tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post3355324582802615627..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: The Ritual AspectUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-49620134582491541642015-04-04T07:54:04.124-07:002015-04-04T07:54:04.124-07:00I haven't been able to find my way to the carn...I haven't been able to find my way to the carnival proper for some time now. Does listening to the beeping sound made by idling garbage trucks count, I wonder?<br /><br />The spectacular and quite mysterious beauty of this morning's lunar event, to which I took pains to attend, seemed oddly festive in an ancient way, which I expect would have been attended communally by the native peoples who shared these hillsides with the animals before the palefaced lucre seekers showed up and desecrated everything -- but when I attempted to seize the moment and intercept a passing powerwalker chugging along furiously in serious sporting gear, so as to point out the celestial phenomenon, which for that matter was directly in front of him, though he stubbornly refused to look up at it, he failed to offer by way of response so much as a nod, nor a turn of the head, which was encased in some kind of headgear, perhaps VR, hereabouts you never know, in any case he looked a bit like My Favorite Martian, I suppose he couldn't hear me, and had no interest in any sort of reality that could not be considered virtual.<br /><br />I don't know, he had some kind of goggles. Looked a bit like a sherpa, curiously enough. Plodding furiously down the Mayhem Expressway in the dead quiet no-traffic Eclipse Morning. <br /><br />What I seem to be getting at is, is there such a thing as a solitary festival?TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-48545243451668392242015-04-04T04:49:44.376-07:002015-04-04T04:49:44.376-07:00But the festivities! When do the festivities begin...But the festivities! When do the festivities begin!?<br /><br />I think Guenon would have said: when do they end?...the carnival only makes sense against a backdrop of what isn't a carnival.<br />billoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10716970909272480118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-31119454706611650542015-04-04T03:51:54.922-07:002015-04-04T03:51:54.922-07:00That penitent is going to have a pointy little red...That penitent is going to have a pointy little red head in his selfie, methinks. But perhaps being different is overrated after all.<br /><br />At least the South Asian rituals that involve a bit of life lend themselves more readily to the Festival Aspect.<br /><br />Any ritual that includes life, colour, and no $$ bottom line is pretty much ok by me. <br /><br />But of course I'm doomed to be a housebound ritualist at best, and housebound rituals tend to be pretty drab.<br /><br />There are the little domestic rituals, of course. <br /><br />When you are ancient and useless and cohabit with four cats, in fact, at times it feels life is one endless ritual of tidying, peacemaking & c.<br /><br />But the festivities! When do the festivities begin!?TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-7811303247662379342015-04-04T00:30:43.643-07:002015-04-04T00:30:43.643-07:00Tom,
Rituals come easy to us. It is the virtues th...Tom,<br />Rituals come easy to us. It is the virtues that fuck everything up. Not without nostalgia can you look behind at each of those mandatory checkpoints in life, and wonder which one felt better. Nothing inspired about that. And I can only think of one reference from George's father in Seinfeld: How about a festivus for the rest of us.manik sharmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18055072451804840121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-32948674379034631822015-04-03T22:38:22.210-07:002015-04-03T22:38:22.210-07:00Mobile phone in the first picture. Classic!Mobile phone in the first picture. Classic!billoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10716970909272480118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-6707663004947245102015-04-03T12:34:51.934-07:002015-04-03T12:34:51.934-07:00Robert Vossler Keeley (September 4, 1929 – January...Robert Vossler Keeley (September 4, 1929 – January 9, 2015) had a 34-year career in the Foreign Service of the United States, from 1956 to 1989. He served three times as Ambassador: to Greece (1985–89), Zimbabwe (1980–84), and Mauritius (1976–78). In 1978–80 he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, in charge of southern and eastern Africa.<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_V._KeeleyL'Enfant de la Haute Merhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17122358316297267842noreply@blogger.com