(...)to meta touto thniton swma afti perietorneysan ohima te pan to swma edosan allo te eidos en aytw psyches proswdokomoun to thniton, deina kai anagkai en eaytw pathimata ehon, prwton men idonin, megiston kakou delear, epeita lypas, agathwn fygas, eti d' aytou tharros kai fovon, afrone symvoulw, elpida d' eyparagwgon, aisthisei de alogwkai epiheiriti pantos erwti sygkekerasmenoi tayta, anagkaiws to thniton genos synethesan.(...)isthmon kai oron dioikodomisantes tis te kefali kai tou stithous, ayhena metaxy tithentes, in eie chwris.
Doxa
Zw
Se Plus
Ti
Mou // E aMMA P(O)IA
je gio
OR
Arsenberg: Permanently in space that is anywhere here
While I am I,
I am temporarily
Always now. (+) Is it possible to use for the thing the image which may not completely describe the thing?
While you are @ IT go, google
Etant Donnes, 1946-66
A kind of a "dangerous supplement", marked, scarred on a body, post-orgasmically, always, already in anticipation of (a) crisis OR for a desert avec 'agape'. Mindb(l)ogg(l)ing Noise. "Avalanche, would you share my last pursuit?" (Baudelaire)
Tuesday, November 02, 2004
Sunday, October 31, 2004
af'eterou'ierosi/e je si
gia: 'To parelthon eine to paron tis mnimis'
This is how the world ends
This is how the world ends
This is how the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper
vges kai litrwsou/ na mia gelia prostaxtiki/
sto Asinexo
sto ipogeio tis glwssas i laleousa mavri aithali.
...
and live the space of a door
that open and shuts
monos me tous monous- kiniromai stin apousia mas
san ta moutra sou alla san na to ixeres (gia) panta
ston kolo tous repani,
anemos stis vrakes mas ke lexeis sta xartia mas
(menei o galazofwtos mistikismos tis texnologias)
exit with a smile upon your face
This is how the world ends
This is how the world ends
This is how the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper
vges kai litrwsou/ na mia gelia prostaxtiki/
sto Asinexo
sto ipogeio tis glwssas i laleousa mavri aithali.
...
and live the space of a door
that open and shuts
monos me tous monous- kiniromai stin apousia mas
san ta moutra sou alla san na to ixeres (gia) panta
ston kolo tous repani,
anemos stis vrakes mas ke lexeis sta xartia mas
(menei o galazofwtos mistikismos tis texnologias)
exit with a smile upon your face
Ki an tosa hronia perpatisame mazi / Ton teleftaio dromo tha ton kanw monos
I know this feeling - to +aisthima. Gyrizw allwste ta bar, den m' afinei na koimithw o nick cave, ta krina, i kinisi sou entos mou. I have caused it and more often, I have received it. Again, and again, and again. Ki omws liga pramata mporw na grapsw gia touto. Mono gia mena liga. Poia diladi i axia tis epikyrosis otan to prwi to sverko mou krywnei? O kafes giati na mila monos kai na min ton kalyptei to fili? Pros ti - afou anisiha dianyeis milia- i afxomiewsi ton kradasmon? Tha mou peis ti to afises, se eihe proeisopoiisi. Den ftes esy glykia mou. Aghape mou - kai eihe hronia na akousw tin lexi, perissotera akoma na tin proferw stous dromous. Hwris na afinw kena. Pafseis. Distagmoi. Just a minute. Den ftes esy - den milame edw gia fteximo. Kyriaki imera kai motto xana ergasia kai hara. Ha! Den ehw tin energeia na asholithw me tous typous. Oute me tin graphe. Hreiazome apot o prwi na milisw se kapoion. Na deixw ta dakrya mou se kapoion pou tha hamogela, kai etsi na ta hasw. Afinwntas ne hythei to spasimo, to thravsma - to mono thravsma pou misw, to thravsma tis aghapis. Thymame mia nyhta pou 'hes pei...kai pote den thelisa na se pistepsw. Se polemisa 2 hronia, epesa, me sikwses, kai na me xana. Ma hanw pia tin pisti, tin elpida. Prwi. [Den eimai methysemnos.] Anakalw stin mnimi ta kallesmata, to gegonos diladi tis anagnwrisis mesw tis ana/gnwsis tou thoryvou, tis auras tou pou dia. Pou dinei. Pou mou dia kai mou dinei, thee mou, oti apemeine ap' tin eftyhia. Mohtho kai syntrivi. Epistrefomena poiimata. Anases pou zitoun apozimiwsi. Hamogelw me sfiximo dimosia kai oiko/geniakos anagnwrizomai. Hwris na zw. You want to be let in? Where? Do you know waht it means cause pain? Not just receive it - cause it. And to none other than you, yourself. You say, ppl, I am too nice. Not least because I am a defeated man. Apaisiodoxia. Diladi kakis aisthitikis gnwmi. Mporw panta na fevgw ap' tin pisw porta ton lexewn. Metaxy twn matiwn kai tis pisw portas omws kaneis den xerei ti yparhei. Mallon xerw - oti edw ftynw- to ihnos tis katastrofis pou se epistrefei mia zwi orizwntiws na ygaineis ta magoula sou. Kathe mia mia nea arche, kathe mia mia nea syntrivi. Ston kryo ilio tou londinou i epigramatiki prosfora. To parellthon einai to paron tis mnimis, kai gw ekana, i have been, always already, a mnemosyn/e|o. Kai epeidi eheis mathei, pikra, ton dromo, twra pia, kai i hronikotita den paizei ligostoi mou filoi rolo oso ki an einai i aitiotita, mporeis, mporw na ton kanw monos. Tha prospathisw. I fwni edw telegraphika [END]
paei
paei
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Te Lefkosia
Tha thela na 'moun emvatirio pou paei pera dwthe synodeia tou demarchou kai tou kourasmenou dexiou psalti.
Tha thela na 'moun pisw meria vasanismenou eikonismatos.
Tha thela na 'moun blister ston Stavro tis Psokas.
Christougeniatiko stolidi ton Oktwvri.
Vregmeni simaia ethnikis epeteiou.
You know all the thinks you 've seen before or they 've told you about but
still
when they come around you are
suprised basicaly
I wanted to be with u 2nite
aghape mou: A giving which gives only its gift, but in the giving holds itself back and withdraws, such a giving we call a sending... [1]
[1]Martin Heidegger, if it's of any importance.
Tha thela na 'moun pisw meria vasanismenou eikonismatos.
Tha thela na 'moun blister ston Stavro tis Psokas.
Christougeniatiko stolidi ton Oktwvri.
Vregmeni simaia ethnikis epeteiou.
You know all the thinks you 've seen before or they 've told you about but
still
when they come around you are
suprised basicaly
I wanted to be with u 2nite
aghape mou: A giving which gives only its gift, but in the giving holds itself back and withdraws, such a giving we call a sending... [1]
[1]Martin Heidegger, if it's of any importance.
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
to those about to sink into the plate of long walks in the morning rain or take another step into the lake where the lady of sorrows or her solitudes
Is this going somewhere?
Into the garden.
Into the backyard.
We're walking down the driveway.
Are we moving towards....
We're in the backyard.
...some transcendental moment?
It's almost light. That's right. That's it.
Are we moving towards some transcendental moment?
That's right. That's it.
Do you think you'll be able to pull it off?
and on top,
in between,
and bemyth,
where the ear slips into
thinking you were
here
where the eye drifts from
the obituary column
Cause he's high on potato and tulip wine fermented in the muddy rain of course a drunken wail, a drunken train blew through the birdless trees oh, you're alone alright, you're alone alright how did I know? How did I know? Don't go into that barn, yeah I said, don't go into that barn, yeah
Into the garden.
Into the backyard.
We're walking down the driveway.
Are we moving towards....
We're in the backyard.
...some transcendental moment?
It's almost light. That's right. That's it.
Are we moving towards some transcendental moment?
That's right. That's it.
Do you think you'll be able to pull it off?
and on top,
in between,
and bemyth,
where the ear slips into
thinking you were
here
where the eye drifts from
the obituary column
Cause he's high on potato and tulip wine fermented in the muddy rain of course a drunken wail, a drunken train blew through the birdless trees oh, you're alone alright, you're alone alright how did I know? How did I know? Don't go into that barn, yeah I said, don't go into that barn, yeah
for things (not) already (not) mentioned:
-que voulez-vous?
-I beg your pardon?
-que voulez-vous?
-Ah que voulez-vous. Exactly.
la parole volee- speech is always stolen, always stolen because always open, we: potential(ly) chaotic, organic, eventual - always in-dividual en-divided - beings (shift + B) for Beings.
kipros nisos methis, alexandra oi radiohead pezoun to creep live (cf. November 27th 2003, Earls Court, London) je kathw to pezoun pisw ana-grafei 'FOREVER' je meta ksana sto telos tis sinavlias ks-ana-grafei to.
beckett, schlegel, fichte, schleirmacher (jester), t.s. t.s. t.s. ennen gia lloou mas -
dem+al en-joy (new) division
-que voulez-vous?
-I beg your pardon?
-que voulez-vous?
-Ah que voulez-vous. Exactly.
la parole volee- speech is always stolen, always stolen because always open, we: potential(ly) chaotic, organic, eventual - always in-dividual en-divided - beings (shift + B) for Beings.
kipros nisos methis, alexandra oi radiohead pezoun to creep live (cf. November 27th 2003, Earls Court, London) je kathw to pezoun pisw ana-grafei 'FOREVER' je meta ksana sto telos tis sinavlias ks-ana-grafei to.
beckett, schlegel, fichte, schleirmacher (jester), t.s. t.s. t.s. ennen gia lloou mas -
dem+al en-joy (new) division
Monday, October 25, 2004
di/agwnisnmos
Ki an kratw tin tequila sto poukamiso kai to fili, fevgalaio, sto stoma, me tin epikeimeni afxisi tis periferias kai to kathiorismeno txt stis files-voithous, hwris psarosoupa, kia na s' agapw ki an se latrevw allo toso, mana mou to stithos mou ponei, kai den ftanei i kanella, oute ki o pimp, akata/hnwta, dioti everyman evryway, kai egw something something man something something woman. Not at all a prince am. Probably he can have: oh! fuck(it).
njoy.-i provide sub
pli
(e)s
.
njoy.-i provide sub
pli
(e)s
.
who's fastest
o eek a mouse jai i astinomia pasin telia mazi. idika meta 90 lires pota. 90? skata. 140? o panos en mas lalei epidi lipate mas.
o kontos en emphanistiken popse. ahh lathos mou, emphanistiken alla efien gliora o malakas, meta pou mia stella. distixos, en ton misw, jai panta enna perimenw ton godot (sans dj, con dj, starchithkia mou pleon). ta ipoonoumena sti methisi, i kouventes tis methisis, ta traouthkia tis methisis, en panta T (not F). o york arniete na traouthisi to creep se sinavlia, jai gw skeftome ton conrad, mistah kurtz, he dead, opws ton eliot, we are the hollow men and the middle word of life is Kipling's if. you dont believe it? i have raised my middle finger three times tonight, jai pale rwtw, 'nobody'? kanenas, opos panta opos panta, opos kati mavroaspres arkoudes stin kina (ABC, as easy as..) jai na mou lalei oi oi en malakies pou laleis otan girw mou o kosmos dixnei mou tin alithkia (T [no tarts, just T's]). anesiodoksia laloun mou merikoi. to london, to oxford, to new york fucking new york, kai to new haven. me 4 slices portokali (ah nai jai tequila, alla eteliwsamen tin jose cuevo - oi omws tin black bush, an jai to black forest efaen to kapios pou en trwei shokolates) psefto ivrame ta oneira jai tin alithkia. tin aisiodoksia? alli fora..
oneira glyka. nai nai kserw to. enikises. alla perimenw to venison (dried and cured) prin sou agorasw to sfinaki... dimitraki..
o kontos en emphanistiken popse. ahh lathos mou, emphanistiken alla efien gliora o malakas, meta pou mia stella. distixos, en ton misw, jai panta enna perimenw ton godot (sans dj, con dj, starchithkia mou pleon). ta ipoonoumena sti methisi, i kouventes tis methisis, ta traouthkia tis methisis, en panta T (not F). o york arniete na traouthisi to creep se sinavlia, jai gw skeftome ton conrad, mistah kurtz, he dead, opws ton eliot, we are the hollow men and the middle word of life is Kipling's if. you dont believe it? i have raised my middle finger three times tonight, jai pale rwtw, 'nobody'? kanenas, opos panta opos panta, opos kati mavroaspres arkoudes stin kina (ABC, as easy as..) jai na mou lalei oi oi en malakies pou laleis otan girw mou o kosmos dixnei mou tin alithkia (T [no tarts, just T's]). anesiodoksia laloun mou merikoi. to london, to oxford, to new york fucking new york, kai to new haven. me 4 slices portokali (ah nai jai tequila, alla eteliwsamen tin jose cuevo - oi omws tin black bush, an jai to black forest efaen to kapios pou en trwei shokolates) psefto ivrame ta oneira jai tin alithkia. tin aisiodoksia? alli fora..
oneira glyka. nai nai kserw to. enikises. alla perimenw to venison (dried and cured) prin sou agorasw to sfinaki... dimitraki..
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Fool:Cry you mercy, I took you for a joint-stool.
La la laa la la-la-la-laaa
La la laa la la-la-la-laaa
(beebeebim, beebeebim, beebeebim, beebeebim)
[someone else will clean it up
someone always does]
pale mesimeri, jai pale xtipa to tilefono. "apla epiasa epidiiii.."
oi erwtevmenoi gattoi ourliazoun me ton xotza.
wste medium re christo. E.. epomeni erwtisi, areskou sou ta arkoudakia?
La la laa la la-la-la-laaa
(beebeebim, beebeebim, beebeebim, beebeebim)
[someone else will clean it up
someone always does]
pale mesimeri, jai pale xtipa to tilefono. "apla epiasa epidiiii.."
oi erwtevmenoi gattoi ourliazoun me ton xotza.
wste medium re christo. E.. epomeni erwtisi, areskou sou ta arkoudakia?
Monday, October 18, 2004
sastera je girasin
We could navigate our position by the stars
But they’ve taken out the stars
The stars have all gone
I’m glad you’ve come along
We could comprehend our condition by the moon
But they’ve ordered the moon not to shine
Still, I’m glad you’ve come along
nick cave and seferis in translation, Jena ab-solute: orpheus and evridice -
skoteiniastika ki oute pou mporesa
n'arthwsw kali-mou leipeis-nixta
e re alexandra kserw gw? ime tipote me(n)dium?
But they’ve taken out the stars
The stars have all gone
I’m glad you’ve come along
We could comprehend our condition by the moon
But they’ve ordered the moon not to shine
Still, I’m glad you’ve come along
nick cave and seferis in translation, Jena ab-solute: orpheus and evridice -
skoteiniastika ki oute pou mporesa
n'arthwsw kali-mou leipeis-nixta
e re alexandra kserw gw? ime tipote me(n)dium?
"It's only fools and charlatans who know everything and understand everything"
"When someone spends the fewest number of motions on a given action, that is grace"
In between the acts, we will be returning to Tom Waits in the morning -since you have denied your kisses to me, and I talk in strange languages of koans, off remembered words: catafalque of Korsakoff, and others I haven't kept (am) note- to another pair of eyes who says 'I'm in you', me fresko kapno to apomesimero kai pezodromio stis esso fternes, we will, yes we will, be contemplating the smile of an Invitation to the Blues (unmarked / non-named). And yet, yes, again, we recognise -I recognise- the consuming 'little smell of brandy', which, under the eucalyptus was called [elle]: "Either it is a remnant of something 'degenerating', something which was once immense, or it is a particle of what will in the future develop into something immense, but at the present it is unsatisfying, it gives much less than one expects"
"Disatisfaction with oneself is the fundamental quality of every true talent"
What could have been read while waiting, in a car, let's say, outside a bakery. Enan Fournon.
In between the acts, we will be returning to Tom Waits in the morning -since you have denied your kisses to me, and I talk in strange languages of koans, off remembered words: catafalque of Korsakoff, and others I haven't kept (am) note- to another pair of eyes who says 'I'm in you', me fresko kapno to apomesimero kai pezodromio stis esso fternes, we will, yes we will, be contemplating the smile of an Invitation to the Blues (unmarked / non-named). And yet, yes, again, we recognise -I recognise- the consuming 'little smell of brandy', which, under the eucalyptus was called [elle]: "Either it is a remnant of something 'degenerating', something which was once immense, or it is a particle of what will in the future develop into something immense, but at the present it is unsatisfying, it gives much less than one expects"
"Disatisfaction with oneself is the fundamental quality of every true talent"
What could have been read while waiting, in a car, let's say, outside a bakery. Enan Fournon.
10 - re/member
To ombion, to caring, to 2or3 things
2xLeffe Brunes
3xMaredsus 10
12xTequila shots with orange and cinnamon
4xBlack Bush with two ice-cubes
1xCarlsberg
1xHoegaarden
1xSol
1xPilsner
2xalcoholic milko/toffee cream [em, am, sorry!]
2xBellybusters
+
Water -lots of it!
Gauloises Brunes Blanc - pronounced wright!
Old Holborn Yellow
Davidoff Danish Mixture
Families, friends, flirts, lovers, livers, lives, poetry, pregnancy, passion, mags, music, (wo)men
!
2xLeffe Brunes
3xMaredsus 10
12xTequila shots with orange and cinnamon
4xBlack Bush with two ice-cubes
1xCarlsberg
1xHoegaarden
1xSol
1xPilsner
2xalcoholic milko/toffee cream [em, am, sorry!]
2xBellybusters
+
Water -lots of it!
Gauloises Brunes Blanc - pronounced wright!
Old Holborn Yellow
Davidoff Danish Mixture
Families, friends, flirts, lovers, livers, lives, poetry, pregnancy, passion, mags, music, (wo)men
!
Sunday, October 17, 2004
dive off Cave into Pinter? mborei. crossing these fingers.
so at our semi-anonymic semi-eponymic hangout we find ourselves strangely paranoid but always always intuitive and post-chromatic.
The English are so nice
so awfully nice
they're the nicest people in the world.
And what's more, they're nice about being nice
about your being nice as well!
If you're not nice, they soon make you feel it.
Americans and French and Germans and so on
they're all very well
but they're not really nice, you know.
They're not nice in our sense of the word, are they now?
That's why one doesn't have to take them seriously,
We must be nice to them, of course,
of course, naturally.
But it doesn't really matter what you say to them,
they don't really understand -
you can say anything to them:
be nice, you know, just nice -
but you must never take them seriously, they wouldn't understand,
just be nice, you know! Oh, fairly nice,
not too nice of course, they take advantage -
but nice enough, just nice enough
to let them feel they're not quite as nice as they might be.
D.H. Lawrence
NB \Nice\, a. [Compar. Nicer; superl. Nicest.] [OE., foolish, fr. OF. nice ignorant, fool, fr. L. nescius ignorant; ne not + scius knowing, scire to know. perhaps influenced by E. nesh delicate, soft. See No, and Science.] 1. Foolish; silly; simple; ignorant; also, weak; effeminate. [Obs.] --Gower.
re christo, enta size fanella foris?
