tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post4049453421916308361..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Multiverse (Blanqui: L'éternité par les astres)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-56331943165059908102009-12-24T04:04:01.648-08:002009-12-24T04:04:01.648-08:00No one I'd rather have a drive around the Mult...No one I'd rather have a drive around the Multiverse with than a terrific poet like you, Aditya--better than any Kerouackian roadtrip that would be--but I don't know that I'll have the time.<br /><br />In any case, I will leave the keys to you. Send me a postcard from beyond the event horizon. (Or have one of your doubles do it...)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-1567453988246126852009-12-23T20:00:00.204-08:002009-12-23T20:00:00.204-08:00Fantastic thoughts there, Tom. Future holds the ke...Fantastic thoughts there, Tom. Future holds the key. Wait, shall we?adityahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16078144194220301083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-61314205302908012672009-12-22T03:24:58.040-08:002009-12-22T03:24:58.040-08:00Zeph,
That remarkable Browning poem: was ever mem...Zeph,<br /><br />That remarkable Browning poem: was ever memory quite so honestly and unromantically seen as quite so depleted in its uses for poetry? (Though of course Browning DID get this poem out of his memory failure, a clever having of your cake and eating it too when you think of it.) <br /><br />How accurate that is really. In one's curmudgeonly moods one can't help suspecting a good half of the rapturous and inspiring "evocative" memories one finds in poems of being, if not entirely invented, then at least helped along a bit by the convenience of the "poetic occasion".<br /><br />Browning is said to have originally reacted with astonishment and awe when meeting the man who had met Shelley. The man is said to have then laughed at him for this reaction.<br /><br />"Well, I forget the rest."<br /><br />One presumes the figure in question was "THE" Shelley rather than one of an endless collection of knock-offs, maddeningly escaping over the garden wall.<br /><br />Yes, I'm more of a single-universe fellow also. Betraying one's age in that respect, may hap. A day or two after doing up the post I caught out of the corner of my eye somewhere a fleeting glimpse of an advert for an animated television show for kids. The episode being advertised was titled "Multiverse". I thought, uh-oh...TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-24380053021884699852009-12-21T07:25:54.624-08:002009-12-21T07:25:54.624-08:00Doppelganger experiences are not all that common, ...Doppelganger experiences are not all that common, I think, but dreams coming true and déjà vu experiences are frequent, try asking any group of people and usually somebody will come up with an example from their own experience. <br /><br />Although it sort of (possibly) explains these phenomena, I find the idea of multiple universes more frustrating than anything else. <br /><br />Fascinating piece, Tom, it made me think of <a href="https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/html/1807/4350/poem287.html" rel="nofollow">this.</a>Zephirinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02809525772159756122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-86447248574490495032009-12-20T07:57:20.356-08:002009-12-20T07:57:20.356-08:00Tom,
Yes, "morning / jackhammers / this side...Tom, <br />Yes, "morning / jackhammers / this side of street / in how many universes" . . . .STEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-39617189515273016062009-12-19T07:52:30.593-08:002009-12-19T07:52:30.593-08:00Posted in Vermont & California:
Yes, Tom! I s...Posted in Vermont & California:<br /><br />Yes, Tom! I saw the small lights of your ship passing last night through ice-crystals, 15 below here, so I hope you both were warm in your nest. I decided to take up this from Thomas Berry and read it to you as you went by:<br /><br />"So the question is, as G.K. Chesterton once said, how to be sufficiently dissatisfied with the situation in order to change it, and how to be sufficiently satisfied to think that it can be changed, to be motivated to change — that is, how to reject something and create something at the same time."<br /><br />Plenty.Bob Arnold / Longhousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00016178166202192089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-42898249704235357652009-12-19T02:29:46.945-08:002009-12-19T02:29:46.945-08:00... and as it's the make-a-wish season, a Joye...... and as it's the make-a-wish season, a Joyeux Noël to old father Blanqui:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04XauYp0Nbk" rel="nofollow">Don't Let It Happen Again</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-50100335992059088562009-12-19T02:00:12.557-08:002009-12-19T02:00:12.557-08:00Blanqui was a repeatedly-defeated revolutionary wh...Blanqui was a repeatedly-defeated revolutionary who refused to give up. He wrote this text in prison, a tired old man. He believed deeply in eternal recurrence. Given his knockabout life, full of violent incident beginning with a bad injury suffered in a street fight as a young man, it is a minor wonder that he was able to sustain his belief that it was all bound to happen over again, infinite times, in infinite worlds; or then again, maybe not; depending.<br /><br />The suspense must have been -- must be? -- awful, waiting to find out.<br /><br />How remarkable the sustaining power of human delusion. Strangely heroic, when one thinks of it.<br /><br />Reflecting on this story, one imagines the universe of Blanqui's private experience, or for that matter of anyone's private experience -- a bit of wildly generalizing extrapolation, but after all, what else is the internet for? -- as a haircloth sofa wrapped around one's head in eternity.<br /><br />The latest developments in theoretical quantum physics would appear to support this hypothesis. Or then again, maybe not.<br /><br />Experiences of bilocation ("doubles") seem to be more common that one might suppose. Not only famous persons have had such experiences. But of course history tends to record the experiences of those who are famous, rather than of those who are not. Perhaps this is merely another way in which the latter should be thought of as fortunate (whether they think of themselves so or not).TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-54835473485781847892009-12-18T22:33:31.747-08:002009-12-18T22:33:31.747-08:00Still wrapping my head around this. A delight.
