No. 29 - So many things I should have done

imagine that words 

both progress and progress both

words that imagine

A Formulated Phrase

Synaptic thoughts fire.

It is a regular day - 

The tides still drift on.

Mit farmakhte oygen...

The colour I see

May be very different - 

But we'll never know.
(Siz maynhaiku - 11)
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Ontology

When all the noise stills

We check our reality.

Oh - Parmenides!

(Siz maynhaiku - 10)
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But earlier

Though I live online

I have a real life as well - 

Which is which I ask?

(Siz maynhaiku - 8)

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In the short-term

Danger is hidden.
Crowds parade through other streets
And thoughts are elsewhere.

(Siz maynhaiku - 9)
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בענקשאַפֿט -Yearning

The vacuum inside

Is freed by the memory 

Of a falling leaf.

(Siz maynhaiku - 7)
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The story of light
Travels faster than rumour
And even saves time.

(Siz maynhaiku - 6)
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A Vision of the Street

Gentility fades

As the harsh life of comfort

Overtakes the day

(Siz maynhaiku - 5)

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Captured

In the reflection

Are both object and image.

But how are they linked?

(Siz maynhaiku - 4)

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Memory enhanced

With a littoral photo -

Of boats and houses...

(Siz maynhaiku - 3)

Think of the future

But do not try and be there -

Today must be lived.

(Siz maynhaiku - 2)

Summer creeps nearer

And so much is still frozen -

But we are waiting...

(Siz maynhaiku - 1)

Leave now. Quickly. Do not look back, or you will be pulled back into the same, senseless movements. Writhing tentacles of hollow emotion still slither close. Closer than is safe.  Leave now quickly. But the inner tension remains. Leaving now would create an unbreachable chasm. I am breathless, and can only shut my eyes.

The Skipley Archive Treasure

The archive of the Skipley Library contains a modern (that is seventeenth century) translation of the  myth of Dnankremis of Orkav, This has significance in relation to the Reed Scroll which was amongst those rescued from the Middle Caves following an earthquake in the Uymattidic region. The researchers working on the text believe it is an early version of the Dnankremis myth.

Content interpretation or the asemic alternative?

Apart from the Velusian document that was recently re-interpreted by Eliacan et al (2017), a collection of lesser known scrolls was rescued from the Middle Caves following the recent seismic activity along the Uymattidan fault line. An initial project by the Department of Pre-llambryc Palaeography has focused on a set of three scrolls that share an unusual alphabet. Work on basic decyphering has reached an advanced stage and initial fragments have been submitted to the interpretation team. There remains however considerable doubt amongst a minority of researchers who posit the Asemic Hypothesis (Carcasonne and Djankuye, 2017). This will be explored in the next blog posting.

Fraternal designation

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Recent interest in the writings of Velusias have been reignited by the recent masterly translation and re-interpretation, by Professor Eliacan of Queens West University, of his major work 'Ab aliquo deo locus deseratur'. The text is based on the sole copy that has survived after the rescue of several scrolls from the Middle Caves following the recent seismic activity along the Uymattidan fault line. An initial translation made immediately after the restoration work on the scrolls by Professor Garahad of Sepulchre University is generally regarded as a rough initial essay.

Readers of the Wikipedia entry for Velusias are warned that the article needs additional citations for verification.

An equivocal transition between day and night

...every act seems to be caught in an equivocal transition between day and night or vice versa; in other words, in the inquietude and expectation of an unpredictable change.
—Sarai Sherman

Sarai Sherman was a Pennsylvania-born Jewish American artist whose work, both in America and Europe shaped international views of women and abstract expressionism. She was a significant twentieth century painter and sculptor known for her abstract paintings, prints and ceramics. Her conceptual ideas were comparisons between reality and reminiscences, and a compelling concern with the world of others.  At time s her work was full of symbolic content.

The Italian art critic Duilio Morosini in her 1977 essay talks of Sherman showing a major recurring theme of an isolated urban solitude (expressed by an standardization of choices, in personal ideals and practical solutions, and hence the disappearance of feeling and communication).  In her painting the characters do not rely upon indicative details, rather upon the “whole” with its resolute “aura” (inherent in such pictorialization of the thought imagery).

But that's not what ships are built for.

A ship is safe in the harbor,
But that's not what ships are built for.

Because in the sum of our human gleams,
We have created the vessel for our dreams.

Its purpose: to retrieve the alien shore,
To scout, seek, achieve and explore.

...And the harbored ships that fritter away,
Slowly begin to rot and decay.

(Gael Attal, 2009)

Action and inaction - in week one

“Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.” 

Albert Camus (1913-1960)