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Lost Architecture with George Oppen

27 Tuesday Oct 2015

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architecture, George Oppen, lost architecture, Louise Gluck, Michael Braziller

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River of our substance

Flowing

With the rest. River of the substqnce

of the earth’s curve, river of the substance

Of the sunrise, river of silt, of erosion, flowing

To no imaginable sea. But the mind rises

Into Happiness, rising

Into what is there. I know of no other

Nor have I ever witnessed it… Islands

To the north

In polar mist

In the rather shallow sea

Nothing more

But the sense

Of where we are

Who are most northerly. The marvel of wave

Even here is its noise seething

In the world; I thought that even if there were nothing

The possibility of being would exist;

I thought I had encountered

Permanence; thought leaped on us in that sea

For in that sea we breathe the open

Miracle

Of place, and speak

If we would rescue

Love to the ice-lit

Upper World a substnatial language

Of clarity, and respect.
George Oppen

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Lost Architecture

27 Tuesday Oct 2015

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architecture, George Oppen, iron dock, lost architecture, Thunder bay

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UN RÉCIT, 11

Fleuve de notre substance
S’écoulant
Avec le reste. Fleuve de la substance
De la courbe terrestre, fleuve de la substance
Du lever du soleil, fleuve de limon, d’érosion, s’écoulant
Vers une inimaginable mer. Mais l’esprit se lèveDans le bonheur, se lève

Au milieu de ce qui est. Je ne connais pas d’autre bonheur
Ni n’en ai été témoin… Les îles
Vers le nord

Dans le brouillard polaire
Et la mer peu profonde –
Rien d’autre

Sinon la sensation
De l’endroit où nous sommes

Nous qui sommes le plus au nord. La merveille de la vague
Même ici c’est l’écho de son bouillonnement
Dans le monde ; je songeais que même s’il n’y avait rien

La possibilité d’être existerait ;
Je songeais que j’avais rencontré

La permanence ; la pensée nous assaillait dans cette mer
Car nous y respirons l’évident
Miracle

Du lieu, et parlons
Si nous devons sauver
L’amour au Monde d’En Haut

Éclairé par la glace un langage substantiel
De clarté, et de respect.

George Oppen

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Le naufrage du langage

26 Monday Oct 2015

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Le réseau est un ragout d’orgueil et de vanités, de mains, d’oreilles, de voix dont je ne peux dire si ils me rapprochent ou m’éloignent de ce que je suis. J’ai beau chercher l’œil par-dessus l’épaule je ne le trouve pas, car dire est souvent un concert d’ombres ou leurs figures tues seules sont vraies, seul le silence peut contenir une connaissance profonde des choses comme l’essence d’une personne se trouve dans sa dimension non révélée.
De ce vacarme ou je ne discerne plus rien, les voix qui mériteraient vraiment d’être entendues sont devenues une pièce de plus dans l’engrenage de la masse anonyme, écrasé par le force du réseau.
Pendant longtemps j’ai voué une grande fascination pour la lettre aleph, tant qu’il est silencieux, comme la vraie connaissance n’est pas sonore, elle est intangible, ineffable.
Si le Midrash a bien une fonction c’est celle de compenser les silences dans le récit de la Torah, il comble par exemple les 75 ans de la vie d’Avraham, le discours entre Cain et Abel, les silences dans la Paracha Noah…. Etc, il nous submerge sous des océans de papiers. Le texte devient ainsi une sorte de labyrinthe, un plais secret aux portes fermées qu’il faut explorer. Aujourd’hui je le trouve inutile, le silence aurait largement suffit.

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La nudité de Laprostituta pudica

26 Monday Oct 2015

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La nudité de Laprostituta pudica :
L’homme a souvent honte de dévoiler sa nudité intérieure et lui préfère un masque poreux, défectueux et un visage saboté par la pudeur. Il se sert alors du langage pour se couvrir comme la peau épargne la vue de nos tripes et l’essence intérieure qui fait une figure de son ombre ne peut plus être vue.
Ainsi écrit Carl Gustave Jung sur la symbolique du serpent dans le fameux livre rouge:

«Je me suis uni avec lui (le serpent) et je ne l’ai pas outrepassé. J’ai pris part à l’humiliation et à la subjugation, j’ai pris la nature du serpent. Si je n’étais pas devenu comme lui, le mal m’aurait soumis comme il a astucieusement déçu Faust … J’ai alors construit une solide structure (peau) et j’ai gagné en stabilité. Le immoral en moi est sauvé ’’.

