Thanks for this sense of "narrator", Stephen. Despite my 39 years of exposure to /
sampling of various practices of Buddhism, your usage struck me as "fresh". Certainly
your interpretation of my text seems valid in terms of the questioning of the "I" engaged
in by both Mary Ann Evans and John Cage.
It might be amusing to publish an imaginary description of what's observable within the
skulls of George Bush / John McCain when they're ostensibly practicing "christian
meditation".
Barry
On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 10:39:20 -0700, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>I forgot your cinematic obligations, Barry. In Buddist meditaton
>practice - when it is going good - the narrator (the inside chatter
>box) dies, while a whole universe opens, unfolds - a narration without
>a narrator. (If George Bush only had such a 'practice.' Or
>McCain.Or.)
>
>
>
>Stephen V
>http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>--- On Tue, 9/9/08, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>From: Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: George Eliot meets John Cage: Barry Alpert's Snapshot
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Date: Tuesday, September 9, 2008, 10:10 AM
>
>Well I like the off rhyme, Stephen, but I'm being faithful to my source in
>keeping
>"vertigo". Not to mention the invocation of Hitchcock's film,
>which had as strong an
>impact (in its own way) on me when I saw it upon its release as Cage's
>"Silence" did
>years later.
>
>Barry
>
>
>On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 09:14:09 -0700, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]>
>wrote:
>
>>If I may either talk or think, Barry, I like this.Tho, in thinking about
>it,
>> I would end it:
>>
>> Son of pride
>> the narrator dies.
>>
>> Stephen V
>> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>>
>>Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>GEORGE ELIOT & JOHN CAGE TALK SHOP IN HEAVEN
>>
>>
>>Key figure in thinking on
>>where you put
>>I.
>>
>>Enter the only language
>>in which you cannot say,
>>“Humor is a rubber sword.”
>>
>>I remember, rather timidly,
>>when one green star,
>>reeling, proclaimed:
>>
>>“What do we live for,
>>if it is not silence?”
>>Other than that, we sit.
>>
>>Son of pride,
>>the narrator dies of vertigo.
>>
>>
>>Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 9-8-08 (9:36 AM)
>>
>>
>>On Monday September 8 at 2:52 PM Stephen Vincent wrote:
>>
>>“...If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it
>>would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and
>>we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.” George
>Eliot (Source?)
>>
>>
>>
>>I suspect John Cage would have loved this quote. I certainly do. As I
>suspect some other
>>'listeners' here, too.
>>
>>
>>
>>It was quoted by Prof. Charles Liu in his honors class at CUNY as reported
>in a story in
>>today's NY Times.
>>
>>
>>
>>Stephen V
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