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| Feb-23-07 | | Eyal: Husserl's classic dictum: <It is bad to be wrong, but it is worse to be understood.> |
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Feb-23-07
 | | jessicafischerqueen: LOL thanks a lot <Eyal>; that's cleared everything up. "What do I mean by the word mean? What do I mean by the word word? What do I mean by mean by doo by doo by doo by dooo?" |
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Feb-23-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: IT'S THE MIND... (dum dum dummadumma dumma) |
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Feb-23-07
 | | Domdaniel: Ah, we've entered hallucinogenics mode... thought we'd never arrive... <chien andalou> A Dog and a Toilet? Dylan also said -- indeed *sang*, in 'Sara' -- about <staying up for days in the Chelsea Hotel writing Sad-eyed Lady of the Lowlands for you> which sounds much more like Speed to me. He was always more amphetamine-y than acid-y in those days, or so it seems. <Reality is just an escape for people who can't face hallucinogens.> I think the original quote was <a crutch for people who can't handle hallucinogens> -- but that's clearly ambiguous because ("as every schoolchild knows", at least according to Pynchon) Dr Hoffman made his legendary discovery of LSD-25 in Sandoz by handling derivations of ergotamine tartrate and absorbing the stuff through his skin. I tried to play chess in this condition once. Stage one, set the board up. Instead of remaining in ranks, the pieces migrated on a more innaresting spiral towards the centre of the board. Then they got thrown at the wall with a series of amusing percussions. None actually passed through it. <When the chess pieces tell you where to go ... go ask Alice> Don't try this at home. |
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| Feb-23-07 | | mack: <Speaking of Dylan, there's always the <Rosemary Tactic>: "Rosemary combed her hair and took a cabbage into town..."> My favourite Dylan song, possibly. Danny Baker played around six minutes of it on his BBC London afternoon show the other day. Not that I spend my weekdays listening to dreary phone ins, no sir. I think what I love about it is that is so out of place on Blood On The Tracks. So out of place, that I've spent a long many a year trying to figure out what the hell it's about; on such a personal album, it must have some meaning. But it's probably just a rock 'n' roll poker crime caper. |
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Feb-23-07
| | Domdaniel: PS. Springer is just German for Knight. And J'adoube! might be mistaken for J'accuse! if, like me, you had a tin ear. Der Springer is also the nom-de-plume (de ma tante) of a character in Gravity's Rainbow, a megalomaniac teutonic film director (famous for the Expressionist Orgy in Alpdrucken). He sez "flight has been given only to Der Springer" and "in all humility I am one of very few who can comprehend the totality of it all", or words to that effect. I think I've read *all* of Barth. As an undergrad I even committed the capital crime of submitting an essay on <Barth and Pynchon>. Don't like him anymore. Not because of info-auto-self-referentialityness (like 'Letters' where characters from all 6 or 7 of his previous books correspond by, yes, letter) - but because <everyone> always ends up in Chesapeake Bay, even ancient Greek mythic types and goat-boys. |
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Feb-23-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: Re <Blonde on Blonde> I have it on good authority that the "pill box hat" song is actually about a World War I gun emplacement on the Marne... |
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| Feb-23-07 | | mack: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blood-Track... M. Weatherall is clearly a tosser. |
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Feb-23-07
| | Domdaniel: <yer maj> that chess position may *seem* to be etched on your brain just now, but brains -- certainly not those as flexible as your spectacular organ -- don't go in for etching. It's a delicate tracery of neural connections with a plug-in to an intensifier circuit to make it *feel* etched. *thistledown shivers of rust on synaptic girders* will have to suffice for me... Some director -- Alex Cox -- once told me to "leave my brain behind" when I watched his movie. But it insisted. And I could see it on the seat beside me, throbbing with futility and rage and quickly flashing thru a chameleonic spectrum of bilious colours... |
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Feb-23-07
| | Domdaniel: <mack> "The cabaret was quiet except for some Dylan in the wall" ... that's my theory as to what <Rosemary> is about... plus the cabbage, obviously. I've long suspected that Black Diamond Bay, off his next album, Desire, is a sequel. Equally misplaced, equally cinematic. "As the island slowly sank/ the loser finally broke the bank/ in the gambling room..." |
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Feb-23-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: Re: <Desire>
"This is the story of the Hurricane..
The man the authorites came to blame... for something that he <in all probability, given the current state of scholarship on the Paterson triple murder, actually DID do>" |
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Feb-23-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> thanks for the "brain info." Chess question: Is me spending so much time analyzing my position actually going to make me a better chess player? (has fingers crossed) Like, this is not wasted work, right?
Cuz it's driving me insane... |
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| Feb-23-07 | | mack: <"This is the story of the Hurricane..
