NOX anne carson
from the second book of Herodotus: “So much for what is said by the Egyptians: let anyone who finds such things credible make use of them.”
Herodotus signs off his seventh book with: “That, at any rate, is the story of what happened.” Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t /what happened/, but that’s what I heard.
themorningnews.org/tob/nox-v-lord-of-misrule (opening round) judged by Andrew Womack, tmn founder: NOX is a beautiful look at a life and what comes before and after it, and an enrapturing read from beginning to end.
NEXT jms hynes
On a mission to interview for a new job (his life in Ann Arbor untenable for a number of reasons), Kevin arrives in Austin with many hours to spare. He tries to settle in at a coffee shop, but a fortuitous sighting of the woman he sat next to on the plane—Kelly—sends him stalking her around the city. “Joy Luck,” as he thinks of her, is his ghost of the past: Everything about her reminds him of past loves. The second visitation is from Claudia, who enters as Kelly disappears. Claudia grounds him in the present, briefly: They eat lunch and share secrets. The last is Melody, and I won’t explain how and where they meet because to do so would ruin one of the most shocking and terrific reading experiences you still have ahead of you if you haven’t read the book yet. But I think it fair to say that she serves as his guide to the future. The last chapter is full of terror and sadness ..
themorningnews.org/tob/next-v-so-much-for-that (opening round) judged by Jessica Francis Kane
themorningnews.org/tob/next-v-so-much-for-that-commentary KGuilfoile: It’s a difficult book to talk about without either mischaracterizing it or giving up too much, but the way that Hynes is able to marry the tight human observations that are the slow-burning fuel of the literary novel with the high stakes tension of a thriller is really a show that has to be seen. For me, the ending wasn’t really shocking—I was expecting it, frankly—but as I waited for it to happen I was turning the pages one after another thinking to myself, “Is he really going to do this? Does he really have the balls to do this?”
nxt round, qrtr finals http themorningnews.org/tob/nox-v-next judged by John Wllms: It’s hard to discuss Next in a meaningful way without giving away its ending. I won’t spoil it here, though it’s hardly a Crying Game-level shock when the novel pulls down its drawers. Having read some coy reviews at the time of Next’s publication, I had a pretty good idea of the surprise’s general nature.
The only thing that really bothered me was the way Hynes got me (and Kevin) to the very grand finale. Hynes keeps the reader clued in to certain unfolding events that are miraculously eluding Kevin. For a day-in-the-life book rooted very much in the real, this felt too conveniently manufactured.
semifinals: themorningnews.org/tob/next-v-the-particular-sadness-of-lemon-cake-commentary
-jamesharrigan: Roderick's impatience with Kevin seems to have prevented him from appreciating how the final section (the famous "last fifty pages") alters or at least deepens our understanding of what has come before. In short, Kevin is an unreliable narrator of his own awfulness: he is a better man than he thinks, and than we thought.
and...the final 50 pages are really something. I'll refrain from spoilers, but this is truly fine writing, that elevates a diverting satire to a higher level.
-neighbors73: Can we stop refraining from spoilers? The ending of that book is so strongly foreshadowed from the first page, I really don't know how anyone---except the main character Kevin, of course!---could have failed to see it coming.
I'M BREAKING THE SPOILER BAN...
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Friday, April 8, 2011
tmn tob
2011 (re bks pub 2010) any favorites this group? ~ not so far, reading thr. but not unint.
have read: So Much For That - galley. good, not outstanding, but int esp re healthcare, 'retiring' early to thrdwrld ctry. and life goes on ing.
Room - took home hrdvr for a nite. compelling mysteryish to read. some pleasing bits.
acquainted: Bad Marie -mention EW wrt Mona Simpson My Hollywood, survey other bks re nannies, I was int fr the one sentence cap but lkd up then d n care to read.
Bloodshot -galley, oh and also EW writeup, isnit?
am fmlr w: Franzen -- Freedom ~ I'm w JohnWllms who I wondered & ggld & found is not the one from RM hs but a diff guy, founder of Second Pass - lks good, read OurBks OurSlvs, fill in on this year's talk re gender in lit - who says "in honestly befuddled camp" ~ The Correctns to me was supermarkety family drama. so okay, I guess like Middlemarch, wh is 'classic.' but writing less appealling. as Sarah Manguso here said in chmpshp judge, only Egan's of the two bks sentences found way into her commonplace bk (Manguso's, that is, things in mind). Manguso still writing well, top-ish cmmt on final chmpshp cmmtry said she was fvr judge & sold a bk as result. yes me too so I feel ahead of th game hvg got Two Kinds Decay but today read intrvw w her wh is it made me feel like she's not for me? did like how uncompromising was in bookslut intrvw not assimilating to qstnr's way-of-talking-re-reading eg genres memoir but oh maybe d n like 'Franzen made me weep for lost love but Egan reminded me death is coming' bcs I d n trust 'weep' and also 'remind', wh is sth I wld hv said but it's just convenient. so what is more to the true? ~ I was sad with Freedom about love that is gone. With Goon Squad I was where I know there is death for me. ~
ps do like the line quoted by manguso & also by matthew defective yeti who stopped at it, p11 of the bk declared it th winner (I guess he *liked* the line - rt?) but he said it was re 'a child' while she said it was re daughter-in-law (so maybe th char first on scene as child) and that does, fr without the context, suggestive of int relation "she was like an imaginary friend who happened to be visible" ok so known to him only through his son, as part of his son's world, as a voice or reflection of his son's inner life. int to me re child-in-law. bcs your own child so important to you, the spouse is aspect of that child. may as well not be a person herself. (but is.
J Egan -- Goon Squad / Egan is almost lorrie moore early fvr of mine and more than moore re BirdsAmer I liked Egan at P&P was it for ~'LookAtMe' (?) not ~ 'Circus' ? saying she trying to say things have not said before at 33 takes into off territory / ~ but it seems I liked The Keep, really very funny, and now - was it th d n care for end? - do not much want read this next bk? & The Keep was not in tournamt before? pub 2006 so wld be 2007 tourn
let recap me: I happened upon tourn in 2006. pleasantly associated w joe in mailroom writing out piece of paper little writing basketball picks office pool, and I decline and say Oh! tournament of bks, and every time there it is. this year not in mailroom only happenedly did some reading at sudie's computer while elena sleeps, came to it on weekend while game play recap up before Monday's chmpnshp, now have the whole of it to read. w commentaries, cmmts fr readers, plus over to commenting blogs.
anyway 2005 before me. Cloud Atlas won, right?
2006 the year of most involvement by me. final Homeland (scrappy up&comer! funny) v The Accidental (my kind of bk if not fvr). sam lipsyte, ali smith.
------note re layout d n have the convenient sidebar links to all book matches. that starts in 2007. + convenient header drop-downs of Brackets, Judges, Books starts in 2009? no 2010. so this only 2nd yr of superb format.-----
2007 no bks esp of int to me? I guess not. final The Road v Absurdistan. cormac mccarthy, gary shteyngart (also in this year's, and has bn a judge). I think maybe I got int in some of the judges? maybe dlcs notes. (or here dlww?) mark sarvas? sth in mind re th name. dan chaon, whose first bk I hv You Remind Me of Me. maybe got th bcs liked his cmmtry here, or why? sth like th. and no, no The Keep here.
2008 - appears again not I was m into. books nor judges. final Remainder v Brief Wondrous Life Oscar Wao. tom mccarthy, juan diaz. I had read Remainder, of some int but cold leaving. j diaz seems nice, think he wrote here an acceptance, and maybe judged a match a prvs year? also incl Tree of Smoke by denis johnson, Savage Detectives by r bolano so was first of two appearances in a row in tourn, and Then We Came to the End by j ferris wh I did read some of.
2009 - City of Refuge scrappily to final v The Mercy. tom piazza , toni morrison. also incl Dart League King, wh I then was happy to find galley of. also 2666 r bolano much discussed.
2010 - eh final The Lacuna v Wolf Hall. but almost also Book of Night Women, as scrappy to semifinals. kingsolver. hilary mantel. marlon james. Bk Night Women in th one I got out of it. also j kottke in much ngtv cmmmtd judgmt chose Lacuna over Let the Great World Spin, with discussn of the design, wh I d n mind but disagreed on every pnt: I prefer paper, prefer quiet illustratn of Let The, dislike dust jackets esp with holes, and this is even worse that it has a lacuna in it yech, and I v m dislike deckle edge! yech. do not like th look maybe bcs assoc w cmmrclsm, commercially 'literary', but anyway bothers me bcs like to flip and pages clump. ps this year tourn also incl l moore Gate At Th Stairs, beaten out the gate by Bk of Night Women. in judgemt by C Max McGee who edits the Millions (and this year gave the addtnl vote in th chmpshp.) did I like wh said? think I liked each judgemt re Bk Night Women. in its second match, 'qrtr finals', judge Carolyn Kellogg who of int to me bcs of qstn, answer is not, whether my friend Connie.
also 2010 begins the Biblioracle, right? spontaneously in cmmtry qrtrfinals Wolf Hall vs Anthologist. [y: themorningnews.org/tob/2010/wolf-hall-v-the-anthologist-commentary ]cmmtatrs Kevin Guilfoile & John Warner discussing 'voodoo' of reading, wh ppl like. John W offers to try recommending bks in cmmts based on last 5 you read. and then didn't they do this again, prior to this year's tournament, billed as sth like a half-time show?
finally, now 2011 Freedom v Goon Squad. j franzen, j egan.
