Hamster reminds me that Erik Satie was born 146 years ago today and provides the first two selections. Thanks! Still waiting to hear about Dead Can Dance in August at Wolftrap from him, I think Mr Alarum and friend will be joining us, anyone else? We need to decide inside/outside, there are advantages and disadvantages to both. But yes, Erik Satie, another Holy Day of Egoslavia.
- Arthur Silber's welcome latest. Hit that paypal button, throw him the coins in your pocket please.
- In which I and the World's Shittiest Human agree in part.
- An end to austerity?
- Blockupy Frankfurt.
- West of Thurmont.
- Politics of hate in USA, continued.
- Under the gaze of theory.
- Unbuilding.
- Yesterday because? Terrariums, metaphors, humanoids, I find it all fascinating, more of you like them than don't by one or two.
- It's sure to be a topic of discussion tonight as L loves them and D hates and K does or doesn't depending. Yay half of you plus one, uh-oh half of you minus one! Or not.
- My/My/My.
- Silliman's always generous lit-links.
- Don't try this at home. It wasn't you, zrm.
- RIP Chuck Brown. There's a bleggalgazing story here, but no.
- Listen to this then listen to this.
- Xenakis.
THE SOLIPSIST
Troy Jollimore
Don't be misled:
that sea-song you hear
when the shell's at your ear?
It's all in your head.
That primordial tide—
the slurp and salt-slosh
of the brain's briny wash—
is on the inside.
Truth be told, the whole place,
everything that the eye
can take in, to the sky
and beyond into space,
lives inside of your skull.
When you set your sad head
down on Procrustes' bed,
you lay down the whole
universe. You recline
on the pillow: the cosmos
grows dim. The soft ghost
in the squishy machine,
which the world is, retires.
Someday it will expire.
Then all will go silent
and dark. For the moment,
however, the black-
ness is just temporary.
The planet you carry
will shortly swing back
from the far nether regions.
And life will continue—
but only within you.
Which raises a question
that comes up again and again,
as to why
God would make ear and eye
to face outward, not in?
