What a lovely Christmassy scene. We had a flutter of snow today that melted into rain, everywhere else in the country is knee-deep with snow :( That's what I get for living next to the Firth!
Only where there is language is there world. --Martin Heidegger
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The word that fits would mime the genesis. --Michel Deguy
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Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes.
... that a whole world of lament arose, in which
all nature reappeared: forest and valley,
road and village, field and stream and animal;
and that around this lament-world, even as
around the other earth, a sun revolved
and a silent, star-filled heaven, a lament-
heaven, with its own, disfigured stars ...
Ein Klage-Himmel, "a lament-heaven," from Rilke's "Orpheus. Eurydike. Hermes." Poetry's post-rupture, post-lapsus, post-death-of-Eurydice dream of recreating that primal world -- Eden, childhood, Orpheus's singing -- where word and thing were one.
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What a lovely Christmassy scene. We had a flutter of snow today that melted into rain, everywhere else in the country is knee-deep with snow :( That's what I get for living next to the Firth!
Sorlil: The snow isn't knee-deep here yet, only a couple of inches. It will come, though....
OH
i will not leave you alone until you buy a good camera, you are so gifted! i am surprised you haven't discovered this until now, James!
it's really beautiful...
Roxana: Thank you!
What else can I say --- except that I will get that camera and inflict many more photos on the world...
Very good shot!
Andrea: Thank you :-)
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