RELIVE THE ACTION 2005 - 2006 - 2007- 2008 - 2009 - 2010
2011 (re bks pub 2010) any favorites this group? ~ not so far, reading thr. but not unint.
have read: So Much For That - galley. good, not outstanding, but int esp re healthcare, 'retiring' early to thrdwrld ctry. and life goes on ing.
Room - took home hrdvr for a nite. compelling mysteryish to read. some pleasing bits.
acquainted: Bad Marie -mention EW wrt Mona Simpson My Hollywood, survey other bks re nannies, I was int fr the one sentence cap but lkd up then d n care to read.
Bloodshot -galley, oh and also EW writeup, isnit?
am fmlr w: Franzen -- Freedom ~ I'm w JohnWllms who I wondered & ggld & found is not the one from RM hs but a diff guy, founder of Second Pass - lks good, read OurBks OurSlvs, fill in on this year's talk re gender in lit - who says "in honestly befuddled camp" ~ The Correctns to me was supermarkety family drama. so okay, I guess like Middlemarch, wh is 'classic.' but writing less appealling. as Sarah Manguso here said in chmpshp judge, only Egan's of the two bks sentences found way into her commonplace bk (Manguso's, that is, things in mind). Manguso still writing well, top-ish cmmt on final chmpshp cmmtry said she was fvr judge & sold a bk as result. yes me too so I feel ahead of th game hvg got Two Kinds Decay but today read intrvw w her wh is it made me feel like she's not for me? did like how uncompromising was in bookslut intrvw not assimilating to qstnr's way-of-talking-re-reading eg genres memoir but oh maybe d n like 'Franzen made me weep for lost love but Egan reminded me death is coming' bcs I d n trust 'weep' and also 'remind', wh is sth I wld hv said but it's just convenient. so what is more to the true? ~ I was sad with Freedom about love that is gone. With Goon Squad I was where I know there is death for me. ~
ps do like the line quoted by manguso & also by matthew defective yeti who stopped at it, p11 of the bk declared it th winner (I guess he *liked* the line - rt?) but he said it was re 'a child' while she said it was re daughter-in-law (so maybe th char first on scene as child) and that does, fr without the context, suggestive of int relation "she was like an imaginary friend who happened to be visible" ok so known to him only through his son, as part of his son's world, as a voice or reflection of his son's inner life. int to me re child-in-law. bcs your own child so important to you, the spouse is aspect of that child. may as well not be a person herself. (but is.
J Egan -- Goon Squad / Egan is almost lorrie moore early fvr of mine and more than moore re BirdsAmer I liked Egan at P&P was it for ~'LookAtMe' (?) not ~ 'Circus' ? saying she trying to say things have not said before at 33 takes into off territory / ~ but it seems I liked The Keep, really very funny, and now - was it th d n care for end? - do not much want read this next bk? & The Keep was not in tournamt before? pub 2006 so wld be 2007 tourn
let recap me: I happened upon tourn in 2006. pleasantly associated w joe in mailroom writing out piece of paper little writing basketball picks office pool, and I decline and say Oh! tournament of bks, and every time there it is. this year not in mailroom only happenedly did some reading at sudie's computer while elena sleeps, came to it on weekend while game play recap up before Monday's chmpnshp, now have the whole of it to read. w commentaries, cmmts fr readers, plus over to commenting blogs.
anyway 2005 before me. Cloud Atlas won, right?
2006 the year of most involvement by me. final Homeland (scrappy up&comer! funny) v The Accidental (my kind of bk if not fvr). sam lipsyte, ali smith.
------note re layout d n have the convenient sidebar links to all book matches. that starts in 2007. + convenient header drop-downs of Brackets, Judges, Books starts in 2009? no 2010. so this only 2nd yr of superb format.-----
2007 no bks esp of int to me? I guess not. final The Road v Absurdistan. cormac mccarthy, gary shteyngart (also in this year's, and has bn a judge). I think maybe I got int in some of the judges? maybe dlcs notes. (or here dlww?) mark sarvas? sth in mind re th name. dan chaon, whose first bk I hv You Remind Me of Me. maybe got th bcs liked his cmmtry here, or why? sth like th. and no, no The Keep here.
2008 - appears again not I was m into. books nor judges. final Remainder v Brief Wondrous Life Oscar Wao. tom mccarthy, juan diaz. I had read Remainder, of some int but cold leaving. j diaz seems nice, think he wrote here an acceptance, and maybe judged a match a prvs year? also incl Tree of Smoke by denis johnson, Savage Detectives by r bolano so was first of two appearances in a row in tourn, and Then We Came to the End by j ferris wh I did read some of.
2009 - City of Refuge scrappily to final v The Mercy. tom piazza , toni morrison. also incl Dart League King, wh I then was happy to find galley of. also 2666 r bolano much discussed.
2010 - eh final The Lacuna v Wolf Hall. but almost also Book of Night Women, as scrappy to semifinals. kingsolver. hilary mantel. marlon james. Bk Night Women in th one I got out of it. also j kottke in much ngtv cmmmtd judgmt chose Lacuna over Let the Great World Spin, with discussn of the design, wh I d n mind but disagreed on every pnt: I prefer paper, prefer quiet illustratn of Let The, dislike dust jackets esp with holes, and this is even worse that it has a lacuna in it yech, and I v m dislike deckle edge! yech. do not like th look maybe bcs assoc w cmmrclsm, commercially 'literary', but anyway bothers me bcs like to flip and pages clump. ps this year tourn also incl l moore Gate At Th Stairs, beaten out the gate by Bk of Night Women. in judgemt by C Max McGee who edits the Millions (and this year gave the addtnl vote in th chmpshp.) did I like wh said? think I liked each judgemt re Bk Night Women. in its second match, 'qrtr finals', judge Carolyn Kellogg who of int to me bcs of qstn, answer is not, whether my friend Connie.
also 2010 begins the Biblioracle, right? spontaneously in cmmtry qrtrfinals Wolf Hall vs Anthologist. [y: themorningnews.org/tob/2010/wolf-hall-v-the-anthologist-commentary ]cmmtatrs Kevin Guilfoile & John Warner discussing 'voodoo' of reading, wh ppl like. John W offers to try recommending bks in cmmts based on last 5 you read. and then didn't they do this again, prior to this year's tournament, billed as sth like a half-time show?
finally, now 2011 Freedom v Goon Squad. j franzen, j egan.
RELIVE THE ACTION 2005 - 2006 - 2007- 2008 - 2009 - 2010
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
leave
lossings, gloss.
well did not say, to boot, forensic. what lacks!
however gleaned, will idle sore and stones labor down.
if off and, glam shell. wrest unabashed treeline
rising. so with the smith, dance wattage.
parachute even overboard self-long spent.
we auspice
yet cares for day every red wing you.
_
well did not say, to boot, forensic. what lacks!
however gleaned, will idle sore and stones labor down.
if off and, glam shell. wrest unabashed treeline
rising. so with the smith, dance wattage.
parachute even overboard self-long spent.
we auspice
yet cares for day every red wing you.
_
phantasm
in quartet, on the beach - first, blue.
first, horizontal. first, upward. I stared
singing singed by, it would, iron picket
wicket-and-ball-chain mallet
put away for a plainer day, grassier climes, hillside
not seaside, by the dunes.
she did not appear early, too seemly reckless overpressed
to cotton to. ribbon falls, and flat.
or, linger and tired maulings of hereditation - trepidation any
way, leaves and green sprout up shoot scrappily.
tell from eisler her range methodical, unused keep
her song lights brightest dimmed when you saw.
like way station blanks fine-lined were quick but heavy dust
nature all carrion to ferry meander.
I win, spring sprung! last in, side, it's go
never seeps but soul's tooth.
____
first, horizontal. first, upward. I stared
singing singed by, it would, iron picket
wicket-and-ball-chain mallet
put away for a plainer day, grassier climes, hillside
not seaside, by the dunes.
she did not appear early, too seemly reckless overpressed
to cotton to. ribbon falls, and flat.
or, linger and tired maulings of hereditation - trepidation any
way, leaves and green sprout up shoot scrappily.
tell from eisler her range methodical, unused keep
her song lights brightest dimmed when you saw.
like way station blanks fine-lined were quick but heavy dust
nature all carrion to ferry meander.
I win, spring sprung! last in, side, it's go
never seeps but soul's tooth.
____
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
'Everything here is the best thing ever'
reminds of?
~ is it miranda july eh .. 'you & me & everyone we know'
- is it that book, green, student of wgsebald .. 'the only good thing anyone has ever done'
- j ferris .. 'you don't know what's in my heart' .. (chp title, in novel w title 'then we came to the end') (mymindw/ 'there is nothing wrong in this whole world')
every every only nothing
no, there's .. more specifically Every__ __ is the __ __ _-_.
GOT IT! 'People like us are the only people here.' (lorrie moore story I hvn't esp read Birds of America)
good good People __ __ are the __ __ _.
except it's People like *that* are the only people here. 'People like that are the only people here.'
(I'm not the first to misrecall it as *us* but only a few by ggl)
re mind - no thing mattered but sth cld not quite recall - only thing th mattered was sth I cldnt remember - wh also: Only __ __ was the /only people here/
reminds of?
