tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post8517571345661328829..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: The Second FissureUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-8495060095700788642010-05-03T07:31:21.914-07:002010-05-03T07:31:21.914-07:00Tom,
Thanks for all this followup, and that wonde...Tom,<br /><br />Thanks for all this followup, and that wonderful sand photo, Curtis!STEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-79363197132412369992010-05-03T02:54:33.162-07:002010-05-03T02:54:33.162-07:00Stephen's
pink cloud
being, “in light” of br...Stephen's<br /><br />pink cloud<br /><br />being, “in light” of bright,<br />as what shows itself<br /><br />adds to this wobbly assemblage.<br /><br />Two weeks ago, as the Icelandic eruptions raged, and the talk shows bugled the apocalyptic trumpet, I found this comment on a news website: <br /><br />"With all the huge earthquakes, fires and floods around the world, it makes us stop and think about the last book of the Bible, Revelations. No, the world will not come to an end, but it will never be the same..."<br /><br />Those stories about the ghostly night sky battles over Edgehill, when all the clashing sounds of conflict were re-enacted for shepherds and passers-by, have long haunted.<br /><br />Even harder to dispel from mind, perhaps, the semi-fabulous tale regarding the peasant at Edgehill, who, ordered off the field as hostilities began, expressed surprise and interest that the parties in question were engaged in arms, as he had heard nothing about a war. <br /><br />There is also the account in Clarendon's history of the King's standard bearer Sir Edmund Verney, who rode into the battle without weapons or armour, because he was fighting for a cause he did not respect. <br /><br />As the shades of night come down over dying systems of thought, is it better to defend oneself or not? To have or not to have cable?<br /><br />As to banking on history...<br /><br />Here is Curtis's apt link, not at all diminishing that curious <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__5EyI8Ck-Lw/S8zF3Zq8BLI/AAAAAAAAR3g/7ZMv6L5fyIQ/s1600/IMG_1053.jpg" rel="nofollow">sense of fissure</a> in Belief.<br /><br />And while we're on <a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/property.html" rel="nofollow">Icelandic Banking</a> ...TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-89871716415563166592010-05-02T11:59:00.824-07:002010-05-02T11:59:00.824-07:00The other end of the lens, indeed. The telescope...The other end of the lens, indeed. The telescope was invented in the generation before that battle. I wonder whether the shepherds might have thought to use one to aid in their sky ghost survey? Now, obviously, we’ve trained magnifying lenses and sensors on the earth from the heavens. Backs to the wall, glancing behind, dusting implications off shoulder blades, bearing down –- that’s all very true. <br /><br />For a more cynical “street” view, complete with the “latest signs”, you might want to look at the work of the DirtyBeach.tv sand sculptors, which appeared in the London Photo Of The Day blog earlier this week:<br />http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__5EyI8Ck-Lw/S8zF3Zq8BLI/AAAAAAAAR3g/7ZMv6L5fyIQ/s1600/IMG_1053.jpgCurtis Robertsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-62013188373029929322010-05-02T08:37:40.399-07:002010-05-02T08:37:40.399-07:00surfing above the fault line
Kaboom is around the...surfing above the fault line<br /><br />Kaboom is around the cornerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-15991676178343286122010-05-02T06:50:32.954-07:002010-05-02T06:50:32.954-07:00Tom,
Wow, thanks (!) And here the sun has just n...Tom,<br /><br />Wow, thanks (!) And here the sun has just now risen over shoulder of ridge. . . .<br /><br /> 5.2<br /><br />pink cloud in pale blue sky above black<br />ridge, whiteness of moon above branches<br />in foreground, sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> so fast that act as present,<br /> pen and ink on paper<br /><br /> being, “in light” of bright,<br /> as what shows itself<br /><br />white cloud in pale blue sky on horizon,<br />sunlit shoulder of ridge across from itSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-47935903530728016702010-05-02T04:00:22.141-07:002010-05-02T04:00:22.141-07:00(And a simple click on the image will yield the wh...(And a simple click on the image will yield the whole -- doubtless artificially enhanced if not indeed induced -- Watteau/Tintoretto Revelations lava flow glow.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com