"Unbeknowst to you would ire turn o'er see, a nuncio would I return here. How (from the sublime to the ridiculous) times out of oft, my future, shall we think deepest of love and recollection by thee but me far away on the pillow, breathing foundly o'er my names all through the empties, whilst moidhered by the rattle of the doppeldoorknockers. Our homerole poet to Oestelinda, Fred Wetherley, puts it somewhys better. You are sitting on me style, maybe, whereoft I helped your one. Littlegame rumile from Liffalidebankum, (Toobliqueme!) but a big corner fill you do in this unadulterated seat of our affections. Aerwenger's my breed so many we uncreepinglymultipede like the sands on Amberhann. Sevenheavens, O heaven! ly waount yiou! yore ways to melittleme were wonderful so Ickam purseproud in sending uym loveliest pansiful thoughts touching me dash in-you through wee dots Hyphen, the so pretty arched godkin of beddinnights. If I've proved to your sallysfashion how I'm a man of the Armor let me so, let me sue,let me see your isabellis. How I should, should I survive, as, please the uniter of U.M.I. hearts, I am living in hopes to do, replacing mig wandering handsup in yawers so yeager for mitch, positevely cover the two pure chicks of your comely plumpchake with zuccherikissings, hong, kong, and so gong, that I'd scare the bats out of the ivfry one of those puggy mornings, honestly, by my rantandog and daddyoak I will, become come coming when,upon the mingling of our meeting waters, wish to wisher, like massive mountains to part no more, you will there and then, in those happy moments of ouryour soft accord, rainkiss on me back, for full marks with shouldered arms, and in that united I.R.U. stade, when I come (touf!touf!) wildflier's fox into my own greengeese again swap sweetened smugs, six of one for half a dozen of the other, till they'll bet we're the cuckoo derby cherries next come back to Ealing as come they must, as they musted in their past, as they must for my pressing season, as hereinafter must they chirrywill immediately suant on my safe returnto ignorance and bliss in my horseless Coppal Poor, through suirland and noreland kings country and queens, with my ropes of pearls for gamey girls the way ye'll hardly. Knowme."
James Joyce, FW, 445:26 - 446:26
"And what can I tell you my brother, my killer, what can I possibly say/... I'm glad you stood in my way." L. Cohen Famous Blue Raincoat
"...Paidi-pou tha me peis emena! Paixe an koitas
Kane mou to fyto-tyliga mou ton anemo
Emba ston ypno mias parhenas kai fere mou to rouho tis
Sa skylos mes sta dontia. I an ohi, tote
Gavgise, Gavgise pisw apo tin skia sou
Opw egw zwin olokliri mesa sta mesimeria.
(...)
Synazei synnefa kai tous krataei parea
Opws egw st' aspro harti kai sto molyvi
Tis nyhtes pou den ehoune roloi na doune
Ti paei na pei "den prepei", "den armozei".
Egw ehw dei parthenes ki ehw anoixei
To hnoudero tous ostrako na vrw to mesa meros
To meros tis katastrofis ka tou thanatou."
Odysseas Elytis, apo tin syllogi O Mikros Naftilos
avec 'agape', then, and tea, 'fare forward voyagers'
Thursday, March 18, 2004
Tuesday, March 16, 2004
"Ah, the manifestation of multiplicity, you can actually see it, it ain't just words"
"-Blessed relief has come to me from just that minute-Everything has washed away- I'm perfectly normal again-(...)-I'm sitting smiling in the sun, the birds sing again, all's well again.
I stll can't understand it."
Jack Kerouac, Big Sur, p. 164
His hand is under
Her smooth round breast;
So he who has sorrow
Shall have rest.
From James Joyce, Chamber Music, XVIII
Ouden! Plin Pothou kai Pathous, Ouden!
I stll can't understand it."
Jack Kerouac, Big Sur, p. 164
His hand is under
Her smooth round breast;
So he who has sorrow
Shall have rest.
From James Joyce, Chamber Music, XVIII
Ouden! Plin Pothou kai Pathous, Ouden!
Sunday, March 14, 2004
"Duos!" [Minima Adornian Con-strip-tution]
"To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults."
"Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying."
"The whole is the false."
N.B. "The expression of history in things is no other than that of past torment (...) History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it."
"Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying."
"The whole is the false."
N.B. "The expression of history in things is no other than that of past torment (...) History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it."
H(ere) C(omes) E(verybody) [H-eelenique Cuntos 'Erawhere]
din, pomb_pomb, ta paranoma filia mou, ta 'hw kopsei sto 'hw pei / vgazw aima ap'tin kardia mou, kai sou vazw ypografi pomb_pomb katw ap'to poukamiso mou i kardia mou svinei / ki an to sfalma einai diko mou deixe kalosyni ding
Dimb! He stottered from the latter. Damb! he was dud. Dumb! Mastabatoom, mastabadtom, when a mon merries his lute is all long. For whole the world to see.
Shize? I should shee! (FW, 6:9-13)
'Twas he was the dacent gaylabouring youth. Sharpen his pillowscone, tap up his bier! E'erawhere in this whorl would ye hear sich a din again? (FW, 6:23-25)
Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the phrace for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish. (FW, 4:15-17)
Dimb! He stottered from the latter. Damb! he was dud. Dumb! Mastabatoom, mastabadtom, when a mon merries his lute is all long. For whole the world to see.
Shize? I should shee! (FW, 6:9-13)
'Twas he was the dacent gaylabouring youth. Sharpen his pillowscone, tap up his bier! E'erawhere in this whorl would ye hear sich a din again? (FW, 6:23-25)
Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the phrace for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish. (FW, 4:15-17)
Round One (mbing mbing!)
We must get rid of our superstitious valuation of texts and written poetry. Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us, deadens our responses, and prevents us from making contact with that underlying power, call it thought-energy, the life force, the determination of change, lunar menses, or anything you like. Beneath the poetry of the texts, there is the actual poetry, without form and without text...
...Once and for all, enough of this closed, egoitstic and personal art.
No More Masterpieces Antonin Artaud
[Poetry] should not simplify. Its projections and inventions should be a match for the complex reality which surrounds it and out of which it is generated... As long as the coordinates of the imagined thing correspond to those of the world that we live in and endure, poetry is fulfilling its counterweighting function. It becomes another truth to which we can have recourse, before which we can know ourselves in a more fully empowered way. In fact, to read poetry of this totally adequate kind is to experience something bracing and memorable, something capable of increasing in value over the whole course of a lifetime...
At such moments, the delight of having one's faculties simultaneously provoked and gratified is like gaining an upper hand over all that is contingent and (as Borges says) 'inconsequential'. There is a sensation both of arrival and of prospect, so that one does indeed seem to 'recover a past' and 'prefigure a future', and thereby to complete the circle of one's being. When this happens, we have a distinct sensation that (to borrow a phrase from George Seferis's notebooks) poetry is 'strong enough to help'; it is then that its redress grows palpable.
The Redress of Poetry Seamus Heaney
as always, Seamus gets more air time.
...Once and for all, enough of this closed, egoitstic and personal art.
No More Masterpieces Antonin Artaud
[Poetry] should not simplify. Its projections and inventions should be a match for the complex reality which surrounds it and out of which it is generated... As long as the coordinates of the imagined thing correspond to those of the world that we live in and endure, poetry is fulfilling its counterweighting function. It becomes another truth to which we can have recourse, before which we can know ourselves in a more fully empowered way. In fact, to read poetry of this totally adequate kind is to experience something bracing and memorable, something capable of increasing in value over the whole course of a lifetime...
At such moments, the delight of having one's faculties simultaneously provoked and gratified is like gaining an upper hand over all that is contingent and (as Borges says) 'inconsequential'. There is a sensation both of arrival and of prospect, so that one does indeed seem to 'recover a past' and 'prefigure a future', and thereby to complete the circle of one's being. When this happens, we have a distinct sensation that (to borrow a phrase from George Seferis's notebooks) poetry is 'strong enough to help'; it is then that its redress grows palpable.
The Redress of Poetry Seamus Heaney
as always, Seamus gets more air time.
Saturday, March 13, 2004
To Whom It May Concern
Dear Sir/Madam
I am writing on behalf of the members of
The Society of the Friends of the Ombion
concerning the notebooks for the Finnegan's
Wake, by James Joyce. As you would know,
March signifies (if I may use this term when
talking - partly - for Joyce) the end of winter
(those winter blues are gone now!), the
beginning of spring, our return (yet and almost)
back to New Division and/or Simis' and of course
the three-month aniversary of Ombion.
It has been kindly and non-subtly requested
that on the occasion of this much expected
anniversary Joyce's mentioned-above notebooks be
offered as a present to Demetris, the Ombion mastros -
for the past achievements and for the future anticipations.
That said, I would be grateful if you could assist
me with details of Joyce's notebooks as well as
a quotation with the price (postage as well).
My wishes from all my nails -
Looking forward (and not farewell),
Yours Supplementary,
The Society of the Friends of the Ombion.
(if you are looking for any signature please see
ending words of 'Signature, Event, Context' by Derrida, J.)
I am writing on behalf of the members of
The Society of the Friends of the Ombion
concerning the notebooks for the Finnegan's
Wake, by James Joyce. As you would know,
March signifies (if I may use this term when
talking - partly - for Joyce) the end of winter
(those winter blues are gone now!), the
beginning of spring, our return (yet and almost)
back to New Division and/or Simis' and of course
the three-month aniversary of Ombion.
It has been kindly and non-subtly requested
that on the occasion of this much expected
anniversary Joyce's mentioned-above notebooks be
offered as a present to Demetris, the Ombion mastros -
for the past achievements and for the future anticipations.
That said, I would be grateful if you could assist
me with details of Joyce's notebooks as well as
a quotation with the price (postage as well).
My wishes from all my nails -
Looking forward (and not farewell),
Yours Supplementary,
The Society of the Friends of the Ombion.
(if you are looking for any signature please see
ending words of 'Signature, Event, Context' by Derrida, J.)
Friday, March 12, 2004
"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." Walter Benjamin, Fancy Goods, One-Way Street
epeidi eimai siouros oti egyrefkete ti dwro na mou kamete gia ta triminia tou ombion, vriskomai stin efharisti thesi na sas anakoinosw pws den hreiazete na psahnete allo. idou, ta notebooks tou Joyce gia to Finnegans Wake, pou twra vriskonte sto Buffalo, U.S. of Armorica, tha itan oti prepei. steilte ena minimataki sto panepistimio tis Vouvalias na mathete times kai postage jai ean en polla akriva, telospantwn, na sas dokw jai gw xerw, 10 lires i kati, gia tin hara pou tha mou kanete.
Efharistw ek twn proterwn - jai ean ehete kati pou thelete na sas 'gorasoume min distasete na mas to peite.
[a! thelw jai mian BMW 'Isetta' lefki i kokini, opws jeini pou eida simera stin Rugby St. - ean den pouloun ta Buffalo Notebooks. (fysika jai to athasi paei tis, ma touti en i germaniki tou 1956, me 4 trohous, jai hwris sliding window i to rack pisw. hm! provlimatizoume twra... mwro mou!)]
Efharistw ek twn proterwn - jai ean ehete kati pou thelete na sas 'gorasoume min distasete na mas to peite.
[a! thelw jai mian BMW 'Isetta' lefki i kokini, opws jeini pou eida simera stin Rugby St. - ean den pouloun ta Buffalo Notebooks. (fysika jai to athasi paei tis, ma touti en i germaniki tou 1956, me 4 trohous, jai hwris sliding window i to rack pisw. hm! provlimatizoume twra... mwro mou!)]
a habit of expression
arxizw xana, to idio anapnoo kataxwniasma, me f. scott fitzgerald, john keats ke samuel beckett. if I were, if I were, this weary life, amid shadows and poems - those a'level poems haunting, those never-read yet never forgotten poems/ ena terastio project pros apofigi ke lipisi. the poem, the poem, all is left, all that is left, all (that) is left alone.
je osoi mono me logia (already written) mporoun na miloun as katalavoun. touto to habit of expression.
what would I do what I did yesterday and the day before
peering out of my deadlight looking for another
wandering like me eddying far from all the living
in a convulsive space
among the voices voiceless
that throng my hiddenness
(Beckett, S. last lines of 'que ferais-je sans ce monde (what would I do without this world)')
Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
(Keats, J. last lines of 'To Autumn')
'Tis a word that's quickly spoken,
Which being unrestrained, a heart is broken.
(Beaumont + Fletcher, The Spanish Curate)
But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus said; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness.
(Bible, Acts, ch. XXVI, v. 25)
den eine to psema ma i alithia enas topos pou mporeis na krifteis - diafana krina
I would begin with the greek word, omphalos, meaning the navel, and hence the stone that marked the centre of the world, and repeat it, omphalos omphalos omphalos, until its blunt and falling music becomes the music of somebody pumping water at the pump outside our back door.
(Seamus Heaney beginning of 'Mossbawm')
He showed how poetic vocation entails the disciplining of a habit of expression until it becomes fundamental to the whole conduct of a life.
(Seamus Heaney, ending of 'Learning from Eliot')
je osoi mono me logia (already written) mporoun na miloun as katalavoun. touto to habit of expression.
what would I do what I did yesterday and the day before
peering out of my deadlight looking for another
wandering like me eddying far from all the living
in a convulsive space
among the voices voiceless
that throng my hiddenness
(Beckett, S. last lines of 'que ferais-je sans ce monde (what would I do without this world)')
Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
(Keats, J. last lines of 'To Autumn')
'Tis a word that's quickly spoken,
Which being unrestrained, a heart is broken.
(Beaumont + Fletcher, The Spanish Curate)
But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus said; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness.
(Bible, Acts, ch. XXVI, v. 25)
den eine to psema ma i alithia enas topos pou mporeis na krifteis - diafana krina
I would begin with the greek word, omphalos, meaning the navel, and hence the stone that marked the centre of the world, and repeat it, omphalos omphalos omphalos, until its blunt and falling music becomes the music of somebody pumping water at the pump outside our back door.
(Seamus Heaney beginning of 'Mossbawm')
He showed how poetic vocation entails the disciplining of a habit of expression until it becomes fundamental to the whole conduct of a life.
(Seamus Heaney, ending of 'Learning from Eliot')
...aidontes kai psallontes ti kardia ymwn...
"The flesh is ill, and I've read all the books"
Stephan Mallarme
Oh, ma-ne: "So softly this morning occurs. Yes. Carry me along, taddy, like you done through the toy fair...Whish! A gull. Gulls. Far Calls. Coming, far! End here. Us then. Lps. The keys to. Given! A way a lone a last a loved a long the
rivverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs."
Joyce, FW, 628: 8-9, 13-16, 3: 1-3
a,
ah mi
al
on praman to
'ftin. [vale ftin, krostou, klostou, klotsou, patsou, pourtou, patta, pouttos, hymen, hyphen, 'hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii', hce, HC Earwicker, vale ftin]
vallea calda, enan praman, leo
vade mecum
[afete ta paidia erthoun pros eme; Spatial denotation of the cyberspace, makes no difference to its function or its use to us. So as long as access is open from wherever, navigation, surfing, swimming, and jumping can go on, while all these queries float unspecified. Taliotis, Constatntinos, 2004]
un-/-vallerious vales stin dyname tou m,
e (in trans.)
*arnoume na to kamw hypertext.
afierwmeno ston kwsti, ton a'rfo mou: antistixti (contrapount: contra/pountos, contra-band-o and not merely a counterpunkt) sto preloudio tou peri e-modernity.
[Des oh, erevnitike reader,+ tin forma tou Antifoniou stin Byz. Hymnologia for One two moremens more.(FW, 628: 5-6) plus John Cage "Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano" (1948): "Certain old and lovely things, [but] not without perversion" Barthes]
"We say. Trust us. Our game. (For fun!)" FW, 460: 14-15
Stephan Mallarme
Oh, ma-ne: "So softly this morning occurs. Yes. Carry me along, taddy, like you done through the toy fair...Whish! A gull. Gulls. Far Calls. Coming, far! End here. Us then. Lps. The keys to. Given! A way a lone a last a loved a long the
rivverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs."
Joyce, FW, 628: 8-9, 13-16, 3: 1-3
a,
ah mi
al
on praman to
'ftin. [vale ftin, krostou, klostou, klotsou, patsou, pourtou, patta, pouttos, hymen, hyphen, 'hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii', hce, HC Earwicker, vale ftin]
vallea calda, enan praman, leo
vade mecum
[afete ta paidia erthoun pros eme; Spatial denotation of the cyberspace, makes no difference to its function or its use to us. So as long as access is open from wherever, navigation, surfing, swimming, and jumping can go on, while all these queries float unspecified. Taliotis, Constatntinos, 2004]
un-/-vallerious vales stin dyname tou m,
e (in trans.)
*arnoume na to kamw hypertext.
afierwmeno ston kwsti, ton a'rfo mou: antistixti (contrapount: contra/pountos, contra-band-o and not merely a counterpunkt) sto preloudio tou peri e-modernity.
[Des oh, erevnitike reader,+ tin forma tou Antifoniou stin Byz. Hymnologia for One two moremens more.(FW, 628: 5-6) plus John Cage "Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano" (1948): "Certain old and lovely things, [but] not without perversion" Barthes]
"We say. Trust us. Our game. (For fun!)" FW, 460: 14-15
Thursday, March 11, 2004
Wednesday, March 10, 2004
and let’s start from scratch [again] or after we start, let there be more night
'Who am I
where do I come from
I am Antonin Artaud
and I say it
as only I know how to
and you will see my real body
bursting into fragments
collected
under 10,000 notorious looks
as a new body
which you'll never be able to forget
for it's me
the Man
who will be judge
in the final reckoning
it's to me
that all the elements
of body and things
will come to be referred
it's the state of my
body will shape
the Last Judgement...' - Antonin Artaud, a little postscript to a poem on the Theatre of Cruelty
‘Coudre: 1. "I could ... stitch", and to do this I will have to pierce the skin of the figure with a needle or a pointed lead, to perforate it, to penetrate it, to riddle it with holes, but I can stitch 2. in order to close the wound, to stitch it up, to scar it, and I can do this even to the wound which I open up while stitching. I wiled the thread which repairs, reassembles the tissues, ties them together; i adjust the garment which, covering the surface of the body, moulds to it in its natural form, reveals the form in covering it.
…
Couturer, in fact, shares its ambivalence with coudre (to pierce but also to tie together the tissues, skin, canvas or flesh) but it still adds its own ... To be occupied with seaming means to cover incessantly with scars. For this is the sense of this verb which applies the stitching or sewing of a seam exclusively to the flesh. Having a seamed body means being able to show it covered with traces, scars from cuts and injuries.
…
Gratter: 1. "I could ... scratch" because I could irritate the surface, attack it by friction using an instrument attached to the edge of the hand, and this may be the fingernail. By scratching it I risk inflicting injuries, I cause the body on which I thereby lay hands to lose substance. I want to get my hands on it.’
Excerpts from Jacques Derrida, "Forcener le subjectile".
Romeo and Juliet envisaged as a bunch of fucking creeps
Gaze at stars. Werewolves and ghosts and books, paper bag travel into void, words twitching here and (t)here, all over the place, growing darker each day, bolts scattered, that machine (we have no time left for angels) that steamed its way, its topos (ouranios) where She had stolen the take take, take away cheese all American Apple pie made from [imported apples], guts splashing out and look at that that’s my hand, but my hand is here, no his hand is there (heard of this thing called some ancient name, when you lose a part of your body, you get a phantom/ghost part in its place that haunts you now and then before you get used to it) and She bites and bites and again, and when you get the other Other telling you its allright then you go for it, we’ll beat the bad guy later on, when we break Him into pieces – no no St. Augustine, the Archon had been unable to provide us with the straight, highway, always there, no turns or pages missing, yeah yeah we got him in the corner now let’s take him down, no no he’s managing an amazing recovery and then, She runs ashamed, tries to pick out a nice dress from the cupboard [obviously made of fig tree] and he puts on his clothes back, that was good sweet-heart, and look now big daddy is coming down from upstairs and he’s fucking mad, you know, She had made a little deal with his little angel there, what the fuck was he meant to do, say it’s allright, have another go, but she hadn’t left a single piece, She had crossed the line(τομή), went a little it too far now, what you think you doin’ in there, huh, hiding in the cupboard like a stupid fuck, that’s She we’re talking about, and the clouds roared and the heavens wept and the light was cast away and there came wrath and the problem of evil was in sight, are you there already, great deceiver who hath made my woman engage in several acts of cannibalism over the last three years, is it true that you and the you who ‘who are you who who who who’* were acting a little strange and information shows that, repetition, repetition, I have lost my repetition, maybe he’s getting a little juvenile, we’ll fix that up for good and then his wife got pregnant (M.F. kicked them out of his house for good, no more playing mister wise, actually omniscient, omnipotent and, of course, or to draw your attention to, omnipresent [and omnibenevolent] guy, you fuck with the One and you find there are parts missing, all those warnings and look what they did, he/She fuck with something as fragile and he/She know its going to break and that other guy, who let him loose, turns round to his goons, είπα σας shίλιες φορές, εσείς εν ακούτε, βαόννετε το κανjέλλιν, εσείς τίποτε, and he sent them off to do his dirty laundry with Julius, he was doing time) they had I dunno how many kids and lived happily ever after as their genes would move on from generation to generation, too bad about the old one, Babel was it, something like that. Which of course is not true. [Except maybe for the phantom leg that was definitely (t)here.]