~ is it miranda july eh .. 'you & me & everyone we know'
- is it that book, green, student of wgsebald .. 'the only good thing anyone has ever done'
- j ferris .. 'you don't know what's in my heart' .. (chp title, in novel w title 'then we came to the end') (mymindw/ 'there is nothing wrong in this whole world')
every every only nothing
no, there's .. more specifically Every__ __ is the __ __ _-_.
GOT IT! 'People like us are the only people here.' (lorrie moore story I hvn't esp read Birds of America)
good good People __ __ are the __ __ _.
except it's People like *that* are the only people here. 'People like that are the only people here.'
(I'm not the first to misrecall it as *us* but only a few by ggl)
re mind - no thing mattered but sth cld not quite recall - only thing th mattered was sth I cldnt remember - wh also: Only __ __ was the /only people here/
Friday, March 25, 2011
if i could just get off of this LA freeway, without getting - y guy clark -
heres to you old skinny dennis : keep on keep on playin
my driftin memory goes back to - y tanya tucker -
California Cottonfields! .. California cottonfields was as close to wealth as daddy ever came
howmanyofyouthatsitandjudgeme ever walked the streets of bakersfield
wow th been listening this since 2004 sure, maybe 2003, since 8 yrs
from up th street. now stream - can record yay on realplayer. & nb he just said itunes under cllg radio
stuck in lodi again - not mobile. lodi, calif - oh ccr but here somebody else
somewhere I lost connections, ran out of songs to play
lay my head down on the rail & sing my way back home - oh to merle haggard r d pingam hm
calif on my mind - to see your calif smile. - tony joe _
oh rt monterey paul birch (who's that guy I forget sometimes it's the one with that distinct voice (is it accent or is it quality like nasal) distinct like I like but this voice that I do not much like?
mm nice merle haggard song what was
will listen back recorded
heres to you old skinny dennis : keep on keep on playin
my driftin memory goes back to - y tanya tucker -
California Cottonfields! .. California cottonfields was as close to wealth as daddy ever came
howmanyofyouthatsitandjudgeme ever walked the streets of bakersfield
wow th been listening this since 2004 sure, maybe 2003, since 8 yrs
from up th street. now stream - can record yay on realplayer. & nb he just said itunes under cllg radio
stuck in lodi again - not mobile. lodi, calif - oh ccr but here somebody else
somewhere I lost connections, ran out of songs to play
lay my head down on the rail & sing my way back home - oh to merle haggard r d pingam hm
calif on my mind - to see your calif smile. - tony joe _
oh rt monterey paul birch (who's that guy I forget sometimes it's the one with that distinct voice (is it accent or is it quality like nasal) distinct like I like but this voice that I do not much like?
mm nice merle haggard song what was
will listen back recorded
in treatment s3 e4
1 - Irfan Khan as Sunil: "I can be one hundred percent absolutely scientifically positive Dr Weston because I am actually planting them." [planting?] "I plant the pills in the soil of the siroi lily. It is the most happy flower, Dr Weston. It is flourishing--!"
mmm wry so sad. reminds of Tony in 24 when jack turned off his sportsgame ~ Haven't you ruined enough of my day, Jack?
2- Debra Winger as Frances
3- teenage boy Jesse ny watched
4- Amy Ryan wow
what great diverse roles:
Gone Baby Gone as strung out mother.
The Wire.
The Office as kind funny Holly who dates Michael Scott (wkp: Holly Flax (Amy Ryan), Toby's replacement as HR Representative, who appears for a while to be Michael's best chance at love, with the two sharing a similar sense of humor and social awkwardness.)
In Treatment now as poised Adele in bright office. at first seemed cold to me but ~ 17:30 both characters open
adele: why are you convinced Gina wanted to escape from you?
gabriel byrne as paul: Give me another ten minutes and you'll understand completely.
nodding smile. aw wry. so now it's sad, she sees him vulnerable, her focused gaze watching him seems kind
paul: You're probably feeling it already.
adele: small head shake, eyebrows lift. No. I hadn't been.
1 - Irfan Khan as Sunil: "I can be one hundred percent absolutely scientifically positive Dr Weston because I am actually planting them." [planting?] "I plant the pills in the soil of the siroi lily. It is the most happy flower, Dr Weston. It is flourishing--!"
mmm wry so sad. reminds of Tony in 24 when jack turned off his sportsgame ~ Haven't you ruined enough of my day, Jack?
2- Debra Winger as Frances
3- teenage boy Jesse ny watched
4- Amy Ryan wow
what great diverse roles:
Gone Baby Gone as strung out mother.
The Wire.
The Office as kind funny Holly who dates Michael Scott (wkp: Holly Flax (Amy Ryan), Toby's replacement as HR Representative, who appears for a while to be Michael's best chance at love, with the two sharing a similar sense of humor and social awkwardness.)
In Treatment now as poised Adele in bright office. at first seemed cold to me but ~ 17:30 both characters open
adele: why are you convinced Gina wanted to escape from you?
gabriel byrne as paul: Give me another ten minutes and you'll understand completely.
nodding smile. aw wry. so now it's sad, she sees him vulnerable, her focused gaze watching him seems kind
paul: You're probably feeling it already.
adele: small head shake, eyebrows lift. No. I hadn't been.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Thursday, February 10, 2011
DLCS > PINBOARD | 2/10/11, w notes upon checking in 9/4/11
dlcs down?! redirects to a search, cannot get to support forums or blog either.
wow. really happening? that's a loss. all my notes!?
the news I missed, out of touch, leaked 12/16 yahoo 'sunsetting' dlcs, announced 12/17 looking for buyer rather than closing.
but now it is down? but no web confirmation or news since mid-December? just one realish time comment found:
readwriteweb 2010/12:
# R.I.P. Delicious: You Were So Beautiful to Me
# 3 Ways to Host Your Own Delicious Alternative - ReadWriteCloud
# Delicious's Data Policy is Like Setting a Museum on Fire : users, URLs, tags. forming a tripartite hypergraph to hold the collective intelligence.
delicious blog » What’s Next for Delicious? #comments :
Feb 9 2011 at 8:43 am -You should just merge with pinboard.
Pinboard Site Tour — Better Online Bookmarking! : The description field can be any length. Any URLs in the description will be automatically hyperlinked. You can also use blockquote tags in the description for quoted text. If there is any selected text on the page when you click the bookmarklet it gets automatically pasted into the description field. /unlimited descriptn space, plus! highlighted text picked up --like in my heddays w dlcs bkmrklt-- sold!!
Save & Secure Bookmarks With Pinboard : Just head over to the Delicious Bookmark export page, select to include your notes and tags, and click Export. Pinboard can import everything you’ve saved in Delicious, tags and notes included, so no reason to leave anything behind. Save your export file in a safe place; we’ll need it in a few moments.
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I just went Settings > Export / Download Your Delicious Bookmarks , hit the Export button and 30 seconds latter I had an HTML file containing my bookmarks.
whew that's nice dlcs is up now. so that was temporary. better not delay though.
Settings & Export / Download Your Delicious Bookmarks
so, checked: currently my pinboard has my dlcs pgmrks only up to five days ago. ah: maybe bcs that is when I stopped allowing cookies on this computer ~ but, no, that shld not effect sth th happens regardless of what computer, right? it's from one cloud to another, whatever my input computer, ie whtver I work fr? so, lkg back thr these bkmrkd pages & found this dlww post w notes. have not yet resolved mirroring qstn.
...well, as of now there are only four pgmrks not mirrored. from 2-3 Sept. all ytube vid songs Crimson & Clover, then three covers fr Castlecomer band. these do show up in the RSS feed (whereas the one pgmrk fr tonight re Dlcs to Evernote does not yet, as might expect.) anyway maybe those most recent pgmrks will be auto-added. just give it a little while and check back.
UPDATE 9/5 pm Yep! those four song vid pgmkrs CrimsonClover then Castlecomer all there now! so, in future be aware that may take a couple days, that's no problem.
..also, I d n recall paying for pinboard. but I must have? not noted in dlww, but maybe in note on my compaq .. ? no 'pinboard' found in my gmail, cld check html .. is it poss I imported & have been auto adding and never actually joined? no, c'mon, that's gotta happen at login. and I have a vague idea that I liked the amount I paid $8 sth.
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....also, hmm. this number at top my page seems be the tally of pgmrks on pinboard
crrnt dlcs tally 14348. so, missing some 200+? was checking the mirroring & lkg to see why last few days not picked up yet fr rss; but that's more than just the few fr last few days... / checked the very earliest z0508 = earliest WHEN tag: yes appears to have all those. good. not like it has just deleted oldest bcs of some minimum or sth. so, I don't know, maybe just has not accepted some pgrmks bcs problems w title length or otherwise w code? or maybe that '14111' is not accurate? in fact, on setting page it says that is the number imported on 2/10/11. well it says 2/11/11 imported 14112 ok so +1 wh maybe I deleted 1. and Yes, looks right. since then the month totals add up to that 200+: z1103: 5. z1104: 42. z1105: 40. z1106: 51. z1107: 15. z1108: 47. proving useful, these WHEN tags. so maybe there's a bug where the Auto-add from dlcs rss is not discerned by that tally. ok, that'd be a close to best case explanation. means just the number wrong, but all bkmrks there.
well hold up. upon most recent refresh:
so, that's weird (I d n have an explanation) but much better!
