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!
s>From: Ann Klefstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: FLUXLIST@scribble.com
>To: "FLUXLIST@scribble.com" <FLUXLIST@scribble.com>
>Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: what did you sip today?
>Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 14:49:18 -0600
>
>Ah but mısieu chirot has the purest of souls.
>
>On 2/4/05 2:44 PM, "badgergirl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> > David B/C:
> >
> > As you bear a striking resemblance to Serge Gainsbourg,
I'm quite taken aback
> > to hear you grew up in Vermont.
> >
> > Vermont must be more louche than I imagined.
> >
> > BG
> >> >
> >> > From: "David-Baptiste Chirot"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> > Date: 2005/02/04 Fri PM 02:51:12 EST
> >> > To: FLUXLIST@scribble.com
> >> > Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: what did you sip today?
> >> >
> >> >
> >
> >
> > home made blue flame coffee
> >
> > home squeezed grapefruit juice
> >
> > i have a hankering to drink in some of thew snow melt
trickling gaily down the
> > streets towards pooling puddles-
> >
> > yet is the city--
> >
> > so --better no to to! yet the desire doesn't
go away--
> >
> > growing up in vermont we'd drink freely of this melt, so
cool and fesh and
> > smelling slightly of pine . . .
> >
> > ]
> >
> >> >From: Cecil Touchon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> >Reply-To: FLUXLIST@scribble.com
> >> >To: FLUXLIST@scribble.com
> >> >Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: what did you sip today?
> >> >Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 22:57:45 -0600
> >> >
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> >> >port wine and cavier
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