I’m a human living in the desert southwest, enjoying a bit of a life change at a time when some of the causes of change are beyond my control. What does one do? Blog, I guess.
transient act because -
I googled to -
- An essay in Reed Magazine called Language as Transient Act: The Poetry of Philip Whalen:
A characteristic of all avant garde movements has been to change the way of seeing in a time by removing or breaking down the barrier between the spectator/reader and their being that present-time (also being in that present): To remove the barrier so that the spectator can no longer be separate from their present, from their being phenomena. This puncturing of time as space, in the conceptual space of poetry or theater, can also operate to dismantle social structuring.
Okay, I’m not a big Philip Whalen fan, I’m not avant garde, and I don’t spend time reading literary analysis because it usually just makes me laugh, but I love the title Language as Transient Act, because, well, it is.
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transient act because -
- At Dictionary.net a definition of transient:
1.Passing before the sight or perception, or, as it were, moving over or across a space or scene viewed, and then disappearing; hence, of short duration; not permanent; not lasting or durable; not stationary; passing; fleeting; brief; transitory; as, transient pleasure. “Measured this transient world.” –Milton. [1913 Webster]
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transient act not because-
- of anything to do with philosophy or religion, and I apologize to my philosophical and/or religious friends for my lack of consideration.
- I really am not going to write about time and space…
P.S. The header photo is one I took looking down into the Rift Valley in Kenya. It doesn’t look much like a valley because the photo stretched to fit in the custom header space. Everything fills up its own space.
