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Comment on Upcoming Events by B F

B F — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 03:58:33 +0000

I’m sorry to comment on your blog, but I wanted you to know I quoted you in something I wrote:

Thirteen ways of looking at an execution

“What death your god of peace brings.”
- Colin Dickey

1. Twenty something years this is coming, you just discover him today of days a few counties under your feet.

2. When young and asked your desert island last meal you say, chocolate ice cream, eaten forever, I’ll never get tired of it, I’ll remember every one.

3. Truck and I rode out today, chained
To a man, across a quiet field for the deer to get what the rocks miss
Crying mouths open as they were.

4. We sent our diffident reporters way down south and they pronounced awkwardly some locals’ names.
As if Christ should vacate his heaven
Come down and instruct us.

5. The state: mother,
And our bed is dangerous with roses
And turning lights
She feeds me and closes
My mouth with a clean finger

6. Achilles slept on his sword before battle and it killed a thousand men and horses, and got songs still done about it today, so:
O State.

7. Mother…mother.

8. One had cancer and stood for the first time under hot camera light in for her son, dying tonight.

9. While Ulysses slipped off unnoticed
Killed somewhere by something, Time, anyway.
As for me I passed my requisite fitness test
The old ways that say the blood should know who sent it

10. I sleep unruffled tonight
Believing with god and his angels and all of my loudspeaker heart
That justice means unruffled sleep tomorrow.

11. “….!”
”No, I am saying Achilles and Homer were some kind of monster.”

12. The field was quiet and deep.

13. Someone take this will from me. Written in water it runs out beneath the bars, to the field. It says the field was quiet and deep.

Comment on Vampires and Beans by Cheri

Cheri — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 03:58:35 +0000

This is really interesting. I’m fascinated by historical understandings of sexuality. Until recently, very recently, it wasn’t believed the woman’s body played much of any part in conception, besides providing a place for a man’s ‘seed’ to grow. It was generally believed a man placed his ‘seed’ in a woman and it simply grew there into a little person. They believed men’s seed literally contained little people, much the way I suppose a bean contains a little plant. Modern medicine brought the ovary to light, and the part a woman’s eggs play in conception. Without that, I can imagine how uncanny a sprouting bean would seem to people who were more likely to directly relate that to sexual activity. We don’t see sex when we look at a bean, or it’s a stretch to imagine, since we understand the part of the ovum. But for historical people, there wasn’t much of a mental leap. Crazy stuff!

Comment on On Bones and Libraries: St. Jerome by Sudarshan Guruacharya

Sudarshan Guruacharya — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 09:28:11 +0000

Hello, Thank you for this excellent article. I loved the way you connected dots between art, religion, and literature, and crafted a wonderful story. I chanced upon this piece while searching for the Borges’ Library of Babel. Being an information theorist, I have always marveled at Borges’ ability to convert a rather dry-as-bone concepts on information theory into a wonderful story. And Borges’ wrote it before Shannon introduced his mathematical ideas on communication and information.

Comment on On Bones and Libraries: St. Jerome by Bernardo Goncalves

Bernardo Goncalves — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:21:59 +0000

Thank you for this reading. It’s amazing! Well, I definitely do not think asceticism is a way to life, but I happen to agree with the pragmatism of Pascal’s Wager. I like to believe I might find the perfect librarian too.

Comment on A Picture of Good Health, A Picture of Inept Framing by Jendocino

Jendocino — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 18:08:43 +0000

I like it. It speaks to my state of mind. It helps that the nose on the head of the print extends past the border of the print itself. Off-centered print mounted and framed in an off-center way. Like I said, its all a state of mind.

Comment on A Picture of Good Health, A Picture of Inept Framing by Libby

Libby — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:30:20 +0000

…this is why God invented the glue stick.

Comment on The Skull on the Bookshelf by Jendocino

Jendocino — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:09:01 +0000

My grandmother once made the mistake of mentioning in passing that she sort of thought cats were pretty. Soon, word spread to all twelve of her children, then to her dozens of grandchildren, then to the great grandchildren… “I don’t even particularly like cats,” she told me once, sitting in her living room, surrounded by cat pillows and cat statues and cat dishes and cat blankets and cat sweaters and cat coffee table books and cat coasters and cat posters and cat slippers… “but I suppose I brought this on myself.” I would bet any amount of money that she would have preferred skulls. Especially like the nifty one your mom got you. Best. Skull. Ever.

Comment on Pick a Skull by Practically Walmart « Afterlives

Practically Walmart « Afterlives — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 04:55:21 +0000

[...] Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius. They’re asking readers to “join in a little macabre exercise—if you could steal a skull, any skull, whose would you choose, and why?” Winners get a copy [...]

Comment on On Bones and Libraries: St. Jerome by Jeffrey Scherer

Jeffrey Scherer — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:05:26 +0000

I was led to this through Lapham’s Quarterly (I was a on Libraries for the Future Board of Directors where I met Lewis Lapham.) I also lived in Rome and visited the hill in Rome where the widow Paula and her daughter Blaesilla lived. Finally, I am a continuous reader of Borges and of books-on-books. Your article is another piece for my lifelong puzzle making of libraries, books and their inter-connectedness. As an architect specializing in library design, I look for excellent articles like this to keep my design attitudes towards space making for books balanced. Thank you for this article.

Comment on Brick Eaters by Lorenzo

Lorenzo — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:41:47 +0000

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