Thanks, Andrew & Doug. Though I follow Cage & MacLow by trying to reduce
the presence of my ego as much as possible in my poems, I know at the same
time that traces will be detectable. The two instances of "me" and one "I"
in this "Pantomime Snap" came out of the mouths of at least 2, if not 3,
characters in "Belle Toujours", but in the case of the phrase
containing "I" at least, the paraphrase "I was fortunate to have decided to
catch the one screening of 'Belle Toujours' in Wash DC" strikes me as
legitimate, albeit reeking of ego. Barry
On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 08:44:07 -0600, Douglas Barbour
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>And, hey, I enjoyed both of these, now....
>
>both of which are, artistically, 'sincere', or do we mean 'serious'...?
>
>'it's the craft, stupid'
>
>hmmnn?
>
>Doug
>On 5-Jun-07, at 7:33 PM, andrew burke wrote:
>
>> the 'I' is in the selection;
>> the art is in the shaping, the delivery;
>> the 'I' is in the posting
>>
>> 'But ... hold on.'
>> Barry on the tightrope,
>> balancing.
>>
>>
>> Androo
>>
>>
>> On 06/06/07, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> BELLE TOUJOURS
>>>
>>> via Manoel de Oliveira
>>>
>>>
>>> But . . . hold on.
>>> Excuse me.
>>> Lifts are on the left.
>>> Lucky I came in here.
>>> Exactement.
>>>
>>> That made me very curious
>>> of customers; feel the need to confess
>>> unbalanced sexuality.
>>> Just drink till the end
>>> of thirst,
>>> understand,
>>> resident in his expressionistic face:
>>> saints were sinners.
>>>
>>>
>>> Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 6-5-07 (7:02 PM)
>>>
>>>
>>> Watch this cameo appearance of the major Portuguese director Manoel de
>>> Oliveira in Wim Wenders' 1994 "Lisbon Story"
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87mRFMdFAgk
>>>
>>> and imagine how, at age 98, he directs a film in which two major
>>> figures
>>> in
>>> Luis Bunuel's "Belle de jour" encounter each other unexpectedly 38
>>> years
>>> later.
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