tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post6583708078724061642..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Sophocles: Oedipus the King: On the shore of the god of evening (The chorus prays for deliverance from the epidemic)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-21150740350637391582014-10-22T02:39:28.164-07:002014-10-22T02:39:28.164-07:00Thanks very much, Vassilis, and great that you enj...Thanks very much, Vassilis, and great that you enjoy the music: the resilience and capacity for joy, as though everything were not being taken and had not always been taken away...TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-44337944077112777032014-10-22T00:38:04.715-07:002014-10-22T00:38:04.715-07:00Wonderful music coming from a people who have been...Wonderful music coming from a people who have been systematically exploited for years first by colonialists and later by their own corrupt leaders who led them into a civil war which left over 50,00 people dead and about 2 million displaced and living in other countries. The outbreak of Ebola is another tragedy in a long line of seemingly endless ones. <br /><br />BTW—according to the Online Free Dictionary—the name Sophocles (“that old kind of boring pre-selfie poet”) is formed from sophos, "wise" (as in philosophy, "love of wisdom"), and -kl s, "glorious, famous," and thus means "having wise fame, famous for wisdom." It seems such qualities as wisdom are no longer prerequisites for attending Poetry Writing Workshop 101.vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-34815011326300474332014-10-21T16:02:40.551-07:002014-10-21T16:02:40.551-07:00Hazen,
Can it be that Sophocles' intuition th...Hazen,<br /><br />Can it be that Sophocles' intuition that a systemic corruption expresses itself on many levels (including the environmental as well as the political) might actually prove more pertinent at this point than generalized media anxiety concerning how a disease outbreak might affect mood levels around the mall during Halloween marketing season, the ups and downs of the stock market or the upcoming mock elections (our several dwarf-grand American tragedies of the moment)?<br /><br />But then, I suppose he would have to represent that old kind of boring pre-selfie poet, who addressed, rather than attempted to distract attention from, the larger truths hidden beneath the bewildering surfaces of things.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-52434100345414228142014-10-21T09:14:54.256-07:002014-10-21T09:14:54.256-07:00Beyond The Pale will be our journal of the plague ...Beyond The Pale will be our journal of the plague year(s). Make that plural on both counts. Except it won’t be fiction. History repeats, whether we pay attention or not. <br /><br />Those figures in hazmat gear are a ghostly chorus, and a symbol of the times.Hazenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13417573435195561519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-38334825229612938762014-10-21T02:24:12.841-07:002014-10-21T02:24:12.841-07:00Rozzy & Markmuday: Life Goes On (one day at a ...<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5jHk5DzThQ" rel="nofollow">Rozzy & Markmuday: Life Goes On (one day at a time)</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW8UbdeV_uk" rel="nofollow">Vicky Fornah: Dis Wol (our day will come)</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELnsp5L6VRU" rel="nofollow">Buku Talk</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com