With so much blame for
their humiliation, be-
ing cast into the mob,
who had pause to feast
on their disgrace?
Wole Soyinka
The Bacchae of
Euripides
A Communion Rite
1973
Norton, 1974©
op. cit.
In all your blog entries your photos are always so beautiful.
ReplyDeleteNoticing the name, I feared I might have written to myself.
DeleteI will take this observation as one of satisfaction? In any case, thank you for it. Yesterday, and occasionally, there is a departure into the unpleasant, but rmbl is a project in portraying how indivisible any underlying consciousness is. That established, one looks for an expressiveness which may be congruent, may be ironic as foil for the text. I realise, this comparative seamlessness can look tiresome on the page. Yet one accepts the risk. Over time and in all circumstances, one is simply confiding how unlike a superficial choice of clothes or of any “lifestyle,” “preference,” or “orientation,” a person’s outlook - may we call it - ever is. Don’t you find, assumptions to the contrary are somewhat innocent, but sometimes operate as polite mechanisms of prejudice?
You have an interesting blog and beautiful photos, I imagine it takes time to find the picture you like to illustrate what you have written. I do not know if assumptions to the contrary are innocent, often they are based on lack of knowledge or unfamiliarity.
ReplyDeleteYes, lack of knowledge or unfamiliarity can not be forgotten and I welcome the reminder. As to the question of selection, the problem often works the other way: an image discovered proposes a text, where then the test is the same but also very different. Thank you for your interest in these "workings."
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