— Rainer Maria Rilke — from “Requiem for a Friend” trans. Stephen Mitchel
2013/11/29
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For this is wrong, if anything is wrong: not to enlarge the freedom of a love with all the inner freedom one can summon. We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.
— Rainer Maria Rilke — from “Requiem for a Friend” trans. Stephen Mitchel
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2013/11/27
~ so so , and So
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while you're poor with you pants off
they'll go to Florida
who'd that be you?
no silly, you!
& the sun
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while you're poor with you pants off
they'll go to Florida
who'd that be you?
no silly, you!
& the sun
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2013/11/26
http://oldworldmonkey.blogspot.ca/2011/07/joe-bousquet-bird-without-wings.html
Monday, 25 July 2011
Bird without wings
As a young man Joë Bousquet came to England to study, Southampton I believe, and liked it so much he changed his name. In 1915 he was shot in the back and paralysed. Aged 19 he returned to his hometown of Carcassonne to a top-floor flat in the Rue De Verdun and, apart from a very few trips out in a wheelchair, never left it till he died 35 years later.
2013/11/25
'a
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'a look sufficed
death reaching
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Postscript
snowfall
bus
leaving one
to another
___________________ 'everyone' knows the real voice of a poet speaks
more through his poetry than his person
_____________________ who is 'everyone'
a self-reflexive being on the edge reading , breathing ,
taking bus, train, sled , plane, helicopter,
.
does the cold creep up like a cop?
the real voice speaking is not in the person arguing pro and con
personality , clash of will , and view, a woman her hair
a woman losing an election
does the night lose hope? does it lose dreams? at this fair song of denial?
the 'poor' speak louder on the traffic lines , halted like bandits by uniformed men and women checking transit fairs ___not like 'a thief in the night' but a bunch of bandits
One says to a customer 'we're not searching ... you we're just checking ... a lot of
people don't pay'
I wonder who the lot are who is this lot what lot doesn't pay and what
propels these guys and one woman among them to don a uniform
the belts, the radios, the cellphones , the baton? was there a baton
one customer was taking snapshots with his phone
pretty cool about it too did it right off didn't seem fearful at all of these
potentially violent and violating 'thugs' or transit cops
(transit not trans or gender fluid )
hanging at the bus stop their cars parked around like hells angels
(the one woman cop among them is the eagerest , bouncy, agile ,
in better shape than the men , ready to go , enforce what's right ,
the Law ) (enforce that Law woman enforce that law girl
enforce that law law man 'it's your job' 'someone's got to do it'
'it's only my job' 'everyone has to pay')
and of course the bus shelter window's been busted for near a year
they ain't checking that
sure enough
'a lot of people don't pay ' (no one says a thing)
(nobody protests , contests ) (no 'back talk')
(they got the force)
( we all what it really is it's a hostage taking an invasion
we been taken by the power that be)
(the good old bus company)
How I 'd like to know they don't pay?
how not pay?
cameras all over the bus front back and middle
the drivers equipped with 911 and cells
and beliefs of course they got beliefs!
pay to get on that bus ticket
'course the 'real' bus is free
everyone knows no one's forcing that
one don't enforce freedom
you give it
don't you?
you give freedom
freedom gives
it's not a transit cop (of whatever gender)
seizing hold of the bus
working for the collective of the 'transport en commune' it looks
like one thing and its another
its not 'en communne' at all
I mean who owns it?
the ticket buyers? like me? you? the ones paying all their life?
who own the bus company?
who own it? the riders?
who own the the transport
who
Doctor Spock
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2013/11/24
wrestling icon ......'Mad Dog' Vachon ... has died....
'In wrestling, nothing exists unless it exists totally, there is no symbol, no allusion, everything is given exhaustively; leaving nothing in shadow, the gesture severs every parasitical meaning and ceremonially presents the public with a pure and full signification, three dimensional, like Nature.
Such emphasis is nothing but the popular and ancestral image of the perfect intelligibility of reality. What is enacted by wrestling, then, is an ideal intelligence of things, a euphoria of humanity, raised for a while out of the constitutive ambiguity of everyday situations and installed in a panoramic vision of a univocal Nature, in which signs finally correspond to causes without obstacle, without evasion, and without contradiction.
― Roland Barthes, Mythologies
For anyone who knows anything about wrestling what Barthes wrote is true: There are no hidden corners nor any secrets in the wrestling ring.
