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"likeaghost " wrote:the White Stripes – watch out toronto, likeaghost is on his way, today…
They played, the other day before their main show, at the Black Watch Reserve in front of, like, 50 people in Montreal. And tonight, Rachid Taha is closing the Jazz Fest and he’s playing with Mick Jones, The Clash guistarist. You see, it’s things like this that is making it harder and harder for me to feel like I want to keep living outside of the city.
"built_to_spill " wrote:How are things in "Cali," King T? (Didn’t you just move?)
Not yet. I’m defending my dissertation next Monday, then packing up and heading out the following Sunday. I’ll have a week to get my new place in shape before heading to the Dino show. I was out there a couple weeks ago though, and my god is it beautiful in Pasadena!
Quote:I’m defending my dissertationDid someone have a problem with your dissertation?
I’m trying to plan a tour Aug 22 thru September 11, will most likely attend Satellite Party if my seat is still there. Moresight is playing early September, will check that out too if I can get some money. :-
"King Tubby " wrote:Not yet. I’m defending my dissertation next Monday…Is your dissertation on Mr. Urizons? Do you think Blake meant this to mean "the horizon of reason?"
"fata morgana " wrote:Is your dissertation on Mr. Urizons? Do you think Blake meant this to mean "the horizon of reason?"No, no Blake in the dissertation. Blake is for me, and I didn’t want to kill my engagement with his work by writing about it professionally, especially after the relatively rough time I had with an editor when writing a piece on one of his poems for a collection of critical essays. Blakeists are all eccentrics, and like all eccentrics they’re a mighty headstrong bunch, each in his/her own particular way.
Yeah, there are a couple of phonetic puns in Urizen’s name. Your Reason. Horizon, as in that you can’t see beyond, which Blake typically figures as the limits of rationality. The Book of Urizen is a pretty harsh read, especially if you do so in its illuminated/illustrated form. Lots of despair in there.
"King Tubby " wrote:No, no Blake in the dissertation. Blake is for me, and I didn’t want to kill my engagement with his work by writing about it professionally, especially after the relatively rough time I had with an editor when writing a piece on one of his poems for a collection of critical essays.See,
I misspelt "Urizen…" Hey, U rise and U fall, eh?
What was the poem and what did the editor not like about your essay?"fata morgana " wrote:See, I misspelt "Urizen…" Hey, U rise and U fall, eh?
What was the poem and what did the editor not like about your essay?The essay was on Blake’s Europe: A Prophecy, his most obscure and inscrutable shorter poem. I was just getting my feet wet as a critic and writer, and the editor is one of those guys who rarely publishes anything he himself has written because he’s so meticulous about his work that he can never bring himself to finish anything. That, combined with a near-total lack of editorial direction (he requested a revision of the piece, but didn’t specify what he wanted — when I gave him the revised version, he wasn’t happy and requested ANOTHER version, but at least this time with real suggestions as to what he wanted done with it), made the process pretty nerve-wracking. I ended up rewriting the whole thing, all thirty-something pages, from top-to-bottom, over the course of two weeks to meet the deadline. It turned out pretty well, though, and I learned a lot about writing in the process.
"King Tubby " wrote:I ended up rewriting the whole thing, all thirty-something pages…Oh my Lord.
Well, at least you got something out of it. Is your essay still available? Is it online? What is your dissertation subject?"fata morgana " wrote:Oh my Lord. Well, at least you got something out of it. Is your essay still available? Is it online? What is your dissertation subject?It’s in a book called _Prophetic Character: Essays on William Blake in Honor of John E. Grant_, ed. Alexander Gourlay. Most university libraries would have it, I think, but since it was published on a small academic press based in CT I’m not sure if it was widely distributed in Canada. My piece is second-to-last, on Europe and popular astrology. I’d offer to send you a photocopy but most everything I own is currently surrounding me, piled up in boxes.
I’ll let you know what my diss is about after I re-read the whole thing over the next couple of days.
I’ll try to re-read Urizens in the meantime.- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.