*The Who
‘Χρεώνει βαριές ευθύνες στους κομμουνιστές αυτό το εκλογικό αποτέλεσμα. Να γίνουν καλύτεροι, ποιοτικότεροι, να κάνουν περισσότερα ώστε αυτός ο πυρήνας να απλωθεί μ' αυτά τα χαρακτηριστικά σ' όλα τα μέτωπα. Διά ταύτα: Η ξεκούραση του πολεμιστή μετά τη μάχη, αναβάλλεται. Γιατί έχουμε αγώνα... σήμερα. Για να μπορούμε να βλέπουμε τον μπούσουλα να παίζει καρτίνι με καρτίνι όλο και πιο κοντά στη λαϊκή συμμαχία, για τη λαϊκή εξουσία και οικονομία που έχουν ανάγκη η εργατική τάξη και τ' άλλα λαϊκά στρώματα.’ - Rizospastis, 10/3/2004
‘Once, in 1946, while still an adolescent, I was to sign my name on the other side of the sky during a fantastic "realistico-imaginary" journey. That day, as I lay stretched upon the beach of Nice, I began to feel hatred for birds which flew back and forth across my blue sky, cloudless sky, because they tried to bore holes in my greatest and most beautiful work.
…
Jonathan Swift, in his Voyage to Laputa, gave the distances and periods of rotation of the satellites of Mars though they were unknown at the time;
When the American astronomer, Asoph Hall, discovered them in 1877, he realized his measurements were the same as those of Swift. Seized by panic, he named them Pbobos and Deimos, Fear and Terror! With these two words - Fear and Terror - I find myself before you in the year 1946, ready to dive into the void.
Long Live the Immaterial!
And now,
Thank you for your kind attention.
YVES KLEIN
Hotel Chelsea, New York, 1961’
["The Chelsea Hotel Manifesto"]
where do I come from
I am Antonin Artaud
and I say it
as only I know how to
and you will see my real body
bursting into fragments
collected
under 10,000 notorious looks
as a new body
which you'll never be able to forget
for it's me
the Man
who will be judge
in the final reckoning
it's to me
that all the elements
of body and things
will come to be referred
it's the state of my
body will shape
the Last Judgement...' - Antonin Artaud, a little postscript to a poem on the Theatre of Cruelty
‘Coudre: 1. "I could ... stitch", and to do this I will have to pierce the skin of the figure with a needle or a pointed lead, to perforate it, to penetrate it, to riddle it with holes, but I can stitch 2. in order to close the wound, to stitch it up, to scar it, and I can do this even to the wound which I open up while stitching. I wiled the thread which repairs, reassembles the tissues, ties them together; i adjust the garment which, covering the surface of the body, moulds to it in its natural form, reveals the form in covering it.
…
Couturer, in fact, shares its ambivalence with coudre (to pierce but also to tie together the tissues, skin, canvas or flesh) but it still adds its own ... To be occupied with seaming means to cover incessantly with scars. For this is the sense of this verb which applies the stitching or sewing of a seam exclusively to the flesh. Having a seamed body means being able to show it covered with traces, scars from cuts and injuries.
…
Gratter: 1. "I could ... scratch" because I could irritate the surface, attack it by friction using an instrument attached to the edge of the hand, and this may be the fingernail. By scratching it I risk inflicting injuries, I cause the body on which I thereby lay hands to lose substance. I want to get my hands on it.’
Excerpts from Jacques Derrida, "Forcener le subjectile".
Romeo and Juliet envisaged as a bunch of fucking creeps
Gaze at stars. Werewolves and ghosts and books, paper bag travel into void, words twitching here and (t)here, all over the place, growing darker each day, bolts scattered, that machine (we have no time left for angels) that steamed its way, its topos (ouranios) where She had stolen the take take, take away cheese all American Apple pie made from [imported apples], guts splashing out and look at that that’s my hand, but my hand is here, no his hand is there (heard of this thing called some ancient name, when you lose a part of your body, you get a phantom/ghost part in its place that haunts you now and then before you get used to it) and She bites and bites and again, and when you get the other Other telling you its allright then you go for it, we’ll beat the bad guy later on, when we break Him into pieces – no no St. Augustine, the Archon had been unable to provide us with the straight, highway, always there, no turns or pages missing, yeah yeah we got him in the corner now let’s take him down, no no he’s managing an amazing recovery and then, She runs ashamed, tries to pick out a nice dress from the cupboard [obviously made of fig tree] and he puts on his clothes back, that was good sweet-heart, and look now big daddy is coming down from upstairs and he’s fucking mad, you know, She had made a little deal with his little angel there, what the fuck was he meant to do, say it’s allright, have another go, but she hadn’t left a single piece, She had crossed the line(τομή), went a little it too far now, what you think you doin’ in there, huh, hiding in the cupboard like a stupid fuck, that’s She we’re talking about, and the clouds roared and the heavens wept and the light was cast away and there came wrath and the problem of evil was in sight, are you there already, great deceiver who hath made my woman engage in several acts of cannibalism over the last three years, is it true that you and the you who ‘who are you who who who who’* were acting a little strange and information shows that, repetition, repetition, I have lost my repetition, maybe he’s getting a little juvenile, we’ll fix that up for good and then his wife got pregnant (M.F. kicked them out of his house for good, no more playing mister wise, actually omniscient, omnipotent and, of course, or to draw your attention to, omnipresent [and omnibenevolent] guy, you fuck with the One and you find there are parts missing, all those warnings and look what they did, he/She fuck with something as fragile and he/She know its going to break and that other guy, who let him loose, turns round to his goons, είπα σας shίλιες φορές, εσείς εν ακούτε, βαόννετε το κανjέλλιν, εσείς τίποτε, and he sent them off to do his dirty laundry with Julius, he was doing time) they had I dunno how many kids and lived happily ever after as their genes would move on from generation to generation, too bad about the old one, Babel was it, something like that. Which of course is not true. [Except maybe for the phantom leg that was definitely (t)here.]
*The Who
‘Χρεώνει βαριές ευθύνες στους κομμουνιστές αυτό το εκλογικό αποτέλεσμα. Να γίνουν καλύτεροι, ποιοτικότεροι, να κάνουν περισσότερα ώστε αυτός ο πυρήνας να απλωθεί μ' αυτά τα χαρακτηριστικά σ' όλα τα μέτωπα. Διά ταύτα: Η ξεκούραση του πολεμιστή μετά τη μάχη, αναβάλλεται. Γιατί έχουμε αγώνα... σήμερα. Για να μπορούμε να βλέπουμε τον μπούσουλα να παίζει καρτίνι με καρτίνι όλο και πιο κοντά στη λαϊκή συμμαχία, για τη λαϊκή εξουσία και οικονομία που έχουν ανάγκη η εργατική τάξη και τ' άλλα λαϊκά στρώματα.’ - Rizospastis, 10/3/2004
‘Once, in 1946, while still an adolescent, I was to sign my name on the other side of the sky during a fantastic "realistico-imaginary" journey. That day, as I lay stretched upon the beach of Nice, I began to feel hatred for birds which flew back and forth across my blue sky, cloudless sky, because they tried to bore holes in my greatest and most beautiful work.
…
Jonathan Swift, in his Voyage to Laputa, gave the distances and periods of rotation of the satellites of Mars though they were unknown at the time;
When the American astronomer, Asoph Hall, discovered them in 1877, he realized his measurements were the same as those of Swift. Seized by panic, he named them Pbobos and Deimos, Fear and Terror! With these two words - Fear and Terror - I find myself before you in the year 1946, ready to dive into the void.
Long Live the Immaterial!
And now,
Thank you for your kind attention.
YVES KLEIN
Hotel Chelsea, New York, 1961’
["The Chelsea Hotel Manifesto"]
+Prosforo+
Joyceance!
F I N I G A N 'S W A K E
(Lively)
Tim Finigan liv'd in Walker Street,
An Irish Gentleman mighty odd,
He'd a beautiful brogue so rich and sweet,
And to rise in the world he carried the hod;
But you see he'd a sort of a tip-ling way
With a love of liquor poor Tim was born,
And to help him through his work each day,
He'd a drop of the creature ev'-ry morn.
(Chorus) (Boisterous)
Whack, hur-rah, dance to your partners,
Welt the flute your trot-ters shake,
Is-n't it truth I've told ye,
Lot's of fun at Fin-i-guns wake.
One morning Tim was rather full,
His head felt heavy, which made him shake,
He felt from the ladder and broke his skull;
So they carried him home his corpse to wake:
They rolled him up in a nice clean sheet,
And laid him out upon the bed,
With fourteen candles round his feet,
And a couple of dozen around his head.
(Chorus)
His friends assembled at this wake,
Missus Finigan called out for the lunch:
First they laid in tay and cake
Then pipes and tombaky and whiskey punch.
Miss Biddy O'Neil, began to cry:
"Such a purty corpse did you ever see:
Arrah! Tim avourneen, an' why did ye die?"
"Och, none of your gab", sez Judy Magee.
(Chorus)
Then Peggy O'Connor took up the job,
"Arrah, Biddy" says she, "ye'er wrong I'm sure."
But Judy then gave her a belt on the gob.
I left her sprawling on the fure.
Each side in war did soon engage:
'Twas woman to woman and man to man:
Shillelah law was all the rage,
And a bloody ruction soon began.
(Chorus)
Mickey Mulvaney raised his head,
When a gallon of whiskey flew at him
It missed him_and hoping on the bed,
The liquor scattered over Tim!
Bedad! he revives! see how he raises!
An' Timothy jumping from the bed,
Cries, while he lathered around like blazus:
"Bad luck till yer souls d'ye think I'm dead!"
(Chorus)
By Charles Glover, 1860's
F I N I G A N 'S W A K E
(Lively)
Tim Finigan liv'd in Walker Street,
An Irish Gentleman mighty odd,
He'd a beautiful brogue so rich and sweet,
And to rise in the world he carried the hod;
But you see he'd a sort of a tip-ling way
With a love of liquor poor Tim was born,
And to help him through his work each day,
He'd a drop of the creature ev'-ry morn.
(Chorus) (Boisterous)
Whack, hur-rah, dance to your partners,
Welt the flute your trot-ters shake,
Is-n't it truth I've told ye,
Lot's of fun at Fin-i-guns wake.
One morning Tim was rather full,
His head felt heavy, which made him shake,
He felt from the ladder and broke his skull;
So they carried him home his corpse to wake:
They rolled him up in a nice clean sheet,
And laid him out upon the bed,
With fourteen candles round his feet,
And a couple of dozen around his head.
(Chorus)
His friends assembled at this wake,
Missus Finigan called out for the lunch:
First they laid in tay and cake
Then pipes and tombaky and whiskey punch.
Miss Biddy O'Neil, began to cry:
"Such a purty corpse did you ever see:
Arrah! Tim avourneen, an' why did ye die?"
"Och, none of your gab", sez Judy Magee.
(Chorus)
Then Peggy O'Connor took up the job,
"Arrah, Biddy" says she, "ye'er wrong I'm sure."
But Judy then gave her a belt on the gob.
I left her sprawling on the fure.
Each side in war did soon engage:
'Twas woman to woman and man to man:
Shillelah law was all the rage,
And a bloody ruction soon began.
(Chorus)
Mickey Mulvaney raised his head,
When a gallon of whiskey flew at him
It missed him_and hoping on the bed,
The liquor scattered over Tim!
Bedad! he revives! see how he raises!
An' Timothy jumping from the bed,
Cries, while he lathered around like blazus:
"Bad luck till yer souls d'ye think I'm dead!"
(Chorus)
By Charles Glover, 1860's
post-stamp from europe (count the days, my dears, count!)
[>researchers and staff of research centres have quit in France over lack of funding - at least they can exercise the right to the symbolic!-;)]
Tuesday, March 09, 2004
The rape of Syvilla *
* kindly adapted from Ted Hughes' 'Tales from Ovid' - permission kindly not requested.
Tales for Ombid (Taliotis, D.) -
Ombid was the first
To split open the language witth a jamesonhare
The first
To plough from home and nurse harassements
...
Everything seems to (be) sound
It was then her all, not sitting but standing,
Noticed him.
She poured another litre, lettre on his face
whisky for the unwhiskered
'Gie mou', 'esou pou se to meso mou
'esou pou se ta sherka mou je ta daxtilia mou
ela da, mwro mou,
sou mprostra je gw ta piswn,
irten i wra na pamen eksw pou dame
en koutsioume pion kanena -
exasame je to Pallas, epie je to Athineon
Je twra 'en oulla OK'
Do we permit it?
Now is your opportunity'
Sitting, drinking with his companions.
Brilliant as butterflies
They flitted hither and thither exactly
'tis poutanas pale popse'
In the sweep of a single glance
And snatched him right away -
Love pauses for nothing,
especially Love for nothing
The sole condition -
Fixed by the waste around us-
Is this:
You will write as if you talked!
And you will see as if everybody saw
'enna se valw panw se mian aorati, theorati foukou esena
Skepsi!
na se thwroun oulloi na gennas
na gernas
na girnas'
...
In the sunless green cactusland, new and divided
we will produce this tell-tale
await for the summer,
our nature still divided
but Tall
(epetai)
Tales for Ombid (Taliotis, D.) -
Ombid was the first
To split open the language witth a jamesonhare
The first
To plough from home and nurse harassements
...
Everything seems to (be) sound
It was then her all, not sitting but standing,
Noticed him.
She poured another litre, lettre on his face
whisky for the unwhiskered
'Gie mou', 'esou pou se to meso mou
'esou pou se ta sherka mou je ta daxtilia mou
ela da, mwro mou,
sou mprostra je gw ta piswn,
irten i wra na pamen eksw pou dame
en koutsioume pion kanena -
exasame je to Pallas, epie je to Athineon
Je twra 'en oulla OK'
Do we permit it?
Now is your opportunity'
Sitting, drinking with his companions.
Brilliant as butterflies
They flitted hither and thither exactly
'tis poutanas pale popse'
In the sweep of a single glance
And snatched him right away -
Love pauses for nothing,
especially Love for nothing
The sole condition -
Fixed by the waste around us-
Is this:
You will write as if you talked!
And you will see as if everybody saw
'enna se valw panw se mian aorati, theorati foukou esena
Skepsi!
na se thwroun oulloi na gennas
na gernas
na girnas'
...
In the sunless green cactusland, new and divided
we will produce this tell-tale
await for the summer,
our nature still divided
but Tall
(epetai)
The moment has filled up with blue - Jose Emilio Pacheco
["The continuance of auto-eroticism is what makes possible to retain for so long the easier momentary and imaginary satisfaction in relation to the sexual object in place of real satisfaction, which calls for effort and postponement."
Sigmund Freud
"...I learned that dangerous means of assisting it (ce dangereux supplement), which cheats Nature and saves up for young men of my temperment many forms of excess at the expense of their health, strength, and, sometimes, their life...If once he acquires this dangerous habit (supplement) he is ruined. "
J.-J. Rousseau
"The presence that isthusdelivered to us in the present is a chimera....Something promises itself as it escapes, gives itself as it moves away, and strictly speaking cannot even be called presence. Such is the constraint of the supplement, such, exceeding all the language of metaphysics, is this structure "almost inconceivable to reason"....The supplement is madening because it is neither presence nor absence and because it consequently breaches both our pleasure and our virginity."
Jacques Derrida
I don't want to get over you
I guess I could take a sleeping pill and sleep at will
Don't have to go through what I go through
I guess I could take Prozac, right
And smile all night
At somebody new,
Somebody sweet and nice
That will help me get you off my mind
But I don't want to get over you.
The Magnetic Fields, 69 Love Songs ]
WALTER BENJAMIN LEAVES PARIS
Come closer and I'll whisper good-bye in your ear.
Thank you for letting me know you, for sharing
an immense minute of my existence.
It will all be forgotten, of course.
There never was anything and what was once nothing
has the boundless space of nothigness
for it tomb.
But not everything is nothing:
something always remains.
A truce between adversity and catastrophe
and the fear and glory of having been born,
a few hours and a city will remain,
the ever more distant glow of this sad time.
Come closer and I'll whisper good-bye in your ear.
Good-bye. I'm leaving now.
But I'm taking these hours with me.
Jose Emilio Pacheco, From City of Memory [trans. Cynthia Steele and David Lauer, 1997, City Lights, San Fransisco (the legendary bookshop of 'Monsanto'!)]
["(T)he compulsion to repeat also recalls from the past experiences which include no possibility of pleasure, and which can never, even long ago, have brought satisfaction even to instictual impulses which have since been repressed (being) incompatible with reality...None of these things can have produced pleasure in the past, and it might be supposed that they would cause less unpleasure to-day if theu emerged as memories and dreams instead of taking the form of fresh experiences. They are of course the activities of instincts intended to lead to satisfaction; but no lesson has been learnt from the old experience of these activities having led instead only to unpleassure. In spite of that they are repeated, under pressure of a compulsion."
Sigmund Freud]
The city has no history
only martyrology.
Country of pain,
capital of suffering
the broken centre
of the great, unending disaster.
Jose Emilio Pacheco, From I Watch the Earth, Ibid
"A schizophrenic out on a walk is a better model than a neurotic
lying on the analyst’s couch" Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, Capitalism and Schizophrenia 1972 (1977, 2000) p.2
Under the skin the body is an over-heated factory,
and outside,
the invalid shines,
glows,
from every burst pore.
Antoin Artaud, Van Gogh, ['Did you hear that? She said Van Gof!-Van Gof! Who is that? Woody Allen, Manhattan] the Man Suicided by Society IN Artaud Anthology (trans. Mary Beach and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, City Lights [again!, San Fransisco, 1965)
Sigmund Freud
"...I learned that dangerous means of assisting it (ce dangereux supplement), which cheats Nature and saves up for young men of my temperment many forms of excess at the expense of their health, strength, and, sometimes, their life...If once he acquires this dangerous habit (supplement) he is ruined. "
J.-J. Rousseau
"The presence that isthusdelivered to us in the present is a chimera....Something promises itself as it escapes, gives itself as it moves away, and strictly speaking cannot even be called presence. Such is the constraint of the supplement, such, exceeding all the language of metaphysics, is this structure "almost inconceivable to reason"....The supplement is madening because it is neither presence nor absence and because it consequently breaches both our pleasure and our virginity."
Jacques Derrida
I don't want to get over you
I guess I could take a sleeping pill and sleep at will
Don't have to go through what I go through
I guess I could take Prozac, right
And smile all night
At somebody new,
Somebody sweet and nice
That will help me get you off my mind
But I don't want to get over you.
The Magnetic Fields, 69 Love Songs ]
WALTER BENJAMIN LEAVES PARIS
Come closer and I'll whisper good-bye in your ear.
Thank you for letting me know you, for sharing
an immense minute of my existence.
It will all be forgotten, of course.
There never was anything and what was once nothing
has the boundless space of nothigness
for it tomb.
But not everything is nothing:
something always remains.
A truce between adversity and catastrophe
and the fear and glory of having been born,
a few hours and a city will remain,
the ever more distant glow of this sad time.
Come closer and I'll whisper good-bye in your ear.
Good-bye. I'm leaving now.
But I'm taking these hours with me.
Jose Emilio Pacheco, From City of Memory [trans. Cynthia Steele and David Lauer, 1997, City Lights, San Fransisco (the legendary bookshop of 'Monsanto'!)]
["(T)he compulsion to repeat also recalls from the past experiences which include no possibility of pleasure, and which can never, even long ago, have brought satisfaction even to instictual impulses which have since been repressed (being) incompatible with reality...None of these things can have produced pleasure in the past, and it might be supposed that they would cause less unpleasure to-day if theu emerged as memories and dreams instead of taking the form of fresh experiences. They are of course the activities of instincts intended to lead to satisfaction; but no lesson has been learnt from the old experience of these activities having led instead only to unpleassure. In spite of that they are repeated, under pressure of a compulsion."
Sigmund Freud]
The city has no history
only martyrology.
Country of pain,
capital of suffering
the broken centre
of the great, unending disaster.
Jose Emilio Pacheco, From I Watch the Earth, Ibid
"A schizophrenic out on a walk is a better model than a neurotic
lying on the analyst’s couch" Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, Capitalism and Schizophrenia 1972 (1977, 2000) p.2
Under the skin the body is an over-heated factory,
and outside,
the invalid shines,
glows,
from every burst pore.
Antoin Artaud, Van Gogh, ['Did you hear that? She said Van Gof!-Van Gof! Who is that? Woody Allen, Manhattan] the Man Suicided by Society IN Artaud Anthology (trans. Mary Beach and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, City Lights [again!, San Fransisco, 1965)
Monday, March 08, 2004
The Waist Line
"...Sivylla ti theleis; respondebat illa:Diaita thelw."
