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Princeton's Sermon

Click image for the backstory. The sermon itself is not yet on line. Perhaps the following will help.

Josefine's Sunday School

Two timely images for Oslo artist Josefine Lyche — Backstory:  Searches for “Blazing World” and for “Josefine + Lyche + Pink” in this journal. The image above is…

Sequence (continued)

Click the above for further details. An elegy adapted from “Sequence,” by Theodore Roethke — “She listened when light sang.” Perhaps such a song was sung on Shakespeare’s (and Nabokov’s)…

Butcher's Clay

Friday evening’s post Musement dealt with Iris Murdoch’s phrase “the clean crystalline work.” For dirty bloody work see the life of Don Reitz, who reportedly died at 84 on…

Five Ninths

“For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.” — Gravity’s Rainbow “I don’t write exclusively on Jewish themes or about Jewish characters. My collection of short…

Musement

(The title is from a work by Charles Sanders Peirce.) For LYNX 760 — For more beauty and strangeness, see Strange McEntire.

Chinese Rune

"The Geometry of the I Ching introduces something called the Cullinane sequence for the hexagrams, and uses a notation based on the four sides and two diagonals in…

Nabokovian

"Constructed as a Nabokovian cat’s cradle, the novel purports to be the work of a professor of aesthetics…." — Fernanda Eberstadt in a book review now online

Blazing Thule

The title is suggested by a new novel (see cover below), and by an unwritten book by Nabokov — . Related material: An artists' book scheduled to be released on…

Art School Confidential

For Reba McEntire on her birthday: Complex Reflection and Naturalized Epistemology.