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Political Thinking

A Disinterested though Partisan Appeal to the Political Scientists of the Future; Obergefell: a “reverse Dred Scott”? reach of the Obstruction laws. Heller. Dylan’s Chronicles, Caesar’s Gallic Wars. The Problem that seems like a political problem but isn’t.

Film

Hannah and her sisters chart , Late Spring: direction’s scene; [all of Late Spring posts]; Pulp Fiction Notes; Deathproof, Red Beard, money in To Have and Have Not; Jackie Brown/ interracial relations; children and violence in kill bill vol.I;

My most popular concordance here is Hats in Against The Day; my most extensive was PLANTS (now reduced to include just the plants of Shakespeare); and a couple I just kind of liked were Hands in Winesburg, Ohio and money in To Have and Have Not (the film.)

Concordances

Brave in Tempest; Chicken in Brother’s K.; ambiguities in “Pierre; or, The Ambiguities”; Plants in Horace’s Odes; A Partial Concordance of Sorrentino’s Strange Commonplace. **Eye in cyclops chapter of Ulysses; ‘The Fear’ in letters to Milena; Red, White and Purple in Venus and Adonis; ‘Nothing’ in King Lear; ‘Honesty’ in Othello; ‘beautiful’ in golden bowl; Invisibility/ Visibility in Mason & Dixon; Invisibility/ Visibility in Against The Day; Hats — Against The Day; lane outside the house/ Late Spring; Pairs in Late Spring / Late Spring; Kanagawa and Japanese locations/ Late Spring, to have and have not — specific dollar amounts mentioned; Jackie Brown/ interracial relations, children and violence in kill bill vol.I; Plants in the Song of Roland; ‘Pluck’ in Measure for Measure; Good Old Neon, Plants in Wasps; Hands in Winesburg; clothing in Hamlet, Everything, anything, something and nothing in The Wings of a Dove,”Beautiful“, Wings of a Dove, Lists in Marianne Moore’s An Octopus, Plants, Animals, Minerals in An Octopus, An Octopus: Water & Ice,

Odd Ideas & Writing

corporations are our bodies; If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem, Milena and the Burrow; respice finem, Tolstoy, Wallace; factual error in Kafka’s Blue Octavo notebooks; complete account of K; In each play with a character named Burgundy, there is also a mention of the plant darnel.About the repetitions of “A Strange Commonplace”; What might it mean that “your body is inside you.” The Meteoric Rise of ‘Robust’ Postnatural / POPE, Montaigne, Nietzsche note * ;Fossils, fossilized memories, and “Eternal Return”; Free speech possible without “dialectic”?nEvolution of footnotes in fiction? Sureealism and the everyday, Twain and Hejinian; Ashbery and Herzog; How do we win at Centipede when we’re Frogger?, Thoughts on Artificial Intelligence: Boundless Prometheus, nauscopie & phase shift, *; Big Sleep/ Maltese, Obergefell: a “reverse Dred Scott”? Epiphany and the Will-less Subject; occupy wall street, the philosopher king ; climate change a technology problem not religion problem ; Writers’ Habits of Spending; Robert Creeley: A Piece ; dts, passive subject, epiphany ; Actually Crying with Boredom/ mission haiku, Fraudulence Paradox & Binging, “PHASE Shift“, diary, epiphany, fiction, scholastic, Flaubert and Dylan [Trump and Dylan], The Feeling of Thinking One Knows, Polka Dot Scarf, Tamarisk in Enquiry Into Plants, Theophrastus (i), In order to turn (the play) Agamemnon into (the poem) An Octopus, what would you need to do? Being Struck by a Wall, Preferred participants of this blog, Forever Overhead ending (a few of his short stories a bit like that), THIS IS NOT A NOVEL /SPREADSHEET, Anadiplosis, Quotation marks in An Octopus vs. those in Herzog, Cezanne’s Finances, metaphysical foundation for real world prohibition? (Deuteronomy) ,Infinite Jest on Reddit, Did chapters with the same name in Strange Commonplace (Sorrentino) share thematic elements in a way that chapters with different names didn’t? (Not that I could see.) “Major de Spain, General d’Espagne”, Heraclitus, fire, Good Man Is Hard To Find: Flannery O’Connor, Bob Wills ??? Cotton Fields. Taco — Tache — Tack. [I guess the question I meant to articulate here was: might a poem rhyme one way phonetically –in terms of its sounds– and another way literally — in terms of its letters and spelling, how it looks.] Random Thoughts on Artificial Intelligence: “boundless Prometheus”, Altars beyond words (like doctors without borders?) analyzing sounds in An Octopus, Glass that bends, Art & The Insurance Industry, Recycling — satan’s frozen tears returned to satan’s frozen tear ducts, “Erase” and “raze” related, Every single story had the word bird in it, for some reason;  Actual Reading Time vs. Fictional Thinking Time; Responses to the question, “Why can’t I catch a break”? In which I find a dirty shirt after having started the machine already, Rheotaxis in Hemingway, War’s where! Which war? The Twwinns, Researched & Unresearched Artwork, Heller, Nightmare Town, Dylan’s Chronicles, Caesar’s Gallic Wars, Difficulty of style of Henry James. Freedom of Speech in Ancient Athens, Is biographical information about Joyce and the critical apparatus surrounding his work a supplement to, or essential structural element of, his work. Joseph Conrad’s conservative political views, Memorizing An Octopus,

