7

n
OthI
n

g can

s
urPas
s

the m

y
SteR
y

of

s
tilLnes
s

(id, 41)

4

l(a

le
af
fa

ll

s)
one
l

iness

(id, 39)

#88

“The function of this school is custodial. It's here to keep these kids off the streets until the girls are big enough to get pregnant and the boys are old enough to go out and holdup a gas station, it's strictly custodial and the rest is plumbing. If these teachers of yours strike just sit and still and keep the door opens open, by the time these kids have been lying around the house for a week their parents will march the teachers back at gunpoint” (id, 226).

#87

“– Yes but that's what you mean isn't it, about creating an entirely different world when you write an opera, about asking the audience to suspend their belief in the...
– Not asking them, making them, like that E flat chord that opens the Rhinegold goes on and on it goes on for a hundred and thirty-six bars until the idea that everything's happening under water is more real that sitting on a hot plush seat with tight shoes on and...” (id, 111).

#86

“– That's juts a, it's what we call a news release it's just a story about something that's going to happen and we write it to help out the newspapers so that when the...
– Like you get to write these here news which it didn't even happen yet?
– Well that's not exactly what, what I meant boys and girls a story like this we haven't told anybody yet because Mister Moncrieff's appointment hasn't been made yet officially” (id, 107).

2

“Picasso
you gave us Things
which
bulge:grunting lungs pumped full of sharp thick mind

you make us shrill
presents always
shut in the sumptuous screech of
simplicity

(out of the
black unbunged
Something gushes vaguely a squeak of planes
or

between squeals of
Nothing grabbed with circular shrieking tightness
solid screams whisper.)
Lumberman of The Distinct

your brain's
axe only chops hugest inherent
Trees of Ego,from whose living and biggest

bodies lopped
of every prettiness

you hew form only” (id, 35)

1

“of my
soul a street is:
prettinesses Pic-
abian tricktrickclickflick-er
garnished
of stark Picasso
throttling trees

hither
my soul
repairs herself with
prisms of sharp mind
and Matisse rhythms
to juggle Kandinsky gold-fish

away from the gripping gigantic
muscles of Cézanne's
logic,
oho
a street
there is

where strange birds purr” (Cummings, 1994: 34)

CUMMINGS, E. E. (1994). Selected Poems. Edited by Richard S. Kennedy. New York: Liveright.

#83

“Get it? Art? You get it where you get anything you buy (...) don't try and tell me in this day and age there isn't enough around for everybody great art, pictures music books who's heard all the great music there is, you? You read all the great books there are? seen all these great pictures? Records of any symphony you want reproductions you can get them that are almost perfect, the greatest books ever written you can get them at the drugstore” (id, 48).

#82

“Before we go any further here, has it ever occurred to any of you that all this is simply one grand misunderstanding? Since you're not here to learn anything, but to be taught so you can pass tests, knowledge has to be organized so it can be taught, and it has to be reduced to information so it can be organized do you follow that? In other words this leads you assume that organization is an inherent property of the knowledge itself, and that disorder and chaos are simply irrelevant forces that threaten it from outside. In fact it's exactly the opposite. Order is simply a thin, perilous condition we try to impose on the basic reality of chaos” (Gaddis, 2003: 20).

GADDIS, William (2003). J R. London: Atlantic Books.

#81

“(...) Socrates and Christ they never wrote a line yet their teachings are still valid, while others are less read the more books they publish, history's revenge you might call it (...)” (id, 83).

#80

“(...) what a fate for a handsome young man trained in the art or carpentry, fo sawing boards and beams, and boom! off he goes to teach the world that loving your neighbour doesn't mean somersaults on the sofa (...)” (id, 64).

#79

“(...) real poetry must hurt as if you'd forgotten you wrapped a razor blade in your handkerchief and you blow your nose, no book worth its worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out (...)” (id, 30).

#78

“(...) what I'm giving you now, young ladies, are like windows on the world, points goals, scores, the principle the late Strauss applied to his heavenly melodies, sending them out into the world to refine emotions, like the European Renaissance, for which Themistocles and Miltiades and Socrates and Goethe and Mozart did so much and which has made it impossible for us to say to a beauty we're tired of, get lost, or even Adieu, because our refined emotions require us to compose a farewell melody or poem to be dispatched with a bouquet of roses (...)” (id, 27-28).

#77

“(...) any young lady will tell you you might as well be buried alive if the man in your life has a faulty fandangle (...)” (id, 6).

#76

“I dont want to ruin the clean sheets the clean linen I wore brought it on too damn it damn it and they always want to see a stain on the bed to know youre a virgin fir them thats all thats troubling them theyre such fools too you could be a widow or divorced 40 times over a daub of red ink would do or blackberry juice no thats too purply” (id, 914).

#75

“I must stretch myself I wished he was here or somebody to let myself go with and come again like that I fell fire inside me or if I could dream it when he made me spend the 2nd time tickling me behind with his finger I was coming for about 5 minutes with my legs around him I had to hug him after O Lord I wanted to shout out all sorts of things fuck or shit or anything at all only not to look ugly or those lines from the strain” (id, 893-894).

#74

“(...) and the infinite possibilities hitherto unexploited of the modern art of advertisement if condensed in triliteral monoideal symbols, vertically of maximum visibility (divined), horizontally of maximum legibility (deciphered) and of magnetising efficacy to arrest involuntarily attention, to interest, to convince, to decide” (id, 799).