Category: Words

The Final Washout

He washed the final smell of his Alabama home from the last comforter

from the last divide of things.

It was now the Fall before the Winter.

It was the second winter he’d known there.

He couldn’t remember having needed so many blankets.

Maybe she really never did get cold.

But, he told her:

I’ll never be a forest.

Trees and plants:not for him.

Time in the forest moves strangely.

When she’d first shown the long lasting puddle

on the side of the trail,

She said:

It’s Black Pool. Notice how nothing really floats and nothing really sinks here? It suspends, I guess.

He thought he heard her say something else.

Watch “Radiohead – Feral – Live from The Basement [HD]” on YouTube

dank recording.

2 drummers.

homage!

Cyborg Seadog tell me what you dream of!

Conversations.

Like technical conversations is what I recall.

Which I ace.

Sorry.

totally sloppy use there,

right?

breakdown (go ‘head & give it to me).

I diplomatically speak in rhetoric

lovely

pleasantly

cuz I’m learning by doing

no goal

well <one specific informal one>.

But my skill in the dream involves endurance.

Did you know:

Cacassius Clay was hit more than Sonny Liston?

Oh you did, dear.

You know him by Hammad Ali.

We both met him by Simon and Garfunkel?

He was in a flux then

a parallel life.

Perhaps, as we presently find ourselves

moth.

scour (brief word meditation)

 

scour

sour

scurge

scoop

scourlings

Scourge of God = Attila king of the huns.

Thank you McMillan’s Modern

The Problem of Sciences (one more old a** quote to discover from a great book)

Classical mechanics uses space and time but never questions itself about time, space, or motion. And, Social Sciences do not question themselves about man. We cannot take it for granted that experience will give us the facts of a group or that anthropology will bind these facts by means of objectivity, strictly defined relations, if we want to access “human reality.”

The problem is our research is aimed at constituting laws and at bringing to light functional relations/processes.

By indirect knowledge, I mean the result of reflection on existence. It is indirect in this sense-that it is presupposed by all the concepts of anthropology without being itself made the object of concepts.

The Problem of Nothingness (bonus pts if you guess the source-it should go without saying.)

An abstraction is made when something not capable of existing in isolation is thought of as in an isolated state.

Consciousness is an abstraction.

The concrete can be only the synthetic totality of which consciousness, like the phenomenon, constitutes only moments. Effecting a phenomenological reduction will not succeed in restoring the concrete (of consciousness) by the summation or organization of the elements which we abstracted from it. The relation of the regions of being is an original emergence and is a part of the very structure of the beings.

“Is there any conduct which can reveal to me the relation not man with the world?”

We have established a Parallelism between the types of conduct man adopts in the face of Being and Non-Being. We’re tempted to consider being and non-being as two complementary components of the real: like dark and light.

Two contemporary notions which would somehow be united in the production of existents and which it would be useless to consider in isolation. Pure being and pure non-being would be two abstractions which could be reunited only on the basis of concrete realities.

There is nothing in heaven or on earth which does not contain in itself Being and Nothingness.

What the Technical Meaning of ‘Emergence’ means to me (3 Things)

EMERGENCE

system: combination of components can form a more complex organization, that can be termed a system. E.g. of biological systems: cells > organism > ecosystem. To understand how biological systems work, it is not enough to have a complete “parts” list.

emergent properties of systems: with each upward step in the hierarchy of biological order, novel proerties emerge that are not present in the level just below. They are due to the arrangement and interaction of parts as complexity increases. E.g. thoughts, memories are emergent properties of a complex network of nerve cells.

reductionism

reducing complex systems to simpler components that are manageable to study (horseapples: I say) The dillema of understanding biological breaks down thusly:

1. We cannot fully explain a higher level of order by breaking it down into its parts

2. Something as complex as organisms and /or cells cannot be analyzed without observing them take their own selves apart.

I Slept Like A Champ Yesterday.

I woke up and thanked you.

“The rhythms fell slow,” one of us said.

The other one of us immediately noted the line was not being spoke in the original sense.

Bespoke all over again

I laugh at this to give myself another opportunity to smile up at you.

I had to handle errands.

marginalia: see how easy errand goes errant

but there was nothing to doubt, dear.

I narrated to you.

(I narrate for you)

Even when time’s changes and the earth’s rotations

make it impossible to know where or when you are.

even when you are not there or here,

when you could not know you were there….

unless…but who could be that magical really?

Still,

I know you are

glad

I am.

(any reading thereof)

I hope your feet are warm.

It rained.

It stopped.

It remains grey.

The mountains are obscured by clouds.

You coulda gone weeks without knowing they were there at all

I suspect

back when our opposable thumbs were still novels

Hey there’s an attractive Japanese couple to my right.

waiting for the light to cross on foot

made me wish I was on foot

they are young compared to us

they laugh and smile and gesture wildly.

Now I’m smiling.

They pretend to be sign twirlers for some surreptitious business or affair,

spinning the invisible boards. dropping it, kicking it back up and catching it on their backs

It’s good panto. I can see it. The invisible they indicate.

I dream they are trying to indicate you to me.

Watch “Jeff Buckley- Lover, You Should’ve Come Over” on YouTube

This is the partner song of Mojo Pin for me.

