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6:33am: 'You think that it is the bird who is free',
Said Reb Zalé.
'You are deceived; it is the flower',
Said he.─
What if nothing grows in my soil:
Only a weed of Jealousy?─
Then see the flight for grace,
Then embrace the earth
And seed love in a life of tillage.─
What are you dreaming of?─
The Land.─ But you are on the land.─
I am dreaming of the Land where I will be.─
But you and I share the Earth.─
Ah, you have your Land and I have mine.─
Where is that Land for her and I?─
There is a certain sadness
In being the flower she once loved.
Nothing left now save a desolate song,
The funeral dirge for my unborn love,
An olive branch and a white flown dove.─
'You think that it is the bird who is free',
Said he.─
She is gone but not forgotten.
I am dreaming of the Land where I will be.─

~b-bear

richard claude ziemann etchings: 2:09am 1 review arts, art, etchings
http://www.peterrosegallery.com/richard_claude_ziemann/ziemann_etching.php

Katsushica Hokusai: 2:01am 1 review arts
http://www.eroticadrawings.com/ing/hokusai_.htm; The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife (蛸と海女, Tako to ama?) is an erotic woodcut of the ukiyo-e genre made around 1820 by the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai. Perhaps the first instance of tentacle eroticism, it depicts a woman entwined sexually with a pair of octopuses, the smaller of which wraps one of its tentacles around the woman's nipple and kisses her, while the larger one performs cunnilingus. Hokusai created The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife during the Edo period in when Shinto was making a resurgence; this influenced the piece's animism and playful attitude towards sexuality.

To know thy erotic self is to acknowledge a desire for tentacles: playful animism, possibility, complete fulfillment, polymorphous pleasure, adventure, longing and yet - also tragedy, for the tragic ensures the imaginary expedients of pleasure. All in one. Ah, what unquenchable pleasures! Ah, what divine flesh in our metamorphosis!

StumbleUpon - Silllages web site reviews and blog: May 14, 8:39am 5 reviews stumblers
http://silllage.stumbleupon.com/; Smell this blog.

A stumbler's fragrant offerings are found here:

from Marilyn's perfumed delights to olfactory sophistication in Proust's Involuntary Memory.

http://elsa.photo.net/photos/disk32-0111.jpg: May 14, 7:44am 1 review photography
http://elsa.photo.net/photos/disk32-0111.jpg; Ah, just two old men looking for sunflowers...

Ginsberg/Blake: May 14, 6:53am 1 review poetry, performance
http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/linking-page/Ginsberg-Blake.html; Allen Ginsberg sings William Blake. Songs online here at University of Pennsylvania.

There are many of you who do not 'get' Ginsberg's songs. I only 'get' them in the sense that I respond to their scratchy, beat-authentic energy, without finding them the most complete or beautiful rendition of Blake's system. On the other hand, Tim Carmody explains the simple fact of the 'lowbrow' attraction of Allen Ginsberg's peculiar warbling of Blake's songs:

Ginsberg's recordings of Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience plays a larger role in pop music history than you might expect. Robert Christgau of the Village Voice gave the album an A- when it appeared in 1970 (close company with The Beatles' Let It Be, Joni Mitchell's Ladies of the Canyon, and James Brown's Superbad). And you can hear shades of Ginsberg's distinctive vocal warble in his friends' and admirers' recordings: Patti Smith, David Byrne of Talking Heads, Tom Verlaine of Television, and Michael Stipe of R.E.M. And Songs of Innocence and Experience got a fresh look in 2004, when Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, Josephine Foster and other musicians associated with what came to be called 'freak folk' in San Francisco cited the voice and music on Ginsberg's record as an influence.

Respect.

University of Delaware: Recent Acquisitions Online Exhibition: May 14, 6:49am 1 review writing
http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/recent/literature.html; I love it.

A used-poet salesman.

Our Research Project: May 13, 7:19pm 1 review arts, theory, romanticism
http://www.uni-saarland.de/fak4/fr41/Engel/Projekt/ourproj.htm; To all who say that nature is dead in a age of technology:

Let poetry create nature again.

A new Romanticism, unburdened by all the old idols, now faces the burning horizon.

University of Delaware: Recent Aquisitions Online Exhibition: May 13, 6:54pm 1 review books
http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/recent/science.html; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) is best known as a celebrated literary figure of the German Romantic period. While most critics would point to Faust as his most important work, Goethe himself considered his greatest achievement his Farbenlehre, or his science of color. This work, published in 1810, disputes Newton's theory that white light is made up of a spectrum of colors. Goethe argued instead that colors resulted from a mixture of dark and light, an idea demonstrated in the color plate shown here. Despite Goethe's confidence in his theory, it was based on a misunderstanding of Newtonian optics and has long been considered a failure.

Sir Charles Eastlake translated and published Goethe's Farbenlehre, not because he agreed with Goethe's attack on Newton, but because Goethe's ideas about color closely mirrored those of the Renaissance and so were useful for the practice of painting. Eastlake's translation made Goethe's ideas very influential in England, especially for the Pre-Raphaelites and for J.M.W. Turner, who made a careful study of the book and applied its ideas to his own unique approach to color.

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