Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Dona nobis waistline





a birth in bits


I have commented before, on the tumblr style. I'm put in mind of Bernard MacLaverty's description of the fate of calves in the ab-batoire in Cal, his unforgettable novel and film set in Ireland - Helen Mirren capturing her first acknowledgment at Cannes. For a blogger playing with rocks, the tumblr mode, also experimented in by two enormously generous blogging friends of this page, is a venue of Jungian riches and Socratic prods akin to a lecture series without benefit of preceptorials. Yet, cumulatively, I suspect that the tumblr world projects that city of coffee pursued here, with intuit-ive genius. I am not brave enough to present testimony without parol evidence - as Valéry Lorenzo does, most of the time - but I feel I have a fine jury there; and I thank those jurors and those effusive sources for their gift of disinterestedness. 







Bernard MacLaverty
Cal
Blackstaff Press, 1983©





7 comments:

  1. Hello:
    We were not until now aware that there was a film of 'Cal'; the book, as you remark, contains some very powerful imagery, not least of the abbatoir.

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  2. witty!!!!i cannot wait to rise, sip java and scour the perc oops your blog to enhance my vocab through the links.....i love coming here. i need tips to make my tumblr less attractive to pedos but more tasteful i guess. i have a zillion followers but 2/3 are porno peeps....help!!
    cine

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  3. Dear Jane and Lance, the movie is gorgeous. I have not watched it in some years but possess a tape; you move me to revisit it soon.

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  4. Dear Tomas, as perhaps you know, by referral through the mirror portrait of today, you guided me to this portrait. I wouldn't worry about the plateau of taste in which you operate (forgive the contraction); and look at the argument here: perhaps the peeps will rise, they can not sink you.

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  5. How did you know, that I love this portrait ?!

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  6. It's in the present indicative, and I like what the Parliament of Canada says about it, Section 10 of the Interpretation Act -- "The law shall be considered as always speaking, and ... shall be applied to the circumstances as they arise."

    My friend, it's in a tense and a mood from your own playbook. Why do we love you, so?

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  7. I must be a case of "jurisprudence" ...
    Reverso ("half" blind cat) and google translation (fox lame), are both my friends when I get changed into a donkey !
    Thank you very much
    It is mutual.

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