"I need a photo-opportunity,
I want a shot at redemption.
Don't want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard."
-- Paul Simon

A Cartoon Graveyard


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From Fathers' Day Meditation:



For further details,
click on the well.

Cross and Wheel

An online tribute to Tim Russert
this morning had a song by a
Russert favorite, Bruce Springsteen:

"Wearin' the cross
of my calling,
on wheels of fire
 I come rollin' down here."

--  "The Rising"

Related material:

Hard Lessons

 and the
five Log24 entries
ending on July 20, 2006,
which contain the following
example of what might be
caled "sacred order"
(see yesterday's entries)--



See also "Grave Matters" here
on November 8, 2006, and
the same date four years earlier,
as well as
"O Grave, Where Is Thy Victory?"
(pdf), a lecture by Jack Miles
at Clark Art Institute
(see Oct. 7-9, 2002)
on November 9, 2002.

The Miles lecture may be of
more comfort to Russert's
mourners than the
cross/wheel symbolism,
which has its dark side.

The cross, the wheel,
the Catholic faith, and
Russert's field of expertise,
politics, are of course
notably combined in the
crux gammata, discussed
here in a 2002 entry on
the Triumph of the Cross
and the Death of Grace
(Princess of Monaco).

A Real Book

Edward Rothstein last Monday:

"What is being said?
What does it mean?
Where does it come from
 and where else is it used?"

A partial answer:
today's previous entry,
"For Philip Rieff,"
and an midrash on
the word "Pahuk"
(as in "Pahuk Pride,"
the name of this week's
Boy Scout gathering
in Iowa at which
a tornado killed four) --
 


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Rieff was the author of

Sacred Order/Social Order,
Volume 1--

My Life among the Deathworks:
Illustrations of the
Aesthetics of Authority

(University of Virginia Press, 2006)

Rieff's concept of sacred order
was Jewish rather than Pawnee,
but his writings still seem relevant.

In Lieu of
Stained Glass

"Examples are the stained-
glass windows of knowledge."

-- Vladimir Nabokov,
quoted here last Monday
in "Interpret This"

Illustration by Jessica Hagy
from "Today's Sermon"
last Sunday:


Application Form for
the Worst Camping Trip Ever:

(Click here for original pdf.)

PAHUK PRIDE - 2008
YOUTH LEADERSHIP
TRAINING CONFERENCE
MID-AMERICA COUNCIL -
 LITTLE SIOUX SCOUT RANCH
PARTICIPANT REGISTRATION
--------------------------------------
THANK YOU FOR PRINTING
ALL INFORMATION LEGIBLY!!

* Former husband of Susan Sontag
and author of
My Life Among the Deathworks