&q...Still wrapping my head around this. A delight.<br /><br />"... as it is found in every second of its duration, from birth until death" with, perhaps, the whole in every part.<br /><br />"Never forget that all we could have been here, we are somewhere else." This rings true and quite sad. <br /><br />Love the interplay between the excerpts and the thoughts on the stars and eternity.~otto~https://www.blogger.com/profile/08859835662556335529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-192100911411000422009-12-18T20:30:19.337-08:002009-12-18T20:30:19.337-08:00Just lovely Tom, and I'm still back a day ago ...Just lovely Tom, and I'm still back a day ago in your Thursday report hiking that Bulgarian forest path (quite like Vermont)<br /><br />and now your cosmic mini-anthology for Friday<br /><br />expanding the reachesBob Arnold / Longhousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00016178166202192089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-84599251521581982872009-12-18T15:03:30.112-08:002009-12-18T15:03:30.112-08:00I think of the words of John Glenn:
"As I hu...I think of the words of John Glenn:<br /><br />"As I hurtled through space I couldn't stop thinking... every part of this craft has been supplied by the lowest bidder."<br /><br />Forgive me, I am but a simple man.<br /><br />I only dropped by to wish you a lovely Christmas, Tom. I trust you'll spend it in the warmth of your family.u.v.ray.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02866397025200956617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-41183587190787861722009-12-18T10:16:43.916-08:002009-12-18T10:16:43.916-08:00Humbling Tom. I'll take that 'consolation&...Humbling Tom. I'll take that 'consolation'..https://www.blogger.com/profile/00532376301529981186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-27013642877899146232009-12-18T08:52:43.787-08:002009-12-18T08:52:43.787-08:00haircloth sofa!
this the universe, eternity, as.....haircloth sofa!<br /><br />this the universe, eternity, as..Phanero Noemikonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-21994658320812649402009-12-18T08:03:09.522-08:002009-12-18T08:03:09.522-08:00Stephen...
Connected
signless cloud, concealment...Stephen...<br /><br />Connected<br /><br />signless cloud, concealment,<br />does not show itself<br />this side, on the other does<br /><br />morning<br />jackhammers<br />this side of street<br /><br />in how many universesTChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-52908806950677517372009-12-18T07:57:45.511-08:002009-12-18T07:57:45.511-08:00Here is g's pertinent link to eternity road.Here is g's pertinent link to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvjZO1f4jJ0" rel="nofollow">eternity road</a>.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-17356912393680887392009-12-18T07:31:47.824-08:002009-12-18T07:31:47.824-08:00http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvjZO1f4jJ0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvjZO1f4jJ0gamefacedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16562522181852339258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-66335730055006668512009-12-18T07:31:27.197-08:002009-12-18T07:31:27.197-08:00Tom,
Thanks! -- stars, signs, ghosts, Shelley, Don...Tom,<br />Thanks! -- stars, signs, ghosts, Shelley, Donne, Lincoln, Goethe -- what a morning. The "signless cloud" below might be 'connected'?<br /><br />12.18<br /><br />red-orange of cloud above plane of black <br />trees, red-tailed hawk calling on branch<br />in foreground, sound of waves in channel<br /><br /> this first drawn of the two,<br /> clarified place each<br /><br /> signless cloud, concealment,<br /> does not show itself<br /><br />silver of sunlight reflected in channel,<br />white cloud in pale blue sky on horizonSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.com