Comments on: Trip http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/10/trip/ How can we live without the unknown before us? —Rene Char Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:49:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bill http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/10/trip/#comment-6243 Bill Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:36:06 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/10/24/trip/#comment-6243 Oh, Jeez, I'm reading this again. It made a big impression on me, but I never really got why, maybe because I never got it figured out spatially. I do tolerate a good amount of uncertainty, almost view it as resource, like a contractor who has jobs lined-out years in advance who knows he won't soon be out of work. Today, for the first time I read the "I" as a flesh-eating beetle---what else could travel through a face? The sky-line of incisors was problematic until I turned the deceased's open mouth into the earth. Eii! It reads much better this way, the settling pools and quarries for extraction have really taken on new life in this scene of death and decay. It reads as a scathing commentary on the relation of the abstract to the visceral. This seems like the sort of thing you might want to say. Weirdly enough, I am still not entirely certain I have got your meaning right, so the job is unfinished, no one goes home, nobody looses a job -- there's still work to do. Oh, Jeez, I’m reading this again. It made a big impression on me, but I never really got why, maybe because I never got it figured out spatially. I do tolerate a good amount of uncertainty, almost view it as resource, like a contractor who has jobs lined-out years in advance who knows he won’t soon be out of work. Today, for the first time I read the “I” as a flesh-eating beetle—what else could travel through a face? The sky-line of incisors was problematic until I turned the deceased’s open mouth into the earth. Eii! It reads much better this way, the settling pools and quarries for extraction have really taken on new life in this scene of death and decay. It reads as a scathing commentary on the relation of the abstract to the visceral. This seems like the sort of thing you might want to say. Weirdly enough, I am still not entirely certain I have got your meaning right, so the job is unfinished, no one goes home, nobody looses a job — there’s still work to do.

]]> By: Bill http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/10/trip/#comment-6242 Bill Sun, 28 Oct 2007 01:42:14 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/10/24/trip/#comment-6242 Hey Dave, I've been on a paleontology tour. Skulls are a big deal in paleontology, how many and what kinds of holes they have. So too teeth. Hey Dave, I’ve been on a paleontology tour. Skulls are a big deal in paleontology, how many and what kinds of holes they have. So too teeth.

]]> By: Dave http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/10/trip/#comment-6241 Dave Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:47:22 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/10/24/trip/#comment-6241 Hi, Dale. Thanks, Leslee. It was a challenge to see if I could use the newspeak phrase "zones of resource extraction" in a poem! I don't <em>want</em> to keep sounding like myself, you see. Shai - Maybe just the desire to stretch the genre (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blason" rel="nofollow">blason</a>) a bit. This wasn't based on any particular person (or any particular drug trip). But maybe I'll try wilderness another time. Hi, Dale.

Thanks, Leslee. It was a challenge to see if I could use the newspeak phrase “zones of resource extraction” in a poem! I don’t want to keep sounding like myself, you see.

Shai – Maybe just the desire to stretch the genre (blason) a bit. This wasn’t based on any particular person (or any particular drug trip). But maybe I’ll try wilderness another time.

]]> By: Shai http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/10/trip/#comment-6240 Shai Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:08:30 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/10/24/trip/#comment-6240 I wonder if the map had been in a wilderness location what images would have emerged. Is it the particular face that determines the map location... or something else. I wonder if the map had been in a wilderness location what images would have emerged.

Is it the particular face that determines the map location… or something else.

]]> By: leslee http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/10/trip/#comment-6239 leslee Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:04:52 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/10/24/trip/#comment-6239 Woo, Dave, very nice. I was going to say the subject is unlike you, but then I realized it's a landscape after all. Woo, Dave, very nice. I was going to say the subject is unlike you, but then I realized it’s a landscape after all.

]]> By: dale http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/10/trip/#comment-6238 dale Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:58:15 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/10/24/trip/#comment-6238 (o) (o)

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