Friday, April 6, 2018

Please Mention I Dig This Slumping Anti-Sentence



  • Fleabus two nights ago and my right big toe.
  • I never heard of Kevin Williamson until his Atlantic hiring and firing. 
  • I may have read something Kevin Williamson, who I had not heard of until his Atlantic hiring and firing, wrote as an excerpt in something someone else wrote, the excerpt damning from what I've heard of Williamson's views in places most likely to excerpt and damn Williamson with his own words that I would read, but I have never knowingly read an article, so to call it, or anything else he has written knowing the author was Kevin Williamson as I now know he exists and the opinions I've read about Williamson since I've known Williamson exists.
  • I will be reworking that sentence until I'm not.
  • I have read nothing but Murnane the past week.
  • I am telling you three times we are being reprogrammed: so many nobodies to know and forget
  • while simultaneously telling you three times our reprogramming relies on our original tribal abacuses.
  • Reminder: It's not what Williamson said, it's how he said it.
  • It's always decorum, fellow motherfuckers, never the policy.
  • I now own the just released new Murnane novel and new Murnane Collected Short Stories as well as the new Richard Powers novel plus a friend gave me a copy of Enard's Compass, I am going blind, surgery this summer, I can't read for more than fifteen minutes in a sitting, why the fuck am I acquiring books? 
  • Echo and Variation.
  • Unanswerable questions on radical poetry.






LARK

Anne Boyer



6 comments:

  1. 1)if it is indeed your fate to lose your vision before you lose your pleasure in reading, there are a number of options that can read aloud the physical books you have, that vary in their cost and ease of use - seek and you shall find the one best suited to serve you (will you like it? it depends what you compare it with, i suggest)

    2)like you, i hadn't heard of kevin williamson before

    3)unlike you, i never paid attention to murnane or enard before either

    4) i enjoyed this random post from odoriferous zephyrs from five and a half years ago - it's only a cat in a box, but i like it

    http://odoriferouszephyrs.tumblr.com/post/32842066264

    5)at tom clark's blog he has a picture of a crowd of ultra-orthodox jewish men performing a ceremony at the western wall in jerusalem - the ultra-orthodox community in new york receives attention in a nytimes story this week - the comments are also informative

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/opinion/yeshivas-literacy-new-york.html

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    1. Today's melodrama courtesy of my trying to read numbers for - well, for work, doesn't matter what beyond that - in incredibly small font yesterday that I was completely incapable of reading, with or without glasses, it.... scared me (as did waking up blind in left eye this past Tuesday, though it came back in ten minutes...)

      My opth says I am currently not deteriorating further with the help of drugs but that this is unsustainable, the drugs ("ignore the side-effect warnings," he says. "you'll be off these before any possible side-effects:), and while I will never regain vision I have lost the surgery should stop the deterioration.

      See him in a week. If things have got noticeably worse surgery sooner than later.

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    2. Holy shit, man! So sorry to hear about this. There's nothing lasering can't do? Apparently Canadians are developing bionic corneas or something (my boys keep talking about it). This is totally fucked!

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    3. Lasers first though he says it's 50/50 it would be a permanent solution.

      It's starting to affect hiking - I need use sticks on steep rocky descents (yes, I should have been using sticks on steep rocky descents for thirty years, I don't like using sticks), left eye bottom peripheral is where it's bad....

      I do have faith in the opth both by reputation and now experience, even if he does dress - this is true - like Andy Sipowicz.

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  2. 1)reading a review of enard's compass i discover something else i haven't heard of - Le désert - an 'ode-symphonie' in three parts by the French composer Félicien David

    2)wikipedia's description reminds me of a much less grand, but similar in theme, song by utopia, one of my favorites - caravan

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJDJd7-f0_I

    Moses went into the desert
    Moses came back with the law
    Jesus went into the desert
    God only knows what he saw

    Hitch up your ass and your camel
    Fill up your skin at the well
    Roll up your tent, whisper your prayers
    Are you ready to ride through hell

    (Caravan)
    Moving through the night, sleeping in the light of day
    (Caravan)
    Spinning through the void on our way
    (To anywhere)
    (Caravan)
    Time is just a joke, change is all we understand
    (Caravan)
    Life is a mirage, only a mirage dancing on the desert sand

    How I recall all the mountains
    How I remember the farm
    Oh, how I miss the big city
    With a pretty girl on my arm
    Sell my best friend for some water
    Cut off my leg for some shade
    Sunburn these thoughts from my memory
    If I live I will be remade

    (Caravan)
    Moving through the night, sleeping in the light of day
    (Caravan)
    Spinning through the void on our way
    (To anywhere)
    (Caravan)
    Time is just a joke, change is all we understand
    (Caravan)
    Life is a mirage, only a mirage dancing on the desert sand

    The sand is like a razor, slashing at my face
    Everyone's in panic but you can't see any place
    It's a sand storm, taken by surprise
    Hide beneath your wrappings and cover up your eyes

    Well I lost my kit and camel, maybe I will die
    Feel so lost and helpless and I think I'm gonna cry
    It's a sand storm, nothing you can do
    No one knows if it will last, no one knows if you will make it through

    It's been so long without water
    Vultures are filling the air
    Where is that bloody oasis
    Must be around here somewhere

    Time for some strong meditation
    Time for the ultimate change
    Time to make peace with your maker
    Everything has been prearranged

    (Caravan)
    Moving through the night, sleeping in the light of day
    (Caravan)
    Spinning through the void on our way
    (To anywhere)
    (Caravan)
    Time is just a joke, change is all we understand
    (Caravan)
    Life is a mirage, only a mirage dancing on the desert sand
    (Caravan)




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  3. Coming here, whether you mention it or not, on occasion I think about your vision -- no pun -- and make a wish that the outcome is good and the fix is permanent. Until then I hope the burden is light. No pun there, either.

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