I'd add, Patrick, about Ming I: years ago i asked the oracle what was
the nature of poetry? It gave that hexagram as answer. Now the meaning
of the hexagram's name is ambiguous, as all good oracles, especially
Chines ones, can and should be. It can be translated in various ways,
usually into images of light being occluded by darkness, or that of a
bird wounded in flight.
The text of the hexagram has repeated references to a bird flying too
high, as in the Icarus myth, to malevolent forces, to darkness
trapping light.
To a snared bird. To the sun descending beneath the earth. So
therefore it is closure, except that the night sky is open.
2008/6/12 David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>:
> I've forgotten where I got the image from, Patrick, I'll try to remember.
>
> Have to rush, off to a physio, after going down in the cells and the
> docks and the judge's seat this morning, and then to the council
> chamber (which it seems these days only meet 6 times a year?) and
> meeting the new Lord Mayor, all that the Town Hall, and all slightly
> strange.
> I discover this town's true emblem is a wyvern, that's a dragon-snake,
> also rather Chinese, like that wounded bird.
>
> 2008/6/12 Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>:
>> Dave is that a real dead bird on the front of this books -is it pressed flat
>> ?do the feathers fal? off -or can you in emergency take it off and cook it ?
>>
>> P puzzled
>>
>> Ps I hope that said birds were free range and fed on organic nosh
>>
>> Or is said bird pressed flat like in Chinese supermarkets
>>
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David Bircumshaw
Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
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