Friday, December 13, 2013

V. Les consignes [en cas d'incendie]

V. Les consignes [en cas d'incendie]

Smoke is restricted here—Enriched by Torpedo, the divine orders
Of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors—Five-subunit knots used to hold
Cords together, for exciting stages of it, before the shortest of Psalms
A cell’s inscription—The bar trafficked in double folio; Casanova reflected the lead
Roof—Composure itself; an inconstant moon’s fullness remaking new tools—

Encasing the incendiary device; smothered on the Stone Gallery (1940)—The dome,
Hiroshima, August 6, 1945—Wakefulness in a tiny room; demolitions ordered
The Great Fire (c.1947), whose Imperial Naval Academy is distorted by a painter’s tools,
Panorama from Giudecca—Reserved in Guerlain’s Mitsuoko (1919), or a bright child holding
Her doomed British naval officer; the ripe peach then oakmoss dry down, a psalm

In a novel for travel, for waiting, with neurotransmitter to furnish the formal leads—
A yellow staining of fingers; nicotine moves embryonic caissons before innervation—A dome
Consecrated to all Gods; its poured concrete fortified by ashes—Rewound in marriage, Psalm 45—
For synapse, or conjunction, where the groups of people bar the way, la luna calante orders
The temperate earthstar to fire its spores—Excitatory and inhibitory spurs on hand-tooled
End plates impressing costs with refinement—Casanova’s snuff from the civet; its musk holding

Jaguars to camera traps—We covet their terminals; incisive ducts beyond the palate holding
Welding heat and synchrony—Areas passed over bristling furniture in the blackout, and lead
By Orion and the Pleiades, Berenice’s Hair—Pinpoints that would go out one by one, with tools
Imprinting apertures to near-complete saturation; senselessness—Conflagration in the Domus
Aurea; at risk of becoming an appendage of public works, neural infiltrate of the psalmist
Condensing the body exclusive of all others—All speech is an exposure, and the ordered

Suffer this tendency most; retraced down to the final fleshly inch—Texts at our marching orders
Feather of lead, bright smoke spun into radiation shielding and beta particles—Holding
Inhaled smoke, our lips drawing off the unguents—Sights of exiled streets and rooftops, the 5th psalm
Make your way straight before me—Dispersed in our own steam; nevertheless, being lead
By a silent concentration, a ligand-induced acetylene; tolerance and dependency our tools—
Isolated on the post-synaptic membrane, to wheel again in a brazen sea—Climbing the Dome’s

528 steps to the Golden Gallery, Casanova held the Bucintoro (1763)—Monstrances of pleasure domes,
Hostesses; each precarious performance—The ox-centaur’s Marriage with the Sea ordered
By the moon, my faithful witness—Retiring the last 14 years at Schloss Dux, among long-discounted tools
Of a memoirist, Casanova died the year (1789) the last ship was stripped of its gilt; no longer holding
Ceremony at Ascension—Sprinkle me with hyssop, and I will be clean—The readymade psalm
Clamped by opiates—Caffeine and nicotine electrify the flocking domes taking our palms’ lead


In working memory, a sense of emancipation, firing each rebuilt dome—Lead as by drowning,
Rattling thoughtlessly of split axons, as if these tools all but hold ramparts of our certainty—
Ordering outrage or lost epistles, when we should be read as a psalm—Reality was a wet thick thing alive in her mouth.




7 comments:

Σφιγξ said...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQhMiiHowCg

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-year-in-fungi-2015

Σφιγξ said...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/24/movies/emanuele-crialese-tackles-migration-in-terraferma.html?_r=0

Σφιγξ said...

We had a Code in the elevator from the cath lab, which required transcutaneous pacing...He went down in a second degree block, which is prone to devolving into a third degree block with atrial and ventricular dissociation of the upper and lower chambers. His rhythm was asystole without evidence of an escape rhythm. He came back. Food for thought about external pacer leads.* Not my patient but thanks to being nearby, disaster averted.

"Perfusing rhythm is maintained by a junctional or ventricular escape rhythm. Alternatively, the patient may suffer ventricular standstill leading to syncope (if self-terminating) or sudden cardiac death (if prolonged)."

https://litfl.com/av-block-3rd-degree-complete-heart-block/

Σφιγξ said...

*Requires a permanent pacemaker

Σφιγξ said...

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/6390/jewish/Chapter-90.htm

Σφιγξ said...

If I recall, the reference to the Torpedo originated in the third Balzac novel I read in translation, Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes as A Harlot High and Low (1838–1847). Esther is a Jewess and prostitute who is in love with a poet, Lucien, who loves her deeply, but she is unthinkable in his life of social climbing. Despite the bad things she does, she refuses to convert to Catholicism which is prompted by a villain Abbe Herrera/Vautrin (a conman leading Lucien). After a series of misadventures including the potential union with a miser, Baron von Nucingen, Esther secures the financial security to become respectable for her love, she fails. She commits suicide. It is revealed after her death that she was the heir apparent to a massive fortune.

The first novel I read was Lost Illusions (1837-1843), then: The Black Sheep (1842), Eugénie Grandet (1833), La Peau de chagrin (1831), La Cousine Bette (1846)...all because I read a Roland Barthes essay on Séraphîta (1834).

Σφιγξ said...

I have Ursule Mirouët (1841) in my to-read shelf alongside Leon Uris's Exodus (1958), which was hailed by the socialist and agnostic David Ben-Gurion as "propaganda".

Ursule is about the measures to obtain wealth and to get married with scheming relatives each trying to enrich themselves and launch their children, and so on and so on through the generations.