the poetry of a poet
trying to read the writing of the law that has become all but
illegible. This, you may say, has nothing to do with poetry. On the
contrary, it is one of the few truly hopeful signs that this civic
virtue could once more be realized poetically."-- Erich Heller, quoted here
on August 25, 2008
(Feast of St. Louis)
* Also known as smoke and mirrors.Related material:St. Sarah's Day,
The Dance:
5/24- The time, 5:24, of Thursday morning's Log24 entry
- The date, 5/24, of the entries linked to in Thursday's noon Log24 entry
See also the remarks of St. Augustine and others on time (August 28 entry) and, from May 24, a song hook thanks to Cyndi Lauper:
