Takin’ the Fall (and lovin’ it?)
I’m in the middle of the trial scene in Ivanhoe where they’re trying to get Rebecca to take the fall. It happens to all of us. She has beauty and truth on her side. Will they carry enough clout to save her? I also read my horoscope and some D& G.
Horoscope: Don’t censor yourself as you test the boundaries.
D & G are talking about Monsters. They see monsters as filled with potential. I think I’ve mentioned this before. They cast their net widely (or maybe wildly) in this chapter (chapter 3). It’s wonderful. I love when they get on a wordy roll and then say on page 47 “We’re a little lost now.”
Last night in my dream, there were a lot of gift exchanges. I visited a lot of different houses, climbed stairs and stood on front porches. Some of you had cameo roles. One of my gifts, near the end of the dream was an animal. After all, I love animals. This animal was a half monkey, half bird. The ‘package’ was a dog and the ‘bunkey’ had to be birthed out of the dog. Both the birth and the animal were wild and monstrous. I was filled with fear. I wanted to doubt the sincerity of the gift. I read its potential as a test or a cruel joke. But it wasn’t all about me, was it? I managed to turn my attention to the animal and I remember thinking about what it might need from me. The dream ended unresolved. Was this dream a test of my boundaries?
Repeat horoscope: Don’t censor yourself as you test the boundaries.
The dream was so disturbing and fascinating I’m not sure that I should even be remembering it much less writing it down but…
Repeat horoscope: Don’t censor yourself as you test the boundaries.
My friend N. was so surprised recently by the mix of inaccuracy and precision of her horoscope that she told me about it over the phone and then emailed it to me. We’re not even close to being the same sign. She thought hers was funny. I didn’t find mine funny at all. It seemed more like a safety rope or a hand rail and I’ve been gripping it all week as I gingerly negotiate. I’m just wondering if I should read the new horoscope that comes out today and covers the next week.
posted by Anne @ 8:45 AM
2 Comments:
I came across this statment in a book Sigmar Polke's Works on Paper 1963-1974 (from the MOMA)and thought you and D&G would dig this:
"...if there is anything at all that satisfies all the attributes of the artist: joy in innovation, creativity, spontaneity, productivity, creation out of one's very self, and so forth, - then it's the potato: as lying there in the dark cellar, with total spontaneity it begins to sprout, in sheer unquenchable creativity it innovates germ after germ, withdrawing completely behind its work it soon disappears behind its shoots and thereby creates the most wonderful constructions! And what colours!: the almost shivering icy-violet of the tips of the sprouts, the ephemeral, pale white of the shoots, sometimes showing an unearthly, suffering green and then the timeless, motherly, wrinkled-brown of the fruit consuming itself, - no, that is true creation.
Thanks O,
Trust Polke to make such an connection. O, the number of times I've cleaned out the potato bin and failed to notice this!
I'm also remembering how we once tried to grow potatoes in a vertical configuration - basically by building a six-foot tall garden out of crates and loading seed potatoes into the various levels. According to the plan (from a magazine), the potatoes were supposed to grow at all of the different levels and the plants would cascade out of the crates and create an amazingly high yield of potatoes per square foot. Plus look very cool. The harvest would come with the dismantling of the 'sculpture'. It didn't really work out that way. We got a few potatoes but it wasn't amazing by any means. Perhaps, if we had deviated from the plan...followed our own path...
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