Archive for 2008
Zukofsky quotes Paracelsus
Saturday, July 5th, 2008Paracelsus`Book of Bad and Good Fortune:
The sun shines upon all of us equally
With its luck. The summer comes
To all of us equally
With its luck. Our love is unequal
(Louis Zukofsky: A zwölg)
Elegant Stinkhorn
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Stinkhorns are amazing mushrooms, notorious for popping up suddenly and unexpected in urban settings. (M.Kuo)
Zukofsky on learning II
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008– A telegraph?
– Every word weighs.
– And the the telephone teaches?
– Also. What we say
Here is heard there.(Zukofsky, A 12)
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Source: Rudolf zur Lippe: Geometrisierung des Menschen. Oldenburg: Bibliotheks- und Informationssystem der Universität Oldenburg, 1983, p. 5.
Zukofsky on learning I
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008If it helps, diffract crystals and tracers.
Rabbi S said:
– You can learn from everything.
What man has made
Has also something to teach us.
His chassid jumped:
– Does a train?
– Yes, in a second
One may miss everything.
(Zukofsky, A 12)
Saturday, June 21st, 2008
Source: Rudolf zur Lippe: Geometrisierung des Menschen. Oldenburg: Bibliotheks- und Informationssystem der Universität Oldenburg, 1983, p. 4.
Barbara Ellmerer
Friday, June 13th, 2008Zukofsky on materiality and mechanics
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008The clock and the corn-mill
(The water-mill, that is,)
The clock, the idea of applying automatic device
(Moved by springs) to production.
The mill the essential organism of a machine:
The mechanical driving power; the transmitting
mechanism; the working machine,
Which deals with the material. Each
With an existence independent of the others.
The mathematicians, so far as they occupied themselves
With practical mechanics and its theoretical side,
Started form the simple corn-grinding water-mill.
(Louis Zukofsky, A acht)