-mia monadiki typissa
so at our semi-anonymic semi-eponymic hangout we find ourselves strangely paranoid but always always intuitive and post-chromatic.
The English are so nice
so awfully nice
they're the nicest people in the world.
And what's more, they're nice about being nice
about your being nice as well!
If you're not nice, they soon make you feel it.
Americans and French and Germans and so on
they're all very well
but they're not really nice, you know.
They're not nice in our sense of the word, are they now?
That's why one doesn't have to take them seriously,
We must be nice to them, of course,
of course, naturally.
But it doesn't really matter what you say to them,
they don't really understand -
you can say anything to them:
be nice, you know, just nice -
but you must never take them seriously, they wouldn't understand,
just be nice, you know! Oh, fairly nice,
not too nice of course, they take advantage -
but nice enough, just nice enough
to let them feel they're not quite as nice as they might be.
D.H. Lawrence
NB \Nice\, a. [Compar. Nicer; superl. Nicest.] [OE., foolish, fr. OF. nice ignorant, fool, fr. L. nescius ignorant; ne not + scius knowing, scire to know. perhaps influenced by E. nesh delicate, soft. See No, and Science.] 1. Foolish; silly; simple; ignorant; also, weak; effeminate. [Obs.] --Gower.
re christo, enta size fanella foris?
-mia monadiki typissa
Present
Infected by the air whereon they ride with bleeding necks kai tremamena here, with air, beats, oranges and cinnamon, prwta pojei, meta poda, wishing for lines, for paragraphs, for books, male and/or female, even now within their homecoming, within the paranoia that the social feeds, confused sexes, going backwards to go [w]here, because things do end up shit yet not always in-between, or on, the sheets, and we know that, yes I know that, with a wish, as if, gamwto shisto mou!, and to say we do not drink, we do, we do, and sometimes we even look at the bright side of life, albeit through the backroom bar, and still, still, via an empty glass, imagery for words and words for the imagery of our skull's guts, our chest's logic, us, non-focused, who like people too much, My mind she has mated, and amazed my sight and people like us too much, while they game plays and leave us at the station, with famous raincoats and gifts as books, The flighty purpose never is o'ertook / Unless the deed go with it.
Simera exanakopika aristera, xanalerwsa to lefko fanellaki aristera, kai epimenw na psahnw to stripsimo aristera, pou en ixerw oute gw, and untill what always already, inheriting, us, in the absence of friends, the custom, remains unfinished, never comes, in pub. houses nevertheless, alli mia fora, once more, patience. Ypo/Menw And damned be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!'
When shall we [three] meet again? / In thunder, lighting or in rain? // When the hurly-burly's done, / When the battle's lost and won.
In that order,
Simera exanakopika aristera, xanalerwsa to lefko fanellaki aristera, kai epimenw na psahnw to stripsimo aristera, pou en ixerw oute gw, and untill what always already, inheriting, us, in the absence of friends, the custom, remains unfinished, never comes, in pub. houses nevertheless, alli mia fora, once more, patience. Ypo/Menw And damned be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!'
When shall we [three] meet again? / In thunder, lighting or in rain? // When the hurly-burly's done, / When the battle's lost and won.
In that order,
Saturday, October 16, 2004
Gin and Perrier and the ambiguity of a Tom Waits line
Or of wanting it? There would then be cruelty without anyone having been cruel. No crime, no possible incrimination or recrimination, no judgement, no right. Cruelty there is. Cruelty there will have been, before any personal figure, before "cruel" will have become an attribute, still less anyone's fault.
Without allibi? No "crime wihout a suspision of cruelty", really?
[B]etween, on the one hand, the murder that consists in killing the other, in him-or herself or in oneself, and, on the other hand, what is commonly called suicide, or the crime against oneself.
- Am I somehow to blame for this impossibility (...)?
- No, of course not, it's in the language. You inherit it.
- Yes I am, on the contrary; look what I am doing with this inheritance. I'm betraying the truth.
- Is the allibi still avoidable? Is it not already too late? [1]
Shall I, am, again?
Two death - and to stop loving and being lovable,
That is the real death, The other is little beside it. [2]
[1] J. Derrida, 'Psychoanalysis Searches'
[2] Ezra Pound 'Impressions of Francois-Marie Arouet (De Voltaire)'
Without allibi? No "crime wihout a suspision of cruelty", really?
[B]etween, on the one hand, the murder that consists in killing the other, in him-or herself or in oneself, and, on the other hand, what is commonly called suicide, or the crime against oneself.
- Am I somehow to blame for this impossibility (...)?
- No, of course not, it's in the language. You inherit it.
- Yes I am, on the contrary; look what I am doing with this inheritance. I'm betraying the truth.
- Is the allibi still avoidable? Is it not already too late? [1]
Shall I, am, again?
Two death - and to stop loving and being lovable,
That is the real death, The other is little beside it. [2]
[1] J. Derrida, 'Psychoanalysis Searches'
[2] Ezra Pound 'Impressions of Francois-Marie Arouet (De Voltaire)'
not quite an elegy, but you're not dead yet
always post-pitta, the-day-after, early hours of the am (and by early i mean on a scale of 1 to 11) the phones ring and the hangover doesn't know which dem to curse first.
but the banamanas, blue frappes and "walking a lot as planned" (NB parking [w]here?) makes floundering in confusions and enikseros, enkatalavos not quite as bad. some people hop bars, some people hop countries, others hop hospitals trying to find cheesy people in their pockets. the rest of us are left in the middle [of the street], disorientated by the bright lights saying only i need to go home .
"men thoris tous kypreous, men tous thoris" "pou en to ttrrolleeii?" jai eksigate mou re intalos antexeste tous egglezous with their "do you have any MEAT?", valentines celebrations, Mister and Missus, in India we covered ourselves in vix, put on the humidifier, drank tea and didn't give a toss about the 50 degree celsius weather, what ho! the natives are a little slow, but well meaning, god bless the queen and a jolly good show, turning lobster red in the saintly napa sun.
(E- almost as bad as wearing socks with your birks).
mass of christ in paris, ombion party number 3?
Love, love, love,
Love, love, love,
Love, love, love,
Dooby dooby doo,
All you need is love,
Dooby dooby doo,
All you need is love, love
Or, failing that, alcohol.
Variation on a Lennon and McCartney Song, by none other, than Wendy Cope.
but the banamanas, blue frappes and "walking a lot as planned" (NB parking [w]here?) makes floundering in confusions and enikseros, enkatalavos not quite as bad. some people hop bars, some people hop countries, others hop hospitals trying to find cheesy people in their pockets. the rest of us are left in the middle [of the street], disorientated by the bright lights saying only i need to go home .
"men thoris tous kypreous, men tous thoris" "pou en to ttrrolleeii?" jai eksigate mou re intalos antexeste tous egglezous with their "do you have any MEAT?", valentines celebrations, Mister and Missus, in India we covered ourselves in vix, put on the humidifier, drank tea and didn't give a toss about the 50 degree celsius weather, what ho! the natives are a little slow, but well meaning, god bless the queen and a jolly good show, turning lobster red in the saintly napa sun.
(E- almost as bad as wearing socks with your birks).
mass of christ in paris, ombion party number 3?
Love, love, love,
Love, love, love,
Love, love, love,
Dooby dooby doo,
All you need is love,
Dooby dooby doo,
All you need is love, love
Or, failing that, alcohol.
Variation on a Lennon and McCartney Song, by none other, than Wendy Cope.
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Editions Nocturnes / My Turn
Do not move
Let the wind speak
that is Paradise
(...)
Let those I love try to forgive
what I have made
A good meal can somewhat repair / the eatings of slight love am, idi, already, panta, always, stin veranda prin enw twra, meta-derridiana And as usual feel rather sad(if/an) stuck in the middle with you kali mou fili, who "is on my side of the argument" enw egw tin vlepw kathe toso, al poco giorno / ed al gran cerchio d' ombraI think of all that has been said / About this faint desire ki akoume black rider kai den thymomaste an telika aftoktonisame ekeini tin mera, oute egw, oute afti, oute ekini tin mera, when they fuck you up - enw pas akoma kai trws mazi tous - and they break you and you break up, you smash your smashed mashed up self, only to iron it later, to re-member it Or mend our broken halves and promise that you will change, turn unforgetable since You are the author not the actor, at least that's how it cm, remembering also her who was giving me head on the unmade bed after she stood in my way, and even without bananas, or a poet, even though our rescue remedy, to comfort and reasure, is worth more Pound(s), parapanw TSElinia, she said, over tea and a flame box of matches, before she called, she spoke rather of Faith, Pistis-Elpis-Agapi, faith 'Nothing, like something, happens anywhere'
that things will work out in the end ...only see, through stailing tears / A quickly-spawning doubts
and of xmas lisbon and cats
in paris, with censorship
Clarity I have had sometimes,
I cannot make it flow thru.
A little light, like a rushlight
to lead back to splendour
of future dinner
parties and
deserts (and life saving honey)
Around, the night drops swiftly down / Its veils; does not condemn / O r praise the different actions done. / The hour that strikes across the town / Caresses all and injures none / As sleep approaches then
Let the wind speak
that is Paradise
(...)
Let those I love try to forgive
what I have made
A good meal can somewhat repair / the eatings of slight love am, idi, already, panta, always, stin veranda prin enw twra, meta-derridiana And as usual feel rather sad(if/an) stuck in the middle with you kali mou fili, who "is on my side of the argument" enw egw tin vlepw kathe toso, al poco giorno / ed al gran cerchio d' ombraI think of all that has been said / About this faint desire ki akoume black rider kai den thymomaste an telika aftoktonisame ekeini tin mera, oute egw, oute afti, oute ekini tin mera, when they fuck you up - enw pas akoma kai trws mazi tous - and they break you and you break up, you smash your smashed mashed up self, only to iron it later, to re-member it Or mend our broken halves and promise that you will change, turn unforgetable since You are the author not the actor, at least that's how it cm, remembering also her who was giving me head on the unmade bed after she stood in my way, and even without bananas, or a poet, even though our rescue remedy, to comfort and reasure, is worth more Pound(s), parapanw TSElinia, she said, over tea and a flame box of matches, before she called, she spoke rather of Faith, Pistis-Elpis-Agapi, faith 'Nothing, like something, happens anywhere'
that things will work out in the end ...only see, through stailing tears / A quickly-spawning doubts
and of xmas lisbon and cats
in paris, with censorship
Clarity I have had sometimes,
I cannot make it flow thru.
A little light, like a rushlight
to lead back to splendour
of future dinner
parties and
deserts (and life saving honey)
Around, the night drops swiftly down / Its veils; does not condemn / O r praise the different actions done. / The hour that strikes across the town / Caresses all and injures none / As sleep approaches then
Psahnwntas na onomatisw to 'alt+Q', to 'backspace', meta-Freudiaka...
Oi nyhtes einai oi pio dyskoles. Me dyo stihous, ena tragoudi ki treia oneira ta kokkina vivlia mou anoigw gia na dw tin frasi "Oti ma dothike, kala mas dothike." kai na hamogelasw sto psema tou "My philosophy is: Every day is a different day.", na dakrysw sto "There is no solution because there is no problem" kai na piw stin ygeia (sou) pera apo asteria ki oroskopous, makria apo to new moon kai to skotadi, xyrizwntas to proswpo stin echo tou "En eshei tipote re!". Vromw whiskey, diadiktyaki thalpori kai erwtiki aporia - with a dash of ...anxiety.
Agwn-i-a; / gia mia alli fora.
Agwn-i-a; / gia mia alli fora.
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Athela Epistrefw Me Mikran Kardian
A deviserof territories, languages, works, the deject neverstops demarcating his universe whise fluids confines- for they are constituted of a nonobject, the abject- constantly question his solidity and imoel him to start afresh. A tireless builder, the deject is in short a stray. H eis ona journey, during the night, the end of ehich keeps receding. He has a sense of the danger of the loss that the pseudo-object attracting him represents for him, but he cannot help taking the risk at the very moment he sets himself apart. And the more he strays, the more he is saved.
For it is out of such straying on excluded ground that he draws his jouisance. The abject from which he does not cease separating is for him, in short, a land of oblivion that is constantly remembered. Once upon blotted-out-time, the abject must have been a magnetized pole of covetousness. But the ashes of oblivio0n now serve as a screen and reflect aversion, repugnance. The clean and proper (in the sense of the incorporated and the incorporable) becomes filthy, the sought-after turns into the banished, fascination into shame. Then forgotten time crops up suddenly and condenses into a flash of lighting an operation that, if it were thought out, would involve bringing together the two opposite terms but, on account of that flash, is discharged like thunder. The time of abjection is double: a time of oblivion and thunder and the moment when revelation bursts forth.
Jouissance, in short. (...) One does not knowit, one does not desire it, one joys in it. Violently an dpainfully.
Julia Kristeva
But is naming sufficient? (...)
Lucy Irigaray
Everything is dissolving, babe, according to plan
The sky is on fire, the dead are helped across the land
I went to bed last night and my
moral code got jammed
(...)I wake with the sparrows and I hurry off to work
THe need for validation, babe, gone completely
berserk
//
For still your face comes shining through
And all the morning glows anew
Still your soul
Still your mind
Still, the fire of love is true
And I am breathless without you
//
With an army of tanks bursting from your chest
I wave my little white flag at thee
Can you see it, babe?
(...)
Oh baby, don't you go
All supernatural on me
Supernaturally
-and out
For it is out of such straying on excluded ground that he draws his jouisance. The abject from which he does not cease separating is for him, in short, a land of oblivion that is constantly remembered. Once upon blotted-out-time, the abject must have been a magnetized pole of covetousness. But the ashes of oblivio0n now serve as a screen and reflect aversion, repugnance. The clean and proper (in the sense of the incorporated and the incorporable) becomes filthy, the sought-after turns into the banished, fascination into shame. Then forgotten time crops up suddenly and condenses into a flash of lighting an operation that, if it were thought out, would involve bringing together the two opposite terms but, on account of that flash, is discharged like thunder. The time of abjection is double: a time of oblivion and thunder and the moment when revelation bursts forth.
Jouissance, in short. (...) One does not knowit, one does not desire it, one joys in it. Violently an dpainfully.
Julia Kristeva
But is naming sufficient? (...)
Lucy Irigaray
Everything is dissolving, babe, according to plan
The sky is on fire, the dead are helped across the land
I went to bed last night and my
moral code got jammed
(...)I wake with the sparrows and I hurry off to work
THe need for validation, babe, gone completely
berserk
//
For still your face comes shining through
And all the morning glows anew
Still your soul
Still your mind
Still, the fire of love is true
And I am breathless without you
//
With an army of tanks bursting from your chest
I wave my little white flag at thee
Can you see it, babe?
(...)
Oh baby, don't you go
All supernatural on me
Supernaturally
-and out
Monday, October 11, 2004
Efimereidisio Ypo/mnima
Aρχικό Adieu Jacques Derrida
"Il y va d’un certain pas" (Πηγαίνει μ’ ενα συγκεκριμένο βήμα / Συνεπάγεται ένα συγκεκριμένο ρυθμό – ένα συγκεκριμένο όχι) καθώς εν-e-γραφα "το σπέρμα, το νερό, το μελάνι, την μπογιά, την αρωματισμένη βαφή: το φάρμακον" απορέον απορίας σημειο, διαφωρετικά διασπαρμένο απο την μια γλώσσα στην άλλη, απο το ενα χείλι στο άλλο, υπερηχογράφημα ιχνογραφίας χωρίς άλλοθι, μα με πίστη στο εξαγριωμένο γράψιμο, επικύνδυνο συμπλήρωμα με αρχή το "Θα ήθελα να μάθω να ζω επιτέλους" μέσα σ’αυτήν την στοιχειολογία, που οφείλουμε –πια- σ’ αυτόν, την στοιχειολογία που "κανείς δεν μπορεί να ελέγξει το πήγαινε-έλα της αφου ξεκιινά με το να επιστρέφει", με το να δια-περνά, να περνά πέρα απο το πέρας – και όχι το τέλος- απο όπου θα ξανα-περάσουμε, ήδη πάντα, αλλ’εργικοί εγ-γονοί. Here, Chora Oκτώβρης 2004.
Δημήτρης Tαλίωτης – για το http://ombion.blogspot.com
"Il y va d’un certain pas" (Πηγαίνει μ’ ενα συγκεκριμένο βήμα / Συνεπάγεται ένα συγκεκριμένο ρυθμό – ένα συγκεκριμένο όχι) καθώς εν-e-γραφα "το σπέρμα, το νερό, το μελάνι, την μπογιά, την αρωματισμένη βαφή: το φάρμακον" απορέον απορίας σημειο, διαφωρετικά διασπαρμένο απο την μια γλώσσα στην άλλη, απο το ενα χείλι στο άλλο, υπερηχογράφημα ιχνογραφίας χωρίς άλλοθι, μα με πίστη στο εξαγριωμένο γράψιμο, επικύνδυνο συμπλήρωμα με αρχή το "Θα ήθελα να μάθω να ζω επιτέλους" μέσα σ’αυτήν την στοιχειολογία, που οφείλουμε –πια- σ’ αυτόν, την στοιχειολογία που "κανείς δεν μπορεί να ελέγξει το πήγαινε-έλα της αφου ξεκιινά με το να επιστρέφει", με το να δια-περνά, να περνά πέρα απο το πέρας – και όχι το τέλος- απο όπου θα ξανα-περάσουμε, ήδη πάντα, αλλ’εργικοί εγ-γονοί. Here, Chora Oκτώβρης 2004.
Δημήτρης Tαλίωτης – για το http://ombion.blogspot.com
Sunday, October 10, 2004
rest-in' a sign - jacques derrida
adieu, pou jiame, pou jinous pou en to perimeneis:
And Life, a little bald and gray,
Languid, fastidious, and bland,
Waits, hat and gloves in hand,
Punctilious of tie and suit
(Somewhat impatient of delay)
On the doorstep of the Absolute.
(T.S.Eliot, 'Spleen')
Solitude, reef, star
To whatever it was that was worth
Our sail's white solicitude.
(S. Mallarme, 'Salutation')
Je suis le ténébreux, -le veuf, -l'inconsolé,
Le prince d'Aquitaine à la tour abolie:
Ma seule étoile est morte, -et mon luth constellé
Porte le soleil noir de la Mélancolie.
...
Suis-je Amour ou Phébus, Lusignan ou Biron?
Mon front est rouge encor du baiser de la reine;
J'ai rêvé dans la grotte où nage la sirène...
Et j'ai deux fois vainqueur traversé l'Achéron,
Modulant tour à tour sur la lyre d'Orphée
Les soupirs de la sainte et les cris de la fée
(de Nerval, 'El Desdichado')
Κι ήρθε ή φωνή του γέρου, αύτή την ένιωσα
πέφτοντας στην καρδιά της μέρας
ήσυχη, σαν ακίνητη :
"Κι α, με δικάσετε να πιω φαρμάκι, ευχαριστώ το
το δίκιο σας θα 'ναι το δίκιο μου που να πηγαίνω
γυρίζοντας σε ξένους τόπους, ένα στρογγυλό
λιθάρι.