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ps. (still 9/4). have now had several moments of not knowing why a website acting strangely: I login and nothing happens. it does not say my login is wrong, but I am not signed in now. then I remember. this is because I have set my Firefox > Preferences to NOT allow cookies except from sites I specify:
Firefox > Preference - Privacy: [UNCHECKED] Accept cookies from sites
- Exceptions = ALLOW specified sites, where I list those I use regularly = blogger, dlcs, gmail.
thedayislikewidewater.blogspot.com *have to add each of my private blogspots individually or it will not redirect! happened yesterday when went to export my blogs, tried to view Owliver got 503 error, thought maybe a problem bcs not logged in for so long, maybe format of blog needed to be updated and too much time now passed. then happened again w Fromnotebooks, realized and added those and also mdlww to cookies Exceptions.
also had to add Evernote, after good while of confusion about whether their site was wack, no online version of my account. then duh need to allow cookies.
also Pinboard.
this will probably happen again. but for now, I do like allowing only cookies from site I say...
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wow. really happening? that's a loss. all my notes!?
the news I missed, out of touch, leaked 12/16 yahoo 'sunsetting' dlcs, announced 12/17 looking for buyer rather than closing.
but now it is down? but no web confirmation or news since mid-December? just one realish time comment found:
Is #Delicious finally dead? Just when I started tagging again I cannot reach my bookmarks due to 'No route to host' error. #SaveDelicious
readwriteweb 2010/12:
# R.I.P. Delicious: You Were So Beautiful to Me
# 3 Ways to Host Your Own Delicious Alternative - ReadWriteCloud
# Delicious's Data Policy is Like Setting a Museum on Fire : users, URLs, tags. forming a tripartite hypergraph to hold the collective intelligence.
delicious blog » What’s Next for Delicious? #comments :
Feb 9 2011 at 8:43 am -You should just merge with pinboard.
Pinboard Site Tour — Better Online Bookmarking! : The description field can be any length. Any URLs in the description will be automatically hyperlinked. You can also use blockquote tags in the description for quoted text. If there is any selected text on the page when you click the bookmarklet it gets automatically pasted into the description field. /unlimited descriptn space, plus! highlighted text picked up --like in my heddays w dlcs bkmrklt-- sold!!
Save & Secure Bookmarks With Pinboard : Just head over to the Delicious Bookmark export page, select to include your notes and tags, and click Export. Pinboard can import everything you’ve saved in Delicious, tags and notes included, so no reason to leave anything behind. Save your export file in a safe place; we’ll need it in a few moments.
Pinboard – A Fast, Mobile-Friendly Delicious.com Replacement | Wap Review
I just went Settings > Export / Download Your Delicious Bookmarks , hit the Export button and 30 seconds latter I had an HTML file containing my bookmarks.
whew that's nice dlcs is up now. so that was temporary. better not delay though.
Settings & Export / Download Your Delicious Bookmarks
This tool creates a list of all your bookmarks in a format understandable by most browsers. You can save the generated page (as HTML) and import it into your browser -- or anything else that accepts bookmarks in a standard format. Save a copy of your Delicious bookmarks to your computer as a HTML file.
include my tags
include my notes
export bookmarks with the following tags (space delimited)
If you choose the option to include your tags, they will be in your export even if you don't see them on the page -- you can view the source of the file to make sure your tags are there. Also note that if you have created tag bundles, they will not be preserved in your exported file. This is a limitation of the export file format.
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... 2011/9/4 trying out evernote. problem: exported dlcs pgmrk file would not sync as a note ('error' ~ wh I accept as probably due to all my weird usage like long titles or whatever). so saved current file (14,438 pgmrks) just on macbk computer.
figure that's ok; anyway, already have pinboard acting as an online backup. (and I maybe like pinboard interface better, too. does pick up highlighted text! but so far still going w dlcs since used to it and since pinboard settings will auto-add fr dlcs ie 'mirror' it.)
Pinboard: your settings / settings tab [scroll down: General - Twitter - Delicious] .
| Delicious | |
| delicious username: | |
| Auto-add bookmarks that appear in the RSS feed for this delicious account ? | |
| and mark them as | |
so, checked: currently my pinboard has my dlcs pgmrks only up to five days ago. ah: maybe bcs that is when I stopped allowing cookies on this computer ~ but, no, that shld not effect sth th happens regardless of what computer, right? it's from one cloud to another, whatever my input computer, ie whtver I work fr? so, lkg back thr these bkmrkd pages & found this dlww post w notes. have not yet resolved mirroring qstn.
...well, as of now there are only four pgmrks not mirrored. from 2-3 Sept. all ytube vid songs Crimson & Clover, then three covers fr Castlecomer band. these do show up in the RSS feed (whereas the one pgmrk fr tonight re Dlcs to Evernote does not yet, as might expect.) anyway maybe those most recent pgmrks will be auto-added. just give it a little while and check back.
UPDATE 9/5 pm Yep! those four song vid pgmkrs CrimsonClover then Castlecomer all there now! so, in future be aware that may take a couple days, that's no problem.
..also, I d n recall paying for pinboard. but I must have? not noted in dlww, but maybe in note on my compaq .. ? no 'pinboard' found in my gmail, cld check html .. is it poss I imported & have been auto adding and never actually joined? no, c'mon, that's gotta happen at login. and I have a vague idea that I liked the amount I paid $8 sth.
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....also, hmm. this number at top my page seems be the tally of pgmrks on pinboard
crrnt dlcs tally 14348. so, missing some 200+? was checking the mirroring & lkg to see why last few days not picked up yet fr rss; but that's more than just the few fr last few days... / checked the very earliest z0508 = earliest WHEN tag: yes appears to have all those. good. not like it has just deleted oldest bcs of some minimum or sth. so, I don't know, maybe just has not accepted some pgrmks bcs problems w title length or otherwise w code? or maybe that '14111' is not accurate? in fact, on setting page it says that is the number imported on 2/10/11. well it says 2/11/11 imported 14112 ok so +1 wh maybe I deleted 1. and Yes, looks right. since then the month totals add up to that 200+: z1103: 5. z1104: 42. z1105: 40. z1106: 51. z1107: 15. z1108: 47. proving useful, these WHEN tags. so maybe there's a bug where the Auto-add from dlcs rss is not discerned by that tally. ok, that'd be a close to best case explanation. means just the number wrong, but all bkmrks there.
| uploaded | status | |
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| 10.02.11 14:17 | imported 14112 bookmarks |
well hold up. upon most recent refresh:
so, that's weird (I d n have an explanation) but much better!
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ps. (still 9/4). have now had several moments of not knowing why a website acting strangely: I login and nothing happens. it does not say my login is wrong, but I am not signed in now. then I remember. this is because I have set my Firefox > Preferences to NOT allow cookies except from sites I specify:
Firefox > Preference - Privacy: [UNCHECKED] Accept cookies from sites
- Exceptions = ALLOW specified sites, where I list those I use regularly = blogger, dlcs, gmail.
thedayislikewidewater.blogspot.com *have to add each of my private blogspots individually or it will not redirect! happened yesterday when went to export my blogs, tried to view Owliver got 503 error, thought maybe a problem bcs not logged in for so long, maybe format of blog needed to be updated and too much time now passed. then happened again w Fromnotebooks, realized and added those and also mdlww to cookies Exceptions.
also had to add Evernote, after good while of confusion about whether their site was wack, no online version of my account. then duh need to allow cookies.
also Pinboard.
this will probably happen again. but for now, I do like allowing only cookies from site I say...
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unique hazards may exist, We can save Delicious, but probably not in the way you think:
Donating Delicious to the Library of Congress or the Smithsonian
Now we’re getting closer. While it is folly to assume either of these institutions could take over Delicious and keep it running as a viable service, it does seem like they would be interested in preserving the Delicious corpus and making it available for research.
I love Delicious for many reasons, but chief among them is that it is the Internet’s memory storage device. In the 7+ years of its existence it has recorded the collective online journeys of millions of users during a time when the Web was evolving dramatically. Those memories are irreplaceable and have enormous value both to their owners (the users) and to society.
Donating Delicious to the Library of Congress or the Smithsonian
Now we’re getting closer. While it is folly to assume either of these institutions could take over Delicious and keep it running as a viable service, it does seem like they would be interested in preserving the Delicious corpus and making it available for research.
