Date: 2007-05-29 11:40 Subject: the truth content of revelation Security: Public

to his slight
annoyance before
Kierkegaard's
leap
Those united
together were anti-
intellectual intellectuals
excluding one
who did not pronounce the same credo
they repeated
to one another
they marked down
as their ethos
the New Testament
against the Pharisees
Even forty years later, a pensioned bishop
walked doubt about the
contemporary
possibility
of sacred music
dispensed from people
who do not toe the line
a subjective deviation
a putting-themselves-in-the-right
with the fear of reflecting their reflections
an abstraction
which cannot be eradicated from concepts
promised in sacrifice
in intellectual sacrifice
Heretics baptized this circle "The Authentic Ones."

Date: 2007-04-09 21:00 Subject: rondo Security: Public

Where thought has opened up
The dream of an existence without shame
Of a hundred alterations each may seem trifling
Between the desire
What is let pass as a minute
The prudence that restrains us
The dream of an existence without shame
If he succeeds in saying entirely what he means
Beauty of expression for its own sake
The most abominable clichés
‘But’ at each caesura
The dream of an existence without shame
Where thought has opened up

Date: 2007-04-05 12:12 Subject: Memento. –Reflections from Damaged Life Security: Public

A first precaution for writers:  No improvement is too small
irrelevant trivial begrudge deletions
trifling or pedantic by itself
vulgar coquetry
confined confined confined

A word is banal abominable utterly and completely for better or for worse
brackish swills aimlessly dammed up caesura.  The thicket is no sacred grove.

The Echternach dancing procession is not the march of the World Spirit;<sup>1
1. Echternach is a town in Luxemburg, whose dance procession at Whitsun advances in a movement of three steps forward, and two steps backward.</sup>
tight, concentric, transparent, well-spun
and firm

Metaphors flitting
creatures of the air
winging towards them

The soundness of a nourishing
prey conception
Where one cell of reality penetrate the next

idly warm conducive strokes
them affectionately re-arranges ruins them conducive
to clarify all difficulties
Between esoteric complacency
and complacency

objection text
degradation
as he trundles papers, books,
pencils, documents untidily
from room
to room
to room

content or irritable disorder
as his family once did, refuse and lumber
and to eliminate

to drift along idly
to generate the warm
to part from left-overs
to the object to glow

Of a hundred alterations

and the fear
is paper

A first precaution for writers:
drink the lees of poverty eat the last crumbs
Otherwise, one is suspected
of richness
and vigour.

Date: 2007-04-03 13:34 Subject: Music and Language: A Fragment Security: Public

Music a language

Music the resemblance
to language
essential, but vague

Music a language
seriously misled

Music
a language
a temporal sequence
of articulated sounds
which are more than just
sounds

Music a
theological
dimension
is de-
mythologized
prayer, rid of
efficacious
magic

Music the language
of Swinburne or Rilke

Music a medium
facing shipwreck
sent

on an odyssey
of unending mediation in order
to bring the impossible back home

Music the summation
of such a transcendance

Music doomed as ever

Music becomes

Music

becomes meaningful

the more perfectly
by distancing itself

from fulfilment.

Date: 2007-03-27 14:44 Subject: Estrangement Security: Public

In the clock's over-loud
ticking we hear the mockery
of light-years for the
span of our existence

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic
Newness only becomes mere evil
in its totalitarian format

Running in the street conveys
an impression of terror

In the clock's over-loud
ticking we hear the mockery
of light-years

and the straining face grimaces
as if under torture
The world is systematized horror

shiver a bit
hit out at speculation
kill common sense

Estrangement shows itself
precisely in the elimination
of distance between people

Date: 2007-03-19 08:52 Subject: Into Being Security: Public

the immutable would be
the transient [Schein]
would be sanctimonious prattle,
be it ever so washed-out,
out of their fate,
the eternity of annihilation
unmanageable vis-à-vis
the Kantian one
What the Spirit once boasted
affirmatively posited
transcendence, to a mockery
concordant with its course
While the Fascists thundered against destructive
cultural Bolshevism, Heidegger made destruction
respectable
as the institution
of penetrating into
being.

