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having just read The Plains by Gerald Murnane, part VII of the chapter on immensity is appropriate: it traces artistic impressions of plains/deserts, poetics of featurelessness, dialectics of the horizon and the centre, etc... ideas very much relevant to Murnane's novel. Rilke: "The plain is the sentiment that exalts us." I wonder if Murnane read this book.
— Feb 20, 2017 09:34PM
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"The house is a bird's very person; it is its form and most immediate effort, I shall even say, its suffering. It is only obtained by constantly repeated pressure of the breast. There is not one of these blades of grass that, in order to make it curve and hold the curve, has not been pressed on countless times by the bird's breast, its heart, surely with difficulty in breathing, perhaps even with palpitations."
— Feb 17, 2017 06:16AM