For Christos (Underground)
il miglior Ombionius Divisionakia
The Ressurection Cometh
April is the cruelest month, especially when Lent coincides with it
Breeding and Mixing Nuts and Pulses
Dull Roots with spring onions
Nerovrasta - No cheese
And I am not saying I do not like it
But when summer comes
Marie
We will be going to Paradise, Marie
Esy pashia pas tin motora
Marie, Hold on tight
Pas tis strofes tou Pomou
In the mountains, there you feel free
Jai en na famame psari fresko jai Imam tou Sokrati
Kotopoulo me guinnes
South
Where the giakynthei (sic)
Your arms full, and your hair wet
And I neither
Living nor Dead
Loking at our waist lines, and the silence
Fear death by water
Tha to voutisoume arages sou to piskotaki
FrouFrou, Bacandies, Papadopoulou, iON Sokofreta,
(Panta me Durex):
One must be so careful these days
Unreal City
Inder the broen fog of winter lunchtimes
A crowd flowed into Sainsbury's and MacDonald's and various other Sandwich shops, so many
And each man fixed his eyes before his feet
At the queue to the till
Staring that King of Kings of the Street
(Ton Kwlo!)
Crying:"Shizose!"
You who were with me during various feasts
I have the photos to proove it
That pig you left last year in your garden
Has it grown to size? Will we roast it this yera?
Or are we opting for those lovely shiny grey and green fishes
Dynamitised Out Again!
(Afou re to sheri sou en kommeno - Pws ekopike, a? En pou dynamiti re!
You! Hypocrite!)
My likenes My brother!
A Glass of Sherry
The stool we sat on, that magnificent throne,
Sticky and Stinking, Where the Glasses
Held up filled with fruited wines, barley distilled, and cactus extracts
From which Cuervo Gold is produced
(Allo ena me mia feta portokali jai pago)
Doubled flames na kain tis flegomenes nyhtes mas
Tis Olofotes Skotinies mas sta trapezakia tis avlis stin Division opou
The glitter of her jewels rose to meet us,
From underneath satin cases poured in rich profusion;
Unstoppered, Oh her strange synthetic and natural perfumes
and we troubled, confused
and drunk,more drunk by her odours, kai t' agiazi
Ki oneirevomaste lignes nyhtes sto fws ton kairion
Prin katantisoume eripia
Elefantes Astray
Rogue Elephantes
Fwkies tis Xiras
Filling the desert with inviolable voice
Emptying
Jug after Jug "to absent friends"
(to absent years)
And other withered stumps of time
Hushing in rooms enclosed
Spreading sideways mainly
Overflowing once empty troussers
All by ourselves.
A ta nevra mou! Ta nevra mou!
'Steile mou ta apo melani opiouha sou'
Na xerw ti skeftese, Na hortaso tin skepsi sou. Skepsi!
Mba! Den ein' ta kokala mou hontra -Apla eimai pashis!
'What is that noise?'
Ego jai shifko na diso ta kordonia mou
'What is that noise now? Pale esy?'
E, prepei na gyro pas ton toiho jai na valo to podi mou se touton to vitzin, na to anapso gia na anevasei to podi mou psila jai meta me touta ta extensions na diso ta papoutsia mou - theloun lion lathkiasma ta exartimata jai gia touto katsiarizei etsi polla - Sorry!
I remember, yes! those pearls that were her eyes!
And hers, And hers, And hers
And what if I am alive or dead!
Akoma ena potiraki sherry?
Allo ena - Pi en 5 i wra, pamen na pesoume
Katse re pou tha paeis etsi wra!
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
den fwnazoun etsi sta agapimena mou Bar
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
E, dinw ta papoutsia mou!
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S dinner TIME
Kwlokordonia!
Goooooooooood! Goooooooooood!
(epetai syneheia)
For Christos (Underground)
il miglior Ombionius Divisionakia
The Ressurection Cometh
April is the cruelest month, especially when Lent coincides with it
Breeding and Mixing Nuts and Pulses
Dull Roots with spring onions
Nerovrasta - No cheese
And I am not saying I do not like it
But when summer comes
Marie
We will be going to Paradise, Marie
Esy pashia pas tin motora
Marie, Hold on tight
Pas tis strofes tou Pomou
In the mountains, there you feel free
Jai en na famame psari fresko jai Imam tou Sokrati
Kotopoulo me guinnes
South
Where the giakynthei (sic)
Your arms full, and your hair wet
And I neither
Living nor Dead
Loking at our waist lines, and the silence
Fear death by water
Tha to voutisoume arages sou to piskotaki
FrouFrou, Bacandies, Papadopoulou, iON Sokofreta,
(Panta me Durex):
One must be so careful these days
Unreal City
Inder the broen fog of winter lunchtimes
A crowd flowed into Sainsbury's and MacDonald's and various other Sandwich shops, so many
And each man fixed his eyes before his feet
At the queue to the till
Staring that King of Kings of the Street
(Ton Kwlo!)
Crying:"Shizose!"
You who were with me during various feasts
I have the photos to proove it
That pig you left last year in your garden
Has it grown to size? Will we roast it this yera?
Or are we opting for those lovely shiny grey and green fishes
Dynamitised Out Again!
(Afou re to sheri sou en kommeno - Pws ekopike, a? En pou dynamiti re!
You! Hypocrite!)
My likenes My brother!
A Glass of Sherry
The stool we sat on, that magnificent throne,
Sticky and Stinking, Where the Glasses
Held up filled with fruited wines, barley distilled, and cactus extracts
From which Cuervo Gold is produced
(Allo ena me mia feta portokali jai pago)
Doubled flames na kain tis flegomenes nyhtes mas
Tis Olofotes Skotinies mas sta trapezakia tis avlis stin Division opou
The glitter of her jewels rose to meet us,
From underneath satin cases poured in rich profusion;
Unstoppered, Oh her strange synthetic and natural perfumes
and we troubled, confused
and drunk,more drunk by her odours, kai t' agiazi
Ki oneirevomaste lignes nyhtes sto fws ton kairion
Prin katantisoume eripia
Elefantes Astray
Rogue Elephantes
Fwkies tis Xiras
Filling the desert with inviolable voice
Emptying
Jug after Jug "to absent friends"
(to absent years)
And other withered stumps of time
Hushing in rooms enclosed
Spreading sideways mainly
Overflowing once empty troussers
All by ourselves.
A ta nevra mou! Ta nevra mou!
'Steile mou ta apo melani opiouha sou'
Na xerw ti skeftese, Na hortaso tin skepsi sou. Skepsi!
Mba! Den ein' ta kokala mou hontra -Apla eimai pashis!
'What is that noise?'
Ego jai shifko na diso ta kordonia mou
'What is that noise now? Pale esy?'
E, prepei na gyro pas ton toiho jai na valo to podi mou se touton to vitzin, na to anapso gia na anevasei to podi mou psila jai meta me touta ta extensions na diso ta papoutsia mou - theloun lion lathkiasma ta exartimata jai gia touto katsiarizei etsi polla - Sorry!
I remember, yes! those pearls that were her eyes!
And hers, And hers, And hers
And what if I am alive or dead!
Akoma ena potiraki sherry?
Allo ena - Pi en 5 i wra, pamen na pesoume
Katse re pou tha paeis etsi wra!
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
den fwnazoun etsi sta agapimena mou Bar
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
E, dinw ta papoutsia mou!
HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S dinner TIME
Kwlokordonia!
Goooooooooood! Goooooooooood!
(epetai syneheia)
XXS
gia tous aderfous talioti (me to simpathio):
'How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?'
(Woody Allen)
'How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?'
(Woody Allen)
pro-tasi / ombion fas-t-hion
"grigora kai apotelesmatika ntytheite me oti teleftaio prostazei i moda! apla parte to teleftaio quote pou vrikate sto pio apithano rafi tis vivliothikis, tin teleftaia frasi pou sas irthe sto myalo methymsmeni katamesimero, to aiwnio tsitato tis zwis sas kai KANTE TO FANELA."
proteino opws o kathenas pei pou 5-6 pramata na typothoun se faneles kai otan me to kalo ginoume www / i ws mail-katalogos na tis pouloume on demands jai ta esoda pota (i ependiseis gia ekdoseis)
episis to episimo slogan tis 'markas' - diladi o subtitle proteino na einai
THERE IS NO KANT - YPARHEI DEN THELO
fysika o oikos na legete ombion fashions i kati paremeferes
slogans + quotes ehoun idi e-pothei polla. ena pou ivra epses einai ena tou Salvador (pou to) Dali:
"I do not use drugs. I am drugs."
[isws gia afto den sunkentronoume jai eimai opou me evro jai opou se evro]
proteino opws o kathenas pei pou 5-6 pramata na typothoun se faneles kai otan me to kalo ginoume www / i ws mail-katalogos na tis pouloume on demands jai ta esoda pota (i ependiseis gia ekdoseis)
episis to episimo slogan tis 'markas' - diladi o subtitle proteino na einai
THERE IS NO KANT - YPARHEI DEN THELO
fysika o oikos na legete ombion fashions i kati paremeferes
slogans + quotes ehoun idi e-pothei polla. ena pou ivra epses einai ena tou Salvador (pou to) Dali:
"I do not use drugs. I am drugs."
[isws gia afto den sunkentronoume jai eimai opou me evro jai opou se evro]
Das Kindergarden des Dr. Faustroll
(w/ some background noise provided by Nobekazu Takemura’s ‘Solitary Walker’)
‘“I am God,” said Faustroll.
“Ha ha!” said Bosse-de-Nage, without further commentary.
Thus I remained in charge of the skiff with the baboon cabin boy, who passed the time by jumping on my shoulders and pissing down my back; but I beat him off with blows from a bundle of writes, and observed with curiosity from far off the demeanor of the gaily dressed man who had approved of Faustroll’s answer.’-- Alfred Jarry, Exploits and Opinions of Doctor Faustroll Pataphysician
‘Τα πράγματα που ο Ανδρέας ηγάπα υπεράνω όλων των άλλων, ήσαν κατά σειράν, αι ηδοναί του έρωτος, η ποίησις και τα μεγάλα ταξίδια – όμως, όχι εκείνα που επιτρέπουν, απλώς, την μουσειακήν, τρόπον τινά, διαπίστωσιν και ταξινόμησιν του λεγομένου «εντοπίου χρώματος», αλλά τα επιτρέποντα την προέκτασιν, την προβολήν και την συμμετοχήν εκάστου «Ενός», εκάστου «Εγώ», εκάστου Ατόμου, διά της βιουμένης προσωπικής κατανοήσεως της ολοκληρωτικής ουσίας και της οικουμενικής εννοίας, εις την καθολικότητα και τον πλήρη ρυθμόν του Κόσμου.’ - Ανδρέας Εμπειρίκος, Μέγας Ανατολικός
‘Almost 200 years later, around 370 B.C. or so, Plato wrote Timaeus, in which the soul of the world is described as having these same musical ratios. A cosmology was emerging in which the planets' radii (the planets' order actually varied, depending upon the author) were set with a ratio sequence of 1:2:3:4:8:9. Later, ratios would emerge with the following ratio sequence: Moon = 1; Venus = 2; Earth = 3; Mars = 4; Jupiter = 14; Saturn = 25. This sequence approximated the Greek diatonic musical scale's ratios, thus the planets were tied to music, and a concept of "the music of the spheres" was initiated.’ – note kept from some website I don’t remember
Apopira #1:
Ilika; fkiarin, ipokeimeno
To ipokeimeno, exontas tin entiposi pos einai extws twn ilikwn tis sin-tagis, pernontas sta herea tou to ftiari, skavi tripa stin ammo kai thavi to kefali tou mesa.
A: Tran-scen-den-tal arg-um-ents.
R2: Tran seen den teel aaar. [pause, switches on tap]. Trunseen dental arguments is when the employee and the client have an argument…
R1: It’s when it takes you to another level [moves hands].
‘Husserl, like other saints, fell a victim to his own ecstasy: he was unable to come out of this transcendental suspension. The harmless "bracketing" of commonsense realities became the metaphysical thesis that they can have none but an "intentional" existence in and for consciousness. Husserl does not see that we cannot suspend a belief if the belief suspended is meaningless.’
- Encyclopedia of Western Philosophy; Findlay, p. 145
‘He refers to a god who not only hasn't come yet, but perhaps doesn't exist. He gives the name of god to the one who is hoped for, and implies that the one who'd come and save us will have the name of god. I don't agree with this if it encourages hope for salvation, but if the statement means that we're waiting for the arrival of an unpredictable one, and that we must be hospitable to the coming of this one, then I've got no objection. This is a form of what I'd describe as messianicity without messianism, and we are by nature messianic. We cannot not be, because we exist in a state of expecting something to happen. Even if we're in a state of hopelessness, a sense of expectation is an integral part of our relationship to time.’ – Derrida, trace followed from some interview
‘Greece developed and progressed because it could rely on the services of unwilling slaves. We shall develop and progress with the help of the numerous willing slaves in universities and laboratories who provide us with pills, gas, electricity, atom bombs, frozen dinners and, occasionally, with a few interesting fairy-tales.’ – Paul Feyerabend, Against Method
‘The Brooklyn Bridge Blues
I’m too sick and tired
Of this world to drink in’t
–––if lustful gluttony
is my only blemishing sin
maybe I oughta just
starve to death
–––I am the
Writing Buddha–––
From these Blues we’ll
Go to H Y M N S
Chorus #10
And that’s all I can
recall of Brooklyn Bridge
tonight, John A Roebling
and Washington Roebling
built it, and it hath cables
and it does one good
to cross it every day–––
See my eerie wiseness?
Good night innocent children
of this mortal Sangsara
world, you have to keep
your mind empty & tranquil
and pure or the whole
Eternal Light escapes you
––Without the Eternal Light
you’re only a yakking fool
of rooms, beds, graves
and monuments ––with it,
you are like the Silent
Mountains of Snow
and more than
I know–––
JAN 28 1956
*******What is the date?
Twenty eight.’ -- Jack Kerouac
"Has not Nature proved, in giving us the strength necessary to submit them to our desires, that we have the right to do so?" Donatien-Alphonse-Francois de Sade, Aline et Valcour
"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't." - Margaret Thatcher
cabaret
'Mr. Brown: O.K., let me tell you what Like a Virgin's about. It's all about this cooze who's a regular fuck machine, I'm talking morning, day, night, afternoon, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick.
Mr. Blue: How many dicks is that?
Mr. White: A lot.
Mr. Brown: Then one day she meets this John Holmes motherfucker and it's like, whoa baby, I mean this cat is like Charles Bronson in the Great Escape, he's digging tunnels. Now, she's gettin' the serious dick action and she's feeling something she ain't felt since forever. Pain. Pain. It hurts her. It shouldn't hurt her, you know her pussy should be Bubble Yum by now, but when this cat fucks her it hurts. It hurts just like it did the first time. You see the pain is reminding a fuck machine what it once was like to be a virgin. Hence, "Like a virgin." ' - Quentin Tarantino, Reservoir Dogs
'την παρθενιά της επανορθώσαμε σφιχτά με ράμματα
την κουβαλήσαμε και μας κουβάλησε στον ανεμόμυλο' - Κώστας Τριπολίτης, Ανεμολόγιο
"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." - Sigmund Freud
‘“I am God,” said Faustroll.
“Ha ha!” said Bosse-de-Nage, without further commentary.
Thus I remained in charge of the skiff with the baboon cabin boy, who passed the time by jumping on my shoulders and pissing down my back; but I beat him off with blows from a bundle of writes, and observed with curiosity from far off the demeanor of the gaily dressed man who had approved of Faustroll’s answer.’-- Alfred Jarry, Exploits and Opinions of Doctor Faustroll Pataphysician
‘Τα πράγματα που ο Ανδρέας ηγάπα υπεράνω όλων των άλλων, ήσαν κατά σειράν, αι ηδοναί του έρωτος, η ποίησις και τα μεγάλα ταξίδια – όμως, όχι εκείνα που επιτρέπουν, απλώς, την μουσειακήν, τρόπον τινά, διαπίστωσιν και ταξινόμησιν του λεγομένου «εντοπίου χρώματος», αλλά τα επιτρέποντα την προέκτασιν, την προβολήν και την συμμετοχήν εκάστου «Ενός», εκάστου «Εγώ», εκάστου Ατόμου, διά της βιουμένης προσωπικής κατανοήσεως της ολοκληρωτικής ουσίας και της οικουμενικής εννοίας, εις την καθολικότητα και τον πλήρη ρυθμόν του Κόσμου.’ - Ανδρέας Εμπειρίκος, Μέγας Ανατολικός
‘Almost 200 years later, around 370 B.C. or so, Plato wrote Timaeus, in which the soul of the world is described as having these same musical ratios. A cosmology was emerging in which the planets' radii (the planets' order actually varied, depending upon the author) were set with a ratio sequence of 1:2:3:4:8:9. Later, ratios would emerge with the following ratio sequence: Moon = 1; Venus = 2; Earth = 3; Mars = 4; Jupiter = 14; Saturn = 25. This sequence approximated the Greek diatonic musical scale's ratios, thus the planets were tied to music, and a concept of "the music of the spheres" was initiated.’ – note kept from some website I don’t remember
Apopira #1:
Ilika; fkiarin, ipokeimeno
To ipokeimeno, exontas tin entiposi pos einai extws twn ilikwn tis sin-tagis, pernontas sta herea tou to ftiari, skavi tripa stin ammo kai thavi to kefali tou mesa.
A: Tran-scen-den-tal arg-um-ents.
R2: Tran seen den teel aaar. [pause, switches on tap]. Trunseen dental arguments is when the employee and the client have an argument…
R1: It’s when it takes you to another level [moves hands].
‘Husserl, like other saints, fell a victim to his own ecstasy: he was unable to come out of this transcendental suspension. The harmless "bracketing" of commonsense realities became the metaphysical thesis that they can have none but an "intentional" existence in and for consciousness. Husserl does not see that we cannot suspend a belief if the belief suspended is meaningless.’
- Encyclopedia of Western Philosophy; Findlay, p. 145
‘He refers to a god who not only hasn't come yet, but perhaps doesn't exist. He gives the name of god to the one who is hoped for, and implies that the one who'd come and save us will have the name of god. I don't agree with this if it encourages hope for salvation, but if the statement means that we're waiting for the arrival of an unpredictable one, and that we must be hospitable to the coming of this one, then I've got no objection. This is a form of what I'd describe as messianicity without messianism, and we are by nature messianic. We cannot not be, because we exist in a state of expecting something to happen. Even if we're in a state of hopelessness, a sense of expectation is an integral part of our relationship to time.’ – Derrida, trace followed from some interview
‘Greece developed and progressed because it could rely on the services of unwilling slaves. We shall develop and progress with the help of the numerous willing slaves in universities and laboratories who provide us with pills, gas, electricity, atom bombs, frozen dinners and, occasionally, with a few interesting fairy-tales.’ – Paul Feyerabend, Against Method
‘The Brooklyn Bridge Blues
I’m too sick and tired
Of this world to drink in’t
–––if lustful gluttony
is my only blemishing sin
maybe I oughta just
starve to death
–––I am the
Writing Buddha–––
From these Blues we’ll
Go to H Y M N S
Chorus #10
And that’s all I can
recall of Brooklyn Bridge
tonight, John A Roebling
and Washington Roebling
built it, and it hath cables
and it does one good
to cross it every day–––
See my eerie wiseness?
Good night innocent children
of this mortal Sangsara
world, you have to keep
your mind empty & tranquil
and pure or the whole
Eternal Light escapes you
––Without the Eternal Light
you’re only a yakking fool
of rooms, beds, graves
and monuments ––with it,
you are like the Silent
Mountains of Snow
and more than
I know–––
JAN 28 1956
*******What is the date?
Twenty eight.’ -- Jack Kerouac
"Has not Nature proved, in giving us the strength necessary to submit them to our desires, that we have the right to do so?" Donatien-Alphonse-Francois de Sade, Aline et Valcour
"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't." - Margaret Thatcher
cabaret
'Mr. Brown: O.K., let me tell you what Like a Virgin's about. It's all about this cooze who's a regular fuck machine, I'm talking morning, day, night, afternoon, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick.
Mr. Blue: How many dicks is that?
Mr. White: A lot.
Mr. Brown: Then one day she meets this John Holmes motherfucker and it's like, whoa baby, I mean this cat is like Charles Bronson in the Great Escape, he's digging tunnels. Now, she's gettin' the serious dick action and she's feeling something she ain't felt since forever. Pain. Pain. It hurts her. It shouldn't hurt her, you know her pussy should be Bubble Yum by now, but when this cat fucks her it hurts. It hurts just like it did the first time. You see the pain is reminding a fuck machine what it once was like to be a virgin. Hence, "Like a virgin." ' - Quentin Tarantino, Reservoir Dogs
'την παρθενιά της επανορθώσαμε σφιχτά με ράμματα
την κουβαλήσαμε και μας κουβάλησε στον ανεμόμυλο' - Κώστας Τριπολίτης, Ανεμολόγιο
"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." - Sigmund Freud
Saturday, March 06, 2004
a'rfa-d.v(elo)A; ! [installments]
Athina, Antifwnitis, Apothiki (tote), Au Revoir
Bayreth. Beirut, Bach, Barthes, Barbayianni(s), Black Bush, BB)C(antos, 'C'mon you Cunt'-
Cave, Nick
Dem. Diafana Krina, Derrida
E., e, Elytis, Odysseas, Eliot, T.S.
