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| Windmills
Upper part of above picture--
From today's New York Times, Seeing Mountains in
Starry Clouds of Creation.
Lower part of above picture--
Pilgrimage to Spider Rock:
"This magical place, according
to Navajo Legend, was the home of Spider Woman, who gave the gift of weaving
to the Dineh' People. Today's Navajos trace the excellence of their finest textiles to this
time of legends, when their patron, Changing Woman, met Spider Woman,
the first Weaver."
Vine Deloria Jr.,
Evolution, Creationism,
and Other Modern Myths:
"The continuing struggle between evolutionists and creationists, a hot
political topic for the past four decades, took a new turn in the
summer of 1999 when the Kansas Board of Education voted to omit the
mention of evolution in its newly approved curriculum, setting off
outraged cries of foul by the scientific establishment. Don
Quixotes on both sides mounted their chargers and went searching for
windmills."
Related material--
A figure from
last night's entry,
Spider Woman:
From Sunday, the day
of Vine Deloria's death,
a picture that might be
called Changing Woman:
 
Kaleidoscope turning...
Shifting pattern
within unalterable structure...
-- Roger Zelazny, Eye of Cat
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| Spider Woman
"Time traveling, which is not quite the good clean boyish fun
it's cracked up to be, started for me when this woman with the sigil on
her forehead looked in on me from the open doorway of the hotel bedroom
where I'd hidden myself and the bottles and asked me, 'Look, Buster, do
you want to live?'....
Her right arm was raised and bent, the elbow touching the
door frame, the hand brushing back the very dark bangs from her forehead
to show me the sigil, as if that had a bearing on her question.
Bordered version
of the sigil
The sigil was an eight-limbed asterisk made of fine dark
lines and about as big as a silver dollar. An X superimposed on a
plus sign. It looked permanent."
-- Fritz Leiber, "Damnation Morning"
For Vine Deloria Jr., who died at 72 on Sunday, Nov. 13, 2005:
Things forgotten are shadows.
The shadows will be as real
as wind and rain and song and light,
there in the old place.
Spider Woman atop your rock,
I would greet you,
but I am going the other way.
Only a fool would pursue a Navajo
into the Canyon of Death.
Related material:
from a Log24 entry
on the morning of
Deloria's death--
Kaleidoscope turning...
Shifting pattern
within unalterable structure...
-- Roger Zelazny, Eye of Cat
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| Culture Wars
'Chicken Little' Lays Golden Egg
(Dean Goodman, Reuters)
'Bee Season' Anxiety
(Leonard Klady, Movie City News):
The
mixed bag of limited release preems was highlighted by an excellent response to
the concert film Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic. The film recorded a $19,000
plus per engagement average from seven outings for a $130,000 gross. The family
drama Bee Season had a comparable gross but on three times as many screens
that translated into anxiety about the Richard Gere film's expansion prospects.
Weekend Estimates
Nov. 11-13, 2005
| Title |
Gross (average)
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Theaters
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Cume
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| Chicken Little |
32.7 ( 8,950)
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3658
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81.5
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Sarah Silverman:
Jesus
is Magic |
0.13 (19,210)
|
7
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0.13
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| Bee Season |
0.13 ( 6,280)
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21
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0.13 |
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| Reunion:An Introduction
to Multispeech
From Log24, Oct. 31, 2005:
"They don't understand
what it is to be awake,
To be living
on several planes at once
Though one cannot speak
with several voices at once."
-- T. S. Eliot,
The Family Reunion
From Finnegans Wake:
"And even if Humpty shell fall frumpty times as awkward
again in the beardsboosoloom of all our grand remonstrancers there'll
be iggs for the brekkers come to mournhim, sunny side up with care...."
From Urban Legends Reference Pages:
See also
the previous two entries,
Ten is a Hen and Structure,
about a mother and child.
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| Structure
"Sunrise--
Hast thou a Flag for me?"
-- Emily Dickinson
From a
Beethoven's Birthday entry:
Kaleidoscope turning...
Shifting pattern
within unalterable structure...
-- Roger Zelazny, Eye of Cat
Related material:
Blue
(below),
Bee Season
(below),
Halloween Meditations,
Aquarius Jazz,
We Are the Key,
and
Jazz on St. Lucia's Day.
"Y'know, I never imagined
the competition version involved
so many tricky permutations."
-- David Brin, Glory Season
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