The Memory Cathedral: March 2018

Saturday, March 31, 2018

SONNET 72 RECITE: O! lest the world should task you to recite

O! lest the world should task you to recite
What merit lived in me, that you should love
After my death,--dear love, forget me quite,
For you in me can nothing worthy prove.
Unless you would devise some virtuous lie,
To do more for me than mine own desert,
And hang more praise upon deceased I
Than niggard truth would willingly impart:
O! lest your true love may seem false in this
That you for love speak well of me untrue,
My name be buried where my body is,
And live no more to shame nor me nor you.
For I am shamed by that which I bring forth,
And so should you, to love things nothing worth.

SONNET 71 BELL: No longer mourn for me when I am dead

No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am fled
From this vile world with vilest worms to dwell:
Nay, if you read this line, remember not
The hand that writ it, for I love you so,
That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot,
If thinking on me then should make you woe.
O! if, I say, you look upon this verse,
When I perhaps compounded am with clay,
Do not so much as my poor name rehearse;
But let your love even with my life decay;
Lest the wise world should look into your moan,
And mock you with me after I am gone.

The CROW from Sonnet 70 collides with the BELL in the belltower
sits dazed and dizzy, stars around his head as in a cartoon,
Jeckle with his English accent, is tasked to RECITE...

Note lead words on the Qs and the C:

No
Nay, if you read
O! if, I say
Lest

Compare to it's paired sonnet 72:

O! lest
Unless
O! lest
For I am shamed

Note
vile world in L4
and wise world in L13

Names and memory

SONNET 70 CROW: That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect

That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect,
For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;
The ornament of beauty is suspect,
A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.
So thou be good, slander doth but approve
Thy worth the greater, being wooed of time;
For canker vice the sweetest buds doth love,
And thou present'st a pure unstained prime.
Thou hast passed by the ambush of young days
Either not assailed, or victor being charged;
Yet this thy praise cannot be so thy praise,
To tie up envy, evermore enlarged,
If some suspect of ill masked not thy show,
Then thou alone kingdoms of hearts shouldst owe.

The Crow, black stain, shadow, blot, eclipse
appearing suddenly in the clear blue sky of the sonnet
either Heckle or Jeckle, these talking magpies up to no good.

This ornament of beauty
a piece of foil, a shining object
attracts them in to enact their chaos
of idle amusement
for them, the purpose of the being
is to get a good laugh
at the expense of others

Or that mysterious, all powerful Minah Bird
from the early racist Looney Tunes cartoons.

"Minah is a small and seemingly almighty mynah bird. He has a blank emotionless face and personality, and he always walks to the tune of Mendelssohn's "The Hebrides" (http://youtu.be/FAXyj1dy-PE). Minah played a major role in every Inki cartoon short and has made several small appearances in Looney Tunes, Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries and Tweety's High-Flying Adventure. Minah in all cases appears in the middle of a conflict and proceeds to resolve it in his own unique way. Everything in the jungle is terrified of Minah apart from Inki and lions due to them being unaware of his reputation. In the shorts Minah always makes a huge, intimidating entrance which he doesn't seem to live up to having a small and non-intimidating appearance but he does live up to it in his abilities. Minah always gets in the middle of a conflict and causes physical pain to both sides (the amount of pain received is consistent to the size of their part in the conflict). Minah's abilities include escaping in a maze of holes, disappearing into thin air, reappearing out of seemingly anywhere whenever and wherever it is least expected or most convenient, and making other things disappear and reappear. Minah also delivers the pain personally through off-seen and sometimes onseen violence. It is true Minah cannot be defeated in a physical fight for he has regularly given brutal beatings to dogs, lions, and in one case a 28 ton dinosaur in all his cartoons but always comes out completely unharmed." - source

"Comics historian Don Markstein wrote that the character's racial stereotype "led to [the series'] unpopularity with program directors and thence to its present-day obscurity." He noted that, "The Minah Bird, which appears immensely powerful, [is] an accomplished trickster; and yet acts, when it acts at all, from motives which simply can not be fathomed...."[1] The series' director, Chuck Jones, said[where?] these cartoons were baffling to everyone, including himself. He had no understanding of what the bird was supposed to do other than walk around. But the shorts were well-accepted by audiences.[2] According to Terry Lindvall and Ben Fraser, Inki is an Everyman who encounters mysterious forces of life. He serves as a symbol of all humanity, "frustrated and rescued by the wonderfully inexplicable" - Wikipedia

Sense of "slander's mark" as the conman's mark.

