Notes

7/8

θέλημα

Cus tom! that skil ful but unhur ry ing man ager who begins by tor tur ing the mind for weeks on end with her pro vi sion al arrange ments; whom the mind, for all that, is for tu nate in dis cov er ing, for without the help of cus tom it would nev er con trive, by its own efforts, to make any room seem habitable.

On Ilkla Moor Baht ‘at (Standard English: On Ilkley Moor without a hat) is a popular folk song from Yorkshire, England. … According to tradition, the words were composed by members of a Halifax church choir during an outing to Ilkley Moor near Ilkley, West Yorkshire.The song’s origins are believed to be as a ditty to poke fun at a courting couple, as sung by a mischievous local choir.
…continues in use as a hymn tune in the United States, where it was not adopted as the tune of a popular secular song. In America Cranbrook is the tune customarily used with the lyrics of Philip Doddridge’s Grace! ‘Tis a Charming Sound. British visitors to an American church which sings Doddridge’s lyrics to Cranbrook, which they recognise as Ilkley Moor, may have difficulty suppressing laughter. 

 The Stone of Scone, also commonly known as the Stone of Destiny or the Coronation Stone is an oblong block of red sandstone, .. The top bears chisel-marks. At each end of the stone is an iron ring, apparently intended to make transport easier. Historically, the artifact was kept at the now-ruined abbey in Scone, near Perth, Scotland. It was used for centuries in the coronation of the monarchs of Scotland, the monarchs of England, and, more recently, British monarchs.
…In 1296 the Stone was captured by Edward I as spoils of war and taken to Westminster Abbey, where it was fitted into a wooden chair…
…(theory posits that the monks at Scone Palace hid the real stone in the River Tay or buried it on Dunsinane Hill, and that the English troops were fooled into taking a substitute.)
On Christmas Day 1950, a group of four Scottish students took the Stone from Westminster Abbey for return to Scotland. In the process of removing it from the Abbey, they broke it into two pieces. … The Stone was then passed to a senior Glasgow politician who arranged for it to be professionally repaired by Glasgow stonemason Robert Gray.  … Once the London police were informed of its whereabouts, the Stone was returned to Westminster. Afterwards, rumours circulated that copies had been made of the Stone, and that the returned Stone was not in fact the original.

7/7

Hugues Picherit (painter)

“but don’t for get that I no longer love you, and your love doesn’t mean any more to me than a dog’s, and dogs are kicked.”

her hands fold ed as in prayer, and the sacred light of the star of love casts its blue rays over her.

Curie visited Poland a last time in the spring of 1934. Only a couple of months later, she was dead. Her death near Sallanches, Savoy, in 1934 was from aplastic anemia, almost certainly due to exposure to radiation. The damaging effects of ionizing radiation were then not yet known, and much of her work had been carried out in a shed with no safety measures. She had carried test tubes containing radioactive isotopes in her pocket and stored them in her desk drawer, remarking on the pretty blue-green light that the substances gave off in the dark.

Daily notes edited

7/5

Babbitt + venus in furs = noxious chlorinated defeateds

Through out, with the eter nal human genius for arriv ing by the worst pos si ble routes at sur pris ing ly tol er able goals, Bab bitt loved his son and warmed to his com pan ion ship and would have sac ri ficed every thing for him—if he could have been sure of prop er credit.

Basques are the least assimilated remnant of the Paleolithic inhabitants of Western Europe (specifically those of the Franco-Cantabrian region). Basque tribes were already mentioned in Roman times by Strabo and Pliny, including the Vascones, the Aquitani and others. There is enough evidence that they already spoke Basque in that time (see Aquitanian language and Iruña-Veleia). All other tribes in the Iberian Peninsula were linguistically and culturally assimilated by the end of the Roman period.

Velars are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue (the dorsum) against the soft palate (the back part of the roof of the mouth, known also as the velum).

Give me a nickle for my grave
Give me the dollar of death

Sudden ly she knocked at my win dow with the han dle of her whip. 

her cold lips had the fresh frosty fra grance of a young autum nal rose, which blos soms alone amid bare stalks and yel low leaves and upon whose calyx the first frost has hung tiny dia monds of ice.

7/4
“The almighty Lord hath struck him, and hath deliv ered him into the hands of a woman.”

Confessions Of A Supersensual Man

I will live my own life as it pleas es me. I am will ing to do with out your hyp­ocrit ical respect; I prefer to be hap py.
-Venus in furs

7/3
The subject is treated with a certain amount of realism in François Truffaut’s 1970 film L’Enfant Sauvage (UK: The Wild Boy, US: The Wild Child), where a scientist’s efforts in trying to rehabilitate a feral boy meet with great difficulty.

Every man for himself and god against all.

7/2

“In My Life With You”

[omitted for now]

The first great fado singer who survived in collective memory is Maria Severa Onofriana, who lived in the first half of the 19th century. In the 1920s and 1930s, a series of fado de Coimbra (a version born in Coimbra) recordings were very popular.

“Ruminated Heartland Body Man”

The loneliest hill
Is a weeping eye
Dry your tears
I know I have only experienced the surfaces of things
And already such unimaginable ecstacies have railed my sense 
Dark mysteries engulf this sense
The unavoidable grateful heart
The longing for the friend in this sense
The loneliest hill
Is a crying time
Dry your tears
Even the world just as surfaces contains an entrance I’m sure of it.
Dry your tears cowboy, the babbittry are moaning through the dark night.  
The moaning is their nightlife.
The nightlife is their nightlight.

