tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post8303364734619010224..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Feelers: WittgensteinUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-85234364475996885482010-03-12T06:21:00.557-08:002010-03-12T06:21:00.557-08:00Thanks J,
And I very much appreciated your post t...Thanks J,<br /><br />And I very much appreciated your post today on the Zopilotes.<br /><br />Rated highly.<br /><br />I take the Tractatus to be a poem. Unrated.<br /><br />Word games shall pass and the vultures will pick the bones.<br /><br />(Doesn't mean it's not fun to play a bit, though, meanwhile.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-15227349069856554322010-03-11T17:41:27.519-08:002010-03-11T17:41:27.519-08:00The picture may be a "fact", but is the ...The picture may be a "fact", but is the fact...part of the world? Really, tho not all facts...are pictures--<br /><br />spring brings Los Zopilotes up eastside on occasion. Black vultures---like "carrion carrier" in aztec<br /><br /><br />Interesting post, tho' I am of the opinion that the TLP and St. Ludvig are overrated. Vultures on the other hand, perennialJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-1401272079660035302010-03-11T07:09:29.292-08:002010-03-11T07:09:29.292-08:00Tom,
Thanks for this link ("here") to &...Tom,<br /><br />Thanks for this link ("here") to "The Helmsman," which I remember well of course -- had no idea Heidegger played some part in it, quite amazing how the circles keep turning/intersecting. Reading our 'talking back and forth' on the comments there brings back a night in January (01.22.10, a palindrome!) as if it were still yesterday -- but completely clear here now w/ sun coming up through the leaves. . . .STEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-71737229121518789542010-03-11T01:25:12.938-08:002010-03-11T01:25:12.938-08:00Steve,
Many thanks, I have now lived that brillia...Steve,<br /><br />Many thanks, I have now lived that brilliant day at Drake's (the picture is a fact) through you, here, in this endarkened night.<br /><br />What is left of failing memory recollects that essay. I believe it may have contributed to the complex of sensings that occurred on one of the stranger nights of this long winter of strange nights... the record of which occasion we assembled together, in our parallel universing, <a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/helmsman.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-23918803773499310912010-03-10T12:22:18.167-08:002010-03-10T12:22:18.167-08:00Thanks Tom, for that 'glimpse' -- just got...Thanks Tom, for that 'glimpse' -- just got back from great surf session up at Drake's, howling offshore winds, cloudless blue sky, sunlit silver-blue-green water, waves. . . . And I open up your page to find THIS --- Thus the picture is linked with reality; it reaches up to it. Yes indeed. And speaking of 'our author' (Heidegger), this --- "But the unconcealing of the concealed into unconcealment is the very presencing of what is present" (from Early Greek Thinking, an essay called "Logos (Heraclitus, Fragment B 50)."STEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-13138400607772255892010-03-10T11:07:14.801-08:002010-03-10T11:07:14.801-08:00this picture was a fact.this picture was a fact.gamefacedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16562522181852339258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-74385107212491313692010-03-10T08:58:49.485-08:002010-03-10T08:58:49.485-08:00"the picture IS a fact"
Well, both Witt..."the picture IS a fact"<br /><br />Well, both Wittgenstein and I are perhaps taking something for granted in that regard. Still there are certain enduring propositions the subscription to which continues to generate at least a smidgeon of pleasure. <br /><br />In any case, thank you very much, Steve. BTW I thought of you, with that lower image. Standing bemused and becalmed before the brackish salt lake, board under one arm, Heidegger under the other!<br /><br />(The baobab treetop fingers in the upper image made me think of Triffids... thus, "Feelers". Bit of the old ekphrasis, when in doubt.)<br /><br />Unbelievably the sun appears to have come out, for a moment.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-31158523392698363842010-03-10T08:26:03.285-08:002010-03-10T08:26:03.285-08:00Dear Tom,
What a pleasure to find this (!) thank y...Dear Tom,<br />What a pleasure to find this (!) thank you thank you how timely. . . . "the picture IS a fact"STEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.com