Michael Szpakowski
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Re: my latest book is out


Hi Curt
Congratulations! I enjoyed the last one a lot & of
course all your more occasional pieces too, so I shall
put this on my "to get" list..
It's some years since I passed through North Carolina
-& but briefly then, en route from Gatlinburg to
Atlanta, but should it happen again I will definitely
take you up on this.
The same offer applies ( well, not the pulled pork -
don't think we have that here) if you're ever in the
London area :)
best
michael

--- Curt Cloninger <curt@lab404.com> wrote:

> Hi everybody in the rhizome "community,"
>
> My latest book is finally out:
> http://www.amazon.com/dp/0321350243/
> it promises to be about more than its marketing copy
> purports. I
> even quote Alexei Shulgin (twice).
>
> There will be no gala signing at the New Museum, but
> if you find
> yourself in Asheville, North Carolina, US, email me
> and we can go
> eat some pulled pork or something.
>
> peace,
> curt
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DISCUSSION

Re: Par example (je ne suis pas jaloux)


My post just popped up & I read 'Autumnal' again.. it
is just *so great* -it has completely made my day :)
m.

--- Michael Szpakowski <szpako@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Max
> these are great -I particularly love 'Autumnal' -
> shivers down the spine time - the studied
> informality
> of it - beautiful!
> michael
>
> --- Max Herman <maxnmherman@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > +++
> >
> > A Box
> >
> > Prison, gate, or shelter, house or brain
> > Keeping objects safe or spirits well,
> > A space to hide from or to visit pain,
> > An open plain or time in which to dwell;
> >
> > An ending place or start where nothing fell,
> > Allowing worlds to move outside your head
> > As well as visit, one another tell--
> > It waits until we're done, until we're dead.
> >
> > +++
> >
> > The Quarry
> >
> > "It was important to preserve the body so that the
> > ka can recognize it."
> >
> > Osiris, master of a sunken age,
> > His tower's base obscured by deepening sands,
> > Sees eye and obelisk along the Thames
> > And time's great mind embark to other lands.
> > Three centuries pass, and folk here go to town.
> > In covered aisles they weigh, consider, choose;
> > A mighty stream divides it from the crown,
> > So daily acts of living find their use.
> > A race of children's fractures roughly set
> > In ashes from the fire of many wars
> > Through this slow cutting can be seen and met,
> > A final glancing blow in spirit fierce.
> > From vengeful genii eager to the end,
> > The people are the stones we must defend.
> >
> > +++
> >
> > Autumnal
> >
> > Such orderly movement along a plane
> > As leaves rolling in a strong wind
> > I do not think I have seen.
> > The flies so slow now they only crawl
> > And no impulse to kill them remains.
> > The sun is setting further south
> > By thirty degrees from the grain mill.
> > There's a word for passing in zen--
> > I've forgotten it now, is it yugen?--
> > But fall is in limbo today, warm, splendid.
> >
> > +++
> >
> > Copyright 2006
> >
> > Max Herman
> > The Genius 2000 Network
> > DVDs available now
> > www.geocities.com/genius-2000
> >
> > +++
> >
> >
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DISCUSSION

Re: Par example (je ne suis pas jaloux)


Max
these are great -I particularly love 'Autumnal' -
shivers down the spine time - the studied informality
of it - beautiful!
michael

--- Max Herman <maxnmherman@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> +++
>
> A Box
>
> Prison, gate, or shelter, house or brain
> Keeping objects safe or spirits well,
> A space to hide from or to visit pain,
> An open plain or time in which to dwell;
>
> An ending place or start where nothing fell,
> Allowing worlds to move outside your head
> As well as visit, one another tell--
> It waits until we're done, until we're dead.
>
> +++
>
> The Quarry
>
> "It was important to preserve the body so that the
> ka can recognize it."
>
> Osiris, master of a sunken age,
> His tower's base obscured by deepening sands,
> Sees eye and obelisk along the Thames
> And time's great mind embark to other lands.
> Three centuries pass, and folk here go to town.
> In covered aisles they weigh, consider, choose;
> A mighty stream divides it from the crown,
> So daily acts of living find their use.
> A race of children's fractures roughly set
> In ashes from the fire of many wars
> Through this slow cutting can be seen and met,
> A final glancing blow in spirit fierce.
> From vengeful genii eager to the end,
> The people are the stones we must defend.
>
> +++
>
> Autumnal
>
> Such orderly movement along a plane
> As leaves rolling in a strong wind
> I do not think I have seen.
> The flies so slow now they only crawl
> And no impulse to kill them remains.
> The sun is setting further south
> By thirty degrees from the grain mill.
> There's a word for passing in zen--
> I've forgotten it now, is it yugen?--
> But fall is in limbo today, warm, splendid.
>
> +++
>
> Copyright 2006
>
> Max Herman
> The Genius 2000 Network
> DVDs available now
> www.geocities.com/genius-2000
>
> +++
>
>
> +
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>

DISCUSSION

Re: Community


<announcements so they would be
branched off RAW, therefore
opening the list up for discussion (only). >
Well of course I declare an interest here, posting new
work quite often as I do (although, again on a
personal note, I have contributed a reasonable amount
to discussion too), but I think this would be a
mistake.

I don't believe for a moment that announcements &c
somehow "crowd out" discussion. The idea that they
might is bad science, false logic, whatever...It isn't
like Rhizome RAW has a limited capacity..
It isn't always completely easy to see but I do think
the work that is posted has a relationship to many of
the discussions, even if it's sometimes quite an
obscure one; maybe in many cases just providing a kind
of fertile, composted soil for discussion to grow in -
I actually don't belive *anyone* really thoroughly
*understands* the rather complex dynamics of a list
like this & therefore well meaning policing/reform
could actually poison the source of what continues to
make it such a useful resource.
Maybe I'm odd, but my first port of call on matters
Rhizome related is always the RAW folder in my inbox,
rather than the site...
Don't read everything, but a pretty substantial chunk
of it..
best
michael

--- Lauren Cornell <laurencornell@rhizome.org> wrote:

> Alexis,
>
> Yes, actually that