Το θάνατο τον προτιμώ
- ποιος πάει για το καλύτερο ο θεός το ξέρει".
And Life, a little bald and gray,
Languid, fastidious, and bland,
Waits, hat and gloves in hand,
Punctilious of tie and suit
(Somewhat impatient of delay)
On the doorstep of the Absolute.
(T.S.Eliot, 'Spleen')
Solitude, reef, star
To whatever it was that was worth
Our sail's white solicitude.
(S. Mallarme, 'Salutation')
Je suis le ténébreux, -le veuf, -l'inconsolé,
Le prince d'Aquitaine à la tour abolie:
Ma seule étoile est morte, -et mon luth constellé
Porte le soleil noir de la Mélancolie.
...
Suis-je Amour ou Phébus, Lusignan ou Biron?
Mon front est rouge encor du baiser de la reine;
J'ai rêvé dans la grotte où nage la sirène...
Et j'ai deux fois vainqueur traversé l'Achéron,
Modulant tour à tour sur la lyre d'Orphée
Les soupirs de la sainte et les cris de la fée
(de Nerval, 'El Desdichado')
Κι ήρθε ή φωνή του γέρου, αύτή την ένιωσα
πέφτοντας στην καρδιά της μέρας
ήσυχη, σαν ακίνητη :
"Κι α, με δικάσετε να πιω φαρμάκι, ευχαριστώ το
το δίκιο σας θα 'ναι το δίκιο μου που να πηγαίνω
γυρίζοντας σε ξένους τόπους, ένα στρογγυλό
λιθάρι.
Το θάνατο τον προτιμώ
- ποιος πάει για το καλύτερο ο θεός το ξέρει".
Saturday, October 09, 2004
'
Il y va d’un certain pas enw m' afinan ta heilia tis kai apodwmontas to fili ene-grapha to aporeon kokinadi sto keimeno, yperihographima stin arche tis Leyfkis Mythologias. here
The work of mourning: Adieu, αντίο Jacques Derrida
'What happens when a great thinker becomes silent, one whom we knew living, whom we read and reread, and also heard, one from whom we were still awaiting a response, as if such a response would help us not only to think otherwise but also to read what we thought we had already read under his signature, a response diet held everything in reserve, and so much more than what we thought we had already recognised in that signature?' [1]
'Speaking is impossible, but so too would be silence or absence or a refusal to share one's sadness. Let me simply ask you to forgive me if today finds me with the strength for only a few simple words.' [2]
'I knew, in advance, that today I would be incapable of speaking, of finding the words, as it were.
Excuse me, therefore, if I read, and for reading not what I believe I must say (does one ever know what one must say in such a moment?), but simply enough to not let silence win out over everything else - just a few shreds of what I was able to tear away from the silence in the depths of which I would, like you, doubtlessly, have been tempted to close myself at this instant.
[...]
I haven't the heart either to recount anything or to pronounce a eulogy: there would be too much to say and this is not the moment. Our friends, your friends who are present here know why it is almost indecent to speak now - and to continue to direct our words to you. But silence is just as unbearable. I cannot stand the idea of silence, as if, within me, you too could not stand the idea.' [3]
'...to say adieu to him, to call him by his name, to call his name, his first name, such as he is called at the moment when, if he no longer responds, it is because he responds in us, from the bottom of our hearts, in us but before us, in us right before us - in calling us, in recalling to us...' [1]
[1] Jacques Derrida, 'Adieu: Emmanuel Levinas'
[2] Jacques Derrida, '(In Memorium) Paul De Man'
[3] Jacques Derrida, 'Text read at Louis Althusser's Funeral'
'Speaking is impossible, but so too would be silence or absence or a refusal to share one's sadness. Let me simply ask you to forgive me if today finds me with the strength for only a few simple words.' [2]
'I knew, in advance, that today I would be incapable of speaking, of finding the words, as it were.
Excuse me, therefore, if I read, and for reading not what I believe I must say (does one ever know what one must say in such a moment?), but simply enough to not let silence win out over everything else - just a few shreds of what I was able to tear away from the silence in the depths of which I would, like you, doubtlessly, have been tempted to close myself at this instant.
[...]
I haven't the heart either to recount anything or to pronounce a eulogy: there would be too much to say and this is not the moment. Our friends, your friends who are present here know why it is almost indecent to speak now - and to continue to direct our words to you. But silence is just as unbearable. I cannot stand the idea of silence, as if, within me, you too could not stand the idea.' [3]
'...to say adieu to him, to call him by his name, to call his name, his first name, such as he is called at the moment when, if he no longer responds, it is because he responds in us, from the bottom of our hearts, in us but before us, in us right before us - in calling us, in recalling to us...' [1]
[1] Jacques Derrida, 'Adieu: Emmanuel Levinas'
[2] Jacques Derrida, '(In Memorium) Paul De Man'
[3] Jacques Derrida, 'Text read at Louis Althusser's Funeral'
Thursday, October 07, 2004
o M kai o W spazoun idi anthi pagou stis rimagmenes grammes iperdomis --eterochronismena, teras katavroxthizei fthinoporines ptoseis, metefere tin [----] ousian ragismeni ek ton esso-- x cause the maid will take and
thrax a tax
be coming
soon
available in
wholes near you
hear him:he 'lone the moan
eto
siga siga
na ta metakomis
ete
[no new]
thrax a tax
be coming
soon
available in
wholes near you
hear him:he 'lone the moan
eto
siga siga
na ta metakomis
ete
[no new]
Wednesday, October 06, 2004
Yposhesi Anglias
...on and on methodically till we fall plump into the grave and write finis on the tombstone above our heads (...) (o)ur simple duty is to state the facts as far as they are known, and so let the reader make of them what he (sic) may.
V. Woolf Orlando
Den einai to apwn koniak pou mas deinoun ta apogevmata. Den einai tin fwni sou, esena, ki esena, ki esena pou oi ihografimenes kassetes -mono- metaferoun. O kafes einai xenos, o kapnos xeros. Synagermoi ehoun kopasei kai tzamia pia den spane. I anifores den einai ekeines apo opou epistrefame piwmenoi. To kafsaerio -to kafsaerio!- hwris tin aigli tou Hal Hartley gemizei ta pnevmonia mas. O idrwtas pou akoma kaiei ta agrypna matia mas, den einai o idrwtas tis vrohis. Den einai kan o idrwtas tou ximeromatos. I myti den harizetai stin ygrasia, stin mouhla, stin kanela, stin petalouda kai sto xylo. Den pagidevoun ta dontia mas sardelles twn 16:30. To harti stin Hwra den ehei chora na drosisei tis mashales kai ta mpratsa mas. Strefw to vlema aristera: pio grigora apo oti to afti akouei, o ilios ehei hathei. Kai den se pernw tilefono. Menw me tin antistixi tis antihisis tou geliou sou, me to fwteino hamogelo sou. Apolamvanw tis prwtes syn-g-nefies.
V. Woolf Orlando
Den einai to apwn koniak pou mas deinoun ta apogevmata. Den einai tin fwni sou, esena, ki esena, ki esena pou oi ihografimenes kassetes -mono- metaferoun. O kafes einai xenos, o kapnos xeros. Synagermoi ehoun kopasei kai tzamia pia den spane. I anifores den einai ekeines apo opou epistrefame piwmenoi. To kafsaerio -to kafsaerio!- hwris tin aigli tou Hal Hartley gemizei ta pnevmonia mas. O idrwtas pou akoma kaiei ta agrypna matia mas, den einai o idrwtas tis vrohis. Den einai kan o idrwtas tou ximeromatos. I myti den harizetai stin ygrasia, stin mouhla, stin kanela, stin petalouda kai sto xylo. Den pagidevoun ta dontia mas sardelles twn 16:30. To harti stin Hwra den ehei chora na drosisei tis mashales kai ta mpratsa mas. Strefw to vlema aristera: pio grigora apo oti to afti akouei, o ilios ehei hathei. Kai den se pernw tilefono. Menw me tin antistixi tis antihisis tou geliou sou, me to fwteino hamogelo sou. Apolamvanw tis prwtes syn-g-nefies.
Tuesday, October 05, 2004
'bat yatez waz nooh straindzer to catz'
italia.
'i have never saught after things, only found them.'
- K said, drunk in an irish pub of Rapallo (looking for wb perhaps?)
epses ejimithika se enan parko opws tous astegous, to diabatirio mou to maksilari mou.
proxtes ekolimbisa stin thalassa twn pente topwn.
prin tris meres eperpatisa 5 xiliometra pou ena xwrko ws to allo.
prin tesseris meres etrwa sun dried tomatoes mesa se enan troxospito.
prin pente meres imoun pitta.
prin eksi meres eida enan pou tous pio agapimenous mou filous.
simera? enna kamw bagnio.
'i have never saught after things, only found them.'
- K said, drunk in an irish pub of Rapallo (looking for wb perhaps?)
epses ejimithika se enan parko opws tous astegous, to diabatirio mou to maksilari mou.
proxtes ekolimbisa stin thalassa twn pente topwn.
prin tris meres eperpatisa 5 xiliometra pou ena xwrko ws to allo.
prin tesseris meres etrwa sun dried tomatoes mesa se enan troxospito.
prin pente meres imoun pitta.
prin eksi meres eida enan pou tous pio agapimenous mou filous.
simera? enna kamw bagnio.
Monday, October 04, 2004
22:29
Teaandsoupand whiskey
some cheese
maybe - when am wait
ing for your nonapear
/gl/
ance i spend
shit lots
(al
though is it a waste) they woke me up this morning
practicaly though i was not asleep 06:00.
on(in)@ t
he we
b like we lear
ed to do. txts+emails+blogs(kali wra!)
re
turn
ing to the o
ther theirs and mine sp
aces i'm glad you stood in my way ma
mou peire hronia na katalavw
ki akoma to palevw to gamimeno kai lew psemata stin giagia mou
- the houses and the areas and the streets and the
bars (pubs they call them down
sarf- the hedonism of a far away wildrenss
found not anymore outside
/yes i know that/ thus splashed within with
go ahead pick a colour:The Uncertainty of the Poet
I am a poet.
I am very fond of bananas.
I am bananas.
I am very fond of a poet.
I am a poet of bananas.
I am very fond.
A fond poet of 'I am, I am'-
Very bananas.
Fond of 'Am I bananas?
Am I?'-a very poet.
Bananas of a poet!
Am I fond? Am I very?
Poet bananas! I am.
I am fond of a 'very.'
I am of very fond bananas.
Am I a poet?
Wendy Cope
lalei jai i woolf allo to prasino sti fysi ki allo stin
poiesi
ki etsi anevenw lofous kia pernw sidirodromikes grammes kai kateveno stin plateia kai pernw to treno apo tin platforma 4 i tin platforma 1 kai to leoforeio 329 (spania)
afou
// fovame agapi mou akoma kai na to grapsw gia touto kai x
orki
zw to stis chorolexeis. Anti sta (here
comes again)
sta m /gl-ing:|| des telika to graphe
me to
ati()a sou.
some cheese
maybe - when am wait
ing for your nonapear
/gl/
ance i spend
shit lots
(al
though is it a waste) they woke me up this morning
practicaly though i was not asleep 06:00.
on(in)@ t
he we
b like we lear
ed to do. txts+emails+blogs(kali wra!)
re
turn
ing to the o
ther theirs and mine sp
aces i'm glad you stood in my way ma
mou peire hronia na katalavw
ki akoma to palevw to gamimeno kai lew psemata stin giagia mou
- the houses and the areas and the streets and the
bars (pubs they call them down
sarf- the hedonism of a far away wildrenss
found not anymore outside
/yes i know that/ thus splashed within with
go ahead pick a colour:The Uncertainty of the Poet
I am a poet.
I am very fond of bananas.
I am bananas.
I am very fond of a poet.
I am a poet of bananas.
I am very fond.
A fond poet of 'I am, I am'-
Very bananas.
Fond of 'Am I bananas?
Am I?'-a very poet.
Bananas of a poet!
Am I fond? Am I very?
Poet bananas! I am.
I am fond of a 'very.'
I am of very fond bananas.
Am I a poet?
Wendy Cope
lalei jai i woolf allo to prasino sti fysi ki allo stin
poiesi
ki etsi anevenw lofous kia pernw sidirodromikes grammes kai kateveno stin plateia kai pernw to treno apo tin platforma 4 i tin platforma 1 kai to leoforeio 329 (spania)
afou
// fovame agapi mou akoma kai na to grapsw gia touto kai x
orki
zw to stis chorolexeis. Anti sta (here
comes again)
sta m /gl-ing:|| des telika to graphe
me to
ati()a sou.
Sunday, October 03, 2004
Upon a Stroll in London He Came Across the Lady of the Rain [w/ some Gymnopedies No. 1]
petaxe tes
valitses pan
ti enna ta kami. touta
τα ιμάτια
of his. rain
poor out his. shoe
my heart is in my shoe
I went and set the Thames on fire
lambron. pou ekapse
ta pothkia
she's laughing in her sleeve at me
I can feel it in my bone
pou estassan
of her. rain
all covered up my
glass. full of
pain
[Because I learned to be alone boys
And anywhere
I lay my head, boys
I will call my home.]
valitses pan
ti enna ta kami. touta
τα ιμάτια
of his. rain
poor out his. shoe
my heart is in my shoe
I went and set the Thames on fire
lambron. pou ekapse
ta pothkia
she's laughing in her sleeve at me
I can feel it in my bone
pou estassan
of her. rain
all covered up my
glass. full of
pain
[Because I learned to be alone boys
And anywhere
I lay my head, boys
I will call my home.]
Akouw ekklisiastiki mousiki
Me mavrismena pothkia den ehw
Kanei strato kai plirwnw
full eisitirio. Ayta ws prologos tis nyhtas hwris barmen.
Enw esy xereis tin asfaleia pou sou prosferei i aypnia mou
/ i prosmoni // den akouw den akouw den akouw
(ehei synithistei to tris kai egw meta to hthesino
gyrevw ta conventions pou den tha m' akyrwsoun tin
Omorfia pou tha straggixei to myalo mou
)
oi dwrismenoi anikanoi na epistrepsoun sto thymitiko
stihoi
ta psila kai ta
iwta
me to fili kai tin paraxeni
yposhesi sto stoma
montaroun oroskopia.
Hreiazomai gia touto hreisimopoiw tis
metafraseis, tetoion october pou mou anoixes:
...
Kai sy eisoun haroumeni kai gelouses
Me ena gelio ohi toutou tou kosmou.
-Gia auto s'agapisa/ /ki as dikaiologise gia tin lipsi ek
fora sou kai pws pallia/-
Einai kala na pitsilizeis mes sto nero
Kai to gelio einai to telos olon twn pragmatwn. Am ti vromwprwino!
Na agkistrwseis tin evaisthisia stin apotelesmatikotita;
'Dyskolo, poli dyskolo' (Martis, Holborn) hwris na tin rwtisw.
Me mavrismena pothkia den ehw
Kanei strato kai plirwnw
full eisitirio. Ayta ws prologos tis nyhtas hwris barmen.
Enw esy xereis tin asfaleia pou sou prosferei i aypnia mou
/ i prosmoni // den akouw den akouw den akouw
(ehei synithistei to tris kai egw meta to hthesino
gyrevw ta conventions pou den tha m' akyrwsoun tin
Omorfia pou tha straggixei to myalo mou
)
oi dwrismenoi anikanoi na epistrepsoun sto thymitiko
stihoi
ta psila kai ta
iwta
me to fili kai tin paraxeni
yposhesi sto stoma
montaroun oroskopia.
Hreiazomai gia touto hreisimopoiw tis
metafraseis, tetoion october pou mou anoixes:
...
Kai sy eisoun haroumeni kai gelouses
Me ena gelio ohi toutou tou kosmou.
-Gia auto s'agapisa/ /ki as dikaiologise gia tin lipsi ek
fora sou kai pws pallia/-
Einai kala na pitsilizeis mes sto nero
Kai to gelio einai to telos olon twn pragmatwn. Am ti vromwprwino!
Na agkistrwseis tin evaisthisia stin apotelesmatikotita;
'Dyskolo, poli dyskolo' (Martis, Holborn) hwris na tin rwtisw.
Friday, October 01, 2004
Freidag angst
And I have many fragments, less worth? Less worth?
In das bedhen. OuI. Pou allou durethring dis verklarte nacht, jai atona. 4509pavla98256pavla2. 1CD. A- Shoiros, Lountza, Tsamarela, tin freetag tous, while if we were Fightine or (again they man with the lonely arm could say) Againtine to carvouno tha dietiritoun treemerka. Isws, mes to anthos tou kafe. Re filouin mou xereis lia egglezika; Nai. Sioura xereis; Ti theleis re mastre; Ela na piasw mian kopelan jai na tis miliseis jai perimenw tin dame stin ekklisia. Afeeken don sexilon - hihihihihihih. Eshei mian jame sti gwnia. Ham. 678. Lernear. Wp!osscisite tou mouchohtari. Taxidiwtika Engrapha & Diefkolinseed. Ladwmena myrwmena. Kathe diadikasia rapsimatos, emperiehei mesa tin prosmoni, to if, tou asmatos. Asenjaiseriehtijion. Oi, oi, en alli touti - ela. T' onoma sou; Stavros. "Eh, Mr Stavros" (pause Yeh!) is waiting for you at the church." "No," irta -pou to haraman tou fou re archopelle / enw emeis epoienamen stegnoi! Ah!- perki evrw kammian kinezooan. Etsi, that's it, mellontike ethnosecretery: geo kai nomismatikographeki diaforopoisi tou epi plerwmis patta kai ung oliges voles, tou hatta. Ph d, em? "no church - olimpiakos!" E' ston olympiako mastre. Oooo - jai pou xerw gio pou olympiakon? Twra to arwma tou kourou jai tou blue johny to be palying hand prostibill the very lot we could not are feaghting -the previous freudi-oooooo!-karouzian mystake i am troubled if to change, that is give its pound back, But say I want to , say I take your whole bag of tricks, / Let in your quirks and tweeks, and say the thing's an art-form, / Your Sordello -"But Pound, and my Pound?"-, and that the modern world / [write this time!] Needs such a rag-bag to stuff all its thought in; / Memoari of BS Johnson Say that I dump my catch, shiny and silvery / As fresh sardines Fuck! Exihasa na paw sto rwssiko o salonikios gia ta psssssarouthkia tis mmmmpyras! flapping and slipping on the marginal cobbles? / (I stand before the booth, the speech; but the truth / Is inside the discourse- Regges Afka Faches Panjarka. -krasidem- this booth is full of the marrow of / wisdom.) / Give up th' intaglio method. Inc.-Inc.-Inc. the word.
