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Noir sur Blanc

Some backstory for this post's title— Last evening's post Mrozek and Stoppard Vril Chick  Stoppard and Lyche Iron Sky. A post from the day of Mrozek's death may…

What Seems Insanity

On a way of seeing— superimposition— that "seems insanity" (cf. C. S. Lewis's remarks below) Combining last night's post Spectrum with the August 14 post Valhalla Is Down……

Perspective

For Fans of Bad Movies* This post was suggested by my viewing last night the 1995 horror film Species , and by news that  Scarlett Johansson will be starring in…

Spectrum

From the weblog of Dr. David Justice today : C.S. Lewis somewhere (in time, in retirement, I might recover the passage) surveys the spectrum of plot-outlines, and notes that…

Dark Side Tales

"Got to keep the loonies on the path." — Lyrics to Dark Side of the Moon For those who, like Tom Stoppard, prefer the dark side— NEW ANGLE:…

Where Entertainment Is God

(Continued) For film and TV director Ted Post, who reportedly died on Tuesday, Aug. 20. See that day's post "Conversations with an Empty Chair" and today's NY Times—

Being's Road

For the late Julie Harris — By slow and carefully modulated steps Bradford's narrative has brought his community of separatists to the place he calls Cape Harbor… where, face-to-face with the bleak…

Cast (continued)

The death yesterday of British cinematographer Gilbert Taylor suggests an image from last evening's Log24 search Point Omega — . The die in the above image (shown here Dec. 28, 2012) …

Vacant Space

A passage from Wallace Stevens— The spirit and space, The empty spirit  In vacant space. A frame from the film American Psycho  (2000), starring Christian Bale— The rest…

Ten Years of Nothing

For insatiable actor Patrick Bateman (protagonist of American Psycho) and anti-theologian Kirk Varnedoe ( Pictures of Nothing, this journal ten years ago today ) Philip Rieff, The Crisis of the Officer Class, University of…