> Walking!
> Coincidentally,
I stumble on this: Heaney writes
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v03/n15/seamus-heaney/osip-and-nadezhda-mandelstam
of Mandelstam who
at this stage was imbued with Dante to the extent that he found his own practice of composing poetry by mouth and often on foot prefigured in the master – ‘the step, linked to the breathing and saturated with thought: this Dante understands as the beginning of prosody’ – to such a man, who could also wonder ‘quite seriously, how many ox-hide shoes, how many sandals Alighieri wore out in the course of his poetic work, wandering about on the goat-paths of Italy’…
No Dante moi…
Max, flat footed
well shod
short of breath,
as for thought…!
On Jun 10, 2015, at 17:06, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 'Spring Again' puts me in mind of this from Bellow, Max.
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> “Art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, in the eye of the storm… Art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.”
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> Walking is always good for managing, allowing and relegating distractions I find.
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> I like the way you render the 'funny mix' of past and present, both cyclical and 'doubling back'. And 'lopsiding' is choice.
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> Bill
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