The man the authorites came to blame... for something that he <in all probability, given the current state of scholarship on the Paterson triple murder, actually DID do>"Phew, good job Bob let Jacques Levy in to clean up some of the lyrics or this album would have been a bloody mess, eh? |
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Feb-23-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <mack> LOL
The "truth" does not obey the laws of prosody, sir! |
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| Feb-23-07 | | mack: <Existentialist Sports/chess movies?> Bedknobs & Broomsticks springs to mind. No, really. |
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| Feb-23-07 | | mack: I do like Desire. It's a bit like a copy of The Beano actually: some of it is perfect; some of it drags on too long; a lot of it is hilarious; some bits are just plain dumb; but all of it has that 'what the @#$%?' factor that you couldn't get anywhere else. |
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Feb-23-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> oh and thanks for the <Springer-Knight> info. Is there a separate German word for Knight (guy on a horse) and the Chesspiece? It seems to me that the Chesspiece "springs" in that it can leap. But a Knight proper doesn't really "spring," though his horse might. LOL at your puns, now that I understand them.
Louis Dreyfuss
Devil's Island (fuming) |
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Feb-23-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Mack> Desire is great. It's the last Dylan album where the lyrics might put him in the category of "High Modernist", I think. Maybe he should have kept taking acid and speed?
Signed,
Dylan fanatic |
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| Feb-23-07 | | mack: <Is there a separate German word for Knight (guy on a horse) and the Chesspiece?> 'Springer' I guess is literally 'one who jumps', from the verb springen. The word for a 'knight' is summat like Retter, or Reiter, or Ritter or... oh I give up. I could google it but I'm tired & emotional and my German only goes up to A-level. Speaking of knights, my favourite explanation as to how a knight moves comes from D. Pritchard's 'The Right Way To Play Chess', the first edition of which I bought from my local library when I was eight for just 25p: 'The knight, a problem child,
Moves (according to decree)
To the diametric corner
Of a figure two-by-three'
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| Feb-23-07 | | mack: The full aide memoir, you say? Oh go on then...
The KING may move a single square in any free direction; Should he succumb the game is lost, so play with circumspection! To crossword clues a ROOK may take - it moves across and down; If lines are clear he changes gear and really goes to town. The BISHOP travels cornerwise if ways are unrestricted, His diocese but half the board - the rest is interdicted. The QUEEN may radiate at will if she is not obstructed; Like rook or bishop, as required, her journeys are conducted. The KNIGHT, a problem child, extends (according to decree) To the diametric corner of a figure two by three.
The PAWN moves only forward, and but a single square; Is promoted on the eighth rank (assume it reaches there). Initially, however, its functions to enhance,
The pawn retains the option of a double-square advance. |
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Feb-23-07
| | Domdaniel: Knight-on-horseback is Ritter, innit? Though now that you mention it, Reiter also seems plausible... <Der noble Ritter Hugo
Von Schwillenfaustenstein
Rode out mit shpear und helmet
Und he coom to de banks of the Rhine.
Und up dere rose a maiden
Vot hadn't got nodings on
Und she say 'Oh, Ritter Hugo,
Vere goes you mit yourselves alone?'>
Dere's, sorry, there's buckets more of this gibberish. Hugo comes to a watery end, and the moral is to beware of river-dwelling females, especially the unclad variety. |
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Feb-23-07
| | Domdaniel: Re <Desire>
Joey, Joey
Why did they send a man to get ye?
They hadda scrape you
Outta the spaghetti.
Re: <Dylan and "drugs"> <If not for glue
I couldn't even see the door*
Couldn't even find the floor
I'd be sad and blue
If not for glue>
*Doors of Perception ... or Pores of Deception? |
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Feb-23-07
| | Domdaniel: <To the diametric corner
Of a figure two-by-three'>
Variant or "Fairy" chess... any knightlike piece is a 'Leaper' defined by dimensions of his leap. So our standard version is just a 2x3 Leaper... you can have 4x2 or 5x3, or even 3x1 which is a linear jump. A <Zen Leaper> presumably makes moves of the form <a x 0> which means standing still. Eh, pass. |
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| Feb-23-07 | | mack: <Dere's, sorry, there's buckets more of this gibberish.> You got all them buckets comin' out of your ears, I presume? |
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Feb-23-07
| | Domdaniel: <Like, this is not wasted work, right?> This is the <echt Amerikan> question on chess, and one hopes it hasn't crossed into Canada like some mutie virus. In Yurp, an Ancient Tradition dictates that a life devoted to chess is on a par with a life devoted to art, science, mathematics, literature, cinema, trainspotting or drawing elaborate diagrams of mammary glands. It's the devotion, not the remuneration.
This tradition is quickly being lost. Chess players defect to financial services and buy offshore islands with their bonuses. However, their brains rot. |
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