[This is the second sending of this post, the first was sent
before I sent "re: berlin wall reenactment."]
"King Stephen of Hungary eventually died, aged sixty-three,
on the feast of the Assumption [15 August] 1038, and was
buried beside Blessed Emeric [his only son] at
Szekesfehervar. His tomb was the scene of miracles, and
forty-five years after his death, by order of Pope St.
Gregory VII at the request of King St. Ladislaus, his relics
were enshrined in a chapel within the great church of our
Lady at Buda."
Among the first emails I read yesterday was one from Brian
Carroll [Ezeri Mester 1 of 2 2002] sent to the
electronetwork list which contained the following link:
http://www.electronetwork.org/temp/tracetower.jpg . For the
record, Brian Carroll was named Ezeri Mester 2002 precisely
because he published THE ARCHITECTURE OF ELECTRICITY just
before 1 January 2000.
Then I read how Randolph Fritz bid farewell to design-l.
Randolph also sent the uncannily prescient last post to
design-l just hours before the events of 11 September 2001.
http://lists1.cac.psu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0109&L=design-l&D
=0&O=A&P=3751&F=P
Yesterday afternoon (before the blackout) I was 'busy'
posting at the discussion board of www.archinect.com --
http://www.archinect.com/discuss_cgi/groups/3670.html
-- comparing the long axis of Piranesi's Campo Marzio with
Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Not until I heard
the specific news story of the Canadian reported lightening
strike at Niagara Fall, USA that supposedly caused/started
the blackout did I think of Benjamin Franklin, the man who
"discovered" that lightening and electricity are the same
thing and indeed invented the lightening rod.
For several weeks now, I knew I was going to post something
at design-l on 15 August 2003 related to Ezeri Mester
(Millennial Master), but I had no idea I would likewise be
writing about electricity and states of emergency.
EPICENTRAL BIENNIAL
14 July 2003 - 29 September 2003 -- calendrically coinciding
with reenactment season
a largely "let's see what happens" (again?) event
ps
Last night on ABC's PRIMETIME LIVE, they were initially
reporting that the Blackout of 1977 occurred 13 August, as
in "26 years ago yesterday." Blackout 1977 occurred 13 July
1977 (as in "the day before reenactment season begins" [wink
wink]).
[I know all this seems terrible indulgent (of me), but it
all really boils down to (my) being extremely interested in
design, particularly the design of patterns within events
and even networks. The more I engage in all this, the more I
realize that I too, like Piranesi and his Ichnographia Campi
Martii, am designing a vast architecture of mnemonics, a
House of Zeitgeist, you might say.]
15 August 1977 Ron Evitts and I went to Mass at St. Peter's
Rome.
