how on earth did you know to make that obscure connection? do you write
rpgs?
I never got into fantasy except for Tolkien, which I'm happy about since it
isn't my thing exactly. the anthropology, linguistics & history of a
well-written mythos is always enjoyable though.
heh yes I can imagine. but that's kind of the point of wakean writing, I'd
say; to let the words & associations live lives of their own, the same way
that dreams & thoughts shapeshift constantly. Joyce called FW a 'night book'
I believe, and he attributes the vaulted, morphing language to the fact that
the 'events' happen at night, when nothing is as clear as in the daytime.
KS
2008/6/1 David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>:
> http://www.elfwood.com/art/h/a/hathaway/jerhan.jpg.html
>
> gives you the elves.
>
> Finnegan speak is quite fun in poems, now and then, isn't it? The only
> trouble is, and I've found this out myself, after a few years you
> start forgetting what the puns were in your own poems, that happened
> to Joyce too with parts of the Wake didn't it?
>
> Best
>
> Dave
>
> 2008/6/1 kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]>:
> > as in Finnegans. what do you mean, prowling elves? :o
> >
> > KS
> >
> > 2008/5/31 David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>:
> >
> >> Kasper
> >>
> >> do you mean 'wakean' as in Finnegans or as in prowling elves?
> >>
> >> 2008/5/31 kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]>:
> >> > fantastic Janet. you've written a poem in wakean! I enjoyed hugely
> >> >
> >> > KS
> >> >
> >> > 2008/5/30 Janet Jackson <[log in to unmask]>:
> >> >
> >> >> I thought after commenting about Prynne might be a good time to work
> on
> >> >> this
> >> >> poem ;-) but I'm still not satisfied with lines 6 and 7 and
> particularly
> >> >> not
> >> >> with 'extension' and 'meatsweat' which are too orange. (Words with a
> lot
> >> of
> >> >> 'e' sounds in them always seem orange to me... anyone else experience
> >> this
> >> >> kind of synesthesia?)
> >> >>
> >> >> In this poem my expression is tightly constrained by the form the
> poem
> >> has
> >> >> taken. Finding the one perfect word can take days or years.
> >> >>
> >> >> *breath*
> >> >>
> >> >> brush with that nightskin this dayskin.
> >> >> tangential coatmerge. totem furs.
> >> >> chimpgirl. panther.
> >> >>
> >> >> chill chubby sunmemory, thinlimbed mist.
> >> >> dimlysensed. vibrational. suspended.
> >> >> extension. locus.
> >> >>
> >> >> taint inspiration, meatsweat droplets.
> >> >> turning. pacing. turning. pacing. focus.
> >> >> flash flood of star-mangled breath
> >> >>
> >> >> just outside the scent markers of the gang boss
> >> >> just outside the territory of the tribe
> >> >> as they sleep. snoring. gone. I alert
> >> >>
> >> >> both eyes scanning
> >> >> skin stretched wide
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> --
> >> >> Janet Jackson <[log in to unmask]>
> >> >> www.proximity.webhop.net (Poetry)
> >> >> www.myspace.com/poetjj (Includes occasional arts & culture blog)
> >> >>
> >> >> The Line Mine, bulletin board for Perth poetry & spoken word:
> >> >> [log in to unmask]
> >> >> groups.yahoo.com/group/thelinemine
> >> >>
> >> >> Breastfeeding info & help: www.breastfeeding.asn.au
> >> >>
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> 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
> >>
> >
>
>
>
> --
> 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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