dudemanflab's Diaryland Diary

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Recent Lines that Remain-- Enjoy.

"It's for this experimental film
Which nobody knows about
And which I'm still figuring out
What's going to go in my experimental film?

Yeah-- you're all gonna be in this experimental film,
And even though I can't explain it...
I already know the ending"

-They Might be Giants The Spine

"So when the last and dreadful hour
This crumbling pageant shall devour,
The trumpet shall be heard on high,
The dead shall live, the living die,
And music shall untune the sky."

-John Dryden "A Song for St Cecillia's Day" ll. 59-63

Animals full of light
walk through the forest
toward someone aiming a gun
loaded with darkness.

Thats the world: God
holding still
letting it happen again,
and again, and again.

-William Stafford "Meditation"

"...the understanding of personhood is defined for better or for worse by environmental entanglement. Whether individual or social, being doesn't stop at the border of the skin."

-Lawrence Buell "The Emergence of Environmental Criticism" (23)

"A moose has come out of
the impenetrable wood
and stands there, looms, rather,
in the middle of the road.
It approaches; it sniffs at
the buss hot hood.

Towering, antlerless,
high as a churh,
homely as a house
(or, safe as houses).
A man's voice assures us
'Perfectly harmless....'

-Elizabeth Bishop "The Moose" (I'd put the whole poem on here if there were space. Read it, but pardon the popups. also notice the comment of phil child)

"3. The universe is composed of subjects to be communed with, not pimarily of objects to be used. As a subject, each component of the universe is capable of having rights"

-Thomas Berry, "Ten Principles for Jurisprudence Revision, from Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on the Earth as Sacred Community

"But the banquet itself was more than entertainment and the body's nourishment. 'Tis the trigger of the crossbow' the lady instructed her son: a mere pin with magnified consequences, even of life and death.' And this was her meaning: that at bread and meat, powers threatened and preened and shifted, and some were lost and some were gained"

-Walter Wangerin Jr. St. Julian

Yes, there may be a common thread in several, but I hope you've enjoyed at least one.

9:48 p.m. - October 22, 2007

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