Wreckage upon wreckage piling at my feet now, Max, as I pack up detritus from one house in readiness for the move next month now. Great quote and Klee angel portrait. Thanks for bending my attention this way too, Doug. I can now read your poem in the manner it requires. I'm impressed.
Bill
On 29/08/2015, at 1:54 PM, Max Richards wrote:
> A quick ask of Google brings up this, of great interest…
>
> http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/sep/25/walter-benjamins-angel-hitler/
>
> Max
>
> On Aug 28, 2015, at 19:05, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> I have scads of Benjamin quotes, but no Benjamin book. Any recommendations?
>> I'd like to buy one, or get a couple out of the library.
>>
>> When I was doing my PhD my super wouldn't let me use Walter B as he was
>> 'too old'!! Annoying super ...
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>> On 29 August 2015 at 09:59, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> Ah, the Benjaminian angel!
>>>
>>> And also, a Benjaminian caesura, perhaps …
>>>
>>> J
>>>
>>> On 29/08/2015, at 2:49 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks Jill, Patrick, & Bill.
>>>>
>>>> 'that angel’ can be found in Benjamin, actually…
>>>>
>>>> Doug
>>>> On Aug 28, 2015, at 2:46 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> angel = plane? Not that we're in the equation business.
>>>>>
>>>>> Like 'layer after layer of lives/sifted through time, Doug.
>>>>>
>>>>> cunning/conning loses me but hey.
>>>>>
>>>>> Bill
>>>>>
>>>>> On 28/08/2015, at 3:01 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> City of Clouds
>>>>>>
>>>>>> as any city might be
>>>>>> seen through that angel’s eyes
>>>>>>
>>>>>> layer after layer of lives
>>>>>> sifted through time
>>>>>> s low cunning
>>>>>> a con ning tower
>>>>>> of epic song
>>>>>>
>>>>>> always in the wrong key
>>>>>> to the cities
>>>>>> buried below
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Douglas Barbour
>>>>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations &
>>> Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
>>>>>> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Done in by creation itself.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
>>>>>> The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
>>>>>> We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Robert Kroetsch.
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Douglas Barbour
>>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>>
>>>> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation
>>> 2 (UofAPress).
>>>> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>>>>
>>>> Done in by creation itself.
>>>>
>>>> I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
>>>> The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
>>>> We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
>>>>
>>>> Robert Kroetsch.
>>>
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