tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post2523474051432451472..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: HumilityUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-15167605057894614692012-10-02T22:52:22.297-07:002012-10-02T22:52:22.297-07:00That's a marvelous photo, Bryan. Many thanks f...That's a marvelous photo, Bryan. Many thanks for it!TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-59539773296652014112012-10-02T20:00:53.982-07:002012-10-02T20:00:53.982-07:00I google searched myself and found this picture th...I google searched myself and found this picture that I took a long time ago. Glad to see someone appreciates it.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06154959892961268121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-19785341012253154562010-07-06T09:08:17.255-07:002010-07-06T09:08:17.255-07:00That's celestially beautiful.
The chimneyswee...That's <a href="http://www.boosey.com/pages/Opera/composer/sample_detail.asp?sampleid=11167" rel="nofollow">celestially beautiful</a>.<br /><br />The chimneysweep weeps because he does not sleep. <br /><br />Perfect water baby music.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-45930143457828100862010-07-05T19:31:01.647-07:002010-07-05T19:31:01.647-07:00Humming and humming now. Benjamin Britten's Th...Humming and humming now. Benjamin Britten's The Little Sweep.<br /><br /><i>O why do you weep?</i><br /><br /><br />http://tinyurl.com/36ubron<br /><br />Underwater music.<br />xoRadish Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06534752971317927559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-40406101141291244612010-05-16T02:39:04.327-07:002010-05-16T02:39:04.327-07:00At the risk of getting further and further from ha...At the risk of getting further and further from happiness here... if the Tykwer film about the compulsions of scent was a laugher, in that sense it wasn't a patch on <a href="http://memoryanddesire.typepad.com/blog/2008/02/assias-dior-a-m.html" rel="nofollow">this</a>.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-40375904006601312532010-05-16T02:34:08.825-07:002010-05-16T02:34:08.825-07:00Yes, Zeph, the ephemeral quality of the fragrance ...Yes, Zeph, the ephemeral quality of the fragrance of plants -- perhaps the word "ineffable" has a usefulness after all.<br /><br />It is this quality that was the subject of Hudson's lovely essay about the Evening Primrose, which treats scent somewhat the way taste is treated by Proust.<br /><br />"A lost sensation affects us in some such way as the accidental discovery of a store of gold, hidden away by ourselves in some past period of our life and forgotten; or as it would affect us to be met face to face by some dear friend, long absent and supposed to be dead."<br /><br />(I wonder by the way if you ever had a look at the Tom Tykwer film Perfume? It was pretty universally regarded as ridiculous, and with cause, certainly; still, the premise provoked a bit of thought, as does anything vaguely creepy... like say rat's tails?)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-1635897977455043632010-05-15T15:31:26.162-07:002010-05-15T15:31:26.162-07:00Apparently, for perfume-makers the scent of violet...Apparently, for perfume-makers the scent of violets presents a particular challenge, because in real life it's a fleeting perfume which humans are unable to keep smelling for very long...so even if you make a perfect chemical facsimile of the scent of violets, it won't <i>be</i> the scent of violets because it won't be impermanent. This might be a metaphor for happiness, or not.<br /><br />This is a lovely piece, the image in the second section is superb.Zephirinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02809525772159756122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-60407223914988215232010-05-15T09:48:56.112-07:002010-05-15T09:48:56.112-07:00Aditya
That is beautiful, reflective, shimmering ...Aditya<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZUB5SYyTxE" rel="nofollow">That</a> is beautiful, reflective, shimmering music to fill an absence...TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-60471940190187347252010-05-14T09:55:38.123-07:002010-05-14T09:55:38.123-07:00This is such a beautiful post. Liked it thoroughly...This is such a beautiful post. Liked it thoroughly.<br /><br />I stumbled on to a certain Bosques De Mi Mente months back. If not on paper the guy is an absolute poet on piano. <br /><br />He has stayed anonymous on the web. Sells his music for free. Sells would not be the right word considering that it drastically undermines the efforts of this guy.<br />Not for money, not for fame.<br /><br />To talk of humility. Maybe.<br /><br />"There are a great many things in the world which you never heard of; and a great many more which nobody ever heard of"<br /> <br />These last few days the clouds have been wonderful in this part of the world. <br /><br />Just thought I would drop in and let you know, Tom. For it had been a long time. And time, was not in the best of the frequencies in this part of the world, if that is how i can describe it.<br /><br />Pleasure reading this one.<br /><br /><br />Aditya.adityahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16078144194220301083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-50137631046006375392010-05-13T07:38:10.437-07:002010-05-13T07:38:10.437-07:00Stephen,
