Hi Alan - thank you!
I really enjoyed your poem and painting - but there are visible boundaries and
as I read Laing there aren't ie inside is the outside so the mole eats itself?
Time for lunch!
Sarah
Quoting "A.D.M.Rayner" <[log in to unmask]>:
> Dear Sara and all,
>
> Here is 'the 'Hole in the Mole'....
>
> Which goes with the following poem...
>
>
> Best
>
> Alan
>
>
> "THE HOLE IN THE MOLE"
>
> By Alan Rayner, Oil on Canvas, 2001
>
>
> I AM the hole
> That lives in a mole
> That induces the mole
> To dig the hole
> That moves the mole
> Through the earth
> That forms a hill
> That becomes a mountain
> That reaches to sky
> That connects with stars
> And brings the rain
> That the mountain collects
> Into streams and rivers
> That moisten the earth
> That grows the grass
> That freshens the air
> That condenses to rain
> That carries the water
> That brings the mole
> To Life
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Sarah Fletcher <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: 29 July 2005 20:09
> Subject: Re: relevant laing on scientific evaluation
>
>
> > Hi Alon -
> >
> > I'm sure you know this. In case others aren't familar with it, I thought
> I'd
> > send. I'd love to see Alon Rayner's depiction of this inside-outside in
> oils.
> >
> > One is inside
> > then outside what one has been inside
> > One feels empty
> > because there is nothing inside oneself
> > One tries to get inside oneself
> > that inside of the outside
> > once one tries to get oneself inside what
> > one is outside:
> > to eat and to be eaten
> > to have the outside inside and to be
> > inside the outside
> >
> > But this is not enough. One is trying to get
> > the inside of what one is outside inside, and to
> > get iside the outside. But one does not get
> > inside the outside by getting the outside inside
> > for;
> > although one is full inside of the inside of the outside
> > one is on the outside of one's own inside
> > and by getting inside the outside
> > while one is on the inside
> > even the inside of the outside is outside
> > and inside oneself there is still nothing
> > There never has been anything else
> > and there never will be
> >
> > Laing, R.D. (1972) 'Knots' Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, p. 83
> >
> > Thought for the week? Don't work too hard,
> > Warm regards,
> > Sarah
> >
> > http://www.TeacherResearch.net
> >
> >
> >
> > Quoting Alon Serper <[log in to unmask]>:
> >
> > > And another quote from Laing - The Bird of Paradise
> > >
> > > if this I that is the wherewith and whereby is not anything that I know,
> > > then it is no thing - nothing.
> > >
> >
>
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