tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post5666385335087243159..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: The Red TowerUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-13292687239692473652010-02-07T14:17:40.059-08:002010-02-07T14:17:40.059-08:00The Blue Light
The Blue Angel
Leni and then Marlen...The Blue Light<br />The Blue Angel<br />Leni and then Marlene<br /><br />Personally I prefer<br />Marlene<br /><br />There's no doubt<br />men's Gods have<br />paid attention<br />to German womenElmo St. Rosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-77159269008976540892010-02-05T12:13:29.915-08:002010-02-05T12:13:29.915-08:00yes, I think he (Horst) would have!yes, I think he (Horst) would have!STEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-14485212662281350922010-02-04T11:49:10.452-08:002010-02-04T11:49:10.452-08:00Stephen,
Thanks as always.
The root meaning of c...Stephen,<br /><br />Thanks as always.<br /><br />The root meaning of closing, and the two kinds of mass: parallel ways of thinking about both (or all three of) these texts, maybe.<br /><br />All part of the (unintended, thus "innocent") parallel systems?<br /><br />Also:<br /><br />"correspond to conceal"<br />"current pulls out"<br /><br />and out.<br /><br />(Horst Grund, the photographer upon whose wartime portfolio I projected my tale, would have grabbed a shot of that GROIN sign.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-56715504317165777282010-02-04T07:33:36.810-08:002010-02-04T07:33:36.810-08:00Tom,
Sorry to have missed this yesterday when I l...Tom, <br />Sorry to have missed this yesterday when I looked, what a saga to go w/ such pictures, "determinant power of fate" -- grey wall to the left in "The Red Tower" --<br /><br />2.3<br /><br />grey whiteness of clouds against canyon<br />of ridge, shadowed green leaf on branch<br />in foreground, sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> the root meaning of closing,<br /> correspond to conceal<br /><br /> think of color, for example,<br /> grey wall to the left<br /><br />grey-white clouds reflected in channel,<br />shadowed green of ridge across from it<br /><br /><br />And then today this, gull on GROIN sign watching as current pulls out from lagoon. . . .<br /><br />2.4<br /><br />first grey light in sky above blackness<br />of ridge, motion of shadowed green leaf<br />in foreground, sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> therefore the system, which<br /> matter to be extended<br /><br /> as follows, “constant mass”<br /> elsewhere, “rest mass”<br /><br />sunlit white cloud to the left of point,<br />whiteness of gull perched on GROIN signSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-10368883655421818562010-02-04T02:26:43.457-08:002010-02-04T02:26:43.457-08:00Gratifying and humbling to receive such sensitive ...Gratifying and humbling to receive such sensitive comments from such sensitive souls.<br /><br />The mind fondling these words in hopes something other may yet drop out.<br /><br />(Obsession indeed is the theme of this small historical fantasia, a fiction of the descent of the psyche into murky waters, set on the Eastern Front in the early days of the second great European war of the last century, the heroine an undiscovered sea, the hero a naufrago with a looking-glass in search of a clue, though what he may learn later in his darkroom remains to be pondered... when and if he finds it his mind may drop out.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-5991288620412918552010-02-03T20:36:30.239-08:002010-02-03T20:36:30.239-08:00Obsession, supernatural, movements of history, he,...Obsession, supernatural, movements of history, he, "she", the gods, the sea, fate... All of them entwined into this extraordinary piece. <br /><br />A shipwreck worthy of Prospero!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-39728677061512128232010-02-03T17:37:04.599-08:002010-02-03T17:37:04.599-08:00Since gamefaced is fondling that, I'll fondle ...Since gamefaced is fondling that, I'll fondle this:<br /><br />"...soft rasping buzz gradually and inexorably growing by almost imperceptible stages into an overwhelming din that eventually drowned out everything."<br /><br />Of course, the whole thing deserves to be fondled.~otto~https://www.blogger.com/profile/08859835662556335529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-62152111088323479492010-02-03T10:59:28.903-08:002010-02-03T10:59:28.903-08:00'He couldn't make out her face, much of th...'He couldn't make out her face, much of the time,' <br />my mind wants to keep fondling this over and over till something other falls out.gamefacedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16562522181852339258noreply@blogger.com