Date: 2007-03-14 12:27 Subject: after Auschwitz Security: Public Tags: poetry after auschwitz

the wholly enlightened earth is radiant with triumphant calamity.

historically changing constellation of aspects

in the eternity of annihilation
the theodicy the visible catastrophe
with the murder of millions through administration
as deviations from the concept of their complete nullity
would no longer be anything to really be afraid of
principium individuationis

What the sadists in the camps told their victims:
tomorrow you will be smoke rising from these chimneys into the sky,
names the indifference of the life of every individual,
which history is moving towards
Perennial suffering has as much right to express itself
as the martyr has to scream;

this is why it may have been wrong to say
that poetry could not be written after Auschwitz.

Date: 2007-03-13 14:43 Subject: gestures of the jitterbug Security: Public

the tendency toward self-caricature
by the gaucheries of the jitterbugs
denounces

even while pretending
He mocks himself
as if he were secretly hoping
for the day of judgment.

His bad taste, his fury,
his hidden resistance,

his insincerity, his latent contempt
for himself, everything is cloaked

by "humor" and therewith
neutralized.  No one enjoys a joke
he has heard a hundred times.

There is an element of fictitiousness
under a spell of his own making
the spineless lot of fascinated insects

They need their will
something is "phony" with their pleasure.

which dog
its every step.

Date: 2007-03-13 11:53 Subject: Ambivalence, spite, fury Security: Public

"escape"
a veil of flimsy rationalizations
to be scrutinized

in order to throw some
light upon
what may be called

the obsolete modern

The "craze" contains
or frenzy within itself
the latent possibility of fury

it is known as "corniness"
no matter how "hot" it is
in itself

with the smug feeling
such as a sixteenth on the down beat
with a subsequent

dotted eighth
They shield their preferences
from any imputation

that they are manipulated.
Nothing is more unpleasant
than the confession of dependence.

join the vaguely realized conspiracy
since it allows them to be
voluntarily cheated.

Passivity alone is not enough.
Its commodity-character,
a jitterbug jamboree

of such unilateral acceptance
Simply relinquishing resistance
of the inescapable

Enthusiasm for popular music
requires wilful resolution by listeners
who must transform the external order to which they are subservient

into
an internal
order.

Date: 2007-03-13 08:47 Subject: The social cement Security: Public

Music today is largely a social
cement.

two major socio-psychological types of mass behavior

rhythmically obedient
emotional

the so-called radio generation
They are most susceptible to a process of masochistic adjustment to authoritarian collectivism.
The adjustment to anthropophagous collectivism

the underlying, unabating
time unit of the music — its "beat"
Thus do the obedient inherit the earth.

one very characteristic feature: that of disillusion
among them Stravinsky and Hindemith
The renunciation of dreaming
The cult of the machine
which is represented
by unabating jazz beats

For the machine is an end in itself
where men are appendages
of the machines on which they work.
fetishism of the machine

consume music in order to be allowed to weep
catharsis for the masses
"Come and weep, my child."

Date: 2007-03-12 09:00 Subject: Basic Principles of Night and Day Security: Public

The basic principle behind it is that one need only repeat something until it is recognized in order to make it accepted.
one need only repeat something until it is recognized in order to make it accepted.

the transformation of repetition into recognition
and of recognition into acceptance

The components we consider to be involved are the following:
a) Vague remembrance.
b) Actual identification.
c) Subsumption by label.
d) Self-reflection on the act of recognition.
e) Psychological transfer of recognition-authority to the object.


tune is reminiscent of the general pattern
aboriginal prerequisite for this feeling
incessant stream of popular music

appearance of being novel
ever-impending peril
as it always was

"that's the hit 'Night and Day'."
collective experience
vicarious part in the institution

"Oh, I know it; this belongs to me."
(add tiny up-beat notes which sound as though they whipped or teased the melody
Their pleasure in possessing the melody takes the form of being free to misuse it.
Their behavior toward the melody is like that of children who pull a dog's tail.
They even enjoy, to a certain extent, making the melody wince or moan.)
The individual who feels drowned by the stream of music

This is the tendency to transfer the gratification of ownership to the object itself and to attribute to it, in terms of like, preference, or objective quality, the enjoyment of ownership which one has attained.
delusion of grandeur comparable to a child's daydream about owning the railroad
"any copying of the words or music of this song or any portion thereof makes the infringer liable to prosecution under the United States copyright law"