Food, Foyles, FW
Good, Gould, Glenn, Gyrinoi (tote) - Gaia
Hantatji, Hazirin, Hamolios
Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Joyceance, Jerry Lee Lewis
Kala kathoumena (tote), Koutsomoures, Krasaki mou Amerimno - Karouzos, Nikos
Lesvos(tote), Lisboa., Loras, Lewis, Jeffrey
Marida, Mont Blanc
Nero, Nicosia, New Division
Ombion, Ouzo, Oatcakes
Piiiii!, Paris Patroklos, Pound, Ezra, Pashiardis, Michalis
Qwlopetinitsa
Rono, 'ran(i)tsis, Evgenios
Savvopoulos (tote)
Tom Waits, Tsartelles (tou kouthkiou)
U (+ only you)
Vyzen
Whiskey, Waits, Tom, Wagner, Richard (Parsifal!!)
Xrist(O-s)/e
You
Z (siga na men!)
Bayreth. Beirut, Bach, Barthes, Barbayianni(s), Black Bush, BB)C(antos, 'C'mon you Cunt'-
Cave, Nick
Dem. Diafana Krina, Derrida
E., e, Elytis, Odysseas, Eliot, T.S.
Food, Foyles, FW
Good, Gould, Glenn, Gyrinoi (tote) - Gaia
Hantatji, Hazirin, Hamolios
Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Joyceance, Jerry Lee Lewis
Kala kathoumena (tote), Koutsomoures, Krasaki mou Amerimno - Karouzos, Nikos
Lesvos(tote), Lisboa., Loras, Lewis, Jeffrey
Marida, Mont Blanc
Nero, Nicosia, New Division
Ombion, Ouzo, Oatcakes
Piiiii!, Paris Patroklos, Pound, Ezra, Pashiardis, Michalis
Qwlopetinitsa
Rono, 'ran(i)tsis, Evgenios
Savvopoulos (tote)
Tom Waits, Tsartelles (tou kouthkiou)
U (+ only you)
Vyzen
Whiskey, Waits, Tom, Wagner, Richard (Parsifal!!)
Xrist(O-s)/e
You
Z (siga na men!)
Tuesday, March 02, 2004
push-up(s)
oh, i donknow if the neuamsterdammen attributes and plumbing etc 'cough' bit doooooooowwwwwwwwwwn here avec phono/photographic engravings the ratatatatatatata snoar in repetition. Insight Out of it as good as in. Competitious in minds, in absenti of the cataclysmic entry point of the '78's bushing up midday and clainging opa! oh,
"Vrika to synoro tis gis pou meno panta monos:
"Pou tha pioume apopse."
kei pou teleiwnei mia hara ki arhizei enas ponos."
Gia tin melancholia
Mi fovaste. Otan sas ktypisei tin porta kai den anoixete
tha fygei. Einai euthikti eutuxws,
ein' eutuxws asynithisi sta oxi.
Pros Zwi
Mou to xanakanes ayto, thymasai;
"Judas!"
"I don't beleive you...You liar!"
[In order of appearrants:
Pashiardis Michalis
Montis Kwstas
(An Audience with) Dylan Bob]
"CabareTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!"
"Vrika to synoro tis gis pou meno panta monos:
"Pou tha pioume apopse."
kei pou teleiwnei mia hara ki arhizei enas ponos."
Gia tin melancholia
Mi fovaste. Otan sas ktypisei tin porta kai den anoixete
tha fygei. Einai euthikti eutuxws,
ein' eutuxws asynithisi sta oxi.
Pros Zwi
Mou to xanakanes ayto, thymasai;
"Judas!"
"I don't beleive you...You liar!"
[In order of appearrants:
Pashiardis Michalis
Montis Kwstas
(An Audience with) Dylan Bob]
"CabareTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!"
Monday, March 01, 2004
Radford violence
‘«διαφερομενον αυτο αυτω συμφερεσθαι,» «ωσπερ αρμονιαν τοξου τε και λυρας»’
– Heracleitus
‘Είπαν οι άλλοι: γιατί; κι εκείνος να γνωρίσει
κι εκείνος τη ζωή μέσα στα ματια του αλλου.
Αλλου ματια δεν ειδα, δεν αντικρισα
παρα δακρυα μεσα στο Κενο που αγκαλιαζα’
- Odysseas Elytys, ‘Άξιον εστίν Δ`’
Panic panic ‘open up your skull ill be there’, the room falling in. Tides of eastern hordes windowcleaner smashes into inner asylum/hermetic nausea derived panic. Cut and cut here again and that’s it cut glass silver mountain without. All blue baby over it’s now crossing the line.
līmen , ĭnis, n. [Gr. lechris, loxos; Lat. obliquus, līmus; hence prop. a cross-piece] , a threshold; the head-piece or foot-piece of a doorway, the lintel or the sill (limen superum et inferum).
lĭmĕnarcha , ae, m. [vox hybrida; limen, archô; cf. Germ. Markgraf; Engl. margrave] , a commander on the frontier: limenarchae et stationarii fugitivos deprehensos recte in custodiam retinent, Dig. 11, 4, 4 ; Paul. Sent. 1, 6, 3 (acc. to others, a harbor-master, port-warden).
– Heracleitus
‘Είπαν οι άλλοι: γιατί; κι εκείνος να γνωρίσει
κι εκείνος τη ζωή μέσα στα ματια του αλλου.
Αλλου ματια δεν ειδα, δεν αντικρισα
παρα δακρυα μεσα στο Κενο που αγκαλιαζα’
- Odysseas Elytys, ‘Άξιον εστίν Δ`’
Panic panic ‘open up your skull ill be there’, the room falling in. Tides of eastern hordes windowcleaner smashes into inner asylum/hermetic nausea derived panic. Cut and cut here again and that’s it cut glass silver mountain without. All blue baby over it’s now crossing the line.
līmen , ĭnis, n. [Gr. lechris, loxos; Lat. obliquus, līmus; hence prop. a cross-piece] , a threshold; the head-piece or foot-piece of a doorway, the lintel or the sill (limen superum et inferum).
lĭmĕnarcha , ae, m. [vox hybrida; limen, archô; cf. Germ. Markgraf; Engl. margrave] , a commander on the frontier: limenarchae et stationarii fugitivos deprehensos recte in custodiam retinent, Dig. 11, 4, 4 ; Paul. Sent. 1, 6, 3 (acc. to others, a harbor-master, port-warden).
Πάσχαν/Passover
eperase (je) i kathara deutera, gone is too Ash-Wednesday xwris reference, xwris signifieds - mono to imerologio tharreis, oi 40 sxedon meres prin to pasxa - reference mono stin paradosi, sto persi, sto apopanta ethimo. Je twra, olotaxws pros to Pasxan or the greek 'Passover'.
isixia endwgenis, ekswstrefeis, amigdalies pantou, ate twra na ksanaftiakseis ti zwi sou, na tin ksanagapiseis na kouvaliseis stavrous - je na gia(ti) panta itan i pio agapimeni metafora: epeidi en metafora en je ek fisews-
the Absence of the signified/ oi signs ma symbols instead.
deadlines, you see: ws tes 11 apriliou prepei na anastithoume, ws tes 21 apriliou prepei (pou makria) na ftiaksoume mia nea xwra, a spacial field.
i agwnia me agwnia (en) perniete/
to fws tis, epitelous, na kleiseis
ti thimisi
'twn allwn to allou mia vithismeni mousiki'
afiste tou allous na milisoun:
Giati pantote menoun
Nwpa osa ainigmata istorise
O xronos s'ola glistroun tou kormiou
Ta koitasmata san skotadi akatergasto
per' ap' tis nixtas ta xeili epimenoun
ekei opou argoi ki aneksigitoi
Vlastainoun oi stixoi('Mnimosini', Kwstas Koutsourelis)
Δε σας φοβάμαι φαντάσματα.
Φαντάσματα δε σας φοβάμαι.
Στο κάτω - κάτω είσαστε και σεις φαντάσματα
Φαντάσματα μες στα φαντάσματα.
Εγώ είμαι άνθρωπος
Άνθρωπος όμως φάντασμα μες στους ανθρώπους.
Αν υπάρχει αναμεσά σας φάντασμα
Φάντασμα όμως άνθρωπος μες στα φαντάσματα
Ας έρθει.
Να βρεθούμε.
Δε θα πάει χέρι χέρι
θα ενώσουμε τις δυνάμεις μας
για την διάλυση των φαντασμάτων
για τη διάλυση των ανθρώπων
για να δημιουργηθούν άνθρωποι φαντάσματα
και φαντάσματα άνθρωποι.
Να καταργηθεί η απόσταση ανάμεσα
στους κόσμους.
Να πάψει το διάστημα ανάμεσα
στους χρόνους.
Έλα λοιπον σε περιμένω ήσυχα.
Ξέρω πως υπάρχεις. Ξέρεις πως υπάρχω.
Δεν είναι τόσο δύσκολο να έχουμε επαφή.
Εσύ θα μου μαθαίνεις το θρόϊσμα και την αφή
πως να σε νιώθουν τα νεύρα μου.
Κι εγώ θα σου μαθαίνω ανάγνωση, σιγά σιγά
την αλφαβήτα.
Να με νιώθεις τι θέλω να κάνω.("ΦΑΝΤΑΣΜΑΤΑ", Νικόλας Άσιμος)
Ολα τα πράγματά μου έμειναν όπως
να 'χω πεθάνει πριν από καιρούς.
Σκόνη στη σκόνη εγέμισεν ο τόπος,
και γράφω με το δάκτυλο σταυρούς.
Ολα τα πράγματά μου αναθυμούνται
μιαν ώρα που περάσαμε μαζί,
σ' εκείνη τα βιβλία μου λησμονούνται,
σ' εκείνη το ρολόι ακόμα ζει.
Ηταν ευτυχισμένη τότε η ώρα,
ήταν ένα δείλι ζωγραφιστό.
Εχω πεθάνει τόσα χρόνια τώρα,
κι έμεινε το παράθυρο κλειστό.
Κανένας, ούτε ο ήλιος, πια δε μπαίνει.
Το ερημικό μου σπίτι αντιβοεί
στην ώρα κείνη ακόμα, που σημαίνει,
αυτή μονάχα, βράδυ και πρωί.
Δεν ξέρω δω ποιος είναι τώρα ο τόπος,
σε ξέρω ποιος χαράζει τους σταυρούς,
κι όλα τα πράγματά μου έμειναν όπως
να 'χω πεθάνει πριν από καιρούς.
([Ολα τα πράγματά μου έμειναν...], Κωνσταντίνος Καρυωτάκης)
'you used to be so amused' - Bod Dylan
'before is always forever' - Tindersticks
isixia endwgenis, ekswstrefeis, amigdalies pantou, ate twra na ksanaftiakseis ti zwi sou, na tin ksanagapiseis na kouvaliseis stavrous - je na gia(ti) panta itan i pio agapimeni metafora: epeidi en metafora en je ek fisews-
the Absence of the signified/ oi signs ma symbols instead.
deadlines, you see: ws tes 11 apriliou prepei na anastithoume, ws tes 21 apriliou prepei (pou makria) na ftiaksoume mia nea xwra, a spacial field.
i agwnia me agwnia (en) perniete/
to fws tis, epitelous, na kleiseis
ti thimisi
'twn allwn to allou mia vithismeni mousiki'
afiste tou allous na milisoun:
Giati pantote menoun
Nwpa osa ainigmata istorise
O xronos s'ola glistroun tou kormiou
Ta koitasmata san skotadi akatergasto
per' ap' tis nixtas ta xeili epimenoun
ekei opou argoi ki aneksigitoi
Vlastainoun oi stixoi('Mnimosini', Kwstas Koutsourelis)
Δε σας φοβάμαι φαντάσματα.
Φαντάσματα δε σας φοβάμαι.
Στο κάτω - κάτω είσαστε και σεις φαντάσματα
Φαντάσματα μες στα φαντάσματα.
Εγώ είμαι άνθρωπος
Άνθρωπος όμως φάντασμα μες στους ανθρώπους.
Αν υπάρχει αναμεσά σας φάντασμα
Φάντασμα όμως άνθρωπος μες στα φαντάσματα
Ας έρθει.
Να βρεθούμε.
Δε θα πάει χέρι χέρι
θα ενώσουμε τις δυνάμεις μας
για την διάλυση των φαντασμάτων
για τη διάλυση των ανθρώπων
για να δημιουργηθούν άνθρωποι φαντάσματα
και φαντάσματα άνθρωποι.
Να καταργηθεί η απόσταση ανάμεσα
στους κόσμους.
Να πάψει το διάστημα ανάμεσα
στους χρόνους.
Έλα λοιπον σε περιμένω ήσυχα.
Ξέρω πως υπάρχεις. Ξέρεις πως υπάρχω.
Δεν είναι τόσο δύσκολο να έχουμε επαφή.
Εσύ θα μου μαθαίνεις το θρόϊσμα και την αφή
πως να σε νιώθουν τα νεύρα μου.
Κι εγώ θα σου μαθαίνω ανάγνωση, σιγά σιγά
την αλφαβήτα.
Να με νιώθεις τι θέλω να κάνω.("ΦΑΝΤΑΣΜΑΤΑ", Νικόλας Άσιμος)
Ολα τα πράγματά μου έμειναν όπως
να 'χω πεθάνει πριν από καιρούς.
Σκόνη στη σκόνη εγέμισεν ο τόπος,
και γράφω με το δάκτυλο σταυρούς.
Ολα τα πράγματά μου αναθυμούνται
μιαν ώρα που περάσαμε μαζί,
σ' εκείνη τα βιβλία μου λησμονούνται,
σ' εκείνη το ρολόι ακόμα ζει.
Ηταν ευτυχισμένη τότε η ώρα,
ήταν ένα δείλι ζωγραφιστό.
Εχω πεθάνει τόσα χρόνια τώρα,
κι έμεινε το παράθυρο κλειστό.
Κανένας, ούτε ο ήλιος, πια δε μπαίνει.
Το ερημικό μου σπίτι αντιβοεί
στην ώρα κείνη ακόμα, που σημαίνει,
αυτή μονάχα, βράδυ και πρωί.
Δεν ξέρω δω ποιος είναι τώρα ο τόπος,
σε ξέρω ποιος χαράζει τους σταυρούς,
κι όλα τα πράγματά μου έμειναν όπως
να 'χω πεθάνει πριν από καιρούς.
([Ολα τα πράγματά μου έμειναν...], Κωνσταντίνος Καρυωτάκης)
'you used to be so amused' - Bod Dylan
'before is always forever' - Tindersticks
Thomas Radford Sunday's Fantasy
"Now, little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously
He brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerously
And when bringing her name up
He speaks of a farewell kiss to me
He's sure got a lotta gall to be so useless and all
Muttering small talk at the wall while I'm in the hall
How can I explain?
Oh, it's so hard to get on
And these visions of Johanna, they kept me up past the dawn"
He brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerously
And when bringing her name up
He speaks of a farewell kiss to me
He's sure got a lotta gall to be so useless and all
Muttering small talk at the wall while I'm in the hall
How can I explain?
Oh, it's so hard to get on
And these visions of Johanna, they kept me up past the dawn"
Sunday, February 29, 2004
sore right foot
because tomorrow, sunday, it's still february - and who knows if we make it to 2008!
- to all tomorrow's parties
"Well, it's all over now. Like a tide race, the waves of human mediocrity are rising to the heavens and will engulf this refuge, for I am opening the flood-gates myself, against my will. Ah! but my courage fails me, and my heart is sick within me!-Lord, take pity on the Christian who doubts, on the unbeliever who would fain beleive, on the galley-slave of life who puts out to sea alone, in the night, beneath a firmament no longer lit by the consoling beacon-fires of the ancient hope!" J.-K. Huysamns A Rebours
- to all tomorrow's parties
"Well, it's all over now. Like a tide race, the waves of human mediocrity are rising to the heavens and will engulf this refuge, for I am opening the flood-gates myself, against my will. Ah! but my courage fails me, and my heart is sick within me!-Lord, take pity on the Christian who doubts, on the unbeliever who would fain beleive, on the galley-slave of life who puts out to sea alone, in the night, beneath a firmament no longer lit by the consoling beacon-fires of the ancient hope!" J.-K. Huysamns A Rebours
Friday, February 27, 2004
έβρεχε όλη νύχτα-
a poetic sunction: first thing that happens to me in the morning; along -its been so long- with phrases of last night, though eternal they seem, heard phrases glyphed in my notebook, or better in my notetext. metafraseis /and or parafraseis tautoxronws:
My words grow like cherry trees blossom
i
twn stixwn mou to apanthisma
tis amigdalias to anthisma
san apo patima magikou koumpiou, tixea tixea o mallarme: tou prwinou i apogoiteusi, tis nixtas i egkatalipsi, a trail of light now, en route:
SALUTATION
Nothing! this foam and virgin verse
to designate nought but the cup;
such, far off, there plunges a troop
Of many Sirens upside down.
We are navigating, my diverse
Friends! I already on the poop
You the splendid prow which cuts
The main of thunders and of winters;
A fine ebriety calls me
Without fear of its rolling
To carry, upright, this toast
Solitude, reef, star
To whatever it was that was worth
Our sail's white solicitude.
(Stephane Mallarme)
"LACE PASSES INTO NOTHINGNESS ..."
Lace passes into nothingness,
With the ultimate Gamble in doubt,
In blasphemy revealing just
Eternal absence of any bed.
This concordant enmity
Of a white garland and the same,
In flight against the pallid glass,
Hovers and does not enshroud.
But where, limned gold, the dreamer dwells,
There sleeps a mournful mandola,
Its deep lacuna source of song,
Of a kind that toward some window,
Formed by that belly or none at all,
Filial, one might have been born.
(Stephane Mallarme)
i anorthodoksi xara tis anagnwsis, solar ke oudeis, paralogiasma, de dicto:
members of the
Society of the Friends of the Text
'Θα πάω κι ας μου βγει και σε κακό'
'Όπου και να σας βρίσκει το κακό, αδελφοί,
όπου και να θολώνει ο νους σας,
μνημονεύετε Διονύσιο Σολωμό
και μνημονεύετε Αλέξανδρο Παπαδιαμάντη.
Η λαλιά που δεν ξέρει από ψέμα
θ' αναπαύσει το πρόσωπο του μαρτυρίου'
(Οδυσσέας Ελύτης)
My words grow like cherry trees blossom
i
twn stixwn mou to apanthisma
tis amigdalias to anthisma
san apo patima magikou koumpiou, tixea tixea o mallarme: tou prwinou i apogoiteusi, tis nixtas i egkatalipsi, a trail of light now, en route:
SALUTATION
Nothing! this foam and virgin verse
to designate nought but the cup;
such, far off, there plunges a troop
Of many Sirens upside down.
We are navigating, my diverse
Friends! I already on the poop
You the splendid prow which cuts
The main of thunders and of winters;
A fine ebriety calls me
Without fear of its rolling
To carry, upright, this toast
Solitude, reef, star
To whatever it was that was worth
Our sail's white solicitude.
(Stephane Mallarme)
"LACE PASSES INTO NOTHINGNESS ..."
Lace passes into nothingness,
With the ultimate Gamble in doubt,
In blasphemy revealing just
Eternal absence of any bed.
This concordant enmity
Of a white garland and the same,
In flight against the pallid glass,
Hovers and does not enshroud.
But where, limned gold, the dreamer dwells,
There sleeps a mournful mandola,
Its deep lacuna source of song,
Of a kind that toward some window,
Formed by that belly or none at all,
Filial, one might have been born.
(Stephane Mallarme)
i anorthodoksi xara tis anagnwsis, solar ke oudeis, paralogiasma, de dicto:
members of the
Society of the Friends of the Text
'Θα πάω κι ας μου βγει και σε κακό'
'Όπου και να σας βρίσκει το κακό, αδελφοί,
όπου και να θολώνει ο νους σας,
μνημονεύετε Διονύσιο Σολωμό
και μνημονεύετε Αλέξανδρο Παπαδιαμάντη.
Η λαλιά που δεν ξέρει από ψέμα
θ' αναπαύσει το πρόσωπο του μαρτυρίου'
(Οδυσσέας Ελύτης)
Thursday, February 26, 2004
Appendicitis - if it's to crack the silence
-3 C. With the streets smelling of stale beer and whiskey and coke laughs. Footstepsonhis (and he apologises!) but apart from that the words aretobefoundwiththeHB'sandthewineandthatplateoflentilsyou-know-where-, a huge one, as the one thatcamefrombehindafter it, andcaryingon20minutestoclosing time (in the absence of limbo attend borders, so to speak): I found these. OR from the papers
My Love
It's not the lover we love, but love
itself, love as in nothing, as in O;
love is the lover's coin, a coin of no country,
hence: the ring; hence: the moon -
no wonder that empty circle so often figures
in our intimate dark, our skin-trade,
that commerce so furious we often think
love's something we share; but we're always wrong.
