Ask Koolhaas: As the big toe of a saint’s statue gradually disappears under the onslaught of devotees’ kisses, so the Big Toe of reality dissolves slowly but inexorably under perpetual exposure to the continuous Kiss. Ask Schelling: Who could believe that nature could have created the many different wonderful products in this terrifying external confusion and chaotic internal mixture, where nothing is easily found all by itself, but rather penetrated by and ingrown with other things, in peace and quiet? How could it have been created in any other way than in the most violent revulsion? Are not most of the products of inorganic nature manifestly the children of anxiety, of terror, nay, of despair? Or ask Anne Carson: To be honest, I don’t see any “rewrite” going on. Everything I’ve done is an attempt to convey a move or shock or darkening that happens in the original text. If a poem is called “The Dunk” then very certainly it is one. Let’s go watch dunk bloopers for like an hour! It is just as important to study the spectacular failure as it is to study the spectacular success. Sobering thought that is also very poetic: Has a dunk blooper ever ended with someone’s death? The Rat used over 900,000 names. They become palpable in coalescence. Lightning bounces from bone to bone. The cows give milk and the buffalo graze peacefully by the river. A pain crawls to the bank to cash itself and the cold is sliced into moons. This is why the ukulele’s up is no longer up, down is no longer down. The dishwasher is noisy. The mirror is literal. I need to thank John Bloomberg-Rissman for drawing my attention to this review of ‘What are Poets for?’ by Gerald L Bruns. In normal circumstances I would have rushed to order this as it deals with Prynne, Matthias and Celan in ways that seem congruent with my own improvised and haphazard way of reading but the Bebrowed financial controller has made it clear that some of the recent acquisitions should be read first. The system of not-finishing-a-sentence became more and more prevalent in the course of years, the more the souls lacked their own thoughts. In particular, for years single conjunctions or adverbs have been spoken into my nerves thousands of times; those ought only to introduce clauses, but it is left to my nerves to complete them in a manner satisfactory to a thinking mind. Thus for years I have heard daily in hundred-fold repetition incoherent words spoken into my nerves without any context, such as “Why not?,” “Why, if,” “Why, because I,” “Be it,” “With respect to him,” (that is to say that something or other has to be thought or said with respect to myself), further an absolutely senseless “Oh” thrown into my nerves; finally, certain fragments of sentences which were earlier on expressed completely; as for instance
1. “Now I shall,”
2. “You were too,”
3. “I shall,”
4. “It will be,”
5. “This of course was,”
6. “Lacking now is,”
etc. In order to give the reader some idea of the original meaning of these incomplete phrases I will add the way they used to be completed, but are not omitted and left to be completed by my nerves. The phrases ought to have been:
1. Now I shall resign myself to being stupid;
2. You were to be represented as denying God, as given to voluptuous excesses, etc.;
3. I shall have to think about that first;
4. It will be done now, the joint of pork;
5. This of course was too much from the soul’s point of view;
6. Lacking now is only the leading idea, that is – we, the rays, have no thoughts.
No one who has not personally experienced these phenomena like I have can have any idea of the extent to which speech has slowed down. To say “But naturally” is spoken B.b.b.u.u.u.t.t.t. n.n.n.a.a.a.t.t.t.u.u.u.r.r.r.a.a.a.l.l.l.l.l.l.y.y.y. or “Why do you not then shit?” W.w.w.h.h.h.y.y.y. d.d.d.o.o.o……….; and each requires perhaps thirty to sixty seconds to be completed. This would be bound to cause such nervous impatience in every human being not like myself more and more inventive in using methods of defense, as to make him jump out of his skin …
[Note: Sources: JBR; Rem Koolhaas, as quoted in Rob Horning, “The Paranoid-Critical Method”, at The New Inquiry, 3 Aug 012; JBR; F W J von Schelling, The Abyss of the World (third draft) (tr. Jason M Wirth), via Nicola Masciandaro, Facebook, 2 Aug 012; JBR; Anne Carson, as quoted in “Anne Carson discusses ‘Antigonick’ at Suicide Girls”, at Harriet, 31 Jul 012; Patricia Lockwood, “The Dunk, Through and Through”, at Slate, 3 Aug 012; “Small Changes: The Whole Story”, at Give a Fig, 3 Aug 012; John Olson, “Dawn on a Hardwood Floor”, at Tillalala Chronicles, 3 Aug 012; John Armstrong, “Paul Celan, Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Blanchot and the ‘Wholly Other’”, at Bebrowed’s Blog, 3 Aug 012; Daniel Paul Schreber, Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (trs. Ida McAlpine and Richard A Hunter)]
First off, after only watching part 17 I prttey much came to the conclusion this guy is nuts. Is he trying to infer that the term Bueno is a copyright/trademark of RBCP? What about all the mexiCANs out there?To put out a 17 part series of videos on YouTube takes a lot of time, even with such crappy quality you can kind of tell a lot of effort was put into this kind of rubbish. I'm wondering if this is for real, and if so he's probably got something against RBCP. Like the old adage goes: He who smelt it, dealt it Maybe he's the real murder and trying to pin this on RBCP? Someone should put out an 18 part(just to one up him) series on Richard Cardo linking him to the murders of JBR?
Posted by: Clezia | 20.10.2012 at 02:40 AM