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This project is an informal discussion of modernism and postmodernism, ultimately to be applied to the larger Gothic Funk debate. A more detailed description of the project is available here. PLEASE ADD YOUR COMMENTS AND JOIN THE DEBATE:

Paragraph 5, Sentence 1:

That city, however, seemed to depend all too often on the most appalling politics.

– JULY – is Bison month. (July is also under consideration to be M. Bison month).
– TODAY – Is Cow Appreciation Day.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Patrick Stewart and Harrison Ford.

– LINK OF THE WEEK –
What’s That Bug?

This project is an informal discussion of modernism and postmodernism, ultimately to be applied to the larger Gothic Funk debate. A more detailed description of the project is available here. PLEASE ADD YOUR COMMENTS AND JOIN THE DEBATE:

Paragraph 4, Sentence 9:

Baudelaire’s alienated withdrawal inside the intricacy of form now opens the way for rebuilding a formal site where the spirit learns to dwell reflexively within its own deepest powers and, for some of the poets, to project from such states the Orphic task of building a truly habitable city.

– JULY – is Baked Beans month.
– TODAY – is the day when the sun rises and sets along Manhattan’s gridline.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Henry David Thoreau and Bill Cosby.

– PICTURE OF THE WEEK –
TEMBOKBOMBER.COM – Jakarta graffiti.

This project is an informal discussion of modernism and postmodernism, ultimately to be applied to the larger Gothic Funk debate. A more detailed description of the project is available here. PLEASE ADD YOUR COMMENTS AND JOIN THE DEBATE:

Paragraph 4, Sentence 8:

And at the other pole, poets as diverse as Pound, Apollinaire, and late Rilke use syntactic gaps to articulate the powers of will or pure concentration to compose new models of self: cubist simultaneity and transformations of perceptual into conceptual realities provide the basis for imagining that the encounter with history can take on an intensity in the present, enabling one to “schufst du ihnen Tempel im Gehör” (build [your] temple deep inside hearing).

– JULY – is Copious Compliments month. I say this because my readers can not only assimilate this information but, being at the height of both physical beauty and cognitive prowess, put it to uses not merely complimentary, but transformative and transcendent in nature.

– ASTONISHINGLY WONDERFUL AND GOTHIC FUNK – Saved!
– ANOTHER ONE – To Kill a Mockingbird (the film).

– WEATHER – Tomorrow, as humid air from the gulf moves in against a cool front that moves down from Canada, races over the great lakes, storms will break out throughout Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York New Jersey, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachussetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Maryland, D.C.

This project is an informal discussion of modernism and postmodernism, ultimately to be applied to the larger Gothic Funk debate. A more detailed description of the project is available here. PLEASE ADD YOUR COMMENTS AND JOIN THE DEBATE:

Paragraph 4, Sentence 7:

Thus Eliot’s The Waste Land makes the failure to integrate the multiple layers within Western culture the poem’s access to strange psychic states in which neurotic obsession borders on giving the mind access to the emotional conditions at the core of all self-transcending rituals.

– WEATHER – Today is beautiful and blue almost everywhere. Granted, the gulf coast is being drenched with a mild low moving over Florida, bringing rain all the way to Texas. And the relief is temporary; by Monday the eastern half of the nation will be hot, muggy, and stormy as ever this year.

Sorry guys, I’ve really just needed a little time to unwind. I’ll be back on stride soon.

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