tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post1811205872692390719..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Imaging (The White Horse)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-87470955514225654222013-11-16T04:13:07.120-08:002013-11-16T04:13:07.120-08:00Thanks, Harris. I can tell my Unknowns without a s...Thanks, Harris. I can tell my Unknowns without a scorecard. The post addresses the replacement of human interaction by machines. A development I can't but regard as deeply unfortunate, but that's just me; I'm aware there are people who are more attached to their Smartphones than to their partner, dog, cat or teddy bear. It seems this is regarded currently as normal behaviour. And that there are people who are fascinated with medical testing. A woman from Maine who's a professional photographer has posted photos from her project to take pictures of every machine that took pictures of her over the course of extensive cancer treatment. The pictures are terrible to behold; the machines won that round.<br /><br />The machines win every round.<br /><br />It was one of those mechanical testing days that resulted in this poem and post. <br /><br />The person who narrated the dialogic part of the evidence, having endured it, said "You wouldn't have lasted one minute in there." And she was so right. I still haven't gotten over the last time the machines were allowed to have at me (I had ceded volition), and there is a school of (twisted) thought that holds I still haven't gotten finished with paying for it, either. And I never even asked.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-62298171171433214882013-11-15T09:42:14.638-08:002013-11-15T09:42:14.638-08:00And that about sums it up. Amazing poetry there To...And that about sums it up. Amazing poetry there Tom, "Always an asymmetric warfare: freefalling" most striking with the refueling practice and the entire sequence of photographs. We are surely screwed but making the best of it. That other "unknown" was not me. I sign my unknown posts. Good to see your work as ever<br /><br />Harris SchiffUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15235344408979987198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-40463647179555347232013-11-15T05:56:56.164-08:002013-11-15T05:56:56.164-08:00Thanks, all.
You can squeeze
vulnerable parts o...Thanks, all.<br /> <br /><br />You can squeeze<br />vulnerable parts of a human body<br />into<br />or up against<br />but never tears from<br />a cold machine<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2013/11/wrapped-in-cellophane-and-isolated-from.html" rel="nofollow">Wrapped in cellophane and isolated from everything great</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-18369306585828585582013-11-14T09:13:05.261-08:002013-11-14T09:13:05.261-08:00Tom,
". . . from the front line, the imaging...Tom,<br /><br />". . . from the front line, the imaging<br /> center. . ."<br /><br />"a sad a scarey trip" perhaps, but lovely -- Stephanie Young's photographs, for instance.<br /><br />And yes Curtis, "A little invulnerability now and then wouldn't be disagreeable."<br /><br /><br />STEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-63882209410997311462013-11-14T05:33:35.591-08:002013-11-14T05:33:35.591-08:00"The frailty's the better part of us.&quo..."The frailty's the better part of us." I sort of agree with the sentiment, but sort of don't, which won't surprise anyone. A little invulnerability now and then wouldn't be disagreeable. CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-85021056633192150472013-11-13T13:32:50.213-08:002013-11-13T13:32:50.213-08:00The body in its frailty and the machine. The frail...The body in its frailty and the machine. The frailty's the better part of us. <br /><br />Much of the medical profession doesn't know what to do with our humanness. Not all of them, thank goodness.<br /><br />"And no one's saying a word"Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-74927094647697942852013-11-13T05:37:12.100-08:002013-11-13T05:37:12.100-08:00There are unexpected diverting beauties to be foun...There are unexpected diverting beauties to be found in everything, but this is a sad and scary trip.<br /><br />CurtisUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01453842393788270587noreply@blogger.com