26 November 2005: I'm sure no one but I would have noticed it, or been concerned if he had, but there was a mistake in the third frame of the "The Odysseus Suite," the sequence I posted yesterday. Here is the corrected version of that frame, preceded by the one with the mistake in it:
While I have the frame on display, I might as well say a few things about it, talking about my works always appealing to me more than creating them. The piece is pretty straightforward for those who have had high school algebra, and remember it. It claims that a particular kind of moonlight is equal to the "heart root" of Penelope--who contains lilacs. The moonlight, the poem implies, is superior to ordinary moonlight in that it contains silences (like the visible but unsayable gh's in the word for "moonlight") as beyond simple silences as some x squared is beyond a simple x. Yet this moonlight has only a fraction of the value of Persephone since it equals only a root of her. Or, Persephone equals moonlight (whose gh is squared) to the power of the drawn heart, or love, energy, the heart itself, or whatever else strikes one as appropriate.
In sequence, the frame is an explanation of a detail in the frame just before it, the enlarged O of Odysseus's name which reveals that he carries an image of home, which in turn carries an image of the moonlight in this frame, which in turn carries an image (imperceptible in the reproduction I posted yesterday, and--for that matter--in my original) of Penelope--which in turn carries an image of lilacs.
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Someone sent me an e.mail asking whose heart it was. Answer: no one's. Or, at least, that's my opinion. It's a universal human heart, also a universal symbol for affection, energy, the feelings, intuition.
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