Category Archives: Words

Yellow

In yellow light
Called from outside the calm day
That in reflection said
Love, love, my season
One of three
Seasons of love
Midnight and morning too
This, my spring
Always yielding
Always golden
There is nothing anymore
That can’t be taken
Movie props, my inner voice
Clouds my eyes, I shake off
And walk into a giant tomb
Plastic skeleton, a villain
I go on proud, unhurried
A curious boy, movied
A scalding would be
Interesting, funny
They see me and stay bent down
Two clowns, circus signs
And Egyptian scenes
Pre-playground, fenced high-grass
Lone two trees
I visit them and fallen leaves
Unraked ease, entropic beauty
Strong roots and one tagged limb
I touch it sentimentally
Then pass grass taller than elves
Jealous titans herd them carward
Can’t stand their joy
I’d’ve been better free before sixteen
Spring between stones
Trees, suburbia, industria yellowed
Green circuitry, labyrinth lines
Ibised trees, purple blooms
Ivory squid and furry filament
Walk up to citysight
Meditate on flight
Goes past silent
I watch the space that sounds
Vapour trails and a distant rainbow
Bars, red to green, a stain
Storm of birds flicker in then out

I need living companions

A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish.
But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves – and who want to go where I want to go.
A light has dawned for me: Zarathustra shall not speak to the people but to companions! Zarathustra shall not be herdsman and dog to the herd!
To lure men away from the herd – that is why I have come. The people and the herd shall be angry with me: the herdsman shall call Zarathustra a robber.

- Thus spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche

Technology and The Novel

Where the liberal-humanist sensibility has always held the literary work to be a form of self-expression, a meticulous sculpting of the thoughts and feelings of an isolated individual who has mastered his or her poetic craft, a technologically savvy sensibility might see it completely differently: as a set of transmissions, filtered through subjects whom technology and the live word have ruptured, broken open, made receptive. I know which side I’m on: the more books I write, the more convinced I become that what we encounter in a novel is not selves, but networks; that what we hear in poems is (to use the language of communications technology) not signal but noise. The German poet Rilke had a word for it: Geräusch, the crackle of the universe, angels dancing in the static.

- Tom McCarthy


Why Bill Murray did Garfield

[From a GQ interview with Bill Murray by Dan Fierman]

Well, how about Garfield? Can you explain that to me? Did you just do it for the dough?
No! I didn’t make that for the dough! Well, not completely. I thought it would be kind of fun, because doing a voice is challenging, and I’d never done that. Plus, I looked at the script, and it said, “So-and-so and Joel Coen.” And I thought: Christ, well, I love those Coens! They’re funny. So I sorta read a few pages of it and thought, Yeah, I’d like to do that. I had these agents at the time, and I said, “What do they give you to do one of these things?” And they said, “Oh, they give you $50,000.” So I said, “Okay, well, I don’t even leave the fuckin’ driveway for that kind of money.”

And it’s not like you’re helping out an indie director by playing Garfield.
Exactly. He’s in 3,000 newspapers every day; he’s not hurtin’. Then this studio guy calls me up out of nowhere, and I had a nice conversation with him. No bullshit, no schmooze, none of that stuff. We just talked for a long time about the movie. And my agents called on Monday and said, “Well, they came back with another offer, and it was nowhere near $50,000.” And I said, “That’s more befitting of the work I expect to do!” So tehy went off and shot the movie, and I forgot all about it. Finally, I went out to L.A. to record my lines. And usually when you’re looping a movie, if it takes two days, that’s a lot. I don’t know if I should even tell this story, because it’s kind of mean. [beat] What the hell? It’s interesting. So I worked all day and kept going, “That’s the line? Well, I can’t say that.” And you sit there and go, What can I say that will make this funny? And make it make sense? And I worked. I was exhausted, soaked with sweat, and the lines got worse and worse. And I said, “Okay, you better show me the rest of the movie, so we can see what we’re dealing with.” So I sat down and watched the whole thing, and I kept saying, “Who the hell cut this thing? Who did this? What the fuck was Coen thinking?” And then they explained it to me: It wasn’t written by that Joel Coen.