“The Punk Of The East”

Bring me home to the west
And kill me there.

“x”“The Dunk Of All Dream Time

[omitted for now]

“Pure Comedy”

Pure comedy

7/1 :

Mill Ends Park Portland or

Catch a wave and yr sittin’ on top of a wave.

A Day Called ‘X’

6/30 notes

Sub eclectic records

In Obni no, he remem bered now, there were always a lot of peo ple, and the priest there, Father Alex ey, to save time dur ing mass, used to make his deaf nephew Ilar ion read the names of those for whose health or whose souls’ peace prayers were asked. Ilar ion used to read them, now and then get ting a five or ten kopeck piece for the ser vice, and only when he was grey and bald, when life was near ly over, he sud den ly saw writ ten on one of the pieces of paper: “What a fool you are, Ilar ion.”
-The bishop Chekhov

6/27 notes

a just noticeable difference, customarily abbreviated with lowercase letters as jnd, is the smallest difference in a specified modality of sensory input that is detectable by a human being. It is also known as the difference limen or the differential threshold.

A Shepard tone, named after Roger Shepard, is a sound consisting of a superposition of sine waves separated by octaves. When played with the base pitch of the tone moving upwards or downwards, it is referred to as the Shepard scale. This creates the auditory illusion of a tone that continually ascends or descends in pitch, yet which ultimately seems to get no higher or lower.

Jean-Claude Risset

Tritone paradox / native language / necker cube / naive realism

Sidney Bradford

We bought some blueberries outside of wroclaw from a vendor on the side of the highway.  He had mushrooms as well.  And cherries.  We bought some of those too.

I went to use the wc at a rest area and did not notice the attendant until after I’d peed and washed my hands.  He wanted one zloty (.30 eu) but I only had about 12 cents euro. I offered it but he became angry and mocked me and waved his hands away from himself at me  in disgust yelling something like “veck!” while I left.  

Stopped by German police again at a rest area. Danilo says it’s this old van we’re in. They’re looking for Romanians.  They checked our passports and Tom let them look at the piece of paper from when the zoll searched us.  The officer said god bless and we drove past a giant field if hops.

Fog machine triggered directly onto my electronics.. Seemed like good comedy until I realized it got them wet with its fog juice and was making them short out. Soundguy was a real riot about it too.  Two bonfires, though, and once again we got to play through the sunset.  Offenbach.

(got detained two hours by German police near the Czech border.  They were sure we had it and looked pretty stupid in front of customs [zoll] when they finally realized we didn’t.  Still had six hours to drive after already driving six. Listened to some nwa.)

Notes

“the hosts of evil have the tele graph and the motor-car at their dis pos al just as author ity has, and some day they will make use of the aeroplane.”
- fantomas

Koans are a technique that can be used as meditation aids, (particularly in the Rinzai tradition). For example, one koan is known as: ‘Who am I’, since it is this question that guides the enquiry into one’s true nature. The realization that there is no ‘I’ that is doing the thinking, but rather that the thinking process brings forth the illusion of an ‘I’, is a step on the way to Kensho. It is not unusual for various hallucinations and psychological disturbances to arise prior to true kensho, these are referred to as makyo.
 
Kōans are said to reflect the enlightened or awakened state of such persons, and sometimes said to confound the habit of discursive thought or shock the mind into awareness.

Nevertheless, teachers have long alerted students to the danger of confusing the interpretation of a kōan with the realization of a kōan. When teachers say “do not confuse the pointing finger with the moon”, they indicate that awakening is the standard — not ability to interpret.
 
It is better to be hated for what one is, than loved for what one is not. — André Gide

Koans, aphorisms, malapropisms, eggcorns, koans
 
The Goliards were a group of clergy who wrote bibulous, satirical Latin poetry in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. They were mainly clerical students at the universities of France, Germany, Italy, and England who protested the growing contradictions within the Church, such as the failure of the Crusades and financial abuses, expressing themselves through song, poetry and performance.
 
Cockaigne or Cockayne is a mythical medieval land of plenty, an imaginary place of extreme luxury and ease where physical comforts and pleasures are always immediately at hand and where the harshness of medieval peasant life does not exist. Specifically, in poems like The Land of Cockaigne, Cockaigne is a land of contraries, where all the restrictions of society are defied (abbots beaten by their monks), sexual liberty is open (nuns flipped over to show their bottoms), and food is plentiful (skies that rain cheeses). Writing about Cockaigne was a commonplace of Goliard verse.

Gool is a colloquial term used in games of tag to refer to the safe zone, in which players cannot be tagged to become “it”.

Neumes are the basic elements of Western and Eastern systems of musical notation prior to the invention of five-line staff notation. The word neume is a Middle English corruption of the ultimately Greek word for breath (pneuma : πνευμα).

: Truly, in the season of spring
: Stands beneath the blossoming tree
: sweet Juliana with her sister.
:: Sweet love!
: He who is without you in this season
:: Is worthless.

: Behold the trees bloom,
: Birds are singing lustily;
: Among them, the girls are cooling off.
:: Sweet love!
: He who is without you in this season
:: Is worthless.

: Behold the lilies bloom,
: And throngs of virgins give
: songs to the highest of the gods.
:: Sweet love!
: He who is without you in this season
:: Is worthless.

: If I could hold the girl I love
: In the forest under the leaves,
: I would kiss her with joy.
:: Sweet love!
: He who is without you in this season
:: Is worthless.