Il est très intéressant de noter qu’en hébreu les mots être nu et être rusé ont la même racine :
Dans Genèse 3.1 (le serpent était le plus rusé des animaux) עָרוּם » =Arum et un peu plus loin Berechit 2.25 (et ils étaient nus) עֲרוּמִּים =Arumim.

On pourrait ainsi déduire que ce qui relie la nudité à la ruse c’est le langage. Une parole rusée (destructrice) a le pourvoir de perforer l’épaisse paroi qui tapisse l’homme. S’il ne fait pas attention aux charnières qui peuvent dévoiler son intériorité, il se met aux devants d’une grande déception. Le langage a cette double potentialité de couvrir et de dévoiler l’essence.

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14 years to build a replica of the 1909 Blériot XI in Canada

25 Sunday Oct 2015

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Aviation, Blériot XI, CAHC: Montreal Aviation Museum, CCPA - Le musée d'aviation de Montréal

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The Blériot XI was one of the most famous accomplishments of the pioneer era of aviation, built by Louis Blériot who became on 25 July 1909 the first person to cross the English Channel in an airplane.

The Blériot XI was manufactured in 1914 and was powered by a 50-horsepower Gnôme rotary engine. The airplane was purchased by the Swiss aviator John Domenjoz, a Blériot company flight instructor. Domenjoz earned a reputation as one of the era’s most celebrated stunt pilots, performing in major European cities and in North and South America through 1916, at which time he returned to France. Following wartime service as a civilian flight instructor both in France and the United States, Domenjoz made one final barnstorming tour with his Blériot in 1919.

This was the WORLD’s First Military Aircraft. It was first used operationally in Mexico during the 1910 Mexican Revolution (Lit Dynamite was thrown out of the cockpit) and later as the World’s first Operational Bomber in the Italo-Turkish War of 1911-1912. According to the Hague 1899 & 1907 protocols, attacks from the air were considered WAR CRIMES (civilian or military). The Bleriot was considered a FRONT LINE Aircraft of the Balkan Wars (1912-13) and was used in WWI (1914-1915).

Another important “first” was the 1910 flight over the City of Montreal by Count Jacques de Lesseps in his Blériot XI christened “Le Scarabée”.

10 volunteers’ amateurs in Canada spent 14 years to build a replica of the Blériot from a German set of plans, because the original French set of plans was lost during the WW II. And is now exposed at the CCPA Aviation museum in Montreal.

This replica flew during 14 seconds because the Bleriot is only flown on the calmest of days and then only in a straight line and a few feet above the ground, then lands and is turned by hand for the return trip. Control is too weak to allow in air “aerobatics” and they treat these aircraft with the greatest respect.

In this exposed replica I’ve noticed an extended rudder with a float on the bottom (picture number 5) and one of the volunteer named Michel, explained to me that Louis Blériot did it in case the airplace crashed in the high sea; he would be able to survive by making the airplane float on the water, but no one know what was the material used, probably wine corks.

 

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The silence of personal merit

24 Saturday Oct 2015

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“Les Caractères/Du mérite personnel” de La Bruyèr

This old edition belonged to my father; more than 15 years now since I’ve read it for the first time. This book contains a treasure trove of timeless and increasingly timely pointers on the necessary art of living up to our social destiny and personal Merit.

I’ve learned that the personal merit is silent and doesn’t need to be reconized…and I’ve learned to not give my time to every superficial acquaintance: it is bestowing what is to you of inestimable worth, upon one who is not likely to be the better for it.

And I’ve learned that the personal merit consists less in the display of one’s own wit and intelligence, than in the power to draw forth the resources of others; he who leaves you after a long conversation, pleased with himself and the part he has taken in the discourse, will be your warmest admirer. Men do not care to admire you, they wish you to be pleased with them; they do not seek for instruction or even amusement from your discourse, but they do wish you to be made acquainted with their talents and powers of conversation; and the true man of genius will delicately make all who come in contact with him feel the exquisite satisfaction of knowing that they have appeared to advantage.This requires great genius and few are gifted with the talent.

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