Empson, Wittgenstein, Sylvia... and Chatterton
Sylvia read Empson I am pretty sure, all the verbal attack heads from 50s to 70s read Empson. Planning an overview: Seven Types of Ambiguity.
Char Tar
I dont want to just think about them as bunnies.
for every cartoon bring up a philo. go ideology hunting with z writing to me again. ha. as one who is infected… with it.
The only hope I have for my stuff — is that everybody gets used to me being here creating a collection of sorts, using notes too. on lit shit.
If I write in notes, I find myself constructing sentences that explain something, that tracks down books, and links em.
Outlaws anomynous
do I counsider myself an outlaw. since I splurge on rhyme, darken its waters, Well to rhyme is a crime, to do a paragraph that rhymes all the way down, just because it does is cupcakes with shakespeare. and I am feeding on the words, as spread through philo ideo and cartoon. as did he…
movies too — some phrasing for sure, and also images but not as much as books. music — rhyme structures oh yes — but am I listening anymore — no I had to mostly let music go.
the distance between music and the real was exploding into furies that I had to stop. comes in but isnt major part of it.
and here I am back again searching for them, the furies —
no I dont have to reimagine, they never left,
I tried to re-establish a continuity with past creatures, yes, so I could address their seven layers of ambiguity
Serious Consumption Bunnies
the difference for me is that I conjured a way to use them, as modality for serious consumption bunnies, peerings into lit shit On The Absurd, and Ville du Mal,
I can ear to can on absurdity in it and force humor. its a beckett trick.
and shape with s m over the tough spots, suddenly the language goes into traditional patterns to carry it through,
all these methods are strangely personal to me,
there are hunters and there are gatherers, and theres them that do both…
On Uncertainty
The unity here, I go after a unity here? thats a balancing out the equators over scooper scope.
I loike to ram bella round words to see how they apply wittgers delibs on uncertainty in which he goes a wandering through word couplings, where meanings break into new things…
BUT what it felt like in reading wittgentstein on uncertainty —for me was witt running into Empson, into his observations in seven layers of ambiguity? but without the fanfare of Empson kill the beast rambo rambunctious not unlike early Pound somehow, Empson scoping out the wilderness, and I was like: cha.
Ahhh the old mid manhattan library I dissolved in it
it was all books top to bottom… free to take home, and third floor was glarious.
like an ailing old bookstore. totally pumped. the new one is very bright and orderly…
but the books are there, NYPL is super library. and you can just order up. ambiguity book is free online see below —
Oi would go in stalks, whereat lit crit on the thoird, really tight, really well curated, and always pick Empson up whenever there and stand there with my pile, curiosity head shaking oh the noirve — Seven Types of Ambiguity.
Its as going for the guts no buts, as Pounds books on language called Kulture.
Pounds narrative is gorgon zola.
William Empson — its vintage. I am vintage.some ways closer to beats than punks. Empson is strictly a book guy. media at the time was different.
Chat ‘Er Ton
My writing likes to chatterton. As a Verb.
I call reverting to rhyme couplets as chattertoning with sylvia and sanctimony, I mean to say, milton shows up through chatterton, yes??? sylvia is as miser able as mill tons. writing is a greedy witch of a bitch breathing in and catching pile ups, that hammer and die as they fly. skinning itself alive. I would dream in aztec slave skinnings…. that they did and danced. head into the belly of a beast after kill… with sylvia. you can travel with her sinking into oblivion.
uncle milton too, but milton is a religio.
Chattorton is glorious. Uses old world rhyme targets as shell for his beef. and writes forward a little toward Dylan Thomas I think. Still he frees himself into the hammer as well, grappling up his own mind chattertoning as a freedom to fly.
over its casket, his rhymes being his casket a little like emily does, he is dying on his perch, death becomes him……….
an early bird falling off his cliff. beautifying it with words supremo self sab a dodge — from life as it is.
Sylvia read Empson
I am pretty sure, all the verbal attack heads from 50s to 70s read Empson, published 1931 revised 1949.Hes a brash, brill and conspiring with brave lunacy circling to define allegorical meaning being pulled in from the sides —
how writing itself transforms through the met, and just going on and on about trying to find patterns in the entendres, doubling in of meaning of words, gaping through as do dwell in it.
ambiguity book is free online see below —
Dare to go there:
I was able to access Empson. Now we’re going to see if I can access Empson. You got your pride, your envy, and your wrath—your rhyme, your Clarice, your Satan—then comes the twins sloth and avarice—I don’t see you there—glutton? too many beers on the mountain? lust? OMG… seven deadly ambiguities…
Thank you for this!