Whole in Love

But the love between a man and a woman, when it is whole, is dual. It is the melting into pure communion, and it is the friction of sheer sensuality, both. In pure communion I become whole in love. And in pure, fierce passion of sensuality I am burned into essentiality. I am driven from the matrix into sheer separate distinction. I become my single self, inviolable and unique, as the gems were perhaps once driven into themselves out of the confusion of earths. Then in the fire of their extreme sensual love, in the friction of intense, destructive flames, I am destroyed and reduced to her essential otherness. It is a destructive fire, the profane love. but it is the only fire that will purify us into singleness, fuse us from the chaos into our own unique gem-like seperateness of being.

- David Herbert Lawrence

Subterranean King Kong

Poets are the lowest. They’re below it all. Our tools are the products of a historical infection. We draw from the black muck made from layer upon layer of fevered zeitgeists. I love simplicity. I love ease. I love comfort. I will not do something simply because it is hard to do, that’s not my game. I do something because it feels right, because this is what I want. Words find us. Books find us. Life finds us if you let it. Let me be the lowest of the low. Let me be scum. Let me be pitied if they want, I will take only what I want from these half-fools. Let me be below it all. Let me be below expectation, obligation, morality, anything but substance. I want substance. As substance I respond to substance. My river finds itself. My river finds more river. My river extends throughout this earth, subterranean, by simple cohesion. There is no action required of me. My awareness of it is made all the more enjoyable when I accept the entropy. So long as I’m dancing a rhythm finds me. I’ll be the beast. I’ll be King Kong. I’ll grab Fay Wray. I’ll conquer the USA. Shoot me down quick I’m at the top.

- Colby

I wish I could write you a melody

Now I wish I could write you a melody so plain
That could hold you dear lady from going insane
That could ease you and cool you and cease the pain
Of your useless and pointless knowledge

- Bob Dylan, Tombstone Blues

Meaning

So ignorant are most landsmen of some of the plainest and most palpable wonders of the world, that without some hints touching the plain facts, historical and otherwise, of the fishery, they might scout at Moby Dick as a monstrous fable, or still worse and more detestable, a hideous and intolerable allegory

- Herman Melville, Moby Dick

Then there is the other secret. There isn’t any symbolysm (mis-spelled). The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The sharks are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.

- Ernest Hemingway to Bernard Berenson, Selected Letters, p.780

A rather dishonest person one day, in a note contained in an anthology, made a list of some of the images presented to us in the work of one of our greatest living poets. It read:
‘The next day of the caterpillar dressed for the ball’… meaning ‘butterfly’
‘Breast of crystal’… meaning ‘carafe’
Etc.
No, indeed, sir. It means nothing of the kind. Put your butterfly back in your carafe. You may be sure Saint-Pol-Roux said exactly what he meant.

