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Listening to Mississippi Goddam, the same couplet jumps out at me: You don't have to live next to me
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« Reply #2101 on: 17:51:53, 15-11-2007 » |
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Listening to Mississippi Goddam, the same couplet jumps out at me: You don't have to live next to me
Just give me my equality It appeals. To me it seems to self-contradict and concede. |
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« Reply #2102 on: 18:05:10, 15-11-2007 » |
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'Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.' A deeply pedestrian mind writes:
I couldn't help thinking that, although the tensile strength of the love might have increased, the vase had ended up diminished in the process. From the point of view of the vase therefore.... Gosh!!! I hadn't realised you'd all been talking about my signature. I don't think it's actually saying that love is dangerous because it breaks vases. At least, I hope it's not, and that interpretation hadn't occurred to me before. It was meant to suggest that taking things apart - analysing them, questioning their assumptions, and so on - is not always done out of a destructive impulse; and moreover, indeed, that what survives and 'comes out the other side' as it were is all the stronger for the experience of having withstood such examination. |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #2103 on: 18:18:02, 15-11-2007 » |
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"I think you may have a point there, George" said Morticia in a suitably sepulchral tone, before looking thoughfully at the unopened bottle of red wine .....
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« Reply #2104 on: 18:29:21, 15-11-2007 » |
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"I think you may have a point there, George" said Morticia in a suitably sepulchral tone, before looking thoughfully at the unopened bottle of red wine .....
Never mind looking at it thoughtfully Mort, get into the kitchen and grab that corkscrew!! Perishing cold here, a glass of wine redolent of ripe berries, a hint of pepper and a warming quality would go down well here. Freezing fog this morning, didn't clear until lpm, got home at 5.30 and already the miasma was beginning to drift up from the river. Brrr!! 'Twere -4 last night, have already planned spicy lentil soup and three bean soup for the weekend and have an outrageous craving for boeuf slow cooked in wine or Guinness with lardons, shallots, carrots and served with horseradish mash ........... What's come over me  |
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #2105 on: 18:30:27, 15-11-2007 » |
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Wine. Now that's a good idea!  Failing that, we may stroll down to the local for a while... |
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"as the housefly of destiny collides with the windscreen of fate..."
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« Reply #2106 on: 18:32:36, 15-11-2007 » |
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This would do me:  But I'm afraid it's going to be pizza.  |
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« Reply #2107 on: 18:39:02, 15-11-2007 » |
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Oh No Marty!
You would like a little red cross in a little red box? Is it my eyes, is it my browser, have you selected a link that doesn't work? Now I just have to imagine what would do you for dinner.
Pizza is good, I always make my own, quite therapeutic and interesting to see how thin you can get the base.
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« Reply #2108 on: 18:47:32, 15-11-2007 » |
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Probably chu chi pla (die Nummer 51) extra scharf for me. As soon as my washing's done. And a cleansing ale will also have to happen. Tinners, my vase has been thoroughly taken apart and reassembled so often it's now just a mass of glue. It might be stronger but somehow I don't think it's as pretty as it used to be...  |
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« Reply #2109 on: 18:52:28, 15-11-2007 » |
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Mart, are you feeling quite yourself? Do I detect the presence of not one, not two but three sprouts on that plate? Cripes, you`re not having sprout pizza, are you!!!!  |
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« Reply #2110 on: 18:56:53, 15-11-2007 » |
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Oh Rats!! I have pasted Marty's URL into my browser (having been taught how to do that by Bryn) and it's still coming up as Not Found. I will henceforth spend my evening wondering what Marty would really like on his plate, and I cannot believe it is sprouts |
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« Reply #2111 on: 19:02:48, 15-11-2007 » |
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Unexpected pub dinner tonight. Yum.
The "vase" aspect of this thread is growing quite sad... Which is sadder, to be the broken vase, or to be the person who (either unwittingly or not) has broken it? The word "broken" implies a destructiveness (either accidental or not) that "analysis" and "questioning" does not. I hope we may all be able to analyse, question, explore, piece together and investigate love, or a vase, without necessarily having to break it first...
Gosh, and I haven't even started drinking yet. I'll try my best not post anything maudlin here when I get back.
Did anyone else see the footage of the man who slipped over in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge and smashed three Qing dynasty vases on the staircase?
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« Reply #2112 on: 19:04:31, 15-11-2007 » |
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There's footage?  Where, where? Youtube perhaps? Oooh, that would be truly horrible. Hmm, that's a take on tinners' phrase I hadn't expected... |
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« Reply #2113 on: 20:10:49, 15-11-2007 » |
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Not that CCTV footage but an interesting site: http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/gallery/chinesevases/Click on the vase for an interactive wotsit showing you how the vases were painstakingly reassembled. I like the animated spatula and paintbrush! I like the fact that those vases had stood there for over 50 years and that nine million people had walked past them without managing to knock them over...  |
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Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
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« Reply #2114 on: 20:21:37, 15-11-2007 » |
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Then I wondered about how the vase changed even if it hadn't been broken. Is the vase sitting on my windowsill the same as the vase I saw there yesterday?
IMO, the vase is inevitably changed even by the simple act of sitting on the windowsill being ignored (and perhaps, worrying about the possibility of being inadvertently broken. Although what remedies might be available for a neurotic vase, I cannot imagine). |
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