TOM CLARK: Condor Wing 12: Tote Vögel, blutige Bären / Hölderlin: "a Command... That all must enter in" / Me in my cool new xmas sweater crashed out on your porch awning (a child nightmare)

A child nightmare (leaving Afghanistan border, 2017) | by Davide Albani

A child nightmare (leaving Afghanistan border, 2017) [uzbekistan]: photo by Davide Albani, 19 December 2017

Kotoyo, Chika, and Hikono, Omachi, Kamakura, Dec 2017 | by Shin Noguchi

Kotoyo, Chika, and Hikono, Omachi, Kamakura, Dec 2017 at 10 am: eight year-old daughter -> elementary school-ing three year-old daughter -> takoyaki-ing 11 month-old daughter -> eat-in.. zzz…: photo by Shin Noguchi, 22 December 2017

Untitled [Broadway North, Hagerstown, Maryland]: photo by Patrick, November 2014

Untitled: photo by Larry Cohen, 17 December 2017

Untitled: photo by Yuro De Iuliis, 3 December 2017

Geneva (2016): photo by Suresh Naganathan, 22 December 2017

DSC05196: photo by Sotiris Lamprou, 7 December 2017

DSC08349-stavrossstam: photo by Stavros Stamatiou, 25 November 2017

Untitled | San Francisco 2017: photo by Ken Walton, 27 September 2017

DSC_9078: photo by ilan Ben yehuda, 28 September 2017

Tote Vögel, blutige Bären: Bizarre Weihnachtsgrußkarten @derStandardat: image via ZEITPUNKTE @zeitpunkte, 22 December 2017

Untitled [Barcelona]: photo by Marcelo Caballero, 13 December 2017

Untitled [Barcelona]: photo by Marcelo Caballero, 13 December 2017
Foto: Nova Scotia Archives/Public Domain "Hearty Christmas greetings" mit rauchende Fröschen, die auf dem Rücken liegen. - derstandard.at/2000070632684/Tote-Voegel-blutige-Baeren-Bizarre-Weihnachtsgrusska
Foto: Nova Scotia Archives/Public Domain "Hearty Christmas greetings" mit rauchende Fröschen, die auf dem Rücken liegen. - derstandard.at/2000070632684/Tote-Voegel-blutige-Baeren-Bizarre-Weihnachtsgrussk

Clashes east of Gaza City near the border with Israel on Friday.: photo by Mohammed Saber/EPA, 22 December 2017

Mandatory Credit: Photo by MOHAMMED SABER/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock (9294450v) Palestinian protesters during clashes near the border with Israel, against US President decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, in the east of Gaza City, 15 December 2017. Two Palestinians were killed during the clashes in the east of Gaza Strip. US president Donald J. Trump on 06 December announced he is recognizing Jerusalem as the Israel capital and will relocate the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Clashes in East Gaza, --- - 15 Dec 2017

Palestinian protesters clashed with Israeli police across the West Bank and near the Gaza Strip on Friday as fallout continued over President Trump’s announcement last week recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital.: photo by Mohammed Saber/EPA/Shutterstock, 22 December 2017

Palestinian protesters carry a wounded comrade during clashes with Israeli soldiers near the border fence east of Gaza City: photo by AFP, 23 December 2017

An Israeli border guard is confronted by a Palestinian protester during clashes north of Ramallah.: photo by AFP, 23 December 2017

NYC, 2017 | DSC01691: photo by dirty harrry, 19 June 2017

#12: photo by Sirawit Kuwattananont, 7 August 2017

Untitled [Dhaka]: photo by Muhammad Imam Hasan, 29 January 2016

Untitled: photo by Barry Talis, 9 October 2016

DSC_5242 | halake ceremony haircut: photo by ilan Ben yehuda, 13 May 2017

DSC_5242 | halake ceremony haircut: photo by ilan Ben yehuda, 13 May 2017

Queens, 2016 / IMG_0990 | by dirtyharrry

Queens, 2016 | IMG_0990: photo by dirty harrry, 3 July 2017

Untitled: photo by ashnolo, 3 December 2017

Jeffersonville, NY, USA. October 2017 | by Victor M. Perez

Jeffersonville, NY, USA. October 2017.: photo by Victor M. Pérez, 10 October 2017

Friedrich Hölderlin: "Reif sind..."

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Pinax of Persephone and Hades on the throne, found in the holy shrine of Persephone at Locri in the district Mannella. Locri was part of Magna Graecia and is situated on the coast of the Ionian Sea in Calabria, Italy: image by AlMare, September 2002 (Museo Nazionale Archeologico, Reggio Di Calabria, Italy)

Ripe are, dipped in fire, cooked

The fruits and proved upon the earth and a Command it is

That all must enter in, as snakes,

Prophetic, dreaming upon

The hills of heaven. And much

As on the bent shoulders

A load of logs

Must be retained. But evil are

The ways. For errantly

Like wild horses, run the constrained

Elements and the ancient

Orders of the earth. And always

Toward unboundedness goes out longing. Much however must

Be kept. And fidelity is required.

Forward however nor back will

We look. And allow ourselves to be rocked, like

A light boat at sea.

While... Hölderlin's technique, which is tempered by Greek, is not lacking in boldly formed hypotactic constructions, still the parataxes are striking -- artificial disturbances that evade the logical hierarchy of a subordinating syntax. Hölderlin is irresistibly drawn to such constructions. The transformation of language into a serial order whose elements are linked differently than in the judgment is musiclike.

**-- Theodor Adorno: from: Parataxis: On Hölderlin's Late Poetry, a talk given at the annual conference of the Hölderlin-Gesellschaft, Berlin, 7 June 1963**

Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843): "Reif sind..." (Ripe are the fruits), Hymnal Draft for Mnemosyne (Third Version), 1803 or 1805/1806 [?], English version by TC

In this Friday, Nov. 20, 2017 photo, a sooty, dust-covered terracotta statue of Greek mythological hero Hercules, a son of Zeus, stands on top of a burning furnace next to an antefix in Haralambos Goumas' sculpture and ceramic workshop, in the Egaleo suburb of Athens.: photo by Giannakouris/AP, 20 November 2017

Uzbekistan, 2017: photo by Davide Albani, 14 August 2017

Astonishing drone image by @paulaphoto shows the vast Kutupalong #refugee camp in #Bangladesh housing some of the #Rohingya who have fled persecution and violence in #Myanmar: image via SundayTimesPictures@STPictures, 22 December 2017

Untitled: photo by ashnolo, 6 December 2017

TOM CLARK

Sunday, 24 December 2017

Condor Wing 12: Tote Vögel, blutige Bären / Hölderlin: "a Command... That all must enter in" / Me in my cool new xmas sweater crashed out on your porch awning (a child nightmare)

**-- Theodor Adorno: from: Parataxis: On Hölderlin's Late Poetry, a talk given at the annual conference of the Hölderlin-Gesellschaft, Berlin, 7 June 1963**

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