I love Delicious for many reasons, but chief among them is that it is the Internet’s memory storage device. In the 7+ years of its existence it has recorded the collective online journeys of millions of users during a time when the Web was evolving dramatically. Those memories are irreplaceable and have enormous value both to their owners (the users) and to society.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
being dead
you can't make a record if you can't make a record if you can't
you can't have a goal if you can't have a goal if you if it isn't if it isn't good for to you
if you feel the same after - a little worse than- eh to me that's just saying so a little more than a novel you once read - or wrote - also precious too
all foreground, briggflatts, backwards and forewards and all the meanings and typos you can't out out me
____ was the most important thing but it didn't make me happy /monasimpsonmyhollywood {oh yes, let's don't risk that I not be able to recall, not know who, from where, who is that, credit, let's get that, noted!
why all that time making a gift no one asked for /monasimpsonmyhollywood
all the gifts and all the needs /re bespallof ~heinrichmueller?
to discover we had clicked on all the wrong links /thatwebsite earlywebexpl column hypertextnotes _the boidem_
what we wanted wasn't what
---happy they that are saying 'we'
I was a person too it should
somebody else's mother
blind right
only needed the one 'so I'm against the suffering of witches'
I don't even think anyone needs even wants what I've got to say, except me
your only problem is you and your only reader
I've liked but I didn't need anything anyone else wrote it did not change my life it did not save my life the blurbs are fruitcake limn necessary
here's I hate you: ' ' I think, at some point you just have to ' '
You have to die at some point. You just have to. all caps is funny: I THINK AT SOME POINT YOU JUST HAVE TO DIE.
only reader meaning who is it for, the archive of me: I'll have to be the one I tell - that's not creepy sookie that is f'ing UNACCEPTABLE
trite self indulgent you can't catch me not seeing that coming 'you just have to' I'll see you that when just a glimmer in your
tall trees, standing over /monasimpsonmyhollywood
whatever your childhood is, your mother is the one who made it /monasimpsonmyhollywood
so just be homeless already? then maybe you will appreciate a warm meal and a warm bath
to hurt my feelings:
to encourage the coming about of a situation in which I cry without-
or that , such that, something like despair has announced-
I don't need me to get to the end
I wouldn't give my anything to write anything, what's great about any sentence
--if you don't know I can't-
it's not that I don't know it's that if you had invented facebook you'd have invented facebook
I have a hard time dividing 600 by 40 = 1.5 * 10 at some point it isn't interesting anymore that you have to make it up from the beginning and think it through for yourself every time at some point that just makes you not-smart gh WRONG or at least so far out from in it that you are ~ fruitcake. 'at some point' 'just'. that's I hate. do I think you can say that without being an asshole? pretentious. okay mr brooks you can say it by being dead about that
to despair me be not there
happier gervais thanking god making me atheist than csl I am angry at You for not existing ehhhh
are you so-tired of that-story
I'veheard it, I don't believe you, get in the bath, underwater is what's real, then what, then nothing
I'm against aphorism, I'm against: 'sentence' in the chaucerian
I don't think it matters; no, I don't think there is a best possible [words in the ditto order] I think you may like one sentence better this way than that but you may hate what you love and i too dislike it and saying that will also be tired even like vomit
if you don't have the theater of your actions in someone, am only reader, than all the versions
ok like a myth. no intention no artifact no goal no good / sweep up all the
you can't have a goal if you can't have a goal if no good
I still think underwater is THAT'S HOW IT FEELS TO ME I'm right or I'd agree with you
I'll be ill, mentally, you be not there, okay go!
wait, cheer up. are you interested in aviation, mr van zandt? NO. are you interested in botany? NO. would you prefer to be a little reasonable right now thank you no I'll have some thing else
hey tony whats so good about dying think you might do a little dying today?
{I guess you finally stopped believing that any hope would ever find you. -- somebody else's mother! --
I knew that story, I was: sitting right behind you!
that's knowledge! all the lyrics you can tell all the whatever you can tell, for that
but for all that
the passing there had worn them really about the same
how many ways to say it's the same. I don't care about botany!
over against you in my stanford, condoleeza rice: be interested in everything because everything is interesting!
i might as well have done none of it, or might better have ~ it is different, not being dead though
you can't make a record if you can't make a record if you can't
you can't have a goal if you can't have a goal if you if it isn't if it isn't good for to you
if you feel the same after - a little worse than- eh to me that's just saying so a little more than a novel you once read - or wrote - also precious too
all foreground, briggflatts, backwards and forewards and all the meanings and typos you can't out out me
____ was the most important thing but it didn't make me happy /monasimpsonmyhollywood {oh yes, let's don't risk that I not be able to recall, not know who, from where, who is that, credit, let's get that, noted!
why all that time making a gift no one asked for /monasimpsonmyhollywood
all the gifts and all the needs /re bespallof ~heinrichmueller?
to discover we had clicked on all the wrong links /thatwebsite earlywebexpl column hypertextnotes _the boidem_
what we wanted wasn't what
---happy they that are saying 'we'
I was a person too it should
somebody else's mother
blind right
only needed the one 'so I'm against the suffering of witches'
I don't even think anyone needs even wants what I've got to say, except me
your only problem is you and your only reader
I've liked but I didn't need anything anyone else wrote it did not change my life it did not save my life the blurbs are fruitcake limn necessary
here's I hate you: ' ' I think, at some point you just have to ' '
You have to die at some point. You just have to. all caps is funny: I THINK AT SOME POINT YOU JUST HAVE TO DIE.
only reader meaning who is it for, the archive of me: I'll have to be the one I tell - that's not creepy sookie that is f'ing UNACCEPTABLE
trite self indulgent you can't catch me not seeing that coming 'you just have to' I'll see you that when just a glimmer in your
tall trees, standing over /monasimpsonmyhollywood
whatever your childhood is, your mother is the one who made it /monasimpsonmyhollywood
so just be homeless already? then maybe you will appreciate a warm meal and a warm bath
to hurt my feelings:
to encourage the coming about of a situation in which I cry without-
or that , such that, something like despair has announced-
I don't need me to get to the end
I wouldn't give my anything to write anything, what's great about any sentence
--if you don't know I can't-
it's not that I don't know it's that if you had invented facebook you'd have invented facebook
I have a hard time dividing 600 by 40 = 1.5 * 10 at some point it isn't interesting anymore that you have to make it up from the beginning and think it through for yourself every time at some point that just makes you not-smart gh WRONG or at least so far out from in it that you are ~ fruitcake. 'at some point' 'just'. that's I hate. do I think you can say that without being an asshole? pretentious. okay mr brooks you can say it by being dead about that
to despair me be not there
happier gervais thanking god making me atheist than csl I am angry at You for not existing ehhhh
are you so-tired of that-story
I'veheard it, I don't believe you, get in the bath, underwater is what's real, then what, then nothing
I'm against aphorism, I'm against: 'sentence' in the chaucerian
I don't think it matters; no, I don't think there is a best possible [words in the ditto order] I think you may like one sentence better this way than that but you may hate what you love and i too dislike it and saying that will also be tired even like vomit
if you don't have the theater of your actions in someone, am only reader, than all the versions
ok like a myth. no intention no artifact no goal no good / sweep up all the
you can't have a goal if you can't have a goal if no good
I still think underwater is THAT'S HOW IT FEELS TO ME I'm right or I'd agree with you
I'll be ill, mentally, you be not there, okay go!
wait, cheer up. are you interested in aviation, mr van zandt? NO. are you interested in botany? NO. would you prefer to be a little reasonable right now thank you no I'll have some thing else
hey tony whats so good about dying think you might do a little dying today?
{I guess you finally stopped believing that any hope would ever find you. -- somebody else's mother! --
I knew that story, I was: sitting right behind you!
that's knowledge! all the lyrics you can tell all the whatever you can tell, for that
but for all that
the passing there had worn them really about the same
how many ways to say it's the same. I don't care about botany!
over against you in my stanford, condoleeza rice: be interested in everything because everything is interesting!
i might as well have done none of it, or might better have ~ it is different, not being dead though
Thursday, January 27, 2011
if you knew I was not _ if you knew that I was _
"if thou knewest I was" - ggl
? that I was weak, that I was not ___ //tht bible. ~ no.. / tht Gerard Manley Hopkins ~no... but finally w 'I was weak' got it (bcs: "knew'st") , was still thinking GMH but no it is:
Carlos Drummond de Andrade, trans Elizabeth Bishop. Seven-Sided Poem
My God, why hast Thou forsaken me
if Thou knew'st I was not God,
if Thou knew'st that I was weak?
? that I was weak, that I was not ___ //tht bible. ~ no.. / tht Gerard Manley Hopkins ~no... but finally w 'I was weak' got it (bcs: "knew'st") , was still thinking GMH but no it is:
Carlos Drummond de Andrade, trans Elizabeth Bishop. Seven-Sided Poem
My God, why hast Thou forsaken me
if Thou knew'st I was not God,
if Thou knew'st that I was weak?
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Andrew Motion - Wkp
Motion has said of himself: "My wish to write a poem is inseparable from my wish to explain something to myself."
Sir Andrew Motion, FRSL (born 26 October 1952; now age 58) is an English poet, and biographer of Keats and of Larkin, who presided as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2009 -- appointed following the death of Ted Hughes, the previous incumbent.
Motion was born in London and raised in Stisted in Essex. After being sent, at the age of seven, to boarding school, he was educated at Radley College, wHere, in the sixth form, he encountered Mr Wray, an English teacher who introduced him to poetry: first Hardy, then Larkin, W H Auden, Heaney, Hughes, Wordsworth, and Keats. He read English at University College, Oxford, where he studied with W. H. Auden in weekly sessions. Motion says “I worshipped him the other side of idolatry and it was like spending an hour each week in the presence of God.”
Motion has said of himself: "My wish to write a poem is inseparable from my wish to explain something to myself."
Sir Andrew Motion, FRSL (born 26 October 1952; now age 58) is an English poet, and biographer of Keats and of Larkin, who presided as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2009 -- appointed following the death of Ted Hughes, the previous incumbent.
