No argument here, amigo.
Hal
"How beautiful it is to do nothing,
and then rest afterward."
--Spanish proverb
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On May 14, 2007, at 12:43 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> Not to mitigate the sincerity of the quote here, Hal, but the
> 'alchemy du
> verbe' does not seem to be a lot different than most serious love
> relationships - you know where two people are walking beside or in
> front
> and back of each other and something in the air radiates any number
> of 'the
> nuances' or tensions (from amorous to contrariness), along with an
> implied
> evidence that a 'great deal of effort' has already gone into
> producing this
> enduring (at least one hopes these days) combination of partners?
>
> Stephen V
> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>
>
>
>> "I placed one word beside another and finally with a great deal
>> of effort managed to create a whole sentence--naturally not one
>> that 'meant something' but one that was composed of word-
>> nuances. It was the hidden meaning that I was seeking--a kind
>> of Alchimie du Verbe. One word has its meaning and another
>> has its own, but when they are brought together something
>> strange happens to them: they have an in-between connotation
>> at the same time as they retain their original individual
>> meanings . . .
>> Poetry is this very tension-filled relationship between the words,
>> between the lines, between meanings."
>>
>> --Gunnar Ekelöf, tr. Auden & Sjöberg
>>
>>
>> Hal
>>
>> "Balthus is a painter about whom nothing is known."
>> --Balthus
>>
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