autumnal blast

Oooh, I loved that feeling, that cool autumnal blast of fresh air, when I opened the kitchen sliding-door for the cats.

But will the afternoon still be a hundred-plus in the shade?

_ _ _

2005

Temperatures did reach 97 degrees, but in light of recent weeks, this does represent a notch downward. Indeed, by eight in the evening, the temp was down to 85 already, which represent a dramatic shifting.

There is definitely something happening here, but we remain so dry. In fact, although I'm tempted to seize on this autumn turning and forget about our watering day tomorrow, I think I'm going to have to put my shoulder to the wheel and go at it for at least one more watering day.

autumnal blast

Oooh, I loved that feeling, that cool autumnal blast of fresh air, when I opened the kitchen sliding-door for the cats.

But will the afternoon still be a hundred-plus in the shade?

_ _ _

2005

Temperatures did reach 97 degrees, but in light of recent weeks, this does represent a notch downward. Indeed, by eight in the evening, the temp was down to 85 already, which represent a dramatic shifting.

There is definitely something happening here, but we remain so dry. In fact, although I'm tempted to seize on this autumn turning and forget about our watering day tomorrow, I think I'm going to have to put my shoulder to the wheel and go at it for at least one more watering day.

Camus On Art

In the past week or so, there has been lots of chatter about speculation that the 1960 auto accident in which Albert Camus was killed was no accident but an assassination by the K.G.B., in response to the Nobel Prize-winning author’s criticisms of the Soviet Union. Given the improvised nature of the auto journey on which Albert Camus was killed (his publisher, Michel Gallimard, was doing the driving, and talked him out of taking the train from Provence to Paris—the author died with the ticket in his pocket), it seems unlikely.

-- Richard Brody for The New Yorker

Don't know much about Camus, other than that he is one of the chief lights of existentialist thought, which makes the quote below a little surprising to me, with its heavy reliance on the idea of God in his discourse on realistic art and film. According to Mr. Brody, he is inveighing against "socialist realism". I'm thinking that Camus is setting up an opposition between reality and art, in general. While one can talk about trying to make one's art more realistic, it is, in the end, a work of art and not the reality - art as a commentary on reality, perhaps.

Though, some of us may like to think that art can also transcend reality, and although I'm not sure that Camus would disagree with this, I imagine he would disagree, giving the crown to reality, and saying that one ought to be wary about misplacing the value of art. Just as there is no God, in this thought, so also there is no art that can actually transcend reality; there is no getting out of this cage. But I am really reaching on this latter argument, which I have made because it seems meaningful to me.

( Camus )

Camus On Art

In the past week or so, there has been lots of chatter about speculation that the 1960 auto accident in which Albert Camus was killed was no accident but an assassination by the K.G.B., in response to the Nobel Prize-winning author’s criticisms of the Soviet Union. Given the improvised nature of the auto journey on which Albert Camus was killed (his publisher, Michel Gallimard, was doing the driving, and talked him out of taking the train from Provence to Paris—the author died with the ticket in his pocket), it seems unlikely.

-- Richard Brody for The New Yorker

Don't know much about Camus, other than that he is one of the chief lights of existentialist thought, which makes the quote below a little surprising to me, with its heavy reliance on the idea of God in his discourse on realistic art and film. According to Mr. Brody, he is inveighing against "socialist realism". I'm thinking that Camus is setting up an opposition between reality and art, in general. While one can talk about trying to make one's art more realistic, it is, in the end, a work of art and not the reality - art as a commentary on reality, perhaps.

Though, some of us may like to think that art can also transcend reality, and although I'm not sure that Camus would disagree with this, I imagine he would disagree, giving the crown to reality, and saying that one ought to be wary about misplacing the value of art. Just as there is no God, in this thought, so also there is no art that can actually transcend reality; there is no getting out of this cage. But I am really reaching on this latter argument, which I have made because it seems meaningful to me.

( Camus )

Poetry and Porn

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Poetry and Porn

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Miley

Me likey this Miley. I actually wish we got some of the article. You know how I always love a good sentence or two, especially something that evokes some of the personality.

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Miley

Me likey this Miley. I actually wish we got some of the article. You know how I always love a good sentence or two, especially something that evokes some of the personality.

(Courtesy of ONTD)