Yes, these extending meditations on time...Stephen,<br /><br />Yes, these extending meditations on time have now segued into the three "Night Train" posts ("different/earlier period[s]"), above this -- Nabokov, Proust, Céline.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-49813575251727093752010-05-13T06:56:12.762-07:002010-05-13T06:56:12.762-07:00Tom,
more thanks for this -- "steeped throug...Tom,<br /><br />more thanks for this -- "steeped through and through in the time which the course of your own existence has conferred on you. . . ." and now, as another day rolls in, another instance --<br /><br />5.13<br /><br />grey light in sky above still black ridge,<br />faint silver of planet above pine branch<br />in foreground, wave sounding in channel<br /><br /> structure more than can be,<br /> whose actual relation<br /><br /> period exclusive, different<br /> earlier period, point<br /><br />cloudless blue sky reflected in channel,<br />cormorants flapping across toward pointSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-19069180201126179492010-05-13T03:59:23.635-07:002010-05-13T03:59:23.635-07:00Thanks friends. Would say I am humbled by the kind...Thanks friends. Would say I am humbled by the kindness, but I was that already. (Another long night on the sea floor.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-39678864720595300362010-05-12T11:40:08.205-07:002010-05-12T11:40:08.205-07:00very much like.very much like.gamefacedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16562522181852339258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-70872029000210360542010-05-12T11:19:14.818-07:002010-05-12T11:19:14.818-07:00si! line...
leaning on the lion its easy to say
t...si! line...<br /><br />leaning on the lion its easy to say<br />that energy is nil<br />but in the nile<br />the alligator<br />or makara<br /><br />it bites!<br /><br />pinching the loaf<br /><br />foaling<br />fouling<br /><br />au<br /><br />aud<br /><br />aus<br /><br />its comes out<br />it comes out<br /><br />the forth dimension!<br /><br />WHAT AN ASS!<br /><br />as a snake<br />issa litter-ally<br /><br />endless.<br /><br />yes?<br /><br />Si!<br /><br />line!Phanero Noemikonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-57684629075702168332010-05-12T10:55:33.264-07:002010-05-12T10:55:33.264-07:00Speaking of intrepid biologists was it Céline who ...Speaking of intrepid biologists was it Céline who said man on latrine is <a href="http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=417924&gsub=65186" rel="nofollow">made in God's image</a>?TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-85685560951502169502010-05-12T10:48:13.736-07:002010-05-12T10:48:13.736-07:00Well, Tom, you see, I even have a problem with usi...Well, Tom, you see, I even have a problem with using the word 'God" any more because it reiterates the <br /><br />term as terminus problem<br />which i enjoy supporting anti-thetically (hehe)<br /><br />God = Generative Oddity<br />or Generally Audacious<br />or<br /><br />Oh Goody!<br /><br />or even (with a nod to our hillbilly)<br /><br />Oh Shit!<br /><br />as in <br /><br />Good old dump.<br /><br />crap.<br /><br />light (c) as rap.<br />its par for the course.<br /><br />[see ours]<br />"crooked roads."<br /><br />and my card?<br /><br />OuchterlonyPhanero Noemikonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-44781643174909379082010-05-12T10:39:43.273-07:002010-05-12T10:39:43.273-07:00Well okay, of course, the name for that little giz...Well okay, of course, the name for that little gizmo in Gray's is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gray892.png" rel="nofollow">plica semilunaris</a>. (Return after return of the repressed... the hour grows late.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-70110949428659110282010-05-12T10:34:08.247-07:002010-05-12T10:34:08.247-07:00Lanny,
Maybe it's the echo in "ichor&quo...Lanny,<br /><br />Maybe it's the echo in "ichor" but with your words drifts in a memory of an explanation of biological fate developed by a high school teacher I once had, who passed off on us unsuspecting urban endarkened ones a theory that birds, like this <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Haliaeetus_leucocephalus_LC0198.jpg" rel="nofollow">bald eagle</a>, urinate through their nictitating membranes. <br /><br />The idea was that God (fate) had deliberately fiddled the strings that separated these "lower" creatures from us, and made them pee through their eyeballs as a mark of their fallenness. <br /><br />When I came soon thereafter to learn however that this was malign propagandistic nonsense, and that the human plica undularis (if that's what it's name is, that little vestigial eye-fold or eye-flap), is in fact an evolutionary development of the nictitating membrane, and that this is not an advance in any way, and that in any case birds do not pee through their eyes nor weep through them either for that matter, the entirely hogwash nature of that brand of scholastic education came clear.<br /><br />Still later when my own lacrimal punctum collapsed I realized that the whole evolutionary story is nothing but tears in the rain anyway.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-38751358863558577622010-05-12T10:11:17.165-07:002010-05-12T10:11:17.165-07:00Seguro. Is what it is.
