5.7.2004
My God, my God, my whole weird life has pivoted on this hair's-breadth. I am not kidding, nay, not one bit.
The poetry of Shakespeare & the Bible drove me out of college into the wilderness. The poetry of the NY School got me into college (Ted Berrigan imitations : he grew up a couple miles from my alma mater).
Zen & the Art of Information Maintenance.
voice/text
art/knowledge
Gospel: Jesus (the Nazir - not the "Nazarene", but the Nazir,
the ecstatic singer-prophet) - speaking of the future, says,
offhandedly: "Knowledge shall increase." Oh, heart/mind.
Logos/pathos/ethos. Mimesis vs. analysis.
One
of the best books I've ever received was a gift from a
carpenter-photographer high school friend, who dropped out of college in
the early 70s & came to NY to get into the art scene: The Nazarene : Studies in New Testament Exegesis, by Eugenio Zolli, Univ. of Rome (publ. Herder, 1950). On the Hebrew/Aramaic context of the poetics of the parables.
http://hgpoetics.blogspot.com/2004/05/my-god-my-god-my-whole-weird-life-has.html
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I believe it isn't Jesus who says "knowledge shall increase." It's "a certain man clothed in linen" in the Old Testament Book of Daniel (12:4). He also has a body like beryl, a face like lightning, eyes like lamps of fire, etc. Not Jesus, at any rate. Unless I've forgotten a New Testament passage....
Yes, you're right! Thank you, Joseph!
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