Bright Star and Dark Lady
"Mexico is a solar country -- but it is also a black country, a dark country. This duality of Mexico has preoccupied me since I was a child."
-- Octavio Paz,
quoted by
Homero Aridjis
Bright Star
Amen.
Dark Lady
From the journal of Steven H. Cullinane
Sunday, October 26, 2003 3:17 AM
ART WARS for
Trotsky's Birthday
Part I:
Symbols
From my entry of July 26, 2003, in memory
of Marathon
Man director John Schlesinger:
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Bright Star and Dark Lady "Mexico is a solar country -- but it is also a black country, a dark country. This duality of Mexico has preoccupied me since I was a child." -- Octavio Paz, | ||
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Bright Star
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Amen. |
Dark Lady
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For the meaning of the above symbols, see
Kubrick's
1x4x9 monolith in 2001,
the Halmos tombstone in Measure Theory,
and the Fritz Leiber Changewar
stories.
Part II:
Sunday in the Park with Death
To Leon from Diego --
Details of a mural,
A
Dream of a Sunday Afternoon
in Alameda Park,
Fresco,
1947-48,
Alameda Hotel, Mexico City:
Three's a Crowd:
Symbol:
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