30 October 2009

du, du liegst mir am herzen






but I'm still mulling you



over




waren das einfach Übersetzungsfehler? or does this question raise necessary ones?

21 September 2009

placeholder for tendrils of thoughts somewhat unfamiliar

APOCALYPSE



or from the OED:

[ad. L. apocalypsis, a. Gr. , n. of action f. to uncover, disclose, f. off + to cover.]

. . .

2. By extension: Any revelation or disclosure.

1621 BURTON Anat. Mel. 677 (L.) Interpret apocalypses, and those hidden mysteries to private persons.
1831 CARLYLE Sart. Res. II. v, The new apocalypse of Nature unrolled to him.

. . .

DRAFT ADDITIONS JUNE 2008

b. More generally: a disaster resulting in drastic, irreversible damage to human society or the environment, esp. on a global scale; a cataclysm. Also in weakened use.

. . .

1994 Time 24 Oct. 33 While the poor are bewitched by dreams of peace and plenty, the rich are preparing for an apocalypse.




the last, of course, being a moment of hmm, what?
so, to sate the curiosity: it's the table of contents tagline for an article on Aristide & Haiti.




shana tova, I guess I'm glad my religion isn't about apocalyptic visions and therefore some aspects of these thought patterns are not inherent to me?

happy new year.

17 August 2009

oh oh oh a word

Equivocall seeds and Hermaphroditicall principles, which contain the radicality and power of different formes.
Numerous and strong testimonies like these prove the question.
There is a radicality in this method of dealing with the electrical conditions of the human body which to the logical mind commends itself.
I . . . prefix the Root of such Power to the note of Becoming . . .
one of the evil legion of toryism, after all his radicality.
The apparent radicality of its thesis has proved to be purely verbal.
She was treated as an artist with many styles and no coherent profile, which made it hard for people to understand what she had done.
We shall play one section of you against the other this day, and both sections against the radicality the next.
No influence of the operation can be invoked.
The concept in gynecologic cancer surgery.
Surgical techniques have developed during the 20th century with a tendency toward increasing radicality in order to deal with those cancers with a propensity for locoregional spread.

24 July 2009

nine years before escher


--Théo van Doesburg, La cité de circulation, 1929

(more here)

10 July 2009

china through the stereoscope 1900; and this now always now



dying in the dying-field
where discouraged poor are allowed to come to die

working "as if nothing had happened. . . .
we are here in a vacant space near the river--
it is the last ditch
watched over by the camera of the outsider
horror and clicking capturing
death and death and death kept and saved
preserved image swimming up again
not dying and not being
paper


source two
source one

23 June 2009

updated blog roll

check the sidebar.

I could also have some vaguely thoughtful content, if anyone is interested.

18 June 2009

to c m, in march


image from wikimedia

The eyes are
- a cat may have no visible white
face may be missing, such that the eye and proboscis (if present)
have been using the skin renew
the cool feeling upon application is nice, there is no visible improvement to my look. A shorthaired cat of a breed developed in the Far East, having blue eyes and a pale fawn or gray coat with darker ears, face, tail, becomes active life in colder parts there washes away every stain from her face at a crystal waterfall. To remove the bloodstains from her face and head Catskin washes herself When Cats Drool · Your Cat's Eyes
A healthy cat will be alert and friendly, with clear shining eyes.

Die Augen sind
- Eine Katze hat keinen sichtbaren weißen
Gesicht, so dass die Augen und Rüssel (falls vorhanden)
mit der Haut erneuert wurden
die kühle Gefühl auf Antrag ist schön, doch gibt es keine sichtbare Verbesserung zu meinem Aussehen. Eine Kurzhaarkatze aus dem fernen Osten, mit blauen Augen und ein helles, graues Mantel mit dunkler Ohren, Gesicht & Schwanz——Aktiv ist das Leben in kälteren Teile wäscht sie jeden Fleck weg von ihrem Gesicht mit einer Kristall-Wasserfall. So entfernt sie die Blutflecken aus ihrem Gesicht und Kopf——Catskin wäscht sich mit Katzen Drool ihre Cat's Eyes.
Eine gesunde Katze wirkt aufmerksam und freundlich, mit klaren leuchtenden Augen.

Rather Sunday.
- Do you see furtive white as long as . . .
Між them now.
- Do you see furtive white as long as . . .
Child eyes Child ніс (if abrogated topics).
Skin oblivion skin.
vie with might, hollowed new, shed sky table and serge ash application, see to be, you look & see it, war who sang ill, give flowers flowers face, the darkness usa's tie is mere nothing. Far East narcotized cosy eyes were significant but the death sought a look, an itsy esthetic, no-go credit list. -- Unizen is the right of the total to very timely institutions. But this stele copied a suet Fruitlet institution --polders and Catskin cat eyes, as long as obtained and used to give Samuel Squarrosa 3 treatments of "Ji Shu hygiene Zhaoxi" the right eye is still concerned about the optimizing brothers
postavok is not minh minh Medium.

