| | Starflight
"The crème de la crème
of the chess world in a
show with everything
but Yul Brynner"
-- One Night in Bangkok
Mate in 2,
V. Nabokov, 1919,
"Starflight" theme
Today is the feast of St. Yul Brynner,
who died on this date in 1985.
"Head bent down over the guitar,
he barely seemed to hum;
ended "all come home";
....
Yule-- Yul log for the
Christmas-fire tale-spinner--
of fairy tales that can come true.
Yul Brynner."
-- Marianne Moore,
"Rescue with Yul Brynner"
Related material:
Starflight, a year ago today
Pleiades, by Ivan Bunin, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1933, whose birthday is today
Natasha's Dance (Log24, Jan. 8, 2004)
Star! by John Gregory Dunne (NY Review of Books, Jan. 15, 2004)
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