- Andre Breton, Introduction to the Discourse on the Paucity of Reality

Email to Daniel

Ah man, the fucking muse, the bitch. I often find solace in turning my demons into.. demons and my gods into gods. I mean really they fuck with us, we are their playthings no matter how incrementally we understand them it’s only at best a fraction of anything useful of their nature. We will never know their nature and that is the only nature we can gleam from them. I don’t know, to me we can find a pattern in anything. Our lives are a series of intersecting labyrinths of rhythm and I tap into Pattis rhythm of this rhythm finding. It worked me out ironed me out perfectly theres a rhythm theres a rhythm in everything and everythings a virus a series of hypnotisms that too thats how I get by lately I know whatever rhythm i’m on its justifiable somewhere and if I’m not digging the current rhythm then why not? and its usually that i’m nostalgic for a rhythm I had once or I’m bored with this rhythm. Usually I’m bored I get so fucking bored. But lately I find the boredom is the answer. Boredom to me is a holy thing. Its a dissatisfaction and a sense of acceptance with this current state. Acceptance is death. Death is accepting life. Our lives are dissonant destructive impetuous demons with a limited moth-like flurry into this world with pollen supplies too vast to ever taste em’ all so I just flurry. Usually I’m bored. Usually this thing I’m sitting in this moment I’m sitting in this bed I’m in this person I’m with this person I’m talking to the stillness of my mind. What’s wrong with stillness of mind. Stillness makes me anxious. Manic states make the buddhist anxious. I wish we could swap. I wish I could trade all the worlds insanities for the stillness of my worlds. But why is that? Theres anxiety in everything. If its anxiety I want. Theres something in everything thats my belief. We are lead into realms of meaning by the very design of our language. By the very design of language itself. We’re funneled into these pits of emptiness and incompleteness. So I would never dream of being capable of giving a fitting response for this is no response to what you are talking about. What we are talking about is bigger than anything. It is the thing underneath it all. Its the beast I’ve been grappling with ever since I have been conscious. Its the real reason of my cries, the baby milk just softening its pain. Its the reason our wounds harden and the tinnitus – latin for ‘ringing’ – an endless ohm that some make holy and others make their nightmare, its the speckles in the sky that never go away they just meld into the background a constant static that impedes any blackness you once had theres never blackness and either there’s endless loneliness or endless connectivity endless mikvah luke-warm baths even have regions of heat and limbs and hot spots and we all want a hot spot with some limbs but either way the thought cannot be reduced it cannot be ignored, only incorporated and there are two doorknobs to… as bobby said: And your feet can only walk down two kinds of roads Your eyes can only look through two kinds of windows Your nose can only smell two kinds of hallways You can touch and twist And turn two kinds of doorknobs and its always a binary choice and neither is ‘right’… I’ll ask for Bobby’s help again. Bobby’s Help And though it’s only my opinion I may be right or wrong You’ll find them both In the Grand Canyon At sundown You’ll find them both in the grand canyon at sundown. Both existences, all existence, can be found not just there but in any moment, any place, and thats whats fucked. This is the great unsidesteppable for me. I don’t know how to get passed this one. There is this darkness found everywhere in anything. This darkness is infinite. There is no objective happiness. And however much I talk about the relativity of what I say and the meaninglessness of it all there is never an out, not that I’m aware of until I’m out. I slip out, I always slip out and there’s the faith that I’ll slip out again, but it’s never good enough. So I’ve decided to always look. Never settle. I’m never settling again and I’m never getting nostalgic, if i’m remembering I’m reliving everything shall be lived through me I shall not be passive even writing is lived I will not be objective to anything no more neutrality to me the body is a black hole a reversal death we travel backwards towards our fate and meaning is drawn towards us in our special unique pattern, bee dance to the nectar of nothingness and this is our living historically backwards facing and forward some double-headed steppenwolf but to me its about dancing you see dancing is living everything in my life needs to be a dance otherwise I’m just miming i’m just pretending I never played as a child I played for keeps I played to the death my play is life and so I must slip out of it all I’m shedding play clothes we must dance naked not for some purity not always naked either but just remember nakedness remember virginity and the purity of our existence remember our ancestry in those dark caves dancing christmas, winter equinox, three days in a cave, no self just desires sometimes submitting to one sometimes another the pure manifestation of desire is only possible in the absence of self so I submit myself to abduction I offer whatever I have I’ve relinquished everything to my slave-drivers and they can do with me what they will but I have allegiances to many I’m a spiritual double-agent I’ll double-cross anything to get that girl to chase that rabbit taste that light eat everything in sight i’ll devour everything I’ll devour anything I can i’ll smoke it, chew it, suck it, fuck it, I want it and it’s all over now and all now and out over and out over and begun begin and end together destruction completion actualisation i stop becoming, I get bored I’ll become.. you, you thought, you bore me with your stagnation I call you Stagnate Stagnatus I’m bored give me a new kick there’s only so much to do with this whole relativity so i pass it over kick it over to someone elses kick later whatever not my kick anymore I can’t be fucked laziness can be a virtue everything can be a virtue whats a virtue? A virtue is an indulgence of a demon. As many virtues as desires. Virtuous political systems. Political systems develop like any natural ecology, why do we want these particular patterns, that’s what I keep asking. Often I’m avoiding something man. I’m always fucking avoiding. Thats the troll in my asshole right now, it blocks all my excretion, all my joy of shit, shit being everything in existence everything can be eaten and shat, shit is everything. This troll he blocks it all. This troll that flits me from one thing to the other to me I want to indulge I want virtous life a devoted life. I devote myself to things is what I do. I have methodically