Actually there is this sen...Seguro. Is what it is.<br /><br />Actually there is this sense here that happiness was a passing acquaintance whose features are now only vaguely recalled and with whom further consorting is ruled out due to one's age group. Not to say over-rated just out of reach.<br /><br />Still pleasant to wave from the shore every now and then though, as it goes by, ever more distant, dwindling, a blur on the horizon, a splot.<br /><br />Cheers then!TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-63707795456831768222010-05-12T10:09:12.379-07:002010-05-12T10:09:12.379-07:00Well, and this is why Pound is so problematic, he ...Well, and this is why Pound is so problematic, he takes conspiracy so literally, and finds a literal object,<br />or is it a ruse all along.<br /><br />If naming, and group affiliations themselves are ruses..<br /><br />then Jew is just as likely to mean jaw, and then the message becomes<br /><br />all assemblage is both a war and a congress.<br /><br />hear that subtle eros in conspiracy<br /><br />kunst-aspire-eros-see-sea<br /><br />circe<br /><br />asp- pyre<br /><br />the paradox of syntaxis<br />is that extropy and entropy<br />here in this place<br />often wear each other's masks<br /><br />where one system seems to lead <br />to the other depending<br />on perception<br /><br />in other words what is democracy actually, what was communism?<br /><br />usura<br /><br />is as much the problem of usury<br />as it is <br /><br />use your ray<br /><br />as if each body<br />each human body<br />were a sort of photon<br />involved in myriad<br /><br />mechanical de/assemblagings<br /><br />mi-c/h-and-ichor<br /><br />the song of carbon<br />like the blood<br />of the gods<br /><br />this making<br />like a loom<br />of fatePhanero Noemikonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-6443296137917233802010-05-12T09:57:59.948-07:002010-05-12T09:57:59.948-07:00The fact that it could equally be a picture of unh...The fact that it could equally be a picture of unhappiness is exactly why it hits me in such a way. Both. Neither. It just is.Robbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12312524900784740898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-22602958451286831222010-05-12T09:53:23.764-07:002010-05-12T09:53:23.764-07:00Lanny,
Funny you should say that. Puppet + d-war-...Lanny,<br /><br />Funny you should say that. Puppet + d-war-f, I mean. The tele-gnosis is top-shelf, as is said in hockey... years having been expended (probably the verb more properly would be wasted) here, on a sort of pseudo Arthurian chronicle about a hillbilly savant whose every thought and act are controlled by puppet dwarves. Very annoying for him and not such a great work either, after all that trouble (Doofus Voodoo, aka The Spell), but your words remind me once again that it was true all along. <br /><br />Up mindcontrolled chessplaying hillbilly savants everywhere!<br /><br />At the sea floor maybe even.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-8938751371693411962010-05-12T09:28:02.635-07:002010-05-12T09:28:02.635-07:00This is amazing Tom. Still has me reeling. I have ...This is amazing Tom. Still has me reeling. I have always been susceptible to these literary conspiracies. Isn't there a puppet thematics in Plato? And Chess<br /><br />ah, carbon, hydrogen, carbon, hydrogen, Is Es..<br /><br />We must never chatter wrong, a dance of war must always begin in the hands<br /><br />d-war-f<br /><br />the tapestry is fraying, frayed.<br /><br />Bee knot afraid.<br /><br />not be undone by bubbles<br />in the see<br /><br />syntaxis an aisle<br />with many shelves.Phanero Noemikonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-68336133896451414502010-05-12T09:02:44.734-07:002010-05-12T09:02:44.734-07:00My new picture of happiness: a warm, safe Buddha r...My new picture of happiness: a warm, safe Buddha robo-gut.<br /><br />(Then again, it could equally be a picture of unhappiness, and no one would ever know it, and possibly that wouldn't even matter.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-17627856490829994362010-05-12T08:33:14.292-07:002010-05-12T08:33:14.292-07:00This hits me right in my Buddha gut, where I like ...This hits me right in my Buddha gut, where I like it. Makes me feel warm and safe somehow.Robbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12312524900784740898noreply@blogger.com