March 2, 2009
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ART WARS:
Joyce’s Nightmare
continuesToday in History – March 2
Today is Monday, March 2, the 61st day of 2009. There are 304 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On March 2, 1939, Roman Catholic Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli was elected Pope on his 63rd birthday; he took the name Pius XII.
Log24 on June 9, 2008–From Gravity’s Rainbow (Penguin Classics, 1995), page 563:
“He brings out the mandala he found.
‘What’s it mean?’
[....]Slothrop gives him the mandala. He hopes it will work like the mantra that Enzian told him once, mba-kayere (I am passed over), mba-kayere… a spell [...]. A mezuzah. Safe passage through a bad night….”In lieu of Slothrop’s mandala, here is another…
Christ and the Four ElementsThis 1495 image is found in
The Janus Faces of Genius:
The Role of Alchemy
in Newton’s Thought,
by B. J. T. Dobbs,
Cambridge University Press,
2002, p. 85
Related mandalas:
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For further details,
click on any of the
three mandalas above.
Happy birthday to
Tom Wolfe, author of
The Painted Word.
