i've never doubted, as i've known the truth, that bertrand could turn a lovely phrase, even heart

felt...but the statements he made..and then stood by even later, indicates a willingness to
choose(albeit perhaps carefully) who he felt the most "pity" for...like another who writes
beautifully and obviously profoundly as a philosopher, Heidegger too has his issues..more subtle
and complex...neverany wouldbe rock stars today, struggle to achieve !ust such a "casual"
disheveled look"yet always fail miserably given the studied pretensions which so commonly
fuck up their efforts e#ery$%ne who falls needs an%ther to &all with them... ( for it's true "e#ery
'an..and ever( )oman is a *tar ") so to speak... http+,,youtu.be,*-sldm%./a.
some hands
never escape
the cycle of
nature's call
to endlessly return...
as one form always
becomes another..
but ever yet with
more than !ust
a shadow of its
eldest spirit
0s we prepare for a new semester, it's worth 1uoting *ocrates on education+
"2ducation is not what some people declare it to be, namely, the putting of knowledge into souls
that lack it, like putting sight into blind eyes ... 3but rather education is4 the 567898:
07%68; %& 5H2 )H%-2 *%6-."
buster was always surfin' the bleeding edge (of raw and artful truth)
"'oreover, if one delves into the complexities of the association of hare and moon as manifest in
mythology as well as in graphic imagery, correspondence between those of <hina and 'exico
seem both too complex and too arbitrary to have been arrived at independently. 9ndeed, the
mythology and imagery of the hare on the moon in 'esoamerica would seem to derive from
5ranspacific sources."
a third punctum in this image...the tragedy of an unconscious mind so casually occupied by
dictating the physical and psychic circumstances of another..animal and,or human..who will
always remain %ther for those who under the dream of power try to shape the realm of those who
would live wildly if allowed... (re$<all please...she says in Her face..you too are animal)
it seems clear at this point late in his life, that *tevens knew the full clean weight of his
poetic legacy, that it would be in strong clear verse, anchored in 8ature and the simple
forms of common human experience"here, in surely one of the very last poems, it is
almost now set to page as if in a book of common prayer. it even seems that it might
easily serve either christian or pagan ears, in fact i cannot read this and not think of
his poem, "*unday 'orning"
)allace further contrasts the clarity of the sounds which the sun rise brings with it always to the
"the vast ventrilo1uism %f sleep's faded papiermache.." the figments..and false voices of the
dreamer's dream which dissolves under the clarity and -ight of a poetry founded not on merely
ideas of things, but the very 5hing itself. 5he light of the sun comes from the outside..in..from
things illumined by the internal sun of our minds"and it is musically preceded by the chorister's
< note..in tuning the voices of the human chorus..which follows on the choral rings of "the
colossal *68"".hear, what a powerful image that wallace calls out in honor of all poets who've
come before..and who will follow, those heard in birthing..within the late winter's scrawny
cry".wallace assures us, that though the sun is still far away, heard now more than seen by the
old poet, it is still -9=2"not failing to forget..that for him the poem is not !ust a thing, but its
own form..new knowledge of reality.
don't forgo or forget the that as %thers have said before we even have rightly posed the 1uestion
today or even yet tomorrow"
0t the centre of 9bn >0rabi?s ideas is a cosmology that reminds me of the Hindu myth which
0lan )atts unfolded with admirable clarity in The Book+ essentially, the manifest universe is
:od playing @hideandseekA with himself, and we are all :od in disguise. %f course, 9bn >0rabi
and <orbin both have much more than that to say on the sub!ect. Berhaps the defining concept
here is the paradoxical and intellectually elusive intimacy and reciprocity between the mystic in
prayer and :odCor at least, @his -ordA, the manifestation that forms his personal link to @:odA,
who is in the absolute sense utterly unknowable. 5he mystic?s perception of his -ord is also his
knowledge of himselfD in a cosmos where we are specific manifestations of the divine,
knowledge of :od must always conflate with selfknowledge.