Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Monday, October 29, 2018
Sunday, October 28, 2018
Saturday, October 27, 2018
How the Trumped-up Right Make America 'Great' Again.
Pittsburgh synagogue shooting: Gunman kills 11, facing federal hate crime investigation - The Washington Post
How the Trumped-up Right Make America 'Great' Again.
How the Trumped-up Right Make America 'Great' Again.
Friday, October 26, 2018
Thursday, October 25, 2018
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Sunday, October 21, 2018
Saturday, October 20, 2018
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Roberto Rossellini on freedom and social justice
“Once, a politician said to me with a great deal of bitterness: 'Men want to have less social justice provided they also have less freedom.' It is that mentality which even today obsesses me and frightens me, in spite of certain signs lately which might indicate a return of conscience.” (My Method, p. 68)
Saturday, October 13, 2018
Thursday, October 11, 2018
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
NOTHINGNESS GIVES RISE TO ME, from PREPARATIONS
FROM
PREPARATIONS:-
with
Michael McClure's 'wet plank'
NOTHINGNESS GIVES RISE
TO ME
MONKEY MIND BUILDS
CATHEDRALS
NEWS NEVER CHANGES
A PATRIARCH SAYS THERE
IS NO
MOMENT OF EMOTIONAL
PASSION
THERE ARE THREE THINGS
I
MOVIES OUT THERE
THE PARADE GOES ON
EXPERIENCE IS
WEIGHTLESS
I KNOW EMPTINESS
EMPTINESS IS A FORM
THE SMELL OF MORNING
INCENSE
REXROTH BELIEVES
EVERYTHING
THE SCARLET-HEADED
WOODPECKER
WITH SOFT FLEXIBLE MIND
THE WHTIE HANDS WITH
LONG FINGERS
THE PINK OF DAWN IS
GONE
SILENCE IS A ROAR
A DOE CROSSING THE
STREET
– A LITTLE NAKED OF
EGO
NOR DOES KNOWLEDGE
CHANGE
DESPITE FASCINATION
DARK PATHS ARE THE WAY
NOT TO THINK OF BUDDHA
BEAUTEOUS ONE, GIVE ME
THE SHAPE OF MY
THOUGHTS
A SMALL INSECT
CRIPPLEDLY HOBBLES
THE CLEAR CENTER IS
PRESENT
CALM MAKES A FRAME
EACH RAINDROP IS AN
INSTANT
STUDY OF SELF PEELS
OFFENSIVELY
I MAKE MY CENTER IN
DELUSION
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
Roberto Rossellini Quote
With explicit reference to Francis of Assisi, Rossellini said “I'm always for the 'crazy' people [. . .]. My aspiration, my great dream, is that each person be himself, with all the risks this entails, including the risk of being crazy [. . .] If you're authentically yourself, you have such a load of honesty that it must per force lead to something. From a very humble position you can face everything and you can revise the whole conception of the universe.” Cited in Tag Gallagher's Preface to Roberto Rossellini, My Method: Writings and Interviews, ed. Adriano Aprà , trans. Annapaola Cancogni, NY: Marsillio, 1992, p. xi.
Monday, October 8, 2018
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Josephine Herbst on Modernism
John
was carrying Three
Lives with
him and had barely laid it down when a man standing next to him, with
a soft brown hat jauntily slouched over pale-yellow hair, edged his
drink nearer and clearing his throat began, 'I see you are carrying
Gertie with you.' A book like three
Lives,
a blue-bound contraband Ulysses,
a copy of transition
or
This
Quarter,
was enough for strangers to strike up a conversation that might lead
to the drinking of Bruderschaft,
a flirtation, or a love affair. Like the speakeasy, a good deal of
avant-garde literature was considered unpalatable by the law, and
nothing could be more appetizing to the young than the forbidden.
That the law was on the side of what the literary left, in its
newfound exuberance, called the Philistine made a rallying point for
the young for whom freedom to write was synonymous with freedom to
love. Nor did it matter that some of the experiments were as obscure
as a Chinese ideograph; even the duds generated an atmosphere
tingling with the possibility of a chance encounter with the magical
phrase. It was with something like pride that the editors of
transition
had announced in Number 7 that Numbers 3, 4, 5 , and 6 had been
confiscated on grounds of obscenity or other pretexts. Ezra Pound
had written that his Exile
One
had been appraised by a Boston customs inspector as 'stuff written by
some narcotic fiend. Nobody has thoughts like those except under the
influence of drugs.' Brancusi's sculpture was taxed by the Port of
NewYork on the ground that it 'wasn't sculpture but metal.' A few
weeks later they passed in the Hope diamond free, on the ground that
it was a work of art.
Josephine Herbst, 'A Year of Disgrace,' in The Starched Blue Sky of Spain and Other Memoirs, Harper Collins,1991, p. 66.
Josephine Herbst, 'A Year of Disgrace,' in The Starched Blue Sky of Spain and Other Memoirs, Harper Collins,1991, p. 66.
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