Motion was born in London and raised in Stisted in Essex. After being sent, at the age of seven, to boarding school, he was educated at Radley College, wHere, in the sixth form, he encountered Mr Wray, an English teacher who introduced him to poetry: first Hardy, then Larkin, W H Auden, Heaney, Hughes, Wordsworth, and Keats. He read English at University College, Oxford, where he studied with W. H. Auden in weekly sessions. Motion says “I worshipped him the other side of idolatry and it was like spending an hour each week in the presence of God.”
from his author statement for the British Council Biography:
My poems are the product of a relationship between a side of my mind good bollas cracking up (why think of? re conscious-unconscious) which is conscious, alert, educated, and manipulative, and a side which is as murky as a primaeval swamp. hughes dancer to god 'still the same inchoate keeper of the dreams' I can't predict when this relationship will flower. If I try to goad it into existence I merely engage with one side of my mind or the other, and the poem suffers. I want my writing to be as clear as water. No ornate language; very few obvious tricks. I want readers to be able to see all the way down through its surfaces into the swamp. I want them to feel they're in a world they thought they knew, but which turns out to be stranger, more charged, more disturbed than they realised. In truth, creating this world is a more theatrical operation than the writing admits, and it's this discretion about strong feeling, and strong feeling itself, which keeps drawing me back to the writers I most admire: Wordsworth, Edward Thomas, Philip Larkin.
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Saturday, November 27, 2010
talk about... talk about... talk about: elephants!
...going back to the Kaziranga Nature Preserve yesterday am, before dawn, for a second elephant ride to see the wildlife again. ..the six or seven elephants moving slowly through morning mist in tall grasses that concealed swamp deer, rhinos, and boar.
elephants through morning mist tall grasses swamp deer
'In the elephant field / tall green ghost elephants / with your cargo of summer leaves / at night I heard you breathing through the window'
--Ghost Elephants p14 Break the Glass by Jean Valentine
~ Don't you ever think that I'm not crying, since you're away from me, Don't ever think I went free.
At first the goodbye had a lilt to it - - but it was a beheading.
BREAK THE GLASS by Jean Valentine » RATTLE: Poetry for the 21st Century:
Ghost elephant,
reach down,
cross me over—
The Young Mother
as with rosy steps the morn
these are lines I noted also. 'it was my dream too.'
along with:
'My, my coyote in the doorway'
--p18 Coyote
~'every coldness ever breathed had left its trace elements inside me
In the end, I laid them all down there at the leopard’s feet, I was glad to lay them down.'
--p7 The Leopard
~ 'I thought it's time to go into the forest with a bowl You are the forest and the bowl You don't need a bowl putting his cupped hands together - - the trees walking toward us'
--p47 I thought It's time
epigraph LORINE NIEDECKER
a pencil
my notes from ~ two months ago, early October, this book a small hardcover being used for a class
here, BREAK THE GLASS by Jean Valentine » RATTLE, also:
If a Person Visits Someone in a Dream, in Some Cultures the Dreamer Thanks Them
In his poem, “A Textbook of Poetry,” Jack Spicer wrote: “The ghosts the poems were written for are the ghosts of the poems. We have it secondhand. They cannot hear the noise they have been making.”
elephants through morning mist tall grasses swamp deer
'In the elephant field / tall green ghost elephants / with your cargo of summer leaves / at night I heard you breathing through the window'
--Ghost Elephants p14 Break the Glass by Jean Valentine
~ Don't you ever think that I'm not crying, since you're away from me, Don't ever think I went free.
At first the goodbye had a lilt to it - - but it was a beheading.
BREAK THE GLASS by Jean Valentine » RATTLE: Poetry for the 21st Century:
Ghost elephant,
reach down,
cross me over—
The Young Mother
I’m sad, Warden
Are you sad
All you people looking out from the stern
Of the white ship Withholding
–I’ll take my babies
and swim
as with rosy steps the morn
Everyone
on the other side of the earth
standing upside down, listening
Don’t listen to the words—
They’re only little shapes for what you’re saying,
They’re only cups if you’re thirsty, you aren’t thirsty.
these are lines I noted also. 'it was my dream too.'
along with:
'My, my coyote in the doorway'
--p18 Coyote
~'every coldness ever breathed had left its trace elements inside me
In the end, I laid them all down there at the leopard’s feet, I was glad to lay them down.'
--p7 The Leopard
~ 'I thought it's time to go into the forest with a bowl You are the forest and the bowl You don't need a bowl putting his cupped hands together - - the trees walking toward us'
--p47 I thought It's time
epigraph LORINE NIEDECKER
a pencil
for a wingbone
my notes from ~ two months ago, early October, this book a small hardcover being used for a class
here, BREAK THE GLASS by Jean Valentine » RATTLE, also:
If a Person Visits Someone in a Dream, in Some Cultures the Dreamer Thanks Them
Can you breathe all right?
Break the glass - shout
break the glass - force the room
break the thread - Open
the music behind the glass.
In his poem, “A Textbook of Poetry,” Jack Spicer wrote: “The ghosts the poems were written for are the ghosts of the poems. We have it secondhand. They cannot hear the noise they have been making.”
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
ggl 'latest' hits on election night, as democrats losing seats to republicans, incl by late evening in tight races in pennsylvania & here in illinois Alexi Giannoulias (D) vs Mark Kirk (R). ggl 'latest' mostly fr twitter, as this one:
courtenlow: Giannoulias still trailing Kirk? Does hotness matter to NO ONE anymore?
Twitter - 5 minutes ago
...over on her twitter page, that post not (yet?) showing. but recent ones sweet re kitten:
courtenlow: Giannoulias still trailing Kirk? Does hotness matter to NO ONE anymore?
Twitter - 5 minutes ago
...over on her twitter page, that post not (yet?) showing. but recent ones sweet re kitten:
- It's RIDICULOUS. It's small and tiny and a kitten and little. http://yfrog.com/n1ws1uj
- My mom found a tiny baby kitty friend on my parents' front porch.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
NipTuck /early fvr. really just their first season, v good. /FX likes also: shortlived for me TheRiches I did really like the pilot quite a lot and what that seemed to promise for the show is there somewhat for me now in Weeds 6th season: the conning (drugdealing but also straight up cons now really: as 6-8 Andy & Doug pretending to be pastors) family traveling together in a big RV (I just like families on the run in winnebagos? running away together, making do)... , anyway FX: also bit of RescueMe. and my one fvr comedy AlwaysSunny.
oh~ now-earlyDec Raising Hope makes two comedies I really like.
serious fvr
Life -- VeronicaMars -- Terriers
BreakingBad
BigLove will air last season starting Jan11.
TrueBlood /think of terry making military go-gestures. I really like this show, esp latest (3rd right) seasn. maybe I seem forget that really do like it. +! twopj recaps.
Weeds //this sixth season some appeal like The Riches premiere, see above, the conning family on the run together. and I always enjoy Andy, and even when the show is not esp fvr, the twopj recaps are a bonus
twopj recaps also a reason to watch prettylittleliars (+ hannah, spencer are int chars well-acted) and bits maybe of gossipgirl (also blair leighton meester v good, int char)
Parenthood -- {ModernFamily} -- {GilmoreGirls} shows can enjoy watching w mom. and at moments I love them. really like parenthood a very lot. esp: crosby. also julia. and amber. so Parenthood is the one show I seriously like that is not about: after-the-end. all the rest here are, after things fall apart. except~ Big Love, where the appeal, like Parenthood, is the emotional family interactions, though v different families!
oh: Lost. not first rate like BreakingBad or Terriers. but no other show so good at the imaginative. such involved imaginative discussion. and blows-your-mind story possibilites, esp season premieres or finales. reinvention of the story, with enough continuous substance that the reinvention is awesome .(rather than just: anything can happen, so, so what.) is Lost the most fun, the most thrills, of all shows?
fvr shows are re after-the-end: Life, Veronica Mars, Lost. BreakingBad.
also~ Weeds. and now Terriers.
___
+ TheCloser I forget: some epsds really good, esp re Sanchez.
-- Dexter d not first rate but entertaining, and I v m like this season's victim chased through woods turned real lover
-- statesTara actually near first rate quality but ~ slight ~
___
and shortlived: Kidnapped. veryshortlived butIveryliked: LoneStar. -
rg sad disappointed not renewed: Carnivale, Rubicon.
________________________________ notyet: Rubicon.
read about, admired but not actually gone real into: Carnivale. Deadwood. TheWire. ~Sopranos.
SixFeetUnder watched thr all but no special my involvemnt.
FridayNightLights shortlived involvemt, then no further not yet maybe later.
and
__________
of all above, currently airing: Dexter. Weeds. TERRIERS. & on network: Parenthood.
oh and In Treatment just realized airing currently. that gets to be on this list, serious fvr, at least wrt second season (and maybe the third, wh I hear is good); I d n like the first season, none of the patients m int me, not even the young gymnast m., but second season Walter (actor played Fraser's dad) superb, also April young girl w cancer and autistic (was it?) brother not telling anyone, and the little boy whose parents splitting up, boy w his turtle, asks to come live w Paul.. that leaves Hope, who was also smwh int, & Paul's sessions w Gina ~ okay. but impressive: three of five very moving to me.
will return in ~January: Big Love. ~March:Breaking Bad. statesofTara.
durn ‘Breaking Bad’ Season 4 Delayed: til July 2011. well that's ok.
oh~ now-earlyDec Raising Hope makes two comedies I really like.
serious fvr
Life -- VeronicaMars -- Terriers
BreakingBad
BigLove will air last season starting Jan11.
