A Myth Is an Expression, Unable to Surrender

• OK, have links, none are those lost yesterday. Still clobbered: yes, it's mostly self-indulgence, but I also haven't the time or damn to translate the aboves into bleggalese. Besides, I'm hopelessly first-drafty, which explains why second and third rereadings aren't re-searing like once and why all I want to hear are songs I've never heard before.
• The territorial logic of the capitalist state.
• Capitalism and insanity.
• Strikes, not elections.
• Privileges and not rights.
• Entirely avoidable outcomes.
• Blowback.
• People who can't teach write about teachers.
• Five Liberal pundits!
• Do Liberals and elites hate teachers?
• Your afternoon CTU reading list.
• Police state.
• Police state. Occupy started a year ago three days from now.
• Conspiracies of convenience.
• The banality of hyperbole.
• Boss Rove's justice.
• Did you know Washington DC has a professional soccer team? It's true, and on multiple levels the acceptance of just how fucked they are on multiple levels is setting like grey Soviet-era apartment complex concrete.
• I love MOMs.
• Beckett, for those of you who do. We honeymooned in Nova Scotia, go for Halifax alone.
• Gass' tunnel. Since this isn't the proprietor of the shop, I'll post. I'd buy the audio book for a Planetless drive to Gambier and back, but the person sitting next to me wouldn't dig at all.
• More Gass. I've never audio-booked it occurs to me. It was never a conscious decision -  to kindle or not to kindle was a moral dilemma of a particularly - for me, not necessarily you - self-indulgent wank, but honestly, it doesn't occur to me to listen to anything but music or the radio in the car, it doesn't occur to me to listen to a book if I'm not in a car.
• Beckett, for those of you who do. We honeymooned in Nova Scotia, go for Halifax alone.
• Never heard of him. I am blessed to have access to a university library stacks. I'll post some.
• No, I'm not going to do the Kovalenko gag, though I thought of it.
• I hadn't heard this in at least thirty years until listening to this last night.
• Heard this too.
• Shostakovich's birthday in eleven days. Requests solicited.
• Friend sent me this:

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Arkadii Dragomoschenko

Translated by Lyn Hejinian and Elena Balashova

Deceitful honesty and an honest lie - which
                                              should be given preference?
This sentence is a consequence
                             which you have not yet written,
corroborating the representation of time,
                                                               forestalling reality.
Pine forest solstice. The sea gull's insupportable stance
                                                         within the wing's boundaries.
The whole does not exceed the part, requiring a division
                                                                                              of spaces.

A myth is an expression, unable to surrender.
Transparency, asserting affinity, is more awful
                                                               than disintegration.
The birds turn yellow fiercely - the light has pressed
                                                                  their Archimedes flesh
displacing the equilibrium of resistance and force,
                                                      just like ice and water.
A warmblooded diamond, where the cell's instructions gathered,
the axes of bones, of magnetic fields: a ball of spirals,
                                                                the web of a nomad camp.
Steam from the mouth
                                           in September
and a tense procession of blue.

The cosmos of the plant is submitted to the hollow chain
of a handwriting that knows it better than the hand.
Is it sap cooling on the cut bark of a tree,
Is is apathy in the restoration of qualities
                                          to their things.... But the center
of life flows from everywhere
                          like a downpour of maple seeds
                                                                        of a pedestrian
in a mathematical text. And so, one can hear,
                                                       "You have your consolation,
a consequence and transformation of transformations
instead of a flying object musing on its own self-assessment."
As for lovers:


we will extend the body divined in a form
that after examination permits us to invent its properties
                                                           - description,
condemning no one to the torments of authority.