tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post4214792451304437649..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: D. H. Lawrence: The Grudge of the OldUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-60772427393913061292013-03-28T12:15:38.386-07:002013-03-28T12:15:38.386-07:00Amen to that.Amen to that.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-27720444448265102052013-03-28T07:06:47.140-07:002013-03-28T07:06:47.140-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Dalriadahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12004167335881293080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-23889658717421637322013-03-28T06:05:17.344-07:002013-03-28T06:05:17.344-07:00Nin, I do think that's the way of it -- things...Nin, I do think that's the way of it -- things change, the normal course of things shifts, there's a lurch, and then...<br /><br />The year since I was run over in the street may as well have been ten, body wrecked for good and I'm now a lame old man and no more denying it; so that part's simple enough.<br /><br />The "problem arises" (as they say) when each day brings two or three new acute annoyances, and the old get tired of those very fast -- or one might say, they get old, more quickly than ever.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-4256477350044081882013-03-28T04:41:27.809-07:002013-03-28T04:41:27.809-07:00I didn't begin to feel old till my mom and I n...I didn't begin to feel old till my mom and I never thought of her as old. Even at 94 she seemed young. Hmm. Nin Andrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12643167108589844026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-4745370763347966242013-03-27T23:13:01.306-07:002013-03-27T23:13:01.306-07:00Yes, those damned old people, constantly leaving t...Yes, those damned old people, constantly leaving their dead bodies in the way of progress and traffic flow!<br /><br />(The witness to the near vehicular murder of this particular senior citizen reported, "Well, I saw his shoe rolling down the street... but I bet he's one of those Medicare types anyway!)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-2723873630389548752013-03-27T22:54:29.348-07:002013-03-27T22:54:29.348-07:00from one of my Sentences, 1976--when I was "y...from one of my <i>Sentences</i>, 1976--when I was "younger"<br /><br />DIRGE<br /><br />Now, the night<br />turning<br /><br />around me when<br />I look<br /><br />I'm falling<br />over<br /><br />my foot<br />steps follow<br /><br />the leader, kick<br />the can, Annie<br /><br />over, it's over<br />my dead body.vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-31529407323777714272013-03-27T20:39:16.813-07:002013-03-27T20:39:16.813-07:00(By the by, Vanderleun, I suppose your practise of...(By the by, Vanderleun, I suppose your practise of lifting my posts directly to your blog and posting them there for want of "content" of your own appears entirely ethical to you, but to me it appears the easy-way ruse of a scoundrel; the fact you are able to "get away with it" demonstrates your cleverness, perhaps, in your shriveled little mind, but to me it merely demonstrates the paucity and insubstantiality of your entire enterprise. I would appreciate it if you would henceforth imitate flypaper and stick to your trademark boob-shows, thank you very much!)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-8892152067365959322013-03-27T20:05:53.280-07:002013-03-27T20:05:53.280-07:00love that song Tom...interesting comments those yo...love that song Tom...interesting comments those you have told..!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-40141776574225922322013-03-27T17:37:06.456-07:002013-03-27T17:37:06.456-07:00Sandra, it's the next line of that song gets m...Sandra, it's the next line of that song gets me:<br /><br />"Let us die young or let us live forever"<br /><br />A year before that song was written, there appeared a film about a group of elderly people rejuvenated by aliens. It was filmed in a place called St Petersburg, Florida, where old people (in real life) go... to never die. In the end, one of the old people, afflicted by cancer, elects to stay on Earth to die a "natural" death, while the other old people accept the aliens' invitation to travel to an interstellar world where they will never be ill, never age, and never die.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDOPgF4pcxo" rel="nofollow">Cocoon</a><br /><br />The film is well played, but schmaltzy and sentimental; though the actors were old, the film-maker was not.<br /><br />Until one has experienced drastic physical breakdown, it is difficult to speak of these things honestly; and then, once one has entered that experience, it becomes difficult to speak of anything at all.<br /><br />D. H. Lawrence was never an old man, but he had an acute sense of being oppressed by the narrow-mindedness of the old. And as he suffered from a terminal illness (tuberculosis, in his case) while still a young man, he perhaps possessed an uncommon wisdom, regarding these unpleasant matters.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-24796425044866692652013-03-27T16:58:03.523-07:002013-03-27T16:58:03.523-07:00"Let's dance in style, lets dance for a w..."Let's dance in style, lets dance for a while <br />Heaven can wait we're only watching the skies <br />Hoping for the best but expecting the worst <br />Are you going to drop the bomb or not? .............etc...."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-33173697732242933712013-03-27T16:13:29.866-07:002013-03-27T16:13:29.866-07:00On this subject, I cannot but echo the sentiments ...On this subject, I cannot but echo the sentiments expressed by another poet, <a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/stevie-smith-scorpion.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-65283528686518298382013-03-27T13:38:36.827-07:002013-03-27T13:38:36.827-07:00"...let the young be listless with their puny..."...let the young be listless with their puny youth". I love the disdain in this.Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-48864183695044289262013-03-27T10:46:54.400-07:002013-03-27T10:46:54.400-07:00Tom,
Lawrence's "Grudge" next to Va...Tom,<br /><br />Lawrence's "Grudge" next to Van Ort's "Susanna" -- kind of wake-up call, as in "we are going to stay on and on and on and on and on" (maybe).<br /><br />3.27<br /><br />light coming into sky above still black<br />plane of ridge, robin calling on branch<br />in foreground, sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> cross hatching of the curve,<br /> relations of features<br /><br /> to place that is, just what<br /> is the event, becomes<br /><br />shadowed green of ridge across channel,<br />clouds on horizon to the left of point<br /><br /><br />STEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-76391501517732784342013-03-27T09:31:24.399-07:002013-03-27T09:31:24.399-07:00Years ago in an interview with an octogenarian bus...Years ago in an interview with an octogenarian businessman who was being sued by everyone in his family, the old parking-lot magnate was asked: "Why are you so angry? Don't you know you can't take it with you?"<br /><br />His answer? "I'm not leaving."vanderleunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10296245324443413545noreply@blogger.com