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

SCRIPTUM 2 WHALE: He Tasks Me... Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

Moby-Dick

Chapter XXXVI - THE QUARTER-DECK

Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)

"Hark ye yet again, - the little lower layer. All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event - in the living act, the undoubted deed - there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall? To me, the white whale is that wall, shoved near to me. Sometimes I think there's naught beyond. But 'tis enough. He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him. Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me. For could the sun do that, then could I do the other; since there is ever a sort of fair play herein, jealousy presiding over all creations. But not my master, man, is even that fair play. Who's over me? Truth hath no confines. Take off thine eye! more intolerable than fiends' glarings is a doltish stare!

Mnemonic breakdown:

"Hark ye yet again, - the little lower layer.
All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks.

But in each event - in the living act, the undoubted deed -
there, some unknown but still reasoning thing
puts forth the mouldings of its features
from behind the unreasoning mask.

If man will strike, strike through the mask!
How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall?
To me, the white whale is that wall, shoved near to me.
Sometimes I think there's naught beyond.

But 'tis enough.
He tasks me; he heaps me;
I see in him outrageous strength,
with an inscrutable malice sinewing it.

That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate;
and be the white whale agent,
or be the white whale principal,
I will wreak that hate upon him.

Talk not to me of blasphemy, man;
I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.
For could the sun do that,
then could I do the other;
since there is ever a sort of fair play herein,
jealousy presiding over all creations.

But not my master, man, is even that fair play.
Who's over me? Truth hath no confines.
Take off thine eye!
more intolerable than fiends' glarings is a doltish stare!

ALTER CANTICUM JESUS: Jesus Gonna Be Here by Tom Waits

Jesus Gonna Be Here

Tom Waits (1949- )

Well, Jesus will be here
Be here soon
He's gonna cover us up with leaves
With a blanket from the moon
With a promise and a vow
And a lullaby for my brow
Jesus gonna be here
Be here soon

Well I'm just gonna wait here
I don't have to shout
I have no reason and
I have no doubt
I'm gonna get myself
Unfurled from this mortal coiled up world
Because Jesus gonna be here
Be here soon

I got to keep my eyes open
So I can see my Lord
I'm gonna watch the horizon
For a brand new Ford
I can hear him rolling on down the lane
I said Hollywood be thy name
Jesus gonna be
Gonna be here soon

Well, I've been faithful
And I've been so good
Except for drinking
But he knew that I would
I'm gonna leave this place better
Than the way I found it was
And Jesus gonna be here
Be here soon

MATHEMATICA 1

Wikipedia:

1 (one, also called unit, unity, and (multiplicative) identity) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It represents a single entity, the unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of unit length is a line segment of length 1. It is also the first of the infinite sequence of natural numbers, followed by 2.

It is also the first and second number in the Fibonacci sequence (0 is the zeroth) and is the first number in many other mathematical sequences.

1 is neither a prime number nor a composite number, but a unit (meaning of ring theory), like −1 and, in the Gaussian integers, i and −i. The fundamental theorem of arithmetic guarantees unique factorization over the integers only up to units. (For example, 4 = 22, but if units are included, is also equal to, say, (−1)6 × 123 × 22, among infinitely many similar "factorizations".)

1 is the only positive integer divisible by exactly one positive integer (whereas prime numbers are divisible by exactly two positive integers, composite numbers are divisible by more than two positive integers, and zero is divisible by all positive integers). 1 was formerly considered prime by some mathematicians, using the definition that a prime is divisible only by 1 and itself. However, this complicates the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, so modern definitions exclude units.

1 is the atomic number of hydrogen.

In the philosophy of Plotinus and a number of other neoplatonists, The One is the ultimate reality and source of all existence. Philo of Alexandria (20 BC – AD 50) regarded the number one as God's number, and the basis for all numbers ("De Allegoriis Legum," ii.12 [i.66]).

The Express - Concerning One

1. The ancient Greeks did not consider One to be a number at all. A number, said Euclid, is an “aggregate of units”, so numbers began at Two.

2. They also considered One to be both male and female and both odd and even.

3. There is only one hiccup in the works of Shakespeare, uttered, appropriately enough, by Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night.

4. The Icelandic for “one” is “eitt”, which sounds just like “eight”.

5. Each hair on a human head grows one centimetre a month.

6. The word “girl” only occurs once in the King James Bible (in Joel 3:3). The King James Bible, incidentally, was first published on May 2, 1611.

