tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74008533100846935082024-02-18T20:36:49.119-08:00Nothing Something SandwichHHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15388791930832127593noreply@blogger.comBlogger110125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7400853310084693508.post-78621093158750179362012-04-17T18:59:00.000-07:002012-04-17T19:09:25.910-07:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjylekPOye5rC-DhD_e5-elb7bpWPiwLZ4YIsq8xYxJYu7iVQ7vCIZWFIljiQukEp59oNCp7QoaeM32ftPX4BoEWp2afYMfGDNylWP61NDJPu0AbO1GjSCDmY7rafIxazcA84ksGleQDV0/s1600/DSCF2203.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 241px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjylekPOye5rC-DhD_e5-elb7bpWPiwLZ4YIsq8xYxJYu7iVQ7vCIZWFIljiQukEp59oNCp7QoaeM32ftPX4BoEWp2afYMfGDNylWP61NDJPu0AbO1GjSCDmY7rafIxazcA84ksGleQDV0/s320/DSCF2203.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5732557095800016290" /></a>NSShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17481129653182523659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7400853310084693508.post-77373834619739921422012-04-04T21:55:00.001-07:002012-04-04T21:55:57.057-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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height: 241px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvsIOCERIkPUWlao459TvlHQA-Na9yI7AA8Xunrk3pHMyj9upz-RGOUZvW7t6912JjZUkyFqUvHrkMQnT5CMA8_uVShEA_0_aCMTocSZ-CvBh0tE7Ut8lLEWsYLdCHh1WmZUlKp-QJGBs/s320/lake_fomr_above_2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5724744163877631250" /></a>NSShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17481129653182523659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7400853310084693508.post-65765741806995688322012-03-06T07:10:00.001-08:002012-03-06T07:13:54.873-08:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3BbXX4cr_JXKKihubwG_PQfavVI7LelJsltydHrWsj8W5f9dScLY-3MobkSOpzlaX5UnkL1vIHkCZLEb4dHxteXdzqYoI95-vTOEMnkkU8PgZ5v01vtAExLz2RfnB4pCowgb24amAoyo/s1600/Amazing_Blue_River_06.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 216px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3BbXX4cr_JXKKihubwG_PQfavVI7LelJsltydHrWsj8W5f9dScLY-3MobkSOpzlaX5UnkL1vIHkCZLEb4dHxteXdzqYoI95-vTOEMnkkU8PgZ5v01vtAExLz2RfnB4pCowgb24amAoyo/s320/Amazing_Blue_River_06.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716802541947227522" /></a>NSShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17481129653182523659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7400853310084693508.post-83374536329776641432012-03-06T07:09:00.000-08:002012-03-06T07:10:53.334-08:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNnu63GcYMuPyFYLY2RxsPa6Jk0cFaVtC9cbnc3YuBq83tqyWXlscNi0D93JOWWQ1IkrirId8UA4J6Gsgun35aeI5EBDKIB7Skv7jnM6pbS90cSRAaCdqq-ZACkATQ2b-j44QsoKLrhCM/s1600/congo_river-12320.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNnu63GcYMuPyFYLY2RxsPa6Jk0cFaVtC9cbnc3YuBq83tqyWXlscNi0D93JOWWQ1IkrirId8UA4J6Gsgun35aeI5EBDKIB7Skv7jnM6pbS90cSRAaCdqq-ZACkATQ2b-j44QsoKLrhCM/s320/congo_river-12320.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716801797193963954" /></a>NSShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17481129653182523659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7400853310084693508.post-17147818017596273372012-03-06T07:00:00.000-08:002012-03-06T07:04:19.534-08:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu27w6QLUhDUXbKqArGAHxVKEvCOrkN2_Vhuzk8L9IFrb6WXg4rBvUJ9qOO4t5HxNU8W733DuAo8duWUJNuUZuy5vlDZclmTvPrcToxGISJwENYscyxMzWv2SbRAqNDkT5fFLADX-hbyk/s1600/milk+lake+2009.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu27w6QLUhDUXbKqArGAHxVKEvCOrkN2_Vhuzk8L9IFrb6WXg4rBvUJ9qOO4t5HxNU8W733DuAo8duWUJNuUZuy5vlDZclmTvPrcToxGISJwENYscyxMzWv2SbRAqNDkT5fFLADX-hbyk/s320/milk+lake+2009.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716800071778251762" /></a>NSShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17481129653182523659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7400853310084693508.post-66203280149095898122012-03-02T17:46:00.000-08:002012-03-02T17:46:27.537-08:00Lao Tzu<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">1</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">A Way become Way isn't the perennial Way.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">A name become name isn't the perennial name:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">the named is mother to the ten thousand things,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">but the unnamed is origin to all heaven and earth.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">In perennial nonbeing you see mystery,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">and in perennial being you see appearance.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">Though the two are one and the same,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">once they arise, they differ in name.</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">One and the same they're called <i>dark-enigma,</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">dark-enigma within dark-enigma,</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d;">gateway of all mystery.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-size: xx-small;">translated by David Hinton</span>HHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15388791930832127593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7400853310084693508.post-13736950835117175292012-02-28T04:56:00.001-08:002012-02-28T04:56:47.692-08:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRdFzimSbDzV1uyFVHlYJlO2_06M5eMKqjUrifZ7vE9wza5p8kMJBdhnT1tOyECjJ5CTi25ZKUR0HTk1LUYMfBYYuR3w-zuTv5g3TFH-vO79GSJVFoxpz2ayDF_XT8FvEnRH9nR-a1z2g/s1600/meteorites.