A!popse th|elw/a na se dw - ma(l) de see vr-isk(i)oh. Bloggarw stin pyra ara me tin arrghautisy Have you acted in compliance with your desire? Pou tis kakes meres tis geiageia yet never know butter in converitation of leafing how does it feel to be all alone times and guardian and then and now 'E' like now the protan rush had to be rushing four the brain and the tang vie la sto mach. U remammber Mac, hey? a tichit could talk. Nicht! Conservatives and the radicalisation of the frog leap. A! Butt thyme the mixed site? TM the WC off the house and off the series. Entry point and at the entrance, passed by DCV their WC. Mam, okitchen okitchen!
Gesamtspielzeit: Jetzzeit
In das bedhen. OuI. Pou allou durethring dis verklarte nacht, jai atona. 4509pavla98256pavla2. 1CD. A- Shoiros, Lountza, Tsamarela, tin freetag tous, while if we were Fightine or (again they man with the lonely arm could say) Againtine to carvouno tha dietiritoun treemerka. Isws, mes to anthos tou kafe. Re filouin mou xereis lia egglezika; Nai. Sioura xereis; Ti theleis re mastre; Ela na piasw mian kopelan jai na tis miliseis jai perimenw tin dame stin ekklisia. Afeeken don sexilon - hihihihihihih. Eshei mian jame sti gwnia. Ham. 678. Lernear. Wp!osscisite tou mouchohtari. Taxidiwtika Engrapha & Diefkolinseed. Ladwmena myrwmena. Kathe diadikasia rapsimatos, emperiehei mesa tin prosmoni, to if, tou asmatos. Asenjaiseriehtijion. Oi, oi, en alli touti - ela. T' onoma sou; Stavros. "Eh, Mr Stavros" (pause Yeh!) is waiting for you at the church." "No," irta -pou to haraman tou fou re archopelle / enw emeis epoienamen stegnoi! Ah!- perki evrw kammian kinezooan. Etsi, that's it, mellontike ethnosecretery: geo kai nomismatikographeki diaforopoisi tou epi plerwmis patta kai ung oliges voles, tou hatta. Ph d, em? "no church - olimpiakos!" E' ston olympiako mastre. Oooo - jai pou xerw gio pou olympiakon? Twra to arwma tou kourou jai tou blue johny to be palying hand prostibill the very lot we could not are feaghting -the previous freudi-oooooo!-karouzian mystake i am troubled if to change, that is give its pound back, But say I want to , say I take your whole bag of tricks, / Let in your quirks and tweeks, and say the thing's an art-form, / Your Sordello -"But Pound, and my Pound?"-, and that the modern world / [write this time!] Needs such a rag-bag to stuff all its thought in; / Memoari of BS Johnson Say that I dump my catch, shiny and silvery / As fresh sardines Fuck! Exihasa na paw sto rwssiko o salonikios gia ta psssssarouthkia tis mmmmpyras! flapping and slipping on the marginal cobbles? / (I stand before the booth, the speech; but the truth / Is inside the discourse- Regges Afka Faches Panjarka. -krasidem- this booth is full of the marrow of / wisdom.) / Give up th' intaglio method. Inc.-Inc.-Inc. the word.
A!popse th|elw/a na se dw - ma(l) de see vr-isk(i)oh. Bloggarw stin pyra ara me tin arrghautisy Have you acted in compliance with your desire? Pou tis kakes meres tis geiageia yet never know butter in converitation of leafing how does it feel to be all alone times and guardian and then and now 'E' like now the protan rush had to be rushing four the brain and the tang vie la sto mach. U remammber Mac, hey? a tichit could talk. Nicht! Conservatives and the radicalisation of the frog leap. A! Butt thyme the mixed site? TM the WC off the house and off the series. Entry point and at the entrance, passed by DCV their WC. Mam, okitchen okitchen!
Gesamtspielzeit: Jetzzeit
To live a thousand years in a wink. (...) Nor began nor ends anything
Etsi apla pro-logika para-loga, synithes en diastoli hordes, daktyla pou pliktrologoun tin dikaiologia tou soundtrack, matia pou kleinoun kai heili pou den tha enwthoun, pote xana, etsi, opws that's it, me pathitiko to kapnisma kai energo, pia, xana, to whiskey, stin siwpi tis skonis kai twn leromenwn astragalwn, me ta myala sta parka tou genari (christo, a.m., kosti: re/member) me to imerologioko fthinopwro na zitaei voitheies, ta idia intermezzo kai ta idia bar, savvatokyriako xereis poso se misisa - ohi etsi, ohi pia:
M' amour, m' amour
what do I love and
where are you?
That I lost my center
fighting the word.
The dreams clash and are shattered-
and that I tried to make a paradiso
terrestre.
'Ton teleftaio dromo tha ton kanw monos' - Ta oneira sygkrouontai / kai kommatiazontai- / ki egw prspathisa na plasw enan paradiso / terrestre.. Imeros anex-art-isias. Epi-strefw, bi-social agape mou, sto allothi tis pistis tis glwssas atona ma opws mystika kai isiha me to Manhattan poria stin kathisihastiki agkali sou. Enw dipla polousan pastourma.
Ena fantasma -indeed- planietai, planevwntas mas olous pou arnomaste na min pistepsoume stin nomismatiki axia tou Ezra=Fool who would set a term to love's madness (...) No, now while it may be, let not the fruit of life cease, panw ap tin ope tou Eu. Panw apo to Euros tou (h)ER...
Here-to sadated me hamogelo kai aporia Pentzikiki apo tin poli kai tin polli leilasia twn dromwn apantw I skoal to the eyes as grey-blown mere (...) Wining the ghosts of yester-year.
M' amour, m' amour
what do I love and
where are you?
That I lost my center
fighting the word.
The dreams clash and are shattered-
and that I tried to make a paradiso
terrestre.
'Ton teleftaio dromo tha ton kanw monos' - Ta oneira sygkrouontai / kai kommatiazontai- / ki egw prspathisa na plasw enan paradiso / terrestre.. Imeros anex-art-isias. Epi-strefw, bi-social agape mou, sto allothi tis pistis tis glwssas atona ma opws mystika kai isiha me to Manhattan poria stin kathisihastiki agkali sou. Enw dipla polousan pastourma.
Ena fantasma -indeed- planietai, planevwntas mas olous pou arnomaste na min pistepsoume stin nomismatiki axia tou Ezra=Fool who would set a term to love's madness (...) No, now while it may be, let not the fruit of life cease, panw ap tin ope tou Eu. Panw apo to Euros tou (h)ER...
Here-to sadated me hamogelo kai aporia Pentzikiki apo tin poli kai tin polli leilasia twn dromwn apantw I skoal to the eyes as grey-blown mere (...) Wining the ghosts of yester-year.
Sunday, September 26, 2004
Ezra Pound Hard Core
Yet you ask on what account I write so many love-lyrics
And whence this soft book comes into my mouth.
Neither Calliope nor Apollo sung hese things into my ear,
My genius is no more than a girl.
Me tis vlefarides kai ta aftia na me xypnane, gia tin hari tou anti-here,@ the gentler hour of an ultimate day, me characteres askew kai to feggari she-don prominima tou apwn fthinopourou, psahnw tin skia mou sto krasi kai sto idrwmeno maxilari. O kairos -agglomathis gar, me (x)filenades vories- den afinei kan tin exatmisi tou erwta na lavei Choran. Ehei aggaziarei apo prin tin ygrasia. Kai den tha hionisei, toulahiston mehri ton Fevrouario. Etsi Baudrilliard-ika, me tis lexeis therapevw tis simatodotimenes ekfores twn matiwn kai twn daktylwn. Les kai mporw / mporw les;
Me happy, night full of brightness;
Oh couch made happy by my long delectations;
How many words talked out with abundant candles; Struggles when the lights were taken away;
Now with bared breasts she wrestled against me,
Tunic spread in delay;
And she then opening my eyelids fallen in sleep,
Her lips upon them; and it was her mouth saying:
Sluggard!
In how many varied embraces, our changing arms,
Her kisses, how many, lingering on my lips.
"Turn not Venus into a blined motion
Eyes are the guides of love,
Paris took Helen naked coming from the bed of Menelaus,
Endymion's naked body, bright bait for Diana,"
-such atleast is the story.
While our fates twine together, state we our eyes with love;
For long night comes upon you
and a day when no day returns.
Let the gods lay chains upon us
so that no day shall unbind them.
Fool who would set a term to love's madness
For the sun shall drive with black horses,
earth shall bring wheat from barley,
The flood shall move toward the fountain
Ere love know moderations,
The fish shall swim in dry streams.
No, now while it may be, let not the fruit of life cease.
Dry wreaths drop their petals,
their stalks are woven in baskets,
To-day we take the great breath of lovers,
to-morrow fate shuts us in.
Though you give all your kisses
you give but few.
Nor can I shift my pains to other,
Hers will I be dead,
If she confer such nights upon me,
long is my life, long in years,
If she give me many,
God am I for the time.
Ezra Pound, from Homage to Sextus Propertius, 1917
And whence this soft book comes into my mouth.
Neither Calliope nor Apollo sung hese things into my ear,
My genius is no more than a girl.
Me tis vlefarides kai ta aftia na me xypnane, gia tin hari tou anti-here,@ the gentler hour of an ultimate day, me characteres askew kai to feggari she-don prominima tou apwn fthinopourou, psahnw tin skia mou sto krasi kai sto idrwmeno maxilari. O kairos -agglomathis gar, me (x)filenades vories- den afinei kan tin exatmisi tou erwta na lavei Choran. Ehei aggaziarei apo prin tin ygrasia. Kai den tha hionisei, toulahiston mehri ton Fevrouario. Etsi Baudrilliard-ika, me tis lexeis therapevw tis simatodotimenes ekfores twn matiwn kai twn daktylwn. Les kai mporw / mporw les;
Me happy, night full of brightness;
Oh couch made happy by my long delectations;
How many words talked out with abundant candles; Struggles when the lights were taken away;
Now with bared breasts she wrestled against me,
Tunic spread in delay;
And she then opening my eyelids fallen in sleep,
Her lips upon them; and it was her mouth saying:
Sluggard!
In how many varied embraces, our changing arms,
Her kisses, how many, lingering on my lips.
"Turn not Venus into a blined motion
Eyes are the guides of love,
Paris took Helen naked coming from the bed of Menelaus,
Endymion's naked body, bright bait for Diana,"
-such atleast is the story.
While our fates twine together, state we our eyes with love;
For long night comes upon you
and a day when no day returns.
Let the gods lay chains upon us
so that no day shall unbind them.
Fool who would set a term to love's madness
For the sun shall drive with black horses,
earth shall bring wheat from barley,
The flood shall move toward the fountain
Ere love know moderations,
The fish shall swim in dry streams.
No, now while it may be, let not the fruit of life cease.
Dry wreaths drop their petals,
their stalks are woven in baskets,
To-day we take the great breath of lovers,
to-morrow fate shuts us in.
Though you give all your kisses
you give but few.
Nor can I shift my pains to other,
Hers will I be dead,
If she confer such nights upon me,
long is my life, long in years,
If she give me many,
God am I for the time.
Ezra Pound, from Homage to Sextus Propertius, 1917
Saturday, September 25, 2004
Apostagma twn 04:30, twn 06:33, twn 17:11
Opws otan skeftomaste kai mas rwtane ti skeftesai; ki emeis leme tipota, enw theloume na poume ta panta i
esena.
here-tw vouleumata /
esena.
here-tw vouleumata /
Friday, September 24, 2004
a priori
And he would
paternaly re
inscribe
poian amartia ehw kanei kai mou 'houn leipsei ta
filia; x
orkizwntas
tin aga
π
pros
path/onta
s
paternaly re
inscribe
poian amartia ehw kanei kai mou 'houn leipsei ta
filia; x
orkizwntas
tin aga
π
pros
path/onta
s
Thursday, September 23, 2004
of distempered absence: terminal no. or ne
nocturne
melodia tou aposperiti
Τικ-τικ
augerini i poreia
τικι-τικι-τακ
outstretched/tis thlipsis
katevasmata/Alla
tempus palm/(o)s
θέλω πουλί μου,
disseminate
aman
aman
aman
[sparmeno ston anemo]
να μαντεύω
aura+nothkia
που πηγαίνεις
[ipnos,
dili,
erotimatiko]
Γιατί όταν σου μιλώ,
Αρχίζει της καρδιάς το
τικ
τικ
τικι
τικι
τακ
melodia tou aposperiti
Τικ-τικ
augerini i poreia
τικι-τικι-τακ
outstretched/tis thlipsis
katevasmata/Alla
tempus palm/(o)s
θέλω πουλί μου,
disseminate
aman
aman
aman
[sparmeno ston anemo]
να μαντεύω
aura+nothkia
που πηγαίνεις
[ipnos,
dili,
erotimatiko]
Γιατί όταν σου μιλώ,
Αρχίζει της καρδιάς το
τικ
τικ
τικι
τικι
τακ
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
no tick-tock, only eternal present
there's no point in believing in tick-tock-time, unless, of course, you're a working (wo)man who has to bike to latsia at 5 in the afternoon in order to listen to people spouting ibsen and drinking cigarettes. luckily, i am not.
so without tick-tock-time, what time is left?
Time for you and time for me
And time yet for a hundred indecisions
And for a hundred visions and revisions
Before the taking of a toast and tea...
And indeed there will be time
To wonder, "Do I care?" and "Do I dare?"
panta to avrio, avrio pale, miloumen avrio, enna ta poumen avrio, na se dw new avrio, avrio en kala, jai xana avrio, uparxei to avrio, ara en entaxei avrio.
From TS to WS, in true H. Bloom anxiety,
Prospero: What is't thou canst demand?
Ariel: My liberty.
Prosperop: Before the time be out? No more!
patience k. dem. something the vodkas fail to teach.
apla na evroume jai mian isoropia pleon, opws lalei jai o Pound,
"Anyone can run to excesses,
"It is easy to shoot past the mark.
It is hard to stand firm in the middle."
...
"The blossoms of the apricot
"blow from east to the west,
And I have tried to keep them from falling."
- CANTO XIII
alli mera enna sas pw yia ton Phil jai ta yialouthkia tou. Oi simera omws.
Mallon avrio.
so without tick-tock-time, what time is left?
Time for you and time for me
And time yet for a hundred indecisions
And for a hundred visions and revisions
Before the taking of a toast and tea...
And indeed there will be time
To wonder, "Do I care?" and "Do I dare?"
panta to avrio, avrio pale, miloumen avrio, enna ta poumen avrio, na se dw new avrio, avrio en kala, jai xana avrio, uparxei to avrio, ara en entaxei avrio.
From TS to WS, in true H. Bloom anxiety,
Prospero: What is't thou canst demand?
Ariel: My liberty.
Prosperop: Before the time be out? No more!
patience k. dem. something the vodkas fail to teach.
apla na evroume jai mian isoropia pleon, opws lalei jai o Pound,
"Anyone can run to excesses,
"It is easy to shoot past the mark.
It is hard to stand firm in the middle."
...
"The blossoms of the apricot
"blow from east to the west,
And I have tried to keep them from falling."
- CANTO XIII
alli mera enna sas pw yia ton Phil jai ta yialouthkia tou. Oi simera omws.
Mallon avrio.
pressure drop, oooo pressure drop, it drops on you
or not yet / am
Se gnwrizw myrwdia pou mou trweis ta swthika / Kai gemizeis ta krevvatia m' eswpsyha - jai fagia
(...)-Or so I fancy, sensing the smoke and sweat,
the wonderful feel of girls. Why be out here?
But then, why be in there? Sex, yes, but what
Is sex? Surely, to think the lion's share
Of happiness is found by couples - sheer
Inaccuracy, as far as I'm concerned.
What calls me is that lifted, rough-tongued bell
(Art if you like) whose individual sound
Insists I too am individual.
It speaks; I hear; others may hear as well,
But not for me, nor I for them; and so
With happiness. Therefore I stay outside,
Believing this; and they maul to and fro,
Believing that; and both are satisfied,
If no onr has misjudged himself. Or lied.
Kai etsi
(...) The glare of that much-mentioned brilliance,love,
Broke out, to show,
Its bright incipience sailing above,
Still promising to solve, and satisfy,
And set unchangeably in order. So
To pile them back, to cry,
Was hard, without lamely admitting how
It had not done so then, and could not now.
Philip, Philip Larkin.
Imero-logiaka, ametrito to alkool, stimmeno me sapouni masalias kai efhi.
Mpanio -
Se gnwrizw myrwdia pou mou trweis ta swthika / Kai gemizeis ta krevvatia m' eswpsyha - jai fagia
(...)-Or so I fancy, sensing the smoke and sweat,
the wonderful feel of girls. Why be out here?
But then, why be in there? Sex, yes, but what
Is sex? Surely, to think the lion's share
Of happiness is found by couples - sheer
Inaccuracy, as far as I'm concerned.
What calls me is that lifted, rough-tongued bell
(Art if you like) whose individual sound
Insists I too am individual.
It speaks; I hear; others may hear as well,
But not for me, nor I for them; and so
With happiness. Therefore I stay outside,
Believing this; and they maul to and fro,
Believing that; and both are satisfied,
If no onr has misjudged himself. Or lied.
Kai etsi
(...) The glare of that much-mentioned brilliance,love,
Broke out, to show,
Its bright incipience sailing above,
Still promising to solve, and satisfy,
And set unchangeably in order. So
To pile them back, to cry,
Was hard, without lamely admitting how
It had not done so then, and could not now.
Philip, Philip Larkin.
Imero-logiaka, ametrito to alkool, stimmeno me sapouni masalias kai efhi.
Mpanio -
Tuesday, September 21, 2004
Closer
6 vodkes (!) and still u r drinking my mind.
Simera eiha ta mathkia tou aimatos.
p.s.* un-con-texted (christo): (1)I eilikrineia tis idonis tou keimenou (text), tis daimonika dwsmenis lexis. (2)Hwris, pia, tis meta-mfiesmenes, dilladi allegorikes, (con) elpidofores epithimies twn txt-s sou. / "Twra pia ehw erwteftei m'ola ta epikoinwniaka mesa."
*peri scriptum kai ws eitheste, an thelete, always already tahy-dromimeno meta -pws allote- to here of the text
Simera eiha ta mathkia tou aimatos.
p.s.* un-con-texted (christo): (1)I eilikrineia tis idonis tou keimenou (text), tis daimonika dwsmenis lexis. (2)Hwris, pia, tis meta-mfiesmenes, dilladi allegorikes, (con) elpidofores epithimies twn txt-s sou. / "Twra pia ehw erwteftei m'ola ta epikoinwniaka mesa."
