Dear Ann and Badger Girl:
i have been blushing and humbled since reading these quickly inbetween a very busy weeknd
to think i have a pure soul and look like serge gainsbourg!
i am glad no one else noticed!
this way i can go along, incognito, incongruous--
to feel raw, simple--direct--to reach down into--or to reach out--
reading on the bus more of DADA SPECTRUM The Dialectics of Rveolt essays on the bus back and forth with text by the Third Patriarch of Zen
a fellow fluxlsiter gave me two books of this a year and half ago--
one is a translation by richard b. clarke ( white pine press: osaka, japan and amherst Ma, 1973, 84)
theother is a translation buy Fluxus Geogre Bercht accomapnied by facing interpretations by Dick Higgins; the book designed by Dick Higgins it is called THE AUTOBIOGRPAHY OF THE MOON
the original text is the HSIN-HSIN-MING by Seng-t'san (died 606 C.E.) Third patriarch of Zen
the two books very much make one aware of feels like "DaDao"--(Tao pronounced as Dao)--
(now i move from Zada to Zadadao?--from zero to infinity is not so far atl!--)
one of the essays in the dada spectrum is re some of the interconnections of dada and Zen--buddhisim--mysticism of both ball and hennings and also jean/hans arp--
there is also an intersting essay on New York Dada which goes into some of Willaim Carlos Willaims delaing s with dada and hjis own struggle to find an American writing--in the period of his early books you can find colected in IMAGINATIONS--the main one is SPRING AND ALL--the search in dada for aspects of the raw, the simple, the direct--(and has a reubuff at the unnamed Russian Futurist Zaum poets)--(says they are too close to music--which is what Fluxus came out of much at the start--or as Bob Cobbing would say off Sound Poetry: "we aspire to birdsong")--
It is interesting of late to me the unity of opposities, the oneness in a sense of contradictions--in dada--the word itself--Tao the word itselfl the Way--and in "primal words" a little essay by Freud--
ii think it is related to fluxus--the intersection, conjunction, of the ephemral and the eternal in a sense--(Baudelaire's definition of Modernism--)-towards Maciunas and the Eternal network--once again, one returns to Mail Art!--
thank you again, and a sip of splash of water--lopped leaped through the air towards the tongue--
david-baptiste
ps there are two sayisngs re vermont kind of corny but true at least when i grew up there--
"vermont is where you find it"
and "vermont is a state of mind"
the Tibetan Buddhist believe there are two sacred energy places in the usa--in vermont and in colorado--
Chugyam Trumpa first was in Vermont, then in colorado--i saw him once--he was on a dias eating pizaa drinking beer and chainsmoking cigatettes--it was a form of shock therapy i think for american buddhists to see--he said it was to better understand the american consciousness--
i kept wondering when they would bring i a tv and turn on a football game--why not take a stereotype al the way?--well, like the sheep herders of the 19th century when the american west was opening up, Trumpa moved to colorado--Vermont before the moves in the nineteenth century, had more people than today--until 1965 the Northeast Kingdom area of Vermont had no electircity--sort of the appalachia of the North!--and the street i grew up on was right on the applacahian trail--
no wonder Something Else Press was in Vermont! you see it all comes back to Fluxus!
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