Maurice 'Mad Dog' Vachon passed away on Nov. 21, 2013 in his Nebraska home
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Maurice 'Mad Dog' Vachon dies in his sleep, age 84
MONTREAL -- Mad Dog Vachon wrestled for 44 years, had about 13,000
matches and once said he did everything he could to make people hate
him.
"I failed miserably," he admitted of his attempts to arouse dislike.
That's probably an understatement for the growling tough guy who
achieved folk-hero status as he pioneered the now-familiar trash-talking
of opponents straight into the TV camera.
match
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—more of Roland Barthes on wrestling ————————————————————–
“What is portrayed by wrestling is an ideal understanding of things; it is the euphoria of men raised for a while above the constitutive ambiguity of everyday situations and placed before the panoramic view of a univocal Nature, in which signs at last correspond to causes, without obstacle, without evasion, without contradiction” (Mythologies, 25).
Mad Dog was so popular that he fronted a burger chain named in his honour in the late 1980s. (Credit: Kate McDonnell, Montreal City Weblog)
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—more of Roland Barthes on wrestling ————————————————————–
“What is portrayed by wrestling is an ideal understanding of things; it is the euphoria of men raised for a while above the constitutive ambiguity of everyday situations and placed before the panoramic view of a univocal Nature, in which signs at last correspond to causes, without obstacle, without evasion, without contradiction” (Mythologies, 25).
“what is displayed for the public is the great spectacle of Suffering, Defeat, and Justice” and it can be said that “wrestlers are gods because they are, for a few moments, the key which opens Nature, the pure gesture which separates Good from Evil, and unveils the form of a Justice which is at last intelligible” (Mythologies, 25).
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Mad Dog was so popular that he fronted a burger chain named in his honour in the late 1980s. (Credit: Kate McDonnell, Montreal City Weblog)
Maurice (Mad Dog)
Vachon waves to well wishers as he returns home to Montreal, Que., Nov.
21, 1987. Vachon, the tough-talking and colourful wrestler with the
trademark gravelly voice, has died at the age of 84. THE CANADIAN
PRESS/Allen McInnis
Former wrestler
Maurice Mad Dog Vachon, left, was Premier Gary Doer's special guest
while the Premier was the guest host on a local radio program in
Winnipeg on Tuesday Jan. 29, 2002. Mad Dog will be honoured wednesday
evening at the Franco Manitoba Cultural Center by Manitoba wrestling
fans for his contribution to the entertainment. (CP PHOTO/Winnipeg Free
Press-Joe Bryksa)
Maurice "Mad Dog"
Vachon accepts his induction into the 2010 WWE Hall of Fame Induction
Ceremony on Saturday, March 27, 2010, in Phoenix, AZ. Vachon, the
tough-talking and colourful wrestler with the trademark gravelly voice,
has died at the age of 84. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Rick Scuteri/AP Images for
WWE
Maurice Vachon died in his sleep early Thursday at his home in Nebraska, aged 84.
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Maurice Vachon (September 14, 1929 - November 21, 2013) was a Canadian professional wrestler, best known by his ring name "Mad Dog" Vachon. He is the brother of wrestlers Paul and Vivian Vachon, and the uncle of wrestler Luna Vachon.
Vachon started his career as an amateur wrestler, participating in the 1948 Summer Olympics and winning a gold medal at the 1950 British Empire Games. He made the switch to professional wrestling and spent time in various promotions in the United States while occasionally teaming with his brother Paul. In Portland, he received the name "Mad Dog" Vachon. In the early 1960's, Vachon became a main eventer in the American Wrestling Association. He was one of the promotion's all-time great heels, known for his wild style and intense interviews. He was a five-time AWA World Heavyweight Champion. Starting in the '70s, Vachon became a fan favourite, particularly in his home province of Quebec.
After a stint in the World Wrestling Federation, Vachon retired from the business in 1986. The following year, he was struck by a hit-and-run driver, resulting in the amputation of one of his legs. Vachon was highly influential, especially in Canada, and was inducted into numerous professional wrestling Halls of Fame.
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And
Wrestling was shot in the Montreal Forum, where major bouts were staged, as well as wrestling parlors where would be wrestlers learned and practiced their craft.[1]
Wrestling was produced by Jacques Bobet for the French program branch of the National Film Board of Canada.[1]
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Maurice Vachon
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Maurice Vachon | |
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Ring name(s) | Mad Dog Vachon |
Billed weight | 230 lb (100 kg)[1] |
Born | September 14, 1929 Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
Died | November 21, 2013 (aged 84) Omaha, Nebraska |
Billed from | Montreal, Quebec, Canada[1] |
Debut | 1950 |
Retired | 1986[1] |
Medal record | ||
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Men's Freestyle wrestling | ||
British Empire Games | ||
Gold | 1950 Auckland | Middleweight |
Maurice Vachon (September 14, 1929 - November 21, 2013) was a Canadian professional wrestler, best known by his ring name "Mad Dog" Vachon. He is the brother of wrestlers Paul and Vivian Vachon, and the uncle of wrestler Luna Vachon.
