tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post1409734377386660771..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Bertolt Brecht: Schwierige Zeiten / Difficult TimesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-57207776460346705652012-04-18T11:06:27.518-07:002012-04-18T11:06:27.518-07:00Thank you very much Jonathan -- and welcome.Thank you very much Jonathan -- and welcome.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-41266113757280853672012-04-18T10:56:45.925-07:002012-04-18T10:56:45.925-07:00A fine, fine post. Beautiful poem and photos.A fine, fine post. Beautiful poem and photos.Jonathan Chanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03647746685252448938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-66869175633561397002012-04-18T10:26:50.980-07:002012-04-18T10:26:50.980-07:00Many thanks Hazen and Steve,
Just back from long ...Many thanks Hazen and Steve,<br /><br />Just back from long imaging session at the Vascular Labs to find this oasis,<br /><br />light coming into sky above still black<br />ridge, curve of moon behind pine branchTChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-28141478034699993542012-04-18T07:31:09.872-07:002012-04-18T07:31:09.872-07:00Tom, so good to have you back, and to find that th...Tom, so good to have you back, and to find that the oasis is open once again, and flowering.Hazenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13417573435195561519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-65190619360630436572012-04-18T07:19:07.642-07:002012-04-18T07:19:07.642-07:00Tom,
With glasses or without, good to see that yo...Tom,<br /><br />With glasses or without, good to see that you still see "the black berries on the delicate red stalks."<br /><br />4.18<br /><br />light coming into sky above still black<br />ridge, curve of moon behind pine branch<br />in foreground, sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> “word,” that even then does<br /> not break the silence<br /><br /> that describes it to itself,<br /> place of events, part<br /><br />grey white of fog against top of ridge,<br />line of pelicans flapping toward pointSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-86051583636425730152012-04-18T04:00:09.073-07:002012-04-18T04:00:09.073-07:00Just one more proof bears are smarter than humans....Just one more proof bears are smarter than humans.<br /><br />A bear would never be silly enough to think the threat of humans could be suspended by the mere epiphenomenal display of a green light.<br /><br />Black and purple, elderberry colours, the colours of bruising, of Night and of the Underworld, yes, yes, yes.<br /><br />(Bears, by the way, are reputed to like Teacher Detectives, another sign of ursine intelligence.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-49900230276881761252012-04-17T14:07:21.668-07:002012-04-17T14:07:21.668-07:00Bears like those berries.Bears like those berries.Susan Kay Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16277139119869470939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-21517206369776376382012-04-17T13:57:11.267-07:002012-04-17T13:57:11.267-07:00Terry,
And I will say the same to you.
Vassilis...Terry,<br /><br />And I will say the same to you.<br /><br /><br />Vassilis,<br /><br />I was interested to learn the many and various medicinal and supernatural properties attributed to elberberries, back in the days before machines took over the arts of healing and hurting -- also the toxic properties. <br /><br />I would, were the decision up to me, give a try to that elderberry unguent and skip tomorrow morning's trek back to the imaging technology shrines at hospital. <br /><br /><br />Curtis,<br /><br />About Birth, the set-up is pretty silly, but you've got to hand it to the inventive screnwriter who came up with the weird twist on soft pedophilia. <br /><br /><br />Chris,<br /><br />I thought of those comments too, and wondered if I have been under surveillance by the automotive fates, and decided... Yes.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-83836620836093200872012-04-17T12:16:07.958-07:002012-04-17T12:16:07.958-07:00Tom,
As soon as I heard about the accident I thou...Tom,<br /><br />As soon as I heard about the accident I thought with a lurch of your comments back in March about your decision to bid the automobile farewell, and the fact that there had been a couple of accidents since then. Very relieved to see "Beyond the Pale" up and running again. Like many others, I've come to count on it.<br /><br />ChrisChrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04214178206307289834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-17533831095213221482012-04-17T10:45:09.492-07:002012-04-17T10:45:09.492-07:00Superstition and realism -- both of those make sen...Superstition and realism -- both of those make sense to me.<br />I vaguely remember Birth and would love to see its opening sequence. I'll try to hunt it down. I've now read about the remainder of the film, which sounds....I'm not sure. I'm sorry Lauren Bacall said those awful things about Nicole Kidman. Recently, on a very different enquiry level, Jane and I have gone to see the vulgar (and inappropriate for her, I guess, but really I'm the sensitive one in the family)and very funny 21 Jump Street twice. What can I say? The jokes are really good and they're all delivered well. Her friends are all envious that she's seen it and they haven't, so I've done something right.ACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-88732483402848687652012-04-17T09:35:17.775-07:002012-04-17T09:35:17.775-07:00Wonderful poem/translation; apropos the poem, a lo...Wonderful poem/translation; apropos the poem, a local guy makes an unguent whose ingredients are bark shavings from elder branches, olive oil and beeswax--he gets the shavings from an elder bush we have in our garden--excellent ointment against burns.<br /><br />Good to have you back, Tom.vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-2638904795174679232012-04-17T09:16:17.665-07:002012-04-17T09:16:17.665-07:00Tom: Great to have you back.Tom: Great to have you back.tpwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05909239000589253931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-14892371071499254592012-04-17T09:12:46.704-07:002012-04-17T09:12:46.704-07:00Nin,
One of the things I like best about the poe...Nin, <br /><br />One of the things I like best about the poem is the way his fuzzy vision is hinted at in the fact he can't make out the berries, just their colors. (Which seem to work on him in a compressed version of that madeleine-in-a-teacup Proustian sort of way.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-91856378675420168592012-04-17T09:02:42.133-07:002012-04-17T09:02:42.133-07:00Sorry for the intermittences in comment timing, pu...Sorry for the intermittences in comment timing, putatively product of a revolting lab pixie holed up somewhere in the Trojan Wall. Or was it Horse.<br /><br />Kent, I'm feeling at least lively as that Black Elder stump.<br /><br />Curtis, the "r" word is one I fear using, partly out of superstition, partly out of realism. Still, even the faint shadow of a recovery would be welcome. At this point one must be careful not to ask for too much. That ethereal Manhattan scene scene strangely reminds me of the opening of a film called (I believe) Birth. The opening sequence in Central Park, in snow, is a wonder. That is followed by two hours' enquiry into the tricks it takes Nicole Kidman to get a nine year old boy into the bathtub with her, on the fragile supposition the kid is the reincarnation of her dead fiancé.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-86367503363256721712012-04-17T09:02:41.453-07:002012-04-17T09:02:41.453-07:00Beautiful photos and translation.
