tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191084196584249823.post8415807958822408197..comments2024-03-21T06:54:52.136-04:00Comments on Wisdom of the West: EULOGY, Ch. 3Jim H.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02088100982761595050noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191084196584249823.post-49769755292779700542011-07-06T22:41:44.211-04:002011-07-06T22:41:44.211-04:00...spukhafte Fernwirkung or spooky action at a dis......<i>spukhafte Fernwirkung</i> or spooky action at a distance.<br /><br />-----<br /><br />"unless no light happens to be passing that way"—wouldn't that be a grand title (theme) for a story/novel.<br /><br />-----<br /><br />Sing, Oh Muse...Jim H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02088100982761595050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191084196584249823.post-65828384031305737702011-07-06T21:00:13.505-04:002011-07-06T21:00:13.505-04:00You mean something like the sequence of Newton'...You mean something like the sequence of Newton's law of gravitation, then the Lorentz transformation, then Einstein's Laws of Relativity, and...? Oh yeah, come to think of it, was it in Bertrand Russell's The Art of Philosophizing or ABC of Relativity when he references Biblical Joshua stopping the sun? I like this quote a lot about interval zero:<br /><br />"When the time Frances Madesonhttp://booktour.com/author/frances_madesonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191084196584249823.post-34023057056138976442011-07-05T16:00:48.755-04:002011-07-05T16:00:48.755-04:00My head is spinning. Maudlin, jadedness, askew wor...My head is spinning. Maudlin, jadedness, askew wordplay, lachrymose, airless... How to handle it all? How to absorb it?<br /><br />The story question, though, is how does that one guy handle that one situation and absorb its very specific consequences in the context of his own life.<br /><br />The situation is the situation—and has nothing to do with the Jersey Shore or with me. I want to know Jim H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02088100982761595050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191084196584249823.post-20365662082379298032011-07-05T14:49:36.642-04:002011-07-05T14:49:36.642-04:00...which is a nice way of saying the piece is maud......which is a nice way of saying the piece is maudlin. But I couldn't disagree more. Chapter Two was maudlin, this one's lachrymose. Let's not enable each other, there's no more time for that, and Jim is too gifted. <br /><br />To the extent the mission of the writer is to keep our amazing language alive, thank you for "burnoose" and for the Shakespeare. Sonnet 73 is Frances Madesonhttp://booktour.com/author/frances_madesonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191084196584249823.post-71435075305283103512011-07-04T09:15:06.079-04:002011-07-04T09:15:06.079-04:00Shouldn't, but I always have the natural react...Shouldn't, but I always have the natural reaction of dammit when another poem gets a 'thanks but no thanks' but that's just one or two pieces, you've seemingly been busting your balls on this.<br /><br />Really dig the bit about the pores clamping down. Scenes like this are tough to hew out, now more than ever given our cultural jadedness, that anything emotional that's Randal Graveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08728992897551848531noreply@blogger.com