tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post3287311288063142025..comments2024-03-27T18:12:22.027-07:00Comments on RAWIllumination.net: Nature's God reading group, Chapter 5Cleveland Okie (Tom Jackson)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07810736442596736041noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-1066032427464469822020-06-02T13:19:38.882-07:002020-06-02T13:19:38.882-07:00Great Proust quote. I love the book Paintings in P...Great Proust quote. I love the book Paintings in Proust which has reproductions of every paining he mentions in the novel. Eric Wagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04312033917401203598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-53947278697240782022020-06-02T10:44:19.715-07:002020-06-02T10:44:19.715-07:00Very powerful OP! I learn so much from these. I r...Very powerful OP! I learn so much from these. I recognized the quotation from Candide but was confused that it wasn't attributed to Voltaire but rather Francois Marie Arouet. Google revealed them as the same person. I also didn't know the difference between inoculation and vaccination - thought the terms synonymous.<br /><br />I had one small synch - last week a client asked me to provide a photo for credits in a program booklet. I sent one that got rejected for too low quality. Found an older one, wide angle one taken taken by a professional, of me at a mixing board - the same photo I sent to Tom for his interview of me here. This time, I noticed my copy of <i>The Cantos</i> on the board. This dates the photo to not long after the <i> Tales of the Tribe</i> course.<br /><br />Immediately after reading this OP yesterday I came across a passage from <i> The Guermantes Way </i> by Proust that I find also relates to "Robert Anton Wilson’s Magic Pop-Up Theatre of the Moment" <br /><br />"To gain this sort of recognition, an original painter or an original writer follows the path of the occultist. His painting or his prose acts upon us like a course of treatment that is not always agreeable. When it is over, the practitioner says to us, 'Now look.' And at this point the world (which was not created once and for all, but as often as an original artist is born) appears utterly different from the one we knew, but perfectly clear. Women pass in the street, different from those we used to see, because they are Renoirs, the same Renoirs we once refused to see as women. The carriages are also Renoirs, and the water and the sky: we want to go for a walk in the forest like the one that, when we first saw it, was anything but a forest – more like a tapestry, for instance, with innumerable shades of color but lacking precisely the colors appropriate to forests. Such is the new and perishable universe that has just been created. It will last until the next geological catastrophe unleashed by a new painter or writer with an original view of the world."<br /><br />Oz Fritzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06061222169144560970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-76008688073366829402020-06-01T05:21:35.107-07:002020-06-01T05:21:35.107-07:00Great post. I think Pound lived with his wife, not...Great post. I think Pound lived with his wife, not his daughter, upon release from St. Elizabeth’s. Synchronistically, I remember walking with Pound’s daughter Mary, his mistress Olga, and Allen Ginsburg on a beautiful day in Maine in June 1985.Eric Wagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04312033917401203598noreply@blogger.com