yes, very Beckett-absurdist, waiting for the space to be something as
in "Godot," except, sadly, this is not a stage.
c
-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 09:07:56 -0700
Subject: Re: Chris's blog/ presidential space
I would have thought that equally apt was the famous 'There's no
there
there.'
Doug
On 24-Mar-05, at 10:58 AM, Halvard Johnson wrote:
> { Eileen said something like, 'oh isn't
> { this near where the prez has his ranch?' I said, yeah, what'ya
> think?
> { She said, 'it's just so empty..."
> { As in, absolutely vacant of meaningful landmarks--so, not unlike
> how I
> { imagine this prez's mind.
>
> Ste. Gertrude had something to say about that:
>
> "In the United States there is more space where nobody
> is than where anybody is."
>
> --*The Geographical History of America, or The Relation
> of Human Nature to the Human Mind* (1936)
>
> Hal "Poetic statements are no more actual statements
> than the peaches visible in a still life are actual
> dessert."
> --Susanne K. Langer
>
> Halvard Johnson
> ===============
> email: [log in to unmask]
> website: http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard
> blog: http://entropyandme.blogspot.com/
>
>
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E5 Canada
(780) 436 3320
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
He saw the dark as a ragged garment
spread out to air.
Through its rents and moth-holes
the silver light came pouring.
Denise Levertov
|