Thanks for this, Doug
I had an interesting exchange recently about a work in first process,
MEMORY FICTIONS, which I am trying out at the wf workshops with Tina Bass
- they're 2 voice
One who knows me saw the title and expressed a belief that it meant
nothing to him. I used to flee such situations, especially where there is
an element of pride (I don't understand that; just think how normative
that makes me) but that wasn't the case here. Now though I engage with
them, as I am learning something intangible...
I do have a point to make! I'll get there
I learned in that first expression, surprised that he did not know the
fictional qualities of memory. I pursued it and found he wanted to put it
all down to error. So I tried the brain's interpretation of optical data.
This seemed to be inducing quiet panic; and then I suggested that we are
our memories...
It was not a satisfactory conversation
I suppose I am having a bit of a chat with the concept of landscape being
inherently beautiful -- and there's an inverse view for advocates of city
scapes, which is one reason I have started adding city scenes here
One must, I feel, bring in the action of mental perception. One can't just
say what is out there, because it isn't! It may feel as if one is just
describing; just as now and then everything goes well and there's a sense
one has been inspired
No, no, no, no, no as an ex British Prime Minister once said
Ta for your continuing commentary. Today I consigned two to a reject
folder as unfit for you to see (tell the people what you've written
Lawrence) and I am going to see that as progress!
L
On Fri, November 4, 2011 15:17, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> With each addition, Lawrence, a larger (I guess I'd have to say,
> philosophical) vision inheres. Here, even with the comic turn at the end,
> it's the 'commentary' (also seen in others) that pushes the whole
> along...
>
> So I do see the whole, as it comes into some kind of focus, as definitely
> going to be more than the sum of its parts...
>
> (I'm thinking of the discourse in the 3rd stanza...).
>
>
> Doug
> On 2011-11-04, at 5:51 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
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>
>> a system drained off to emptiness boats where they tipped sideways a
>> variety of drunks liquidless tipped sideways
>>
>> land-living fauna stepped their way beyond the two-dimensioned harbour
>> sinking outside the box into yellow and green
>>
>> there, tattered birds chatter at each other and squabble smacking out
>> brutality new relentless applications of tiny end waves to the unintended
>> picture in which every mark has its own causality or its own human
>> purpose
>>
>> I see it!
>> I see what you have not seen,
>> what I have seen from causalities and purposes and what the eyes take in
>>
>> I see it, and spray
>> it with my structures old tom that I am
>>
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