August 2, 2009

  • A Tale and Its Moral:

    Spider Girl

    "The 'magico-religious' tarantella
     is a solo dance performed
    supposedly to cure...
     the delirium and contortions
     attributed to the bite of a spider
    at harvest (summer) time."

    -- Wikipedia 

    Mira Sorvino in 'Tarantella,' with film's motto-- 'Life's a dance'

    Garfield on Sunday, August 2, 2009: Spider gets tail-slap learned from Jersey cow, says 'Those Jersey girls are TOUGH.'
    Moral:

    Life's a dance
       (and Jersey girlshttp://www.log24.com/images/asterisk8.gif
    are tough).

    http://www.log24.com/images/asterisk8.gif For Mira Sorvino, star of "Tarantella,"
        who was raised in Tenafly, New Jersey--

        Bull on sacred cows:

    "Poor late nineteenth-century, poor early twentieth-century! Oh, brave new world that had such people in it: people like Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, Kurt Gödel. Seven people who did more than all the machine-guns and canons of the Somme Valley or the Panzer divisions of Hitler to end the old world and to create-- if not the answers-- at least the questions that started off the new, each one of them killing one of the sacred cows on which Western consciousness had fed for so long...."

    -- Apostolos Doxiadis, "Writing Incompleteness-- the Play" (pdf). See also Mathematics and Narrative.