When our lover mercifully departs
and lets us get back to the buisiness of love again,
either we'll slip it inside us like the host
or we'll beat its gibbous drum that the whole world
might know who jas it. Which was always my style:
O the moon's bodhram, a skin gong
torn from thehide of Capricorn,
and many's the time I'd lift it from its high peg,
grip it to my side, tight as a gun,
and whip the life out of it, just for the joy
of that huge heart under my ribs again.
A thousand blows I showered like meteors
down on that sweet-spot over Mare Imbrium
where I could make it sing its name, over and over.
While I have the moon, I cried, no ship will sink,
or woman bleed, or man lose his mind-
but truth told, I was terrible:
the idiot at the session spoiling it,
as they say, for everyone.
O kings petitioned me to pack it in.
The last time, I peeled off my shirt
and found a coffee bruise that ran from hip to wrist.
Two years passed before a soul could touch me.
Even in its lowest coin, it kills us to keep love,
kills us to give it away. All of which
brings us to Camille Flammarion
signing the flyleaf of his Terres du Ciel
for a girl down from the sanatorium,
and his remark - the one he couldn't help but make -
on the gorgeous candid pallor of her shoulders;
then two years later, unwrapping the same book
reinscribed in her clear hand, with my love,
and bound in her own lunar vellum.
Don Paterson, from Landing Light, 2003, Faber and Faber, London
Plus:
(...)
Now two strangers shiver
under one roof
the one who delivers
the promise and the proof
and the one I deploy
for the poem or the kiss.
It gives me no joy
to tell you this.
Don Paterson, A Fraud, Ibid.
My Love
It's not the lover we love, but love
itself, love as in nothing, as in O;
love is the lover's coin, a coin of no country,
hence: the ring; hence: the moon -
no wonder that empty circle so often figures
in our intimate dark, our skin-trade,
that commerce so furious we often think
love's something we share; but we're always wrong.
When our lover mercifully departs
and lets us get back to the buisiness of love again,
either we'll slip it inside us like the host
or we'll beat its gibbous drum that the whole world
might know who jas it. Which was always my style:
O the moon's bodhram, a skin gong
torn from thehide of Capricorn,
and many's the time I'd lift it from its high peg,
grip it to my side, tight as a gun,
and whip the life out of it, just for the joy
of that huge heart under my ribs again.
A thousand blows I showered like meteors
down on that sweet-spot over Mare Imbrium
where I could make it sing its name, over and over.
While I have the moon, I cried, no ship will sink,
or woman bleed, or man lose his mind-
but truth told, I was terrible:
the idiot at the session spoiling it,
as they say, for everyone.
O kings petitioned me to pack it in.
The last time, I peeled off my shirt
and found a coffee bruise that ran from hip to wrist.
Two years passed before a soul could touch me.
Even in its lowest coin, it kills us to keep love,
kills us to give it away. All of which
brings us to Camille Flammarion
signing the flyleaf of his Terres du Ciel
for a girl down from the sanatorium,
and his remark - the one he couldn't help but make -
on the gorgeous candid pallor of her shoulders;
then two years later, unwrapping the same book
reinscribed in her clear hand, with my love,
and bound in her own lunar vellum.
Don Paterson, from Landing Light, 2003, Faber and Faber, London
Plus:
(...)
Now two strangers shiver
under one roof
the one who delivers
the promise and the proof
and the one I deploy
for the poem or the kiss.
It gives me no joy
to tell you this.
Don Paterson, A Fraud, Ibid.
Friday, February 20, 2004
Syn-hari|tria
[ Ela esso pou dame (Tsioronis o Samourai)]
I Christina en i arfi tou filou mou tou Oresti.
I Christina en fili mou.
I Christina itan sto Londino to 2000-2001.
I Christina en stin Kypro jai I Christina eishen analavei na einai ypefthinos syntaxis tou entypou pou itan na fkaloumen, pou en na fkaloumen.
I Christina analamvanei pou tin Triti tis politistikes selides tou Politi.
!
Ta grafeia tou Politi, opws mou eipen I Christina, twra einai apenati pou to Antonakis Tavern.
Diladi
Christina
Kapou metaxy tis New Division, tou Kapetaniou,
jai tou Magka
Christina,
Demetris
I Christina en i arfi tou filou mou tou Oresti.
I Christina en fili mou.
I Christina itan sto Londino to 2000-2001.
I Christina en stin Kypro jai I Christina eishen analavei na einai ypefthinos syntaxis tou entypou pou itan na fkaloumen, pou en na fkaloumen.
I Christina analamvanei pou tin Triti tis politistikes selides tou Politi.
!
Ta grafeia tou Politi, opws mou eipen I Christina, twra einai apenati pou to Antonakis Tavern.
Diladi
Christina
Kapou metaxy tis New Division, tou Kapetaniou,
jai tou Magka
Christina,
Demetris
Fragments from an O [or The story of the Aye!]
To 'heis arage syllogistei pote
To stafyli tin wra pou se shimatizei o erwtas...
Deli xi-Deli, theleis en' theleis, zaten 'There Is Nothing But Trouble And Desire', o!, Aye! do not forget the --k-k-k-k-k[hole; opening], that whole opening of that Gaddisian punkt: "That was Youth with its reckless exuberance when all things were possible pursued by age where we are now, looking back at what we destroyed, what we tore away from that self who could do more, and it's work that's become my enemy because that's what I can tell you about, that Youth who could do anything." , delikdesik delikanli, anamesa stis lexeis kai ta pramata, 'o'-!, the house of porosity, peircing 'Aimez Travaillez Et Soufrir', hwris ena stiho stegano, AM, Christe mou Insa(Allah), dioti 'Ypirhe apo tote to provlima', hey!, wait, a sec., sip, good. Now back-track: "H Athina itan poly pio omorfy tote. Itan methysmeni kai epieikis. Itan lagna. Itan kataprasini kai zesti san hnoto. Itan proswrini san louloudi....Itan mia poly poli pou horopidouse sto tsimento kai sto grasidi, apo therino tourismo se heimerino marasmo, ki apo anavoli se anavoli. Den katadehotan na dei to hali tis. Eihe girysei to proswpo ap' tin alli meria, pros tin Mikra Asia. O Basileus Gewrgios B' evale na kopsoun tous foinikes gia na moizoume me Evrwpi. Ypirhe apo tote to provlima." (Evgenios Aranitsis, Afriki, 1988: 19), enw "...(A)fti i hwra, i Agglia, itan mia ypothetiki efkairia gia asydoseis. To Londino me dektike amesws t' omologw - i zwi mou omws ekei itan epidermiki kai symvatiki. I vrohi kai i omihli me eihan potisei mehri to kokalo, eiha malakwsei, eiha ginei ena kommati laspis. Eplita sto epakro. Ypefera apo prowra girateia." (Ibid: 153), ah! ah! nai, Deli xi-Deli, delik, deli-k diha kapaman!
o[a]r
NA PROFEREIS TIN PRAGMATIKOTITA opws o spourgitis to harama.
Run amok, my cooking utensils!
"...[P]oised between construction and ruin, it 'errupts', it burst into discontinous transformation. Everything is in a continuous process of discontinuous transformation." Howard Caygill, Walter Benjamin, The Colour of Experience
Ploio diarkeias i hwra mou.
Etc(i):
Kemirici Ask ilahi - Kit'at
Perimenw tin wra pou ena
Perivoli eleitiko th' afomoiwsei
T' apovlita olwn twn aiwnwn - pou ena
Koritsi tha kyrixei sto swma tou epanastasi
Wraia me tremouliastes fwnes kai lampidones
Froutwn xanafernwntas tin istoria
Stin afetiria tis
(...)
Piase to PREPEI apo to iwta kai gdare to isame to pi.
["To ouiski, prepei na to pw, xodevotan me rythmo pio argo ap' oti to myalo, ena mpoukali ana dyo meres. Na methas einai to mono efkolo." E. Aranitsis, Ibid: 154]
Background Noise: 1
and 2;
Icon of St. George and the young man of Mytilene,
Mid-13th Century AD, Crusader (a western artist working in the Holy Land),
The Nationa Icon Collection, no. 13, Department of Medieval and Modern Europe, The British Museum
(Strepsate tin prosohi sas sto nearo Lesvio! - Lesvos is the capital of Mytilene and another name for the island (as well as a legendary 'Ouzeri-Kafe-Bar'!)
*All unregistered shots courtesy of Odysseas Elytis, O Mikros Naytilos, 1970-1974 , (1985).
To stafyli tin wra pou se shimatizei o erwtas...
Deli xi-Deli, theleis en' theleis, zaten 'There Is Nothing But Trouble And Desire', o!, Aye! do not forget the --k-k-k-k-k[hole; opening], that whole opening of that Gaddisian punkt: "That was Youth with its reckless exuberance when all things were possible pursued by age where we are now, looking back at what we destroyed, what we tore away from that self who could do more, and it's work that's become my enemy because that's what I can tell you about, that Youth who could do anything." , delikdesik delikanli, anamesa stis lexeis kai ta pramata, 'o'-!, the house of porosity, peircing 'Aimez Travaillez Et Soufrir', hwris ena stiho stegano, AM, Christe mou Insa(Allah), dioti 'Ypirhe apo tote to provlima', hey!, wait, a sec., sip, good. Now back-track: "H Athina itan poly pio omorfy tote. Itan methysmeni kai epieikis. Itan lagna. Itan kataprasini kai zesti san hnoto. Itan proswrini san louloudi....Itan mia poly poli pou horopidouse sto tsimento kai sto grasidi, apo therino tourismo se heimerino marasmo, ki apo anavoli se anavoli. Den katadehotan na dei to hali tis. Eihe girysei to proswpo ap' tin alli meria, pros tin Mikra Asia. O Basileus Gewrgios B' evale na kopsoun tous foinikes gia na moizoume me Evrwpi. Ypirhe apo tote to provlima." (Evgenios Aranitsis, Afriki, 1988: 19), enw "...(A)fti i hwra, i Agglia, itan mia ypothetiki efkairia gia asydoseis. To Londino me dektike amesws t' omologw - i zwi mou omws ekei itan epidermiki kai symvatiki. I vrohi kai i omihli me eihan potisei mehri to kokalo, eiha malakwsei, eiha ginei ena kommati laspis. Eplita sto epakro. Ypefera apo prowra girateia." (Ibid: 153), ah! ah! nai, Deli xi-Deli, delik, deli-k diha kapaman!
o[a]r
NA PROFEREIS TIN PRAGMATIKOTITA opws o spourgitis to harama.
Run amok, my cooking utensils!
"...[P]oised between construction and ruin, it 'errupts', it burst into discontinous transformation. Everything is in a continuous process of discontinuous transformation." Howard Caygill, Walter Benjamin, The Colour of Experience
Ploio diarkeias i hwra mou.
Etc(i):
Kemirici Ask ilahi - Kit'at
Perimenw tin wra pou ena
Perivoli eleitiko th' afomoiwsei
T' apovlita olwn twn aiwnwn - pou ena
Koritsi tha kyrixei sto swma tou epanastasi
Wraia me tremouliastes fwnes kai lampidones
Froutwn xanafernwntas tin istoria
Stin afetiria tis
(...)
Piase to PREPEI apo to iwta kai gdare to isame to pi.
["To ouiski, prepei na to pw, xodevotan me rythmo pio argo ap' oti to myalo, ena mpoukali ana dyo meres. Na methas einai to mono efkolo." E. Aranitsis, Ibid: 154]
Background Noise: 1
and 2;
Icon of St. George and the young man of Mytilene,
Mid-13th Century AD, Crusader (a western artist working in the Holy Land),
The Nationa Icon Collection, no. 13, Department of Medieval and Modern Europe, The British Museum
(Strepsate tin prosohi sas sto nearo Lesvio! - Lesvos is the capital of Mytilene and another name for the island (as well as a legendary 'Ouzeri-Kafe-Bar'!)
*All unregistered shots courtesy of Odysseas Elytis, O Mikros Naytilos, 1970-1974 , (1985).
Thursday, February 19, 2004
Kerouac deli mi?
"'Whatever I say Ben, dont mind it, I'm just a fool'----'You said in 1957 in the grass drunk on whiskey you were the greatest thinker in the world'----'That was before I fell asleep and woke up: now I realize I'm no good at all and that makes me feel free' ----'You're not even free being no good, you better stop thinking, that's all'----'I'm glad you visited me today, I think I might have died'----'It's all your fault'----'What are we gonna do with our lives?'----'Oh,' he says, 'I dunno, just watch em I guess'----"
Big Sur Kerouac (164)
Demetris
Demokrasi
Demek
"'Aint nothin wrong with old Nietzche'----''Xcept he went mad too'----'Do you think I'm going mad?'----'Ho ho ho' (hearty laugh)" (162).
Big Sur Kerouac (164)
Demetris
Demokrasi
Demek
"'Aint nothin wrong with old Nietzche'----''Xcept he went mad too'----'Do you think I'm going mad?'----'Ho ho ho' (hearty laugh)" (162).
Chinese Cracker ("It's all Greek to me!")
"...[M]ethod can really bear only on the means of loosening, baffling, or at the very least, of lightening this [inevitable] power....[T]he fundamental operation of this loosening method is, ... fragmentation, digression, or, to put it ina preciously ambiguous word, excursion....[T]o resemble the comings and goings of a child playing beside his mother, leaving her, returning to bring her a pebble, a piece of string, and thereby tracing around a calm center a whole locus of play within which the pebble, the string come to matter less than the enthusiatic giving of them." Roland Barthes, Inaugural Lecture. College de France, January 7, 1977
Oh c'mon! Go-sip! It's just a matter of mastear, 'init?
Dioti 'Parayi veren dudugu calar', ma ontas 'Dedigi dedik dudugu duduk!'
Dem[cekmek]: idou i riza tou kakou ('The piano has been drinking...')
Tesekur ederim! (Am)
[ps! esxcuse the punctuation - i'm missing kirkilouthkia, as if these were not enough!]
Oh c'mon! Go-sip! It's just a matter of mastear, 'init?
Dioti 'Parayi veren dudugu calar', ma ontas 'Dedigi dedik dudugu duduk!'
Dem[cekmek]: idou i riza tou kakou ('The piano has been drinking...')
Tesekur ederim! (Am)
[ps! esxcuse the punctuation - i'm missing kirkilouthkia, as if these were not enough!]
Wednesday, February 18, 2004
Che cos'e la poesia? or 'What (thing) is poetry?'
'Who dares to ask me that? Even though it
remains inapparent, since disappearing is its
law, the answer sees itself (as) dictated (dic-
tation). I am a dictation, pronounces poetry,
learn me by heart, copy me down, guard and
keep me, look out for me, look at me, dictated
dictation, right before your eyes:
soundtrack, wake, trail of light, photograph of
the feast in mourning.
'It sees itself, the response, dictated to be
poetic, by being poetic. And for that reason,
it is obliged to address itself to someone,
singularly to you but as if to the being lost
in anonymity, between city and nature, an
imparted secret, at once public and private,
absolutely one and the other, absolved from
within and from without, neither one nor the
other, the animal thrown onto the road,
absolute, solitary, rolled up in a ball, next to
(it)self. And for that very reason, it may get
itself run over, just so, the herisson, istrice in
Italian, in English, hedgehog.'
(Jacques Derrida, Che cos'e la poesia,1988)
remains inapparent, since disappearing is its
law, the answer sees itself (as) dictated (dic-
tation). I am a dictation, pronounces poetry,
learn me by heart, copy me down, guard and
keep me, look out for me, look at me, dictated
dictation, right before your eyes:
soundtrack, wake, trail of light, photograph of
the feast in mourning.
'It sees itself, the response, dictated to be
poetic, by being poetic. And for that reason,
it is obliged to address itself to someone,
singularly to you but as if to the being lost
in anonymity, between city and nature, an
imparted secret, at once public and private,
absolutely one and the other, absolved from
within and from without, neither one nor the
other, the animal thrown onto the road,
absolute, solitary, rolled up in a ball, next to
(it)self. And for that very reason, it may get
itself run over, just so, the herisson, istrice in
Italian, in English, hedgehog.'
(Jacques Derrida, Che cos'e la poesia,1988)
Saturday, February 14, 2004
D[oars]
Ep efkairias Paraskevis, +13 Fevrari 2004 Or 'Avrion pale'
IX
Makry zeimbekiko gia ton Achillea:
"To write is to produce a mark that will constitute a kind of machine that is in turn productive, that my future disappearance in principle will not prevent from functioning and from yielding, and yielding itself to, reading and rewriting... For the written to be written, it must continue to "act" and to be legible even if what is called the author of the writing no longer answers for what he has written, for what he seems to have signed, whether he is provisionally absent, or if he is dead, or if in general he does not support, with his absolutely current and present intention or attention, the plentitude of his meaning, of that very thing which seems to be written "in his name."."
Jacques Derrida, Signature, Event, Context
Ftou! Xeleutheria: Endangering the caution-s and in another language the pss! and the shh-s, the 'cutting' of the telephone line, the line of the live feed, the line of the tele-phonic [how many times haven't we oh! dear voyagers, been murdered by the tele-phone (and he hated, Hey Joe!, he hated the mobility of the murder, the postponement of the shoooooting, -it is not by coincidence that his favourite drumers, his favourite rollers, were, are, Mitch Mitchell and Elvin Jones, were the future pesent was always past perfect in their rolls, 'always already' announcing the lead, the cable, the electricity, the electric- the telephone which stressed and extended, carried along, here, and ha(l)lo, yes to paraphrase the para-phraser, the meta-phraser of the maeutic-phraser, is not pinned down, not plugged that is, not to be found itemised on a bill sheet, "shit!", indeed and in on the contrary, that is on the contrary of bodily desire, is and has always been, always already been, the haunting voice of the discourse, of the Logos that is, en apousia ton matiwn, (pws na sa agapisw mana[mou] ek tou makrw/then?), the vox populi of the 'people', that has murdered, oh! so many times], and the tele-phonic liveliness, a leave, a 'shore leave' from the 'rocking dream boat' [athanate Bugs Bunny- and I did wake up, last night with a Merlot, a Coke (for a female partner) and a basket awaiting for 'bunnies' or, a 'Bunny Hill'], which is never, and not only, never only the telephone 'call', never that, God Forbid!, the voice, the Word of the cull, but before the cull of the voice and the word-cull, is called, it seems, the threat of the 'commitment'. Of the commiting 'down to paper', of writing. "A being that no 'logic' can confine within a noncontradictory definition...neither living nor dead".
Gia (ap)afto [residence of Greece: :-)], Ftou!, Xeleuftheria! Gia touto;
X
Seam-ioseis gia ena porn-OH!-graphema:
"...Ontas kopei kavatzin
Trigyrw tou petasounte 300 parapoulia."
Ki apo tin mia mytho-logia stin alli- apo tin fterna, diladi, sto nou, ston efialti: oneiremeno, kai evgevsto, efaltirio, efapax. Ma ki opws kathe pax, me tous orous tis, pou i his-storia polles fores mas tou para-tonise kai egina oroi (me ton tono sto teliko 'i'-kai ehou allou grapsei gia touto to 'i', to 'iwta' daseia). Efapax,to loipon se mia dosi kai dia pantws, ma me 'residude','apo-tamiefsi' i tmimatiki dia-skorpisi tou posou syn-taxiwdiotisis, kai ohi spania gia spitia stin exohi, eis s'alla meri, i to xodema s'aftokinito kai 'oneiremenous' pro-orismous, pou kapws itan akatorthwtoi prin to efapax. Tin monimotita tou 'oneirikou'. Ashetws an to -apax, diarkei mono mia stigmi, mono mia stigmoula. Kai panta meta.Edw einai to risko:
Kai etsi;
With Tea and Apple he walked up Kingsway as he would have and as he did walk, up, Champs Elysee, and how, well, at least for sometime, on some ocassions, and this was, had to be one of them, he walked the Stadium, the University and the Academy, all of them 'streets'.!. up and down, up and down, up and down, with a paper bag, now, in his hand, well sort of, hanging of his fingers, of white nylon rope, the kind of rope you find on those plastic dingies, with names like 'Explorer 300' and a hawk, or a falcon on the front, the last one to get deflated this hawk, this falcon, !, with the oars, plastic as well, of a different cosistency, this dingies, marking the sea, always calm, always aloof, stupid, dirty bastard, greenish mouldy bitch, and marking the surface beneath it, at an angle, that is you had to turn those oars round and round at an angle so to mark the way in and back. Then usually we would just sit at its front, or its back, where all thing came out, from where all things came out and from where it started with the dingy, orange, stuck in the mud, and our dicks stuck from the mud. Only peas. That's how in a sense, a sense of guiltiness and a huge smile was reflecting, a smile of 'guiltiness', onto and from the facades, and into the asses, anusses [from Mid. E. anus "a ring"], and the dog and the kid and the pampers and the dog food and the dog life and the doggy kid, dogging around every fucking dog's day n' night, and their legs up, up, up dear, and push, push, push, push for Lord's sake, and yes nurse I would have another one of that thing your offering me, rice or whatever is made of, grain and seeds and ashes to ashes and earth to earth, ekei pou eisai eimouna kai ekei pou eimai tha 'rtheis, dehese n' allaxoumen twra, na aleifto ladi jai xydi jai na tryfto tou kolou [sou/tis - anyway he doesn't get it does he? and it's not that he will hate me whenhe is 8, and crying, 'o mix-is', o bastartos, mes to ftino xenodoheio kai sta sentonia ton pollwn, na kartera na megalwsei (jai jeinos jai i poulou tou!), Fuck you asshole you homophobic reckless pig [Flea 'Pea', Red Hot Chilli Pepers]. Oh the asshole - do people do still fuck up the ass or has the speech erased the phenomenon. God For Give me, me slice of the pies! In the plural, please! He only lived, like, a few numbers up, you know, Charles Dick..
