Guest StuCotts Posted August 16, 2008 Posted August 16, 2008 Adam! You've made yourself so scarce of late. Just playing hard to get? Spending the summer wandering lonely as a cloud? Or communing with the murmuring pines and the hemlocks? This thing I keep weaving and unweaving is getting to look shopworn. Quote
Members Lucky Posted August 16, 2008 Members Posted August 16, 2008 If you were in New York with Andre on your arm, would you bother to spend time here? Quote
AdamSmith Posted August 16, 2008 Posted August 16, 2008 Reporting in. Mad scrabble for the dollar has been a time sink of late. But in the service of paying for play! E.g., as noted, this past week’s visit with Andre in NYC. Now prostrate, recovering from the radiation burns therefrom; and propelled back in mind to this from last summer… http://www.maleescortreview.com/forum/inde...c=1672&st=0 . . . but not in the elegiac strain this time. Instead, high summertime as trope of the ultimate fulfillment. . . . arrested peace, Joy of such permanence, right ignorance Of change still possible. Exile desire For what is not. This is the barrenness Of the fertile thing that can attain no more . . . . . . Not evocations but last choirs, last sounds With nothing else compounded, carried full, Pure rhetoric of a language without words. Things stop in that direction and since they stop The direction stops and we accept what is As good. The utmost must be good and is . . . The goal, sought with A, may be very nearly achieved. Quote
Guest StuCotts Posted August 16, 2008 Posted August 16, 2008 If you were in New York with Andre on your arm, would you bother to spend time here? Arm? That aside, I don't think Andre is scheduled to be here yet. Am I remembering wrong? Having just read the apposite post, I guess my memory was off. I sense the reunion was successful. I also sense my description is wan. Quote
AdamSmith Posted August 16, 2008 Posted August 16, 2008 Arm? Well... That aside, I don't think Andre is scheduled to be here yet. Am I remembering wrong? He has been in NYC all this week. Leaves tomorrow for Boston. Make haste! Quote
Guest StuCotts Posted August 16, 2008 Posted August 16, 2008 Well...He has been in NYC all this week. Leaves tomorrow for Boston. Make haste! I couldn't! I say that at the risk of revealing one of my few but meaningful hangups. These posts that cross each other in the ether are kind of fun. Quote
AdamSmith Posted August 16, 2008 Posted August 16, 2008 These posts that cross each other in the ether are kind of fun. Viz. the recurrent images of things crossing that Hitchcock weaves throughout "Strangers on a Train"? Quote
Guest StuCotts Posted August 16, 2008 Posted August 16, 2008 Viz. the recurrent images of things crossing that Hitchcock weaves throughout "Strangers on a Train"? Leave it to you to think of it. Quote
AdamSmith Posted August 17, 2008 Posted August 17, 2008 Leave it to you to think of it. Someone has to! (Belated echo of all the examples of chiasmus -- 'crossing' -- that resound through English & American Romantic poetry. From just about everything in Wordsworth; to Crossing Brooklyn Ferry; to just about everything in Dickinson; ditto Emerson in verse & prose, Hart Crane, the Sage of Hartford, &tc, &tc. Hitchcock is just absolutely one of the divines. But I digress.) Quote