*peri scriptum kai ws eitheste, an thelete, always already tahy-dromimeno meta -pws allote- to here of the text
'when the saints go marching in'
'prwta vriskoume ta logia me megali prosoxi mia pou alloi grafoun xronia ki isws ta xoune pei
ke siga siga arxizeis na tous vazeis mousiki pou olo kati na thimizei ki as min kseroume ti'
always out of context, uncontexted (demetri) loukianos kilaidonis & preservation hall jazz band; na pou antexete o karouzos me kriologima: xrisafenio kriologima/ sta oloxantha matia - giatreuome: me krasaki amerimno, twn iskiwn to thauma, xana xana 'home is where one starts from' ki oute pou i kathe mas lexi edwse
akoma ,
e la nave va
ke siga siga arxizeis na tous vazeis mousiki pou olo kati na thimizei ki as min kseroume ti'
always out of context, uncontexted (demetri) loukianos kilaidonis & preservation hall jazz band; na pou antexete o karouzos me kriologima: xrisafenio kriologima/ sta oloxantha matia - giatreuome: me krasaki amerimno, twn iskiwn to thauma, xana xana 'home is where one starts from' ki oute pou i kathe mas lexi edwse
akoma ,
e la nave va
Monday, September 20, 2004
Epistrofi i Gyrismos
Etsi loipon me Milosz: There is so much death, and that is why affection / for pigtails, bright-colored skirts in the wind, / for paper boats no more durable than we are..., me BS Johnson: trying to say something about the writing and nothing being an answer to the loneliness to the lack of loving (...) I have to write something, to pass the time, being interested in so much, everything really, everything, compulsively, nihil humanum a me alienum puto and all that jaz., me Lorca: He wants. We all want. But this is his sin: to want. One shouldn't want, one should love. And so he fails. (...) Poetry doesn't need skilled practitioners, she needs lovers, and she lays down brambles and shards of glass for the hands that search for her with love., ola afta pou diavasa kathws eleipes, kai me kako fai kai lypi, here xana, me tin Achilleio plevra mou chorotopothetimeni kai taftohronos perivlimeni apo ton fovo tou fou, shedon sta exw tou Septemvri, apo mesa, me kleista parathyra kai 40 vathmous kelsiou, ton L. Cohen na sigontarei ekmaievomena deja-vous, kai ta egkeniazomena krevvatia apo myrwdies heiragwgimenes, etsi loipon, o Gyrismos i i Epistrofi, stin parigoria twn daktylwn, meres -kai prosehws: nyhtes- pou i mousiki den tou kanei ta hatiria kai zei osa den sumvainoun gyrw tou pisw apo tis vlefarides, kai eniote, tin Vodka.
Ta heili mou se kratisan, daneiko ap' ta dika tis, mehr/is here:
It is true. We have a beautiful time
As long as time is time at all.
Ta heili mou se kratisan, daneiko ap' ta dika tis, mehr/is here:
It is true. We have a beautiful time
As long as time is time at all.
Sunday, September 12, 2004
W/res
Epanodos ston Breton kai sto whiskey
pushing back the tears
teras
kai sfiggwntas to hamogelo
sta pedal-
i zesti den epitrepei akomi peripatous edw
katw. [Htes akomi irthe xana stin skepsi mou o haraktirismos
ex-colonial myrwmenos me bahari kai Attika]
Afanizetai o hronos tis autopepoithisis ki antikathistate me twn tou
"doer".
...
Toulahiston esy eihes to tharos.
pushing back the tears
teras
kai sfiggwntas to hamogelo
sta pedal-
i zesti den epitrepei akomi peripatous edw
katw. [Htes akomi irthe xana stin skepsi mou o haraktirismos
ex-colonial myrwmenos me bahari kai Attika]
Afanizetai o hronos tis autopepoithisis ki antikathistate me twn tou
"doer".
...
Toulahiston esy eihes to tharos.
Wednesday, August 25, 2004
Monday, August 23, 2004
Anemogkastri
O Beethoven drwmenos
O RFK stin kouzina
O Nick Cave nero sta roz
poukamisa mas straight to you.
Kamenes joitrw
milies stous pezo
dromous mas.
Katastrefw tin akoi mou gia hari tou my
aliwna mou
Perkimon to perkalon sou proswpo an
ihnefsw
Mesa pou tin nothkia twn aisthitirwn /
Ex
askisi ston po
No
tou kry
fou
O Beethoven drwmenos
O RFK stin kouzina
O Nick Cave nero sta roz
poukamisa mas straight to you.
Kamenes joitrw
milies stous pezo
dromous mas.
Katastrefw tin akoi mou gia hari tou my
aliwna mou
Perkimon to perkalon sou proswpo an
ihnefsw
Mesa pou tin nothkia twn aisthitirwn /
Ex
askisi ston po
No
tou kry
fou
Saturday, August 21, 2004
Baudelaire, je pense a vous!
... ego semper amavi
Se poio plithos, se poio vivlopoleio na anazitisw ta tou here antifarmaka, tis syntages tou apogevmatos Savvatou, me poio potamo, apo poia gefyra na se psaxw. I zesti, oi fwnes -s' antithesi me ta eknevristika eknevrismena isyha plithoi twn 10:00, twn 15:00, twn 18:30- i kaki asfaltos, den m' afinoun dromous efidrwsis. Xerenw ta matia mou ohi stous hamilous kathreftes kai sta parathyra tou 3ou orofou ma sto liparo l' Universe twn psifidwn tou Anagramatos (MONOTYPE), pou epitrepoun kai stin perifereia kai stin serotonini mou tin idia afxitiki anaprosarmogi. Sto plithos ohi twn matiwn ma twn matiasmenwn, gia tous opoious pharmakia / ammatopetra einai i ekdosi.
Se quis, amans quod amare iuvat, feliciter ardet
gaudet et vento naviget ille suo
Nec te lar patrius, sed amor revocabit amicae
Vina parant animum Veneri, nisi plurima sumas
ut stupeant multo corda sepulta mero.
Nutritur vento, vento restignutur ignis;
lenis alit flammas, grandior aura necat.
Aut nulla ebrietas, aut tanta sit, ut tibi curas
eripat: si qua est inter utumque, nocet
P. Ovidi Nasonis Remedia Amoris
Se poio plithos, se poio vivlopoleio na anazitisw ta tou here antifarmaka, tis syntages tou apogevmatos Savvatou, me poio potamo, apo poia gefyra na se psaxw. I zesti, oi fwnes -s' antithesi me ta eknevristika eknevrismena isyha plithoi twn 10:00, twn 15:00, twn 18:30- i kaki asfaltos, den m' afinoun dromous efidrwsis. Xerenw ta matia mou ohi stous hamilous kathreftes kai sta parathyra tou 3ou orofou ma sto liparo l' Universe twn psifidwn tou Anagramatos (MONOTYPE), pou epitrepoun kai stin perifereia kai stin serotonini mou tin idia afxitiki anaprosarmogi. Sto plithos ohi twn matiwn ma twn matiasmenwn, gia tous opoious pharmakia / ammatopetra einai i ekdosi.
Se quis, amans quod amare iuvat, feliciter ardet
gaudet et vento naviget ille suo
Nec te lar patrius, sed amor revocabit amicae
Vina parant animum Veneri, nisi plurima sumas
ut stupeant multo corda sepulta mero.
Nutritur vento, vento restignutur ignis;
lenis alit flammas, grandior aura necat.
Aut nulla ebrietas, aut tanta sit, ut tibi curas
eripat: si qua est inter utumque, nocet
P. Ovidi Nasonis Remedia Amoris
Thursday, August 19, 2004
Agapimeni Lexi: Xwpaska
Brahms enantion twn zizirwn.
Polles fores myristika tin ladorigani tis agkalis
antimetwpos me tis diakopes
Dwsmou xana tin veranta twn proshimatwn
Ta elektronika anoigmata twn ygrwn vazwn sou sto aspro
Ta louvimena fylla tis voukaimvillias.
Vouvwnas Xeros.
Eikonografimenes opisthografiseis pistwsis tin wra touti
Anazitwntas psifia /
grammata
sou.
x
Polles fores myristika tin ladorigani tis agkalis
antimetwpos me tis diakopes
Dwsmou xana tin veranta twn proshimatwn
Ta elektronika anoigmata twn ygrwn vazwn sou sto aspro
Ta louvimena fylla tis voukaimvillias.
Vouvwnas Xeros.
Eikonografimenes opisthografiseis pistwsis tin wra touti
Anazitwntas psifia /
grammata
sou.
x
Wednesday, August 18, 2004
.../ 8
Afierwmeno ap' ta spirometers twn minwn
A touching and marvellous ingenuity
Such as you see only in [the faces of] angels in holy pictures
Imitates the cheek where the smile makes a hollow.
Arthur Rimbaud, from Les Stupra*, (trans. Oliver Bernard, 1962)
*Stupra(Latin): defilements, pollutions by lust
A touching and marvellous ingenuity
Such as you see only in [the faces of] angels in holy pictures
Imitates the cheek where the smile makes a hollow.
Arthur Rimbaud, from Les Stupra*, (trans. Oliver Bernard, 1962)
*Stupra(Latin): defilements, pollutions by lust
Sunday, August 15, 2004
(p.)script(h)um
Hamlet: Is this a prologue, or the posy for a ring?
First Player: 'Tis brief, my lord.
Hamlet: As woman's love.
Afta kratw apo simera, tou Evangelismou, kai tis Anatasis tou katakalokairou paskatou, prin epistrepsw stous filous mou.
First Player: 'Tis brief, my lord.
Hamlet: As woman's love.
Afta kratw apo simera, tou Evangelismou, kai tis Anatasis tou katakalokairou paskatou, prin epistrepsw stous filous mou.
Saturday, August 14, 2004
Ypersynteliko Yperihografima
Noiwthw to whiskey na palletai san anapnoi, stin myti, mesa. Plirwnw oti mou dothike, to harama, me idrwta. Me katestramena kyttra kai kakwseis tou dermatos. Ki omws, oti mou dothike, to harama, kala plirwthike. Ap' ta metamesonyktia bar mas opou oi filoi milousan gia tainies, gia fwta, gia mousiki, gia tis poleis opou milousa me tous filous gia tis kores pou den tha kanoume (tin Ariadne, tin Ariana, tin Anthi) kai gia ta paidia pou theloume orgismenoi na spyroume stin apohavnwmeni hwra mias xedontiasmenis polis, kai syntoma, soon, all too soon, opou oi files epinan mpyres, kai katapinan hamogela, kai oi filoi kernousan thanatifora anazwgonika gemata potiria, kai exis ihous, kai trantahta gelia, opou o post-modern zeimbekikos xanavgike stin epifaneia, me tragoudia aplirwta pou den einai gia sena i gia kanena, kai opou i technologia, pia, mas apothanatize, mas evriske, mas evrize, tin vrizame, kai ekane oti to skwtomeno myalo, ena dasos skwtomenwn filwn, den mporouse, pia, na kanei, mas fylae, kai fylage, ta filia tou parelthontos ws agkalies tou mellontos, apo ola touta plirwthike oti mou dothike, to harama, prwta mesa ap' ta parathyra, san kalesma, pou me orthanoihta matia ypakousame kai vrethikame -aloimono an einai to harama na se kalei mono, to stereo, stentorio kalesma tou haramatos pou kalei na sou dwthei- mesa, haidevomenoi haideftes tou. Twn magoulwn kai twn zygwmatikwn tou, twn matiwn kai twn heiliwn tou, tis mytis tou, twn gwfwn kai twn mirwn tou. Tis asfaltou kai tou ouranou tou. Kala plirwthike oti mou dothike, to harama, pou twra plirwnw, noiwthwntas to whiskey na palletai san anapnoi, stin myti, mesa.
Thursday, August 12, 2004
o w.b. trwi tiri?
"Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams."
Sunday or Monday night, new division kai tiri.
Sunday, August 08, 2004
Friday, August 06, 2004
Somatopoiesi (2)
Thelw na mou leipsoun
opws mou leipoun oi
lexeis
me to black bile
kai tin fwni
tis Billie (provlepsima romantikos - i Reinhardt /)
na se vriskw katw apo tin akinito pyrgo
tou Eiffel (jai 'ftyhws pou o Magiakofski aftoktonise)
i kai sto bar me tis kalogries konta
sto pagwmeno parko
opou ta 'e' einai makrosyrta, opou ta gelia einai ihira gemata
triglikeridia, san mavroaspi aktinografia
xenos kapnos dika mas kalloi - pathitikoi thamwnes diladi tis pithanotitas apothikefsis
ultrasound koilias apo to mellon.
Koita pws pallete to sykwti mou gia sena
kardia mou.
Thelw ton heimwna sou.
Thelw na mou leipsoun
opws mou leipoun oi
lexeis
me to black bile
kai tin fwni
tis Billie (provlepsima romantikos - i Reinhardt /)
na se vriskw katw apo tin akinito pyrgo
tou Eiffel (jai 'ftyhws pou o Magiakofski aftoktonise)
i kai sto bar me tis kalogries konta
sto pagwmeno parko
opou ta 'e' einai makrosyrta, opou ta gelia einai ihira gemata
triglikeridia, san mavroaspi aktinografia
xenos kapnos dika mas kalloi - pathitikoi thamwnes diladi tis pithanotitas apothikefsis
ultrasound koilias apo to mellon.
Koita pws pallete to sykwti mou gia sena
kardia mou.
Thelw ton heimwna sou.
Prwtes Yles
Den mporeis na xefygeis radiofwnika
ap' tous zizirous.
Paroxysmos oi 'oi'-
Otan i fwni omws sou milaei na akoueis Leykwsia
H
lithia.
Liga pramata paramenoun akoma stin thesi tous
i dyskiliotita
ta mydralliovola
o kathreftismos twn kravgwn anamesa sto earl grey kai ta prwta lepta perasmenes 12. Dys(3,4,5,
Kolo na agapas ta xena.
/ ta matia kai tin agkalia sou tha psaxw sta apovrohia
I
I istoria pou pote den tha ginei diki mas pou exargyrwnetai;
Rwtiste sto Tahydromeio.
Voura! -
Den mporeis na xefygeis radiofwnika
ap' tous zizirous.
Paroxysmos oi 'oi'-
Otan i fwni omws sou milaei na akoueis Leykwsia
H
lithia.
Liga pramata paramenoun akoma stin thesi tous
i dyskiliotita
ta mydralliovola
o kathreftismos twn kravgwn anamesa sto earl grey kai ta prwta lepta perasmenes 12. Dys(3,4,5,
Kolo na agapas ta xena.
/ ta matia kai tin agkalia sou tha psaxw sta apovrohia
I
I istoria pou pote den tha ginei diki mas pou exargyrwnetai;
Rwtiste sto Tahydromeio.
Voura! -
Wednesday, August 04, 2004
'Definitely an Elvis fan'
Noiwthw tin anagki here na apantisw sto (i) p.m. tis a.m. note pou parenthentika prospathise na afisei na eisvalei sto pein mou i avra tou skatharikou 'love'. Love, agape mou ma en ethkiavazes ta blog mas toson jairo? To skouloukouin ymwn, to skouloukouin pou xekina tin hionostivada - jai xereis to polla kala- den einai oute to all, oute to you, oute to need oute to love. Antithetws an theloume, kalo, lalei jai mia alli, na tentwsoume, lalei jai enas allos, ta glwssika simenwnta pou mas deinwnte, ta home jai ta coming mas diladi, stin pros-patheia na en-topisoume to anti-keimeno ousiastiko prepei na pame sto entry aghape kai ston stiho 90 tis Antigonis. Pou den einai telos ma arche, post-orgasmicaly, meta ta diladi tin syntrivi tou hwrohronou -ara me tin ekinisi / ektinaxi tis khoras- i opws to grafei o Sikelianos stin Anna (hwris na tis to pei) "Prin na idwthoume, o hronos eihe stin psyche mas nikithei. Prin na idwthoume, to diastima eihe nikithei." (Edw mpainei kai i parametros dektikotita stin klisi tou kallous pou kalei pera apo tin pro-vlimatiki poreia mas, dia-pernwntas tous porous mas ean einai anoihtoi, xapostelnwntas to all, to you, to need majai to (i)). To maoman -opws grafei i Sapho- einai to mental mastrubation -to opoio antitheta me ton Pound pou pisteve pws einai ena xodema, ena coming, einai alli mia arche- na min akyrwthei apo to ektwnotiko sex, ma opws akrivws lerwnoume ta mayala mas kai ta rouha mas me mpyres, whiskeya, melania, ihous jai eikones, na ximarizoume -i dynaton (to ideal ws deal pera apo to i diladi)- jai ta krevathkia mas, ta sherka jai ta sheili mas. Jai love, love is not enough - poso mallon all you need.
Dioti an itan mono me touto to love pou tha eprospathousame -synehizwntas na antigrafw, egw o laimargos logoklopos, apo to gramma tou Aggelou Sikelianou imerominias 15.4.1938- "na nikisoume ton kosmo" (i opws o Papagiwrgis yperoha fallokratika grafei 'den yparhei megalyteri apolafsi, megalyteri idoni apo to na aparniesai tous filous sou gia mia gynaika' - kai den nikas to koinwniko para mono me tin pragmatwsi tou prwsopikou, pou einai archika anti-keimeno) pws tha mporousame na zitoume epanadimiourgia tou hrwnou, na lygoun ta gonata mas kai na tremoume sta bar pou to kallos mas kallei, agkaliazwntas mas stis spasmwdikes selides kai stis seismografika omorfes kardies mas me vlemata filia lexeis kai agkalies? To ektopisma tou rigmatos -thamnou, faragiou, ammolofou i kafkalas- einai proion seismikis donisis. Kai ohi kounismatos - kai malista kwlou.
Gia ta tou kwlou yparhoun ta skatharia - oi kotsiropampouloi sta kypriaka.
Emas afise Thee, Fysi, Energeia na eautohrezomaste here e-potes tis erwn aghapes.
O filos mou o Paris shedon mia vdomada prin, meta apo poly gin, poly tonic, poly whiskey jai poly nero mou eipe sta katw katw skalopatia pws i monaxia, i aenai monaxia mas einai pou mas exoplizei me tin grafi. Pari mou, file mou file mou jai aderfe mou, isws. Isws na en touti i kosmiki kai koinwniki monaxia mas, pou mas kalliergei tin dipsa kai tin terpsi tou alkool, tin pamfaga kai sparagmatiki anagnwsi, tin methexi kai tin emetiki grafi pou mas prosehei, mas taizei mas ntynei, mas exoplizei kai mas thwrakizei. Ma isws na en touta oula ta pofagia jai ta popia tis monaxia, oula toyta mazi, ouloi mazi ki o erwtas, opws titloforei ena diigima tou o Skarimpas. Estw kai an e mahes argoun, duktywnontai, kalwdiwnontai, methoun mehri to deal, to final deal na ypo-graphe (empaine christo).
Kales pintes jai kouintes a.m @ this p.m. hour in Ir-e/a-land.
Dioti an itan mono me touto to love pou tha eprospathousame -synehizwntas na antigrafw, egw o laimargos logoklopos, apo to gramma tou Aggelou Sikelianou imerominias 15.4.1938- "na nikisoume ton kosmo" (i opws o Papagiwrgis yperoha fallokratika grafei 'den yparhei megalyteri apolafsi, megalyteri idoni apo to na aparniesai tous filous sou gia mia gynaika' - kai den nikas to koinwniko para mono me tin pragmatwsi tou prwsopikou, pou einai archika anti-keimeno) pws tha mporousame na zitoume epanadimiourgia tou hrwnou, na lygoun ta gonata mas kai na tremoume sta bar pou to kallos mas kallei, agkaliazwntas mas stis spasmwdikes selides kai stis seismografika omorfes kardies mas me vlemata filia lexeis kai agkalies? To ektopisma tou rigmatos -thamnou, faragiou, ammolofou i kafkalas- einai proion seismikis donisis. Kai ohi kounismatos - kai malista kwlou.
