You always wonder: what if? What happened to that time we had under the golden sun...was it only destined to last a moment? An elegy for lost futures. Strange that the article that led you here was followed by one by JCO on the very same topic: Jean Stafford's Mountain Lion. There are only variations on a theme.
Eddie and the Drifters. Or was it Cruisers. Never did finish watching it. Whatever happened to old A who introduced me to the film? Fell through the cracks like so many others, I guess...a few were always fated to fall by the wayside. That's just how the cards were dealt, no matter what you say. And God knows best, as the Muslims say.
':-)'
There's no going back to what is lost, there's no recreating or recapturing what has left your hands, only a creation of new possibilities, a moving on. Only forgetting makes the past really the past, makes it ever more beautiful and real, something that is lived. What is there? What's there, is there. And in each person there is a prison, which we seek. One room amongst many. A joker or an ace of spades in the pack.
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3 comments:
the last paragraph really reads like something out of a book talking about (and for and against) photography... or at least i am bound to read it like this. i often think about my obsession with it, and what makes it so meaningful to me.
also, i am reading a book which tries to work out a poetics of memory, based on Benjamin's writing, very interesting, all this.
how is life in London with those riots etc.? and what do you think about them?
what's the name of the book, roxana?
life in london is good. always is. hasn't really hampered my movement coz i generally withdraw into my shell during ramadan anyway. but yes, was planning to go to camden roundhouse and might put that off for a while and still want to see Miro on sat. I won 25 pounds and so I might buy the accompanying book (unless you or anyone else can recommend something)
riots: dunno. just to say it's 'mindless' or 'pure criminality' -which is what the politicians, chattering classes, and little englanders were harping on about doesn't take one very far.
and as soon as anyone tries to put anything in some sort of context you hear the usual refrain: you're trying to justify this or condone the violence, the thuggery.
So, my own two cents, knowing nothing of 'the street', is this: there isn't one single factor. the cuts: of course. but the context against which this has been brewing has been going on a lot longer: stop-and-search, for example, the sheer lack of hope of ordinary folks (you can't call them working class any more because that sniffs of political vitality..instead, you have to say 'underclass').
In a system that is increasingly becoming americanized with 'winners' and 'losers' is it any surprise that those with little to lose act like this?
all this outrage against crimes against property! typical of the bourgeoisie. No-one wants to talk about the greed of the bankers or the serious crimes against women and the abysmally low conviction rates and bizarre sentencing. but smash a few windows and that's serious.
you've really got me going on this one, kid...
so, the violence in iraq, afghanistan, and now libya is all glossed over. that's acceptable violence and this is just 'mindless'. not so sure, not so sure.
word verification: nation.
here's something i liked.
riots
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