Showing posts with label vertigo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vertigo. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

trying sebald again

and now retrying to read Vertigo by Sebald because I assigned it to my seminar and can't seem to be involved in it -- Gerhard gave me a copy long ago, and i assigned it to my Anxieties  in Modernist Representations seminar, thinking it must be anxiety-provoking, like the film, but I don't like looking at Kim Novak so didn't resee the film and am now stuck -- this is after reading Dali (amazing rewriting of his original and funnily-misspelled French texts, all neatened up by Gala) and after a mixture of Artaud and  Unica Zurn, and it is fascinating reading these and those on our way to Derek Jarman -- so baroque is all this, so wonderfully thought-provokingly baroque

Bernard came to have tea today, writing about Motherwell, do I have anything else to say about him, ah yes probably but I long to write on Jon Schueler, and will I ever get around to making my wouldbe book about my grandmother the painter into a long essay about my relation to her,as my agent suggests? how, I wonder, would that make it more interesting? But I will of course try...

and the mile-high thesis on Max Ernst I have to read and report on and question the knowledgeable writer of the thesis about in a thesis defensein paris in January.. I see it looming up on the piano...

Thursday, December 8, 2011

and now excel...

how singular: today in my aquacize group, when we heard the command "And now excel," my friends all heard "and now exhale..." This so much reminds me of a time in France, when because of dizziness I went to the vertigo specialist, who -- I heard -- said, and now, the salmon maneuver
and tossed me on my side... but what he actually said was the maneuver of Dr. Semon... So much for hearing and parroting, which is what I was then writing about. Perhaps everything on your mind comes up and up: I think this is perhaps psychologically proved, no irony there.