Benny Bunter
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He must be chuffed, that's a poem in itself.
J. H. Prynne
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- 100 god damn pages butchering sontag cooking with propane corpsey why are you so thick deaths from bromo-dragonfly enjoy your journey enjoy! everyone! gravity bong happy to help! jamaican voodoo gang from predator 2 lads vs. dudes martin anus shaun from delaware stoned modernism teat. the albert ayler of the recorder the bee is the messiah the path clears by the use it gets thick as fuck to pollen traitor cow-juice west coast dudes
Benny Bunter
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Scientists are writing poems now
Benny Bunter
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Geomorphology sounds cool, quantum mechanics...not so much.
luka
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The 1485 Naples edition of the life and fables of Aesop is and always has been among the most desirable of all illustrated books. In a sense it is the first great press book.
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woops
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Colourised and with added funny letteringImage 104 of Page view
The 1485 Naples edition of the life and fables of Aesop is and always has been among the most desirable of all illustrated books. In a sense it is the first great press book.www.loc.gov
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i have to say i noticed that immediately (The last resort innit)
Benny Bunter
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Read the first few pages of that Concepts and conceptions in poetry essay - brilliant, but I'm gonna stop there and read the Prelude first before carrying on.
Benny Bunter
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Haha yeah, I know. I just ordered the Norton critical edition that has like 4 different versions as well. (Which to read?) But I'm in no rush.
Benny Bunter
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I need a proper book,I can't be reading off my mobile all the time, I just don't take it in properly
woops
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Look at this incredible but unsigned analysis of Prynne's recent work
When you read through the rhythm is clear and very regular, but maybe we are allowed to read the first two words as an instructions to disregard word order – certainly conjunctions, prepositions, other crucial sentence components are absent, and so is conventional punctuation, rows of 20 tildes mark the start and end of the 20 word stanzas like a checksum primitivist decorative styling.
So making conventional sense is not really what we are attempting – the words are stacked in such a blatantly mockingly arbitrary format, it’s a challenge to reading with the expectation of any meaning, like a multidimensional acrostic or a wordgame from the back of a newspaper, vaguely anachronistic.
Capitals mark each page but they equally resemble the deliberate functional asymmetry of a cartridge or memory card – to show which way is up. Its very playful. The physical format is like a pack of cards or a box of swan vestas, but thin as a credit card or a gift tag, and pocket sized, very lightweight, easily losable, you could probably eat it in no time
As if Prynne has discovered sudoku. The 4 grids can make up a cube if you want, lines can be followed on all sorts of trajectories through 3D revealing magic squares - sections and diagonals form little sequences, possible groups and sets and series that prove to be, like every proper puzzle, full of blind alleys and wrong turns, you think you have caught a trail in the spellings or sounds of successive words, or their meanings or taxonomies, or some other common facet, and it almost fits but then peters out, but you spotted a different route instead and that too turns out not to rhyme properly.
On the way you are treated to little journeys through brief sensations and images, glimpses of a story or a scene, impressions. Narratives that are so simple and multidirectional and ambidextrous, untethered to person or perspective, they lose the restraint of time and space just sort of float freely, set in resin like a snow globe, a little memory box of domestic family life in the early 20th century of UK. Perhaps it is the output of a gigantic computer that has spent a lifetime collating all of humanities cultural output and has just been switched on – its first test report is a quirky cubic combination of cosy quotidian fragments grabbed quite randomly from the Prynne memory bank.
What is the the central word of the piece? I feel there may be deeper geometries to be explored. There is something almost sculptural in the shape of the cube formed by the 4x4x4 groups of 5 letter words bisected by the plane of the 4x4 square of 3letter words.
When you read through the rhythm is clear and very regular, but maybe we are allowed to read the first two words as an instructions to disregard word order – certainly conjunctions, prepositions, other crucial sentence components are absent, and so is conventional punctuation, rows of 20 tildes mark the start and end of the 20 word stanzas like a checksum primitivist decorative styling.
So making conventional sense is not really what we are attempting – the words are stacked in such a blatantly mockingly arbitrary format, it’s a challenge to reading with the expectation of any meaning, like a multidimensional acrostic or a wordgame from the back of a newspaper, vaguely anachronistic.
Capitals mark each page but they equally resemble the deliberate functional asymmetry of a cartridge or memory card – to show which way is up. Its very playful. The physical format is like a pack of cards or a box of swan vestas, but thin as a credit card or a gift tag, and pocket sized, very lightweight, easily losable, you could probably eat it in no time
As if Prynne has discovered sudoku. The 4 grids can make up a cube if you want, lines can be followed on all sorts of trajectories through 3D revealing magic squares - sections and diagonals form little sequences, possible groups and sets and series that prove to be, like every proper puzzle, full of blind alleys and wrong turns, you think you have caught a trail in the spellings or sounds of successive words, or their meanings or taxonomies, or some other common facet, and it almost fits but then peters out, but you spotted a different route instead and that too turns out not to rhyme properly.
On the way you are treated to little journeys through brief sensations and images, glimpses of a story or a scene, impressions. Narratives that are so simple and multidirectional and ambidextrous, untethered to person or perspective, they lose the restraint of time and space just sort of float freely, set in resin like a snow globe, a little memory box of domestic family life in the early 20th century of UK. Perhaps it is the output of a gigantic computer that has spent a lifetime collating all of humanities cultural output and has just been switched on – its first test report is a quirky cubic combination of cosy quotidian fragments grabbed quite randomly from the Prynne memory bank.
What is the the central word of the piece? I feel there may be deeper geometries to be explored. There is something almost sculptural in the shape of the cube formed by the 4x4x4 groups of 5 letter words bisected by the plane of the 4x4 square of 3letter words.
