Remembering Professor Elizabeth Galloway (1937-2022)
Two-Headed Calf
This is the spirit of poetry. Laura Gilpin (1950-2007) wrote this poem. Drawing is by Paulus Potter ( 1625-1954).
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Creative Writing: What is Film Script Writing: Adaptation?
Elaine Scarry: What Is the felt experience of cognition at the moment one stands in the presence of a beautiful boy or flower or bird?
“She recognized the foxglove leaves of the riding and knew, more or less, where they were.”
D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterly’s Lover
“The Moon has a face like the clock on the wall…”
“And if i were not a king…”
And if I were not a king, I would be a university man. And if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison then that library, and to be chained together with so many good authors.
King James 1 (1566-1625)
Books: Worlds that Sing to You
...Books are as important as almost anything else on Earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort or quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die. They are full of all the things that you don’t get in real life—wonderful, lyrical language, for instance, right off the bat. And quality of attention: we may notice amazing details during the course of a day but we rarely let ourselves stop and really pay attention. An author makes you notice, makes you pay attention, and this is a great gift.
Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
July 12, 2022: From the stars above comes the half-remarkable question
Writes NASA July 12, 2022
Stephan’s Quintet, a visual grouping of five galaxies, is best known for being prominently featured in the holiday classic film, “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Today, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals Stephan’s Quintet in a new light. This enormous mosaic is Webb’s largest image to date, covering about one-fifth of the Moon’s diameter. It contains over 150 million pixels and is constructed from almost 1,000 separate image files. The information from Webb provides new insights into how galactic interactions may have driven galaxy evolution in the early universe.
With its powerful, infrared vision and extremely high spatial resolution, Webb shows never-before-seen details in this galaxy group. Sparkling clusters of millions of young stars and starburst regions of fresh star birth grace the image. Sweeping tails of gas, dust and stars are being pulled from several of the galaxies due to gravitational interactions. Most dramatically, Webb captures huge shock waves as one of the galaxies, NGC 7318B, smashes through the cluster.
“Fair Creature of an Hour…” (July 4, 2020)
Poem: John Keats, “When I have fears that I shall cease to be”
Music: Gustav Holtz, “Jupiter”