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Sunday March 28, 2004 16:21

by iosaf mac diarmada (aka ipsiphi)(aka ignatius the indignant) - I also use in the Rennaisance & Joycean tradition various anagrams.

iosaf at europe dot com

barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Europe. Yet still an Irish citizen.

being my weekly contribution to the continuing tradition of Irish literature, "bizarre, odd& funny"

I have long noticed that on sundays I have more free time. I like to see my friends if I can, and share a cup of tea or coffee and reflect on how irrelevant we are to the world of the great.
If i can i listen to music and I also play it, and I think of poetry, the river of my nation which shall always be flowing into the universe.
Today I'm not going to be hysterical nor moved by the flows of emotion I have seen in my home (Spain) as the people have come to their own terms with what happened to us as an extended community. It is time I realised the potential of my own words to disturb, to confuse, and thus to be more _careful_.
Writers too often are no more than their readers' prejudices.

I am not going to joke this week, I am not going to refer to my previous texts concieved long ago in my egotism perchance as the vanguard of post Joycean post Beckettian Irish Literature built organically on a quotidien basis, with their jokes and conundra,
Rather today I shall continue the established habit of sharing words with others enjoying this new medium that we may all make the best of it and ourselves.
Allow us to make the best of it!

This week, I am not going to say anything of things that don't concern me, I'm not going to voice the confused feelings of a generation at the decisions made in our name.
I am not going to treat on politics, national (be they in the country where I live, or the country where I was born) or international (wherein both countries of my birth and residence play and have played such important, formative rôles).

I am not going to criticise, nor poke fun, nor even try and be clever. I am instead going to say how nice it is to see people relax on Sundays and how good it is to listen to music.
and:-

how good it is to be literate.
It really is good to be literate.

I am going to share some poets and writers with you, in the hope that you see that politics is not all there is to life, and that poetry and literature is one of the highest arts. Which is perhaps why Literature was one of the 5 prizes envisioned in Alfred Nobel's will.

I hope that the arts, of which many philosophers worried had died, in the last century will still find supporters amongst my generation and our elders and betters.

Irish writers online:-
http://www.irishwriters-online.com/refer.html
{([I am not there yet, but we still live in a system that judges culture as a product, both writing
and literature being taken to mean books, it is strange, our oldest writers came from an oral tradition, out oldest poets were heard rather than read, our newest writers have not been published "privately". Is it such a quantum jump to realise that Literature like Art like Sculpture is found outside the rarified halls of academia?])}

more Irish writers:-
http://islandireland.com/Pages/lit.html
under the quote:-
from Seamus Heaney.
(oh respect to you Sir!)

"The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap
Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge
Through living roots awaken in my head.
But I've no spade to follow men like them.
Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests.
I'll dig with it."
Seamus Heaney from his poem "Digging"

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lots and lots of writers in lots and lots of languages:-
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/ets/offsite.language.html

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/archives.html

online books, for you to read, for you to download, for you to enjoy.
There is nothing wrong with not enjoying TV, There is nothing wrong perhaps with enjoying it, we are many and varied surely there is enough room for many different types in our civilisation?
reclaim your culture, reclaim your civilisation. It is has been strange for me as a writer, to see how many people seek now to manipulate that word "reclaim". Some see in it, a useful tool to extend their political appeal, others see in it some clue to a superstitious pattern that honestly defies the human condition of free will, and insults the intelligence. Personally I have always liked the word. But I have now become tired of being associated with it though that was my choice.
Reclaim me!
Reclaim you!
Reclaim us!

-gets boring ¿no?

here is link to a french 19th century collection of literature, many of you being educated people, will have a sophisticated sense of humour, and have been exposed to multiple styles and types of book, poetry, comic, etc., but mostly in the English Language, the literature of France is so wonderful, please explore it:-
at
http://www.le-chateau.ilias.com/librai.htm
"La mémoire vive des grands auteurs"
"The living electronic memory of literature"

Here is website in the states, which draws links to the literature tradition of both the north American continent and Europe, including texts with English translations in Catalan | Danish | Dutch | Finnish | French | Galician | German | Greek | Irish | Italian | Latin | Norwegian | Old Norse & Icelandic | Portuguese | Romanian | Provençal | Spanish | Swedish
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.html

Go on Feed your head!
(as that lovely woman of Jefferson's Airplane sang; "some pills make you smaller some pills make you tall, but the ones that mother give you do nothing at all, go ask Alice when she's ten foot tall")

Other Women's Voices: Translations of women's writing before 1700
http://www.tl.infi.net/~ddisse/index.html
This website compliles translations of over 120 women writers, "women who produced a substantial amount of work before 1700." Each entry contains background on the author and that particular work, useful secondary sources and Internet sites. The site also offers information on how to obtain translations of these writings.

In Ireland every city has a gallery, and you will also find living art sold cheaply on the street, but even if you don't buy it, just look at it, and think "we are special that we may create".
with colour, with sound, with rhythm, with words.