TrueBlood /think of terry making military go-gestures. I really like this show, esp latest (3rd right) seasn. maybe I seem forget that really do like it. +! twopj recaps.
Weeds //this sixth season some appeal like The Riches premiere, see above, the conning family on the run together. and I always enjoy Andy, and even when the show is not esp fvr, the twopj recaps are a bonus
twopj recaps also a reason to watch prettylittleliars (+ hannah, spencer are int chars well-acted) and bits maybe of gossipgirl (also blair leighton meester v good, int char)
Parenthood -- {ModernFamily} -- {GilmoreGirls} shows can enjoy watching w mom. and at moments I love them. really like parenthood a very lot. esp: crosby. also julia. and amber. so Parenthood is the one show I seriously like that is not about: after-the-end. all the rest here are, after things fall apart. except~ Big Love, where the appeal, like Parenthood, is the emotional family interactions, though v different families!
oh: Lost. not first rate like BreakingBad or Terriers. but no other show so good at the imaginative. such involved imaginative discussion. and blows-your-mind story possibilites, esp season premieres or finales. reinvention of the story, with enough continuous substance that the reinvention is awesome .(rather than just: anything can happen, so, so what.) is Lost the most fun, the most thrills, of all shows?
fvr shows are re after-the-end: Life, Veronica Mars, Lost. BreakingBad.
also~ Weeds. and now Terriers.
___
+ TheCloser I forget: some epsds really good, esp re Sanchez.
-- Dexter d not first rate but entertaining, and I v m like this season's victim chased through woods turned real lover
-- statesTara actually near first rate quality but ~ slight ~
___
and shortlived: Kidnapped. veryshortlived butIveryliked: LoneStar. -
rg sad disappointed not renewed: Carnivale, Rubicon.
________________________________ notyet: Rubicon.
read about, admired but not actually gone real into: Carnivale. Deadwood. TheWire. ~Sopranos.
SixFeetUnder watched thr all but no special my involvemnt.
FridayNightLights shortlived involvemt, then no further not yet maybe later.
and
__________
of all above, currently airing: Dexter. Weeds. TERRIERS. & on network: Parenthood.
oh and In Treatment just realized airing currently. that gets to be on this list, serious fvr, at least wrt second season (and maybe the third, wh I hear is good); I d n like the first season, none of the patients m int me, not even the young gymnast m., but second season Walter (actor played Fraser's dad) superb, also April young girl w cancer and autistic (was it?) brother not telling anyone, and the little boy whose parents splitting up, boy w his turtle, asks to come live w Paul.. that leaves Hope, who was also smwh int, & Paul's sessions w Gina ~ okay. but impressive: three of five very moving to me.
will return in ~January: Big Love. ~March:
durn ‘Breaking Bad’ Season 4 Delayed: til July 2011. well that's ok.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
'Terriers': You Can Read Proust | PopMatters:
Hank’s a private detective in San Diego, unlicensed. As such, he lives on a familiar kind of edge, the kind negotiated by ex-cops and recovering alcoholics. In the smart new FX series, Terriers, Hank has a few other accoutrements you’ve seen before—an ex-wife, Gretchen (Kimberly Quinn), whom he still loves, and an ex-partner, Detective Mark Gustafson (Rockmond Dunbar), whom he still trusts. He’s also got a scruffy new partner in his new detecting business, one-time thief, Britt (Michael Raymond-James). .. While the show provides some standard-seeming villains—expensively outfitted and imperious—it also pits Hank and Britt against or in league with a number of less obvious types, including Hank’s sister Steph (played by Logue’s own sister Karina Logue). When she shows up in the fourth episode, she helps to stretch your understanding of him, as he copes with her unexpected decision to go off her meds and exit the hospital where she’s been living. But she’s not just the crazy sister. Instead, Steph (an MIT grad) offers another view of Hank, in glimpses of their shared past and in her independent mind, made visible in frame compositions that tell story as well as dialogue. So, when he asks Gretchen to look after her for an afternoon, Steph walks through the background of their conversation in the kitchen, reminding them that she can hear them and reciting the “rules” concerning her care: “Don’t leave her around any sharp objects, don’t let her read any Proust,” she says, her figure out of focus as Hank and Gretchen also understand their parts in this knotty, multi-part relationship. “Never take her to the wild animal park, never serve her red wine with fish, blah blah, blah, blah, blah.” like the rules for gizmo so he doesn't lead to Gremlins, right. As Steph observes here, social propriety is arbitrary, no matter whom it’s designed to contain. “You can read Proust. Alright?” he says.
mmm. makes me feel better. partly bcs I am a less crazy sister, there are not rules for me (though maybe I'd like that = caretaking, someone else managing me, in charge) and partly bcs I like him a lot and he's good to her.
Hank’s own excesses, his steps outside such propriety, take a variety of forms. Britt has scenes apart from Hank—mostly with his incredibly insightful and patient girlfriend Katie (Lauren Allen)—but for the most part the show keeps you inside Hank’s experience. This means you see him share a particular language and sensibility with Steph, worry about Gretchen’s upcoming marriage to Jason (Loren Dean), and confess to his AA meeting that he’s buying their old house from her. When a fellow member advises against it—“You’ll be living in a museum of all your past mistakes”—the look on Hank’s face simultaneously conveys his agreement with this assessment, his lifetime of regret, and also his enduring optimism.
Like co-creator Shawn Ryan’s The Shield, Terriers features charismatic, complicated grown-ups wrestling with a lot of past mistakes, even as they continue to make them. Though Hank and Britt are accused repeatedly of behaving childishly, they know enough to see what they’re doing, and measure it against other so-called adult behavior (say, cheating on land development projects or following proper investigative procedures). Guys who’ve gone wrong now trying to go straight, they value loyalty and intelligence. So, when Mark warns Britt, “You gotta know he’s gonna let you down, it is not in Hank Dolworth to do anything but self-destruct on people and when he does, everybody catches shrapnel,” the new partner nods and listens, but takes the risk.
Hank’s a private detective in San Diego, unlicensed. As such, he lives on a familiar kind of edge, the kind negotiated by ex-cops and recovering alcoholics. In the smart new FX series, Terriers, Hank has a few other accoutrements you’ve seen before—an ex-wife, Gretchen (Kimberly Quinn), whom he still loves, and an ex-partner, Detective Mark Gustafson (Rockmond Dunbar), whom he still trusts. He’s also got a scruffy new partner in his new detecting business, one-time thief, Britt (Michael Raymond-James). .. While the show provides some standard-seeming villains—expensively outfitted and imperious—it also pits Hank and Britt against or in league with a number of less obvious types, including Hank’s sister Steph (played by Logue’s own sister Karina Logue). When she shows up in the fourth episode, she helps to stretch your understanding of him, as he copes with her unexpected decision to go off her meds and exit the hospital where she’s been living. But she’s not just the crazy sister. Instead, Steph (an MIT grad) offers another view of Hank, in glimpses of their shared past and in her independent mind, made visible in frame compositions that tell story as well as dialogue. So, when he asks Gretchen to look after her for an afternoon, Steph walks through the background of their conversation in the kitchen, reminding them that she can hear them and reciting the “rules” concerning her care: “Don’t leave her around any sharp objects, don’t let her read any Proust,” she says, her figure out of focus as Hank and Gretchen also understand their parts in this knotty, multi-part relationship. “Never take her to the wild animal park, never serve her red wine with fish, blah blah, blah, blah, blah.” like the rules for gizmo so he doesn't lead to Gremlins, right. As Steph observes here, social propriety is arbitrary, no matter whom it’s designed to contain. “You can read Proust. Alright?” he says.
mmm. makes me feel better. partly bcs I am a less crazy sister, there are not rules for me (though maybe I'd like that = caretaking, someone else managing me, in charge) and partly bcs I like him a lot and he's good to her.
Hank’s own excesses, his steps outside such propriety, take a variety of forms. Britt has scenes apart from Hank—mostly with his incredibly insightful and patient girlfriend Katie (Lauren Allen)—but for the most part the show keeps you inside Hank’s experience. This means you see him share a particular language and sensibility with Steph, worry about Gretchen’s upcoming marriage to Jason (Loren Dean), and confess to his AA meeting that he’s buying their old house from her. When a fellow member advises against it—“You’ll be living in a museum of all your past mistakes”—the look on Hank’s face simultaneously conveys his agreement with this assessment, his lifetime of regret, and also his enduring optimism.
Like co-creator Shawn Ryan’s The Shield, Terriers features charismatic, complicated grown-ups wrestling with a lot of past mistakes, even as they continue to make them. Though Hank and Britt are accused repeatedly of behaving childishly, they know enough to see what they’re doing, and measure it against other so-called adult behavior (say, cheating on land development projects or following proper investigative procedures). Guys who’ve gone wrong now trying to go straight, they value loyalty and intelligence. So, when Mark warns Britt, “You gotta know he’s gonna let you down, it is not in Hank Dolworth to do anything but self-destruct on people and when he does, everybody catches shrapnel,” the new partner nods and listens, but takes the risk.
