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For the First of May:
Back from
the Shadows
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"I sat upon
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Fishing, with the arid plain behind me"
-- The Waste Land, lines 423-424
Eliot's note on line 424 --
"V. Weston, From Ritual to Romance;
chapter on the Fisher King."
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"So
far as the present state of our knowledge goes we can affirm with
certainty that the Fish is a Life symbol of immemorial antiquity, and
the title of Fisher has, from the earliest ages, been associated with
Deities who were held to be specially connected with the origin and
preservation of Life."
Weston quotes a writer she does not name*
who says that "the Fish was sacred to those deities who were supposed
to lead men back from the shadows of death to life."
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Today's Doonesbury
(a flashback) --
"Some days it went so well that you could make the country so that
you could walk into it through the timber to come out into the clearing
and work up onto the high ground and see the hills beyond the arm of
the lake."
-- Ernest Hemingway,
A Moveable Feast
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522
Mathematics and Narrative, continued:
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ART WARS continued--
The Undertaking:
An Exercise in
Conceptual Art
Hexagram 54:
THE JUDGMENT
Undertakings bring misfortune.
Nothing that would further.
" Brian O'Doherty, an Irish-born artist,
before the [Tuesday, May 20] wake
of his alter ego* 'Patrick Ireland'
on the grounds of the
Irish Museum of Modern Art."
-- New York Times, May 22, 2008
THE IMAGE
Thus the superior man
understands the transitory
in the light of
the eternity of the end.
Another version of
the image:
See 2/22/08
and 4/19/08.
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On Style:
Associations
for the writer
known
as UD
"Have liberty not as
the air within a grave
Or down a well. Breathe freedom,
oh, my native,
In the space of horizons
that neither love nor hate."
-- Wallace Stevens,
"Things of
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A related visual
association of ideas --
("The association is the idea"
-- Ian Lee, The
Third Word War)
From
UD Jewelry:
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by John Braheny
"Hook" is the term you'll hear most often in the
business and craft of commercial songwriting. (Well, maybe not as much
as "Sorry, we can't use your song," but it's possible that the more you
hear about hooks now, the less you'll hear "we can't use it" later.)
The hook has been described as "the part(s) you remember after the song
is over," "the part that reaches out and grabs you," "the part you
can't stop singing (even when you hate it)" and "the catchy repeated
chorus...."
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See also UD's recent
A Must-Read
and In My Day*
as well as the five
Log24 entries ending
Sept.
20, 2002.
More seriously:
Stevens's "space of horizons" may, if one
likes, be interpreted as a reference to projective
geometry. Despite the bleak physicist's view of mathematics quoted
above, this discipline is-- thanks to Blaise Pascal--
not totally lacking in literary and spiritual associations.
* Hey Hey
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