jenks
thread death
The I A Richards book?
what are you reading now?
luka
Well-known member
I have. I haven't actually read in parenthesis though
jenks
thread death
There’s a character called Jenkins in there - it’s probably the best poem about being in the 1WW trenches
luka
Well-known member
Stand-to.
Stand-to-arms.
Stealthily, imperceptibly stript back, thinning
night wraps
unshrouding, unsheafing—
and insubstantial barriers dissolve.
This blind night-negative yields uncertain flux.
At your wrist the phosphorescent dial describes the equal seconds.
The flux yields up a measurable body; bleached forms emerge and stand.
Where their faces turned, grey wealed earth bared almost of last clung weeds of night weft—
behind them the stars still shined.
Stand-to-arms.
Stealthily, imperceptibly stript back, thinning
night wraps
unshrouding, unsheafing—
and insubstantial barriers dissolve.
This blind night-negative yields uncertain flux.
At your wrist the phosphorescent dial describes the equal seconds.
The flux yields up a measurable body; bleached forms emerge and stand.
Where their faces turned, grey wealed earth bared almost of last clung weeds of night weft—
behind them the stars still shined.
luka
Well-known member
The rain stopped.
She drives swift and immaculate out over, free of these ob-
scuring waters; frets their fringes splendid.
A silver hurrying to silver this waste
silver for bolt-shoulders
silver for butt-heel irons
silver beams search the interstices, play for breech-blocks
underneath the counterfeiting bower-sway; make-believe a
silver scar with drenched tree-wound; silver-trace a fes-
tooned slack; faery-bright a filigree with gooseberries and
picket irons -grace this mauled earth-
transfigure our infirmity-
shine on us.
I want you to play with
and the stars as well.
Received,
curtained where her cloud captors
pursue her bright
pursue her darkly
detain her-
when men mourn for her, who go stumbling, these details
for the ambuscade praise her, for an adjutrix; like caved rob-
bers on a Mawddwy the land waste as far as English
Maelor; green girls in broken keeps have only mastiff-guards
-like the mademoiselle at Croix Barbee.
She drives swift and immaculate out over, free of these ob-
scuring waters; frets their fringes splendid.
A silver hurrying to silver this waste
silver for bolt-shoulders
silver for butt-heel irons
silver beams search the interstices, play for breech-blocks
underneath the counterfeiting bower-sway; make-believe a
silver scar with drenched tree-wound; silver-trace a fes-
tooned slack; faery-bright a filigree with gooseberries and
picket irons -grace this mauled earth-
transfigure our infirmity-
shine on us.
I want you to play with
and the stars as well.
Received,
curtained where her cloud captors
pursue her bright
pursue her darkly
detain her-
when men mourn for her, who go stumbling, these details
for the ambuscade praise her, for an adjutrix; like caved rob-
bers on a Mawddwy the land waste as far as English
Maelor; green girls in broken keeps have only mastiff-guards
-like the mademoiselle at Croix Barbee.
Dostoevsky 'Possessed'. It's brilliant, I'm 250 pages in. So many quotes already, on religion and philosophy, but it's also a very good story, with the different arcs interlocking in a very satisfactory way. Can't believe I've got to 40 and not read anything of his apart from notes from underground til now. Shame. Might start a thread on it.
And also ithell colquhoun 'the living stones', which is brilliant in a different way. Lots about animism. Excellent early passage where she talks about electricity waves affecting her mental state. She deserves her own thread too. Hat tip to Sir Your Hands for the recc.
And also ithell colquhoun 'the living stones', which is brilliant in a different way. Lots about animism. Excellent early passage where she talks about electricity waves affecting her mental state. She deserves her own thread too. Hat tip to Sir Your Hands for the recc.
Interesting article about reading a lot and the sour grapes it provokes: https://unbound.com/boundless/2019/05/28/my-many-years-of-re
IdleRich
IdleRich
I started reading White Tears by Hari Kunzru yesterday - really enjoying it so far, read 80 pages in half an hour. Helps cos it's about sound geeks and record collectors, I've actually read some essays by or about hardcore blues collectors (which is what they're after at the start of the book) and so it rings true (though I'm not sure you could fool everyone with a photoshopped pic of the record as they do here). Also has some kind of possibly supernatural thing when he walks around recording everything like in The Conversation and things that weren't there when he walked past seem to turn up on the recording.
Dutch Light by Hugh Aldersley-Williams
About Christian Huygens. It's amazing, some of the 17th century Dutch were wicked smart
Goes on to talk about the invention of the telescope, and Cornelius Drebbel, who demonstrated a submarine in the Thames that rowed about underwater for 3 hours, using secret alchemical techniques to create oxygen. Great book, if you like that kind of thing.
About Christian Huygens. It's amazing, some of the 17th century Dutch were wicked smart
Goes on to talk about the invention of the telescope, and Cornelius Drebbel, who demonstrated a submarine in the Thames that rowed about underwater for 3 hours, using secret alchemical techniques to create oxygen. Great book, if you like that kind of thing.
Kindle tip: set the font to Open Dyslexic. if you're not dyslexic it bestows super reading powers.
john eden
male pale and stale
Ah cool, that sounds great. I got his new one Red Pill for Xmas and am looking forward to getting stuck into that. About someone being radicalised into the alt-right etc afaik.
Slothrop, I think.