found the ways of life that lead to the most kicks. Roughly, the order that I threw things away was something like: ‘holiday’, family, nationalism, sex, self. I find them all so boring. Almost every title I find limits me. I hate that shit. Social titles are especially shit. Social life in general is one of the shittest things I’ve ever hated. I always get so limited by it. Its the socialness of religion that I hate. Its the dogmatism. Ah it makes me want to fucking vomit. Violently. Its how they all manipulate each other and themselves in the eyes of each other. Awk. Social. Man everything needs to be reduced. I feel like the world is a messy room. These rooms never get the Sunday cleaning. Aw its all so messy. So cluttered. Useless pamphlets are our carpet. I can’t pretend to be clean. Yank. Septic tank. Let me wallow in the shit let me rub myself up in our refuse its all a fucking shithole so I’m rubba dub dubbing myself and wheeling around shit fights whirling by I’m all american as I can be rhyming slang instilling the ring to my voice mouthing the words to I pledge allegiance playing in reverse over the dream machine this is my anti-spell I have a dialectic anti-spell for each of you ‘poof’ and it can all go ‘poof’. These things these things that take us over Daniel, I’ve been trying to talk about things but you’ve opened my P(andora) Box and this isn’t a brief topic for me, but these things that take us over. There are so many. We have to think didactically, logically, about these infinitely illogical beings. We have to think why we have allegiance to one and not this one. I mean really. Its about happiness in the end. We can’t live for ideas. This is very important to me is that we cannot live for ideas. We can only live ideas. Be ideas, only ever momentarily, even if that moment is a lifetime, all stories chased to completion end in death. But to me this is it. If an idea gives us pain theres a friction of forces and theres an alternate force we’re forgetting and can be considered. Then it becomes a decision. Everything can be made binary and this is where I get off. I turn everything into a fork in the road. I make a decision. Everything is my decision. Everywhere I’ve been and everywhere I go is a decision of mine and I’m never the victim to anything except myself. There is no ‘fairness’ and no cheating. If anything, if we were forced to use these words, I would have to say the closest thing it resembles is that unfairness is the rule and you, not the house, is always cheated and exploited. No one promised us meaning. We were bold enough to ask for it so we are given the task of finding it. Its easy enough anyway. Pain and sadness to me are interesting. I am scared of indifference but it is startlingly reminiscent of absolute interest. I diffuse myself into everything and lose myself. Now I have an overlapped dedication to certain muses. A conscious dedication. I’m finding by didactic logic that which provides my kicks most consistently in both strength of kick and length of its visitation and also what kicks it excludes and which kicks it improves. There is an economy of kicks. I try reading buddhism but it makes me nauseous, I agree with their use of words in trying to free us from fetters but I’m never seeking immortality. I’m seeking to remember. I’m only ever remembering. I’m remembering my kicks, how to get them. I remember where my kicks are, and which I was just doing for some concurrent kick that I used to be in but really if I’m to be honest with myself I ended up lending myself to to complete the two-part, three-part, poly-part structure I fell in love with. I guess this is what I’m saying is that we can lend ourselves to these ideas and be taken with them, yet we have to construct a certain kind of insurance for ourselves a reminder, some kind of mental tattoo that says in the end I’ll get my kick, and I’m only ever using, devouring ideas for my own kick, and once it dries up I owe you all nothing and you me, there is only instant transaction and IOU is simply a form of control that the lender and borrower have to be foolish enough to deal with the king devil Time and really in the end its all the same and equalised so you might as well just trade it all up but no matter what I say theres no comforting prayer thats not an illusion and thats all I’m ever offering whether its a thousand or ten thousand words or a breathe all I’m ever hoping for is some kind of prayer that hits holy but I’m never saying their infallible we’re all balloons and we drop and rise with unknown currents unsure of the friction that helps raise and lower our own inflation… this is really hard. I can’t offer comfort. I can only offer myself. I am pure. I am honest. I can only offer honesty. We can all say words like: I love you, I think you’re amazing, I think you’re great, I love your work, I think you’re a genius, I think you’re incredible, I think you’re special, I think you’re nice, I think you’re good, I think you’re a good person, I think we have something special, I think you have something special, I think this is good, ad infinitum compliments. Theres an endless of stream of complimentation that no victim of can ever endure if in a state that we would think needs these kind of things. Death has been playing lately, to which there is no consolation. Which has reminded me how there is never any consolation. Basically we need to swallow this immense life and shit it out stir through our shit and fertilize new lives with it, disgrace ourselves, horrify others. We need to live new lives. We can’t stagnate. Stagnatus. Sadness is a pain. A lag in time. A boring fucking fold that we’re stuck in. We need to pinch it off and continue. We must find our kicks. Our penises hold kicks. Our sleep holds kicks. Reading. Dancing. Writing. Profanity. Drunkenness. Pain. Sitting still watching rain. Watching shit. Shitting. Showering real hot. There’s a rhythm somewhere Daniel. Find it. Find the rhythm. Forget everything and find it. Forget everything. We must remind ourselves to forget everything. Its a hard reminder. Its the curse of the skeptic. Descartes before he yelled uncle with his God. I hated him for it. I loved then hated that man. His words. OK but especial demons are social demons. What the fuck are they? Social niceness makes me sick. I wish I could vomit it all out. I hate it all. Niceness is absolute nothing. AH, worse than nothing. Nothing in sheeps clothing. Greener pastures are another type of demon. It is the demon of fear. Fear of ourselves. We fear our inability and act reserved around our loves and don’t pursue them completely from some fear of lameness perhaps or fitting under this title or being predictable or who knows what else. Awkwardness is beautiful. Its special. It sleeps between our accepted ideas of social interaction. Honesty. I dig honesty.

