Thursday, October 23, 2003 3:00 AM
For the Dead of
St. Ursula’s Day
In the spirit of Southie…
To admirers of |
“To admirers, Mrs. Hicks
spoke the truth
to liberal power
in simple declarative sentences.”
“The time had come for him
to set out on his journey westward.
Yes, the newspapers were right:
snow was general all over Ireland.”
Tuesday, October 21, 2003 2:07 AM
“What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?”
– Saying attributed to
Saint Ursula K. Le Guin
(10/21/1929 – )
Saturday, October 11, 2003 1:00 AM
For Patricia Collinge
of Collinge-Pickman Casting, Boston, whose credits include casting for the film A Civil Action.
“Take us the foxes, the little foxes…”
KHYI just played Tish Hinojosa’s “Something in the Rain.” Here, Ms. Collinge, is a rather strange website related to the themes of A Civil Action and to Hinojosa’s song:
Friday, October 10, 2003 4:44 PM
Storyline
To hear a story, or to read it straight through from start to finish, is to travel along a one-dimensional line. A well-structured story has, however, more than one dimension.
Juxtaposing scenes shows that details that seem to be far apart in the telling (or the living) of a story may in fact be closely related.
Here is an example from the film “Contact,” in which a young girl’s drawing and a vision of paradise are no longer separated by the time it takes to tell (or live) the story:
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(See my entry of Michaelmas 2002.)
For details of how time is “folded”
by artists and poets, see the following:
A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle,
