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| In Lawrence's chapter on The Scarlet Letter, where he explains why "woman out of bounds is a devil," the same person who wrote "true?" in the margin pages ago gives up using words and starts putting question marks in the margins - first just one a page, and then they're by every paragraph, and then slowly (I imagine if you turned the pages it'd work like a flip-book) they straighten out into exclamation points... | |
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| "We live to stand alone, and listen to the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost, who is inside us, and who is many gods. Many gods come and go, some say one thing and some say another, and we have to obey the God of the innermost hour. It is the multiplicity of gods within us make up the Holy Ghost." | |
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| In my library copy of D.H. Lawrence's Studies in Classic American Literature, beside this passage It is easy to see why each man kills the thing he loves. To know a living thing is to kill it. You have to kill a thing to know it satisfactorily. For this reason, the desirous consciousness, the SPIRIT, is a vampire. someone has written in loopy pencil script true? | |
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| "You can't have a new, easy skin before you have sloughed off the old, tight skin.
You can't.
And you just can't, so you may as well leave off pretending."
-D.H. Lawrence | |
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| "When an artist says MY WORK, the flesh goes tired on my bones. When he says MY WIFE, I want to hit him."
-D.H. Lawrence | |
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| 1) In Thomas Mann's book Doktor Faustus, in an interview with the Devil, the composer asks for a description of Hell, to which the Devil replies that Hell, "it is unbelievable, so unbelievable that it turns a man chalk-white, unbelievable although in the very greeting upon arrival it is revealed in a most concise and forcible form that 'here all things cease'" 2) I find this last line, Hell as a place where "all things cease" very intriguing. Hell as a continuous ending of all things; the total antithesis to life. 3) Schopenhauer equates the sexual desire with the will to live, to create - an "immensely powerful" force not to be easily reckoned with. The outcome of this force is of course, new humans, new relationships between humans, new art work, new life in all its wondrous splendrous abundance bounty and pleasure. 5) Therein the purposeful (as opposed to passionate) will to destroy, to decay, to hurt - a very human need yes-might it not be framed as an opposing concept to the will to create, the will to life to sex? 5.5) Can't we say that we need to destroy the old to create the new? That destruction holds within it the seed to creation? Yes, this is often true, but I speak less of cyclic patterns of death rebirth and more of the vastly conscious or closed-minded conservative attempts to inhibit life. 6) So, so far so good: sex=creation=life, art, human relationships, etc. 7) So this desire can be looked at a reply to a Hell where "all things cease". 8) Yet wait - One of the prime dogmas of several world religions is the corrupting power of the flesh- the Great Tempter who wields lust and desire as an invitation to sin and destruction. 9) So let's reconcile 6) and 8). 10) Well, the dogmas of world religions are created by people whose interest is in keeping the status quo within any belief and social system. Desire must be corralled so that it leads to the creation of new humans, and some works of art - but all creativity is ultimately change (which will happen regardless), which many many people find both undesirable and frightening for reasons of selfishness, conservatism, and habit. 10.5) Whatever your religious beliefs, we only have this one human life strand to our consciousness! Very, very few will die thinking "If only I had more halted human life and growth!" We will die. We'd better make the best of these short hours upon the stage and visit our fellows with virditas. 11) As artists, as humans, in order to quell the onrushing tides of destruction, to prevent rot from setting upon this world, to prevent war,it is our deepest mission to create the new in any form, be it new kinds of human loves and lusts, new humans, new art, new relationships - an ever growing filigree of human achievement, a massive candelabra with countless glowing souls illuminating and joining together our human forms and human designs to a bright and fulfilling future.  | |
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| "and here the mixed breed, part man, part beast, the Minotaur--
a warning against such monstrous passion." | |
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| "Down at his feet
he flung his useless helmet, the one he donned
when he played at war, acting out mock battles." | |
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| http://www.clickliverpool.com/news/national-news/125245-married-boxer-plans-sex-swap-operation.htmlMarried boxer plans sex swap operationby John Harkin. Published Thu 16 Jul 2009 09:01, Last updated: 16 Jul 2009 A married boxer with three kids has decided to ditch his macho lifestyle and try his hand in the fashion industry ... as a woman! Robert Newbiggins, who was born an "intersexual", meaning he has both male and female genitalia, has spent decades roughing it in the ring, even training with boxing legend Ricky Hatton. But Rob, 44, has decided to temporarily swap the gloves for a gown, in a bid to forge a modelling career in the States. Speaking from his home in Southport, Merseyside, Rob said: "I've always wanted to be a woman, ever since I was three-years-old. "My dad instilled in me from an early age that I needed to be masculine. "He said it was wrong to be an intersexual and that I needed to act like a man. "So I took his advice, everything I have done in my life since has been masculine. ( Read more... ) | |