Enough! or Too much

In times like this I don’t know what to do beyond sit and breathe and contemplate the spinning, dried out shrub smoothed by wind into a titan’s tear of wooden interference. As it turns the changing niches produce a spirit that spurs thoughts of glittering afterlives, the sea in gold leaf, the eyes’ illumination, mashed jewels in the face of the girl you love, that, like your love, can’t be captured, not without motion, context, not without your love.

You do, though, you must. Your love is a shudder that cannot be ignored. You feel you might burst or vibrate through the floor, into the earth where maybe, just maybe, you’ll find seismic peace. It resembles restlessness, superficially, though it’s exactly the opposite. With each you’ll wander streets without aim, drink, eat anything, smoke things, clean, dance, ride, wander but not to escape, this time only to prolong, to extend…Even in its midst you’ll mistake it, treat it like its evil twin and it’ll run, afraid, or maybe with the same inevitable force, just made painful or rushed by your impossible hopes like an identity from its lover. Not just physical definition in their vision binding visual nouns towards singularity but self with non-self too, the entropic dissolution of this premise is inescapable so that they swear their soul is being ripped from them and you can’t bring yourself to lie and tell them its not. Instead you just whisper ‘let go, let it go, let it be…’

Different, you’re free from the anxiety. There’s little attraction in anything that deviates too dramatically from your golden path, which you can see when you close your eyes, it’s more than an aftereffect of watching the sun snake along the creek before, no, it’s not so obvious. It’s a backlit edge you not so much see but feel, or am drawn towards by an animal magnetism you know has been disproven but still can’t shake.

