group interpretation itself is a question lmao.
what are you reading now?
group interpretation itself is a question lmao.
craner
Beast of Burden
Post them
I ain't an onanist fam.
william_kent
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really impressed with this "Die a Millionaire" phrase - so many connotations:
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, L.S,D; pounds, shilling, pence; as @woops say: libra solidae denarii, lysergic acid diethylamide, the Beatles = rich fucks, precognition of death
hypocrisy of rock stars, bound to die rich
flashback to my schooldays, one of my mate's dads was a Customs & Excise agent assigned to Operation Julie, a pound of confiscated acid stored in their freezer situated in a semi-detached, had to interview Ringo in his mansion,... IMAGINE.. Ringo almost buoyant encapsulated in an inner tube, just about floating in a swimming pool in his tin foiled lined "trip cave" in the basement of his Surrey mansion... "no officer, I know nothing"
visions of the fish from "The Singing Ringing Tree", a TV series which damaged a generation...
The Singing Ringing Tree Goldfish
woops
is not like other people
aside from the ramifications Prynne is a total joker, i mean "diamonds in the air" does sound a little bit like "die a millionaire", but only on prynne's terms
there's a character in Yellow Submarine called Jeremy Hilary Boob who is apparently based on Jeremy Halverd Prynne
there's a character in Yellow Submarine called Jeremy Hilary Boob who is apparently based on Jeremy Halverd Prynne
william_kent
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awful film, but you're saying the Beatles ( or whoever made the film ) were aware of Prynne?
woops
is not like other people
i've been meaning to watch the flick and try to figure that out myself
william_kent
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it's a bit of a mess, but you can "take a bullet for the team" as it were...
I'd probably end up checking my work email or some other diversionary tactic if I was forced to watch it again
william_kent
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Jeremy Hillary Boob, PhD
Must you always talk in rhyme?
If I spoke prose
you'd all find out
I don't know what I talk about
The Headlands
"A chemical error, I'm quite imprecise"
yeah, might possibly be a pisstake of Prynne
william_kent
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I've come to the realisation that the last time I watched "The Yellow Submarine" was probably when I about 10 years old, and it may be a bit more "nuanced" than I could possibly have known at that time...
subvert47
I don't fight, I run away
luka
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J.H. Prynne – A Gold Ring Called Reluctance
As you drag your feet or simply being / Tired, the ground is suddenly interesting; / Not as metaphysic but the grave maybe / That area which claims its place like / A shoe. The
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luka
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im reading the whole book cover to cover by the way. this is where I'm up too
allpoetry.com
which is from the white stones. a much cooler book than kitchen poems, not in the cool man sense, but in the other side of the pillow sense, cool stone against the cheek sense, and emotionally cooler. not gawky and agitated like the kitchen poems but again, reticence, scruples, tongue-tied, fumbling, obtuse, witholding
Living in history by J.H. Prynne
Comments & analysis: Walk by the shore, it is / a cool image, of water / a bearing into certain / distinctions,
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Benny Bunter
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They look a bit more accessible at least than some of the others you've been posting recently. I like these ones.
My Blake complete poems has come and I've done poetical sketches, the book of thel and I'm going in on Tiriel this weekend. Gonna try and read it cover to cover this year. Let's see...
My Blake complete poems has come and I've done poetical sketches, the book of thel and I'm going in on Tiriel this weekend. Gonna try and read it cover to cover this year. Let's see...
Benny Bunter
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Seems almost inevitable that I will too at some point. Intriguing.
Benny Bunter
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That's good to know. I'm planning to do it in order though, so I've got Tiriel, Songs of I&E, a load of notebook poems, French Revolution, Marriage of H&H, Visions of daughters of Albion, America, Europe and Song of Los to do first before I get to Urizen.
That's the plan anyway. The four Zoas looks forbidding.
That's the plan anyway. The four Zoas looks forbidding.
Benny Bunter
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It's nice to see how his mythology and themes develop over time. From what I've read so far there's already little pre-echoes of stuff that will crop up later in more developed form.
Grateful that this edition has notes and a dictionary of names at the back
Grateful that this edition has notes and a dictionary of names at the back
luka
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Another thing you notice reading early Prynne in particular is how unwriterly he is willing to be. He is never afraid of the deadening effect of repeating a word, or you get lines like this
"The power is the wish to move, to recognise a
concealed flame in the evening
or dawn or whatever"
With the parting "or whatever" being characteristic. He uses the prosaic as part of his box of tricks, and not, I think, just to deflate, as Eliot uses deflation, it works in some other way.
"The power is the wish to move, to recognise a
concealed flame in the evening
or dawn or whatever"
With the parting "or whatever" being characteristic. He uses the prosaic as part of his box of tricks, and not, I think, just to deflate, as Eliot uses deflation, it works in some other way.
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