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Dec. 10th, 2010 08:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
proximoceptionDecided to actually read my thesis. Immediately noticed this:
Thoreau: You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.
Kafka: There is no need for you to leave the house. Stay at your table and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't even wait, be completely quiet and alone. The world will offer itself to you to be unmasked; it can't do otherwise; in raptures it will writhe before you.
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And Stevens' "Auroras" snake, "black-beaded on the rock," of which I note the similarity to Dickinson's "Narrow Fellow," now reminds me of the beads her robin's eyes are - even if he's talking about scales, they're both things. Glossy, hard, totally self-enclosed things we bounce right off. Beads are pure evil (see Achewood: http://achewood.com/index.php?date=04112005).
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Forgot I'd even written about "13 Ways" and "Of Mere Being."
Thoreau: You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.
Kafka: There is no need for you to leave the house. Stay at your table and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't even wait, be completely quiet and alone. The world will offer itself to you to be unmasked; it can't do otherwise; in raptures it will writhe before you.
***
And Stevens' "Auroras" snake, "black-beaded on the rock," of which I note the similarity to Dickinson's "Narrow Fellow," now reminds me of the beads her robin's eyes are - even if he's talking about scales, they're both things. Glossy, hard, totally self-enclosed things we bounce right off. Beads are pure evil (see Achewood: http://achewood.com/index.php?date=04112005).
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Forgot I'd even written about "13 Ways" and "Of Mere Being."
