Unthinking as Thinking
Vince Rinse et al
Break from working on book. Need to go back translate again. Start that up again Tuesday.
Unthinking as Thinking
I almost dont want to think about the novel now too much - as its found its destiny or something, and the poetry underlying it, is at its own language level, major chars identified, and in a way finding themselves, and as I do, feed them through.
Vince Rinse et al
Vincent he’s a boss. His letters arent letters in the traditional sense. Its more like every night he sits down and writes to Theo. And then sends it off. I dont know how often he sends them off. Bascially dateless. There’s something Kerouac about it, in that its non stop.
Place I am at now he is meeting with other working local artists, drawing with pen, doing small watercolors, and showing them his work, asking for their thoughts, examining what they are doing in theirs, thinking over ideas gain from it - learning off of each other. He is of course very serious. And philosophical.
Its inspiring, breath taking, driven, religious in its aspirations. All to Theo. And he thinks over every little thing, to make his art find it.
Reading Delacroix journal in french at same time.
Delacroix french is simple straight forward journal writing, about running across painters, going to viewings, having dinner with friends. Wrestling with a particular situation or imprinting a memory. Simplicity to it is earnest, day to day. Simply revealing itself to itself, so far, and I am maybe 10-15 entries in, doesnt talk about his own work like Vincent, tho he does about others.
Eugene Delacroix Journal Original French
Eugene Delacroix Journal Translated into English
I CANNOT read Rimbauds french straight on, because it isnt straight on.
His language pops with alter-ings, its grammar is its own, in a way invented to meet the moment, his language is manipulated around forms of words, that find themselves there, and it pops.
Clips along. To its own rising illuminations immediacy.
I am listening for something of him in my novel. But its not so much at word level as paragraph. Yeah…
Les Illuminations en français