Gia ta tou kwlou yparhoun ta skatharia - oi kotsiropampouloi sta kypriaka.
Emas afise Thee, Fysi, Energeia na eautohrezomaste here e-potes tis erwn aghapes.
O filos mou o Paris shedon mia vdomada prin, meta apo poly gin, poly tonic, poly whiskey jai poly nero mou eipe sta katw katw skalopatia pws i monaxia, i aenai monaxia mas einai pou mas exoplizei me tin grafi. Pari mou, file mou file mou jai aderfe mou, isws. Isws na en touti i kosmiki kai koinwniki monaxia mas, pou mas kalliergei tin dipsa kai tin terpsi tou alkool, tin pamfaga kai sparagmatiki anagnwsi, tin methexi kai tin emetiki grafi pou mas prosehei, mas taizei mas ntynei, mas exoplizei kai mas thwrakizei. Ma isws na en touta oula ta pofagia jai ta popia tis monaxia, oula toyta mazi, ouloi mazi ki o erwtas, opws titloforei ena diigima tou o Skarimpas. Estw kai an e mahes argoun, duktywnontai, kalwdiwnontai, methoun mehri to deal, to final deal na ypo-graphe (empaine christo).
Kales pintes jai kouintes a.m @ this p.m. hour in Ir-e/a-land.
(i) a.m. in ireland
ena prwi, arxes tou avgoustou, exipnisa jai ivra to Doublino eksw pou to parathiro mou. Lion pio katw, sti platia, eshei enan agalma pou onomazete Prick on a Stick. Poios allos? O Joyce me to pastouni tou. (Joyce = Max???) Telos panton, nai eftasa sti xwra tou Joyce, tou Shaw, tou Yeats, tou Guinness jai tou Baileys, tou Beckett jai twn U2, tis Sinead jai tis alithinis IRA. Twra eimai Sligo, epia jai ida ton Yeats, Horseman pass by, katw pou to Ben Bulben, sto radio en o Heaney jai thkiavazi enan poiima tou, trww patates jai pinw tsai, thkiavazw poiimata, sizitw yia poiimata, pinw pints, and that, my friends, is all. I am in a place of idealic mental masturbation. And that (mr. dem) is sometimes all you need (contrary to the song, DA-da-dararaaa).
'I am so happy for these friends I do receive'
13.3.3 Gia na "diavastei" i glwssa tou kallous ws klisi-se-shesi, mallon apaiteitai mia aprokathoristi etoimotita - toulahiston mi ypokeimeni se ypodeixeis, parotrynseis, epiheirimata. Tha mporouse na haraktiristei erwtiki auti i etoimotita, an me ton erwta simainoume ti neusi gia to athlima autoparaitisis kai autoprosforas. Pantws, gia na leitourgisei i empeiria tou fysikou kallous parapemptika, na parapempsei stin prwsopiki amesotita Theou Dhmiourgou, na "diavastei" ws klisi erwtiki Theou Erasti kai Nymfiou tou anthrwpou, o apofasistikos syntelestis den mporei na einai kapoia orthologiki katadeixi tis "simantikis" tou kallous oute i apatili "peithw" twn synaisthimatikwn exarsewn. To anti-keimeno kallos emfanizei ti dynamiki tois prwsopikis klisis se proswpiki shesi sto pedio tis aprosdioristias, opou gennietai i den gennietai (den thrauetai i thwrakis tou egw) kathe pragmatikotita shesis.
Tha yparhoun pantote anthrwpoi pou tha zoun ti mia kai monadiki zwi tous hwris pote na "synantisoun" ton Mozart, ton Van Gogh, ton Kavafi - hwris pote mia glwssa mousikou, zwgrafikou, poiitikou kallous na leitourgisei gia autous "exaifnis" ws klisi erwiki gia methexi tis proswpikis eterotitas (monadikotitas kai anomoiotitas) tou mousourgou, tou zwgrafou, tou poiiti.
13.3.4 Perissotero isws kai apo tin erwtiki empeiria, to kallos ws thelxi vevaiwnei ti shesi ws endehomeno tropo yparxews anypotakton se prokathorismous tis fysis- epitrepei na milame gia ontologia tis shesis. I erwtiki epithymia zwis-ws-shesis eukolotera sygheetai me tis anepignwstes parallaktikes metamfieseis tis sexoualikis enormisis. Enw stin periptwsi tou kallous, estw ki an i thelxi leitourgei me tous orous tis fysikis epithymias methexis-metalipsis-synousias (pws alliws naleitourgisei i enypostati sti fysi yparxi;), paramenei anypotakti i thelxi tou kallous se prokathorismous kai anagkaiotites tis fysis.
Christos Giannaras, Ontologia tis Shesis, Ikaros, 2004
Tha yparhoun pantote anthrwpoi pou tha zoun ti mia kai monadiki zwi tous hwris pote na "synantisoun" ton Mozart, ton Van Gogh, ton Kavafi - hwris pote mia glwssa mousikou, zwgrafikou, poiitikou kallous na leitourgisei gia autous "exaifnis" ws klisi erwiki gia methexi tis proswpikis eterotitas (monadikotitas kai anomoiotitas) tou mousourgou, tou zwgrafou, tou poiiti.
13.3.4 Perissotero isws kai apo tin erwtiki empeiria, to kallos ws thelxi vevaiwnei ti shesi ws endehomeno tropo yparxews anypotakton se prokathorismous tis fysis- epitrepei na milame gia ontologia tis shesis. I erwtiki epithymia zwis-ws-shesis eukolotera sygheetai me tis anepignwstes parallaktikes metamfieseis tis sexoualikis enormisis. Enw stin periptwsi tou kallous, estw ki an i thelxi leitourgei me tous orous tis fysikis epithymias methexis-metalipsis-synousias (pws alliws naleitourgisei i enypostati sti fysi yparxi;), paramenei anypotakti i thelxi tou kallous se prokathorismous kai anagkaiotites tis fysis.
Christos Giannaras, Ontologia tis Shesis, Ikaros, 2004
Monday, August 02, 2004
"Emeis den katoikoume mia hwra, katoikoume mia glwssa"
Multidedicated fragments from a hypertext mind
...ki an epistrefw me tin tromokratia twn dakrywn na me ehei gia ta kala agaliasei stin ygri, zesti, panikovliti hwra, ki an epistrefw me pliges epoulomenes ap' ti ptwsi kai nees pliges ananoihtes pou me tromazoun, an epistrefw drapetis xopaska hwris tis violetes, hwris tis gardenies sou, ma m' apotypomenw sto dromo mou, san tou Leonard Cohen ton stoiho, t' agaliasma sou to hamogelwn, t' agaliasma sou to aylo pou prgmatwnetai tin praxi mesa apo tin ekfora tis -anikete twn amihanwn amihane kai esy tou hronou mastre- pws na epistrepsw sto here otan techno-logika ta daktyla mou mpousouloun, otan ta matia mou se herwnte kai otan sta ftia mou oi lexeis sou me tou whiskey tin aura -ekei anoikwmen, ekei: here, anakoinwste to koinwnwntas ta epi hartou vimata tou hwnemenou kapnou- ximerwnoun ta savvata kai tis defteres mou, kai i giorti kai i skoli xana ehei tin protokathedria, akoma kai stis aggareias to prostagma, akoma kai here, se poiou pia to here na hereafetithw afinwntas me to here, me ta daktyla, to melane na ihnografisei tin frasi "The human heart beautiful as a sesmograph", otan i ygri, zesti, panikovliti tromokratia twn dakrywn, oi ananoihtes pliges me exorizoun stin fygodikia tis kokkinomalas panw apo ton ahnisto kafe, kathws to tsai krywne afougrazwmeno ta tziztzikia. Monaha to here tou hronou tou Ezra Pound isws mporei na metrisei to stavrolexo tou hronou, kathws epistrefwntas epistrefw ex orismou kai chorometrisis stin poiesi kai stin evexapti ypomoni tis: One hour was sunlit and the most high gods / May not make boast of any better thing / Than to have watched that hour as it passed.
Hwris to krataio koinwniko tou kratous, me heria gemata pote nero kai pote ammo, gnwrimoi tou Escape! There is, O Idiot, no escape / (...) / It is our eyes you flee, not the city, epimenw:
Free us, for there is one
Whose smile more availeth
Than all the age-old knowledge of thy books:
And we would look thereon
Xorkizwntas tin ehemytheia tou here 'dear voyagers', fernw pisw tin mihani EOS Parajei D.
...ki an epistrefw me tin tromokratia twn dakrywn na me ehei gia ta kala agaliasei stin ygri, zesti, panikovliti hwra, ki an epistrefw me pliges epoulomenes ap' ti ptwsi kai nees pliges ananoihtes pou me tromazoun, an epistrefw drapetis xopaska hwris tis violetes, hwris tis gardenies sou, ma m' apotypomenw sto dromo mou, san tou Leonard Cohen ton stoiho, t' agaliasma sou to hamogelwn, t' agaliasma sou to aylo pou prgmatwnetai tin praxi mesa apo tin ekfora tis -anikete twn amihanwn amihane kai esy tou hronou mastre- pws na epistrepsw sto here otan techno-logika ta daktyla mou mpousouloun, otan ta matia mou se herwnte kai otan sta ftia mou oi lexeis sou me tou whiskey tin aura -ekei anoikwmen, ekei: here, anakoinwste to koinwnwntas ta epi hartou vimata tou hwnemenou kapnou- ximerwnoun ta savvata kai tis defteres mou, kai i giorti kai i skoli xana ehei tin protokathedria, akoma kai stis aggareias to prostagma, akoma kai here, se poiou pia to here na hereafetithw afinwntas me to here, me ta daktyla, to melane na ihnografisei tin frasi "The human heart beautiful as a sesmograph", otan i ygri, zesti, panikovliti tromokratia twn dakrywn, oi ananoihtes pliges me exorizoun stin fygodikia tis kokkinomalas panw apo ton ahnisto kafe, kathws to tsai krywne afougrazwmeno ta tziztzikia. Monaha to here tou hronou tou Ezra Pound isws mporei na metrisei to stavrolexo tou hronou, kathws epistrefwntas epistrefw ex orismou kai chorometrisis stin poiesi kai stin evexapti ypomoni tis: One hour was sunlit and the most high gods / May not make boast of any better thing / Than to have watched that hour as it passed.
Hwris to krataio koinwniko tou kratous, me heria gemata pote nero kai pote ammo, gnwrimoi tou Escape! There is, O Idiot, no escape / (...) / It is our eyes you flee, not the city, epimenw:
Free us, for there is one
Whose smile more availeth
Than all the age-old knowledge of thy books:
And we would look thereon
Xorkizwntas tin ehemytheia tou here 'dear voyagers', fernw pisw tin mihani EOS Parajei D.
Thursday, July 22, 2004
I monaxia den einai kati pou atimwriti perifroneis*
Na kataloigw na sou grafw Pempti, ahari mera, tis Magdalinis tis Myroforou, entos tis akyrwsis tou hnwtou mou me ton athetimeno logo, afou prospathisa ta matia sou to vrady na gyrisw, Pempti mesimeri, kali wra, tis astohias kai tou perigelou mia vdomada kai enas minas, antilamvanwmenos tin timwria tou fantasmatos pou agnoisa, tou fantasmatos pou me monous syggeneis efera eis peras, agnwontas perifronitika tin mi yli, ohi tin aniliki aylotita, to aithrio mias allis, allwte vradias, kai enos Avgoustou pou stoiheiwnei to kormi mou, ma tin mi yli tis egefalikis logikotitas pou ntythika kai vgika exw, pou ntythika nyhta kai vgika, 'cause I want to see people and I want to see lights. Den enagalizetai -poso mallon angaliazetai- o hronos pou afierwmenos sou harisa, akoma kai se xena kormia, se xena mpoukalia, se nea matia kai nees syntrives (syllavista o Enaretos efere eis peras to glykoharama pou ton etrefe me tin frasi "Kathe mia mia nea efkairia, Kathe mia mia nea syntrivi", etsi hwris telies, ma m'arhes) afou ta panta afiknywntan sto ginwmeno ap' to fantasma pou twra plirwnw. Stin zesti tou Mai, Maybe, kai xereis esy poso latrevw tin antigrafi, tin logoklopi, akoma kai apo tin ekfora tis prwimis idonis tou keimenou, tin klopi diladi tis eaytistikis ekforas tou narkissismou mou, otan i melissa skarfalwnei to throumpi kai to thymari, isws ara, ekei, i ekfora itan to here, pou twra hreonome here, apo here eidiko mou, i prosdiorisi tou aimatos, i taytopoiesi tou diafragmatos kai tis mesis kai katw ap' to laimo anatomias.
Tha antistrafw kai me tis liges lexeis mou, ane thes, tha me vreis koukouli.
Den ehw alles gefseis na riskarw.
*Antreas Christophedis
Tha antistrafw kai me tis liges lexeis mou, ane thes, tha me vreis koukouli.
Den ehw alles gefseis na riskarw.
*Antreas Christophedis
Friday, July 16, 2004
another morning, another scar
'Now some say he's doing
The obituary mambo
And some say he's hanging on the wall
Perhaps this yarn's the only thing
That holds this man together
Some say he was never here at all' - Tom Waits, Swordfishtrombones
Thursday, July 15, 2004
"Nothing that ever happened should be regarded as lost for history."
I istoria einai to antikeimeno mias domis tis opoias o khwros den einai o omoigenes, kenos hronos, ma o hronos o gematos me tin parousia tou twra [Jetztzeit]
Lian sintomos tha anakoinwthei kai i koinopioisi tis pioisis tou elahistou hartinou here eis ta Kypria gia ton vadizwn monodromimenes stoes, panoramata kai Napolitanika sokakia - ton pa|pou tou blog (pou allou, se poio allo here diladi, einai regina to Jetztzeit tou Benjamin pia?)- tou hartinou hartwmatos, tin episimopioisi diladi, tis porias tou a pros ton erwn erwta, to smiximo tou ombiou. Anameinate ara erwn eis tas othones kai eis ta gnwsta oino-alkoolo-kafe-psaro-khwritiria. Pros to paron
Wednesday, July 14, 2004
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
... / Debris d'humanite pour l'eternite murs!
With my mind set on a moving violation
Not least, for Orestis and Sotos
[Eros oudama pilnatai | optais amme]:
(...)
And all the tales of Oisin says but this:
That man doth pass the net of days and hours.
Where time is shrivelled down to time's seed corn
We of the Ever-living, in that light
Meet through our veils and whisper, and of love.
O smoke and shadow of a darkling world,
These, and the rest, and all the rest we knew.
'Tis not a game tat plays at mates and mating,
'Tis not a game of barter, lands and houses,
'Tis not "of days and nights" and troubling years,
Of cheeks grown sunken and glad hair gone gray;
There is the subtle music, the clear light
Where time burns back about th' eternal embers.
We are not shut from all the thousand heavens:
Lo, there are many gods whom we have seen,
Folk of unearthly fashion, places splendid,
Bulwarks of beryl and of chrysoprase.
Saphire Benacus, in thy mist and thee
Nature itself's turned metaphysical,
Who can look on that blue and not believe?
(...)
Search not my lips, O Love, let go my hands,
This thing that moves as man is no more mortal.
If thou hast seen my shade sans character,
If thou hast seen that mirror of all moments,
That glass to all things that o'ershadow it,
Call not that mirror me, for I have slipped
Your grasp, I have eluded.
Ezra Pound, The Flame
[Eros oudama pilnatai | optais amme]:
(...)
And all the tales of Oisin says but this:
That man doth pass the net of days and hours.
Where time is shrivelled down to time's seed corn
We of the Ever-living, in that light
Meet through our veils and whisper, and of love.
O smoke and shadow of a darkling world,
These, and the rest, and all the rest we knew.
'Tis not a game tat plays at mates and mating,
'Tis not a game of barter, lands and houses,
'Tis not "of days and nights" and troubling years,
Of cheeks grown sunken and glad hair gone gray;
There is the subtle music, the clear light
Where time burns back about th' eternal embers.
We are not shut from all the thousand heavens:
Lo, there are many gods whom we have seen,
Folk of unearthly fashion, places splendid,
Bulwarks of beryl and of chrysoprase.
Saphire Benacus, in thy mist and thee
Nature itself's turned metaphysical,
Who can look on that blue and not believe?
(...)
Search not my lips, O Love, let go my hands,
This thing that moves as man is no more mortal.
If thou hast seen my shade sans character,
If thou hast seen that mirror of all moments,
That glass to all things that o'ershadow it,
Call not that mirror me, for I have slipped
Your grasp, I have eluded.
Ezra Pound, The Flame
Monday, July 12, 2004
Nil Nil
Afou san ton Hamlet monologw entos mou to 'All is not well', stin zesti tis apnois Khoras, me ton thoryvo 'toso' (leme twra) pou na apotrepei tin katavithisi, daneizomenos ton kranoihto fako tou Don Paterson psahnw to score, to apanthisma -kai ohi to apotelesma- opou his suffocated voice resumes / its dreary innuendo: /there are other ways to leave the room / than the door and the window, synkrevatwmeno plithos tou 1991, tou 1996, tou 1998 -me to soundtrack sou, still, na min katalietai (gia poso kairo akoma tha anavlizeis paranalwma;)- Twra pou o nous apagorevetai kai oi wres den gyrizoun, ki etsi menoun uncredited, mi hreomenes, here [thymomaste, thymomaste - tou Benjamin eggonia den eimaste, tin klironomia tou den lygourevomaste san asimwma se gamo 'one-off', methysmenes nyhtes stous epipedous eautokinitodromous tou Skourtikou Bar: Pou na exigw ston kathe malaka oti gia mena to bar einai isihastirio, therapeutirio, diaskedastirio, erwteutirio kai chrimatistirio.- mono ti krima ti krima ti krima pou to 'neolliniko bar- kati pou ontws didramatise simantiko rolo stin diamorfwsi tou metahountikou fronimatos' (K. Papagiwrgis) oute axinostrafa, oute metamorfwmeno oute eide tous eidikous mas post-1974 dromous-) katevenw tin Parthenonos, strivw dexia stin Verdi kai stekw mpros ap'ta misa kai ap'ta teleftaia spitia, ta spitia ta isopala, me to kokkino vivlviaraki, me to galazio vivliaraki, me to mbez vivliaraki, me to mble vivliaraki, me to lefko vivliaraki, ta vivliarakia stenografimenwn katathesewn, kai agnantevw ta kathilwmena aeroplana.
A hundred times we've had the chance
to leave, but stick together;
now there's a dead ache in my joints
like a terrible change in the weather.
A hundred times we've had the chance
to leave, but stick together;
now there's a dead ache in my joints
like a terrible change in the weather.
