Hi Martin, I knew that - that poor Baudelaire (whatever he did I will always
justify him) mixed up there with Nietzsche would have created probl. as a
matter of fact I put in brackets his probl. due to the second marriage of
his mother, but whatever, and I know he never taught. I had a friend who was
the student of James Joyce when he was down there in Trieste, a most sweet
lady who was well blind but still incredibly beautiful with her well-combed
hair and came to see me at the library with her other friend who led her all
the way down on the snow and the ice.
This is the little I have to tell you.
And I do not think that Wittgenstein gave away anything on trains, he was a
rational thinker not a surrealist inventor.
Anny Ballardini
http://annyballardini.blogspot.com
http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
The aim of the poet is to awaken emotions in the soul, not to gather
admirers.
Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky
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As far as I know, Anny, Wittgenstein (my professor of philosophy met him
in the train down to Cambridge once, he thought W was going to say
something momentous but something or other intervened, perhaps a porter
from Porlock, anyway I've forgotten what MacIver actually revealed to me
in that solo tutorial, as he was exhaling huge clouds of pipesmoke &
wheeze-groaning* at his own humour - which effectively prevented me from
recalling anything he ever said except a pawky quip or 2) gave his
inheritance away to Rilke & Trakl, among others, and his dad was a rich
industrialist who singlehandedly bankrolled the Secession (Klimt did a
famous portrait of W's sister Margaret - go here -
http://vortex1.no-ip.com/klimt/gallery/k035.htm ), as you say. As to
Nietzsche - he taught for a while but was too neurasthenic (code for
syphilitic) to continue. I cannot find him "the greatest poet of all"
myself - nor can I remember that Baudelaire was a teacher or did
anything much but write, flâner & go to art shows. But I am willing to
be instructed - ;-)
mj
Anny Ballardini wrote:
>This is a great one, and it is quite similar to where I am at.
>
>I don't think, Dominic or Kent, that a poet should sit down somewhere and
>_poeticize_. Friedrich Nietzsche taught (the greatest poet of all),
together
>with Baudelaire (greatest as well) who did his best to survive (estates,
>inheritances, plenty of intrigues). There is no such profession as a poet,
>and I would even say as a writer, unless you are a journalist. Tolkien
>taught and wrote, Wittgenstein didn't even want his part of inheritance -
he
>was present whey they read his father's will (if I am not wrong, the man
who
>sponsored the Austrian secession - Martin am I right?) to make sure he
>wasn't going to receive a penny - and ended up in a tiny village as an
>elementary teacher, somewhere close to here.
>
>Not only because you need money to live, but because there is a nobility in
>performing your daily job (my father taught me), and also because you draw
>your life from the world outside. Who am I to talk of my I _ endlessly? And
>moreover, to desire that those there, the ones who are not I should love
>what I write about my I? Oh this is a farse. Not even my silliest teen
>student would be able to invent it.
>
>I have no idea, there are subsidies here too for those who write, and one
of
>the people who manage them told me to fill in a form and put it in, - it
>might be that some rains on you too, he said. Which I didn't do. For many
>reasons. First of all I am free to write whatever I wish and whenever I
wish
>and this is my privilege and my liberty.
>
>Rebecca's question is different. She received a prize. If they award me a
>prize I thank them respectfully and I'm deeply moved that they liked what I
>had to say.
>
>Anny Ballardini
>http://annyballardini.blogspot.com
>http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
>The aim of the poet is to awaken emotions in the soul, not to gather
>admirers.
>Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky
>
>
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>
>Figure-Ground Problem
>
>In my world all the poetry is excellent.
>There are only two journals to read, one
>in print and the other on the web. Both are
>filled with excellent poetry. The editors
>have never rejected my excellent work.
>And I've never been to a reading I didn't enjoy.
>You see, I know all of the poets in my world
>and they know me. We can't help but admire
>each other�s commitment to excellence.
>
>
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