Day: March 17, 2015

What stops us from forgetting ourselves?

2 my leg

From a photo of my leg after a bite from a mosquito

I was writing yesterday that we enjoy losing ourself in work,creation and other ways. But sometimes we can’t do it so easily.One reason is that we may be experiencing grief or pain and however we try we can’t forget the aching heart we have within.And maybe we should not do so;grief,sorrow,pain take energy and we may need to lie about and allow ourselves to feel these emotions for a time. Another reason may be that we are filled with anger,rage,distress because of someone’s behaviour to us.Sometimes  we will just have to endure this.Ideally we shouldn’t dwell on it overmuch and begin to plan revenge or cruel words to say back.Retaliation may feel good but it can perpetuate a cycle which or other action may be needed but  it never ends as we can see in some countries now. We can decide to avoid the people who have hurt us and that is good. We may say something in the fullness of time..We should not deliberately dwell on their wrongdoing and allow it to take over our mental space.We can still carry on our own work even though it may be hard to start.Eventually we forget it for most of the time.Maybe when we are low in comes back.Then we need to know it happens to everyone,probably.not many folk escape some emotional sufffering in life.

Like the best things in life are free so are the worst but don’t cultivate them in your personal garden… they are weeds,  noxious ones  too

Romantic love.. over-hyped and over here

 eileen
Romantic love – overrated and hyped-up by the media since 1200AD – Telegraph Blogs.

Original  picture by Eileen Limbrey 2015.

Romantic love is often selfish and damaging

In my end is my beginning

We were  both staring at what was hurting  our shared boundary.

What we had in common was a pasting of grammar and  some full stops from the  old church organ..

not much help to a pair of  old fools.

especially when it was just a mouth organ from a bizarre barre ballet shop in Covent Garden

We were speechless  like  a pair of  cowardly  sheep up a mountain  in  Wales

.Not a baaa baaa between us.

Up till then nothing  had come between us except rhymes or reams of  blotting paper

Well,there is a saying:neither rhyme nor reason  and we certainly had no reason….

I’m only teasing.

We were as irrational as the square root of two.i.e.rational in the wrong  sort of way.

Unexpected, like almost everything in this life, but full of seasoning.

Rationality was  initially based on proportion then subsequently on distortion

and later contortion into  the field of the imaginary

.Everything is imaginary … that’s oblivious to me, anyway.

And everything  is abstract too.

Except lions in the zoo and me and you.

Shall we call it a day now?

I  am happy with my sentence of a week in the wilderness.

Call that a sentence?

No arguing, as you may be persecuted and scolded at an auction sale.

And that is  only the end of it all.. we lost the beginning in the womb of time.

Well,may be you can remember In my end is my beginning

The Other

Lemon lover - Glimpses between the cracks:Alice's Looking Glass

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-chameides/the-art-of-connecting-to_b_4310221.html?ir=Green

 

“But to Levinas, the Other provides a path to transcendence, a way to find meaning, indeed ecstasy. In Totality and Infinity Levinas writes, “Meaning is the face of the Other.” Face-to-face relations with the Other imparts knowledge, creates connection. As Levinas scholar Adriaan Peperzak writes:

“When Levinas meditates on the significance of the face, he does not describe the complex figure that could be portrayed by a picture or painting; rather, he tries to make us ‘experience’ or ‘realize’ what we see, feel, ‘know’ when another, by looking at me, ‘touches’ me: autrui me vise; the other’s visage looks at me, ‘regards’ me.”

From this notion flows a responsibility we all share for the Other.”

Sad news for literature and languages studies

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/31/education/as-interest-fades-in-the-humanities-colleges-worry.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20131031&_r=0

In the USA and in the UK  we find fewer people are studying the humanities.Here it is because of the economic climate.. people wish to study “useful” subjects.Literature won’t get you a job,perhaps.It only enables you to live better.Already in schools the study of Greek and Latin has almost gone.

Economics still gets students………. odd considering that economists did not forecast the recession but were up to their necks in mathematical models.Economicis not a science and cannot be.I believe it’s a branch of philosophy in a broad sense.

I admit I did not study what we called “The Arts” at University but most of my friends did.But I read poetry.I liked Auden greatly.I read all the great novels.I read Doris Lessing and Iris Murdoch.I read Evelyn Waugh/I even readNabokov…. what a writer!And I read Shakespeare Plays.

But with the much higher fees,recession and other worries,fewer students will spend three years studying the humanities.Plumbing or Carpentry are better options

I am thinking of writing some new plays.

A  Fit Plumber’s Nightly Schemes

Witches astir.

Ham to let.

Sing Fear.

Make up for the Mind

A Midsummer Balls Up.

The Emptiest.

Please defreeze me,let me grow.

A man without limits

Much Ado about Hacking.

As you Recycle it.

Julius Seized the Emails.

Fool Us and Squeeze Us.

Twelfth Fright.

Hacked to Death.

The Blaming of the Guru,

Prospero Not.

http://www.debate.org/opinions/are-the-arts-too-elitist

http://theamericanscholar.org/the-decline-of-the-english-department/?key=55705194

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