Net Galley Challenge
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Mirror Test
Yesterday there was a dog in my room. He was making a reconnaisance of all things lying around. He happened to stand in front of a mirror. It didnt register. He didnt show a sign of recognising himself.
Still Life
Apples. Oranges. Jugs. Linen on Table.
The beginning of still Life.
Then figs, pears and exotic.
Looking at Mendelez's hacked water melon dripping, ripped pomegranate with glistening pink pearls, cantaloupe with the seeds still held in the sticky mass, hanging.
Fish. Lobster. They join the rank too. For them its an antithesis to be called still life.
Mendelez's artichokes, cauliflower are the most unexpected.
Master of the Spanish Still Life
The beginning of still Life.
Then figs, pears and exotic.
Looking at Mendelez's hacked water melon dripping, ripped pomegranate with glistening pink pearls, cantaloupe with the seeds still held in the sticky mass, hanging.
Fish. Lobster. They join the rank too. For them its an antithesis to be called still life.
Mendelez's artichokes, cauliflower are the most unexpected.
Master of the Spanish Still Life
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Museum
is a dream
with its incongruities
A high outdoor pedestal
Friezes from walls
apart in place and time
you as the curator
maintain the inventory
know what binds the
episodes in your dream
Do you own just this museum?
Do you sometimes loan?
The dreams lost in travel
were they old
would their loss not be felt?
Is there a cast of the original?
Different dreams. different casts
of the same origin.
19th century collection of classical casts, Slater Memorial Museum
pg 76. Travels in the history of architecture, Robert Harbison.
with its incongruities
A high outdoor pedestal
Friezes from walls
apart in place and time
you as the curator
maintain the inventory
know what binds the
episodes in your dream
Do you own just this museum?
Do you sometimes loan?
The dreams lost in travel
were they old
would their loss not be felt?
Is there a cast of the original?
Different dreams. different casts
of the same origin.
19th century collection of classical casts, Slater Memorial Museum
pg 76. Travels in the history of architecture, Robert Harbison.
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Travel with books
I am on a virtual trip to Jamaica with Lonely Planet and youtube. I like it so far. Dunn falls with its staircases and the greenery. Dolphins shy kisses.
Friday, September 3, 2010
Dreamhouse
I dreamt of this wondeful house which had many rooms and there were many surprises, some sections of the house were engaging. Imagine enrichment. Before dozing to sleep, I was flipping through French Country Kitchens. One main picture I like is of half vertical walls into the dining room which served as shelves for 3 rows of cookbooks on either side.
Another dream that I remember from few years ago had ahouse which had many gadgets all well concealed.
Another dream that I remember from few years ago had ahouse which had many gadgets all well concealed.
Culture
In Culture and Psychology, Yang (1982) distinguished between two forms of achievement motivation: individually oriented and socially oriented (compare Maehr & Nicholls, 1980).
Growing up, I knew I had to study well as my parents were working hard for my education.
Growing up, I knew I had to study well as my parents were working hard for my education.
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Dreamworks
There is a saucepan with savory snacks and potatoes reduced in milk. I see a man carrying a basket with a lettuce layer which could hold half a dozen cabbages with two cabbages to a side and lots of green from some sort of herb like coriander or dill. Before sleeping, I flipped pages of
Veselka cookbook
Before I slipped into sleep, I heard a bit of Edwin Peterson's Penns Woods west - Hostel with almost a score people going out on their bikes into woods.
My dad and I go on bicycles from a sloping bridge. On the left, we view the church from a higher point of view. The second floor inside with the ground wider by a room width all around.
While going down the bicycle I ended up holding onto the second level railing, while the bicycle and I were at the ground. Ahead of me are stairs. At this angle, I am about to topple. I see that I can get down the stairs? How did I manage to get off the bicycle. I go back up the stairs and bring my bicycle down.
Veselka cookbook
Before I slipped into sleep, I heard a bit of Edwin Peterson's Penns Woods west - Hostel with almost a score people going out on their bikes into woods.
