tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post1299908947041236670..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: D. H. Lawrence: Dies IraeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-64580524025332608492013-04-06T12:53:14.158-07:002013-04-06T12:53:14.158-07:00..I like this...especialy this line:
" we kno... ..I like this...especialy this line:<br />" we know not how to live wordless. "Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-9264466662239738622013-04-06T05:41:52.488-07:002013-04-06T05:41:52.488-07:00That desiccation of the seed is the sort of metaph...That desiccation of the seed is the sort of metaphor Lawrence is invoking here, in his figure he represents his sense of the weakening of the human "stock", in his time.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-67423493799458933582013-04-06T05:16:50.249-07:002013-04-06T05:16:50.249-07:00well
Monsanto has genetically engineered their see...well<br />Monsanto has genetically engineered their seed<br />'stash' (especially corn) and has copyrighted/patented <br />all of them...<br /><br />and if any stray seeds happen to blow into someone's<br />Family Farm<br /><br />Monsanto sues them out of existence....<br /><br />pretty soon ALL corn will be Corn Clone or<br /><br />King Korn Klone<br /><br />look the same, taste the same, and carry the same<br />genetically engineered poisons ...<br /><br />imagine corn that is turned into sugar or into gasoline... and what little is left we feed to the pigs<br />and the chickens and the cows ...and some of the people who think corn grows in a can<br />and eat all of that .... c.r.a.p. !<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-24478301059787761062013-04-05T23:58:53.655-07:002013-04-05T23:58:53.655-07:00(O well, perhaps it was merely a garden gnome that...(O well, perhaps it was merely a garden gnome that lost its way among the tall apps... for they have gone to seed... those Danish gardeners really do leave something to be desired... even though desire is dead... and by the by, what's that smell of rot wafted upon the night air here in the new virtual Denmark, I wonder? Surely that can't be caused by an ill wind issuing from the software recycling bin at Menlo Park! My heavens! Who wants to be connected up with THAT?!?)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-87820635475556617632013-04-05T23:39:24.381-07:002013-04-05T23:39:24.381-07:00(And as Nora reminds us that the new Facebook remi...(And as Nora reminds us that the new Facebook reminds us, Horatio thinks he saw a ghost.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-48570434812953318222013-04-05T23:35:57.616-07:002013-04-05T23:35:57.616-07:00Even the old emotions are finished,
we have worn t...Even the old emotions are finished,<br />we have worn them out.<br />And desire is dead.<br />And the end of all things is inside us.<br /><br />And we have the new technology.<br />And the old technology is superceded by the new technology overnight. <br />We have bought Android.<br />We are gods.<br />And all the things we have made have been turned into our offshore bank accounts.<br />And your suspension of disbelief makes this possible.<br />And we are connected.<br />And we are dead. <br />And we are connected with you.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-68482667613025583032013-04-05T23:22:09.304-07:002013-04-05T23:22:09.304-07:00"[The new Facebook] Home isn't a phone or..."[The new Facebook] Home isn't a phone or operating system, and it's more than just an app. Home is a completely new experience... [It's] the soul of your phone", Zuckerberg said.<br /><br />More than ever, humans would be connected, said Zuckerberg. "A lot of the world thinks being connected is frivolous. It's not. It's who we are."<br /><br />Ay, there's the rub.<br /><br /><br />O, that this too too solid flesh would melt<br />Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!<br />Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d<br />His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!<br />How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,<br />Seem to me all the uses of this world!<br />Fie on’t! ah fie! ’tis an unweeded garden,<br />That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature<br />Possess it merely. That it should come to this!<br /><br />Hamlet, I.iiTChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-70043524569577604682013-04-05T22:46:54.234-07:002013-04-05T22:46:54.234-07:002013, Huuklyeand Cinquor, from Cultivation of Hard...2013, Huuklyeand Cinquor, from <i>Cultivation of Hardy Stocks</i>:<br /><br />mind you, the seed <br />that begets, begets <br />best when scattered.vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-63944568085899734402013-04-05T19:33:03.637-07:002013-04-05T19:33:03.637-07:00Go to seed (verb):