Sunday, July 11, 2004
Friday, July 09, 2004
----oVo
The hell of Northern Paris - Roubaix
The Cote d'Azur and Saint Tropez
The Alps and the Pyrenees
Last stage Champs-Elysees
Galibier and Tourmalet
Dancing even on the top
Bicycling at high gear
Final sprint at the finish
Flat tire on the paving-stones
The bicycle is repaired quickly
The peloton is regrouped
Comrades and friendship
Kraftwerk 'Tour De France 03'
Tuesday, July 06, 2004
Thou restless, ungathered; drwmena resta
Moaneth alway my mind's lust
That I fare forth, that I afar hence
Seek out a foreign fastness
That I fare forth, that I afar hence
Seek out a foreign fastness
Monday, July 05, 2004
1/ theografia
N.B. Parakaleite o kyrios christos hadjigiannis na fwnaxei to synthima to opoion emeteferen eis eme o aderfos mou epses (jeinon pou eshei na kamei -intertextually- me to europaiko orama (vision) tou polypathous apoktinwmenou politismikou pterygiou eis to opoin episis anoikwmen. Oi gia tipote allo, ma para mono gia tin daktylodeixi tis stithografias, tis pneumonologias tis seiomenis - o men eklwthetoun, o de evouran.
Ate jai kanei me to euro (eshei tour de france twra)-!
Friday, July 02, 2004
Ooh la la! (or OCLV, if you may)
(fysika gia synaisthimatikous kai aisthitikous logous egw eimai me tin Bianchi - alla twra na doume)
Ate pale re "GamOTO" *! (Aformi Voitha)
Aidonolalie stithos mou prin to spathi se shisei D. Solwmos
Hronika tiariasta ws motto apo kai stin "Tyhi Defteri" (tou KarOUZOU vevaiws vevaiws) ma jai credo pleon gia allo ena mat-ch, peran tis perigrafikis idiotitas pou prosdidetai se totutin tin "Nea Prosefhi", pou epithymei stithoi aihmira m' aiwnio kalesma / plymirismena nyhta kai onomatizei akrivws tin zali (to CNN eipen to prwi: 'And if you are Greek - what on earth are you doing up this time of the day watching this show? You should be in bed nursing that massive hangover.') pou omws idi arhise na vrwma psofio me ta tilegrafimata, tis proskliseis, tis anakoinwseis, tous parthenwnes, ta kallimarmara kai tous promahwnes (alla here toy-la-histon o erwtas einai katavythismenos ston ourano kai tin asfalto kai tanapalin, grizoprasini peskandritsa prwinou tharous kai kataidrwmenes kleidwseis ton katw kai ton anw akrwn - f(t)ou! na min vaskanthoume)Ta oneira vlastoi stos stithos / klimata mesa stin kardia / diaiwnia ekdikountai to hwma / skotwnoun emas..
Jetzzeit-Danke!
*O monolektikos titlos tis ellinikis athlitikis efimeridas To Fws simera.
Saturday, June 26, 2004
OPLAYS! (palamakia)
Gia tous (apo aristera pros dexia) Oresti, Soto, Jester, Christaki, Mihali, Sannie (?), Christo kai ton Kwsti ton psisti.
Friday, June 25, 2004
Clang (to drop a - n.)
I Istoria einai megalo koumasi
poniroteri apo kathe nomoteleia.
Gia na thymithoume ton Lexithrisko mes toytin tin apaihtin kolijiasmeni pyra, hamw-gelwntas vouritoi stis ahvlades jai tis elanes (hihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihi!!!!!!!!)
Wednesday, June 23, 2004
11
Gia tin Athina, tin Stockholmi, to Londino, to mystiko Parisi, tin Istanbul kai fysika tin Lisboa, mes tin Hwra; here Dioti egw thymame agapi mou me ta podia prwta, ki ystera me ta a-sykwta matia. Ma prwta me ta podia- Na to thymase!
the ghost is lost wie heisst der geist
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one step
at a time in AA]
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'So here I am in the middle way'...
einai to adeio pou milaei me veveotita, ax poso tou aresei na ethelovlepei- to afirimeno tis idonis periploko ifasma, agwnos fthogos, to pareksigimeno, to tosoda
wres wres polles ksekinw tou peripatous, asfaltinoi kipoi me iakinthous pou anthisan vamvakia ke xrwma apo to 'tha deis!' sou, sta deksia mou ke sta aristera mou einai - telika - agapanthoi pou fitrwsan
xronia ke xronia istera skalizw tous stixous mas ke ekliparw na egirna konta sou prin makrinoun ola.
POUR PURIFIER LE PAROLE (parisi, genaris 2004)
einai to adeio pou milaei me veveotita, ax poso tou aresei na ethelovlepei- to afirimeno tis idonis periploko ifasma, agwnos fthogos, to pareksigimeno, to tosoda
wres wres polles ksekinw tou peripatous, asfaltinoi kipoi me iakinthous pou anthisan vamvakia ke xrwma apo to 'tha deis!' sou, sta deksia mou ke sta aristera mou einai - telika - agapanthoi pou fitrwsan
xronia ke xronia istera skalizw tous stixous mas ke ekliparw na egirna konta sou prin makrinoun ola.
POUR PURIFIER LE PAROLE (parisi, genaris 2004)
Tuesday, June 22, 2004
melan holi kai krya
Thymamai mia nyhta pou 'hes pei 'Eheis stavrwsei kosmo esy-Tha meineis xenos' /
Kai sai koitousa san paidi pou kapoios tou pe to giati fysaei o aeras sti zwi tou agriemenos
Kai sai koitousa san paidi pou kapoios tou pe to giati fysaei o aeras sti zwi tou agriemenos
Monday, June 21, 2004
Μνήμη Μάγκα (+6/06/2004)
Στην εναρμόνισι της ηδονής ξεχνά κανείς τις μαστιγώσεις
Της βιοπάλης και της μοίρας.
Α. Εμπειρίκος
Του Ορέστη, του Σωτήρη, του Πάρη, της Χριστίνας, της Ελένης, του Αλέξανδρου, της Emelie, της Μaren, του Στράτη, της Λάρας, του Κωστή, ...
Είναι νύχτες απογοητευτικές. Κι είναι και νύχτες που τελειώνουν απογοητευτικά. Ειδικά όταν δεν βρίσκεις, ξέροντας πως ποτέ δεν θα βρεις πια, τον βραστό μέτριο καφέ σου, χάραμα, στη Χώρα. Όταν η νύχτα με την απογοήτευση την πνιγμένη σε κερασμένη αλκοόλη, απαντά το ξημέρωμα του θανατηφόρου ανακοινωθέν. Του θανατηφόρου ανακοινωθέν όχι ενός φίλου, ενός συνομήλικου, ενός γνωστού, μα μιας δεκαετίας βιωμένης, και άλλων δύο καταγραμμένων, καταραμένων δεκαετιών - και βαλε- χρονιές άκρατης και αιώνιας εφηβείας που θέλησε άξαφνα, όσο και προβλεπτά, ο Χάρος να στις πάρει. Ποιος θα ξεχάσει αγαπημένοι φίλοι τα πρωινά μετά από τις τεκίλες τα ουίσκια και τις μπίρες, τους γελαστούς καφέδες, ποιος θα ξεχάσει αγαπημένη μου φίλη τον καφέ με τρέμουλο μετά την σούπα, ποιος θα ξεχάσει την φωτιά εκείνη στην απέναντι ταβέρνα έντεκα η ώρα το πρωί με τα μπουλούκια και τα περιπολικά με τα αναψυκτικά στο χέρι, και ποιος, ποιος μπορεί, να ξεχάσει τις μεταμεσονύχτιες επισκέψεις, με κλοπιμαία πούρα, Σκανδιναβία, ποδόσφαιρο και βουτηγμένο στ’ αίματα χαμόγελο στο Καφενείο του Μάγκα. Στο ΚΑΦΕΝΕΙΟ ΤΟΥ ΜΑΓΚΑ, στο καφενείο του Γιώργου Ιωαννίδη, που μέχρι το τέλος σέρβιρε σκέτους και βραστούς γλυκύς στα σπίτια της Οδού Σούτσου στην Παλιά Λευκωσία, τσάι και μέτριους στους εργαζόμενους στην Δημοτική Αγορά, και εγερτήριους, ιαματικά ηδονικούς καφέδες στα αλκοολικά μάτια των φίλων και αγνώστων που ξενυχτούσαν σε μπαρ εντός και εκτός των τειχών για μέρες, για μήνες, για δεκαετίες.
Και να σου μια νύχτα- απογοητευτική, σαν όλες οι άλλες οι προηγούμενες- ξάφνου, αντί με το ενθαρρυντικό χαμόγελο, τσουπ!. τελειώνει με το άπιστο Όχι Ρε! Και ανακαλύπτεις, μάλλον αντιλαμβάνεσαι, μπρος από την πρόσφατα τοιχοκολλημένη πένθιμη ανακοίνωση- δεν πάνε δυο βδομάδες- πως το Super-8 film, οι λιγοστές φωτογραφίες, τα ένα-δύο άρθρα τα τελευταία 25 χρόνια, είναι τα μόνα - μαζί με την ολιγόχρονη τοπική μνήμη- που θα θυμούνται την γεύση της χαραυγής και του άφιλτρου τσιγάρου στην εντός των τειχών Λευκωσία, την Λευκωσία των πούλμαν, των γκρουπ, των executives, πια, το καφενείο του Μάγκα, την ψιθυριστή κραυγή, 4 η ώρα τα μεσάνυχτα, με το βεβαρημένο παθητικό απ’ το ουίσκι και τις μπίρες, οδοιπόροι, «Πάμεν στο Μάγκα να πιούμεν κανέναν καφέ;»
Αιωνία σου η Μνήμη, Μάστρε Γιώρκο.
Της βιοπάλης και της μοίρας.
Α. Εμπειρίκος
Του Ορέστη, του Σωτήρη, του Πάρη, της Χριστίνας, της Ελένης, του Αλέξανδρου, της Emelie, της Μaren, του Στράτη, της Λάρας, του Κωστή, ...
Είναι νύχτες απογοητευτικές. Κι είναι και νύχτες που τελειώνουν απογοητευτικά. Ειδικά όταν δεν βρίσκεις, ξέροντας πως ποτέ δεν θα βρεις πια, τον βραστό μέτριο καφέ σου, χάραμα, στη Χώρα. Όταν η νύχτα με την απογοήτευση την πνιγμένη σε κερασμένη αλκοόλη, απαντά το ξημέρωμα του θανατηφόρου ανακοινωθέν. Του θανατηφόρου ανακοινωθέν όχι ενός φίλου, ενός συνομήλικου, ενός γνωστού, μα μιας δεκαετίας βιωμένης, και άλλων δύο καταγραμμένων, καταραμένων δεκαετιών - και βαλε- χρονιές άκρατης και αιώνιας εφηβείας που θέλησε άξαφνα, όσο και προβλεπτά, ο Χάρος να στις πάρει. Ποιος θα ξεχάσει αγαπημένοι φίλοι τα πρωινά μετά από τις τεκίλες τα ουίσκια και τις μπίρες, τους γελαστούς καφέδες, ποιος θα ξεχάσει αγαπημένη μου φίλη τον καφέ με τρέμουλο μετά την σούπα, ποιος θα ξεχάσει την φωτιά εκείνη στην απέναντι ταβέρνα έντεκα η ώρα το πρωί με τα μπουλούκια και τα περιπολικά με τα αναψυκτικά στο χέρι, και ποιος, ποιος μπορεί, να ξεχάσει τις μεταμεσονύχτιες επισκέψεις, με κλοπιμαία πούρα, Σκανδιναβία, ποδόσφαιρο και βουτηγμένο στ’ αίματα χαμόγελο στο Καφενείο του Μάγκα. Στο ΚΑΦΕΝΕΙΟ ΤΟΥ ΜΑΓΚΑ, στο καφενείο του Γιώργου Ιωαννίδη, που μέχρι το τέλος σέρβιρε σκέτους και βραστούς γλυκύς στα σπίτια της Οδού Σούτσου στην Παλιά Λευκωσία, τσάι και μέτριους στους εργαζόμενους στην Δημοτική Αγορά, και εγερτήριους, ιαματικά ηδονικούς καφέδες στα αλκοολικά μάτια των φίλων και αγνώστων που ξενυχτούσαν σε μπαρ εντός και εκτός των τειχών για μέρες, για μήνες, για δεκαετίες.
Και να σου μια νύχτα- απογοητευτική, σαν όλες οι άλλες οι προηγούμενες- ξάφνου, αντί με το ενθαρρυντικό χαμόγελο, τσουπ!. τελειώνει με το άπιστο Όχι Ρε! Και ανακαλύπτεις, μάλλον αντιλαμβάνεσαι, μπρος από την πρόσφατα τοιχοκολλημένη πένθιμη ανακοίνωση- δεν πάνε δυο βδομάδες- πως το Super-8 film, οι λιγοστές φωτογραφίες, τα ένα-δύο άρθρα τα τελευταία 25 χρόνια, είναι τα μόνα - μαζί με την ολιγόχρονη τοπική μνήμη- που θα θυμούνται την γεύση της χαραυγής και του άφιλτρου τσιγάρου στην εντός των τειχών Λευκωσία, την Λευκωσία των πούλμαν, των γκρουπ, των executives, πια, το καφενείο του Μάγκα, την ψιθυριστή κραυγή, 4 η ώρα τα μεσάνυχτα, με το βεβαρημένο παθητικό απ’ το ουίσκι και τις μπίρες, οδοιπόροι, «Πάμεν στο Μάγκα να πιούμεν κανέναν καφέ;»
Αιωνία σου η Μνήμη, Μάστρε Γιώρκο.
Wednesday, June 16, 2004
rejoyce!
as kremastei loipon, opios metewros ixos stin karntarompa tou pantote ekei (mas) stixou. bloomsday - a fine day to exit - 'one by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age' exit to another race - gamw tin ratsa mou -
but remember
'welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race'
gamw tin ratsa mou!
ews to telos, epitelous - mia sagliki simiwsi sto vivliopwleio: 'phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pahrce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish'
shut those blinds
so that you cant see
read finnegan's wake
and drink koniakin
!'Unsheathe your dagger definitions.'
DEAR DIRTY CYPRUS
Bloooooooooom!Days
...because you have been straying with no other company than the endless roads, sands, shingle, bogs amd hether, than this nature answerable to another court, than at long intervals the fellow convict you long to stop, embrace, suck, suckle and whom you pass by, with hostile eyes, for fear of his familiarities?
Beckett, Molloy
Teleftaia Efihta apo tin No-r-thington Street, WC1N 2NT - Archeka Eklektika Molloyita apo ta Joy-ceka, apo ta pleasure figs (O! Deadalus) tis essoexoristis nomadografias. Afinw Ygeian, Efhes, Pina, Dipsa, Geloklama, Akousmata kai Opseis stous apo toude kai sto exis, erwn exitarismenous en Londinou, Aggleteras kai pasis apoikiokratias Cut-oikous tou ombiou, tetoian perifimi mera, tetoian voutihtomera, pou apo ton topo kanoume makrovouti gia tin chora; xana, loipon, o siwpilos kanhazwn synodoiporos tou joyrtari,like so many citizens, dreaming and farting dioti What I'd like now is to speak of the things that are left, say my goodbyes, finish dying.
Beckett, Molloy
Teleftaia Efihta apo tin No-r-thington Street, WC1N 2NT - Archeka Eklektika Molloyita apo ta Joy-ceka, apo ta pleasure figs (O! Deadalus) tis essoexoristis nomadografias. Afinw Ygeian, Efhes, Pina, Dipsa, Geloklama, Akousmata kai Opseis stous apo toude kai sto exis, erwn exitarismenous en Londinou, Aggleteras kai pasis apoikiokratias Cut-oikous tou ombiou, tetoian perifimi mera, tetoian voutihtomera, pou apo ton topo kanoume makrovouti gia tin chora; xana, loipon, o siwpilos kanhazwn synodoiporos tou joyrtari,like so many citizens, dreaming and farting dioti What I'd like now is to speak of the things that are left, say my goodbyes, finish dying.
Monday, June 14, 2004
Nai, paradexome oti ws twra ethkiavasa monon tes prwtes 20 selides tou Ulysses. Kai avrio tha arxisw tin 21h. Ws tote omws, emena kamnei mou to cartoon.
grothies pou efage to simantiko ap' to asimanto...
Find Victoria's Husband (I keep forgeting his name - he is the guy who drinks pepsi on tv... oh! anyway, who will remeber him anyway give or take two or three more years. By the way that was his second consecutive failure in international football - hehehe!)
Sunday, June 13, 2004
Petit Homage to a Privateer Velorurtion (You Will Never Walk Alone)
Simera kapoios skatoshylompastrtos gios tis poutanas ekopsen tin kleidonian tou podilatou mou jai eklepsen mou, stin pio polytimi stigmi, to pleon polytimo mou tairi. GAMW TIN RATSAN TOU JAI JAME POU EN NA TON KOPSW EN NA TON MASHEROSW OSPOU NA PETHANEI! Ma xerw pws mallon gai panta ehas to Genesis O1 Ridgeback mou, pou eskwtothika mazi tou, epirwsa mazi tou, eipia jai efaa mazi tou, to teras - my monster pou persi to kalojairi epienamen mazi pou to South Bank stin New Division jai pou to French House sta Kala Kathoumena, pou me tin pou fanella i to rige poukamiso ediashizamen patimenoi tous dromou mprosta apo cowboys tis asfaltou jai dipla apo couriers me joints. Jai 4 meres prin na epistrepsw ston Kypro, me to podilato, me shedia gia fanelles-praxeis stous dromous tis Hwras, to podilato mou tha poulithei klemeno misotimis jai efkairia mallon se kapoio kolopaido pou to Shoreditch i to Bethnal Green pou kathe 3 lexeis pou ftynei- dioti den arthrwnei- i mia en 'cool' jai kathe 10 i 11i en 'Dig you'. Ston Vilo mou! Ston Velo mou! To podilato mou - to podilato pou emoirastika pastis, krasi, whiskey, psaria, drwma, ladia, aima, vivlia, mpolika vivlia, pswnia kai metamesonuhties ypergies varkades sto Westminister, sto Waterloo, ston Taktakala jai sto Metohi tou Kykou- having departed -dioti hwris ton kavalari tou den noite kavalimeno podilato - kai o defteros idioktitis einai afto: defteros, ftero ston anemo pou palevei na symfiliwthei me to genetisiourgo velo, kai etsi, palestis anagkastika paremenei hristis kai pote erastis tou astikou kai proastikou thavmatos tis velorution; diladi podilato en synousia ginwmeno, en mesw parts pantote more than one (kai ohi omws lees than one -defteros etymologika analymenos)- ehei anahwrisei, ws idi mnimosyno (mnimo+no), kratwntas endomyha ta hnaria tis lithografias mias zwis - i 11 minwn, adiaforo- pros tin stilvwn anaptyxi twn podilatwn, pros ton parakeimeno, ton ypersynteliko tis knimis, tin Velorution, tin Podiloana(s)tasi.