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 319px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRdFzimSbDzV1uyFVHlYJlO2_06M5eMKqjUrifZ7vE9wza5p8kMJBdhnT1tOyECjJ5CTi25ZKUR0HTk1LUYMfBYYuR3w-zuTv5g3TFH-vO79GSJVFoxpz2ayDF_XT8FvEnRH9nR-a1z2g/s320/meteorites.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5714169658380533234" /></a>NSShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17481129653182523659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7400853310084693508.post-71872092681666895322012-02-26T20:09:00.000-08:002012-02-26T20:10:12.724-08:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGZKFCmF026Cug6LziIdsnYgoAJsoxjOrhGIlbKgAT_CEPsMQ3ktIZ6Fi35mKkT89ILJMMg8zTQciVlZjsvP4TzBdZ_M9p67z6lou4JpYrqoL5Ko5J2set1JBI6ssOjbRhRWm15IpBr8Y/s1600/tumblr_kp94z0tGHd1qzfjyvo1_400.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 246px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk0Q3oFdJn-d8r8yhY4r9LPDpVUG4cu1FPXBvS0fcfPvgN51mee7cb0u4rr379Ibw1l-y5GrXip-Hu4GtdLvuroIKYlAtwUg6dromSAks1eOVac7CQYhPT9L0joWOBiV2DcGi4IuF0epI/s320/manray_marquise-cassati.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5712537725073823202" /></a>NSShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17481129653182523659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7400853310084693508.post-85828025723043343432012-02-21T18:44:00.001-08:002012-02-21T18:44:21.791-08:00Someone Summoning?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcOkULZ4Gpq5jQf3L1PC_CLBoSCi7F3FVUdTCu1izQsn8v1RaHEoU-l6Ns25X0xsRXezLvwY6TE3q3RNgj6EqfPmM0EDNz3sbDd9uInP3wQ_xulpUVmDDsxdon3COyrfXogleFxITrJTU/s1600/seance-contact.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcOkULZ4Gpq5jQf3L1PC_CLBoSCi7F3FVUdTCu1izQsn8v1RaHEoU-l6Ns25X0xsRXezLvwY6TE3q3RNgj6EqfPmM0EDNz3sbDd9uInP3wQ_xulpUVmDDsxdon3COyrfXogleFxITrJTU/s320/seance-contact.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>HHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15388791930832127593noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7400853310084693508.post-50712162018322775722011-02-21T10:28:00.000-08:002011-02-21T10:35:22.639-08:00To be viewed without sound, at first<div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><iframe title="YouTube video player" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/cfOa1a8hYP8" width="640" frameborder="0" height="390"></iframe>NSShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17481129653182523659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7400853310084693508.post-54319870808445377912011-01-30T15:14:00.000-08:002011-01-30T15:14:32.074-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizDDYRrpcqRc_3e1K4BT0ljgG8KlWZU3GAOw8YVAipx3q23T7zlsPgZmfxGSC9rHwE4DHIcDcpZhwdkzMj_Y7M6g4WQBr1eieN1zzkvjFv1IqeecIZGZuHn50LeVqnPam5fRrRnoLQgag/s1600/53.267.21a-b_CP4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizDDYRrpcqRc_3e1K4BT0ljgG8KlWZU3GAOw8YVAipx3q23T7zlsPgZmfxGSC9rHwE4DHIcDcpZhwdkzMj_Y7M6g4WQBr1eieN1zzkvjFv1IqeecIZGZuHn50LeVqnPam5fRrRnoLQgag/s320/53.267.21a-b_CP4.jpg" width="196" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">France 1900 Silk</div>HHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15388791930832127593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7400853310084693508.post-25427747294544243052010-10-09T17:31:00.001-07:002010-10-09T17:31:55.797-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); line-height: 22px; "><div class="quote" style="margin-top: 1em; background-image: url(http://cdn3.blog.gaiam.com/quotes/sites/all/themes/oldblog/images/quote-open.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: 0% 0%; "><div class="quote-inner" style="padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 65px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 65px; background-image: url(http://cdn3.blog.gaiam.com/quotes/sites/all/themes/oldblog/images/quote-close.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: 100% 100%; "><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">WIDE, the margin between <i>carte blanche</i> and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me, but in the yet whiter one that separates the word-strewn sheet from the transparent, the written page from the one to be written in the infinite space where the eye turns back to the eye, and the hand to the pen, where all we write is erased, even as you write it. For the book imperceptibly takes shape within the book we will never finish.<br /><br />There is my desert.<br /><br /></p></div></div><div class="quote-credits" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><p class="quote-credit author" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px; "><span class="author-label" style="padding-left: 65px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 13px; ">Edmond Jabes</span></p></div></span>NSShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17481129653182523659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7400853310084693508.post-63241352476590823152010-10-05T21:34:00.000-07:002010-10-05T21:50:46.121-07:00Cafe et Creation<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#4c1130;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4LWwhFJoUw"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">From Godard's "2 or 3 Things I Know About Her"</span></span></a> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">(link)</span></span></b></span>HHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15388791930832127593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7400853310084693508.post-6203071926225446632010-10-05T14:08:00.000-07:002010-10-05T14:09:15.028-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNzNRaxQk06JGgMMtrXuP1odiYuLLeJJdO-2E3dkb_WAuUkSFCwVmErx4Q6skWcJDvi8kGTML6g4Ho7ZTmtElNSlGWmSrOgLeI_Spxh6er0bizeXiQYdaAUTtVYzLRfPsYyAr7xlhzpWg/s1600/coffee.jpeg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 252px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNzNRaxQk06JGgMMtrXuP1odiYuLLeJJdO-2E3dkb_WAuUkSFCwVmErx4Q6skWcJDvi8kGTML6g4Ho7ZTmtElNSlGWmSrOgLeI_Spxh6er0bizeXiQYdaAUTtVYzLRfPsYyAr7xlhzpWg/s320/coffee.