Goya’s The Disasters of War
Month: November 2016
Cautioned to surrender (this I could not do)
Untitled (Sheet of Studies) — Jackson Pollock
“Evil” — Langston Hughes
Watch Hiroshi Teshigahara’s tranquil visual poem, Antonio Gaudí
“Election Day” — William Carlos Williams”
“Election Day,” William Carlos Williams:
Warm sun, quiet air
an old man sitsin the doorway of
a broken house—boards for windows
plaster fallingfrom between the stones
and strokes the headof a spotted dog
>CROSSING THE BROOK< | Bottom's Dream
A little passage from John E. Woods’s English (?!) translation of Arno Schmidt’s enormous novel Bottom’s Dream. The passage is on page 75.
I am not “on” page 75; I am “on” page 28.
My experience of reading the book has so far remained unchanged.
The opening heist sequence of Michael Mann’s film Thief
Anxiety — Edvard Munch
Sunday Comics
From Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. I by Hayao Miyazaki. VIZ Media English language edition.
Spectre cannot harm (Emily Dickinson)
Nude — Egon Schiele
Gravity’s Rainbow annotations (so far)
I’ll be adding to these and then doing more the next time (?!) I read Gravity’s Rainbow.
Pages 82-83: The White Visitation, etc.
Page 103: Black Markets, King Kong, etc.
Pages 148-49: Preterite/Elect, Lurianic Kabbalah, Uncanny X-Men, etc.
Page 203: Rainbows, Fuck-yous, Plastic Man, etc.
Pages 204-05: Paper, mise en abyme, a silkenness of girls, etc.
Page 256: “Real America,” Hughes contra Whitman, BANZAI!, etc.
Pages 257-58: The War, nimbus clouds, Zoot Suit Riot!, etc.
Page 299: Tannhäuser, horny expectations, etc.
Page 364: Knights and fools, dendrites and axons, etc.
Pages 412-13: Ouroboros, organic chemistry, tarot, etc.
Page 419: Innocence, experience, Wm Blake, Wagner’s Ring cycle, etc.
Page 539: Critical Mass, Weismann’s tarot reading, Rilke, hymns, etc.
Crayfish and Two Shrimp — Hiroshige
Nude — Egon Schiele
Biblioklept 