Vachon started his career as an amateur wrestler, participating in the 1948 Summer Olympics and winning a gold medal at the 1950 British Empire Games. He made the switch to professional wrestling and spent time in various promotions in the United States while occasionally teaming with his brother Paul. In Portland, he received the name "Mad Dog" Vachon. In the early 1960's, Vachon became a main eventer in the American Wrestling Association. He was one of the promotion's all-time great heels, known for his wild style and intense interviews. He was a five-time AWA World Heavyweight Champion. Starting in the '70s, Vachon became a fan favourite, particularly in his home province of Quebec.
After a stint in the World Wrestling Federation, Vachon retired from the business in 1986. The following year, he was struck by a hit-and-run driver, resulting in the amputation of one of his legs. Vachon was highly influential, especially in Canada, and was inducted into numerous professional wrestling Halls of Fame.
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Wrestling (1961 film)
F
Wrestling (Original French title: La lutte) is a 1961 documentary film about professional wrestling in Montreal, co-directed by Michel Brault, Marcel Carrière, Claude Fournier and Claude Jutra.Wrestling was shot in the Montreal Forum, where major bouts were staged, as well as wrestling parlors where would be wrestlers learned and practiced their craft.[1]
The filmmakers had intended to make a film exposing, in slow motion, the fakery of professional wrestling, until a chance encounter with French philosopher Roland Barthes changed their minds. Barthes was appalled by what they were planning to do, and spoke urgently about the beauty and social role of pro wrestling in the lives of ordinary people. Persuaded by Barthes, the filmmakers set out to make a film that captured the spectacle of the sport, without judging it.[2]
The film shows the wrestling arena to be a sort of modern day shrine, with wrestling and its rituals taking the place of religion in the then-recently secularized Quebec.[3]Wrestling was produced by Jacques Bobet for the French program branch of the National Film Board of Canada.[1]
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2013/11/15
2013/11/14
' .. in his crystal ball
.
'in his crystal ball' we saw your name floating
in the clouds the smoke
.
2013/11/13
___________________________of 'it ....
____________________________________________________________________
spoken thought
if one is 'seriously' interested in democratizing .. it starts with a character..a letter
Once process has been created... there's Life. Just Life. O my god. That is something.
Make the letters crooked. and please , no Cognition!
I mean, think about it, who wants to be a 'thing'? wouldn't you rather be I dont know Yorick? a footnote, an elevator driver? lets find a
So we became a machine.. meaning no longer an I concerned with the intensity of me , the 'me'. Period after s.v.plait.
<
Interviewer: And your first book?
That first book escaped, it escaped ' like a fly'
(forgive the 'analogy' the similar)
(
<
keep folding the cut/ bUt ~
No country 'owns' a poet.)
English: deterritorialized idioms_ at the corner of idiolect and other.. speech
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2013/11/07
'the economy of...
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'the economy of writing.... wealth versus greed ... spilling over versus revision and revisionary ratios or myths.... the difference between vision and seeing again... the wealth of possibility versus the scarcity of the necessary? the contingent the Con Tin Gent against the predictable.. for the writer its infinite
as Con Tin Gent
the economics of writing agains t h o a r d i n g
one has to enrich it.... puns this is what jj did opening the doors of 'sleep' as a dollar store
opens the world?
does awriter work like a dollar store merchant
thus the concept of draft.... thus blogs as performance ....
the fine line between necessity and contingent the gentle tin in the discovery of the earth.
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'the economy of writing.... wealth versus greed ... spilling over versus revision and revisionary ratios or myths.... the difference between vision and seeing again... the wealth of possibility versus the scarcity of the necessary? the contingent the Con Tin Gent against the predictable.. for the writer its infinite
as Con Tin Gent
the economics of writing agains t h o a r d i n g
one has to enrich it.... puns this is what jj did opening the doors of 'sleep' as a dollar store
opens the world?
does awriter work like a dollar store merchant
thus the concept of draft.... thus blogs as performance ....
the fine line between necessity and contingent the gentle tin in the discovery of the earth.
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