use your time.
time can be 'used,' allegedly by getting married...
use your time.
time can be 'used,' allegedly by getting married...
But being spent,
time as something to be spent, or which expires
race be run,And nearer he’s to setting,
time -> running a race, or the setting of the sun
dying.
passage of time -> growth/death of a flower
Old time is still a—flying;
'time flies'
The ideal poem would havea temporal shape, a spatial shape, a rhythmic shape, a phonetic shape, agrammatical shape, a syntactic shape, and so oil — each one beautifullyworked out, each one graphically presenting in formal terms an aspect ofthe emotional and intellectual import of the poem.
what makes this the 'ideal' poem? how damn complicated it is???
When I Have Ffa TS
Fear of failing to accurately/completely convey meaning/significance through written words, leads to the realization that Love and Fame are nothing
f itiirrmi' Fef/ow? in the Gmss
describing a snake, then the visceral embodied fear associated with snakes
Theme for English B
Negotiating the self through language, even a compulsory English assignment. Begins with common identifying information, then moves beyond to argue that 'we are all the same' -> ends by trivializing itself as 'just an English assignment'
Sot IVavhtg but Drowning
Feeling of separation/alienation, trying to swim but drowning, misinterpretation by onlookers = dead man talking
Flash Cards
studying for school with father, flash cards invade dreams (?) and the expectations associated with being the 'whiz kid'
In the end, he madea cartoon containing a Madonna and a S. Anne, with a Christ,which not only caused all the craftsmen to marvel, but, when itwas finished, men and women, young and old, continued for twodays to flock for a sight of it to the room where it was, as if toa solemn festival, in order to gaze at the marvels of Leonardo,which caused all those people to be amazed; for in the face ofthat Madonna was seen whatever of the simple and the beautifulcan by simplicity and beauty confer grace on a picture of theMother of Christ, since he wished to show that modesty and thathuniility which are looked for in an image of the Virgin, supremely content with gladness at seeing the beauty of her Son, whomshe was holding with tenderness in her lap, while with mostchastened gaze she was looking down at S. John, as a little boy,who was playing with a lamb; not without a smile from S. Anne,who, overflowing with joy, was beholding her earthly progenybecome divine - ideas truly worthy of the brain and genius ofLeonardo
holy Sentence
draughtsmanship
what does this mean?
counterfeited all theminute
interested in the meaning of 'counterfeit' here
Nowalthough themastersofperfection and bloom ofart, they would also have had a resolutethesecondageimproved ourarts greatlywithregardtoalltheboldness in their works; and from this there would have followedqualitiesmentionedabove,yetthesewerenotmadeby themsodelicacy, refinement, and supreme grace, which are the qualitiesperfectastosucceedinattainingtocomplete perfection,
ONLY Vasari's current time is the pinnacle of artistry, and it is the culmination of all that preceded
gap as I see itbetween the implications of this new social history and its acknowledged senseof itself and of art. I
confused by this
Grounded upon the associations of similarity or contiguity (ormetaphor and metonymy) among its incorporated specimens orexamples, this disciplinary archive became a critical artefact in its ownright; itself a systematic, panoptic instrument for the calibrating andaccounting for variation in continuity, and for continuity in variationand difference. Such an epistemological technology was clearly centralto, and a paradigmatic instance of, the social and political formation ofthe modern nation-state and its various legitimizing paradigms ofethnic uniqueness and autochthony, or evolutionary progress ordecline in ethics, aesthetics, hegemony, or technology.
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‘Ah who sey Sammy dead’ had been playing in my head —by now our signature tune — and a loud clear accentedvoice said with measured pace, “Thank you for helpingBen.” That was all. She was gone. Just that. I had no senseof loss or regret; I felt instead a connection that was here tostay and knew that whatever I was to get from her of her orof anything else, would come ‘in the fulness of time’ andthat there was no point in cither of us trying to force thepace.
"When Spirits Talk" p. 100
The improbability of the relationship between Mia and Marsellus,she with her television pilots and hipster lingo and he with his intimate command of death,reflects the sense in which hyperreality is improbably married to death as its "excluded other." Atthe same time, the comic discrepancy between Mia and her husband lends a visual emphasis tothe manner in which marriage - with its outmoded proscription against the free exchange ofsexual relations - is discrepant with the aesthetic, moral, and economic values of the movie'shyperreal postmodernism. More than anything else, Mia's marriage is a game, designedconjointly by Mia herself and the screenwriter with the intention of trapping some haplessprotagonist like Vincent in the narrative web woven by the plot point of her inexchangeability.Free-floating hyperreality never congeals into a narrative. Events only shape themselves intonarrative around loci of significance that are weighted differently than the rest of the circulatingjunk: the forbidden object, the unattainable object, the impossible object. When Mia first appearsbefore Vincent, Vincent supposedly sees her face, but Tarantino shows us her deadly,inexchangeable feet, as if to suggest that, whereas her personality may seduce us into shiftingpatterns of hyperreal circulation, her character is "grounded" in her status as a totemic McGuffinof death.
