09-05-2021, 03:15 AM
"Don't wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto." Molloy, S. Beckett
The only magic** I know is art, especially words on a page. But movies probably even more, music somewhere a poor third. Beckett has my attention now, for about a month. I read very slowly. So Beckett and Instant Dreams (a movie), and a book about the worship of hermaphrodites, and now Leopardi is skulking around, demanding more attention. I want to watch Who Afraid of Virginia Woolf; it's been too long since I lived through a night with George and Martha.
I would really like to see a machine that allows us to step into a movie at the moment of death, any movie of our choice. I'd become an extra in Cocoanuts.
Hart Crane/mug's game: someone said that about H.C. Not that it's not true I guess. I'm definitely a mug. And poetry is the only game I got left.
**exaggeration, i do believe in the I Ching and now the Tarot. And Buddha sounds pretty sensible to me. But he's not magic, like Jesus was, and Mohammed, and all those numberless others. I'm not well-versed in Islam. I started the Koran several times, tried different translations, and it finally hit me how the Bible had made me expect another account book, and the Koran is truly what dictation from Above would read like.
The only magic** I know is art, especially words on a page. But movies probably even more, music somewhere a poor third. Beckett has my attention now, for about a month. I read very slowly. So Beckett and Instant Dreams (a movie), and a book about the worship of hermaphrodites, and now Leopardi is skulking around, demanding more attention. I want to watch Who Afraid of Virginia Woolf; it's been too long since I lived through a night with George and Martha.
I would really like to see a machine that allows us to step into a movie at the moment of death, any movie of our choice. I'd become an extra in Cocoanuts.
Hart Crane/mug's game: someone said that about H.C. Not that it's not true I guess. I'm definitely a mug. And poetry is the only game I got left.
**exaggeration, i do believe in the I Ching and now the Tarot. And Buddha sounds pretty sensible to me. But he's not magic, like Jesus was, and Mohammed, and all those numberless others. I'm not well-versed in Islam. I started the Koran several times, tried different translations, and it finally hit me how the Bible had made me expect another account book, and the Koran is truly what dictation from Above would read like.