That was how he was coming up, into Kingsway out of the Bush, the Arcade where he befriended with a pen, a styllo, a 'histo', a pole and an a ceausura, or a ceausuratic pole, a pole of no return, a pole at no return, who did it after all in 28 days only, and I mean on foot, tamed and tied, up and down, or I guess, push and pull, and pull, and pull, that was how he was into Kingsway with that smile onto and back from the facades, and into the asses! See Him!- Wie?-als wien ein Lamn, a spotless Lamb, Lamne olan pu dame, ga'ourin, na se portoklotsisw mes ta rizofkia na paeis pou to dimotiko, katw mes to parking ospou na evreis ton kyrio dromo, os'an to potirin to ofjairo, os'an 'kioupi' geron pou monon geros epe-strepse, me palindromiseis kai epi-strofes, jai me tis stoles hamenes. Twra diavazw apo tin vivlo tou, papou.
Ba(c)h! I diki tou itan kaliteri. Melanourenia, Melanouri, Hontri mou Agapi pou arnise na iswsei o nouros sou, jai oi mono, afou mono axinostrafa tsapizeis jai klwtsas tis 'lexeis jai ta pramata' se kolles jai kolloudes, on paper, flat out, laid out laying, liar 'my likeness my brother' 'mon semblance mon amour', opws xaploneis jai x-aplonese, xana, since tou tend, tending, to be generous, Attention!, ALT!, voluptousness, loukos-loukoumi, trenches-benches+love handles, piasimata, piastres kai theseis mahis, opou fullagonte ta pyromachica kai ta ftiaria, syhna pykna retractable, foldable anadiploumena, eis diploun eno ena, Uno, which doubles jai as a fkiari. Kouspos i efkairia: idou I aporia. Opws kai na ehei to prama, opothen jai an taraxei, taragmeno, seismoplikto, gia na kratisoume kai ta palia ta schimmata, whole-heartedly, me oli tou tin krema, glykia mou Melanouri tou vounou kai tou ypogeiou kai to metamesonuhtion afieroseon akoma me koustoumi ["If you are going through hell, keep going…" Winston Churchill, 03:30, me tis kaliteres efhes – kai itan kai jame o winston, entos tou thamnou, up yours diladi, pantahou pliron kai oloi oi kaloi forane – ‘kolympan’- profile, me ton pipwmeno pouro, to pouro! (o tonos sto ‘o’)] eisoun I aformi voitha mou, gia to gelio, ‘guilty one’, bang up their asses. And downstream those thighs, pausing for second, always in commotion, in the trenches behind the knees, in the k-nigh behinds, still on the side of the back, and Plonk! Bloom! apo ta kalamia stis goves kai ta milk-bars, i sta flat pa-pouts-I-a ton koritsiwn me tis omorfes tsantes petreleou, pou ekrivan ta akrivo tatoo. Twn koritsiwn me ta jean, jah! which were unoticingly smiling back, from the side (it) seams, on the street that the hidden phere-phono, the carrier of the voice, and its psuchopompos, pompous Hermes, who let's the lid off, opens it up, un-hermeticizing, the street who joy!, Joyce might have enjoyed, so let us call it JoyceOrchard, archidia!, sto ypsos twn tapelwn pou itan dkyo ma i mia egeire, emaranen, epeses, jai kammia pou tes dkyo en doulefkei, den arithmodotei, tin nychta to dromo tou Bloom,jai dias feneste mou syneheia mes tis kerazies jai tis mouries, mourlos:Bang!Bang! jai PingPlingPlingPlingPlungPlingPlungPlungPlingPlingPlingPlnigPlingPlong!, kapou ji'ame, since he had left by now that after-noon glass reflected smile, before lunch, near 101 [Bar or Room gia files kai gnwstes tou Annus Horribilis, which came after the Yearning of the Rum, and the yerne-ing of the libre leaning of the bar libretto, Lie Thee softly, softly here] (w)here she jumped of the bus and sideways onto the wall with that flashing white light of the jcket in front of the shampoo smelling pink and the pre-valentine's handbag, 'succumbing' BIFF 'to engage with the commodification of romance', and the hair up, up, up, tied. That's how I got after the first three moves the smile from the side (it) seams. Already, now, Melanouri in his pen pocket, in front of his cigarete-case pocket, which was holding his notebook in case he feel down the stairs, and a few inches above the left hand side empty lighter pocket, on the way to mock the blue moon.
Left Right Left Right Left Right Left Right elf write, up, (t)here, commited that is caught up here, as itseams floating, auto-nomous, apaftono-mouse, the ass, co-ordinating the threat within the friday-night crowd, voiceless God!, no words just writing. Kwlo-Graphe!: and yet that's how, with Melanouri from the mountains now in bed, embedded, never pulled, on the contrary always pushed, pouchy poushti, a long distance runner with refills, he was dicovering again, beleiving it or not, durexion outside of the vanguarchina, enduring chopefully, the slow, painfull spiced with pleasure incision, the ceausuras, to tsapisman epi makrothen, tous loukous pou den tha itan pia, ohi, lakoi me ta fidia, ma-ne, mete-wra hamogela, outisde time, flat out.
Hugging the White Mountain which was not his penis, not his pelvis and not his ass, and being not french not that either, he crossed the street and paused to dust off the lower part of the left dust of the left leg breeches, breaching the breeches ta pison. He was not after her anyway, and at the junction she overtook him, while his eyes crossed the perpetual crossings, the flashing lights and the seems. Like fixed, stiched, he crossed, behind. Agorakia pou zitoun tsigaro, Koritsakia pou zitoun fwtia, Oi fili mou oi courriers, joined Hermes, spliffffffffffffffed trips, vzzzzzzzzzzoooooouuuuuuuum!, genaia sfyrygmata kai anw gnathoi kai katw apo to gonato kai mehri to gonato kai panw apo to gonato, kai kaloxyrismena laima kai enydatwmena daktyla: devouring eyes.
3-4-5 rows in front, you apologise and you pass, always near, if at first time you don't succeed, kota! Off the pavement, on the streets, that's how it goes, on and off the streets, and people do spare some money for something hot for them though, something nice and cosy, mai, mai, May, hah?, or June or Vanessa, or Sickfried, or Aima - but that's how it goes, on and off, and behind behinds behind bustops. Through the perspex and the ads, the eyes, Aye!
And somewhere here s|he stops. And turns. And eyes become eyes and I's become I's and in somewhere here a here is to be sounded, a trumpet from the Swiss Alps, that through the digged up tunnels it rings, ugly or beautiful, bald or divine, Thee mou!, what stays, drip, drip, drip it's the Melanouri and those smiles and those reflections, and those flat plateaus, and those geographical similies that would bring him in trouble "Laonia, Kampous jai vouna" (V. Michaelides, I Anerada), with the name soon appearing, ringing, "a promise and a memory that conditions every commitment...this obigatory departure point of all discourse", "of the amen and the hymen" [J. Derrida, Ulysses Gramophone] and what's left en' mia Syrah, alkooliki, apo tin Imatheia, i grammikotita kai o afto-shediasmos, Eugenie, that self-drawing which you have to mastear, and that mastear you need to drive through, mesa apo annus kai kwlo-grafes kai mesa apo pornographemata and the seams.
And the poplar might come down,still white, and lean, ma men mou klamourizese jai vresheis loushia [vrohi anameikti me petres kai laspi]. Varton kappama panw, jai en' na eimasten polloi emeis oi thkyo, mona(c)ha! enas 1>2 jai meta ela na pioumen, sto telos, enan kafen me to tairin tou. Jai en' nan jame i kojiakari i Frosou, o gios tis o titsirokolos ntymenos intianos, o Hermes na kola to lastithon tou poilatou pou etrypien, ji o pio pashalinos barman ston kosmo. Egw kai i Mont Blanc ypografoumen, eidi ento tis kai etsi mplegmenoi mes to ktin jai to ktosherin it seams. Bang, Bang,Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, na liwsoumen t' athasoudin na kamoumen soumadan. Hliari;
XX
IX
Makry zeimbekiko gia ton Achillea:
"To write is to produce a mark that will constitute a kind of machine that is in turn productive, that my future disappearance in principle will not prevent from functioning and from yielding, and yielding itself to, reading and rewriting... For the written to be written, it must continue to "act" and to be legible even if what is called the author of the writing no longer answers for what he has written, for what he seems to have signed, whether he is provisionally absent, or if he is dead, or if in general he does not support, with his absolutely current and present intention or attention, the plentitude of his meaning, of that very thing which seems to be written "in his name."."
Jacques Derrida, Signature, Event, Context
Ftou! Xeleutheria: Endangering the caution-s and in another language the pss! and the shh-s, the 'cutting' of the telephone line, the line of the live feed, the line of the tele-phonic [how many times haven't we oh! dear voyagers, been murdered by the tele-phone (and he hated, Hey Joe!, he hated the mobility of the murder, the postponement of the shoooooting, -it is not by coincidence that his favourite drumers, his favourite rollers, were, are, Mitch Mitchell and Elvin Jones, were the future pesent was always past perfect in their rolls, 'always already' announcing the lead, the cable, the electricity, the electric- the telephone which stressed and extended, carried along, here, and ha(l)lo, yes to paraphrase the para-phraser, the meta-phraser of the maeutic-phraser, is not pinned down, not plugged that is, not to be found itemised on a bill sheet, "shit!", indeed and in on the contrary, that is on the contrary of bodily desire, is and has always been, always already been, the haunting voice of the discourse, of the Logos that is, en apousia ton matiwn, (pws na sa agapisw mana[mou] ek tou makrw/then?), the vox populi of the 'people', that has murdered, oh! so many times], and the tele-phonic liveliness, a leave, a 'shore leave' from the 'rocking dream boat' [athanate Bugs Bunny- and I did wake up, last night with a Merlot, a Coke (for a female partner) and a basket awaiting for 'bunnies' or, a 'Bunny Hill'], which is never, and not only, never only the telephone 'call', never that, God Forbid!, the voice, the Word of the cull, but before the cull of the voice and the word-cull, is called, it seems, the threat of the 'commitment'. Of the commiting 'down to paper', of writing. "A being that no 'logic' can confine within a noncontradictory definition...neither living nor dead".
Gia (ap)afto [residence of Greece: :-)], Ftou!, Xeleuftheria! Gia touto;
X
Seam-ioseis gia ena porn-OH!-graphema:
"...Ontas kopei kavatzin
Trigyrw tou petasounte 300 parapoulia."
Ki apo tin mia mytho-logia stin alli- apo tin fterna, diladi, sto nou, ston efialti: oneiremeno, kai evgevsto, efaltirio, efapax. Ma ki opws kathe pax, me tous orous tis, pou i his-storia polles fores mas tou para-tonise kai egina oroi (me ton tono sto teliko 'i'-kai ehou allou grapsei gia touto to 'i', to 'iwta' daseia). Efapax,to loipon se mia dosi kai dia pantws, ma me 'residude','apo-tamiefsi' i tmimatiki dia-skorpisi tou posou syn-taxiwdiotisis, kai ohi spania gia spitia stin exohi, eis s'alla meri, i to xodema s'aftokinito kai 'oneiremenous' pro-orismous, pou kapws itan akatorthwtoi prin to efapax. Tin monimotita tou 'oneirikou'. Ashetws an to -apax, diarkei mono mia stigmi, mono mia stigmoula. Kai panta meta.Edw einai to risko:
Kai etsi;
With Tea and Apple he walked up Kingsway as he would have and as he did walk, up, Champs Elysee, and how, well, at least for sometime, on some ocassions, and this was, had to be one of them, he walked the Stadium, the University and the Academy, all of them 'streets'.!. up and down, up and down, up and down, with a paper bag, now, in his hand, well sort of, hanging of his fingers, of white nylon rope, the kind of rope you find on those plastic dingies, with names like 'Explorer 300' and a hawk, or a falcon on the front, the last one to get deflated this hawk, this falcon, !, with the oars, plastic as well, of a different cosistency, this dingies, marking the sea, always calm, always aloof, stupid, dirty bastard, greenish mouldy bitch, and marking the surface beneath it, at an angle, that is you had to turn those oars round and round at an angle so to mark the way in and back. Then usually we would just sit at its front, or its back, where all thing came out, from where all things came out and from where it started with the dingy, orange, stuck in the mud, and our dicks stuck from the mud. Only peas. That's how in a sense, a sense of guiltiness and a huge smile was reflecting, a smile of 'guiltiness', onto and from the facades, and into the asses, anusses [from Mid. E. anus "a ring"], and the dog and the kid and the pampers and the dog food and the dog life and the doggy kid, dogging around every fucking dog's day n' night, and their legs up, up, up dear, and push, push, push, push for Lord's sake, and yes nurse I would have another one of that thing your offering me, rice or whatever is made of, grain and seeds and ashes to ashes and earth to earth, ekei pou eisai eimouna kai ekei pou eimai tha 'rtheis, dehese n' allaxoumen twra, na aleifto ladi jai xydi jai na tryfto tou kolou [sou/tis - anyway he doesn't get it does he? and it's not that he will hate me whenhe is 8, and crying, 'o mix-is', o bastartos, mes to ftino xenodoheio kai sta sentonia ton pollwn, na kartera na megalwsei (jai jeinos jai i poulou tou!), Fuck you asshole you homophobic reckless pig [Flea 'Pea', Red Hot Chilli Pepers]. Oh the asshole - do people do still fuck up the ass or has the speech erased the phenomenon. God For Give me, me slice of the pies! In the plural, please! He only lived, like, a few numbers up, you know, Charles Dick..
That was how he was coming up, into Kingsway out of the Bush, the Arcade where he befriended with a pen, a styllo, a 'histo', a pole and an a ceausura, or a ceausuratic pole, a pole of no return, a pole at no return, who did it after all in 28 days only, and I mean on foot, tamed and tied, up and down, or I guess, push and pull, and pull, and pull, that was how he was into Kingsway with that smile onto and back from the facades, and into the asses! See Him!- Wie?-als wien ein Lamn, a spotless Lamb, Lamne olan pu dame, ga'ourin, na se portoklotsisw mes ta rizofkia na paeis pou to dimotiko, katw mes to parking ospou na evreis ton kyrio dromo, os'an to potirin to ofjairo, os'an 'kioupi' geron pou monon geros epe-strepse, me palindromiseis kai epi-strofes, jai me tis stoles hamenes. Twra diavazw apo tin vivlo tou, papou.
Ba(c)h! I diki tou itan kaliteri. Melanourenia, Melanouri, Hontri mou Agapi pou arnise na iswsei o nouros sou, jai oi mono, afou mono axinostrafa tsapizeis jai klwtsas tis 'lexeis jai ta pramata' se kolles jai kolloudes, on paper, flat out, laid out laying, liar 'my likeness my brother' 'mon semblance mon amour', opws xaploneis jai x-aplonese, xana, since tou tend, tending, to be generous, Attention!, ALT!, voluptousness, loukos-loukoumi, trenches-benches+love handles, piasimata, piastres kai theseis mahis, opou fullagonte ta pyromachica kai ta ftiaria, syhna pykna retractable, foldable anadiploumena, eis diploun eno ena, Uno, which doubles jai as a fkiari. Kouspos i efkairia: idou I aporia. Opws kai na ehei to prama, opothen jai an taraxei, taragmeno, seismoplikto, gia na kratisoume kai ta palia ta schimmata, whole-heartedly, me oli tou tin krema, glykia mou Melanouri tou vounou kai tou ypogeiou kai to metamesonuhtion afieroseon akoma me koustoumi ["If you are going through hell, keep going…" Winston Churchill, 03:30, me tis kaliteres efhes – kai itan kai jame o winston, entos tou thamnou, up yours diladi, pantahou pliron kai oloi oi kaloi forane – ‘kolympan’- profile, me ton pipwmeno pouro, to pouro! (o tonos sto ‘o’)] eisoun I aformi voitha mou, gia to gelio, ‘guilty one’, bang up their asses. And downstream those thighs, pausing for second, always in commotion, in the trenches behind the knees, in the k-nigh behinds, still on the side of the back, and Plonk! Bloom! apo ta kalamia stis goves kai ta milk-bars, i sta flat pa-pouts-I-a ton koritsiwn me tis omorfes tsantes petreleou, pou ekrivan ta akrivo tatoo. Twn koritsiwn me ta jean, jah! which were unoticingly smiling back, from the side (it) seams, on the street that the hidden phere-phono, the carrier of the voice, and its psuchopompos, pompous Hermes, who let's the lid off, opens it up, un-hermeticizing, the street who joy!, Joyce might have enjoyed, so let us call it JoyceOrchard, archidia!, sto ypsos twn tapelwn pou itan dkyo ma i mia egeire, emaranen, epeses, jai kammia pou tes dkyo en doulefkei, den arithmodotei, tin nychta to dromo tou Bloom,jai dias feneste mou syneheia mes tis kerazies jai tis mouries, mourlos:Bang!Bang! jai PingPlingPlingPlingPlungPlingPlungPlungPlingPlingPlingPlnigPlingPlong!, kapou ji'ame, since he had left by now that after-noon glass reflected smile, before lunch, near 101 [Bar or Room gia files kai gnwstes tou Annus Horribilis, which came after the Yearning of the Rum, and the yerne-ing of the libre leaning of the bar libretto, Lie Thee softly, softly here] (w)here she jumped of the bus and sideways onto the wall with that flashing white light of the jcket in front of the shampoo smelling pink and the pre-valentine's handbag, 'succumbing' BIFF 'to engage with the commodification of romance', and the hair up, up, up, tied. That's how I got after the first three moves the smile from the side (it) seams. Already, now, Melanouri in his pen pocket, in front of his cigarete-case pocket, which was holding his notebook in case he feel down the stairs, and a few inches above the left hand side empty lighter pocket, on the way to mock the blue moon.
Left Right Left Right Left Right Left Right elf write, up, (t)here, commited that is caught up here, as itseams floating, auto-nomous, apaftono-mouse, the ass, co-ordinating the threat within the friday-night crowd, voiceless God!, no words just writing. Kwlo-Graphe!: and yet that's how, with Melanouri from the mountains now in bed, embedded, never pulled, on the contrary always pushed, pouchy poushti, a long distance runner with refills, he was dicovering again, beleiving it or not, durexion outside of the vanguarchina, enduring chopefully, the slow, painfull spiced with pleasure incision, the ceausuras, to tsapisman epi makrothen, tous loukous pou den tha itan pia, ohi, lakoi me ta fidia, ma-ne, mete-wra hamogela, outisde time, flat out.
Hugging the White Mountain which was not his penis, not his pelvis and not his ass, and being not french not that either, he crossed the street and paused to dust off the lower part of the left dust of the left leg breeches, breaching the breeches ta pison. He was not after her anyway, and at the junction she overtook him, while his eyes crossed the perpetual crossings, the flashing lights and the seems. Like fixed, stiched, he crossed, behind. Agorakia pou zitoun tsigaro, Koritsakia pou zitoun fwtia, Oi fili mou oi courriers, joined Hermes, spliffffffffffffffed trips, vzzzzzzzzzzoooooouuuuuuuum!, genaia sfyrygmata kai anw gnathoi kai katw apo to gonato kai mehri to gonato kai panw apo to gonato, kai kaloxyrismena laima kai enydatwmena daktyla: devouring eyes.
3-4-5 rows in front, you apologise and you pass, always near, if at first time you don't succeed, kota! Off the pavement, on the streets, that's how it goes, on and off the streets, and people do spare some money for something hot for them though, something nice and cosy, mai, mai, May, hah?, or June or Vanessa, or Sickfried, or Aima - but that's how it goes, on and off, and behind behinds behind bustops. Through the perspex and the ads, the eyes, Aye!
And somewhere here s|he stops. And turns. And eyes become eyes and I's become I's and in somewhere here a here is to be sounded, a trumpet from the Swiss Alps, that through the digged up tunnels it rings, ugly or beautiful, bald or divine, Thee mou!, what stays, drip, drip, drip it's the Melanouri and those smiles and those reflections, and those flat plateaus, and those geographical similies that would bring him in trouble "Laonia, Kampous jai vouna" (V. Michaelides, I Anerada), with the name soon appearing, ringing, "a promise and a memory that conditions every commitment...this obigatory departure point of all discourse", "of the amen and the hymen" [J. Derrida, Ulysses Gramophone] and what's left en' mia Syrah, alkooliki, apo tin Imatheia, i grammikotita kai o afto-shediasmos, Eugenie, that self-drawing which you have to mastear, and that mastear you need to drive through, mesa apo annus kai kwlo-grafes kai mesa apo pornographemata and the seams.
