kepi ; The Singer Building:
Demolition commenced in August 1967 and was completed the following year. At the time, it was the tallest building ever to be destroyed. This record has been surpassed twice since: once when the Avala TV Tower in Serbia was destroyed during a NATO bombing raid in 1999 and again by the September 11, 2001 collapse of the nearby World Trade Center. It is still the tallest building ever peacefully demolished.
Avala tower; I and I ; snug ;
James 1:17:
πασα δοσις αγαθη και παν δωρημα τελειον ανωθεν εστιν καταβαινον απο του πατρος των φωτων, παρ’ ω ουκ ενι παραλλαγη η τροπης αποσκιασμα
παραλλαγη -ης, variation, change.τροπη -ης, change, turning, variation. αποσκιασμα -ατος, shadow, darkness
KJV: “Euery good gift, and euery perfect gift is from aboue, and commeth downe from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.”
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[?] all good giving and every perfect gift has descended from above from the father of lights, from whom there is no change, nor any hint of a change.
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“When I saw a snake trailing through the grass, and darting out the fire-fork from its mouth, I said to myself, That thing is not human, but I am human. When the lightning flashed, and split some beautiful tree, and left it to rot from all its greenness, I said, That lightning is not human, but I am human. And so with all other things. I cannot speak coherently here; but somehow I felt that all good, harmless men and women were human things, placed at cross-purposes, in a world of snakes and lightnings, in a world of horrible and inscrutable inhumanities.”
,, ,,,,,,, ,,………………… . …….., Pierre: or, The Ambiguities / Melville
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William Gaddis, The Recognitions, pp.956:
Prego, fare attenzione, non usi troppo i bassi, le note basse. La chiesa e cosi vecchia che le vibrazioni, capisce, potrebbero essere pericolose. Per favore non bassi . . . e non strane combinazioni di note, capisce . . .
Please be careful, do not use too low, low notes. The church is so old that the vibrations, you know, could be dangerous. Please do not low. . . and strange combinations of notes, you know. . .
e non strane combinazioni di note, capisce
…………………………………
…………………………………Lake
………………………………. Agassiz
……………………………….Fed by glacial
…………………………….meltwater at the
…………………………… end of the last
…………………………..glacial period, its
………………………..area was larger than a
………………………..ll of the modern Great
……………………Lakes combined, and at times it
……………………it held more water than containe
…………………..d by all lakes in the world today
…………………With increasing realism in painting
…………………, the halo came to be a problem
………………….for artists. So long as they continu
……………………ed to use the old composition
……………………al formulae which had been
……………………worked out to accommodate haloes,
…………………..the problems were manageable,
……………………but as Western artists
…………………….sought more flexibility
…………………………in composition,
…………………………..this ceased to
…………………………….. be the case.
…………………………….. decline of th.
………………………………. e halo
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Shell initially named all of their UK oil fields after waterbirds in alphabetical order by discovery – Auk, Brent, Cormorant, Dunlin, Eider, Fulmar and so on. Brent refers to the Brent Goose […]
…………Smerdyakov……………………………………… Misha……
commits suicide………………………………………contemplates suicide
commits murder………………………………………contemplates murder
found innocent of murder………………………found guilty of murder
A paper weight ……………………………………. a brass pestle
xenophile (French) ………………………………….strong national feeling
*** the part of the fence Lizaveta came over***
Gide remarks on how Dostoyevsky’s intellectual characters are shadowed by characters who fawn over intellect (Ivan/ Smerdyakov) (Smerdyakov apes and shadows the intellect of Ivan but “reflects” the passions of Misha.) (Smerdyakov pretends to be what Ivan is but in fact is what Misha refrains from being.)
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Lepanto was the last major naval battle in the one of
Medi…………………………………………………………………..the few
ranean…… pandora’s pithos, pentimento……..placeson
fought……. Roussillon, Gaul 58 B.C., Sizar……..theearth
entirely…… facinorous , Truro , Ambs-ace…….places on
between…………………………………………………….earth whose
galleys. waters feed three oceans … Triple Divide Peak
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(From Grammar of Septuagint Greek, Conybeare/ Stock, 0-913573-93-0)
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63.πᾶς. a. In classical Greek the rule for πᾶς in the singular is that with the article it is collective, without the article it is distributive–
……………..πᾶςα ἡ πόλις = all the city.
……………..πᾶςα πόλις = the whole city.
πᾶς differs from ordinary adjectives in taking the predicative position in an attributive sense. Thus while ἀγαθὴ ἡ πόλις means ‘the city is good,’ πᾶςα ἡ πόλις means ‘all the city.’ πᾶς may however also take the attributive position, like any other adjective. When it does so, the collective force is intensified —
……………..πᾶςα ἡ πόλις = all the city.
…………….. ἡ πᾶςα πόλις = the whole city.
[…]
…Meanwhile, words and phrases unrepeatable in God’s sunlight,
…andwhose very existence was utterly unknown and dreamed of
..by tens of thousands of the decent people of the city; syllables
…obscene and accursed were shouted forth in tones plainly ev-
…incing that they were the common household breath of their
… utterers.
……….–Herman Melville, Pierre
Sans-culottes;claustration; Little Dieter Wants to Fly (recommended documentary film concerning an aircraft pilot of exceptional experience); s’ ecraser; Francis Steegmuller; croiset; telega; plimsoll; festschrift; Ems Dispatch; cocotte; edema; shirtwaist; Flaubert’s home; Flaubert to Mademoiselle Leroyer de Chantepie, 1859:
“I am convinced that the most raging material appetites express themselves unwittingly in outbursts of idealism, just as the most obscene carnal excesses are engendered by pure desire for the impossible, ethereal aspiration toward supreme bliss.”