Having never been good in farewelss, not me, not myself really, proslamvanw moirofores na se katevwdosoun ka na sou poun kales gyres sta londina. If I had more time, trust me, I would have searched for you. I need to go now...before the eyes spasmodically wet the lids and the throat, no less, stiff, as the lips, utter a 'never mind', a 'fuck you', a 'fare (thee) well'...
So, Hatless, I take off my clips (Larkin)
Saturday, June 12, 2004
Christo: Joyrnas! (NewDivision.-)
[ I apeneho-poiesi tou fou-rbou meta apo 30+ hronoia (for those who remember, or those who are remembering, : tsonta mballa kai kopana) OR giati me Ricard kai mpyres egw jai oarfos mou efyrtikame sta gelia en mesw Portogalwn syn-teknwn sto Shoreditch, kathws proseggizoume pros-araxi(Voila! Ena thema gia to opio o Aranitsis - i o Kyprios Aranitsis (edw spourtate)- tha mporouse na penograpsei 500 lexoudes (Mba!!!!!)
'Lepto/Meries...]
Alla i zwntani yli, ayti pou ypokeitai sto shedio tou hronou, pashei prwtistws viologika, pashei apo girateia, apo trella, apo mataiodoxia kai, telika, san yli pou einai gia tis parenergeies tis agapis gia ton eauto tis. To ergo [tou Karouzou] ypirxe mia exonyhistiki anazitisi tou noimatos aytis tis astheneias, tis swmatikis astheneias, se shesi pros tin opoia i agwnia einai mono to akathoristo psyhiko isodynamo. (...) (T)hewritika, o thwrakas antistihei se oti pio polytimo, ena kelyfos mesa sto opoio fylagetai i kardia pou einai to symvolo kathe psyhikis thermotitas, kathws kai ta pneumonia pou einai to fysero tis zwis kai , metaforika, i pigi kathe pnois, kathe empneysis, tou idiou tou Logou. Ki akoma o thwraks einai i amyna, opws dilwnei i etymologia tou, einai mia aspida. O Karouzos,antitheta, thewrouse to stithos san kati pou epanastatouse diarkws, san symmaho tou thanatou, san shima enos anamesa sti donisi tou perasmatos tou hronou kai ti swmatiki dyspnoia, tin adynamia twn pneymonwn na leitourgisoun, les kai ayta tha itan ygii mono an katorthwnan na eispneysoun memias olo to noima tou kosmou kai na ekpneysoun, en syneheia, olo to aghos pou pigazei apo ayto to noima: to stithos - to stithos, ohi to myalo- itan [gia ton Karouzo] i periohi opou grafetai i poiisi ws fwni diamartyrias enantia ston hrono.
Evgenios Aranitsis, To Ainigma tis Agapis; I Agapi gia ta Ainigmata, Gia ton Niko Karouzo, 1996: 85
'Lepto/Meries...]
Alla i zwntani yli, ayti pou ypokeitai sto shedio tou hronou, pashei prwtistws viologika, pashei apo girateia, apo trella, apo mataiodoxia kai, telika, san yli pou einai gia tis parenergeies tis agapis gia ton eauto tis. To ergo [tou Karouzou] ypirxe mia exonyhistiki anazitisi tou noimatos aytis tis astheneias, tis swmatikis astheneias, se shesi pros tin opoia i agwnia einai mono to akathoristo psyhiko isodynamo. (...) (T)hewritika, o thwrakas antistihei se oti pio polytimo, ena kelyfos mesa sto opoio fylagetai i kardia pou einai to symvolo kathe psyhikis thermotitas, kathws kai ta pneumonia pou einai to fysero tis zwis kai , metaforika, i pigi kathe pnois, kathe empneysis, tou idiou tou Logou. Ki akoma o thwraks einai i amyna, opws dilwnei i etymologia tou, einai mia aspida. O Karouzos,antitheta, thewrouse to stithos san kati pou epanastatouse diarkws, san symmaho tou thanatou, san shima enos anamesa sti donisi tou perasmatos tou hronou kai ti swmatiki dyspnoia, tin adynamia twn pneymonwn na leitourgisoun, les kai ayta tha itan ygii mono an katorthwnan na eispneysoun memias olo to noima tou kosmou kai na ekpneysoun, en syneheia, olo to aghos pou pigazei apo ayto to noima: to stithos - to stithos, ohi to myalo- itan [gia ton Karouzo] i periohi opou grafetai i poiisi ws fwni diamartyrias enantia ston hrono.
Evgenios Aranitsis, To Ainigma tis Agapis; I Agapi gia ta Ainigmata, Gia ton Niko Karouzo, 1996: 85
Thursday, June 10, 2004
Wednesday, June 09, 2004
ZITW OI MESAIES TAX|SEIS ! (If we are to have a martyr then a blow must be delivered)
Aidiasmenoi, mbouhtismenoi, mperdemenoi, shedon pisthagkwna demenli, apo ta psemata kai tis fenakes tis foveris etoutis epohis, always already still wo/men of scissors and paste me to reading, to diavazein, to peripatitko paignion tis plexias- afou mas leipei i plexouda tha anti-milisei i ntivanalysi, kai ironika, estw monodromika, tha tis gelasoume, prin kryfa klamouristoume- teleftaies meres tou hronou, arche tis epi-strofis, kai tou epi-strepsimou, entos tou therous, pou an xanapistepsoume ton Empeiriko, einai panta pothos - kai se tetoies peri-ptwseis kala kai e-thika ta apofthegmata estin, afou apo estias dedilwmenis eimasten sterimenoi (na nai toytoi i arche tou hidden thread toutou tou ombiou, toytoy tou erwn nomadodiaaporetologikou sym-plegmatos, pou syn-krateite, tropos tou legein, to prwi me kafe kai tsai, me krasi ki whiskey-stis hwres kai stis wres pou o ilios kanei volta ston eiriniko- me ouza stis hwres ka stis wres pou to melaniasma den einai apla mavrisma, syn-plegmatos akrivws inkofwrou)- enas peripatws, meses-akres, klaiwntas, dyo-treia pramata *lehozouthkia apsa, kanoun tin stoihiwdi tous emfanisi stin semanticotita tou enthymimatos frikis tis -as mou epitrapei i terpsi- mythoviwsis, estw kai me enikoio, sto adekasto keno, afou i Istoria fysika / den mas perimenei / stin stasi tou trolley, syshetizwntas melanotites, heri me heri me to grafein, pou prepei na ftasei pia stin exagriwsi, pernwntas afovoi apo nekrotafeio nykta, me ear, krasaki amerimno, xehasmeni taftotita stin nefelourgia, ormataizwmenoi tin mi-oramatikotita, apantwtas sta elki tis ideologias egw-den-eimai, "...at least three things. These three things concern precisely this thing that is called spirit. As soon as one no longers distinguishes spirit from specter, the former asumes a body, it incarnates itself, as spirit, in the specter. Or rather, as Marx himself spells out, ..., the specter is a paradoxical incorporation, the becoming-body, a certain phenomenal and carnal form of the spirit. It becomes, rather, some "thing" that remains difficult to name: neither soul nor body, and both one and the other. For it is fleshand phenomenolity that give to the spirit its spectral apparition, but which dissapear right away in the apparition, in the very coming of the revenant or the return of the specter. There is something disappearead, departed in the apparition itself as reapparition of the departed. The spirit, the specter are not the same thing, and we will have to sharpen this difference; but as for they have in common, one does not know what it is, what it is presently. It is something that one does not know, precisely, and one does not know if precisely it is, if it exists, if it responds to a name and correspnds to an essence. One does not know: not out of ignorance, but because this non-object, this non-present present, this being-there of an absent or departed one no longer belongs to knowledge. At least no longer to that which one thinks one knows by the name of knowledge. One does not know if it is living or if it is dead. Here is - or rather there is, over there, an unnameable or almost unnameable thing: something, between something and someone, anyone or anything, some thing, "this thing", but this thing and not any other, this thing that looks at us, that concerns us, comes to defy semantics as much as ontology, psychoanalysis as much as philosophy. The Thing is still invisible, it is nothing visible at the moment one speaks of it and in order to ask oneself if ot has reappeared. It is still nothing that can be seen when one speaks of it (...) Nor does one see in flesh and blood this Thing that is not a thing, this thing that is invisible between its apparitions, when it appears. This Thing meanwhile looks at us and sees us not see it even when it is there. A spectral assymetry interrupts here all specularity. It de-synchronizes, it recalls us to anachrony (...) Here anachrony makes the law. To feel ourselves seen by a look which it will always be impossible to cross, that is the visor effect on the basis of which we inherit from the law. Since we do not see the one who sees us and who makes the law, who delivers the injuction (...) we can not identify it in all certainity, we must fall back on its voice. (...) An eseentially blind submission to his secret, to the secret of his origin: this is a first obedience to the injuction. It will condition all the others. It may always be a case of still someone else. Another can always lie, he can disguise himself as a ghost, another ghost may also be passing himself off for this one. It's always possible (...)
Repetition and first time: this is perhaps the question of the event as question of the ghost. What is a ghost? What is the effectivety of the presence of the specter, that is of what seems to remain as innefective, virtual, insubstantial as simulacrum? Is there, there, between the thing itself and its simulacrum, an opposition that hold up? Repetition and first time, but also repetition and last time, since the singularity of any first time makes of it also a last time. (...) One cannot control its comings and goings because it begins by coming back (...)
What seems almost impossiible is to speak always of the specter, to speak to the specter, to speak with it, therefore especially to make or let a spirit speak. (...)There has never been a scholar who really, and as a scholar, deals with ghosts. A traditional scholar does not beleive in ghosts - nor in all that could be called the virtualspace of spectrality. There has never been a scholar who, as such, does not believe in the sharp distinction between the real and the unreal, the actual and the inactual, the living and the non-living, being and non-being,in the opposition between what is present and what is not, for example in the form of objectivity. Beyond this opposition, there is, for the scholar, only the hypothesis of a school of thought, theatrical fiction, literature, and speculation. If we were to refer uniquely to this traditional figure of the "scholar", we would therefore have to be wary here of what we could define as the illusion, the mystification, or the complex of Marcellus [Hamlet] (...) Marcellus was perhaps anticipating [Thou art a Scholer -speake to it]the coming, one day, one night, several centuries later, of another "scholar". The latter would finally be capable, beyond the opposition between presence and non-presence, actuality and inactuality, life and non-life, of thinking of the possibility of the specter, the specter as possibility. Better (or worse) he would know how to address himself to spirits. He would know that such an address is not only already possible, but that it will have at all times conditioned, as such, address in general.
(...)
It will always be a fault not to read and reread and discuss Marx - which is to say also a few others- and go beyond scholarly "reading" or "discusssion". It will be more and more a fault, a failing of theoretical, philosophical, political responsibility. When the dogma machine and the "Marxist" ideological apparatuses (State, parties, cells, unions, and other places of doctrinal production) are in the process of disapearing, we no longer have any excuse, only alibis, for turning away from this responsibility. There will be no future without this. Not without Marx, without the memory and the inheritance of Marx: in any case of a certain Marx, of his genius, of at least one of his spirits. For this will be our hypothesis or rather our bias: there is more than one of them, there must be more than one of them.
[Jacques Derrida, Specters of Marx]
Evlogimenos o mainomenos en onomati mystiriou
synwstizomeni monaxia pros enan
esperantismo tis ontotitas
Me oti arthrwneis to Pragmati to exarthrwneis
[Nikos Karouzos, apo ti syllogi Faretrion 1981 - gia ton polewn ton pleon kontino toiho.]
Repetition and first time: this is perhaps the question of the event as question of the ghost. What is a ghost? What is the effectivety of the presence of the specter, that is of what seems to remain as innefective, virtual, insubstantial as simulacrum? Is there, there, between the thing itself and its simulacrum, an opposition that hold up? Repetition and first time, but also repetition and last time, since the singularity of any first time makes of it also a last time. (...) One cannot control its comings and goings because it begins by coming back (...)
What seems almost impossiible is to speak always of the specter, to speak to the specter, to speak with it, therefore especially to make or let a spirit speak. (...)There has never been a scholar who really, and as a scholar, deals with ghosts. A traditional scholar does not beleive in ghosts - nor in all that could be called the virtualspace of spectrality. There has never been a scholar who, as such, does not believe in the sharp distinction between the real and the unreal, the actual and the inactual, the living and the non-living, being and non-being,in the opposition between what is present and what is not, for example in the form of objectivity. Beyond this opposition, there is, for the scholar, only the hypothesis of a school of thought, theatrical fiction, literature, and speculation. If we were to refer uniquely to this traditional figure of the "scholar", we would therefore have to be wary here of what we could define as the illusion, the mystification, or the complex of Marcellus [Hamlet] (...) Marcellus was perhaps anticipating [Thou art a Scholer -speake to it]the coming, one day, one night, several centuries later, of another "scholar". The latter would finally be capable, beyond the opposition between presence and non-presence, actuality and inactuality, life and non-life, of thinking of the possibility of the specter, the specter as possibility. Better (or worse) he would know how to address himself to spirits. He would know that such an address is not only already possible, but that it will have at all times conditioned, as such, address in general.
(...)
It will always be a fault not to read and reread and discuss Marx - which is to say also a few others- and go beyond scholarly "reading" or "discusssion". It will be more and more a fault, a failing of theoretical, philosophical, political responsibility. When the dogma machine and the "Marxist" ideological apparatuses (State, parties, cells, unions, and other places of doctrinal production) are in the process of disapearing, we no longer have any excuse, only alibis, for turning away from this responsibility. There will be no future without this. Not without Marx, without the memory and the inheritance of Marx: in any case of a certain Marx, of his genius, of at least one of his spirits. For this will be our hypothesis or rather our bias: there is more than one of them, there must be more than one of them.
[Jacques Derrida, Specters of Marx]
Evlogimenos o mainomenos en onomati mystiriou
synwstizomeni monaxia pros enan
esperantismo tis ontotitas
Me oti arthrwneis to Pragmati to exarthrwneis
[Nikos Karouzos, apo ti syllogi Faretrion 1981 - gia ton polewn ton pleon kontino toiho.]
Thursday, June 03, 2004
The Home('s)coming
Alla, alla paflazan sta akrodaktyla. Alla melanizw meronyhta nifalios potis twn grammwn, ki alla i tromolagna, ein' alitheia, i kardoula mou toumparei, kai toumparetai, peristrefwmeni mesaexw kai exwmesa apo to paihnidi. Pws na 'pistrepsei, pou na pistepsei, i melana holi mou, pou zestenetai sto kryo me gallika ampelia kai portogalika akrogialia, poio fws na antikrisei st' alitheia - xypnios touti ti fwra, kai m' antitheti katefthinsi apo ta prin, apo ta prin tis tequilas, ta prin tou whiskey, ta prin tou lefkou krasiou kai tou ouzou- i pollaplotita mas -We am always already after all- ekei pou ta tsigara den einai gamwto mou thespesia, sublime, ma nevrosiko ypokatastato, ekei pou i ethelotyflia pernietai, dyo fores gamwto mou, gia telescopismos, pou i glwssa - gynaika, syntrofos kai erwmeni misiti stin psixi tis isihias, tis pafsis to psythirisma anadelfi, koumera koutsompwla ex anhistias- einai elipes metro ma sta 'kojina', kai etsi anampoumpoula - kai ohi anavrasmos, i exanthima- pou na gyrisw, pou na epi-strepsw, pou na ertw, egw tis psyhoragias - persona profylaktiki etsi opws pan ta pramata (ki oi lexeis), hamenos idi sto arheio, dwsmenos stin dialogikotita -ki ohi stin dolia dialektiki, ohi stin ntivanalysi- stin dialogikotita entos mou tin poikilofwni kai tin apoikika edwdimi, me poio podilato, course i stilvwn, na dakrysoun ta matia mou stis nyhtas ta astika hiliometra, kai na stamatisw pia na skeftomai tin Beruit tou '80, tin Nea Yorki tou '29, to Londino tou '43, tin Athina twn dekaetiwn, to Parisi ton Marti, ton Aprili, ton Iouni, to Iouli, ton Avgousto, tin Poli les kai den ypirxe alli, ton aerodiadromo tis kardias mou kai to elikodromio twn enterwn mou, pws, pou, poio, kai na einai i mera mas giorti kai i giorti xenikti, na ein i kardoula mas avli ki angalia sou (mou, tou) kipos -
To xanarixes pali, synharitiria, poses foresna sou pw na proseheis, sto entharyntiko sfyrokopima! Ki an den, an den to pelekouses to ilithio to omoikataligma sou, ki aplame to vraki sta heili -Good Lord! hehehehehehe- arhizes to -
Tha stamitisw edw. Tha erthw here
(Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrhhh!)
To xanarixes pali, synharitiria, poses foresna sou pw na proseheis, sto entharyntiko sfyrokopima! Ki an den, an den to pelekouses to ilithio to omoikataligma sou, ki aplame to vraki sta heili -Good Lord! hehehehehehe- arhizes to -
Tha stamitisw edw. Tha erthw here
(Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrhhh!)
Monday, May 31, 2004
"xadelfos pros koukouloforo 1" (Shan't we, Shan't we, Shan't we?)
Oinovaris kai ypervaros meta-tasw:
..................................................................................................................................what dawn is breaking in me? what inconceivable light? illuminating the snow, the cassock, the crows........
Incredible nervous state, terpidation beyond words: to be this much in love is to be sick (and I love to be sick).
Georges Bataille
Kai xana fare forward dear voyagers [en genei]
(blink!)
..................................................................................................................................what dawn is breaking in me? what inconceivable light? illuminating the snow, the cassock, the crows........
Incredible nervous state, terpidation beyond words: to be this much in love is to be sick (and I love to be sick).
Georges Bataille
Kai xana fare forward dear voyagers [en genei]
(blink!)
Saturday, May 29, 2004
Friday, May 28, 2004
when the dino-colouring books have at last been put aside:
how did you make me go this far?
eswteriko gemato akatastates silloges simiwsewn: Ludwig Wittgenstein 'The Brown Book - Preliminaries to the Philosophical Investigations', 'Archeology of the Frivolous: Reading Condillac' (ela da esou ela da!), 'The Complete Poems and Plays of T.S.Eliot' (in this last of meeting places / we grope together), Martin Amis - The War Against Cliche' - only joyce did it with that crazed superbity, 'The Collected Poems of John Keats', 'a little bit of something' - 'Tender is the Night','Beowulf' - 'again and again and again'
une petite phrase melodique: 'auto pou fanerwnoume ine kripti'
w telos, w telos kopiase!
eswteriko gemato akatastates silloges simiwsewn: Ludwig Wittgenstein 'The Brown Book - Preliminaries to the Philosophical Investigations', 'Archeology of the Frivolous: Reading Condillac' (ela da esou ela da!), 'The Complete Poems and Plays of T.S.Eliot' (in this last of meeting places / we grope together), Martin Amis - The War Against Cliche' - only joyce did it with that crazed superbity, 'The Collected Poems of John Keats', 'a little bit of something' - 'Tender is the Night','Beowulf' - 'again and again and again'
une petite phrase melodique: 'auto pou fanerwnoume ine kripti'
w telos, w telos kopiase!
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