Time Out of Joint:tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-812489959698982512010-01-05T22:50:43-07:00a notebook on cinema, hyperreality, and longing . . .TypePad"... you followed a star?"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83423522453ef012876ad99c2970c2010-01-05T22:50:43-07:002013-02-27T00:27:32-07:00George Stevens 1 George Stevens 2 As the audacity of Christmastide passes on twelfth night The final lines of W.H. Auden's For the Time Being ... III Well, so that is that. Now we must dismantle the tree, Putting the decorations back into their cardboard boxes - Some have got...Reno Laurothe revealingtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83423522453ef0147e0235a1b970b2007-01-05T16:33:12-07:002007-01-05T16:33:12-07:00the magic of advent culminates on the 'twelfth night' of Christ/mas/tide. . . tomorrow the revealing!Reno LauroLord of Misruletag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83423522453ef0134897fa5b3970c2006-12-18T11:57:27-07:002006-12-18T11:57:27-07:00Sunday December 17 began the 'Feast of Misrule' which was the redemption of the Roman feast of Saturnalia. The feast, also known as the 'The Feast of Fools' in Medieval times, is a celebration of the recovery of light in the midst of winter darkness. The feast is a feast...Reno Laurosamhain: Tolkien and magictag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83423522453ef0147e023584c970b2006-10-31T16:17:28-07:002006-10-31T16:17:28-07:00samhain is coming to an end here in scotland. sprites dance. the harvest snow moon (nov 5) draws near. along Njord's fertile coast / (in the season of Freyr ) /under scorpio's brief celestial spin . . . Baby has 'engaged' and the coming Dia de Los Muertos means that...Reno LauroSeven Wunderstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83423522453ef0147e0235737970b2006-10-18T04:33:51-07:002006-10-18T04:33:51-07:00Maybe it's because i've been think about Heidegger's Buidling Dwelling Thinking and the nature of Tolkien's myth that the following article on the 'new' seven wonders of the world makes me so infuriated . . . or maybe because the 'new' list is open for popular vote --a sure sign...Reno LauroPoetry Bus Tour 2006tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83423522453ef0147e0235a09970b2006-08-08T10:34:07-07:002006-08-08T10:34:07-07:00Far Country Tell is going on the road . . . (*sigh* well, sort of) Gulf Coast Daybook, a film by Reno Lauro and Poet Dale Smith, will be traveling with The Wave Books Poetry Bus Tour across America for 50 days in 2006. Be sure to check out dates...Reno LauroSummer Solsticetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83423522453ef0134897fa76b970c2006-06-21T03:26:11-07:002013-02-06T10:20:29-07:00The longest day of the year is a tempestuous one here in st. andrews . . . a crossroads of pagan, Roman Catholic, and high Scot Protestant traditions. the sun rules the day but the strong West winds drive the tempurature down as the clouds forshadow the days to come....Reno LauroNostalghia: the longingtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83423522453ef0147e02356e9970b2006-06-15T04:50:29-07:002006-06-15T04:50:29-07:00I'm trying to finish up a presentable draft of a play that will hopefully be performed at the next C.S. Lewis conference in Oxford . . . In my research I came across a poem tremendously influential on a young C.S. Lewis: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's translaion of the 19th century...Reno Lauroapril notestag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83423522453ef0147e02359c1970b2006-04-13T12:58:13-07:002006-04-13T12:58:13-07:003400 years of passover . . .the power of remembrance: one of the many gifts of the Jewish people to the world. The daffodils are in full bloom, the swallows glide, and the cuckoo's are laying eggs in nests not their own. Today is Madatum Thursday. The last commands of...Reno Laurothe theologian as lunatic, lover, poet . . .tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83423522453ef0134897fa584970c2006-02-14T09:51:46-07:002006-02-14T09:51:46-07:00"The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact . . . The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes,...Reno Lauro