J. H. Prynne

[luka]

secondary texts are fine but developing your own perverse ways of encountering the werido text that are not the approved mandated ways is best

 

[yyaldrin]

does anyone have the new book and can look up a poem for me? it's the one referred to in this little article that goes “To catch slant sunlight as cat prowling, in earth warming from cold in browning tints, twigs in fashion with new glints to show upswelled. Light wind in morning, to activate a day aloud, ahead already remembered, chill now but soon declared and voluntary.”

 

[luka]

yeah ok in a bit. just cooking

 

[yyaldrin]

what are you cooking?

 

[yyaldrin]

yes if you could please post the entire poem. i thought it was very reminiscent of the bit in "pearls that were" where he also uses the phrase "catching the slant ..." ;

"Over the ferny leaf-blades lying close to the bank and now deeper green from the dry weather a network of bright gossamer threads, woven close together and catching the slant evening sun so as to shimmer with a soft, trembling brilliancy; we both remarked on it ..."

 

[sus]

Light wind in morning, to activate a day aloud

I was thinking the other day about this, about wind as animating force.

I saw this on the Oceano Dunes recently:



A feather had fallen from a living thing and stuck in the ground inert.

And then the wind came along, swinging it around radially: so that it drew in the sand, so that it spoke, so that it testified to its history.

 

[version]

I was thinking the other day about this, about wind as animating force.

I saw this on the Oceano Dunes recently:

A feather had fallen from a living thing and stuck in the ground inert.

And then the wind came along, swinging it around radially: so that it drew in the sand, so that it spoke, so that it testified to its history.

Yeah, sure.

 

[luka]

what are you cooking?

Instant noodles

 

[sus]

Loads of examples. The Vegetal Inspired.

 

[luka]

Yeah, sure.

Totally fake

 

[sus]

Yeah, sure.

After all the vulnerability I've shown in this thread... I finally muster up the courage to interpret this master of modernism, by drawing on my own lived experience... And Version swoops in, no mercy.

 

[version]

Totally fake

He's like Herzog staging 'ecstatic truth' in his documentaries.

 

[sus]

Loads of examples. The Vegetal Inspired.

View attachment 21395

The bracket-shaped tracks, down the middle of the photo, are sidewinder snake tracks tho. These are from Kelso Dunes in the Mojave.

 

[luka]

You might be able to fool the kid with that kind of jive, but not the verzionator

 

[yyaldrin]

i have spotted those here as well

 

[sus]

He's like Herzog staging 'ecstatic truth' in his documentaries.

You know I'm flattered you think I'm BS'ing because it shows what an incredible find I've made in the natural world. The Sublime. It terrifies Version. He can't believe in the Nature I have put on display.

 

[sus]

i have spotted those here as well

Yes!! Where did you snap that??

 

[version]

i have spotted those here as well

Much more believable.

 

[yyaldrin]

I was thinking the other day about this, about wind as animating force.

I saw this on the Oceano Dunes recently:

View attachment 21394

A feather had fallen from a living thing and stuck in the ground inert.

And then the wind came along, swinging it around radially: so that it drew in the sand, so that it spoke, so that it testified to its history.

what else did you see in the oceano dunes?

 

[0bleak]

"From bare-threaded edges,
vulnerability laid open—
I reach, risk-tangled, toward the core,
to shape the master’s shadow
with my own faulted light.
But then, sudden:
Version descends,
a sweep, a sever—
no mercy to the hand still forming."