And I think there’s an accordian playing!

Watch “Jeff Buckley – Mojo Pin” on YouTube

it’s raining, I just woke up

heard this in the absence of the person I miss

Paying homage / don’t own rights

Remember it-it Rhymes

(Claude) Levi-Strauss did not invent denim, but rather anthropological stucturalism.

P.S. my audience is myself here. feel free to disapprove

Fin de Siècle & Lebensraum (words on index cards you are trying to discern)

Fin de Siècle is French for “end of century.”

Reference the English idiom “turn of the century” (turn of the screw?)

Re: the closing of one era and the onset of another

Term refers to the end of the 19th century – period of ‘degeneration’ but simultaneously a period of hope for a new beginning.

Spirit of fin de siècle: refers to cultural hallmarks that were recognized as prominent in the 1880’s and 1890s

i.e. ennui, cynicism, pessimism.

Artists catalyzed this as impetus for movements like Symbolism and Modernism

Also, a general belief that civilization leads to decadence (see Freud. Civilization and Its Discontents).

Also, became a major influence on fascism. (?)

Watch “Nile Rodgers on Bowie, Madonna and Chic’s first new album in more than 25 years” on YouTube

Super fun.

Hey Gents: How do you shut up a guitarist? Ask ’em to play from sheet music!

How do you shut up a pianist? Take away the sheet music!

Favorite quote: bring me the disco king!

Harmony not unison.

Steve Winwood (sp?) Back in the High Life, anyone?

Here’s to the long breakdowns; let’s take the Good Times and try to hop on it..

Hey,

Oh, 1982 Bowie: quite! Very interesting indeed.

Vitamin C(an) D(o)

My sister once (and repeatedly since!) insists Vitamin C by Can sums up the grey months in Seattle. She’s not wrong. Ok, fine. She’s right.

That’s hard to say as an older sister.

She also told me about this

Sadness Hides the Sun thing.

Too sad, sister.

Party foul!

Party fowl.

I’m chicken o’ that kinda sad.

Cut it out.

Now

Pitter Patter

There’s blue sky

and the sun’s jutting outta the grey

but it’s not gonna last all day!

Sometimes you gotta run at it

or walk at quickly

(seriously girl-don’t blow them knees out!)

ha

Zagreus (oft confused with a dude up a tree)

Camus’ Zagreus once “laughed and added, ‘You see Mersault, all the misery and cruelty of our civilization can be measured by this one stupid axiom: happy nations have no history,’ ” incorporating time and nations into the excruciatingly existential search for ‘metaphysical truth.’

Troubadoursome

This is how she came to know he was Troubadour,

true.

She had loved fellows of music, letters, substances, and substance.

not quite men, yet.

She listened to their odes to women,

other.

Just as lovesome as anything else she had heard.

Love is effortless, but not always loving of itself.

(in-) sufficient.

(not) entitled.

(not) privledged

(dis-) content

At least there was content.

but troubadour’s don’t flee but rather

they incline to persue.

Perhaps it was a simple matter of time.

Some move through it more quickly than others.

She looked 150 years younger than she probably was.

(and still she felt she looked too old! ha!)

but, he had gotten it just right, at least in her eye.

What is a book but manual?

Is it just, using an alchemical apparatus within a story?

Just

an alchemical apparatus used to drive the plot, scaffold the story structure, and/or function, also, as a skeleton key?

Transmutate to into art.

The reader and/or audience undergoes the Cathartic process,

like enzymes provoke.

The Apparatus drives the substance of letters/words toward catharsis.

Our story’s technical equipment enables a bunch of words

to BeRead by an audience or reader of the collection.

In this way, words transmutate to a collection, set, Sum, somme

that somehow be-came greater than the sum of its parts

This alchemical thing is but primarily a piece of technical (albeit ‘unscientific’) apparati that is taken-up, in itself, and then applied to a bunch of words such that when those words are taken-up [sic. in the abstracted sense], an epiphenomenon emerges on a different level of scale.

res ges’tae (Latin)

Inclination of the Needle

(dip of the magnetic needle)

illude

(trick, delude)

illudere

(promising)

illywhacker

(confidence trickster)

Illocution

(an action performed by saying or writing something. promise)

idempotent

( < math. an element of a set which is unchanged in value when operated

on by itself )

idem

( < Latin. ‘same‘ ; French. ‘somme‘ )

idée fixe

( obsession < French lit. ‘fixed idæ‘ )

idée reçue

( generally accepted concept < French lit. ‘received idæ’ )

Dream of a Dinner

My ex picked me up.
We picked his parents up. 4 people in a sedan.
I’m holding the pot of gumbo he made (it was good) on a towel on my lap in the front seat.
The lid is from another pot, and is too big.
The pot is filled high so I have to hold it just so as we drive to stop it from sloshing out.
He forgot the sourdough bread he bought.
He forgot to buy rice at all.
My parents had both on hand.

Resonant

adj. capable of returning sound; echoing back

n. resonant sound or body

Resonance

prolongation or increase of sound by means of sympathetic vibration

that property of objects having the same vibration frequency that tends to cause them to vibrate in sympathy

Resonator: anything that resounds