or he just rlly likes feet
There is thus something religious in the respect one gives to theprince. The service of God and respect for kings are inseparablethings, and St. Peter places these two duties together: "Fear God,Honor the King." 19God, moreover, has put something divine into kings. "I have said:You are Gods, and all of you the sons of the most High. " 20 It is Godhimself whom David makes speak in this way
here
Fourth Person
refers to the inheritance of collective memory/agreement
I have the dew,a sunray falls from me,I was born from the mountainI leave a path of wildflowersA raindrop falls from meI’m walking homeI’m walking back to belongingI’m walking home to happinessI’m walking back to long life.When he passed through the last hoopit wasn’t finishedThey spun him around sunwiseand he recoveredhe stood upThe rainbows returned him to hishome, but it wasn’t over.All kinds of evil were still on him.
stop here
When Sancho saw that he could not find the book, his face turneddeathly pale, and quickly patting down his entire body again, he saw againthat he could not find it, and without further ado he put both hands to hisbeard and tore out half of it, and then, very quickly and without stopping, hepunched himself half a dozen times on the face and nose until they werebathed in blood. Seeing which, the priest and the barber asked him what hadhappened to drive him to such lengths.
bodily punishment
For the subject firmly installed in his superego, such writingnecessarily participates in the in-between-ness which characterisesperversion; and for this reason it provokes abjection in its turn.Nevertheless, these texts call for a softening of the superego. To writethem supposes the capacity of imagining the abject, that is, to putoneself in its place and to put it aside only by the displacement oflanguage games. It is only eventually after his death that the writer ofabjection will escape his lot of being waste, scrap or abject. Then, eitherhe will fall into oblivion, or he will accede to the rank ofincommensurable ideal. This would make of death the guardian( conservatrice ) of our imaginary museum; it would protect us in the lastinstance from the abjection that contemporary literature prides itself inexpending so much energy in speaking. A protection which puts paid toabjection, but perhaps also to the disquieting and incandescent stakes ofliterature itself which, raised to the level of the sacred, finds that itsspecificity has been reduced. In purifying (us of) literature, it constitutesour lay religio
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ouissan
physical/emotional ecstasy
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changing time
Left Book Club
seen this before
I would have been frightened, she said. But I would have prayed for strength, andGod willing, yes, I would have killed him. It was for our freedom: I would have doneanything to be free.
freedom
Her voice had a deep, gravelly, almost masculine texture; I couldn’t decidewhether it had always been like that or whether it had changed.
second instance of masculinity
lining out
call-and-response song/melody
melisma
multiple notes per syllable
musica contrafacta
contrafacta: new words layered over existing music
motet
chorus of 3+ parts set around a particular core Latin text: one vocal part performs plainchant of core Latin text, other voices join with different Latin texts. religious or secular
mass
typically 3-4 vocal parts forming a chorus of the Latin mass, or a standard text for church services set to music
Hybridity, syncretism, multidimensional temporalities, the double inscriptions ofcolonial and metropolitan times, the two-way cultural traffic characteristic of the contactzones of the cities of the ‘colonised’ long before they have become the characteristictropes of the cities of the ‘colonising’, the forms of translation and transculturationwhich have characterised the ‘colonial relation’ from its earliest stages, the disavowalsand in-betweenness, the here-and-theres, mark the aporias and re-doublings whoseinterstices colonial discourses have always negotiated and about which Homi Bhabhahas written with such profound insight (Bhabha, 1994).
um huh
The masses are his domain, as the air is the bird's and thesea the fish's. His passion is his profession-that of weddinghimself to the masses. To the perfect spectator, the impas-sioned observer, it is an immense joy to make his domicileamongst numbers, amidst fluctuation and movement, amidstthe fugitive and infinite. To be away from home, and yet tofeel at home; to behold the world, to be in the midst of theworld, and yet to remain hidden from the world-these aresome of the minor pleasures of such independent, impas-sioned and impartial spirits, whom words can only clumsilydescribe
flâneur
Their most common strategy was to offer support andvolunteer labor to local government. Indeed, most of the pastors I inter-viewed sought out local political leaders as a matter of course in plantingtheir church. In step with Driscoll’sVintage Jesus, building rapport withinfluential individuals and institutions is a strategic means of changingthe city
mom did/does this?
Ayoreo ways of being were locked in a life or death struggle with moderncategories that they also at times embraced or simply ignored. Reducingthis complex ferment to a simple dichotomy of incommensurable worldsoffered an essential metanarrative of a colonizing power that justified theviolent subordination of Ayoreo-speaking people, fractured their sensesof the world, and rendered their tentative life projects untenable. Ayoreonotions of the moral human arose as a response to the disjunctures andcontradictions of these global politics of Indigenous life.
q3
If Western multiculturalism is relativism as publicpolicy, then Amerindian perspectivist shamanism is multinaturalism as cosmicpolitics
wtf
The measure of values measures commodities considered as values ; the standard of pricemeasures, on the contrary, quantities of gold by a unit quantity ofgold, not the value of one quan tity of gold by the weight of another.
what??
An individual,A, for instance, cannot be ' your majesty ' to another individual,B, unless majesty in B's eyes assumes the physical shape of A, and,moreover, changes facial features, hair and many other things,with every new ' father of his people ' .
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