as if
"As if so great a sorrow can only express and
at the same time hide itself in its opposite.
As if the sound of utmost mirth and exultation
can do away with pain and cauterize its cause."
(Jean Genet, Prisoner of Love)
boat drifting far from shore
as
if
Genet
could
explain
your
hull
to
your
incredulities
posted by name of the rose at 4:00 p.m.
12 Comments:
this is reminiscent of 'So', in that the more one knows about D or Genet, the more compelling it becomes; like how knowing the context in which a piece of music was written or a portrait rendered - insightful.
yes, all of a piece...as if and so...it goes...but on another level, how context adds another layer, how one can enter a work from different lines of flight and still find meaning...thank you (again)
this is reminiscent of 'So', in that the more one knows about D or Genet, the more compelling it becomes; like how knowing the context in which a piece of music was written or a portrait rendered - insightful.
and I always post your comments into the comment box
of my reply so that I can refer to your words as I respond but meaning to delete them before posting so as not to be redundant...so as not to take away the impact of your words...
but keep forgetting to
[but keep forgetting to]
this made me laugh
I should qualify this by saying that it makes me laugh, in the best way
... and that I am left wondering, yet again, what happened to the previous most recent portraits? ...
yes I understood the laugh and am glad that something
good comes out of as if and so ...
as for the other posts, today feels like it is a word that I been saying over and over again until it loses meaning...as if I have to step outside of words to hear it new again...but I will look at it again...
I can appreciate that - and appreciate that you revisit it, and let me, too
thanks...and inadvertently, your ideas layer mine
...it is interesting how the nuance of a text can read ever so differently on a different day...and if so, wondering what makes a timeless text, such that it resounds across that vast expanse of time?
I suspect that it has to do with the veracity with which it's written; that the ideas or affection resonate with the reader, because they can identify in some form, on a given level, either with the affection, ideas or the global sense of the work, which is to say, the feeling that they're left with after having read it.
like authenticity I suppose, a self truth that leaves a trace remainder, an affect-ion...and thinking how veracity is a wonderful word
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