And the poplar might come down,still white, and lean, ma men mou klamourizese jai vresheis loushia [vrohi anameikti me petres kai laspi]. Varton kappama panw, jai en' na eimasten polloi emeis oi thkyo, mona(c)ha! enas 1>2 jai meta ela na pioumen, sto telos, enan kafen me to tairin tou. Jai en' nan jame i kojiakari i Frosou, o gios tis o titsirokolos ntymenos intianos, o Hermes na kola to lastithon tou poilatou pou etrypien, ji o pio pashalinos barman ston kosmo. Egw kai i Mont Blanc ypografoumen, eidi ento tis kai etsi mplegmenoi mes to ktin jai to ktosherin it seams. Bang, Bang,Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, na liwsoumen t' athasoudin na kamoumen soumadan. Hliari;
XX
Friday, February 13, 2004
Wednesday, February 11, 2004
Gia tou logou to alithes
Mα ο φόβος θέ' να τον κρατεί, για κείνο δεν το δείχνει,
μόνο τη νύκτα, στο σκοπό, παραπετρές μού ρίχνει.
Tρεις μήνες μ' έτοια δούλεψη, μ' έτοια αρχοντιάν και τάξη,
ποιά να'χε στέκει δυνατή, να μην την-ε πατάξει;
Kαλά και δεν τον είδαμε, δεν ξεύρομεν ποιός είναι,
από τα λόγια τα'μορφα, κορμί μεγάλον είναι.
Aπ' ό,τι κάλλη έχει άνθρωπος, τα λόγια έχουν τη χάρη
να κάμουσιν κάθε καρδιάν παρηγοριά να πάρει·
κι οπού κατέχει να μιλεί με γνώσιν και με τρόπον,
κάνει και κλαίσιν και γελούν τα μάτια των ανθρώπων.
(Κορναρος, Ερωτοκριτος, στιχοι 865-70)
Lord, I am not worthy
Lord, I am not worthy
but speak the word only
(T. S. Eliot, Ash-wednesday, III, lines 118-20)
ΣΤΗΝ ΑΡΧΗ το φως Kαι η ώpα η πpώτη
που τα χείλη ακόμη στον πηλό
δοκιμάζουν τα πράγματα του κόσμου
Αίμα πράσινο και βολβοί στη γη χρυσοί
Πανωραία στον ύπνο της άπλωσε και η θάλασσα
γάζες αιθέρος τις αλεύκαντες
κάτω απ' τις χαρουπιές και τους μεγάλους όρθιους φοίνικες
Εκεί μόνος αντίκρισα
τον κόσμο
κλαίγοντας γοερά
Η ψυχή μου ζητούσε Σηματωρό και Κήρυκα
(Αξιον Εστιν, Μερος Α', στιχοι 1-11)
'Ισως ποτέ να μην υπήρξε μεγαλείτερος καημός απ'
τον δικό της
'Ισως ποτέ να μην έπεσαν ψίθυροι πιο πεπυρακτω-
μένοι στην επιφάνεια ενός προσώπου
'Ισως ποτέ δεν εξετέθη στην κατανόησι ανθρώπου
έκθεσις πιο εκτεταμένη
'Εκθεσις πιο ποικίλη πιο περιεκτική από την ιστο-
ρία που λεν τα νέφη αυτής της εξομολογήσεως
(Ανδρεας Εμπειρικος, 'Εαρ σαν Παντα', στιχοι 7-14)
μόνο τη νύκτα, στο σκοπό, παραπετρές μού ρίχνει.
Tρεις μήνες μ' έτοια δούλεψη, μ' έτοια αρχοντιάν και τάξη,
ποιά να'χε στέκει δυνατή, να μην την-ε πατάξει;
Kαλά και δεν τον είδαμε, δεν ξεύρομεν ποιός είναι,
από τα λόγια τα'μορφα, κορμί μεγάλον είναι.
Aπ' ό,τι κάλλη έχει άνθρωπος, τα λόγια έχουν τη χάρη
να κάμουσιν κάθε καρδιάν παρηγοριά να πάρει·
κι οπού κατέχει να μιλεί με γνώσιν και με τρόπον,
κάνει και κλαίσιν και γελούν τα μάτια των ανθρώπων.
(Κορναρος, Ερωτοκριτος, στιχοι 865-70)
Lord, I am not worthy
Lord, I am not worthy
but speak the word only
(T. S. Eliot, Ash-wednesday, III, lines 118-20)
ΣΤΗΝ ΑΡΧΗ το φως Kαι η ώpα η πpώτη
που τα χείλη ακόμη στον πηλό
δοκιμάζουν τα πράγματα του κόσμου
Αίμα πράσινο και βολβοί στη γη χρυσοί
Πανωραία στον ύπνο της άπλωσε και η θάλασσα
γάζες αιθέρος τις αλεύκαντες
κάτω απ' τις χαρουπιές και τους μεγάλους όρθιους φοίνικες
Εκεί μόνος αντίκρισα
τον κόσμο
κλαίγοντας γοερά
Η ψυχή μου ζητούσε Σηματωρό και Κήρυκα
(Αξιον Εστιν, Μερος Α', στιχοι 1-11)
'Ισως ποτέ να μην υπήρξε μεγαλείτερος καημός απ'
τον δικό της
'Ισως ποτέ να μην έπεσαν ψίθυροι πιο πεπυρακτω-
μένοι στην επιφάνεια ενός προσώπου
'Ισως ποτέ δεν εξετέθη στην κατανόησι ανθρώπου
έκθεσις πιο εκτεταμένη
'Εκθεσις πιο ποικίλη πιο περιεκτική από την ιστο-
ρία που λεν τα νέφη αυτής της εξομολογήσεως
(Ανδρεας Εμπειρικος, 'Εαρ σαν Παντα', στιχοι 7-14)
Wednesday, February 04, 2004
I read, much of the night
The eyes are not here
There are no eyes here
In this valley of dying stars
In this hollow valley
This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms
In this last of meeting places
We grope together
And avoid speech
(The Hollow Men, lines 52-9)
And - for let us assume that there was something prior to this - what do you call an empty term, self-referential, pure indexical in nature; an unsound, vocal, oral taxidi, 'in forgetful snow', in solitude; how do you read Silence in a text? Isn't this voice a voice, isn't its existence its nothingness too?
For, Alexandra and the rest, tracing the voice and their Unreality (eprospathises potte na akouseis mian leksi?) will lead us - even though it already did - to the protagonists. Ghosts with no shadows, eipes.
: the choral voice from within, the universal and the particular, the randomly - though not chancy - voiced/ that 'I' or 'it' isn't it necessarily some-thing, queer in existence yes, even if it is actually not? Isn't Unreal real? Isn't the 'I' though unreal yet ISN'T it? and how important is the negation!
Nai je den pistefkw ston eauto (eipa sou) giati o eautos ennen 'I', en kati para-panw je para-katw - it is the object and the subject the 'I' refers to. to 'I' en i glwssa mas, emeis (an iparxei etsi prama) eimaste to 'en i...mas'.
April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee
With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade,
And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten,
And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.
Bin gar keine Russin, stamm' aus Litauen, echt deutsch. 12
And when we were children, staying at the arch-duke's,
My cousin's, he took me out on a sled,
And I was frightened. He said, Marie,
Marie, hold on tight. And down we went.
In the mountains, there you feel free.
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
(The Burial of the Dead lines 1-18)
Katalavenw ti eipes, pws en mporw na kamw attribute tipote se kanenan, pws en mporw na dw pws touto to 'I' and tis Marie. Alla to 'I' must be necessariy - I take it - kapiou - enan onoma, enan token - however empty. I Marie en iparxei, to 'I' leei to i Marie omws.
There are no eyes here
In this valley of dying stars
In this hollow valley
This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms
In this last of meeting places
We grope together
And avoid speech
(The Hollow Men, lines 52-9)
And - for let us assume that there was something prior to this - what do you call an empty term, self-referential, pure indexical in nature; an unsound, vocal, oral taxidi, 'in forgetful snow', in solitude; how do you read Silence in a text? Isn't this voice a voice, isn't its existence its nothingness too?
For, Alexandra and the rest, tracing the voice and their Unreality (eprospathises potte na akouseis mian leksi?) will lead us - even though it already did - to the protagonists. Ghosts with no shadows, eipes.
: the choral voice from within, the universal and the particular, the randomly - though not chancy - voiced/ that 'I' or 'it' isn't it necessarily some-thing, queer in existence yes, even if it is actually not? Isn't Unreal real? Isn't the 'I' though unreal yet ISN'T it? and how important is the negation!
Nai je den pistefkw ston eauto (eipa sou) giati o eautos ennen 'I', en kati para-panw je para-katw - it is the object and the subject the 'I' refers to. to 'I' en i glwssa mas, emeis (an iparxei etsi prama) eimaste to 'en i...mas'.
April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee
With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade,
And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten,
And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.
Bin gar keine Russin, stamm' aus Litauen, echt deutsch. 12
And when we were children, staying at the arch-duke's,
My cousin's, he took me out on a sled,
And I was frightened. He said, Marie,
Marie, hold on tight. And down we went.
In the mountains, there you feel free.
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
(The Burial of the Dead lines 1-18)
Katalavenw ti eipes, pws en mporw na kamw attribute tipote se kanenan, pws en mporw na dw pws touto to 'I' and tis Marie. Alla to 'I' must be necessariy - I take it - kapiou - enan onoma, enan token - however empty. I Marie en iparxei, to 'I' leei to i Marie omws.
oi patates tis monaxias
The first real grip I ever got on things
Was when I learned the art of pedalling
(By hand) a bike turned upside down, and drove
Its back wheel preternaturally fast.
I loved the disappearance of the spokes,
The way the space between the hub and rim
Hummed with transparency. If you threw
A potato into it, the hooped air
Spun mush and drizzle back into your face;
If you touched it with a straw, the straw frittered.
Something about the way those pedal treads
Worked very palpably at first against you
And then began to sweep your hand ahead
Into a new momentum - that all entered me
Like an access of free power, as if belief
Caught up and spun the objects of belief
In an orbit coterminous with longing.
Part I from "Wheels within Wheels" - Seamus Heaney (epitelous)
Christos: Solitude is a spatial notion (an external world) which the protagonists (human bodies) are part of.
simfono dame. solitude can be felt through space, oi mono o adeios topos, alla jai to gefiri tou tseliot (kypriaka: cheliot) pou en oulloi pintomeni messti monaxian tous. i monaxia erkete pou exw jai pou mesa, 'entered me' ma jinos arxisen to 'new momentum'.
Alla lalei to jai o christos touto: Solitude, like silence, is often a safe place to be. Solitude conceived as silence is an interesting analogy for silence (like solitude) is always around: it exists inside and around us, its existence is everything else’s inexistence and it often seems inherited in us – everyone carries with them a silence.
Gerontion: "I am an old man, / A dull head among windy spaces... I have no ghosts, / An old man in a draughty house / Under a windy knob... I have lost my sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch: How should I use them for your closer contact?"
III
Nothing rose to the occasion after that
Until, in a circus ring, drumrolled and spotlit,
Cowgirls wheeled in, each one immaculate
At the still centre of a lariat.
Perpetuum mobile. Sheer pirouette.
Tumblers. Jongleurs. Ring-a-rosies. Stet!
- Heaney (yet again)
Stamata! Stet! - Stetson! / You who were with me in the ships at Mylae! O Heaney stamata? teliwnei?o Eliot teleiwnei potte tou? Shantih. "The Peace which passeth understanding" lalei. Pamen pisw pale, xanathkiavazaoume, reread, resee (=) revise, kai san miloumen kamnoumen touto pou lalei jai o Levenson: The poem develops not by resolving conflicts but by enlarging contexts, by establishing relations between contexts, by situating motifs within an increasingly elaborate set of cultural parallels – by widening . We widen, we explore, there are no limitations, no Stet.
But enough was not enough. Who ever saw
The limit in the given anyhow?
- Part II
On the side (mian merida patates): en simfonw me to "I" sou christo, pou xereis oti en i marie pou lalei oti pai 'south in the winter'? pws mboreis na laleis oti iparxoun 'protagonists' pou tin stigmi pou en pistefkeis ston 'eauto' (etsi mou ipes mian nixta stin new)?
i giagia sou en eshi lathos.
Was when I learned the art of pedalling
(By hand) a bike turned upside down, and drove
Its back wheel preternaturally fast.
I loved the disappearance of the spokes,
The way the space between the hub and rim
Hummed with transparency. If you threw
A potato into it, the hooped air
Spun mush and drizzle back into your face;
If you touched it with a straw, the straw frittered.
Something about the way those pedal treads
Worked very palpably at first against you
And then began to sweep your hand ahead
Into a new momentum - that all entered me
Like an access of free power, as if belief
Caught up and spun the objects of belief
In an orbit coterminous with longing.
Part I from "Wheels within Wheels" - Seamus Heaney (epitelous)
Christos: Solitude is a spatial notion (an external world) which the protagonists (human bodies) are part of.
simfono dame. solitude can be felt through space, oi mono o adeios topos, alla jai to gefiri tou tseliot (kypriaka: cheliot) pou en oulloi pintomeni messti monaxian tous. i monaxia erkete pou exw jai pou mesa, 'entered me' ma jinos arxisen to 'new momentum'.
Alla lalei to jai o christos touto: Solitude, like silence, is often a safe place to be. Solitude conceived as silence is an interesting analogy for silence (like solitude) is always around: it exists inside and around us, its existence is everything else’s inexistence and it often seems inherited in us – everyone carries with them a silence.
Gerontion: "I am an old man, / A dull head among windy spaces... I have no ghosts, / An old man in a draughty house / Under a windy knob... I have lost my sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch: How should I use them for your closer contact?"
III
Nothing rose to the occasion after that
Until, in a circus ring, drumrolled and spotlit,
Cowgirls wheeled in, each one immaculate
At the still centre of a lariat.
Perpetuum mobile. Sheer pirouette.
Tumblers. Jongleurs. Ring-a-rosies. Stet!
- Heaney (yet again)
Stamata! Stet! - Stetson! / You who were with me in the ships at Mylae! O Heaney stamata? teliwnei?o Eliot teleiwnei potte tou? Shantih. "The Peace which passeth understanding" lalei. Pamen pisw pale, xanathkiavazaoume, reread, resee (=) revise, kai san miloumen kamnoumen touto pou lalei jai o Levenson: The poem develops not by resolving conflicts but by enlarging contexts, by establishing relations between contexts, by situating motifs within an increasingly elaborate set of cultural parallels – by widening . We widen, we explore, there are no limitations, no Stet.
But enough was not enough. Who ever saw
The limit in the given anyhow?
- Part II
On the side (mian merida patates): en simfonw me to "I" sou christo, pou xereis oti en i marie pou lalei oti pai 'south in the winter'? pws mboreis na laleis oti iparxoun 'protagonists' pou tin stigmi pou en pistefkeis ston 'eauto' (etsi mou ipes mian nixta stin new)?
i giagia sou en eshi lathos.
Tuesday, February 03, 2004
And so it goes and/or *'Monaksia jismou!'
Gia tis Alexandras to essay 'The Waste Land in motion' pou mou estille/
ke a-prattontas toso jero na grapsw, afirimenos ws ek toutou tou self-reflexive negation gia to opoio grafei o Eliot (je pollwn allwn/je polloi alloi), skeptomenos ton Wittgenstein je ton Nick Cave, tha grapsw - elpizw-:
Grafei i Alexandra:
Eliot starts with “Unreal City,” the capitalization suggesting a name of a real city, but the meaning of the name negating the reality of such a city. Already we have an image being undermined by its very name, that then reappears on line 207, and is then left unfinished on line 377: “Falling towers / Jerusalem Athens Alexandria / Vienna London / Unreal.” By associating real cities of past and present with the self-negating “Unreal City”, Eliot calls into question the reality of those cities themselves. He is by no means saying that they do not exist, but is suggesting that the Jerusalem, Athens and Alexandria of the past are perceived in such a way that is not true, or real.
Daneizomenos (unreally?) ton stixo tou Eliot pou to Prufrock 'nor was meant to be' skeftoume pws o Eliot kalei or calls into question (ti thriliki ekfrasi/idea!) the unreality of those cities (which are actually concepts/'broken images' of the past) into a question-answer game. Je dame (here diladi) erkete to self-reflexitivity tou unreal.
'Unreal' or 'I'
Pou ti stigmi pou leeis 'I' (laloun osoi oi pistoi tou Wittgenstein akolouthoi) simenei oti Allready(even though unready) iparxeis epeidi akrivws 'I' is a referential term, it self-refers to the very 'token' used, opws aman les 'now', 'today', 'here'- self-reflexive tokens. These pure indexicals are complete and need not be completed by a demonstration or ostensive reference to anything else. Je (prospathw) eksigw:
Aman grafei o Eliot 'Unreal' i idia i leksi (token) mporei na eks-igithei mono self-reflexively. If 'I' can be defined in terms of 'the person who utters this token/who says 'I'', to idio me to Unreal: Unreal can be defined in terms of the thing/the no-thing who/which says/means 'Unreal''.
Je touton to, If I may, to Unthing akrivws psaxnei je o Eliot, je -nomizw- i Alexandra:
Tiresias is in fragments before appearing in whole, fused with the rapist, “foresuffering” the sex/rape scene that follows between the typist and the clerk. In this way, Tiresias is not the protagonist of the poem, but rather, part of its shifting system, himself foreseen before his appearance.
To Unreal City tou Eliot mporei na eksigithei mono cyclically/ aman les Unreal proiparxei to real - ena real pou ennen pragmatiko mias je eine en genei je en idi unreal. Je dame thimoume ton demetri pou eipe gia sigkeneis, self-reflexive:
den yparhei syngenneia kata monas, den yparhei syngenneis monos, i monadikos, o syngenneis den einai 'syn-trofos' / 'syn-trofimos' ('two or three things... [from within this pain]'-Sunday, February 01, 2004)
Je en mporw na milw gia touto to Unreality tis idias tis glwssas (en-telei) pou mporei na eks(w)igithei mono mesa pou ton idio tis ton eauto, je na men kataliksw/pale na milisw gia tin Monaksia. Tin monaksia MAS (na, idi, to prwto negation/pure indexical), gia tin monaksia pou (san leksi-sin-grafomeni) iparxei molis tin grapseis ara eksafanizete opws to Unreal pou ti stigmi pou to grapseis/peis/skefteis en pio alithino pou to unreal. Alla egw en tha milisw gia toutin tin monaksia alla gia tin allin, ne tin allin, tin perpetual, yet yes In Perpetuum.
Grafei o Kaknavatos:
'Ypersintelikos st' apsenti lofio tou
feggarovotanou pali monos
in perpetuum
aniforizw dixws sou ton pagetwna
pou eisai?
sou 'lega pws to mesonixti einai apo sin-
nefo gia touto kathete sta matia gia
touto pia lousmeno ston idrwta tou san
pou' kane to xreos tou pou esfakse
isixazei twra to maxairi
pou eisai?
w pws fisaei anamesa stis lekseis afise
panw tous t'auga tou o anemos to xwma
ksexwse to soi tou den perniete o kala-
miwnas tosoi iskioi
Tha rthei me fidia i galini
pou eisai?
Ti erimia
oute taksi
oute to fantasma mou
pou eisai?'
Unreal, ne, na milas monos sou, na rwtas monos sou, na grafeis ke na xamogelas/kathe sou kafes ke fotografia/ kathe dromaki tis polis sou nane omoikatalikto!
Socrates to Theaetetus: 'And if someone thinks mustn't he think something?'
Th.: 'Yes, je must.'
Soc.: 'And if he thinks something, mustn't it be something real?'
Th.: 'Apparently.'
(Theaetetus 189a; Part I, p.518)
Na min eine i monaksia san Kalokairi (unreal mes tin omixli tou fevrari)/ta kalokairia pou tha 'rthoun
To kalokairi mas krataei ksipnious
ap to roxalisma twn fullwn
tou xeimwna twn noimatwn i tin animpori
mpora - gimni ke ipogeia, aneksantliti
diarrikti ke athampwti i fwni
sou:
'tha me dw na se perimenw'
na min eine tis vroxis to mourmourito
to fagwma tis sarkas; oxi
i diaolotrofi twn essw mas oneirwn,
ta terata pou kouvalisame stis rages mas na
min einai ki auta
i monaksia. e?
Grafei o Gkatsos:
'Mia panagia mian agapi mou exw kleisei
s'erimoklisi alargino
kathe vradia tis kardias ti porta anoigw
koitazw ligo ke proskinw
Pote tha'rthei to kalokairi
pote t'asteri th'anastithei
na sou foresw sta malia xriso stefani
san pirofani st'akrogialia'
Touta oulla/poses lekseis/poses wres/posa tsigara spatalisa panw sou, monaksia na se dw, na se anteksw pou monos mou/ monaksia Unreal. Je den eine to 'perpetual solitude' (oso arrwsto je an akouete) mia aisia, omorfi eksodos? Na mporesoume na xwrisoume tin monaksia? na tin poume aisiodoksi? Oxi - en nomizw. Na tin valoume se xrono? I monaksia en jeu/epi skinis, (t)here eis to ombion.
