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The Art and Physics of a Parallel History

john girljohn girl Posts: 308
edited January 2004 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
Has this notion come to youe mind.

Have you recognized this?

Relate.
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  • ExodusExodus Posts: 212
    i honestly don't understand
    Between the conception and the creation

    Between the emotion and the response

    Falls the shadow.
  • john girljohn girl Posts: 308
    background, it's all about the Roman-Goth battle,
    Goth's win cause they are starving, I could go on about the show


    I hear this while I was writing on the Is Punk Dead thread,

    and thinking about how America has become like Rome,
    President being now Father and Son, like Ceasars

    Weird
  • john girljohn girl Posts: 308
    this,
  • ExodusExodus Posts: 212
    i need a better example to understand
    Between the conception and the creation

    Between the emotion and the response

    Falls the shadow.
  • YellowYellow Posts: 699
    america's fall is inevitable, i think
    just a matter of time



    ha ha...


    but the father/son thing doesn't work for me...
    bush is a blip
    both of them were
    an ode to a pockebook
    a wish for more trickle down bull
    that just doesn't work

    babybush might take this election for all of his fear mongering...

    but i think our general populous is more afraid of falling 401k's than of airplanes...



    just my take
    i'm probably wrong
    It's all yellow.


  • john girljohn girl Posts: 308
    "general populuos is more afraid of 401's falling"

    ain't that the truth
  • sevensinssevensins Posts: 887
    if america becomes america one day it will survive.
    http://www.myspace.com/pleasetryagain

    http://www.myspace.com/alotalotbetweenus
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    Your question inspired me so much that I've written a piece in sonnet-form. See the thread "A poem I wrote ten minutes ago". The poem just poured from me. Thanks, john girl.
    :)
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    Here's a tip: consider the fin de siecle and the advent of European modernism, between 1880- 1930. Look at literature by writers such as Stoker, Conrad, Joyce, forster and Woolf. Their work inevitably reflects the anxiety at the crux of imperial constructions of selfhood, nationhood and community: their works are "End of Empire" discourses. It would do well to read some political discourses by the likes of Disraeli and Gladstone because their rhetoric anticipates that of Bush. Look at British history, with reference to the Boer War and its consequences and you'll see parallels in the US: the rise of anxious jingoism, the nervous aggressiveness of the protection of sovereign interests not only against terroristic but ideological "corruption"....and the inevitable fall.
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    Originally posted by sevensins
    if america becomes america one day it will survive.

    What sort of America must that be? What role in world affairs should it play? How should it perceive itself?
  • YellowYellow Posts: 699
    Originally posted by FinsburyParkCarrots
    Your question inspired me so much that I've written a piece in sonnet-form. See the thread "A poem I wrote ten minutes ago". The poem just poured from me. Thanks, john girl.
    :)

    you are like a mirrorball, finsbury...

    internally lit, of course :)
    It's all yellow.


  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    In Renaissance times it was believed that the soul emitted light from the eyes. Of course, they were right. We do! :)

    Do you know Shakespeare's first sonnet? the speaker tells his beloved to cease feeding on their internal light but to share it with others:

    "But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,
    Feed'st thy light's flame with self substantial fuel,
    Making a famine where abundance lies,
    Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel."

    We have to share our light! :)
  • YellowYellow Posts: 699
    if only ppl who DO that knew they did...



    :)


    good
    ness!
    It's all yellow.


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