Tag: Dante Time

Scenes from…

An Epic for Drink Boy — Context:  The post in which the above scenes occur.

Point

"….mirando il punto   a cui tutti li tempi son presenti" — Dante, Paradiso , XVII, 17-18  For instance… Click image for higher quality.

Punto

"Time it goes so fast When you're having fun" — "Another Manic Monday" "….mirando il punto  a cui tutti li tempi son presenti" – Dante, Paradiso , XVII,…

Philosophers' Keystone

(Background— Yesterday's Quarter to Three, A Manifold Showing, Class of 64, and Child's Play.) Hermeneutics Fans of Gregory Chaitin and Harry Potter may consult Writings for Yom Kippur…

Class of 64

Samuel Beckett on Dante and Joyce: "Another point of comparison is the preoccupation   with the significance of numbers." "If I'd been out 'til quarter to three Would…

Monday October 31, 2005

Balance "An asymmetrical balance is sought since it possesses more movement. This is achieved by the imaginary plotting of the character upon a nine-fold square, invented by some…

Tuesday September 28, 2004

3:33:33 PM Romantic Interaction, continued… The Rhyme of Time From American Dante Bibliography for 1983: Freccero, John. "Paradiso X: The Dance of the Stars" (1968). Reprinted in Dante…

Sunday November 2, 2003

All Souls' Day at the Still Point From remarks on Denis Donoghue's Speaking of Beauty in the New York Review of Books, issue dated Nov. 20, 2003, page…

Monday March 10, 2003

ART WARS: Art at the Vanishing Point Two readings from The New York Times Book Review of Sunday, March 9, 2003 are relevant to our recurring "art wars"…

Friday March 7, 2003

Lovely, Dark and Deep On this date in 1923, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," by Robert Frost, was published.  On this date in 1999, director Stanley…