Academy Awards
for Cambridge

“First of all, I’d like
 to thank the Academy.”
— Remark attributed to Plato

Arrest of Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., in Cambridge, Mass.

“A poem cannot exhaust reality,
  but it can arrest it.“

— At War with the Word:
   Literary Theory and
   Liberal Education,
   by R. V. Young,
   Chapter One

For one such poem, see

“Life and Death United:
An Intimate Portrait of
a Man Named Miles Davis,”
from a seminar’s weblog
at DePauw University on
Sunday, November 21, 2004.

See also the four Log24
entries on that date as well
as yesterday’s entry on Davis
and the entries preceding it.