(this), questions for statisticians, *, modernist platonic dialogues, * “Signifying Nothing” Russian Christ***, altars beyond words, pains, [***] voodoo doll of brain, aprender*; The “BEINGONAUGHT”, Dreams are the exercise of biology, Unprofitable Servants*******Hejinian, Blood Meridian / Moby Dick, Dylan and Trump* , *, Unnopenessee*, *Iago from James, WALK, language, *, Unnopenessee, * , Drafts of a Haiku (3rd is best), translating…Unnopenessee, poem, Knowing all nouns, *, Experimenter of Life, Patience vs. ‘Mindfulness’, Inventions, revise a little, a pile, Chance Sweepings: coffee table version, The Shoulder of The Jogger revise, Tracing Pencil/Exercise in Inframince, Outside the K-1 (poem), The Senselessness of Me Turning My Neck, ROGER, revise and put in 1st person (o — oo– or), (concept poem) That song we love: a Hymn to Virtue. Desenganarse,  Magma Square – 3, Anthony, Humatum, Trying to get out the door then actually doing so, SUMMS, Items near cat-hair covered sweat shirt, Brown broken down cardboard box, I had lead the thread of the red back and forth across the bread, needs revision black wagon, Letting go of sock, Chained up paddle boats for tourists, Waterpot, familiar pattern of a capital letter ‘T’, Displeasing stack, Am I in Ancient Greece? <Burg’s Steps>, Literaria Deformis: a history of my terrible writing.

I’ve come across two abiding literary “mysteries” during my reading here: the circumstances surrounding the four mentions of the tamarisk plant in The Iliad (supplemental) and a similar looking overhead light that occurs in both (Chandler’s) The Big Sleep and (Hammet’s) The Maltese Falcon. (Actually two similar looking sentences, you might say). Haven’t yet persuaded myself that coincidence explains either case.

Ngrams

I never hear google ngrams talked about anymore, but it’s a lot of fun. Here were some of my explorations:

The Meteoric Rise of ‘Robust’, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Pale Blue Eyes, Candy Says, creepy, scary, weird, etc., nuclear/solar power/energy, garbage can recycling bin, Napoleon and associated literary figures, assorted, Dinosaurs, Biblical, Ice-age mammals, “robust” et al., plural of cannon, variety Grant, Lincoln, Lee, Hitler, etc. Early 20th century authors, 19th century authors, “data is, data shows“,  Shakespeare v William Shakespeare, Einstein v etc., 9/11

A person that cannot, does not, never will, know Ancient Greek — Attic, Doric, Ionic, Homeric, or what you will — too disorganized.