14 May 2009

for shawn, a little late

When I was twenty-seven and about to spend a summer in New Hampshire, I took lessons from Mike, a young and rather obnoxious Italian American. In 1948, when I was twenty-seven years old, I married Esther Louis and we had five children: Carol, Sarah, Ralph, Glen and Barry. When I was twenty-seven years old, I married a photographer in Vietnam. I had a car accident when I was twenty-seven in which I was nearly killed. I was married when I was very young, but my husband died when I was twenty-seven. I started writing stories when I was twenty-seven, and that made everything better because then I had less time to write in my diary. Then, when I was twenty-seven, ten years after the Boston accident, I had my first experience with "gross painless hematuria"; that is, much blood in the urine with neither pain nor infection. My first book was written when I was twenty-seven, and, as it turned out was successful: but as this of course was not to be foreseen with certainty, ... I foolishly went nowhere when I was twenty-seven. I was chairman of a bank when I was twenty-seven. I decided to be an artist when I was twenty-seven. I received my discharge from the army March 8, 1946 when I was twenty-seven years old and returned home to stay on March 12. When I was twenty-seven, my mother died expressing her regret for not seeing her daughter get married before her death. The thought that continues to guide me today, at the age of sixty-seven, is the same one that guided me when I was twenty-seven. I used to do this when I was twenty-seven. Yes, when I was twenty-seven.

07 May 2009

Desire Line


Desire Line
Originally uploaded by ben patio



--Berlinde de Bruyckere (Belgian, born 1964)

03 April 2009

Imants Tillers & George Baldessin


— Imants Tillers (Australian conceptual artist and painter, born 1950)
— George Baldessin (Australian sculptor and draftsman, 1939–78)

31 March 2009

politics ca. 1870

so, today I stumbled upon former congressman Samuel Sullivan "Sunset" Cox, a fairly despicable person, or so wikipedia informs me.



in any case, in 1870, while representing voters in New York City, he dedicated a book to them with these words:

To you I have the honour and pleasure of dedicating these "Sunbeams" of travel. They were made bright by your confidence and cheerful by your indulgence without which I could not have pursued them into far and almost untrodden paths--in "search" of the health so needed and I trust secured--for the duty which you have devolved upon me.
WESTMINSTER PALACE HOTEL, London, Sept. 1, 1869

he then went on to open this choice specimen of public writing with the following:
SEARCH FOR WINTER SUNBEAMS PRELIMINARY CHAPTER EXPLANATION OF THE TITLE SUNBEAMS TIN W IIS TV Be light And light was GEN i 3 HEATHEN teacher Longinus found in this extract the sublimest expression What the world would have been without a Sun the poet Campbell brings home to us by the tenderest of illustrations There is a Light which never was on sea or land It consecrates the poet
pursuit was for that Sunbeam which makes the tree grow and the waters flow which makes the earth warm and the air sweet which has in its prismatic rays colours to paint the beautiful flower and the pallid cheek The Sunbeams I craved are those which flow from that source whence the Stars repairing in their golden urns draw light I sought not the radiation which brings glowing heat so much
Functions of Light as that which yields temperate warmth and with warmth relief and with that health Hence my search was for Winter Sunbeams Although the search extended into the Summer it ended so far as my experience went upon a Swiss mountain peak where 11,000 feet above the sea the Sunbeams were discreetly mitigated by the aspect and tempered with the temperature of a hundred snow clad mountains It would impair the cheerful spirit of these pages were I to dwell on the physical infirmity which compelled me to seek a gentle clime and yet perhaps the only utility and I may add the primary object of this volume is to point out a path to health which is such because irradiate with beams Divine
such What a beam of light can accomplish has it not been the theme of many a girlish composition as well a s of scientific disquisition The regeneration of the Earth with every Auroral advent is it not a perpetual hymn of praise to the Creator of light and an ever during and radiant rainbow covenant of His love What a beam can do even after its untired tour of millions of miles and through uncounted periods of duration how it gilds the starry vault and builds the heavenly structure how before it the clouds about our star dissolve and the blackness of night is dispelled and how chaos becomes cosmos is but the type of what can be wrought upon the human frame and spirit by its sanitary and cheering influence It is impossible sufficiently to aggrandize the wonderful functions of Light All the powers of the Earth emanate from the Sun It gives us coal food wind and water Efforts have been made to calculate of these mechanical but they

Search for Winter Sunbeams in the Riviera, Corsica, Algiers and Spain, by Samuel Sullivan Cox

it goes on from there . . . though it rapidly turns into over 430 pages of travelogue on Cox's journey's through Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. I have no idea whether these journeys were on the public dime, but he certainly wasn't present in D.C. to vote on legislation all that time. what a public servant, eh?

EDIT:
A pleasant correspondent of mine points out the following:
"The 41st Congress met for less than a month between March and April of 1869 (presumably to swear in new members), and then recessed until December of that year. A very different era, then, when Congress had much less to do."

25 March 2009

food concept

pear-almond butter

apricot-tahini

plum-caramel spread

grapefruit+dulce de leche

raisin-walnut butter