L68:
A live metaphor is a linguistic short-circuit. Non-metaphorical ways of speaking conduct meaning, in insulated carriers, to certain ends and purposes. Metaphors shave off the insulation and meaning arcs across the gap.
A dead metaphor is one in which this arcing between gestalts no longer occurs. Its energy has been diverted into and contained by the culture’s linguistic grid.
- from Jan Zwicky's Wisdom & Metaphor.
Monday, August 8, 2011
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
What it will be Questiond When the Sun rises do you not see a round Disk of fire somewhat like a Guinea O no no I see an Innumerable company of the Heavenly host crying Holy Holy Holy is the Lord God Almighty I question not my Corporeal or Vegetative Eye any more than I would Question a Window concerning a Sight I look thro it & not with it.
- William Blake, from "[A Vision of the Last Judgment]," The Poetry and Prose of William Blake.
- William Blake, from "[A Vision of the Last Judgment]," The Poetry and Prose of William Blake.
Monday, August 1, 2011
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal: Oscarine
Timber Timbre: Trouble Comes Knocking
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And so, held accountable for nothing, life fades into nothingness. Automatization eats away at things, at clothes, a furniture, at our wives, and at our fear of war.
If the complex life of many people takes place entirely on the level of the unconscious, then it's as if this life had never been.
And so, in order to return sensation to our limbs, in order to make us feel objects, to make a stone feel stony, man has been given the tool of art. The purpose of art, then, is to lead us to a knowledge of a thing through the organ of sight instead of recognition.
- Viktor Shklovsky, from "Art as Device" in Theory of Prose.
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