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Aphorisms on a Study of Shadows and Dreams
I Somewhere, someone dreams of me. The sand repeats other sand, the mirror other mirrors. I am an abstraction among abstractions, a dream among other dreams–an emptiness that echoes the voluptuness of nothing. II Shadow, sun, object, people, moon. The sun produces a shadow. A shadow assumes an object. And an object, a shadow. Each Continue reading
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White Night
II don’t know where to goThere’s snow everywhereThe sun movesLike a slugA black road meltsBathingIn the mud Of Luster.SomewhereA shadow coughs,smokes,risingFrom the lugubrious languor of noon. I’m ill,But I don’t know where to go. Continue reading
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Kissa Tanto
The kitchen whirlsA scalding breath, stirs The pungent sauce, sizzling The rust-flaked pan, burnt. And then the stump of a cough,Corked and twisted,Stretches the hooked feetWith a clatter of images;The light breaksWith an apparitionOf traffic–The shades sheathe in shades. One must devise the ways To trail down the streetLeading… leading… The ground is not ephemeralThe Continue reading
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Sunday
Corrugations of the white sun Dissolve Vials of dust that ivory shades hold. Continue reading
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Trees, Illusions, and Shades
Somewhere, someone dreams of me. The sand repeats other sand, the mirror other mirrors. I am an abstraction among abstractions, a dream among other dreams–an emptiness that echoes the voluptuousness of nothing. A dream is a plethora, a plethora is a dream, lost in the ecstasy of shadows, the warmth of forgetfulness, within which I Continue reading
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Wednesday
synthesis is like cooking. You put the same stuff together, and you just cook, whether by heat or fermentation, and something new comes from it. and beneath it all is evolution. it goes from one state to another. the sugar breaks down, the fats emulsify, the blood denatures, and maybe even gelatin is produced by Continue reading
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Monday
On Sense and Reference, Frege Sign: Names, combination of words, letters. For example, points of intersection of a and b & points of intersection of b and c Reference of the signs: what the signs refer to. What is designates. Points of intersection of a and b & points of intersection of b and c Continue reading
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Wednesday
Fragmented nature of Eliot Prufrock Contradiction and Women Derogatory: Talking of Michelangelo Sense of Paradox Prufrock’s voices do not stand for anything but their interactions with Prufrock and such inventions do. Vantriquilzation Prufrock through the women, scenes, and dialogue Prufrock wears the mask, but projects it on to the reader He wears a mask, assumes Continue reading
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The Emperor of Ice Cream
The Emperor of Ice Cream Steven WallaceCall the roller of big cigars,The muscular one, and bid him whipIn kitchen cups concupiscent curds.Let the wenches dawdle in such dressAs they are used to wear, and let the boysBring flowers in last month’s newspapers.Let be be finale of seem.The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.Take from Continue reading
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Monday
Metaphor Metaphor highlights our perception of something literal Humans are always caught up in an artificial makeup of order Reality is always beyond description or metaphor Metaphor gives us a sense of the real at a remove Continue reading
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Monday
a pomegranate. ivory of teeth. rose, jug, mud, bones, the plague–an ear. “If you want to say something different from other people, use language that’s different from other people.” An example: Beidao. Untitled. He opens a third eyethe star above his headwarm currents from both east and west have formed an archwaythe expressway passes through Continue reading
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