You’ve shaken the anxiety of love. You’re without the fear of loss in the midst of pure joy. You’re no longer scrambling to record, preserve, but find yourself almost bleeding ink, reminiscent of a blissful letting, words for leeches.

You don’t fall into the same traps you found yourself in before. Undeserving recepient, not knowing what was given, thinking it another pain to be disassembled, taken care of. You avoid anything that’d push you over this threshold. Joy is not cause for excess. What need have you for anything? You’ve been made a sponge and simply want exposure to everything, you want absolute diffusion, don’t confuse this with a need for absolutes, beyonds.

Saturation is had in an instant though. Seeking the beyond will only disappoint, it’s sitting beside you, comfortable in the chair just warmed by you a moment ago. All that’s needed is floating, calm floating.

Before Sunset

Before Sunset Script

Do you consider the book to be autobiographical?

Well, I mean, is anything autobiographical? We all see the world through our own tiny keyhole, right? I mean, I always think of Thomas Wolfe, you know, if you ever seen that little one page note to reader in the front of “Look Homeward, Angel”, you know what I’m talking about? Anyway, he says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives, and that anybody who sits down to write is gonna use the clay of their own mind, that you can’t avoid that. So when I look at my own life, you know, I have to admit, right…that I’ve… I’ve never been around a bunch of guns, or violence. You know, not really. No political intrigue or… helicopter crash, right? But my life, from my own point of view, has been full of drama, right? And, so, I thought that if I could write a book that…that could capture what it’s like to really meet somebody, I mean the most exciting thing that’s ever happened to me is to really meet somebody, make that connection, and if I could…make that valuable, you know, to capture that, that would be the attempt or…

Did I answer your question? I’ll try to be more specific…

Will and want

It is all too easy to choose mediocrity through passivity, to drown in a sea of honey, thick and viscous. A slow death. I have to be laser clear and impermeable. I have to be solid enough to let it roll off my flanks, to not be softened into uselessness. I don’t expect you to listen or anyone to listen unless I make it worth their while. I want to give people something, more than something for their efforts. A squalling child, a blind arrogant brute all want to be felt, heard by virtue of their want. Why don’t you care? Why won’t you listen? I don’t want pity or to trade in obligation. I want to be good.

- Hayley Bracken

Isolation is the Gift

If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery–isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you’ll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you’re going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It’s the only good fight there is.

- Charles Bukowski

Is neuroscience the new philosophy?

Danish science writer and neurobiologist Lone Frank thinks the radical self-knowledge it offers us will help us transcend human nature.

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Research of terms between pages 348-364 of Gravity’s Rainbow

Herero Insignia

Klar: Clear | Entlüftung: Ventilation | Zündung: Ignition | Vorstufe: Initial stage | Haupstufe: Main stage

Hebephrenic Scizophrenia

A form of schizophrenia in which affective changes are prominent, delusions and hallucinations fleeting and fragmentary, behaviour irresponsible and unpredictable, and mannerisms common. The mood is shallow and inappropirate and often accompanied by giggling or self-satisfied, self-absorbed smiling, or by a lofty manner, grimaces, mannerisms, pranks, hypochondriacal complaints, and reiterated phrases. Thought is disorganized and speech rambling and incoherent. There is a tendency to remain solitary, and behaviour seems empty of purpose and feeling. This form of schizphrenia usually starts between the ages of 15 and 25 years and tends to have a poor prognosis because of the rapid development of “negative” symptoms, particularly flattening of affect and loss of volition.

