Pez En El Viento

Anduve como vosotros escarbando
la estrella interminable,
y en mi red, en la noche, me desperte desnudo,
unica presa, pez encerrado en el viento.

[Pablo Neruda]

I went around just like you
scrutinizing the limitless star
and in my net in the night
waking me up naked one catch:
a fish corraled in the wind.

[tr. EAC 2010]

Fille à plomb

Fille à plomb

Little poem en point
is the slender lady palm:
is she not pretty?

[copyright EAC 2010]
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N__ing And K___ing

If one considers k___ing a process toward definition and completion, k___ing self directly and in the specious present is an illusion.

If there is any genuine import to being self-aware, therefore, it is distinct from k___ing self.

In eastern religion and philosophy, which are essentially the same, the futility of any final k___ing self is a commonplace, so much so that in the West it is easily overlooked as the keystone of all that follows.

The eye cannot see it self.

If k___ing is seeing, therefore, one can never k___ self.

What is true of k___ing is true of n__ing.

[copyright EAC 2010]

Continens Est Formalius Contento (I Girigogoli)

Come la maggior parte degli uomini, tanto parlando quanto scrivendo, hanno parole e frasi favorite e abituali maniere di
dire che introducono nel discorso talora senza intenzione, ossia senza avvedersene, e non di raro anche dove non ci stanno, cosi quasi ogni pittore ha certe maniere abituali eh' egli mette in mostra e che gli sfuggono senza che egli se ne accorga....

Ivan Lemolieff
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Gartenrund

"What the mystic beholds in his ecstasy and loses in his moments of dryness, what the lover pursues and adores, what the child cries out for when left alone, is much more a spirit, a person, a haunting mind, than a set of visual sensations: yet the visual sensations are connected inextricably with that spirit, else the spirit would not withdraw when the sensations failed. We are not dealing with an articulate mind whose possessions are discriminated and distributed into a mastered world where everything has its department, its special relations, its limited importance; we are dealing with a mind all pulp, all confusion, keenly sensitive to passing influences and reacting on them massively and without reserve...."

George Santayana

QBsM

Spiegeltanz

"What can be more similar in every respect and in every part more alike to my hand and to my ear than their images in a mirror? And yet I cannot put such a hand as is seen in the glass in the place of its original; for if this is a right hand, that in the glass is a left one, and the image or reflection of the right ear is a left one, which can never take the place of the other. There are in this case no internal differences which our understanding could determine by thinking alone..."

Immanuel Kant [tr. Carus-Beck]