Cities as clocks.
Is time a circle a straight line a curlicue a set of dots a stock market chart does it end.
Does the Rapture abolish time?
Time as a structure of sequences of feeling (Raymond Williams).
A critique of time in the Marx brothers (as opposed to Marx).
Chinese time.
We could say that it is TIME for Lutheran surrealism -- but would we mean that we are now going to integrate comedy and sobriety?
Civilization depends on plot & continuity as does the novel until modernism when the plots disappear and as Gertrude Stein says quality becomes more important. In Firbank there is a very subtle plot in Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli -- but it's generally a clock that winds down.
Is there a plot in Brautigan's novels? How could it be described algebraically?
The city as a pie -- with the hard crust being the society matrons in Marx brothers films -- while inside there was the chaos, especially as represented by Harpo, who was appreciated by all the surrealists as well as the Beats. Harpo doesn't allow for continuity, but disrupts the narrative and presents discontinuous moments outside of time.
Falstaff might be said to do the same -- while King Henry V is concerned about time -- and holds to a final vision through the ups and downs of the plot -- Falstaff only cares about a good time in the moment.
Communities in space & time -- Bruderhoff, Oneida, Naropa Institute.
Hegel on the concept of time via Kojeve.
Proustian time.
Time for Luther, as compared to Breton.
What room is there for ludic potential in the Lutheran time frame, versus that of say Charles Fourier.
You need to examine the thing from the viewpoint of time in order to open a poet's language.
The distinction between being (Heidegger) and becoming (Deleuze) is based on time -- and marks a powerful difference between pagan and progressive culture?
Being is like snow falling -- nothing needs to be changed -- the Frost poem -- my little horse must think it queer to stop without a farmhouse near -- a moment of beauty outside of time -- versus having to get somewhere in order to continue with the economics.
Tuesday, June 01, 2004
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