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| In the Details
Wallace Stevens,
An Ordinary Evening in New Haven:
XXII
Professor Eucalyptus said, "The search
For reality is as momentous as
The search for God." It is the philosopher's search
For an interior made exterior
And the poet's search for the same exterior made
Interior....
... Likewise to say of the evening star,
The most ancient
light in the most ancient sky,
That it is
wholly an inner light, that it shines
From the sleepy
bosom of the real, re-creates,
Searches a
possible for its possibleness.
Julie Taymor, "Skewed Mirrors" interview:
"... they were performing for God. Now God can mean whatever you
want it to mean. But for me, I understood it so totally. The detail....
They did it from the inside to the outside. And from the outside
to the in. And that profoundly moved me then. It was...it was the most
important thing that I ever experienced."
"Skewed Mirrors"
illustrated:
Click on the above to enlarge.
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| Nine is a Vine
"Heaven is a state,
a sort of metaphysical state."
— John O'Hara, Hope of Heaven, 1938
"Mathematical realism
holds that mathematical entities exist independently of the human
mind. Thus humans do not invent mathematics, but rather discover
it, and any other intelligent beings in the universe
would presumably do the same. The term Platonism is used
because such a view is seen to parallel Plato's belief in a "heaven of
ideas", an unchanging ultimate reality that the everyday world can only
imperfectly approximate. Plato's view probably derives from Pythagoras,
and his
followers the Pythagoreans, who believed that the world was,
quite literally, built up by the numbers. This idea may have even older
origins that are unknown to us." -- Wikipedia
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| ART WARS Toys
From Maureen Dowd's New York Times
column of June 9, 2002:
"The shape of the government is not as important as the policy
of the government. If he makes the policy aggressive and
pre-emptive, the president can conduct the war on terror from the
National Gallery of Art."
| As a Little Child
Today's birthdays:
Francis Ford Coppola and
Russell Crowe.
From MindfulGroup.com:
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| Paratext:
A Birthday Gift for Barry Levinson
(born April 6, or maybe June 2, 1942)
The following excerpts from page 162 *
in three different books with Catholic backgrounds †
may or may not prove useful
to a film director.
† The seven items in the list from the
Pocket Catholic Dictionary are from the
definition of "Gifts of the Holy Spirit."
* The page number 162 may be regarded,
in honor of the late Saul Bellow
(see previous entry), as
Humboldt's Gift.
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| Final Arrangements, continued:
Confession
"A corpse will be transported by express!"
— Under the Volcano, by Malcolm Lowry (1947)
"Then he began to narrate in his original style.... After this came
disclosure, confession. Then he accused, fulminated, stammered,
blazed, cried out. He crossed the universe like light....
He had no old friends, only ex-friends. He could become terrible,
going into reverse without warning. When this happened, it was
like being caught in a tunnel by the Express. You could only
cling to the walls, or lie between the rails, praying."
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