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| An Aleph for Pynchon
Part I:
A California Sixties version
of Heaven's Gate:
Aleph Sanctuary, by Mati Klarwein
Part II:
Log24 entries of April 29, 2009
(esp. the link to Anastasia Ashley)
Part III:
Inherent Vice,
a novel by Thomas Pynchon
to be published in August 2009
"The serpent's eyes shine As he wraps around the vine..." -- Don Henley
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| From Log24 on Nov. 12, 2005:
"'Tikkun Olam, the fixing of the world,' she whispers. 'I've been gathering up the broken vessels to make things whole again.'"
" Tikkun Olam, the gathering of the divine fragments, is a religious activity.... How do we work for the repair of the world? If we live in a humpty dumpty world, how do we get it all put back together again?" -- A Sunday Sermon for Yom Kippur by the Rev. Joshua Snyder on Oct. 5, 2003 [See also Log24 on that date.]
"... the tikkun can't start until everyone asks what happened-- not just the Jews but everybody. The strange thing is that Christ evidently saw this."
-- Martha Cooley, The Archivist
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| Art and Faith
Virginia Woolf, The Waves, Harvest Books paperback, 1950, pp. 248-249:
"On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points; who whispers as he whispered to me that summer morning in the house where the corn comes up to the window, 'The willow grows on the turf by the river. The gardeners sweep with great brooms and the lady sits writing.' Thus he directed me to that which is beyond and outside our own predicament; to that which is symbolic, and thus perhaps permanent, if there is any permanence in our sleeping, eating, breathing, so animal, so spiritual and tumultuous lives."
Up to the first semicolon, this is the Associated Press thought for today.
Related aesthetic philosophy from The Washington Post:
"Varnedoe's lectures were ultimately about faith, about his faith in the power of abstraction, and abstraction as a kind of anti-religious faith in itself, a church of American pragmatism that deals with the material stuff of experience in the history of art. To understand these lectures, which began promising an argument about how abstraction works and ended with an almost medieval allegory of how man confronts the void, one has to understand that Varnedoe views the history of abstraction as a pastor surveys the flock."
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