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5524671978156756098" /></a>NSShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17481129653182523659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7400853310084693508.post-52734842544075248662010-10-04T19:26:00.000-07:002010-10-04T19:26:37.061-07:00A Tomb for Anatole (excerpts) by Stephane Mallarme<div style="text-align: center;"> 37.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">time of the </div><div style="text-align: center;"> empty room</div><div style="text-align: center;">-- </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"> until we</div><div style="text-align: center;"> open it</div><div style="text-align: center;">perhaps all</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> follows from this</div><div style="text-align: center;"> (morally)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"> 190.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"> no--I will not</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">give up</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> nothingness</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> ------</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> father -- -- -- I</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"> feel nothingness</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"> invade me</div>HHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15388791930832127593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7400853310084693508.post-46274106627186905542010-10-04T19:06:00.000-07:002010-10-04T19:10:19.859-07:00Catacombs Paris<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnf9YPPTwZY-uGLZVFSOym0v9IYfZDbyfc6yTqDccK3JFbvjtC_dhuzIoS8FGvEveT81kSnadw4O6_cIreExfvLEOLQ5nXtAuLt-scPjkK3kgTF7CAg_QIS4jpLexPqyrAMT3D_3Kpm8o/s1600/Catacombs+Paris.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnf9YPPTwZY-uGLZVFSOym0v9IYfZDbyfc6yTqDccK3JFbvjtC_dhuzIoS8FGvEveT81kSnadw4O6_cIreExfvLEOLQ5nXtAuLt-scPjkK3kgTF7CAg_QIS4jpLexPqyrAMT3D_3Kpm8o/s1600/Catacombs+Paris.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"... It delighted me that bodies could be used to decorate a room, like flowers." </span></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Paul Thek </span></span></i></span>HHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15388791930832127593noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7400853310084693508.post-31385721332642399352010-05-11T15:44:00.000-07:002010-05-11T15:51:07.484-07:00Heaven<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyErYm-fKWzSlRmTqtlHxT9xo3ZVy8v8d-TSVlCZVNAepagtLw3U4K50TBu12NsvLAkoBb8MR7sWK4UzJvtVA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>NSShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17481129653182523659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7400853310084693508.post-66419919666857031372010-04-26T19:11:00.001-07:002010-04-26T19:12:41.588-07:00<!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">It was nearly ten years ago. I was almost thirteen, and I'd run away from a school back east and was heading out west to become a bullfighter. I'd sold most of my clothes and jewelry and hoarded a Christmas windfall from Uncle Roger to get together enough money to buy a coach ticket to Albuquerque.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I planned on hitching the rest of the way to Mexico. But somehow I'd forgotten entirely about food. By the time I reached Chicago, my stomach was flat against my spine and gasping for breath. I saw the sign saying Traveler's Aid Society and decided I was in luck. I'd just go up to it and ask for a loan.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The woman at the desk -actually she probably wasn't more then my age now, though she seemed older to my young eyes and wore her hair in a severe style that gave her a Librarian Look -- disillusioned me about that immediately.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">She said they didn’t dole out money like that, they were really only a reference organization, and if I’d answer a few questions she’d be able to tell me which charity I might be eligible for.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">She was very kind. I liked her at once.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I started answering her questions and the next thing I knew I’d blurted out the whole story.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">She listened attentively.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">She listened with out making any “listening” faces, but I felt she was on my side.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">It was the first time I’d felt that about any grownup.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:ArialMT, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“Oh dear,” she said sadly at the end, shaking her head. “I’m afraid it’s a cut and dried case.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">You’re a runaway.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The worst kind.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Underage.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Our rules are especially strict for underage runaways.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">We simply hold on to them and wire the Traveler’s Aid in the town they’ve run away from, and they provide the fare for the return and get it back later from the parents or guardians – but listen, don’t go!” she called out to me suddenly as I started backing away, “I’d like to help you, I really would,” she said.