Solace With Interruptions
Notes from the Journal of Steven H. Cullinane
 
Wednesday, November 12, 2008  8:35 AM

Casino Royale, continued:

Quantum of Solace

Lottery Numbers
for November 11, 2008:

PA midday 007, evening 628
NY midday 153, evening 069

Experienced readers of this journal will have little difficulty interpreting these results, except for 153. For that enigmatic number, see Object Lesson.

See also the entries of
this date two years ago:
Grace and Casino Royale.

Thursday, November 13, 2008  9:00 AM

Experienced, Part II:

In Memory of a
Different Drummer

Mitch Mitchell live at Woodstock '69

Drummer Mitch Mitchell, 61, of
The Jimi Hendrix Experience, was
found dead at 3 AM yesterday
in his hotel room.

"Everybody wants to
go to heaven"

-- Kenny Chesney, song at last
night's Country Music Awards

Click to enlarge --

Mitch Mitchell Enters Heaven

"Make me young"

-- Kilgore Trout
 (Log24, 5/14/07)

Related material --
the word "experienced"
in yesterday's entry.

Friday, November 14, 2008  8:00 AM

Frame Tales (cont. from Mon.):

Riverrun
 
(The first word in Finnegans Wake.
See also the Log24 entries following
the death of Pope John Paul II.)

At Inside Higher Ed, Margaret Soltan ("UD") discusses...

"moments of clarity [cf. related essay (pdf)] that seem, when you look at all of them together late in the day, to disclose our life’s otherwise hidden pattern, meaning, and flow.

'Not far downstream was a dry channel where the river had run once, and part of the way to come to know a thing is through its death. But years ago I had known the river when it flowed through this now dry channel, so I could enliven its stony remains with the waters of memory. In death it had its pattern, and we can only hope for as much.'"

-- A River Runs Through It, by Norman Maclean, a story about trout fishing and grace

Related material:

Maclean's fellow author Kilgore Trout and the story he is said to be most proud of, about Bunker Bingo.

See also yesterday's entry, Bob's Country Bunker, and On Linguistic Creation.

Friday, November 14, 2008  5:24 PM

Quantum of Solace, continued:

Ballistics and Faith

From a review of José Saramago's new novel, Death With Interruptions:
"The church has never been asked to explain anything," the cardinal assures the prime minister. "Our specialty, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralization of the overly curious mind through faith."
Related material:

Sept. 7, 2006- Birthday of Elizabeth I
Sept. 7, 2007- Madeleine L'Engle is Dead
Sept. 7, 2008- From the Finland Station

For some mythology relevant to the first two of these three dates, see "Damnation Morning" and The Big Time. For some non-mythology related to ballistics, faith, and the third of these dates, see Rudy Ratzinger vs. Joseph Ratzinger.

As for the main character
  of Saramago's novel...

“V. is whatever lights you to
 the end of the street:
 she is also the dark annihilation
 waiting at the end of the street.”

-- Tony Tanner, page 36,
 "V. and V-2," in
 Pynchon: A Collection
 of Critical Essays.
 Ed. Edward Mendelson.
 Englewood Cliffs, N. J.:
 Prentice-Hall, 1978. 16-55.

Happy birthday,
Olga Kurylenko.