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Thursday, July 31, 2014

Cassell's Readable Readers



The 'White Cat' story in this book is included in John Ashbery's Collected French Translations Prose.
some poems by Wordsworth
Coming of Age - Ring the Bells by Mrs hawtrey
The Eagle's Nest story

What is the chisel

Hectic

Habitual does not enforce hectic as much as continuous or persistent.

Six months in a Syrian Monastery


cigars as glow-worms 
scorpion hunt

Lumpy moon

The Moon is seen as lemon by scientists. We are quick to pronounce a metaphor, but we are blocked after that since in our bubble map of linking two things with the is/or line, we only allow one. An example said a five year old kid -
Ms. teacher is kind (explaining the bubble maps that she learnt that day)
but she could be other things at the same time.

Wallace Stevens had Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

Art and the Second world war



Style & Simplicity

Monday, July 28, 2014

Lapham Quarterly Spring 2014



Today I came across Lapham Quarterly at a colleague's desk. Its the spring 2014 issue of
Revolutions
The first few pages show a graphic timeline of revolutions across the world. It almost made me want to take up on the offer of keeping the book.
Stirrings on Occupy Wall Street on the logistics and how people decided to occupy makes you feel the throb and identify yourself as one of the carrier in the people microphone.
Ba Bulleh Shah reminds me of Bulleh ki jaana main koun, written by Bullah

Embellishment




In 'Wallace Stevens: Teaching the Anthology pieces', Helen Vendler says that Disillusionment of Ten O' Clock will warn them (readers) that he also fears the minimalist style, which can entail wearing only "white night-gowns".
If we can explore the anatomy of one room in  Hearst Castle
where a modern one would look bare bones.
The embellishment coaxes one way of looking at it
different from how we would look at something new for the first time.
Is embellishment of an ordinary material, a way of lapel pressing
stashing memories of 

Sunday, July 27, 2014

Karma and Rebirth in Classical Indian Traditions

Henry Beston


On Long Poem

Death and Destiny

Dante through Hell
If we are going to the face the mound
of food we wasted in after life
and the karma we created
is it the inverse of this life?
What you didnt do and
should have done
haunts you for later
The time you need to live
exponentially falls down
with good deeds.

The search for origins in the twentieth-cenury long poem 
But Destiny, the span of life
- antonym of origin too
is our mystery.
Words have words as origin
They should end too in words
that they are replaced with
 
During Moth week, Moth is exalted as a food source for the bats
Bats as the destroyer of corn-ear and arrmy-worm moths
Cheers for Bats and referenced in The End of Night by Paul Bogard - pg 147)

Sunflower from the pot, a fathers day gift
now gleams
The shell of a seed keeps the inside from drying
from sun