Comments on: Magic, Poetry, Time, http://gingatao.com/2008/06/15/magic/ the radiant geometry of language Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:41:15 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: valbrussell http://gingatao.com/2008/06/15/magic/#comment-7048 valbrussell Sat, 20 Jun 2009 13:07:36 +0000 http://gingatao.wordpress.com/?p=463#comment-7048 Homer!! How preposterous! Everyone single person on this planet knows for a fact that it was Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble! You, a cynical nihilist? Post Savant avant maybe, but nihilist with cynical leanings? Never! Seriously, it was a wonderful post, even Fred and Barney liked it. Homer!! How preposterous! Everyone single person on this planet knows for a fact that it was Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble! You, a cynical nihilist? Post Savant avant maybe, but nihilist with cynical leanings? Never! Seriously, it was a wonderful post, even Fred and Barney liked it.

]]> By: Gabrielle Bryden http://gingatao.com/2008/06/15/magic/#comment-7044 Gabrielle Bryden Sat, 20 Jun 2009 06:13:50 +0000 http://gingatao.wordpress.com/?p=463#comment-7044 I have been thinking about this for ever - the perception of linearity. Most things are merely perceptions and not real (such as colour - is something still colourful when the light goes out?). I believe circularity and spheres may also explain the inexplicable - how can there be a beginning and an ending to the universe? What came before the beginning of time - the end maybe? In fact I am working on a poem about this at this very dip in time. I have been thinking about this for ever – the perception of linearity. Most things are merely perceptions and not real (such as colour – is something still colourful when the light goes out?). I believe circularity and spheres may also explain the inexplicable – how can there be a beginning and an ending to the universe? What came before the beginning of time – the end maybe? In fact I am working on a poem about this at this very dip in time.

]]> By: thommalyn http://gingatao.com/2008/06/15/magic/#comment-7043 thommalyn Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:55:43 +0000 http://gingatao.wordpress.com/?p=463#comment-7043 Wow, your post worked magic on me. So much so that I've bookmarked it to read whenever I want to feel extra-fantabulous. :D Thank you, Paul. Wow, your post worked magic on me. So much so that I’ve bookmarked it to read whenever I want to feel extra-fantabulous. :D Thank you, Paul.

]]> By: Mental Mist http://gingatao.com/2008/06/15/magic/#comment-7042 Mental Mist Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:54:24 +0000 http://gingatao.wordpress.com/?p=463#comment-7042 how can anyone be "wrong"? i think i am an absurdist :D the manifesto speaks of your convictions, and they are loud and clear and beautiful, what more of a compass does one need, amazing for you Paul :)!! how can anyone be “wrong”? i think i am an absurdist :D

the manifesto speaks of your convictions, and they are loud and clear and beautiful, what more of a compass does one need, amazing for you Paul :) !!

]]> By: Paul http://gingatao.com/2008/06/15/magic/#comment-7041 Paul Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:53:28 +0000 http://gingatao.wordpress.com/?p=463#comment-7041 I am just moving them to the front page, Val. Not re-posting them I hope. This is as close to a manifesto as I have ever got I think. And it marks the key point of difference between the so-called 'post-avant' and my work. This is a step away from nihilistic cynicism. <em>Especially if you combine it with the fact that language contains all the knowledge, ever-evolving that humans have had, in the roots of words which persist through a strange process. The best ones, whose sound and meaning and structure are really useful carry on and preserve encoded in them the collective memory of the species, that is the function of poetry. Has been ever since Homer started writing it down, or the Sumerians started to make abstract designs to represent things. The post-avant are wrong Squires and you know it. I am just moving them to the front page, Val. Not re-posting them I hope. This is as close to a manifesto as I have ever got I think. And it marks the key point of difference between the so-called ‘post-avant’ and my work. This is a step away from nihilistic cynicism.
Especially if you combine it with the fact that language contains all the knowledge, ever-evolving that humans have had, in the roots of words which persist through a strange process. The best ones, whose sound and meaning and structure are really useful carry on and preserve encoded in them the collective memory of the species, that is the function of poetry. Has been ever since Homer started writing it down, or the Sumerians started to make abstract designs to represent things. The post-avant are wrong Squires and you know it.

]]> By: Val http://gingatao.com/2008/06/15/magic/#comment-7040 Val Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:49:03 +0000 http://gingatao.wordpress.com/?p=463#comment-7040 Is this why you are posting things from the past, which is technically not the past, but actually the present in the same context as the future, all paralell realities being equal that is. In other words, I haven't actually happened yet but in fact I used to be right now. Dead people (out of body) actually use this to navigate their way to mediums and in fact, mediums use it too, albeit crudely. ;) Is this why you are posting things from the past, which is technically not the past, but actually the present in the same context as the future, all paralell
realities being equal that is. In other words, I haven’t actually happened yet but in fact I used to be right now. Dead people (out of body) actually use this to navigate their way to mediums and in fact, mediums use it too, albeit crudely. ;)

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