In addition, disturbances of affect and volition, and thought disorder are usually prominent. Hallucinations and delusions may be present but are not usually prominent. Drive and determination are lost and goals abandoned, so that the patient’s behaviour becomes characteristically aimless and empty of purpose. A superficial and manneristic preoccupation with religion, philosophy, and other abstract themes may add to the listener’s difficulty in following the train of thought.

ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders, World Health Organization, Geneva, 1992.

Ululation

A long, wavering, high-pitched sound resembling the howl of a dog or wolf with a trilling quality. It is produced by emitting a high pitched loud voice accompanied with a rapid movement of the tongue and the uvula.

Uvular

Consonants articulated with the back of the tongue against or near the uvula, that is, further back in the mouth than velar consonants.

Plosive

A consonant sound produced by stopping the airflow in the vocal tract.

Apparatchik

An agent of the governmental or party “apparat” (apparatus) that held any position of bureaucratic or political responsibility. Members of the “apparat” were frequently transferred between different areas of responsibility, usually with little or no actual training for their new areas of responsibility. Thus, the term apparatchik, or “agent of the apparatus” was usually the best possible description of the person’s profession and occupation.

Weltschmerz

World-weariness

Heisenberg Situation

In physics, the formulation of quantum mechanics where the operators (observables and others) are time-dependent and the state vectors are time-independent. It stands in contrast to the Schrödinger picture in which operators are constant and the states evolve in time. The two pictures only differ by a time-dependent basis change.

Poetry has its limits

poetry has its limits
edges of expression
edge of (understanding/subjectivity/existence)
wheres my fix?
theres my fix
post-existence addiction as some human condition
there is no solution as there is no problem

time spent
thinking poetry
magnetic absurdism
mean-
ingful
as sensation
and chance

Okay, but really, now that I have your attention: wait, I have to
tell you this in reverse. Or maybe beforehand and then with a final execution in the
end, for once you execute this, your attention will be so complete that you will not
even be able to take this in. Okay, well, basically: you will close your eyes, then type
your thoughts, alright maybe it’ll start out banal, or shit, but keep writing, it will flow
surprisingly well, and just let it go, the concentration kind of maintains itself in
someway its like the writing itself takes over your mind and even now you can see
the future keys light up like some invisible map of the keyboard and your confidence
in its execution and it man oh man it floats so well and can’t you see how nice it
would be if two people hooked up, closed their eyes and just typed at eachother and
would be hit by some kind of buzzer or just come out when they do and enter it so
that each sees it once their brain has been leeched for that moment that would be nice
that I could like imagine that it could all be so nice this technology this infinite
instantaneous Ginsberg howl Munch scream ah he sounds so nice Ginsberg he lays it
out like so nice i fucking love it and realising i love it i somehow realise (maybe
further, maybe remember) my love of Patti (no maybe it is further, this feels new I
guess, something true) then that takes me to how I want to make that zine, some
publication, and then that reminds me of our talent nights, or open mic nights, that
would be nice I want to do that. Hubert Selby Jr rants of infinity.
Ah I went and looked for Pynchon but Ginsbergs relentless “mulak!” gets the better of
me, its fucking good. I love it, its a screaming, moaning, expression of beauty of
crazy mad meaningful/less endless fun danger joy i want it all in my one my only one
to the sky and into some hole and out again and keep rolling it got me yeah it got me.
But yeah I came back to talk about this kind of expression, the freedom of it. But then
strangely simultaneously I was thinking about Pynchon expression, biographies as
presentations, histories, short thoughts, ideas, fucking anything as some kind
expression, even nice, reserved writing about what’s going on, just like the kind of
realism with drawing I was thinking just the careful examination of our world with
words is a fascinating exercise. Endless in itself. You could endlessly talk simply of
what has gone on around you, what you are seeing, feeling, thinking, its fucking fun
you could go on forever.