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…XIV
The poem is responsible for the knowledge it proposes. It cannot account for what the reader does not know, nor should it account for what the reader desires. Any attempt to do so panders to a temporary and insufficient knowledge. The poem is not prophetic. It cannot foresee its relevance to others. And yet still it wants to be loved.
XV
The poet must understand seduction, because even capricious human attention is susceptible to courtship.
XVI
Poetry, in the abstract, offends no one.
XVII
Sleep, to whom Keats partly owes his “worthy rhymes,” has long been kin to poetry. Saint-Pol Roux affixing a sign that reads “poet at work” to his bedchamber is the most playful example of this alliance. Both sleep and poetry open a passage to the unconscious, one by nature, the other by artifice. Both create memories of astonishing wakefulness, one through dream, the other through imagination. It is almost impossible to reproduce or transmit such experiences by other means.
XVIII
There are two kinds of poetic seduction. One is quick, content-based, and will tolerate no argument. The other is slow, formal, and easily deniable. The first may create wistful memories, but never a lasting relationship. The second, if successful, will become a part of you, a quiet attendant for life…
— Jennifer Moxley
and one thing:
VIII
The idea of audience is a nuisance born of the need for spectacle. Poems haunting the precarious dialectic between existence and extinction do not need it. Their magic is dependent on the private experience of separate individuals.
The Cast of Inception: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Marion Cotillard, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page, Michael Caine, Ken Watanabe and Dileep Rao
Hot cast aside, Inception was a total, excuse the swearing, mindfuck. Stepping out into the cinema required us to gain some minutes to re-adjust to reality. So worth it. (Granted I’ve yet to see Memento by Nolan)
JGL & Cillian Murphy were hella fine, of course.
Did you know that the average breath you breathe contains about 10 sextillion atoms, a number which, as you may remember, can be written in modern notation as 1022? And, since the entire atmosphere of Earth is voluminous enough to hold about the same number of breaths, each breath turns out, like man himself, to be about midway in size between an atom and the world — mathematically speaking, 1022 atoms in each of the 1022 breaths multiplying to a total of 1044 atoms of air blowing around the planet. This means of course that each time you inhale you are drawing into yourself an average of about one atom from each of the breaths contained in the whole sky. Also every time you exhale you are sending back the same average of an atom to each of these breaths, as is every other living person, and this exchange, repeated twenty thousand times a day by some four billion people, has the surprising consequence that each breath you breathe must contain a quadrillion (1015) atoms breathed by the rest of mankind within the past few weeks and more than a million atoms breathed personally sometime by each and any person on Earth… .
With such information you can more easily accept the fact that your next breath will include a million odd atoms of oxygen and nitrogen once breathed by Pythagoras, Socrates, Confucius, Moses, Columbus, Einstein or anyone you can think of, including a lot from the Chinese in China within a fortnight, from bushmen in South Africa, Eskimos in Greenland … And, going on to animals, you may add a few million molecules from the mighty blowings of the whale that swallowed Jonah, from the snorts of Muhammad’s white mare, from the restive raven that Noah sent forth from the ark. Then to the vegetable kingdom, including exhalations from the bo tree under which Buddha heard the Word of God, from the ancient cycads bent by wallowing dinosaurs in 150 million B.C. And don’t forget swamps themselves and the ancient seas where atoms are liquid and more numerous, and the solid Earth where they are more numerous still, the gases, liquids and solids in these mediums all circulating their atoms and molecules at their natural rates, interchanging, evaporating, condensing and diffusing them in a complex global metabolism.
where started love?
which human creature
looked at one another and saw
in the face of the other
the forests and the sea?
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Do want one, such gorgeousness.
For the Milan Design Week, Italian studio Carnovsky created a series of wallpapers that react to different coloured lights. The designs were created for the Milan shop of Janelli & Volpi, a noted Italian wallpaper brand. Each features overlapping illustrations, different elements of which are revealed depending on whether a blue, green or red light is shone upon them.
