Month: July 2009
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Religion according to Fritz Leiber:
Damnation Morning
continued
"The tigers of wrath are wiser
than the horses of instruction."-- Blake
"... the moment is not
properly an atom of time
but an atom of eternity.
It is the first reflection
of eternity in time, its first
attempt, as it were, at
stopping time...."
-- Kierkegaard
Symmetry Axes
of the Square:
From the cover of the
Martin Cruz Smith novel
Stallion Gate:
A Monolith
for Kierkegaard:
Todo lo sé por el lucero puro
que brilla en la diadema de la Muerte.-- Rubén Darío
Related material:
The deaths of
Ernest Hemingway
on the morning of
Sunday, July 2, 1961,
and of Alexis Arguello
on the morning of
Wednesday, July 1, 2009.
See also philosophy professor
Clancy Martin in the
London Review of Books
(issue dated July 9, 2009)
on AA members as losers--
"the 'last men,' the nihilists,
the hopeless ones." -
For Clancy Martin*
Meditationon a joke by George Carlin,
a passage by Kierkegaard,
and the death on this date
12 years ago
of actor James StewartThe Catholic Carlin:
"Thank you, Mr. Twain. Have your people call my people." --George Carlin on learning he had won the Mark Twain award. Twain's people were Protestant, Carlin's Catholic.
The Protestant Kierkegaard:
"... the moment is not properly an atom of time but an atom of eternity. It is the first reflection of eternity in time, its first attempt, as it were, at stopping time....
Once here in Copenhagen there were two actors who probably never thought that their performance could have a deeper significance. They stepped forth onto the stage, placed themselves opposite each other, and then began the mimical representation of one or another passionate conflict. When the mimical act was in full swing and the spectators' eyes followed the story with expectation of what was to follow, they suddenly stopped and remained motionless as though petrified in the mimical expression of the moment. The effect of this can he exceedingly comical, for the moment in an accidental way becomes commensurable with the eternal."
Catholic tableau
(with Vivien Leigh
representing the Church)
of Salvation by Works --
Protestant tableau
(with James Stewart
as Protestant Pilgrim)
of Salvation by Grace --
Click on either tableau
for a (much) larger image.* Thanks to University Diaries for an entry on Clancy Martin, a philosophy professor in the "show me" state, and his experiences with AA. For a sample of Martin's style, see a piece he wrote on Fabergé Easter eggs. For other Easter egg material, see this journal and (via a link) The Harvard Crimson, Easter 2008. A valuable philosophical remark by Martin in a recent interview:
"An unscrupulous jeweler will swap diamonds for cheaper ones when jewelry is dropped off to be sized or repaired, he said.
'It happens all the time,' Martin said. 'Nobody’s watching.'"
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Hieron Grammaton, Part III*
The Old Man
and the LightIn memory of
Ernest Hemingway,
who died on this date
in 1961, a story
in three parts:
Fermata
Leonard Baskin, detail of
cover for Jung's
Psyche and Symbol
Detail from the story
"Raven Steals the Light"
Midrash:"To the earnestness of death belongs precisely that capacity for awakening, that resonance of a profound mockery which, detached from the thought of the eternal, is an empty and often brash jest, but together with the thought of the eternal is just what it should be...." --Kierkegaard* For Hieron Grammaton, Parts I and II, see
the five Log24 entries from 6:29 PM Tuesday, June 23, to 1:00 AM Sunday, June 28. -
The Midrash Jazz Quartet presents:
Diamond Life "Diamond life, lover boy.
We move in space
with minimum waste
and maximum joy.
City lights and business nights
When you require streetcar desire
for higher heights.
No place for beginners
or sensitive hearts
When sentiment is left to chance.
No place to be ending
but somewhere to start."
-- Sade
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Annals of Journalism:
Let Noon Be FairThe New York Times
this noon:(Click for some context.)
Doctorow's EpiphanyHappy birthday,
Leslie Caron.
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