Grafei O Levenson je grafei i Alexandra:
“The Waste Land expands its historical view and just when it seems to have established a coherent temporal standpoint it expands again… The widening perspectives cannot be regarded as concentric circles which enclose and confirm one another…To the facile opinion that The Waste Land opposes the present to the past, one must immediately rejoin, which past?”
Akrivws!
Na min eine i monaksia a coherent In perpetuum circle? Na min eine Unreal City? (there is more besides London): grafei o Nick Cave:
There is a town
Where I was born
Far far away
Across the sea
And in that town
Where I was born
I would dream
That one day
I would leave
And cross the sea
And so it goes
And so it seems
That God lives only in our dreams
In our dreams
And now I live
In this town
I walk these dark streets
Up and down, up and down
Under a dark sky
And I dream
That one day
I'll go back home
(Nocturama, 'There is a town')
*men masheste, enna ginei re-edited - akoma en eipa tipote.
ke a-prattontas toso jero na grapsw, afirimenos ws ek toutou tou self-reflexive negation gia to opoio grafei o Eliot (je pollwn allwn/je polloi alloi), skeptomenos ton Wittgenstein je ton Nick Cave, tha grapsw - elpizw-:
Grafei i Alexandra:
Eliot starts with “Unreal City,” the capitalization suggesting a name of a real city, but the meaning of the name negating the reality of such a city. Already we have an image being undermined by its very name, that then reappears on line 207, and is then left unfinished on line 377: “Falling towers / Jerusalem Athens Alexandria / Vienna London / Unreal.” By associating real cities of past and present with the self-negating “Unreal City”, Eliot calls into question the reality of those cities themselves. He is by no means saying that they do not exist, but is suggesting that the Jerusalem, Athens and Alexandria of the past are perceived in such a way that is not true, or real.
Daneizomenos (unreally?) ton stixo tou Eliot pou to Prufrock 'nor was meant to be' skeftoume pws o Eliot kalei or calls into question (ti thriliki ekfrasi/idea!) the unreality of those cities (which are actually concepts/'broken images' of the past) into a question-answer game. Je dame (here diladi) erkete to self-reflexitivity tou unreal.
'Unreal' or 'I'
Pou ti stigmi pou leeis 'I' (laloun osoi oi pistoi tou Wittgenstein akolouthoi) simenei oti Allready(even though unready) iparxeis epeidi akrivws 'I' is a referential term, it self-refers to the very 'token' used, opws aman les 'now', 'today', 'here'- self-reflexive tokens. These pure indexicals are complete and need not be completed by a demonstration or ostensive reference to anything else. Je (prospathw) eksigw:
Aman grafei o Eliot 'Unreal' i idia i leksi (token) mporei na eks-igithei mono self-reflexively. If 'I' can be defined in terms of 'the person who utters this token/who says 'I'', to idio me to Unreal: Unreal can be defined in terms of the thing/the no-thing who/which says/means 'Unreal''.
Je touton to, If I may, to Unthing akrivws psaxnei je o Eliot, je -nomizw- i Alexandra:
Tiresias is in fragments before appearing in whole, fused with the rapist, “foresuffering” the sex/rape scene that follows between the typist and the clerk. In this way, Tiresias is not the protagonist of the poem, but rather, part of its shifting system, himself foreseen before his appearance.
To Unreal City tou Eliot mporei na eksigithei mono cyclically/ aman les Unreal proiparxei to real - ena real pou ennen pragmatiko mias je eine en genei je en idi unreal. Je dame thimoume ton demetri pou eipe gia sigkeneis, self-reflexive:
den yparhei syngenneia kata monas, den yparhei syngenneis monos, i monadikos, o syngenneis den einai 'syn-trofos' / 'syn-trofimos' ('two or three things... [from within this pain]'-Sunday, February 01, 2004)
Je en mporw na milw gia touto to Unreality tis idias tis glwssas (en-telei) pou mporei na eks(w)igithei mono mesa pou ton idio tis ton eauto, je na men kataliksw/pale na milisw gia tin Monaksia. Tin monaksia MAS (na, idi, to prwto negation/pure indexical), gia tin monaksia pou (san leksi-sin-grafomeni) iparxei molis tin grapseis ara eksafanizete opws to Unreal pou ti stigmi pou to grapseis/peis/skefteis en pio alithino pou to unreal. Alla egw en tha milisw gia toutin tin monaksia alla gia tin allin, ne tin allin, tin perpetual, yet yes In Perpetuum.
Grafei o Kaknavatos:
'Ypersintelikos st' apsenti lofio tou
feggarovotanou pali monos
in perpetuum
aniforizw dixws sou ton pagetwna
pou eisai?
sou 'lega pws to mesonixti einai apo sin-
nefo gia touto kathete sta matia gia
touto pia lousmeno ston idrwta tou san
pou' kane to xreos tou pou esfakse
isixazei twra to maxairi
pou eisai?
w pws fisaei anamesa stis lekseis afise
panw tous t'auga tou o anemos to xwma
ksexwse to soi tou den perniete o kala-
miwnas tosoi iskioi
Tha rthei me fidia i galini
pou eisai?
Ti erimia
oute taksi
oute to fantasma mou
pou eisai?'
Unreal, ne, na milas monos sou, na rwtas monos sou, na grafeis ke na xamogelas/kathe sou kafes ke fotografia/ kathe dromaki tis polis sou nane omoikatalikto!
Socrates to Theaetetus: 'And if someone thinks mustn't he think something?'
Th.: 'Yes, je must.'
Soc.: 'And if he thinks something, mustn't it be something real?'
Th.: 'Apparently.'
(Theaetetus 189a; Part I, p.518)
Na min eine i monaksia san Kalokairi (unreal mes tin omixli tou fevrari)/ta kalokairia pou tha 'rthoun
To kalokairi mas krataei ksipnious
ap to roxalisma twn fullwn
tou xeimwna twn noimatwn i tin animpori
mpora - gimni ke ipogeia, aneksantliti
diarrikti ke athampwti i fwni
sou:
'tha me dw na se perimenw'
na min eine tis vroxis to mourmourito
to fagwma tis sarkas; oxi
i diaolotrofi twn essw mas oneirwn,
ta terata pou kouvalisame stis rages mas na
min einai ki auta
i monaksia. e?
Grafei o Gkatsos:
'Mia panagia mian agapi mou exw kleisei
s'erimoklisi alargino
kathe vradia tis kardias ti porta anoigw
koitazw ligo ke proskinw
Pote tha'rthei to kalokairi
pote t'asteri th'anastithei
na sou foresw sta malia xriso stefani
san pirofani st'akrogialia'
Touta oulla/poses lekseis/poses wres/posa tsigara spatalisa panw sou, monaksia na se dw, na se anteksw pou monos mou/ monaksia Unreal. Je den eine to 'perpetual solitude' (oso arrwsto je an akouete) mia aisia, omorfi eksodos? Na mporesoume na xwrisoume tin monaksia? na tin poume aisiodoksi? Oxi - en nomizw. Na tin valoume se xrono? I monaksia en jeu/epi skinis, (t)here eis to ombion.
Grafei O Levenson je grafei i Alexandra:
“The Waste Land expands its historical view and just when it seems to have established a coherent temporal standpoint it expands again… The widening perspectives cannot be regarded as concentric circles which enclose and confirm one another…To the facile opinion that The Waste Land opposes the present to the past, one must immediately rejoin, which past?”
Akrivws!
Na min eine i monaksia a coherent In perpetuum circle? Na min eine Unreal City? (there is more besides London): grafei o Nick Cave:
There is a town
Where I was born
Far far away
Across the sea
And in that town
Where I was born
I would dream
That one day
I would leave
And cross the sea
And so it goes
And so it seems
That God lives only in our dreams
In our dreams
And now I live
In this town
I walk these dark streets
Up and down, up and down
Under a dark sky
And I dream
That one day
I'll go back home
(Nocturama, 'There is a town')
*men masheste, enna ginei re-edited - akoma en eipa tipote.
Monday, February 02, 2004
Warning: NeuPaternalism
ahristi pliroforia / pros ton kwsti
NeuRomancers grow up, kai 'aug'atizwntas epanametatrepoun touton to here se o-here/o(h!): 'non-places', imishimou.Se (pros, diladi, ara ohi poly makria apo to 'san', to 'opws', orous pou nomothetoun gia to 'montelo', to 'idaniko', to epistemo/logiko) ethnographiko evrima.Tsahpinia, diladi tou sainiou douleia, tou shahini: vintzi / hawk / hook. Opios jai na ftaei, o gerakas tha piasei <1+n, merokamato. Ohi re pousti mou, ohi 'upgrade' (see link above), to gio (m)(s)(b)ou!; ma re-fresh kathe fora (a-tono to ousiastiko/mellopoiiste to, kwsti, opws thelete).
"How could ontology get hold of a fart?", rwta ji o Derrida, (kapou mes' toGlas)
NeuRomancers grow up, kai 'aug'atizwntas epanametatrepoun touton to here se o-here/o(h!): 'non-places', imishimou.Se (pros, diladi, ara ohi poly makria apo to 'san', to 'opws', orous pou nomothetoun gia to 'montelo', to 'idaniko', to epistemo/logiko) ethnographiko evrima.Tsahpinia, diladi tou sainiou douleia, tou shahini: vintzi / hawk / hook. Opios jai na ftaei, o gerakas tha piasei <1+n, merokamato. Ohi re pousti mou, ohi 'upgrade' (see link above), to gio (m)(s)(b)ou!; ma re-fresh kathe fora (a-tono to ousiastiko/mellopoiiste to, kwsti, opws thelete).
"How could ontology get hold of a fart?", rwta ji o Derrida, (kapou mes' toGlas)
Sunday, February 01, 2004
two or three things... [from within this pain]
"yparhw akatastallahtos
miswntas, ti nyhta, to hazoharoumeno nero."
"ti to 'thela ekeino to egertirio, ewthino koniak;"**
kai tha milouse, dioti den leei na (to) epi-sterpsoume ws/sto psychografima, ohi ws tritos enikos, ki oute ws proto prosopo, ma tha milouse mesa apo to mono esy pou ixere, to esy ton defterwn prosopwn pou einai panta ekeinoi, ohi oi alloi, ma esy, esy, esy, oloi toutoi oi gyrw tou, ta stigmata, ta traces tou, (e) aftou, pou ite katoikousan stis nees ekklisies, tous topous tou kallous tis neoterikotitas ["Bookshops function as churches once did: they encourage amours, love at first sight, secret meetings. Affinities call out to each other, correspondances are forged, a mystical understanding springs up between two beings who, a few minutes earlier, knew nothing of one another." - From To she who is absent, Linda Le, "Time Out Book of Paris Walks" (christo), bold emphasis added], i pou ton perikiklonoun, pianoun posta stis gwnies, san rwssika eikonostasia, hartines eikones - selidodiktes, horis i seira na einai vathmo-logiki.
Me afta the milouse (p-0-ia?) afou (pia) dokimase na epi-strepsei ma o ponos itan aforitos, dokimase na xana-p(i)ei, na xana-milisei (me tous filous tou, dioti itan filioi tou, kai itan nai, sta alitheia 'syngenneis', ohi omws kai 'o monos [mas] syngenneis' - to epanalamvanei: den yparhei syngenneia kata monas, den yparhei syngenneis monos, i monadikos, o syngenneis den einai 'syn-trofos' / 'syn-trofimos', ma den einai tis wras touta twra, nai dokimase, he tried, he tasted (it/Id) ma o ponos, oh! o ponos itan aforitos gia na synehisei (panta entos tou). Sykwti, stomahi, diafragma, plevra kai elkos: a cacophony of a mass. Etsi, mila me ta deftera proswpa, sampling, if it is more to your liking, more to your taste, sampling deftera proswpa:
[...it is the text’s very uselessness that is useful, as a potlatch.
Roland Barthes]
"But the faces of the living, all grimace and flush, can they be described as objects?" Samuel Beckett, First Love
"For an instant I see the sky, the differnt skies, then they turn faces, agonies, loves, happiness too, yes, there was that too, unhappily. Moments of life, of mine too, among others, no denying, all said and done. Happiness, what happiness, but what deaths, what loves, I knew at the time, it was too late then. Ah to love at your last and see them at theirs, the last minute loved ones, and be happy, why ah, uncalled for. No but now, now, simply stay still, standing before a window, one hand on the wall, the other clutching your shirt, and see the sky, a long gaze, but no, gasps and spasms, a childhood sea, other skies, another body." Samuell Beckett (again!), Old Earth
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." Samuel Beckett (yet again!!)
"The future can only be anticipated in the form of an absolute danger. It is that which breaks absolutely with constituted normality and can only be proclaimed, presented, as a sort of monstrosity. For that future world and that within it which will have put into question the values of the sign, word, and writing, for that which guides our future anterior ['twn tetelesmeno melonta mas', metafrazei o Papagiwrgis], there is yet no exergue." Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology
"Ypathei enas tropos na aporeis enw empistevesai. Ki auto ton tropo ton psilafoume mono ston erwta. O erwtas simainei pisti, empistosyni, autoparadosi...Ta simainomena leitourgoun horis simainonta. Einai moni i glwssa tis anaforas, i glwssa tou pothou...Afti pou milane stis siwpi tis 'mias sarkas'." Christos Giannaras, Sholio sto Asma Asmatwn
(>sto poiima, to poiima, ponima!)
"His footsteps took him to the sailor's tavern he knew, a bad spot. He ordered a whisky and sat down in a corner. Here was no one: no lunatics to jeer at him, no sane people to encourage or exhort him, not even a piano this time, only the world of ghosts coming closer, but in order not to come too close, always another drink; he was having a hell of a good time...It was dark, the darkness was full of vibrations.. Returning to the saloon he picked out a secluded place to sit, where they brought his whisky.
But feeling he was being watched, even there, he moved later, drink in hand, to the very obscurest corner of the bar, where, curled up like an embryo, he could not be seen at all." Malcom Lowry, Lunar Caustic
"Sigbjorn finished his fifth unregenerated grappa and suddenly gave a loud laugh, a laugh which, as if it had realised itself it should become something more respectable, turned immediately into a prolonged - though on the whole relatively pleasurable- fit of coughing..." Malcom Lowry, Strange Comfort Afforded by the Profesion
" (sto niko d. karouzo)
to alkool sou didaskei ti diarkeia,
eipe o poiitis,
geros omiros tis tyhis kai geros vrahos ieros
aihmalwtos tou ouisky
fygas theothen kai alitis
(...)
oloi tha pethanoume kapote,
alla to alkool kanei wraia kolpa me to hrono,
eipe o poiitis
(...)"
"einai kai i oulitida, to asthma, i monika, oi amorroides.
einai kai i exypnada pou pige peripato
stin allilografia
einai kai to talento pou skotwthike stous asteriskous,
toswn hazwn kai toswn mataiwn yposimeiwsewn.
ante na vreis kouragio twra gia kolpa hontra,
gia astraftera hamogela kai dimosies emfaniseis.
na tin vgaloume kathari to heimona,
na tin skapoularoume kat'arhin,
ki afinoume gi' arotera, mwro mou,
yperatlantika poker kai ypogeia kazina." Ikaros-G. Mpampasakis (sic), apo ta 'Eikosi Alkoolika Diapisteftiria', hosmena mesa sta' Skoteina Topia', Ekdoseis Eratw, 1985 (ap' opou kai ta **)
me to teleftaio fws tou apogevmatos paw na dw stylografous/
miswntas, ti nyhta, to hazoharoumeno nero."
"ti to 'thela ekeino to egertirio, ewthino koniak;"**
kai tha milouse, dioti den leei na (to) epi-sterpsoume ws/sto psychografima, ohi ws tritos enikos, ki oute ws proto prosopo, ma tha milouse mesa apo to mono esy pou ixere, to esy ton defterwn prosopwn pou einai panta ekeinoi, ohi oi alloi, ma esy, esy, esy, oloi toutoi oi gyrw tou, ta stigmata, ta traces tou, (e) aftou, pou ite katoikousan stis nees ekklisies, tous topous tou kallous tis neoterikotitas ["Bookshops function as churches once did: they encourage amours, love at first sight, secret meetings. Affinities call out to each other, correspondances are forged, a mystical understanding springs up between two beings who, a few minutes earlier, knew nothing of one another." - From To she who is absent, Linda Le, "Time Out Book of Paris Walks" (christo), bold emphasis added], i pou ton perikiklonoun, pianoun posta stis gwnies, san rwssika eikonostasia, hartines eikones - selidodiktes, horis i seira na einai vathmo-logiki.
Me afta the milouse (p-0-ia?) afou (pia) dokimase na epi-strepsei ma o ponos itan aforitos, dokimase na xana-p(i)ei, na xana-milisei (me tous filous tou, dioti itan filioi tou, kai itan nai, sta alitheia 'syngenneis', ohi omws kai 'o monos [mas] syngenneis' - to epanalamvanei: den yparhei syngenneia kata monas, den yparhei syngenneis monos, i monadikos, o syngenneis den einai 'syn-trofos' / 'syn-trofimos', ma den einai tis wras touta twra, nai dokimase, he tried, he tasted (it/Id) ma o ponos, oh! o ponos itan aforitos gia na synehisei (panta entos tou). Sykwti, stomahi, diafragma, plevra kai elkos: a cacophony of a mass. Etsi, mila me ta deftera proswpa, sampling, if it is more to your liking, more to your taste, sampling deftera proswpa:
[...it is the text’s very uselessness that is useful, as a potlatch.
Roland Barthes]
"But the faces of the living, all grimace and flush, can they be described as objects?" Samuel Beckett, First Love
"For an instant I see the sky, the differnt skies, then they turn faces, agonies, loves, happiness too, yes, there was that too, unhappily. Moments of life, of mine too, among others, no denying, all said and done. Happiness, what happiness, but what deaths, what loves, I knew at the time, it was too late then. Ah to love at your last and see them at theirs, the last minute loved ones, and be happy, why ah, uncalled for. No but now, now, simply stay still, standing before a window, one hand on the wall, the other clutching your shirt, and see the sky, a long gaze, but no, gasps and spasms, a childhood sea, other skies, another body." Samuell Beckett (again!), Old Earth
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." Samuel Beckett (yet again!!)
"The future can only be anticipated in the form of an absolute danger. It is that which breaks absolutely with constituted normality and can only be proclaimed, presented, as a sort of monstrosity. For that future world and that within it which will have put into question the values of the sign, word, and writing, for that which guides our future anterior ['twn tetelesmeno melonta mas', metafrazei o Papagiwrgis], there is yet no exergue." Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology
"Ypathei enas tropos na aporeis enw empistevesai. Ki auto ton tropo ton psilafoume mono ston erwta. O erwtas simainei pisti, empistosyni, autoparadosi...Ta simainomena leitourgoun horis simainonta. Einai moni i glwssa tis anaforas, i glwssa tou pothou...Afti pou milane stis siwpi tis 'mias sarkas'." Christos Giannaras, Sholio sto Asma Asmatwn
(>sto poiima, to poiima, ponima!)
"His footsteps took him to the sailor's tavern he knew, a bad spot. He ordered a whisky and sat down in a corner. Here was no one: no lunatics to jeer at him, no sane people to encourage or exhort him, not even a piano this time, only the world of ghosts coming closer, but in order not to come too close, always another drink; he was having a hell of a good time...It was dark, the darkness was full of vibrations.. Returning to the saloon he picked out a secluded place to sit, where they brought his whisky.
But feeling he was being watched, even there, he moved later, drink in hand, to the very obscurest corner of the bar, where, curled up like an embryo, he could not be seen at all." Malcom Lowry, Lunar Caustic
"Sigbjorn finished his fifth unregenerated grappa and suddenly gave a loud laugh, a laugh which, as if it had realised itself it should become something more respectable, turned immediately into a prolonged - though on the whole relatively pleasurable- fit of coughing..." Malcom Lowry, Strange Comfort Afforded by the Profesion
" (sto niko d. karouzo)
to alkool sou didaskei ti diarkeia,
eipe o poiitis,
geros omiros tis tyhis kai geros vrahos ieros
aihmalwtos tou ouisky
fygas theothen kai alitis
(...)
oloi tha pethanoume kapote,
alla to alkool kanei wraia kolpa me to hrono,
eipe o poiitis
(...)"
"einai kai i oulitida, to asthma, i monika, oi amorroides.
einai kai i exypnada pou pige peripato
stin allilografia
einai kai to talento pou skotwthike stous asteriskous,
toswn hazwn kai toswn mataiwn yposimeiwsewn.
ante na vreis kouragio twra gia kolpa hontra,
gia astraftera hamogela kai dimosies emfaniseis.
na tin vgaloume kathari to heimona,
na tin skapoularoume kat'arhin,
ki afinoume gi' arotera, mwro mou,
yperatlantika poker kai ypogeia kazina." Ikaros-G. Mpampasakis (sic), apo ta 'Eikosi Alkoolika Diapisteftiria', hosmena mesa sta' Skoteina Topia', Ekdoseis Eratw, 1985 (ap' opou kai ta **)
me to teleftaio fws tou apogevmatos paw na dw stylografous/
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