Greek Passages

Greek: od 8.166, Iliad U. 111-112. Pindar, Pythian 3.107-109. Greek Anthology — 5.67, φιλοπολέμος / fond of war; James 1:17; Iliad 22.134-135; Romans 12:10, [Iliad. 18.22-25] * *, αναιρεω & Moses; Iliad 19 112-113; Iliad 19, 101-102; 22. 157-161; Eccl 12:1; Iliad 6; 144-146; Pindar, Pythian 3.107-109, IIiad 18.98. Crito , It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong; Libation Bearers 505-507; Strabo: moral excellence of poets; Pindar, Olympian 7.43-47, Libation Bearers, 59-60; Strabo 3.1.5; Pindar, Pythian 2.79-81; Job, II 9-10, Pindar, Pythian 1.22-24 The Libation Bearers, 61-65. Thucydides.Pythia 4, 272 — 274 . Mark 13:11, Olympian 10.6, HIPP, Olympian 10.22-23, Thuc. 3.45.7, Libation Bearers 585–602 . Hippocrates, aphorism 6, πολιὸν, THULE / Strabo 2.4.1 ; Apology [31ε-32α]. Pindar, Olympian 10.6 ; Hippocrates 38 ; Pausanias 1. 1.1 to 1.4.6; Agamemnon, 83-90; Olympian 10.22-23, Hippocrates aphorism 2.44, Hiippocrates 2.21, Hippocrates 6.13, Aristotle Politics 2.1271b, John 1, 47-51,  Hippocrates 4.38 , Parable of The Tares, Politics [1277α], Aristotle’s physical appearance according to Diogenes, Hymn to Hermes (79-81) tamarisk mention, Thucydides 3.45.7, Pausanius 1.30.4, Libation Bearers 585–602, Hippocrates 2.1, Aeschylus being told by Dionysis to write tragedies (Pausanius), Marcus Aurelius  9.42.4, Libation Bearers, 380-381 , Greece qua source of human race (Diogenes), Libation Bearers, 423-428 (Chorus), Eumenides 984-987 , Hippocrates 48,  random Strabo passage, Pausanius 1.30.4 (Timon), Hippocrates. 2.16, Hippocrates 2.43, Hippocrates 3.6, Oedipus Colognus 1225-1238, Hippocrates 8. 8, Luke, 18.4-5, Libation Bearers, 410-417, Hippocrates, 19, Random Strabo Passage, Hippocrates 1.14,  Hippocrates 13, Symposium (Plato) 195e, Bacchae 761-764, Pausanias 1.35.4, Philogelos 145,  Symposium [203e], Gorgias 454e, Hippocrates 2.11, Hipocrates 30, philogelos 172, Theophrastus — “Characters”, Hippocrates 4.72 ,

The opposite of a person who knows French is not a person who doesn’t know French, but a person who will never know, cannot know, French — too inelastic mentally.

FRENCH

St. Julian, Water lily passage *, Le gisement lui-même, Ces hécatombes de régiments anéantis. Proust.Fanés; Si l’art n’est que cela, il n’est pas plus réel que la vie;Le ton dubitatif pour les résolutions irrévocables *austriche, bovary, Pouvoir être éclaircie, elle qu’on vit dans les ténèbres, *, il avait beau écouter, il ne saisissait pas, La Rochefoucald 16, le détroit, Les bonheurs futurs, comme les rivages des tropiques, Bovary. bavardage .La Rochefoucald 19; mais à quel prix acquiert-on ce talent souvent médiocre et contestable, qui nous console, Delacroix. La Rochefoucald 5 . Il est un agent puissant, obéissant, rapide, facile, qui se plie à tous les usages et qui règne en maître à mon bord. (Verne), delacroix, ce qu’ils perdent en vérité littérale, ils le regagnent bien en indépendance et en fierté. *, “il avait beau écouter, il ne saisissait pas “(Bovary), fâcheuses, “Des homards de cent mètres, Crabes pesant deux cents tonnes” , 19 septembre 1847, « Quand j’aurai inspiré le dégoût et l’horreur universels, j’aurai conquis la solitude. » Ce n’est pas quand une vilaine action vient d’être faite qu’elle nous tourmente, c’est quand longtemps après on se la rappelle” (Rousseau),Qui proteste contre les profondes déceptions du contrat social (Balzac),  “L’opium est la seule substance végétale qui nous communiqué l’etat végéta”, Jean Cocteau. “C’est par amour de la perfection que ces figures sont imparfaites…” (Delacroix). L’injustice des hommes . — Quoi ! vous avez un canot ? “les pléonasmes de toilette” (Balzac), François de La Rochefoucauld — 26. Entre les pauvretés de la richesse et la richesses de la pauvretés… (Balzac) La Rochefoucauld [21], “La pendule, sonnant minuit,/ Ironiquement nous engage/ À nous rappeler quel usage/ Nous fîmes du jour qui s’enfuit” (Baudelaire), Homais and Bournisien (Bovary), une partie de la supériorité de Louis-Napoléon vient sans doute de ce qu’il n’a rien de l’artist (Delacroix), La Rochefoucauld (25), Updated Dual-Language Proust Passages, Dimanche 13 juin,