7. In the UK, a first wedding anniversary is a cotton anniversary; in the USA it is paper.

8. Among the words Charles Dickens used only once are “kangaroo” (in David Copperfield) and “zoo” (in Martin Chuzzlewit).

9. A word that any particular author used only once in their works is called a “hapax legomenon”.

10. “One” is the 35th most commonly used word in the English language, just ahead of “all”.

Monday, March 26, 2018

OSSA 1 CROWN: The Sephirot

The Sephirot

King Casey's Bones Call God To Negate His Youthful Mystery

Wikipdedia: According to Gershom Scholem, the Ein Sof is the emanator of the ten sefirot. Sefirot are energy emanations found on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. Ein Sof, the Atik Yomin ("Ancient of Days"), emanates the sefirot into the cosmic womb of the Ayin in a manner that results in the created universe. The three letters composing the word "Ayin" (אי״ן), indicate the first three purely intellectual sefirot, which precede any emotion or action.[5] The order of devolution can be described as:

000. Ayin (Nothing; אין‬)

00. Ein Sof (Limitlessness; אין סוף‬)

0. Ohr Ein Sof (Endless Light; אור אין סוף‬)

-.Tzimtzum (Contraction; צמצום‬)

The ten sefirot were preceded by a stage of concealment called tzimtzum, which "allows space" for creations to perceive themselves as separate existences from their creator. The sefirot exhibit reflection in sets of triads between more exalted states of being (or "non-being," when "otherness" does not yet exist) and the lower, more mundane levels of existence:

Ayin, Ein Sof, Ohr Ein Sof

Keter, Chokhmah, Binah

Chesed, Gevurah, Tiferet

Netzach, Hod, Yesod

1. Keter (Crown; כתר‬)

2. Chokhmah (Wisdom; חכמה‬)

3. Binah (Understanding; בינה‬)

4. Chesed or Gedulah (Loving Kindness or Mercy; חסד‬)

5. Gevurah or Din (Power or Judgement; גבורה‬)

6. Tiferet (Beauty or Compassion; תפארת‬)

7. Netzach (Triumph or Endurance; נצח‬)

8. Hod (Majesty or Splendor; הוד‬)

9. Yesod (Foundation; יסוד‬)

10. Malchut (Realm; מלכות‬)

22 Lines or Paths what are can be overlayed with the Major Arcana from the Tarot

0. Keter – Chokhmah : The Fool

1. Keter – Binah: The Magician

2. Keter – Tiferet : The High Priestess

3. Binah – Chokhmah: The Empress

4. Chokhmah – Tiferet: The Emperor

5. Chokhmah – Chesed : The Hierophant

6. Binah – Tiferet: The Lovers

7. Binah – Gevurah: The Chariot

8. Gevurah – Chesed : Strength

9. Chesed – Tiferet : The Hermit

10. Chesed – Netzach: Wheel of Fortune

11. Gevurah – Tiferet : Justice

12. Gevurah – Hod: The Hanged Man

13. Tiferet – Netzach: Death

14. Tiferet – Yesod: Temperance

15. Tiferet – Hod: The Devil

16. Hod – Netzach: The Tower

17. Netzach – Yesod: The Star

18. Netzach – Malkuth: The Moon

19. Hod – Yesod: The Sun

20. Hod – Malkuth: Judgment

21. Yesod – Malkuth: The World

SCRIPTUM 1: MOON Philosophies of India by Heinrich Zimmer

Philosophies of India

Heinrich Zimmer (1830-1943)

The moon, the stars, dissolve. The mounting tide becomes a limitless sheet of water. This is the interval of a night of Brahma. Vishnu sleeps. Like a spider that has climbed up the thread that once issued from its own organism, drawing it back into itself, the god has consumed again the web of the universe. Alone upon the immortal substance of the ocean, a giant figure, submerged partly, partly afloat, he takes delight in slumber. There is no one to behold him, no one to comprehend him; there is no knowledge of him, except within himself.

Mnemonic breakdown:

The moon, the stars, dissolve.

The mounting tide becomes a limitless sheet of water.

This is the interval of a night of Brahma.

Vishnu sleeps.

Like a spider that has climbed up the thread that once issued from its own organism,

drawing it back into itself,

the god has consumed again the web of the universe.

Alone upon the immortal substance of the ocean, a giant figure,

submerged partly, partly afloat,

he takes delight in slumber.

There is no one to behold him,