It's been hard to tell whether it is my primed sensor curtain quivering or my hallucinating fearful self constantly watching the curtain, tense, sensing possibly each possible possibly a quiver, of whatever it is primed to sense, I forget after a while.
Anyway if you look at one thing long enough it seems to tremble, as though it notes your glances and gets shy a bit. Pure things like some animals, when they are mentally unwell (for example) don't think to disguise the signs that occur. We do. Not just for that example (mentally unwell), for any state you can think of, you can find an example among the human horde that shows disguising of that state. It is not worth providing examples of this. Just ruminate for 10 seconds.
But in any case things quiver, they shake, just as 50s rock and roll predicted.
It's sort of stupid but one of the first things I mentioned (over-excitedly) once reunited with wife woman was that constantly quivering hook in ILL SEEN ILL SAID by mr.Beckett (first of all I described escaping the shower etc) I thought it was important at the time (the hook, or a key?). Because, but, of course it isn't important yet after the 11th March afternoon there was a constant sway and quiver in all experience.
I found just today there is something called "disembarkment syndrome" or, as wikipedia says grandly: Mal de debarquement
I experienced my very first nose bleed after the 11th March. But all sorts of weird stuff was going on, rumbles of no source in the night, a sudden mouse presence, a highly strung cat doing circuits of our housing black (he/she continues); recently I have seen some raccoons foraging in the nearby gardens.
But we proceed lucky through the swathe happened above us in terms of the earth's surface where there happened right on there absolute displacement; I can't think how they will manage the earth after all that. (with toughness I suppose)
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Look , here is a song, it is a cover, of a song, by aihiyo a now inactive haino keiji band, they just did covers. This is a cover of a 70s pop-type (is it pop) song by a japanese singer called "peter" (is he called peter? - or ピーター?YES) and it is more like enka, than pop, or is it inbetween, and the singer is a man who prefers to be a woman here is it on youtube / as link/
here is the aihiyo (哀秘謡)version, turn the bass up if you can,that is where the ghosts are.
lovely hesitance before the chord, as it were . . . & voice asserts bass reverb presence. The subtle hidden snap assertive drums! The chorus switch part (if there is one) is so funereal, and just like you would think something would sound like, having the title "between night and morning" ... then there is a reassertion of the song (2nd verse,we would otherwise say), and surely the rhythm which is as something falling down very elegantly has seeped into your listener being . . . and the final chorus lone assertion that continues into fade and silence. (buzz of amplified instruments recreates lonely night alone silent sounds, don't they?)
eve ↔ morn , march 24th,25th
・・・ have pity on the dead, pray for the dead ・・・
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Coincidence yes (and an unimportant and more or less meaningless one), but I am currently reading The Box Man by Kobe Abe, after which I intended to read The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima. I still may do this, so the tense was perhaps not correct there. These are 2 of the 12 books I brought with me for my mountaintop exile.
ReplyDeleteThe radio speaks of Chernobyl and Three Mile Island. I have been near the former but not the latter (not too near, however, my time in Ukraine having been spent mainly in south west).
my uncle fell from grace with the sea, and also from nuclear power.
ReplyDeletenow the sea is falling from grace with the sea. according to news reports. irradiant.
that book though is pretty nasty (the sailor who...etc) perhaps you need something more gentle for your exile.
someone I knew once who was very into mishima -- he was also very into bondage and erm penis manipulations or uh adjustments...?
so you must be damned careful
I believe there was an earthquake here, just now. The mountaintop shook. Not very long or particularly strong though. This island has many slight earthquakes throughout the year. Sometimes these are of mildly significant strength. Once I was swimming underwater looking at fish in the rocks when one took place, a most disorientating and wonderful experience.
ReplyDeleteproceed with undue haste to the panic stations! You can panic buy on the way! quick!
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