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| I really, really love this poem, California, written by my friend Jen Denrow. Go read it. | |
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| Well, in order to make myself more attractive to the Extra and Gaikokujin talent agencies here, Jyunko's and my friend Reiko took a bunch of photos:   To look at more please go here | |
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| I'd never heard the word muster used as a noun, but I plan to use it all the time now. | |
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| She's human at first glance, down to the waist a girl
with lovely breasts, but a monster of the deep below,
her body a writhing horror, her belly spawns wolves
flailing with dolpins' tails. Better to waste time,
skirting Sicily then in a long arc round Cape Pachynus,
than once set eyes on gruesome Scylla deep in her cave,
her rocks booming with all her sea-green hounds. | |
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| So after the Trojans land on the Harpies' island without permission, kill their cows and eat them, and then attack the Harpies when they try to defend themselves, saying there are "no monsters on earth more cruel," THEN they land at Actium, where: We cleanse ourselves with the rites we owe to Jove
and make the altars blaze with votive gifts,
then crowd the Actian shore with Trojan games.
My shipmates strip and glistening sleek with oil,
wrestle the old Trojan way, our spirits high-- I can't really figure out how these famous "rules of hospitality" are applied in any of the Greek and Roman epics. The story of Ulysses and the cyclops always blows my top. | |
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| Bum rap!  | |
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| Not suprisingly, The Scarlet Letter is way more interesting now than it was when I was 14.
"We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest." | |
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| Well, Jyunko and I found a nice apartment in Meguro - Meguro 3 chome to be exact. It's an unbelievably cheap rent for the area and size of the place, but quite nice with two rooms (one Japanese style) plus kitchen, wood floors, quiet, and close to the Meguro stop on the Yamanote line.
Meguro is a great area. Eminently livable, lots of art and parks, and has a strangely arty feel despite its being right in the thick of Tokyo.
So the new address is
Abel Coelho
Meguro 3-6-15 ~~101
Meguro-ku
Tokyo
Japan
or
東京都目黒区目黒３丁目６番１５号〜１０１
I got my work visa the other day, and now I'm casting around for a job that isn't teaching English.
If you're in town, give me a message, and we could meet. | |
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| The Guardian's Gary Nunn gets it right: There's a notable lack of funded robust research on modern attitudes towards bisexuality – reinforcing the invisible and undesirable status it suffers from. But like many stereotypes, it's possible to detect the characteristics that form the multiple-discriminations against bisexual people. And they're as specific as they are damning, coming from both gay and straight people.</p>General unpleasant – and unproven – stereotypes tend to depict bisexual people as greedy, selfish, indecisive, attention-seeking, incapable of fulfillment, shallow, fickle, trend-followers, unreliable, dishonest, untrustworthy, anti-monogamy or just plain odd. Bi-phobic stereotypes are expressed by some gay people too. This is shocking, given that you might reasonably expect gay people to appreciate the effect of bigotry and empathise. Bisexuality is sometimes referred to as a halfway house – a temporary holding sexuality on the way to homosexuality – suggesting bisexual people are confused or in denial. Other bi-phobic gay people claim bisexual people aren't seen to pay their dues to the gay community, but reap the benefits of equality campaigning when they decide to enter a same-sex relationship. They're therefore sometimes excluded from the gay community, but also not trusted by potential opposite-sex partners. There's a lot more really good stuff there. | |
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| "There at the very edge of the front gates
springs Pyrrhus, son of Achilles, prancing in arms,
aflash in his shimmering brazen sheath like a snake
buried the whole winter long under frozen turf,
swollen to bursting, fed full on poisonous weeds
and now it springs into light, sloughing its old skin
to glisten sleek in its newfound youth, its back slithering,
coiling, its proud chest rearing high to the sun,
its triple tongue flickering through its fangs."
That is truly terrifying and complex and weird. | |
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| Some marginalia in my used copy of Paterson: "women as commodities - that's wrong." | |
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| "I have come to understand not only that many changes have occurred in me and the world, but I have been forced to recognize that there can be no end to such a story I have envisioned with the terms which I have laid down for myself."
-WCW, on writing Paterson | |
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