Nyr to re
Table of Contents: October 4, 2010 : The New Yorker:
borrowed fr K, felt like flipping thr most of th articles, but gave back hvg lkd at little ~ end bit of M Gladwell int me Wall St guy's friend loses phone left in NY cab uses web bullying (sounds to me) of teenager who found it & won't give it back, gets lots emails (sympathy? poor phone lost now stolen victim?) coverage (?), get police to treat as stolen & compel teenager to give back. huh. used as ex in talk given by Clay Shirky social network guy re cld not hv happened few yrs back. gladwell gets pnts fr me for skeptical th good of th. upping weak ties, lowering bar to participation ~ empowering th already privileged ~ well read rest article not sure got sense of his context. lunch counters.
borrowed fr K, felt like flipping thr most of th articles, but gave back hvg lkd at little ~ end bit of M Gladwell int me Wall St guy's friend loses phone left in NY cab uses web bullying (sounds to me) of teenager who found it & won't give it back, gets lots emails (sympathy? poor phone lost now stolen victim?) coverage (?), get police to treat as stolen & compel teenager to give back. huh. used as ex in talk given by Clay Shirky social network guy re cld not hv happened few yrs back. gladwell gets pnts fr me for skeptical th good of th. upping weak ties, lowering bar to participation ~ empowering th already privileged ~ well read rest article not sure got sense of his context. lunch counters.
and
Friday, October 15, 2010
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony by Roberto Calasso | LibraryThing:
dekesolomon | Sep 12, 2009 | 
francescocaligiuri | Jun 23, 2008 |
GregsBookCell | Mar 11, 2009 |
GregsBookCell - Wales - currently reading: Briggflatts (book,dvd,cd) by Basil Bunting mmm briggflatts fifty years a letter starlight
groups: I Survived the Great Vowel Shift
-The marriage of Cadmus and Harmony was celebrated in a wedding party at which the Greek gods came to mingle with mortals for the very last time. When the gods left, they announced that they were never coming back. As a parting gift to all of mankind, they left us the alphabet. Thus the marriage of Cadmus and Harmony was the legendary birthplace of Western literature. Italian humanist Roberto Calasso chose that story as the anchor-stone for this explanatory and reverential tribute to the role of the gods in Western lit, folklore and mythology. Seldom do belles lettres become so accessible and so important to the common reader as Calasso and Parks present them here. 'The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony' is a worshipful, joyous, enlightening look at myth and literature and storytelling for all readers, everywhere. Read this book if you're into speculation about humanity, human origins, and primal causation (aka 'the divine spark'). ( 
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) dekesolomon | Sep 12, 2009 | Suggestivo e affascinante.
francescocaligiuri | Jun 23, 2008 | The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony by Roberto Calasso.
I read this book on the recommendation of a friend commenting on my blog. First published in English in 1993 it’s clearly something I should have picked up before. Or should I? Initially I felt, by turns, beguiled, exploited, delighted and even insulted. It seemed to me, before I was very far in, to be moving between the profound and the whimsical across the space of a single page. I was not sure whether I regarded it as an insightful interpretation of Greek mythology or a comic-book vision of the gods. I also felt that I should actually be reading Le nozze di Cadmo e Armonia, not just because it is usually better to read things in their original language but because it felt like a very Italian text even via the American English into which it has been translated. I was reminded of the style of Ripellino in his Praga Magica. Perhaps ‘style’ is the best way to approach a description of the book. Its originality of presentation of the gods owes everything to its style. The way things are said is as significant as what is said. Once I had accommodated myself to that I began to enjoy it.
And there is much to enjoy. There was a time when Cadmus and Harmony could get married at Thebes and the gods would come to the wedding. But since then they have withdrawn, to Olympus and further off. The Golden Age and its dissolution through Silver to Iron and Bronze is chronicled here with as much élan as could be wished for. But those stretches of apparent frivolity, crystallize into some cameos which are worth reading the book for in themselves:
"Dionysus is not a useful god who helps weave or knot things together, but a god who loosens and unties. The weavers are his enemies. Yet there comes a moment when the weavers will leave their looms and dash off after him into the mountains. Dionysus is the river we hear flowing by in the distance, an incessant booming from far away; then one day it rises and floods everything, as if the normal above-water state of things, the sober delimitation of our existence, were but a brief parenthesis overwhelmed in an instant."
This is brilliant stuff and brings the gods alive in a way that other works rarely do. If I consider how else readers of English might gain an understanding of these gods, I suppose the comprehensive text that would be referred to is Robert Graves’ The Greek Myths. Graves is himself often whimsical and irreverent, but compared to Calasso his is a mere reference book, and one than can itself deceive by appearing to be so definitive when he is, of course, as liable to be arbitrary in his interpretations and definitions as is Calasso. But with the Italian it is all on the surface, part of appearance, as he himself defines one aspect of the gods. Besides, this is a book to be read through; Graves’ two volumes sit on the reference shelf to be consulted rather than followed as narrative.
I must, finally, comment on the presentation of the relationship between Odysseus and Athena. I found it epiphanic. I’ll resist the temptation to quote from it as it’s the sort of thing best discovered rather than isolated from its context. And here I have to concede that the apparently arbitrary way that Calasso throws in brief paragraphs of information between longer stretches of narrative and illustration, creating an apparently disjointed structure, as if wondering where this bit or that bit can best be fitted in, is not so whimsical after all. He has created a form that is disconcertingly effective, encompassing the many contradictions which can thwart the task of description and casting light, sometimes directly but often elliptically on his subjects. "In the beginning was the word" says the christian text. In Calasso's view, for the gods, it was more like the end. Except that his words attempt to reclaim them as the only way to lead an interesting life
1 I read this book on the recommendation of a friend commenting on my blog. First published in English in 1993 it’s clearly something I should have picked up before. Or should I? Initially I felt, by turns, beguiled, exploited, delighted and even insulted. It seemed to me, before I was very far in, to be moving between the profound and the whimsical across the space of a single page. I was not sure whether I regarded it as an insightful interpretation of Greek mythology or a comic-book vision of the gods. I also felt that I should actually be reading Le nozze di Cadmo e Armonia, not just because it is usually better to read things in their original language but because it felt like a very Italian text even via the American English into which it has been translated. I was reminded of the style of Ripellino in his Praga Magica. Perhaps ‘style’ is the best way to approach a description of the book. Its originality of presentation of the gods owes everything to its style. The way things are said is as significant as what is said. Once I had accommodated myself to that I began to enjoy it.
And there is much to enjoy. There was a time when Cadmus and Harmony could get married at Thebes and the gods would come to the wedding. But since then they have withdrawn, to Olympus and further off. The Golden Age and its dissolution through Silver to Iron and Bronze is chronicled here with as much élan as could be wished for. But those stretches of apparent frivolity, crystallize into some cameos which are worth reading the book for in themselves:
"Dionysus is not a useful god who helps weave or knot things together, but a god who loosens and unties. The weavers are his enemies. Yet there comes a moment when the weavers will leave their looms and dash off after him into the mountains. Dionysus is the river we hear flowing by in the distance, an incessant booming from far away; then one day it rises and floods everything, as if the normal above-water state of things, the sober delimitation of our existence, were but a brief parenthesis overwhelmed in an instant."
This is brilliant stuff and brings the gods alive in a way that other works rarely do. If I consider how else readers of English might gain an understanding of these gods, I suppose the comprehensive text that would be referred to is Robert Graves’ The Greek Myths. Graves is himself often whimsical and irreverent, but compared to Calasso his is a mere reference book, and one than can itself deceive by appearing to be so definitive when he is, of course, as liable to be arbitrary in his interpretations and definitions as is Calasso. But with the Italian it is all on the surface, part of appearance, as he himself defines one aspect of the gods. Besides, this is a book to be read through; Graves’ two volumes sit on the reference shelf to be consulted rather than followed as narrative.
I must, finally, comment on the presentation of the relationship between Odysseus and Athena. I found it epiphanic. I’ll resist the temptation to quote from it as it’s the sort of thing best discovered rather than isolated from its context. And here I have to concede that the apparently arbitrary way that Calasso throws in brief paragraphs of information between longer stretches of narrative and illustration, creating an apparently disjointed structure, as if wondering where this bit or that bit can best be fitted in, is not so whimsical after all. He has created a form that is disconcertingly effective, encompassing the many contradictions which can thwart the task of description and casting light, sometimes directly but often elliptically on his subjects. "In the beginning was the word" says the christian text. In Calasso's view, for the gods, it was more like the end. Except that his words attempt to reclaim them as the only way to lead an interesting life
GregsBookCell | Mar 11, 2009 | GregsBookCell - Wales - currently reading: Briggflatts (book,dvd,cd) by Basil Bunting mmm briggflatts fifty years a letter starlight
groups: I Survived the Great Vowel Shift
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The Dylan Thomas Trail by David Thomas
The Virgin and the Nightingale: Mediaeval Latin Poems by Fleur Adcock
Margiad Evans (Writers of Wales) by Moira Dearnley
Saint Joan;: A chronicle play in six scenes and an epilogue, by Bernard Shaw
An Introduction to Geoffrey Hill (Agenda/Bellew Poets on Poetry Handbooks) by W.S. Milne
Y Treigladur: Check-list of Welsh Mutations by D.Geraint Lewis
Metamorphosis (and Other Stories Modern Classics) by Franz Kafka
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