Saturday, September 19, 2009

for anton:



Sun light. .....
........Light

light light light


---Denise Levertov.

Here, to smoke, have coffee. And if you do it together it's fantastic. Or to draw: you know, you take a pencil and you make a dark line, then you make a light line and together it's a good line. Or when your hands are cold, you rub them together, you see, that's good, that feels good! There's so many good things.

---from Wings of Desire.

4 comments:

* said...

thank you

thisis all true, these quotes. i must not forget that.

Kubla Khan said...

I see that you have mentioned Kashmiris here a few times. are you one? are you actually from kashmir, the indian side of it? from the valley of kashmir? do you actually speak kashmiri? have you lived in kashmir? have you been there or do you have links to that place?

lots of questions really but i was showing your blog( brilliant as your blog is) to a kashmiri friend of mine, one who IS from there and he wanted to know if your sympathy for kashmir is like mine for the palestinians.....based on chimerical ideas of reality!

it has been a long time since i left this blogging "thing" but i do visit the blogs i read in the past but only comment if i have something useful to say.

your blogging output is quite prolific i must say. however, i still disagree about Arendt.

take care and good wishes!

billoo said...

hello, kubla! Good to hear from you ,as always.

Yes, am Kashmiri. originally from occupied. when was originally? beginning of the 2o th century..I think. Mother was born in Amritsar and father came from a small place near Srinigar called Pelgam. As with most kashmiris who moved to lahore no-one speaks the language and so the links are very tenuous. I guess all I have is the (jewish-kashmiri)nose and laziness now!

Hope you are well. Am amazed and hugely impressed that you've been able to put blogging to one side. Are you writing otherwise?

Hannah, well, yes. :) Perhaps you're right. I don't know. Haven't read enough of her to make a proper omment. Ithink a book recently came out on her jewish writings. have you seen it?

Been watching any good films recently? And what have you been reading? Bolano, I bet!

Anyways,

take care,

b.

billoo said...

you're welcome, anton.