tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post3481521832711928977..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: The ShiningUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-2842222910039545672013-01-30T09:59:33.346-08:002013-01-30T09:59:33.346-08:00Our friend the poet Fred Smith provides this reali...Our friend the poet Fred Smith provides this reality check:<br /><br />"As for Japan’s snow monkeys, they’re an endangered species, too close to highways, hit by cars and trucks. As well as 'loved' too much by people. When all they want is to be left alone to soak in their pools of hot water. Have read they’re a cantankerous lot and not loveable at all."TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-83038418196058158792013-01-30T09:43:52.948-08:002013-01-30T09:43:52.948-08:00Ours too. Both sides, in fact.Ours too. Both sides, in fact.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-87568031636606204052013-01-30T08:58:11.023-08:002013-01-30T08:58:11.023-08:00Oh, man, such amazing photos. I don't want to ...Oh, man, such amazing photos. I don't want to get all anthropomorphic, but these guys seem a lot more intelligent than my next door neighbor.tpwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05909239000589253931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-26671456512023905612013-01-29T06:01:02.885-08:002013-01-29T06:01:02.885-08:00Paradoxes seem all too easily taken for granted th...Paradoxes seem all too easily taken for granted these days.<br /><br />That brassneck quality of the pre Socratic was surely intellectual nutriment for poets once, e.g. the young rebellious ex Catholic Donne -- ressentiment du paradoxe. <br /><br />Internal spiritual torsions strung upon high tension lines charged with scholastic riddling and fiddling.<br /><br />These hot tub monkeys look far too intelligent for that sort of foolery and bother, however.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-90320400826826627232013-01-29T03:59:27.940-08:002013-01-29T03:59:27.940-08:00interesting...amazing photographs!interesting...amazing photographs!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-25404946561853967942013-01-28T15:00:22.342-08:002013-01-28T15:00:22.342-08:00The writing plays up the time we work with. We nee...The writing plays up the time we work with. We need a bit of Zeno's brassneck now.<br /><br />The stage direction in the third paragraph throws us out of duration up to the heart of that beautiful, warm-blooded light. Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-8603455531035300402013-01-28T12:54:30.420-08:002013-01-28T12:54:30.420-08:00I can't stop coming back to this today (it'...I can't stop coming back to this today (it's like my little arrow is a compass needle that tugs back no matter where I turn). Thanks, Tom.Norahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14439557611640319928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-2333812501585125842013-01-28T09:45:57.519-08:002013-01-28T09:45:57.519-08:00However we may choose to read the expressions -- ...However we may choose to read the expressions -- impassive, contemplative, anciently wise... or possibly just the slightest bit bored? -- it's hard to deny that does look a very creaturely way to get through the winter.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-27303529539004340292013-01-28T09:03:46.338-08:002013-01-28T09:03:46.338-08:00What remarkable photographs.What remarkable photographs.Maureenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13290283101378474845noreply@blogger.com