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">She leaned over the counter.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“Why shouldn’t you be a bullfighter if you want to be?</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I’m sick to death of standing here day after day, sending people back to places they hate, places they’ve run away from.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I just can’t bear it any longer.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I mean, who are we to know what’s what anyway?</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Look, here’s a dollar.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Go over to the soda fountain and have something to eat.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I’ll check the timetables of the trains going west from Union Station and we’ll figure out your next move when you get back.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:ArialMT, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">When I returned she said “Quick.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Here’s fifteen dollars, it’s all I’ve got on me,</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Your train leaves in half an hour from Union Station and you’ve just got time to make it.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I’ll help you get a taxi. We’ve got a priority and they let us jump the line.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:ArialMT, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">She left the booth and went over to pick up my bag.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Then I saw what it was.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">She was lame.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">She had an ugly brace on her leg and she hobbled badly.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I looked at it and looked away quickly.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">But not quickly enough.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:ArialMT, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“The blind leading the blind,” she said casually, acknowledging the fact, as I followed the grotesquely hobbling figure out of the station.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:ArialMT, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“But I don’t even know your name,” I said suddenly, leaning forward in the taxi.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“How shall I pay you back?”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:ArialMT, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“You don’t have to pay me back,” she answered.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“Good luck to you. You’re running for my life.”</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">She slammed the cab door shut, and turning swiftly, hobbled away.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:ArialMT, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">And that was why they didn't pick me up until Albuquerque.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:ArialMT, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I stood still in the middle of the station and made the porter put my bags down.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">So now I’d got to the bottom of it.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I’d come full-circle and suddenly lost my space-urge.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The dash to California seemed so utterly puerile now.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Now called for something entirely different. Now called for something drastically un-running away.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Now called for---what? Suddenly I had it! Now called for becoming a librarian! In that way I would be laying the ghost once and for all. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:ArialMT, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Elaine Dundy, <i>The Dud Avocado</i></span></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->NSShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17481129653182523659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7400853310084693508.post-83442526640561557802010-04-18T13:21:00.000-07:002010-04-18T13:22:22.283-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoeo0NnyFnoqCg1L9WKCysGi3l96qAWgGdwYo-FnUUJ0nzcoT2r8QrDgxMKuNq3q1uknx7hCyik5CFj6TOvdSqKZ82XdDOhBaMLkVc0usytXj-RCR_-Ywv9Yy5EqbzatNi4ZYQrgybOZY/s1600/giant.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoeo0NnyFnoqCg1L9WKCysGi3l96qAWgGdwYo-FnUUJ0nzcoT2r8QrDgxMKuNq3q1uknx7hCyik5CFj6TOvdSqKZ82XdDOhBaMLkVc0usytXj-RCR_-Ywv9Yy5EqbzatNi4ZYQrgybOZY/s320/giant.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461575467183400898" /></a>NSShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17481129653182523659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7400853310084693508.post-5420590780306821472010-03-23T08:04:00.001-07:002010-03-23T08:18:05.535-07:00Aesthetics of SilenceHere is a link to the essay.<br />www.ubu.com/aspen/aspen5and6/threeEssays.html#barthes<br />I'll also post it under Readings.NSShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17481129653182523659noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7400853310084693508.post-57262148037629112912010-03-19T15:46:00.000-07:002010-03-19T15:55:34.381-07:00Well, Well, Well...<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyBZLwP1y-ETKGudmj_tmrp500JKU8pj7x-LPjrcu_JH92uIieNEWIMF6wbMFPfqxWmbAr8goKCf8pmtjkzVQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>NSShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17481129653182523659noreply@blogger.com1