Mark, your posts on H and SB remind me that one of the justly famous and beautiful passages in Krapps Last Tape is pretty much a quotation/rewriting of H.
(btw, please pardon if my previous comment came off as uncivil.)
Thanks Amie, i'd be curious to know which passage is it? re previous comment - not for a moment uncivil! Amusing and understandable, yes. (The 'uncivility' I might have alluded to was M's).
Amie, if I may also say so...thanks for the Hölderlin reference. And thinking of Beckett, Johannes Brahms too comes to mind, with Hyperions Schicksalslied...
The Donald Davis recording, directed by Alan Schneider, is a seasonal favorite (LP) of mine, and very good. Though more opera buffa than seria, I suppose...speaking of which:
(The 'uncivility' I might have alluded to was M's).
Good grief, man, what's this...a Chabertism on Charlotte Street? The being threatened with vague insinuations of potential allusions does grow a little tired, no? Seriously, I would have thought you a little (or a great deal) better.
Given the context (if we're thinking of the same), I'd say the uncivility was rather yours, Mark. If you must push the matter, however, then how about a duel, at sunset. Of course my sincere apologies if you meant something, or someone, entirely other and it's just my vain ego getting preemptively bruised...(well, not really. I suppose it'll survive alright). Or if I'm reading too much into things. But one of the benefits of blogging under one's own name is surely learning to take responsibility, and for honesty, most of all.
I'm glad you're posting again, and reading Derrida and Blanchot of course, in any case (about which I'd like to say more, but maybe another time). And if there's something I *should* apologize for, please don't hesitate to let me know, as I'm genuinely curious.
In fact I've hesitated before posting this...perhaps it should have better been an email. Well, please do with it as you wish. Now that the original misunderstanding has passed, no hard feelings on my end, certainly. All best.
The 'uncivility' referred exclusively to "Why would you say such a silly thing", which was indeed an uncivil response to a perfectly innocuous & amusing comment. Nothing else whatsoever intended, so really not sure what you're on about. Or if I'm reading too much into things > well let's say you make the hermeneutics of suspicion look like face powder [joking].
btw, Mathhew, the Friendship posts were notes for a talk I gave at a conference on and around Derrida's book POF. Another participant also has a blog that might interest you: www.toposnoetos.blogspot.com.
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Mark, your posts on H and SB remind me that one of the justly famous and beautiful passages in Krapps Last Tape is pretty much a quotation/rewriting of H.
(btw, please pardon if my previous comment came off as uncivil.)
Thanks Amie, i'd be curious to know which passage is it? re previous comment - not for a moment uncivil! Amusing and understandable, yes. (The 'uncivility' I might have alluded to was M's).
The repeated passage about the boat:
We lay there without moving. But under us all moved, and moved us, gently, up and down, and from side to side.
And the following lines from the third version of Mnemosyne:
Vorwärts aber und rükwärts wollen wir
Nicht sehn. Uns wiegen lassen, wie
Auf schwankem Kahne der See.
Thanks very much Amie, I thought it must be the boat passage.
Here's a translation, for those interested:
http://home.att.net/~holderlin/poem/mnemosyne.htm
Amie, if I may also say so...thanks for the Hölderlin reference. And thinking of Beckett, Johannes Brahms too comes to mind, with Hyperions Schicksalslied...
The Donald Davis recording, directed by Alan Schneider, is a seasonal favorite (LP) of mine, and very good. Though more opera buffa than seria, I suppose...speaking of which:
(The 'uncivility' I might have alluded to was M's).
Good grief, man, what's this...a Chabertism on Charlotte Street? The being threatened with vague insinuations of potential allusions does grow a little tired, no? Seriously, I would have thought you a little (or a great deal) better.
Given the context (if we're thinking of the same), I'd say the uncivility was rather yours, Mark. If you must push the matter, however, then how about a duel, at sunset. Of course my sincere apologies if you meant something, or someone, entirely other and it's just my vain ego getting preemptively bruised...(well, not really. I suppose it'll survive alright). Or if I'm reading too much into things. But one of the benefits of blogging under one's own name is surely learning to take responsibility, and for honesty, most of all.
I'm glad you're posting again, and reading Derrida and Blanchot of course, in any case (about which I'd like to say more, but maybe another time). And if there's something I *should* apologize for, please don't hesitate to let me know, as I'm genuinely curious.
In fact I've hesitated before posting this...perhaps it should have better been an email. Well, please do with it as you wish. Now that the original misunderstanding has passed, no hard feelings on my end, certainly.
All best.
Likewise astounded, that nobody has made the connection between Krapp's tapes and blogging, as yet. Or is it only too obvious?
"ach...drivel"
"stupid young bastard"
&c.
Surely some of us are old enough now, in blogyears, to have earned such comments.
Indeed, on the LP, the movement of the needle sounds not unlike a boat at sea... (to blunder a Wittgenstein)
The 'uncivility' referred exclusively to "Why would you say such a silly thing", which was indeed an uncivil response to a perfectly innocuous & amusing comment. Nothing else whatsoever intended, so really not sure what you're on about. Or if I'm reading too much into things > well let's say you make the hermeneutics of suspicion look like face powder [joking].
btw, Mathhew, the Friendship posts were notes for a talk I gave at a conference on and around Derrida's book POF. Another participant also has a blog that might interest you:
www.toposnoetos.blogspot.com.
Well Mark, then I do apologize, as I certainly meant no ill-will to Amie (such would be a silly thing to presume, indeed).
Blog - yes, I know the one. Thanks. Glad those recommendations for Derrida bore fruit, as it were. You read quickly!
Yes, obviously, an uncivil remark is not the same as ill-will.
ok. agreed/bravo.
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