I can not forget the literature of Italy, I ask that you too explore that.
and see its roots in Latin and Hellenic civilisation.
http://www.users.drew.edu/~jlenz/authors.html

the painting I had wished to use an illustration today is too big for the band, and the "organisation" which is indymedia.ie is a collective of people who decide policy openly and respond to each other, and they prefer to use what is deemed "our space" for publishing photos not available in the mainstream press, because perhaps we are not "mainstream people".
It was the school of Athems
by Raffaello Sanzio (1483-1520) Scuola di Atene. He was known and is known as "Rapheal". You may see the painting, which is a fresco measuring 770cm at base in either The Vatican City, Holy See of Rome or online at these links:-
http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/raphael/raf_ath4.html
http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/r/raphael/4stanze/1segnatu/1/athens.html
http://www.newbanner.com/AboutPic/athena/raphael/nbi_ath4.html
This is how he "Rapheal" imagined the school of Athens, how he chose to represent the school of philosophy. He wasn't there you know. He might have thought, "I am one of these", and perhaps was thought of "as one of them", but he wasn't, he was just an artist.
Berkeley the Irish Philosopher enchanted Borges with his musing that it is not the fruit that tastes, nor the tree, but the fruit upon the palatte.

So go to your galleries and look!

I publish this text in the "arts and media" section, because it is about "arts" and their place in our news-service, as "media", and whether we be, lefty or greeny, liberation theologist or commie, posh or not, this is our media, an ongoing experiment for all of us. I list is as "international" because I live in Spain and am read in Ireland.

Unfortuanately too many people have _read too much_ into these pages I have conitrbuted, which belies more about their insecurity or suspicion than my function as an artist, my purpose or my intent.

I wish all readers a good Sunday, a good week.

Being a writer is difficult at times, scraping experience from the cadevour of trembling emotions be they good or bad, always seeking to raise the human spirit and keep aflame - Memory.

Pero No Olvidem!
=
But We do not Forget!

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Comments (7 of 7)

be culture! be you!

by i did too many crosswords as a kid - ( Iosaf )

Sun Mar 28, 2004 16:49

let us be culture, we are culture.
we are the writers, poets, artists, intellectuals, historians, sculptures, dreamers, musicians, composers, painters, of a new generation building on the work of others.

Wikipedia is a collaborative project in documenting current events - new information, Wikipedia is a collaborative online encyclopedia project, mainly documenting old information.

Wikipedia invites indymedia users those who log on, read the pages, comment, join the lists and edit, or don't, to be a part of the continuing freedom of information, believing it to be the best way that this resource the "internet" may be used.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Guide_for_Indymedia_authors

we now have a copyleft symbol. I say "we" because I go to the page and see it, and think I agree, I share the sentiment.

yoURL

by Conor - SAucd

Mon Mar 29, 2004 09:56

yoURL gonna pay for it.

thank you Conor for your contribution to the text, & my contribution to the text today.

by i mac d

Mon Mar 29, 2004 19:31

you have consistently been of the characters who have taken part in the organic text.
On the 23rd day of october 1998 (?) correct me if I am wrong, (this is how you improve the the text) one of the Wu Ming collective gave an interview on a park bench in Rome, this was later re-published in the book "this revolution has no face" which reflected on the incidents leading up to and after Genoa 2001 (or was it 2000?), in which the aims of contemporary literature were put.
Basically that literature has always been a collective activity, and belongs rightly to no-one.
Wu Ming as you know means no-one in Cantonese as was used by the collective "Q" and those who later formed the collective "Luther Blisset". Rather like the work of the Rennaisance studios, a collective effort produced the most interesting ideas. I shall search out the interview details, they are all on the internet somewhere, so you can read the interview if you're interested, it was entitled "literary communism".

Of course it wasn't really "communism" @ all, just more valuing and relishing the joy of sharing and autonomous collective creativity.

Such a creative process suits well the world in which we live, and is not so different to the monthly recipients of a Dicken's novel or indeed the monthly recipients of Joyce's Finnegans Wake, who would feel quite proud of themselves for scribbling in the border of the text, thier thoughts, observations, disagreements, and thereafter leaving those for "posterity".

However such normal activity is prohibited in our modern library service, if you get a book out of the library you must normally return in exactly the same condition within two or four weeks, or
*you will pay a fine*.

Some of the oldest books relevant to our world were kept in the libraries of Bagdad, amongst which were counted at one stage the legandary cosmology of Ptomely a supposed exact copy of which fetched the highest price in auction ever ever, but ever in the late years of the 20th century, though this book was not a book as you used consider such things, (paper and binding) nor as now you consider it, (serialised constantly changing annoted, corrected cross referenced organic text via the internet) but rather a slab of baked clay.
Adobe to be precise.

I have no literary blog today nor political save to say is it not odd, that so many lefties in Ireland believeing themselves to be "there making a difference", and contributing such angry young and middle aged thought and rant to the IAWM amongst other organisations did not have the foresight to predict the voting turn in the French municipal elections.

