tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post4800598065092889050..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: ConversionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-88953444815866410682011-11-30T04:37:38.928-08:002011-11-30T04:37:38.928-08:00(This, of course, was the prime suspect, and has b...(<a href="http://vazambam.blogspot.com/2011/11/mythistorema.html" rel="nofollow">This</a>, of course, was the prime suspect, and has been under close interrogation.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-14088424843286469062011-11-30T04:35:09.760-08:002011-11-30T04:35:09.760-08:00Vassilis,
OK, your five Mythistorema posts worked...Vassilis,<br /><br />OK, your five Mythistorema posts worked me up into a Watson-like lather, tonight. I've now searched 'em all for clues. And found the golden rule unraveling...<br /><br />"They seek him here/ They seek him there/ They seek him everywhere," as was once said of the Scarlet Pimpernel.<br /><br />Thanks for helping us to <a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/george-seferis-red-pigeon.html" rel="nofollow">home in</a> on the light, once again.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-59601053191877156852011-11-29T19:26:22.659-08:002011-11-29T19:26:22.659-08:00Vassilis,
For some even stranger reason, that lin...Vassilis,<br /><br />For some even stranger reason, that link led me to "Page Not Found".<br /><br />(Gremlins snatching up the crumbs on the trail?)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-22242648385527845912011-11-29T12:19:29.279-08:002011-11-29T12:19:29.279-08:00Tom,
For some strange reason, this one led me her...Tom,<br /><br />For some strange reason, this one led me <a href="http://vazambam.blogspot.com/2011/1l/mythistorema.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-58624762248455562062011-11-29T10:04:28.622-08:002011-11-29T10:04:28.622-08:00Thanks Nin and Steve,
The desire for the light am...Thanks Nin and Steve,<br /><br />The desire for the light amid the weight of the dark, winter days and nights, Schiele's strange intensities, the work of a very young man, which yet feels as though he's "seen old".<br /><br />The single orange in the bleak cell, standing in the for the sun which is not to be seen in the dense fog of today, though there lingers the memory of yesterday's<br /><br />sunlit orange edge of cloudTChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-35906408676134554392011-11-29T09:47:34.125-08:002011-11-29T09:47:34.125-08:00Tom,
Yes, I second Schiele's and Nin's no...Tom,<br /><br />Yes, I second Schiele's and Nin's note that "The single orange was the only light," -- no light here now but that which somehow arrives through thick fog. . .<br /><br />11.29<br /><br />fog moving to the left across invisible <br />ridge, shadowed green of leaf on branch<br />in foreground, wave sounding in channel<br /><br /> “of” mentioned in letter to,<br /> noted further that is<br /><br /> is essential not that it is,<br /> in what is, of itself<br /><br />sunlit orange edge of cloud above ridge,<br />white cloud in pale blue sky on horizonSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-14020252612872581542011-11-29T05:21:55.334-08:002011-11-29T05:21:55.334-08:00A single orange was the only light . . .
Both b...A single orange was the only light . . . <br /><br />Both beautiful and somber.<br /><br />It's pouring rain here, and this post is mixing with my desire to be optimistic and a heavy weight of another lightless day, which has its own dark and wet beauty. <br /><br />Conversion? The past perfects? Much to think about.Nin Andrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12643167108589844026noreply@blogger.com