tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139185550151027390.post2906201356576750242..comments2024-01-31T01:39:02.006-08:00Comments on Vanitas Magazine: TC: Vistas of LimboVANITAShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10486783210928118377noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139185550151027390.post-29622868893402003832009-03-27T17:30:00.000-07:002009-03-27T17:30:00.000-07:00Thanks, Michael.Yes, that's the thing about brains...Thanks, Michael.<BR/><BR/>Yes, that's the thing about brains, always so insistently leading us toward conclusions, then, when we get there, always letting us see how we've been misled. <BR/><BR/>What's to be done?tcnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139185550151027390.post-36573489258869762082009-03-27T11:47:00.000-07:002009-03-27T11:47:00.000-07:00What a delightfully thoughtful and engaging post, ...What a delightfully thoughtful and engaging post, man. Makes me happy to have a brain, despite some of the conclusions...Lallyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05310472614196384595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139185550151027390.post-83176173935366293772009-03-20T18:13:00.000-07:002009-03-20T18:13:00.000-07:00Nora,Wonderful version of animula vagula, blandula...Nora,<BR/><BR/>Wonderful version of animula vagula, blandula! When I stand up your version up against all prior efforts--and naturally there is some pretty formidable competition--you come out brilliantly. Yet, knowing your skills, I am not entirely surprised. Certainly much less surprised, for example, than was Monsieur Marat, in his underestimating of the considerable skills possessed by Charlotte. Those in bathtubs, among others, ought never take too much for granted.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139185550151027390.post-65006215790068038112009-03-19T19:15:00.000-07:002009-03-19T19:15:00.000-07:00This reminds me of the Emperor Hadrian's 'animula ...This reminds me of the Emperor Hadrian's 'animula vagula blandula' (please pardon my clumsy translation):<BR/><BR/><I>Pale little vagrant soul,<BR/>my body's guest and friend,<BR/>where are you off to now,<BR/>pale, cold, and naked,<BR/>bereft the jokes we used to share?</I> <BR/><BR/>Though Charlotte Corday might be more likely to ask after her corpulus vagulus blandulus, from the sound of it.Norahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14439557611640319928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139185550151027390.post-55860031728970410332009-03-19T06:14:00.000-07:002009-03-19T06:14:00.000-07:00makes me think of Anton Lavoisier'sexecution 'blin...makes me think of Anton Lavoisier's<BR/>execution 'blinkings' as well<BR/>and all the wonderful-horrible lore of the revolution.. Darnton's books are good. I should read the Carlyle.<BR/>I've always liked him. <BR/><BR/>I love the title of Darnton's The Great Cat Massacre..<BR/><BR/>I always thought the wet nursing scandals that broke out before the rev sounded interesting as well<BR/><BR/>makes me think of pirates<BR/>nursing babies<BR/><BR/>thanks for replying!Phanero Noemikonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139185550151027390.post-11144553686574539882009-03-18T15:26:00.000-07:002009-03-18T15:26:00.000-07:00Lanny,Well, Charlotte's thoughtful expression seem...Lanny,<BR/><BR/>Well, Charlotte's thoughtful expression seems to have meant all sorts of things to all sorts of people. Perhaps she was still thinking about the thoughtful expression she had observed on the face of Marat, as, but a few hours earlier, she had, with one sure stroke, plunged a knife into his torso, piercing his lung, aorta and left ventricle. Then again, perhaps she was thinking about the laundry she had left undone.<BR/><BR/>Her final moments, as recorded/invented by Carlyle:<BR/><BR/>"At the Place de la Révolution, the countenance of Charlotte wears the same still smile. The executioners proceed to bind her feet; she resists, thinking it meant as an insult; on a word of explanation, she submits with cheerful apology. As the last act, all being now ready, they take the neckerchief from her neck; a blush of maidenly shame overspreads that fair face and neck; the cheeks were still tinged with it when the executioner lifted the severed head, to show it to the public."<BR/><BR/>The witness Forster reported that the executioner lifted the decapitated yet apparently still thought-possessed head from its basket and struck Charlotte's dead face in an insulting way; and for this insult, was arrested and imprisoned for three months. This evidence was amended by other witnesses who said that that the slapper was not the executioner but a spectator named Legros. Testimony is in agreement at any rate that there came over Charlotte's countenance an expression of "unequivocal indignation" when her dead cheek was slapped.<BR/><BR/>It would seem however that for Charlotte, mercifully, the thinking ended there. For she was shortly subjected to the further indignity of an autopsy, performed at the directive of Jacobins in search of evidence that she was not a virgin. To their dismay she was discovered to be virgo intacta. And this then gave rise to a good deal of further thought, though, apparently, none of it was Charlotte's. The poor thing had obviously by then suffered quite enough. But as for the rest of us...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139185550151027390.post-28978084612977975942009-03-18T07:41:00.000-07:002009-03-18T07:41:00.000-07:00dazed chords'cord dazeand coordinate daisydazed chords'<BR/>cord daze<BR/><BR/>and coordinate daisyPhanero Noemikonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139185550151027390.post-11833262377048813652009-03-18T07:39:00.000-07:002009-03-18T07:39:00.000-07:00i can't take issue with your separation of mind fr...i can't take issue with your separation of mind from ~<BR/>as its demoticism seems purely conversational, but it should do us wonders to conceive from time to time<BR/>of the natural and rather quaint von neumanism of footprints on the beach<BR/>and fossils coughed up by 'remembering'<BR/><BR/>the total isoiconism of everything<BR/>renders non-thinking thought and verse's vice or visceral's re:verse-al..<BR/><BR/>the head of charlotte corday<BR/>was also a nice touch<BR/><BR/>char.acter lots as chords<BR/>or character lotteries<BR/>as the rick and cords of <BR/>fuel<BR/><BR/>a nice sinnbild!<BR/><BR/>hurray for tc!Phanero Noemikonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354noreply@blogger.com