tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post1686225774899894935..comments2023-06-21T18:53:11.897+10:00Comments on Pykk: none other than our old friend, the tripodUmbagollahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14556344092820711893noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post-44136007468701333432012-04-05T14:39:10.453+10:002012-04-05T14:39:10.453+10:00Ten thousand readers of The Power of Introverts an...Ten thousand readers of <i>The Power of Introverts</i> and <i>The Introvert Advantage</i> and <i>Love Your Inner Introvert</i> are pointing at that description, shouting, "Gets sleepy after too much social interaction! Classic sign!" I can't imagine having Breton's experience. I don't know how he did it. The opposite of the lone Romantic artist tossing on his crag; he liked pairs, groups, cliques, and collaborations -- is the impression I came away with. <br /><br />I was going through Lyn Hejinian's <i>Book of a Thousand Eyes</i> today when I came across this line, "Ugliness in art represents either a failure to dominate or a refusal to do so," which reminded me of this in Pessoa: "Thought can be lofty without being elegant, but to the extent it lacks elegance it will have less effect on others. Force without finesse is mere mass." [Zenith translation.]Umbagollahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556344092820711893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post-24379894074436319392012-04-04T05:12:20.105+10:002012-04-04T05:12:20.105+10:00Pessoa, or Soares, is also contra Breton: "T...Pessoa, or Soares, is also contra Breton: "The presence of another person - of only one person no matter who - immediately slows down my thinking... I lose my intelligence, I become incapable of speech, and, after a few fifteen-minute periods, I only feel sleepy."Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post-14609647536539748752012-03-17T04:53:56.594+11:002012-03-17T04:53:56.594+11:00Breton's way doesn't work for me either; I...Breton's way doesn't work for me either; I pay less attention to objects around me when I'm with someone else; I'm not "primed," I'm blunted. He preferred it though. I read three or four Bretons in a row a few weeks ago, and the idea of partnerships ran through all of them. He needed to be removed from himself by someone else, to really <i>see</i>, seems to have been his idea. He needs love or friendship like a spatula to pry him off his personal frying pan and flip him over. <br /><br />I wasn't thinking of words-as-thoughts but of words-as-a-presentation. Thought isn't presented to anyone else, but words are, and the idea that a word can be put in or taken out, or that the stone things could have been child-graves or statues or adult graves, or just rocks, or not there at all, depending on a word or two words, made the whole activity of writing seem so thin and arbitrary, and if you can take one out then why not take two out and if you can take two out then why not take all of them out, and leave a blank page? I can volunteer not to write, but I can't volunteer not to think. Something's always going to be occurring to me whether I ask it to come into my head or not. The same isn't true for writing.Umbagollahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556344092820711893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5424364424049242300.post-8604613379466435832012-03-16T07:05:57.351+11:002012-03-16T07:05:57.351+11:00I think Breton's wrong though - I prefer being...I think Breton's wrong though - I prefer being two but I actually only really have epiphanies and notice things properly and so forth when on my own - and reading is something that can only be done in a solitary fashion (although I suppose there used to be the habit of someone reading to the family of an evening, but it wouldn't be the same kind of contemplative experience; it would be more like a form of watching television). As to the whole 'why do I have to have these doubts about words' riff, I presume that was a rhetorical question, ditto, 'why not leave all of them out and go away and do something else'? I mean isn't that another way of saying, 'Why think'?zmkchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972549292961948240noreply@blogger.com