(of a plant) To pass from flow...Go to seed (verb):<br /><br />(of a plant) To pass from flowering or ripening to the formation of seeds.<br /> <br />1911, Jack London, Adventure:<br /><br />Wild tomatoes, which had gone to seed or been remorselessly hoed out from the beginning of Berande, were foraged for salads, soups, and sauces.<br /><br /><br />(figuratively, by extension) To deteriorate; to decline into an unkempt or debased condition. <br /><br />1898, Eliot Gregory, Worldly Ways and Byways:<br /><br />But the "frump" will let herself and all her surroundings go to seed, not from humbleness of mind or an overwhelming sense of her own unworthiness, but in pure complacent conceit.<br /><br />1919, Jerome K. Jerome, All Roads Lead to Calvary:<br /><br />But suppose I hang about till eighty and die a childish old gentleman with a mind all gone to seed.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-58535344711802236162013-04-05T12:24:52.305-07:002013-04-05T12:24:52.305-07:00There is something about growth in the word "...There is something about growth in the word "seed" - an interesting ambiguity. However, what came to my mind was the phrase "gone to seed", a dried up, fruitless profligacy. But then I always was a glass half empty sort.Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-69210840266550668802013-04-05T10:47:49.840-07:002013-04-05T10:47:49.840-07:00"we are ghosts, we are seed;" Am I wrong..."we are ghosts, we are seed;" Am I wrong to read that with a hint of optimism? (I mean, the seed will grow into something, right?). <br /><br />Of course, "Dies Irae" doesn't really lend itself to optimism, but isn't any apocalypse also an unveiling? (Like, say, the unveiling of a new smart phone. Oh, I'm not helping my case). <br /><br />Oh well. There's always <a href="http://www.angelfire.com/art2/antwerplettuce/hamlet.html" rel="nofollow">this.</a><br />Norahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14439557611640319928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-1076102092212724892013-04-05T09:08:24.154-07:002013-04-05T09:08:24.154-07:00http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/26/d-h-l...http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/26/d-h-lawrences-war-poems-to-be-published-dirty-words-and-all/Dalriadahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12004167335881293080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-6294405481353072622013-04-05T07:27:07.542-07:002013-04-05T07:27:07.542-07:00No way back
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find me dra...No way back<br /><br />today<br /><br />Not any day<br />where<br /><br />find me drawn<br />in starts and fits<br /> begin to<br /><br />kick<br />though the mind sways<br />under<br /><br /> Moon in the creaky branches<br /><br /><br />What you see is what you get<br />yet what you get depends on what you give<br /><br />Is both the good news<br />and the bad<br /><br /><br />Some writers will make me want to respond and write and others just shut me up Lawrence is the of the former (for good or bad)<br />Dalriadahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12004167335881293080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-92067855241427655362013-04-05T05:14:09.791-07:002013-04-05T05:14:09.791-07:00Verdi: Dies Irae (Day of Wrath), from Requiem
Mor...<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up0t2ZDfX7E" rel="nofollow">Verdi: Dies Irae (Day of Wrath), from Requiem</a><br /><br />More poems by Lawrence:<br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/dh-lawrence-baby-tortoise.html" rel="nofollow">D. H. Lawrence: Baby Tortoise</a><br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/d-h-lawrence-humming-bird.html" rel="nofollow">D. H. Lawrence: Humming-Bird</a><br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/d-h-lawrence-independence-day-annual.html" rel="nofollow">D. H. Lawrence: Independence Day (the annual pleasantry)</a><br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/d-h-lawrence-like-snake-marks-on-sand.html" rel="nofollow">D. H. Lawrence: Like snake marks on the sand</a><br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/d-h-lawrence-relativity.html" rel="nofollow">D. H. Lawrence: Relativity</a><br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/d-h-lawrence-sorrow.html" rel="nofollow">D. H. Lawrence: Sorrow</a><br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/d-h-lawrence-grudge-of-old.html" rel="nofollow">D. H. Lawrence: The Grudge of the Old</a><br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/d-h-lawrence-to-women-as-far-as-im.html" rel="nofollow">D. H. Lawrence: To Women, As Far As I'm Concerned</a><br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/d-h-lawrence-whatever-man-makes.html" rel="nofollow">D. H. Lawrence: Whatever Man Makes</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com