My dad and I go on bicycles from a sloping bridge. On the left, we view the church from a higher point of view. The second floor inside with the ground wider by a room width all around.
While going down the bicycle I ended up holding onto the second level railing, while the bicycle and I were at the ground. Ahead of me are stairs. At this angle, I am about to topple. I see that I can get down the stairs? How did I manage to get off the bicycle. I go back up the stairs and bring my bicycle down.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Paralysis
We are every moment conscious of internal power: while we feel, that, by the simple comand of our will, we can move the organs of our body, or direct the faculties of our mind - D Hume
Until one day, you can not instruct your legs to move.
Your lucky legs without polio have led you everywhere you wished, even into the problems that you were afraid of walking into. It is not that the legs themselves that have become heavy and pulled you to the ground. The communication channels have been snapped. The network in your body is now snags. No amount of the sensation inside your body will shock those muscles into action. In your mind, you try again to pump the power that you had from the time you thought.
Until one day, you can not instruct your legs to move.
Your lucky legs without polio have led you everywhere you wished, even into the problems that you were afraid of walking into. It is not that the legs themselves that have become heavy and pulled you to the ground. The communication channels have been snapped. The network in your body is now snags. No amount of the sensation inside your body will shock those muscles into action. In your mind, you try again to pump the power that you had from the time you thought.
Monday, August 30, 2010
Where do you derive your principles of poetry from?
In 'Breaking the body' essay in the Bars of Atlantis, Durs recognises that George Buchner derives his principles of poetry from physiology. Others before him from religion or ethics.
In 'the Poem and its secret' - Philosophy could only theorize about the imagination. Its practitioners were virtually clueless about its uses and abuses.
In 'the Poem and its secret' - Philosophy could only theorize about the imagination. Its practitioners were virtually clueless about its uses and abuses.
Metaphor
Not knowing another language, culture we miss out on many similes and metaphors which we would have otherwise seen.
Being in an unfamiliar place, listening to an unknown language, attentive to all that goes on.
Of the times spent with friends, each recalls different things.
Being in an unfamiliar place, listening to an unknown language, attentive to all that goes on.
Of the times spent with friends, each recalls different things.
Hume for lunch
Hume - How do we know a bread is nourishing other than from past experience?
Why elasticity, gravity?
Walking on a pavement, I see a stop sign and realise that this symbol will mean the same thing always. There is no hidden thing in it.
Chose reading him over walking even in a good breeze.
Elasticity allows for a thing stretching to become an another still retain its original shape and content. Stretching our mind to believe in the mutability of things.
Why elasticity, gravity?
Walking on a pavement, I see a stop sign and realise that this symbol will mean the same thing always. There is no hidden thing in it.
Chose reading him over walking even in a good breeze.
Elasticity allows for a thing stretching to become an another still retain its original shape and content. Stretching our mind to believe in the mutability of things.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Getty Villa
While reading og the compluvium and impluvium, I was reminded of my uncle's house in a village, which had such a thing. Sure enough, it had a grill too like the olden Roman times.
Imagine paitings on your
wall
Imagine paitings on your
wall
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Sticks and Bears
A sloth bear grabs a branch
with all its limbs in a forest
Tamed, knocking door to door
it hugs a stick
a bride on her way to new home
with all its limbs in a forest
Tamed, knocking door to door
it hugs a stick
a bride on her way to new home
Letter to Marge Piercy
Stone, Paper, Knife
Dear Ms Piercy
tears as an act of aggression in Ragged ending
make me wonder why men dont cry.
When I lingered at
What you have abandoned
is not behind but far ahead
where we shall never
now arrive
the ending of your poem Being Left
I understood it more.
Reader
Dear Ms Piercy
tears as an act of aggression in Ragged ending
make me wonder why men dont cry.
When I lingered at
What you have abandoned
is not behind but far ahead
where we shall never
now arrive
the ending of your poem Being Left
I understood it more.
Reader
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Size a nation
As kids, we have read how Japan did a turn face after the war. In all these mentions, they do not tell you that it is a small country. And because of the size, it is easier to work constructively like in Singapore.
Global Sociology
Global Sociology
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