I memorized the third verse of “Amour puissance six” (Love to the Power of Six) by Serge Gainsbourg. That’s more than half the song so I might have it nailed down on the weekend.
I played my Kramer electric guitar during song practice for the final session of four.
I weighed 85.4 kilos before breakfast, which is the lightest I’ve been in the morning in 84 days. I drank tea for the first time in two weeks and so I was buzzing a bit from the caffeine.
In the late morning I read chapter three of The Hobbit. Gandalf saves Bilbo and the dwarves from being eaten by Trolls. He doesn’t use much magic. He simply imitates troll voices and keeps them arguing until the sun comes up and its light touches them , which causes trolls to turn to stone. They travel to the mountains and take shelter in in an elf’s home where they learn that the swords they stole from the trolls are of great historical and cultural value.
I read chapter two of Bored of the Rings. Frito and his companions visit a hippy named Tim Benzedrine. They ask for food and he gives them magic mushrooms, which they eat and have a psychedelic trip.
I left for class at around 12:15. For the first time the classroom was empty.
Professor Ballot came second. We talked about my essay. We also talked about the “Mysticism and Materiality” article by Krieger. She said it’s overly detailed and could have been a lot shorter.
I showed her Bored of the Rings and was surprised she’d never heard of it.
The opening dialogue was between Hannah and Simona on the end of “Pearl”.
The narrator’s lesson has to come from experience. The Pearl girl’s arguments are not logical so he can’t really learn from them.
The Lamb is vulnerable.
I say there are ranks in the Kingdom of God as presented in the poem. There is God, Mary, the 144,000 queens and the pearls. If there are 144,000 queens then what's a queen? She’s not performing any queenly functions other than looking resplendent and noble. In this world queens and pearls are cheap.
Alyssa says Jesus is holey because he is full of holes from the spikes.
“Pearl” is similar to King Lear. “Nothing”. He tries to reunite with Cordelia.
I said paradox allows us to become open to the unknown.
We discussed Tolkien’s essay on fantasy. Make the moon green or change other aspects of reality. That’s fantasy.
The gospels is a fairy story that has entered our history. The gospel is four gospels. “Pearl” draws from “Revelations”. There is also the parable of the pearl in the Bible.
It does not say in the Gospel that Christ died for our sins. This was something that Paul said who never met Jesus except in a vision he claimed to have a generation after his death.
The “Pearl” narrator can have heaven any time.
In Greco Roman times rape was common. Christianity changed that. The Romans did have laws against rape but only to protect citizens.
Eucatastrophe is a sudden happy ending after a close call.
There is no tragedy in Medieval literature.
“Pearl” has 20 sections. Pearl has 21 chapters.
Comparing cutting in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to self cutting in Pearl.
I weighed 84.5 kilos at 15:45. That’s the least I’ve pushed the scale at that time for two months.
I broke my fast by adding sun dried tomato dressing to a salad.
I weighed 85.1 kilos at 18:00 and that’s also a two month record.
I was caught up on my journal at 20:05.
I had a lettuce, cucumber, scallion, tomato, and avocado salad with sun dried tomato dressing and a mug of tea while watching season 2, episode 27 of Burke’s Law.
This copy of the episode had choppy audio.
