Adapted from this afternoon’s
New York Times:
Related material:
Background:
The five Log24 entries from
6:29 PM Tuesday, June 23, to
1:00 AM Sunday, June 28.
“Have your people
call my people.“
– George Carlin
– Sade, quoted here on
Lincoln’s Birthday, 2003
This is perhaps suitable
for the soundtrack of
the film “Blockheads“
(currently in development)–
“Uta Frith, in her book Autism: Explaining the Enigma,[5] addresses the superior performance of autistic individuals on the block design [link not in Wikipedia] test. This was also addressed in [an] earlier paper.[6] A particularly interesting article demonstrates the differences in construction time in the performance of the block design task by Asperger syndrome individuals and non-Asperger’s individuals. An essential point here is that in an unsegmented version of the task, Asperger’s individuals performed dramatically faster than non-Asperger’s individuals: [7].”
5. Frith, Uta (2003). Autism: explaining the enigma (2nd ed. ). Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Pub. ISBN 0-631-22901-9.6. Shah A, Frith U (Nov 1993). “Why do autistic individuals show superior performance on the block design task?”. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 34 (8): 1351–64. PMID 8294523.
7. Caron MJ, Mottron L, Berthiaume C, Dawson M (Jul 2006). “Cognitive mechanisms, specificity and neural underpinnings of visuospatial peaks in autism”. Brain 129 (Pt 7): 1789–802. doi:. PMID 16597652. “Fig 3″.
For the relevance of this maxim to autism, see Markoff Process (March 4, 2009).
“And what is it
you’re going to do?”
– Eddie Murphy as Pharaoh 
See also
Reba at Heaven’s Gate
and
The Seventh Symbol:
“Jackson’s identified
the seventh symbol.”
– Stargate
Strange Bedfellows:
* Pictured next to John Updike
in “Multimedia” at the top of
today’s NY Times obituaries
(pdf, 1 megabyte).
“…right through hell
there is a path…”
— Malcolm Lowry
Related material:
This morning’s
New York Times obituaries…
…and The Restaurant Quarré in Berlin,
Thanks for a reference
to this story go to
Robert Bringhurst,
in his own way a
Cleric of the Grammaton.
Dark Materials
Before thir eyes in sudden view appear
The secrets of the hoarie deep, a dark
Illimitable Ocean without bound,
Without dimension, where length, breadth, and highth,
And time and place are lost; where eldest Night
And Chaos, Ancestors of Nature, hold
Eternal Anarchie, amidst the noise
Of endless warrs and by confusion stand.
For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four Champions fierce
Strive here for Maistrie, and to Battel bring amidst the noise
Thir embryon Atoms....
... Into this wilde Abyss,
The Womb of nature and perhaps her Grave,
Of neither Sea, nor Shore, nor Air, nor Fire,
But all these in thir pregnant causes mixt
Confus'dly, and which thus must ever fight,
Unless th' Almighty Maker them ordain
His dark materials to create more Worlds,
Into this wilde Abyss the warie fiend
Stood on the brink of Hell and look'd a while,
Pondering his Voyage....
-- John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II
Apocatastasis Now
I give you the end of a golden string,
Only wind it into a ball:
It will lead you in at Heavens gate,
Built in Jerusalems wall.
— WILLIAM BLAKE
“In ‘Apocatastasis Now: A Very Condensed Reading of William Blake’s Jerusalem‘ (
– The Year’s Work in English Studies, 2003: Vol. 82, No. 1, pp. 493-547
| Thriller |
From the website of Philip Pullman, president of The Blake Society:“I must create a System…”The Blake Society, 25 October 2005: St James’s Church, PiccadillyI see that the title of this lecture is given as BLAKE’S DARK MATERIALS. Now in the lecturer’s handbook, the second rule says “You need take no obsessive notice of the title that has been announced in advance.” Whether Blake’s materials are dark or not I couldn’t really say, but I am going to talk about Blake, partly, and partly about religion. Appropriate, perhaps, in a place like this, but you might think not appropriate from someone whose reputation is that of a scoffer or mocker or critic of religion; but I haven’t come here to scoff or mock. Nor have I come here to recant, as a matter of fact. I’m profoundly interested in religion, and I think it’s extremely important to understand it. I’ve been trying to understand it all my life, and every so often it’s useful to put one’s thoughts in order; but I shall never like God. Download the full lecture
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– “Beauty and Desecration,”
Roger Scruton
(link at aldaily.com today)
| “The formula reproduces exactly the essential features of the symbolic process of transformation. It shows the rotation of the mandala, the antithetical play of complementary (or compensatory) processes, then the apocatastasis, i.e., the restoration of an original state of wholeness….”
– Carl G. Jung in Aion
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The death of the character Mary O’Brien in the 2002 film “Equilibrium,” broadcast in the U.S.A. Saturday evening, paralleled the reported death of Iran’s Neda Soltan on the same day (June 20). The reported last words of Soltan would also have been fitting for O’Brien. (Any such resemblance between a fictional character and a real person is, of course, purely coincidental.)
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