Old Chestnuts re-blogged from Time’s Flow Stemmed Richard Rorty (1931–2007) The Fire of Life BY RICHARD RORTY In an essay called “Pragmatism and Romanticism” I tried to restate the argument of Shelley’s “Defense of Poetry.” At the heart of Romanticism, I said, was the claim that reason can only follow paths that the imagination has first broken….
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– it takes half an hour to write an article …
Italo Calvino via Time’s Flow Stemmed They want articles all over the place and I write them because it takes half an hour to write an article. To write an article not to do an article. To do an article you have to … * Italo Calvino * * Want to know more about Italo Calvino? Have a look…
murmuration
While I’m writing, you can enjoy this: They call it a murmuration because witnessing it will make your heart skip a beat… recommended by Sean and what about Experimenting with Nonhuman Forms – wouldn’t it be fun?
NATURE TRANSFORMED
Visual nature writing rock of ages #1. active section, e.l. smith quarry, barre, vermont, 1991 Yesterday Time’s Flow Stemmed presented a work by Edward Burtynsky. It nearly swept me away – I’d like to call Burtynsky’s work visual nature writing. Born in 1955 of Ukrainian heritage at St. Catharines, Ontario, Burtynsky is known as one of Canada’s most…
Perfect Reader
A week ago I made a post on Mary Ruefle – here she is again: I spend all day in my office, reading a poem by Stevens, pretending I wrote it myself, which is what happens when someone is lonely and decides to go shopping and meets another customer and they buy the same thing. But I come to…
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