tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post1555577182907709579..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Over the FallsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-47067621483078000332010-07-26T11:20:29.499-07:002010-07-26T11:20:29.499-07:00Thank you hb, that's how I saw that lower pict...Thank you hb, that's how I saw that lower picture too. The atmospheric floating-world quality reminiscent of images from scroll paintings.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-33782904877022984472010-07-26T02:05:10.563-07:002010-07-26T02:05:10.563-07:00i like the second pic... it's like these japan...i like the second pic... it's like these japanese ink/watercolor paintings i really love to look at...<br /><br />then i read the poem<br />then i think the poem<br />then i watch the poem<br /><br />i look at the second pic again...<br /><br />it looks more beautiful!<br />it want to look at it even more...<br /><br /><br />what was the magic in your word?human beinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09232419187783429903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-9100452239428833272010-07-25T15:27:21.608-07:002010-07-25T15:27:21.608-07:00Heidegger should have called that book Being and P...Heidegger should have called that book Being and Pie, I think, not Being and Time ... Time being the Arc traced by the Pie in flight ... <br /><br />Zeno's paradox enters in somewhat, too, as the Face, no matter how fast it moves, can never escape the Pie, no matter how slowly, no matter how far off we first see it coming from ...John B-Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01041221232768939991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-33184954659154896492010-07-25T01:56:32.699-07:002010-07-25T01:56:32.699-07:00...the problem is, where we stand it's so slip......the problem is, where we stand it's so slippery, the scheme seems like it's never going to hold still for even a moment...it's hard to get a handle on it... and just when one feels one is at the point of doing so, here comes another large sopping wet blip, like a pie in the face... infuriating, really... one must try to remember to "go with the flow", but enough already... splat!TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-27607537496638838282010-07-22T10:07:12.480-07:002010-07-22T10:07:12.480-07:00Or, of course, the scheme may be the view from whe...Or, of course, the scheme may be the view from where we stand ... <br /><br />That too, is good enough for me.John B-Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01041221232768939991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-66007624047335267322010-07-22T10:06:40.897-07:002010-07-22T10:06:40.897-07:00OK, the scheme then is either one or a series of b...OK, the scheme then is either one or a series of blips in bliplessness which may itself just be a blip ...<br /><br />Good enough for me!John B-Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01041221232768939991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-2692846568286947812010-07-22T09:06:37.574-07:002010-07-22T09:06:37.574-07:00The entire past as a mere blip against the entire ...The entire past as a mere blip against the entire scheme of that totality of everything to which Time itself is a mere blip, space itself a mere blip, the blip of totality itself a mere blip.<br /><br />More literally and specifically, the view from the western end of the chasm is a partial view, foam-obscured, blocked by obtruding vegetation, & c. It is difficult, one gathers, to see the whole of the Falls for the impending wet fact of one's immediate location at the west end of the chasm. It's pretty much hang on to a tree limb and try not to breathe in too much spray through your nose, from that spot.<br /><br />Outer space seems far away and out of reach, in this our hour of need.<br /> <br />(I first typed "sour hour" and fixed it, though maybe that too would have fit.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-48918191094577423492010-07-22T08:45:36.868-07:002010-07-22T08:45:36.868-07:00Tom, what's "the larger scheme"? I&#...Tom, what's "the larger scheme"? I've always, and I mean always, wondered about that ;-)John B-Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01041221232768939991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-71463119967331124482010-07-22T07:02:56.693-07:002010-07-22T07:02:56.693-07:00Steve,
As Robert Frost began his sonnet apropos E...Steve,<br /><br />As Robert Frost began his sonnet apropos Eve in Paradise:<br /><br />"To do that to birds was why she came".TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-65344736687395165562010-07-22T06:57:28.207-07:002010-07-22T06:57:28.207-07:00Tom,
Very cool, gives me pause, then I get all mi...Tom,<br /><br />Very cool, gives me pause, then I get all misty, and then wet. . . .<br /><br />7.22<br /><br />grey whiteness of fog against invisible<br />ridge, quail calling from field in left<br />foreground, no sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> action, explored as original<br /> ways of positing object<br /><br /> which likewise, in principle,<br /> thought first came from<br /><br />grey-white of fog against top of ridge,<br />wingspan of gull flapping toward pointSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-59731397216635046422010-07-22T06:49:14.985-07:002010-07-22T06:49:14.985-07:00This is the Crowning Achievement of My Chequer'...This is the Crowning Achievement of My Chequer'd Career, AJP. Thanks!TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-60230753060863192202010-07-22T05:59:51.850-07:002010-07-22T05:59:51.850-07:00Tom, you're being discussed at the LRB blog.Tom, you're <a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2010/07/19/stephen-burt/wake-all-the-dead/" rel="nofollow">being discussed</a> at the LRB blog.AJP Crownhttp://abadguide.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com