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It is as if there is only a single hour,& in that hour all the provender must be gathered,..He longs for the one line to give them that they will always remember, that will embrace everything, that will point the way, but he cannot find the line, cannot recognize it...
--Salter.
Broke(n), he remembers the silver coin kept in his deep inner pocket, stored all this time just for a moment like this. & he recalls a word found in no-one's heart, "carried by silver and star and reflection" (Anselm Hollo).
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Ah, there you are, b. I was worried. I gave up looking for new posts by you and thought maybe something bad had happened. But here you are. Thank you for Anselm Hollo - hadn't come across him before. Tell me what else you've been reading - I need some ideas.
Hello, C! How are you?! Great to hear from you. Yes, I've been away from email and the black sun for a while.
Reading...pretty much given up on fiction (though I might give Handke a shot since i actually found his book after a long search/wait). Bits of Ceravolo's collected poems. The essays of Wendell Berry (very good). Half way though an excellent biography of Illich (by David Cayley). D.C. Schindler's very good love and post-modernism. Florida Scott Maxwell was an absolute joy. Bastar diaries by Narendra: eye opening. Mbembe's Necropolitics: sobering. Two books by Gai Eaton (one of my favourite writers). Rowan Williams's book on Benedict (last chapter a drag but the opening ones insightful, as always).
Hartmut Rosa's book, the Uncontrollability of the world, was useful for explaining the times we live in. Tim Ingold's Correspondences had some lovely thoughts (none of which I can remember!).
Gosh, can't think now. You tell? How have you been? Books, Music?
I'll posy something for you now!
Hugs, love and salams,
b.
Maggie Nelson: On Freedom. A really sharp thinker.
What have I been reading? David Wade ( artist, geometricist, writer): The Story Animal, Crystal and Dragon, Geometry and Art, Symmetry. Richard Holmes’ A Life of Shelley. A memoir: Educated, by Tara Westover.
Re mbembe necropolitics, c/f Jeffrey Wynter Koon Cultural Insanity – recommended by the above-mentioned Wade.
The poetry of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, for example ‘The World is a Beautiful Place.’ https://youtu.be/l11MUjuK43M
You may not agree with Rachel Cooke, writing in The Guardian, about Maggie Nelson's On Freedom!! https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/23/on-freedom-by-maggie-nelson-review-a-liberator-lost-in-the-thicket
Music? The Netherlands Bach Society (NBS); their project to record All of Bach is on YouTube and includes many cantatas, which give me infinite joy and consolation.
What else to say? We have survived the pandemic – so far - and trust you and family have, too. Tim, 81, rises above his various ‘health issues’, reading a lot, writing a little. Myself, 84: a bit of this and that - gardening (in season!), walking dogs, giving a few talks, going to quilt group, reading group. It could be worse.
Love and greetings to you, a soulmate if ever there was. I've missed you.
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