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Monday, May 11th, 2020

🦋 Ten books

So the ten books that first occur to me as "books that have profoundly influenced my worldview" (whatever those words mean) are, and I posted them in the order that they occurred to me yesterday and today:

1. Snow (Orhan Pamuk, Turkey 2002)
2. Bicameral Mind (Jaynes, US 1976)
3. INFINITE JEST (dfw, US 1996)
4. El arte de la resurrección (Hernán Rivera Letelier, Chile 2010)
5. Bleak House (Dickens, UK 1853)
6. The Autograph Man (Smith, UK 2002)
7. Manituana (Wu Ming, Italy 2007)
8. Debt (Graeber, US 2011)
9. Regeneration Through Violence (Slotkin, US 1973)
10. The Unknown University (Bolaño, Chile 2011)

I'm happy with this list. I would recommend any of these books highly, were a friend to come to me looking for reading material. Maybe 9. should trade places with #11, "Blindness" by Saramago. I have blogged many of these reads, not all.

posted afternoon of May 11th, 2020: Respond
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Sunday, March 29th, 2020

Reread. Go back. The letters,
Static, swerve, collide;
Shatter.
Your mental notes,
Your scribbled annotations
Useless now, incomprehensible;
Crystal edifice of abstraction brought low.

posted morning of March 29th, 2020: Respond
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Tuesday, March third, 2020

🦋 worn away

I am not making much headway with understanding the rest of the poem, but this image from Ernesto Mejía Sánchez' "Long Play/Boleros" leaps off the page at me:

TU ROSTRO se borra como el de la moneda en las yemas
    del avaro

YOUR FEATURES worn away like those of the face of a coin
     in a miser's fist

posted evening of March third, 2020: Respond
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Saturday, December 21st, 2019

🦋 the raven rag

the "the raven" rag for tin-can cello:

posted evening of December 21st, 2019: Respond
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Sunday, November 24th, 2019

🦋 Two Birds

Atman does not call himself "I"; Jiva does.
Jiva also calls himself "you," believing
that he is speaking to Atman.

Here's another one from TMK's Imaginary String Band.

↻...done

posted afternoon of November 24th, 2019: Respond
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Tuesday, October 8th, 2019

🦋 Meaningless

I'm interested in the relationship between Asemic Writing/Logograms and Sound Poetry. Sound Poetry is to spoken language what Logograms is to written language: it succeeds by sounding superficially like language but without conveying meaning (at least, in the way that language traditionally conveys meaning). I'm interested in finding more examples of Sound Poetry; all I really have on tap currently are Altazor and this piece by Hugo Ball:

posted morning of October 8th, 2019: 3 responses
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Monday, September 16th, 2019

🦋 Jiva and Atman

Jiva eats the fruit of the tree: Jiva is bound to the world. Jiva is part of the world.
Atman does not eat but watches.
Atman links Jiva to the supreme unity.

posted morning of September 16th, 2019: 2 responses
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Sunday, July 14th, 2019

🦋 Motto

Every beginner ought to be given, as you have surely received, the tools of the craft. Or else one must beg, borrow or steal them. (Better still to fashion one's own...)

--Breyten Breytenbach

posted afternoon of July 14th, 2019: Respond
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Saturday, March 30th, 2019

🦋 Authentic Song is Arson

"Altazor/ Arson" with thanks and apologies to Vicente Huidobro.

posted evening of March 30th, 2019: Respond
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Tuesday, March 19th, 2019

🦋 Altazor in translation

A bilingual edition (the translation is Weinberger's) is online at the website of Editorial Pequeño Dios.

posted afternoon of March 19th, 2019: Respond

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