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"[...]a vessel cleaving the dungeon of the waves[...]"
You're Love in the Time of Cholera!
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Like Odysseus in a work of Homer, you demonstrate undying loyalty by
sleeping with as many people as you possibly can. But in your heart you never give
consent! This creates a strange quandary of what love really means to you. On the
one hand, you've loved the same person your whole life, but on the other, your actions
barely speak to this fact. Whatever you do, stick to bottled water. The other stuff
could get you killed.
Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.
Never miss a word
You're Infinite Jest!
by David Foster Wallace
While you1 consider yourself2 to be clever,
there are those3 who think you're just full of yourself or, perhaps worse,
playing a joke4 on everyone around you, and yet you are pretty sure that
you really are that brilliant after all, since people would hardly take the time to
get to know you5 if they didn't care very deeply about what you had to
say to them, to wit, about their lives, their hopes, their dreams, their fears, their
drug habits, and of course what videos6 they prefer to watch, since,
after all, your impressive vocabulary and tendency to go on and on7 makes
you seem superior, able to educate them, and really drive a sense of something
ineffable into their measly little skulls while you are not above making a cheap
gag or really going after anyone or anything or telling them about incredible
futures involving tennis, geopolitics, and
1Meaning you personally, not someone like you or your own
personal daddy, for example.
2As well as you can see yourself, which, frankly, may not be that well.
3Though we wouldn't deign to be so peripatetic as to name them here, mind.
4Jokes, though not common in Victorian England, were known to originate
sometime in ancient history, perhaps as early as the time of Babylon, or even before.
It is thought that the history of the joke plays an integral role in the mindset of
the characters depicted here, though you may disagree at this point, in which case I
am facing quite the dilemma in relaying this narrative, no?
5It is rather time consuming, after all.
6Ha!
7and on and on and on...
Take the Book Quiz II
at the Blue Pyramid.
You're The Metamorphosis!
by Franz Kafka
Though you think you're in the midst of a dream, the fact of the
matter is that your life has become a nightmare. The nightmare at first seems
horrific to you, but you are slowly able to adjust to the facts of the matter
and settle down and make do with what you've been given. There are those that
would say you're pointless and absurd, but you're really just trying to
demonstrate that people can (and do) adapt to anything, no matter how absurd
it is. Not that this will really inspire them to change, because they probably
don't understand.
Take the Book Quiz II
at the Blue Pyramid.
About Me
- Σφιγξ
- possesses wholly unmerited academic pretensions; examines love as an entomologist; collects haunted dollshouses; notes the lunar phase as regularly as the temperature; peruses field guides; reads like a serial magazine subscriptionist; functions through coffee and "mood" music; draws to the very corners of the page; takes notes on unlined paper; reads poetry as prayer; observes textual authority with the incredulity of fiction; suppresses the smart-ass answer(s); adapts as well as anyone beseiged by her own bibelots; she is a sensation seeker in spite of all of this.
5 comments:
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/eternal-september
https://books.google.com/books?id=eEOOsfQO9sIC&pg=PA282&dq=auden+the+dark+years&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pQXIVMHUCIiXgwSepIS4BA&ved=0CDQQ6AEwBTgK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJfvv8NRslw
gimel-yud-qof-yud - Jacky / Jackie
"This is the concept of gimmel; the blending of disparate elements into a harmonious whole. Just as the gimmel signifies the connection between the poor and the wealthy person, so does it represent the merger, the bridge, between the material world and the reality of G‑d."
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/137075/jewish/Gimmel.htm
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/137082/jewish/Yod.htm
"Therefore, the mission of a Jew is to go forth into the depths of the materialistic world and infuse it with the Yud of G‑d, with G‑dliness. This isn’t true only with regard to the land of Israel or the synagogue. It refers to every place a Jew’s foot lands."
"Thus, on one hand, the kuf represents death and negative thought, speech and action. On the other hand, it invites transformation. Just as the design of the three-sided beis embodies a certain tension that is resolved in the four-sided mem, so does the foot of the kuf call out to be elevated from its station below the horizon. We all have the ability to transform the irrational to the superrational, thus directing our thought, our speech, and our action solely toward G‑d and holiness."
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/137091/jewish/Kuf.htm
Exercise 91
Thank you, for reminding me. I have to work at the week's end, and I will make every effort to work through the Sonnabend/Castelli connection and Arte Povera. I was enervated by the inevitable Tuesday night; not because I had expectations.
Leaders and systems are extremely disappointing; that is not the point.
I was looking at the Phaidon Book of Photography yesterday for a Michael Pistoletto photo, which is actually an installation, and I found Eric Hosking.
https://americanornithology.org/an-eye-for-photography/
The first photograph of a bird of prey, the barn owl, was captured by Eric Hosking in 1937 from a bird blind and flash box camera in North London. A tawny owl attacked him May 13, 1937, and he lost his left eye. I was surprised that it was so late, a photograph of a bird of prey.
Birds of the Night (1945). I found it on eBay for a nominal sum.
He published his first photo book in 1933 that founded the Children's Zoo at Regents Park.
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