Monthly Archives: January 2010

MYSTICS LEFT STANDING AT THE ALTAR

Posted on January 21, 2010 by Dave

What Allen Ginsberg would call jawboning over the ”cosmic ferocious” , an unlikely but fortuitous lunch with Jeremy Bentham( 1748-1832) and Franz Kafka over one of Ginsberg’s celebrated ”reality sandwiches”; perhaps Kosher deli-style with the pickle with the King of … Continue reading →

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INTO THE MYSTIC WITH THE SOLITARY WANDERERS

Posted on January 20, 2010 by Dave

”I laugh at the plots hatched by men,” he declared, ”and I enjoy my own being in spite of them.” He died soon after writing these lines, at Ermenonville, north of Paris, where he was staying as the guest of … Continue reading →

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THE DEVIL MADE HIM DO IT

Posted on January 19, 2010 by Dave

Avoid inhaling demons.Read the warning label first. The package looked interesting. It read ”Daydream with the Devil. attention. contents highly flammable. handle with caution. verify peremption date. recycle with Lucifer. Save nature.” He saw in his fame only a new … Continue reading →

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THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS

Posted on January 18, 2010 by Dave

O.K. its a deal the devil said…Just put your John Doe on the dotted line.Obviously, God was far too unreasonable to deal  with,  too intractable and demanding, pushing the faithful into the arms of the Devil for whom there is … Continue reading →

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GARDENS OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS

Posted on January 18, 2010 by Dave

Jean Jacques Rousseau’s ‘‘Social Contract”  was a theoretical blueprint for a society of equals.It was at once a return to original sin within a society of unequals.It was an apex for the planet of the apes of civilization.It was a … Continue reading →

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CONSEQUENCES OF AN OVERNIGHT SENSATION

Posted on January 17, 2010 by Dave

”Everything is good as it leaves the hand of the Creator; everything degenerates in the hand of man” . That celebrated opening sentence of ”Emile” contains all of Rousseau’s thought in germ. All the conclusions he reached , no matter … Continue reading →

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REQUIEM FOR A GENIUS

Posted on January 16, 2010 by Dave

”Form is essential to art in that it mediates content. Form is the artifacts coherence, however self antagonistic and refracted, through which every successful work separates itself from the merely existing. …what can rightly be called  form in artworks fulfills … Continue reading →

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BEING DOES NOT = E + MC 2

Posted on January 15, 2010 by Dave

Though the goal of spontaneous human combustion can also  be attained by splitting atoms and achieving fission in the more social sciences. The vocabulary of art is, a priori, a language. That is, its aim is to communicate to others … Continue reading →

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THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE PHOENIX

Posted on January 14, 2010 by Dave

The twenty somethings. The Generation Y of his time. The Harry Potter infected mania of the Hapsburgs and the first faint scent of a nostalgic return. Wolfgang Amadeus “Quidditch of Music” Mozart. His patience finally snapped when he was made … Continue reading →

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YOUNG MOZART AND FATHER KNOWS BEST

Posted on January 13, 2010 by Dave

The ecstatic principle of life itself . At least this is how Soren Kierkegaard saw Mozart. ” I am in love  with Mozart like a young girl, Kierkegaard confessed in ”Either/Or”. ”Immortal Mozart I owe you everything; it is thanks … Continue reading →

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