From
David Still
<ds@davidstill.org>
To
Michael Dunn
<dunn0010@uwp.edu>
Re:
TOWARDS A UNIFIED CONCEPT OF SURREALITY
MESSAGE
Michael Dunn wrote: Quoting David Still
: > For me the film was mostly space-ship esthetics and Hollywood love story. There was nothing much left for metaphysics... For metaphysics, you really need Tarkovsky. (I'm afraid I'm going to miss it, they only play it once next sunday... ) > I liked the dried blood with the space ship high tech design, I felt they really belong together. From now on, I shall always miss the dried blood in that visual context. Do you host a dead visitor in your head who will take you to your perfect death? [[[Mortality?? Don't we all? It is the only thing that lends hope to Life.]]] > If you come back from planet Solaris, and you think you left your dead visitor behind, the risk is that you will host a faceless-nameless dead visitor... [[[Hey! Have you ever read EXQUISITE CORPSE, by Robert Irwin??]]] > Ask Lucy, she know... > David ~MIND THE HARVEST~ I will put Chaos into fourteen lines And keep him there; and let him thence escape If he be lucky; let him twist, and ape Flood, fire, and demon --- his adroit designs Will strain to nothing in the strict confines Of this sweet order, where, in pious rape, I hold his essence and amorphous shape, Till he with Order mingles and combines. Past are the hours, the years of our duress, His arrogance, our awful servitude: I have him. He is nothing more nor less Than something simple not yet understood; I shall not even force him to confess; Or answer. I will only make him good. ~Edna St.Vincent Millay