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Monday, February 28, 2011

Bizarre

An infant lying on his back just turned on his tap but there is not enough water, it looked like a a long transparent then film. A lady broke it off and found a similar thinner tube inside and fed it back to the kid.
On an aerial trip in a seat over water. Had to hold to the sides of the chair, brushing off thoughts of what the fall could lead to.

Stories

We were driving to a nearby village to meet relatives. It bein a livestock market day, little away from there we saw oxen being washed in a stream being groomed.

Friday, February 25, 2011

Life in hindsight

Interactions with travelers. The world looks at you and lets you know, you are fat. The world, the mirror, the equaliser. If your family does the same, you revolt. When a nameless face does it, you cry but you listen up. The world like the nurse, pats you for your nise, squeak so you let the world know that you are alive.
The cost of non-reticence in public transport.

The sleep of life

What is that something restorative that lets you place all things personal on a shelf and take off from where you left, after the life is back in you. Like picking up your belongings from the jailer when its time for parole or freedom.

Cartoonists

They take reins of their life way early.

Chalk is my weapon - Backing into Forward, Jules Feiffer.

Al Jaffee too had this sense of need to take control of his life as he couldnt trust his mother to take care of him.

Jacket Art

Somebody else's century
Fungible

The book's buddha face - four faced as Janus but only in the visible half with each half overlapping the other is easily lost in the cliched but hey take a look again. Design by OUTT

Otaku
Drishtee, Saurath
Sandur Lambani
Heterogeneous time
Emil Cioran
Qixia Buddhas
Linear V Circular time

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

New writer

I wonder how else I could be introduced to Breece Pancake's work, if not through Five million head of cattle by Samantha Hunt.
In the essay I like how she tells about herself by telling about an opposite of herself, calls a song a heartache.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

The joy of essays

How to be alone, essays by Jonathan Franzen. In 2003, I heard about his novel from a penpal but never read any work of his. Essays is something I am more likely to read than a novel.
Geri chair
Blues traveler

After coming across Vetted, from the sound of it, I recalled that I meant to look for vatic.
Sound is a way of words to keep each other from going into oblivion.

White flight

Monday, February 21, 2011

Veneer

The dreams that get us close to the flying wings of an eagle, of a colorful pterosaur. Legs slipping down the cliff, but no fear even with an inadvertent hunchback behind. Beneath is the water dating beginning.
A mask to see behind the scenes.

Of Sontag

She always wore pants ( usually jeans) and low-heeled shoes ( usually sneakers), and she refused to carry a purse.
- Sigrid Nunez.

John Berger

Mythology

I move my face
left right slightly up down slowly
a silent photographers directions
so a beam of sunlight
can smother me

This kind of thing
could impregnate me


I wrote this after the cue of sunlight

Writers

Mentors, Muses and Monsters

This essay Annie Dillard and the writing life by Alexander Chee will show your writing guts to you. with sentences like 'Compare yourself to Colette, or Henry James or Edith Wharton.' and 'Go up to the place in the bookstore where your books will go, she said. Walk right up and find your place on the shelf. Put your finger there, and then go every time.'

In The Snow Globe, Jonathan Safran Foer writes about the give and take that goes on between writers.Yehuda Amichai with his A Man doesnt have time poem, the kind that Emily Dickinson says you know its a poem, it takes your head off would influence anyone he comes in contact with.
In 'When Julie met Deb..' her persuasion in keeping at wriitng for seven years hinging her writing life on two editors approval.

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