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
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> 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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