A kind of a "dangerous supplement", marked, scarred on a body, post-orgasmically, always, already in anticipation of (a) crisis OR for a desert avec 'agape'. Mindb(l)ogg(l)ing Noise. "Avalanche, would you share my last pursuit?" (Baudelaire)

Monday, January 05, 2004

Xelwnes...

areskoun mou oi xelwnes.

en pellares pou grafoumen dame enne? oti mas fkei? Simera enan prama, avrio allon, jai opos tin Sontag en tha simfonoumen me tous proin eaftous mas. San thiabazw ta pramata dame ethimithika ton filo mou ton Adorno: "The intellectuals themselves are already so heavily commited to what is endorsed in their isolated sphere that they no longer desire anything that does not carry the highbrow tag" (Minima Moralia). Distixos o kaimenos Adorno eginen 'highbrow tag' o idios. Vasika lew oti kapote xriazonte oi xelwnes. Alla sto thema tou tiflou...

"Tiresias is the most important personage in the poem, uniting all the rest...What Tiresias sees in fact, is the substance of the poem" - Notes to The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot.
[Mallon enthusiastiken o Kurios F.R. Leavis ama to iden touto - epitelous ivren ton protagonist(i) tou poiimatos, parolio na vrei jai narrative, an den evriske itan na katastrafi o kosmos tou. Eftixos pou evalen jai footnotes o Eliot, yia na exoun kati na kratoun jinoi pou foounte na pidixoun ologimni messto poiima - to dip their toe in gingerly, but not dare to dive in and submerge themselves (until human voices wake us...) Oh Thank God good old Thomas put those footnotes in, otherwise I wouldn't have understood a word and then that would make me intellectually inferior.]
Ti thwrei o tiflos? Ta panta? Claritas, lalei o Dedalus, "is the instant wherein that supreme quality of beauty, the clear radiance of the esthetic image, is apprehended luminously by the mind which has been arrested by its wholeness and fascinated by its harmony".
To re-see. To see things (differently) is perhaps enough. Claritas makes the poet then. Ara o kallitexnis en badizei sta skoteina, en jeinos pou badizei sto twra - sto here, pou kamnei ta quotidian/kathimerina pramata, jai jiame pou emeis thoroumen ta oulla xwris na thoroumen pleon, yia ton kallitexni oulla exoun to sheen tou claritas. San vlepis kati kathimerino, na metamorfonete se poiisi. The translation of sight to thought to be through the means of poetry.

Mikri xelwna simera. Siga siga tha megalwsi.

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