[acornlive] Link-a-dink...
Imbas Forasnai (acornlive@dublinwriters.org)
Mon, 13 Nov 2000 13:59:58 -0800 (PST)
Chris and Nessa,
I can relate...(Uusually my work is the piece that
vanishes into hyperspace--not a pleasant feeling being
the one whose "gone where no [one] has before"...)
Glad to see the link's fixed--just wanted to let you
know that "it ain't me babe,"--despite disturbing
rumours that you may or may not have heard about
myself in my "younger and more foolish" days, i.e.,
college at Cal, Berkeley, when some friends of mine
and I, upset at Victorianish dorm policies that
segregated men and women by floor, managed to rewire
(albeit briefly) the elevator's interior buttons so
that the women's floors went to our's, #6, and ones
like 8 went to 2...
imbas
P.S. I've tutored student-athletes at Cal in Creative
Writing and found that each discipline has its
corresponding "creative metaphors" one can summon in
explaining language. I used a "circling wave" metaphor
to explain "The Woman Warrior," Maxine Hong Kingston's
"intuitive plotting" or deliberate dislocation of Time
and Place ala a Shakespearean Romance to Southern
California women on the Swim teams (blonde hair still
smelling of pool chlorine, even!) and like, they
"grokked" what I meant, dude...
And though when I read in the papers that a woman
questioned upon leaving the big hoopla over a "new Sam
Shepard" play here in the Cal. Bay Area said that her
interest flagged in the latter part, "because, I mean,
like my firends and I all work for the Internet" [?!?
Right out of this A.M.'s S.F. Chronicle], I find
myself wondering, "what in the world do you think
you're doing,pal?," comforting indeed are the thoughts
of "remembrances past," i.e., Melville the lawyer's
scrivner/customs flunky, Stevens the insurance
salesman, Joyce the "exile, silence and cunning"
Irishman rejected by his own, Shakespeare dying alone
and forgotten while his Judas of a pal, state
propagandist Ben Jonson (scribe for the big "Roman"
coronation of King James I as the new "Augustus
Caesar, King of Kings"), was rewarded for his "dirty
work" with the biggest "Poet Laureate" style "V for
Victory" Romanic "triumphes" England had ever been
made to bear witness...
Poets aren't a special species meant to be kept in a
hothouse; insight comes from every "walk of life"...
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--"For, wondrous though the gift of knowledge is,
it has little moving power over the happening..."
Arthur Koestler, The Gladiators (Macmillan, 1939, 1965 Danube ed.,trans. Edith Simon), p. 232
--"...don't feel like Satan but to them I am...", Neil Young
"Well, he could walk down the street and girls could not resist the stare, and,
unlike you, nobody ever called Pablo Picasso an asshole,"
Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers
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