Sensationalist novelist Graham Tree writes best selling books in which the characters are thinly veiled versions of people he knows. Many of those people hate him for those portrayals. Tree is having a party to launch his latest book. Before the opening scene he had been in a fist fight with Ashton DeWitt who he’d butchered in his book and Tree got the worst of it. We now see Tree being rude to his guests and kicking them out. Then Tree collapses and dies. Burke and his team arrive. Burke says to analyze Tree’s drink just in case he died from more than the fight. Burke knows DeWitt because their fathers were both Wall Street tycoons. DeWitt doesn’t know Tree is dead and doesn’t believe it when Burke tells him. Burke accuses Dewitt of murder so he throws a punch. Burke is about to take DeWitt downtown when he gets a call from Les who tells him that Tree came to life again on the autopsy table, so he doesn’t arrest DeWitt after all. Burke goes to the hospital where the doctor tells him that Tree had an almost lethal dose of sodium (the other part of the name was skipped by the bad audio), which is prescription drug used in sleeping pills. On top of that he had been drinking a lot. His head injuries from the fight are only superficial. In his room they are trying to keep Tree awake and Burke and Tim help. Tree insists he didn’t try to commit suicide. Burke goes to see DeeDee Booker, Tree’s ex-manager. Tree fired her because of Mrs. DeWitt. Ashton is divorcing her because of Tree. Burke finds sleeping pills in her office and confiscates them for analysis. She says Tree deserved to be beaten because he’s rotten to the core. There are five people from the party that were torn apart in Tree’s book and so they are all suspects. Burke goes to see Chucker Curtis at his stables after his polo match and first faces a very angry dog that Curtis has to calm down. DeWitt took off with Chucker’s father’s wife. Curtis says he’s never used sleeping pills. Tim and Les go to see Leander Clement, who is holding a wake for his own career and preparing a time capsule. Among the items he’s putting in the capsule is a package of sleeping pills but Tim and Les confiscate them. He says nobody would have been sorry if Tree had died. Tree ruined Clement’s career with his novel. Burke disguises himself as an elderly attorney named Priestly Carter and goes to see Tree, telling him he represents DeWitt. Tree thinks he recognizes him but can’t remember from where. Tree tells him his next book will expose his attempted murderer. Meanwhile Tree will be playing polo with all the suspects this afternoon. Clement’s sleeping pills don’t match. Burke goes back to Chucker’s stable where the dog is uncharacteristically calm. Burke finds Curtis dragging the unconscious body of Tree. He claims he is dragging him out of the stall of the wild horse but Burke accuses him of dragging Tree in. He says although Curtis doesn’t take sleeping pills he does use them to calm his dog down. Curtis attacks Burke with a pitch fork while Burke Samurai parries with a polo mallet and they fight until Burke wins.
DeWitt was played by Rory Calhoun, who had a troubled youth. He escaped his abusive stepfather and began stealing cars, which landed him in reform school. He escaped from reform school, robbed several jewellery stores then stole a car and drove it across state lines. He spent three years in the Federal penitentiary. Then he was sent to San Quentin for other charges and was paroled just before he turned 21. Before acting he was a boxer, a lumberjack, mechanic, miner, fisherman, crane operator, firefighter, truck driver, and cow puncher. He was discovered by Alan Ladd’s wife Sue Carol while riding a horse in the park. He first caught the public attention when it was arranged for him to be Lana Turner’s escort to the premier of Spellbound. His first film appearance was an uncredited role in Something For the Boys. When word got out about his criminal past it only served to enhance his career. He co-starred in River of No Return, and With a Song In My Heart. In mid career he went back to prison for a while after punching a detective. He co-starred in The Red House, Return of the Frontiersman, Way of a Gaucho, Powder River, A Bullet is Waiting, The Spoilers, Angel, and Avenging Angel. He starred in Adventure Island, Miraculous Journey, County Fair, Rogue River, The Silver Whip, The Yellow Tomahawk, Four Guns to the Border, Ain’t Misbehavin, The Looters, The Treasure of Pancho Villa, Red Sundown, Raw Edge, Utah Blaine, The Big Caper, Ride Out for Revenge, The Saga of Hemp Brown, Thunder in Carolina, The Colossus of Rhodes, The Treasure of Monte Cristo, The Young and the Brave, Young Fury, Apache Uprising, Face in the Rain, Our Men in Bagdad, and Motel Hell. He produced and starred in Flight to Hong Kong, The Hired Gun, Domino Kid, and Apache Territory. He wrote the story for the film Shotgun. He starred in and co-produced the TV series The Texan. In the 80s he played Judge Tyler on the soap opera Capital. When his wife sued him for divorce because of 79 women he said that was only half of his lovers. He wrote the novels The Man From Padera, and Cerrado.
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