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| User: | bryanscott (1906238) The Sun Beaming On The Sea
and the sea beaming back at the sun |
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| Name: | bryanscott | |||||
| Location: | Canada | |||||
| Birthdate: | 1982-11-15 | |||||
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| Bio: | "But what, at least in modern times, I think one most recurrently hears about the curiously-productive-yet-ailing poet or painter is that he is inevitably a kind of super-size but unmistakably 'classic' neurotic, an aberrant who only occasionally, and never deeply, wishes to surrender his aberration; or, in English, a Sick Man who not at all seldom, though he's reported to childishly deny it, gives out terrible cries of pain, as if he would wholeheartedly let go both his art and soul to experience what passes in other people for wellness, and yet (the rumour continues) when his unsalutary-looking little room is broken into and someone - not infrequently, at that, someone who actually loves him - passionately asks him where the pain is, he either declines or seems unable to discuss it at any critical length, and in the morning, when even great poets and painters presumably feel a bit more chipper than usual, he looks more perversely determined than ever to see his sickness run its course, as though by the light of another, presumably working day he had remembered that all men, the healthy ones included, eventually die, and usually with a certain amount of bad grace, but that he, lucky man, is at least being done in by the most stimulating companion, disease or no, he has ever known." -jerome david salinger/buddy glass "I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundemental is violent death. It has none of the complications of death by disease, or so-called natural death, or the death of a friend or someone you have loved or have hated, but it is death nevertheless, one of the subjects that a man may write of. I have read many books in which, when the author tried to convey it, he had only produced a blur, and I decided that this was because either the author has never seen it clearly or at the moment of it, he had physically or mentally shut his eyes, as one might do if he saw a child that he could not possibly reach or aid, about to be struck by a train. In such a case he would probably be justified in shutting his eyes as the mere fact of the child about to be struck by the train was all that he could convey, the actual striking would be an anti-climax, so that the moment before striking might be as far as he could represent. But in the case of an execution by firing squad, or a hanging, this is not true, and if these very simple things were to be made permanent, as, say, Goya tried to make them in 'Los Desastros de la Guerra', it could not be done with any shutting of the eyes." -ernest hemingway " 'Kiss me, Bayard.' So I leaned my face down to her. But she didn't move, standing so, bent lightly back from me from the waist, looking at me; now it was she who said, 'No.' So I put my arms around her. Then she came to me, melted as women will and can, the arms with the wrist- and elbow-power to control horses about my shoulders, using the wrists to hold my face to hers until there was no longer need for the wrists; I thought then of the woman of thirty, the symbol of the ancient and eternal Snake and of the men who have written of her, and I realised then the immitigable chasm between all life and all print - that those who can, do, those who cannot and suffer enough because they can't, write about it." -william faulkner "--We are right--he said--and the others are wrong. To speak of these things and to try to understand their nature and, having understood it, to try slowly and humbly and constantly to express, to press out again, from the gross earth or what it brings forth, from sound and shape and colour which are the prison gates of our soul, an image of the beauty we have come to understand--that is art.--" -james joyce | |||||
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| Friend of: | 44: _perfectionist_, alionunderaw, angel_ofthe_odd, bread_pudding, bryanscott, cato, dead_eyez, deuxheures, doublethinker, energy_miser, esizzle, experiment23, fathie, flying_w, gaggedandbound, girl_and_world, has_been_was, heraclitus, isee360, karmarama, langtimenosee, lucylou, maeveae, metallic_wings, moons_equator, moontrills, myernestito, nauticals, oscar_dom, polyopia, primroseport, qallunaaq, queerasmoi, ridemycamel, salanth, sandandthestars, sourgasm, tau_ceti, tigrekitty, timbralthinking, totalnightmare, twodoor, uncassiel, visto | |||||
| Member of: | 3: nonduality, rilokiley, sciencefiction | |||||
| Account type: | Basic Account | |||||
