day by day: a blog
December 30, 2008
le Dictionnaire des idées reçues
Genius: Transcendent. "Say what you like about Mozart. The man was a genius!"
Nature: Restorative. "It's a wonderful thing, Nature."
Modern poetry: Privative. "That's what modern poetry is -- subtractions, demythologizations, a via negativa."
Contributors (in no particular order): my father-in-law, my father, myself.
[Notes: Saw an ugly little Chevy rolling along El Camino this morning – a yellow 'Cobalt' (I thought of Eluard's 'La terre est bleue comme une orange'); in Geoffrey Hartman's Wordsworth's Poetry read a few stunning pages this afternoon on the transcendence of nature; later, on our walk, felt that I heard the creaking of the joints in the wings of the geese passing overhead; as Earth hurtles towards its perihelion, which will be achieved this Sunday morning, Venus is prominent high in the southwestern night sky, Orion shines in the south, Betelgeuse glittering red and Rigel blue, while, far more faintly and much nearer the horizon, Mercury and Jupiter, if I could see them, would look unusually closely conjoined; this is my first post written on an iMac.]
Posted by njenkins at December 30, 2008 11:27 PM
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