Pontic Greeks— anacoluthon— fane— fanion. Hebbel. Mayberry on Record, (an out-of-towner arouses Andy’s suspicions, but they prove to be groundless). Goldsboro (history):
In 1961, two hydrogen bombs were dropped accidentally on the village of Faro, 12 miles north of Goldsboro after a B-52 aircraft broke up in mid air. The two Mark39 weapons were released after the crew abandoned a B-52 bomber which had suffered mid-flight structural failure. Both bombs went through several steps in the arming sequence, but neither one detonated.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ………… “Snoods converge
. . . . . . . . . . . .on a weary-daring man”
(The Dream Songs, 11.) Snood. must. Gare D’Austerlitz.
Rose of Washington Square (Alice Faye, Tyrone Power)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Fanny Brice. Louis Prima. sahel.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Communicatio idiomatum. Utica.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Communicatio idiomatum
Little Belt ; blue mould ; French Drains (named for Henry French) ; Hugh of Lincoln (Melville’s Clarel):
“How many Hughs of Lincoln, say,
Does Mammon in his mills, to-day,
Crook, if he do not crucify?”
Henry French father of Daniel Chester French who sculpted the Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial.
“The long-running puzzlement about the appearance of the Cambrian fauna, seemingly abruptly and from nowhere, centers on three key points: whether there really was a mass diversification of complex organisms over a relatively short period of time during the early Cambrian; what might have caused such rapid change; and what it would imply about the origin and evolution of animals…” cambrian explosion
Anabasis, 2.6.6:
“Now such conduct as this, in my opinion, reveals a man fond of war. When he may enjoy peace without dishonour or harm, he chooses war; when he may live in idleness, he prefers toil, provided it be the toil of war; when he may keep his money without risk, he elects to diminish it by carrying on war. As for Clearchus, just as one spends upon a loved one or upon any other pleasure, so he wanted to spend upon war.”
ταῦτα οὖν φιλοπολέμου μοι δοκεῖ ἀνδρὸς ἔργα εἶναι, ὅστις ἐξὸν μὲν εἰρήνην ἄγειν ἄνευ αἰσχύνης καὶ βλάβης αἱρεῖται πολεμεῖν, ἐξὸν δὲ ῥᾳθυμεῖν βούλεται πονεῖν ὥστε πολεμεῖν, ἐξὸν δὲ χρήματα ἔχειν ἀκινδύνως αἱρεῖται πολεμῶν μείονα ταῦτα ποιεῖν: ἐκεῖνος δὲ ὥσπερ εἰς παιδικὰ ἢ εἰς ἄλλην τινὰ ἡδονὴν ἤθελε δαπανᾶν εἰς πόλεμον.
idea that Noriko undergoes “two movements”… Noriko begins the story as one incapable of making a mature choice about her future, “in need of a man” as Aya says, [what you could call nidicolous], and the perfect candidate for an arranged marriage, as is indicated by the failure of her promising relationship with Hattori (who is “her type”) to meaningfully amount. But after facing this fact about herself, and having granted that she indeed likes the man whom she has been arranged to be with, she is in a better position to make a mature choice about her future. Consequently, it is as an adult at the end that she is told her choice doesn’t matter and that she must follow the will of her family and leave her family’s house.
A farther out notion is that this doesn’t concern humans or human relationships at all but is a parable of spring –Noriko is the spirit of Spring– and the war and American Occupation of Japan have been the spirit of a long, severe winter.
The Vase. Does it resemble a glass of saki? As I watch Aya lifting her saki at the end I find myself reminded of the vase. (Also: the vase, and the darkness of the scene it appears in, contrast sharply with the rocks, sand and brightness, of the scene that directly follows it… How many of these “pillow shots” in Late Spring contrast images of dryness and wetness this way?)
Seta “when I woke up we were already at Seta”; Nagoya, Maibara “I slept all the way from Nagoya to Maibara” Nara (Shukishi says it might have been nice to have visited Nara instead.)
Note. // What leaps out at me here is how long the train ride from Kamakura to Tokyo is made to seem –much longer than is needed to convey the idea of a change of location– while the train ride from Kamakura to Kyoto –a much greater physical distance– isn’t given any screen time at all; it is only spoken of, and spoken of positively, as having been a pleasant trip.
(Perhaps then the idea is that, though farther, it is much more natural to return to the ancient capital than to the modern bombed out Tokyo. Also, Kamakura to Kyoto is a trip, a vacation, while Kamakura to Tokyo is a commute.)
Father: So Shichirigahama was nice huh?
Noreko: Yes we went to Chigasaki too
Enoshima is the island visible behind the bikers, while the sign that they drive past (beneath the coke sign) reads, I think, “to Hiratsuka beach” somewhat west of Chigasaki.
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Hayama is where Aya’s sister lives. Yugawara is where both Noreko and Hattori are to honeymoon. Ofuna is the place that Shukishi (when asked by Ara how far Noreko has gotten from Tokyo en route to Yugawara [22]) says Noreko must have reached by then. It is also the location of Shochiku’s studios (which perhaps adds a metafictional element to it — Noriko’s progress towards the consumation of her marriage is the film’s progress toward its own end).
Shinbashi station is mentioned at the beginning and Ueno is where Noreko goes to the art exhibition, both in Tokyo.
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