Some Final Thoughts
so, i haven't talked to catherine, and i've already misinterpreted her ideas, sufficiently twisting them to my own ends, but i could not but return to it.
so, i've been deep in heraclitus, who is, of course a pre-socratic, and therefore works b4 the allegory of the cave, the oldest exposition of the problem of mimesis (isn't it?) at any rate, h. says the following:
whatever comes from sight, hearing, learning from experience: this i prefer.
i've quoted this before, but i wanted to mention it in terms of both c's question, and also something that has repercussions for all of us, living as we do in the age of me me media, and intense horrors of disinformation. so, then beauty becomes a kind of unmediated thing. i was reading a review j. harrison did of duncan's 'bending the bow.' he says:
'the poem is not the paradigm but the source, the competitor, not the imitator, of nature.'
wot? well, you know, that beauty upwells from the poim, not from its errors or rectitudes.
and, finally, words from duncan:
THE TONE OF A VOWEL HAS THE COLOR OF A WING
yuh goddam right!
so, i love the f word
fuc fuc fuc
so, i've been deep in heraclitus, who is, of course a pre-socratic, and therefore works b4 the allegory of the cave, the oldest exposition of the problem of mimesis (isn't it?) at any rate, h. says the following:
whatever comes from sight, hearing, learning from experience: this i prefer.
i've quoted this before, but i wanted to mention it in terms of both c's question, and also something that has repercussions for all of us, living as we do in the age of me me media, and intense horrors of disinformation. so, then beauty becomes a kind of unmediated thing. i was reading a review j. harrison did of duncan's 'bending the bow.' he says:
'the poem is not the paradigm but the source, the competitor, not the imitator, of nature.'
wot? well, you know, that beauty upwells from the poim, not from its errors or rectitudes.
and, finally, words from duncan:
THE TONE OF A VOWEL HAS THE COLOR OF A WING
yuh goddam right!
so, i love the f word
fuc fuc fuc
posted by jared | 11:15 AM
1 Comments:
hey....
catherine, i love this idea but am intimidated to post - every time i think about beauty i think 'i died for beauty, but was scarce/adjusted in the tomb....' and 'euclid alone has looked on beauty bare'....but then don't get anywhere beyond that except that those lines keep thumping through my head. i will try to write summat soon though; i'm trying to think of something about ornament bc i've been reading a book about patterns and art for flaming t.
jared, i'm glad that your love for the eff word (to get another vowel in there) has made an appearance in a post. when i'm around you, i find myself cursing 9,000 percent more. and i feel that this fact should be acknowledged in a forum.
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