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Thought Weather: September 2014
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A place for recording passing thoughts usually arising while reading. Saturday, September 27, 2014. Il genio non è scoprire un motivo esterno e trattarlo bene, ma giungere finalmente a possedere la propria esperienza, il proprio corpo, i propri ricordi, il proprio ritmo – ed esprimere, esprimere questo ritmo, fuori dalla limitatezza degli argomenti, della materia, nella perenne fecondità di un pensiero che per definizione non ha fondo." Cesare Pavese, Il mestiere di vivere. 1938, 6 dicembre.
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Thought Weather: April 2015
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A place for recording passing thoughts usually arising while reading. Saturday, April 25, 2015. How nice it is to go struggling and grasping for things. Giotto: Expulsion of the Money-Changers. In an article contributed to Art Futures. Consumerism tries to bind consumers and make them submit by producing dependence, that is, addiction". But we have been in this bind a long time. In his 1909 book Jakob von Gunten. Friday, April 24, 2015. Friday, April 10, 2015. Bears three epigraphs, only two of which sur...
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Thought Weather: May 2014
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A place for recording passing thoughts usually arising while reading. Friday, May 23, 2014. Frank Auerbach Self Portrait. Sold for £423,700 in 2008. In a letter to The Times. In 1971 Frank Auerbach wrote: "Your correspondents tend to write of paintings as objects of financial value or passive beauty. For painters they are source material; they teach and they set standards." And this is much the same thing as T. S. Eliot meant when he wrote - in the September 1919 issue of The Egoist. Il faut toujours tra...
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Thought Weather: November 2014
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A place for recording passing thoughts usually arising while reading. Tuesday, November 11, 2014. Blake's (and Parry's) Jerusalem. Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry. But then I pondered the lyrics again . lines such as. I will not cease from Mental Fight,. Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand:. Till we have built Jerusalem . Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Software designer and Infrequent poet. View my complete profile. Les Enfants du Paradis. Blakes (and Parrys) Jerusalem.
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Thought Weather: The ruffian world
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A place for recording passing thoughts usually arising while reading. Friday, April 24, 2015. Ich werde als alter Mann junge, selbstbewußte, schlecht erzogene Grobiane bedienen müssen, oder ich werde betteln, oder ich werde zugrunde gehen." – Robert Walser, in Jakob von Gunten, Ein Tagebuch. As an old man I shall have to serve young and confident and badly-educated ruffians, or I shall be a beggar, or I shall perish." (Christopher Middleton's translation). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Thought Weather: January 2015
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A place for recording passing thoughts usually arising while reading. Sunday, January 4, 2015. Human amidst the inhuman. The final shot of Tarkovsky's Solaris. One of the themes of the film is for the various characters to find a way to be human in the inhuman environment of Solaris and space exploration. But is not the real Earth also just such a small island in the midst of the vast inhuman and possibly numinous ocean of space? I have written about these colour-drained shots elsewhere. Where the aged m...
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Thought Weather: January 2014
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A place for recording passing thoughts usually arising while reading. Thursday, January 30, 2014. This image is from the film Searching for Sugar Man. And shows the method by which the former South African regime censored "unsuitable" tracks from LPs, in this case the track 'Sugar Man' from Rodriguez's album Cold Fact. Nothing new here; witness Erasmus's books, several examples of which can be seen in this condition in his house museum in the suburbs of Brussels . Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Thought Weather: August 2014
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A place for recording passing thoughts usually arising while reading. Wednesday, August 27, 2014. Before the strangeness of things . the taste of dreams. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Software designer and Infrequent poet. View my complete profile. WSMerwin's *Garden Time* reads as perhaps a notebook of sketches for poems, which makes me think of Adorno's notions of 'late style', or perhaps as a si. Les Enfants du Paradis. Before the strangeness of things . the taste of .
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Thought Weather: Human amidst the inhuman
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A place for recording passing thoughts usually arising while reading. Sunday, January 4, 2015. Human amidst the inhuman. The final shot of Tarkovsky's Solaris. One of the themes of the film is for the various characters to find a way to be human in the inhuman environment of Solaris and space exploration. But is not the real Earth also just such a small island in the midst of the vast inhuman and possibly numinous ocean of space? I have written about these colour-drained shots elsewhere. Where the aged m...