Such a relief ...Beautiful photos and translation. <br />Such a relief to be able to stop by here again and count on a moment of reflection. <br /><br />Thanks Tom!Nin Andrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12643167108589844026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-88564013821078877582012-04-17T08:51:03.425-07:002012-04-17T08:51:03.425-07:00Conrad,
Yes. One gets the sense that if he had ac...Conrad,<br /><br />Yes. One gets the sense that if he had actually gone to fetch them, instead of standing there and considering, there would be no poem; that is, the poem is in the considering.<br /><br />(The accident tore up one ear so badly that the tip had to be re-connected, so that I've been unable to wear my glasses -- or must wear them weirdly askew, in the curious method I have just now devised.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-33010544395929073312012-04-17T08:48:58.937-07:002012-04-17T08:48:58.937-07:00Tom,
You know your karma will never be undone her...Tom, <br />You know your karma will never be undone here in so-called motortown (I think there are enough copies of NO BIG DEAL floating about to launch a library of flea market good wishes).<br />Heal thyself, Big Elder, we've plenty gained by the fruit o' thine labours.<br />kkenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12448791356455016794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-57894904590886905342012-04-17T08:47:15.292-07:002012-04-17T08:47:15.292-07:00This poem and translation are superb. They recall...This poem and translation are superb. They recall (funny to think about this) a conversation I had with a friend a long time ago about his vision returning when he was recovering from a diabetic coma when we were teenagers and the nurses took him to the hospital window to look outside. It was on a spring day like this one (it's extremely beautiful in Berwyn and, I assume, in New York also) and his hospital room looked out onto Gracie Mansion, the mayor's residence in Manhattan, an elegant, late eighteenth century house. My friend saw Mayor Lindsay playing football with his children under the flowering trees, and although it sounds cliched and corny, he said it really was a lovely sight, which made him happy to be alive, seeing and remembering again. CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-41711237486450833522012-04-17T08:45:05.559-07:002012-04-17T08:45:05.559-07:00So glad to hear from you Aditya my friend, across ...So glad to hear from you Aditya my friend, across the green oceans.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-86150895605332947602012-04-17T08:43:03.547-07:002012-04-17T08:43:03.547-07:00Tom,
the translation is elegantly clear (like the...Tom,<br /><br />the translation is elegantly clear (like the original) but like the original also revelatoryConrad DiDiodatohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18312831623791642286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-53633456089927398632012-04-17T08:36:44.221-07:002012-04-17T08:36:44.221-07:00Wonderful poem! so relieved and glad to see you.. ...Wonderful poem! so relieved and glad to see you.. (back) <br /><br />The spring continues for all of usadityahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16078144194220301083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-56216980717633692132012-04-17T06:39:04.958-07:002012-04-17T06:39:04.958-07:00Not only that but a shredded ear-horn, croaked the...Not only that but a shredded ear-horn, croaked the compromised Elder.<br /><br />Good to squint in the general direction of these kind words, old sons.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-1573056864039696132012-04-17T06:37:00.779-07:002012-04-17T06:37:00.779-07:00Tom, good to be able to read your words again - an...Tom, good to be able to read your words again - and, yes, a lovely poem on a snow covered Spring day here in the Northlands.tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02038980686084187677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-37442958985123726322012-04-17T06:24:36.823-07:002012-04-17T06:24:36.823-07:00Beautiful Brecht poem, Tom. We are all thinking of...Beautiful Brecht poem, Tom. We are all thinking of you.<br /><br />DonIssa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-19625411865978277382012-04-17T06:21:43.643-07:002012-04-17T06:21:43.643-07:00Good to see you even without glasses, love, TomGood to see you even without glasses, love, TomTom Raworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01917743465756906412noreply@blogger.com