That's sad for them. Now would be a good time to rethink the "hijab" and French education, because now, the extreme right in France have been contained.

I have always referred to the maxim
Do Not Play Chess Unless You See Checkmate.
The deconstructionalists amongst you will have found that maxim now four times in the indymedia.ie text, and once in the Bagdad indymedia text, and guess what... it was in the hardcopy text too. Of Which Conor will get one of the first copies.

:-)
happy blogging, reading and contributing.
Just imagine, you pay anything from 1€ to 9€ every Sunday for a pile of advertising and if lucky a magazine and maybe a "classic text", and yesterday for approx. 1€ public internet café download time, I showed you the offer of more than 1000 books for free.

Now there is something in that.
And yes you are right Bertie is very worried.
the PDs under Mc Dowell are going to declare a republic before Good Friday, Mammy Harney screaming fury and rvolution from the GPO, whilst FF have dropped "republican party" from their stationary and well Sinn Fein are Sinn Fein practised, used to it and going if I am correct a different kind of Greenie.

You will all eventually get what this about.

:-)
%-)
;-)

A blow against copyleft

by pat c

Mon Mar 29, 2004 19:57

(i think you wont object to this supplement to the sundays. good to see the CCP being pirated. pat c)

China's Communists Fall Victim to Piracy
Sun Mar 28,10:57 PM ET Add Strange News - AP to My Yahoo!

BEIJING - China's rampant copyright piracy has hit home for the ruling communists after police caught two people with 14,000 unauthorized copies of party handbooks.

The two books contain new rules on party relations with the Chinese public and are mandatory reading for the party's 68 million members, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

Police launched an investigation following a complaint by the party publishing house that illegal copies appeared on the market immediately after it issued the real thing in February.

A bookstore owner and a printer in the western city of Xi'an were caught and admitted printing copies because the books "have become best sellers and are profitable," Xinhua said.

The report didn't say whether any party members — who are supposed to be moral role models — tried to save money on their political obligations by buying pirated copies.

It didn't say what penalties the store owner and his printer might face.

China's thriving industry in product piracy churns out illegal copies of everything from software to DVDs of Hollywood movies to fake designer shirts.

Chinese leaders have launched repeated crackdowns, but foreign and Chinese manufacturers complain that violations are still widespread.

April Fools Day Thoughts.

Thu Apr 01, 2004 15:26

Uribe ¿did he read the parable of the foolish virgins and their oil?
http://www.presidencia.gov.co/sne/2004/marzo/31/02312004.htm
http://argentina.indymedia.org/news/2004/03/186496.php
apparently not...
He is grumbling about the workers again.

Neither Oil nor
Plastic will last forever.
It is a finite gift.

If you wish replenish it,
you need a very large lump of rock
to come from the sky above
and squash your geological strata,
such events are generally thought to
precede mass extinction.
But as you know scorpions
which even in chocolate do not taste good,
like cockroaches survive such things.

How many of you Jehovah Witnesses
& Mormons and so on and so on,
travel to work rest and play
&
door to door superstition in your car?
Sure even you couldn't live without your car could you?
And no he didn't look like that.
And the rapture thing? Tsk Tsk Tsk.
What means pride?
Does it breathe?

more foolish thoughts for day of fools -

Cork as we know is European city of culture in 2005, but will only get 60,000,000
for a music school in 2006.

oh and Gondolas do not eat.
and ministers of Justice want to be-s
are drug addicts

and I cooked Rice for lunch,
I am lucky.
I may eat more than 2000 kilo-calories a day.

and Pokemon aren't really worth points, no matter how many you collect.

and greys don't really care if you spell it grey or gray and they don't really look like that either.

and the Government of the United Kingdom trad. known as any Shinner knows "HMG", ra ra ra, has cancelled May Day.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/04/288324.html
This traditional holiday which passed from pagan antiquity to Marian Xianity to Libertarian Socialism to Centralised Socialism to thousands and I mean thousands of cute chinese gymnasts doing it for Mao, to Punky churchill has been cancelled.

Pity the gymnasts would have been cute.

But Tony who greatly enjoyed his french restaurant special of (what was it Tony???)
oh yes:-
artichoke heart, foie gras, rabbit mouse encased in finely clipped slivers of that fungus the pigs smell out what is it called, trouffle.
You really enjoyed them.
It was your little treat.
anyway But Tony has decided to cancel May 1.
there will now be a new calender.
(doesn't that creep you out you J witnesses)
[oh no, they're a changing the calander, the Beast is upon us, and there is no oil, and maybe the Ahmish were right! shit, oh shitty shit, I said shit!!!!)
drop me in the fishtank again.

I will be back for the fools later.
They are very easy to find.
We know their names.

these are not fools
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=64103
they are hippies on bikes.
hee hee hee
ho ho ho.

am I still an Irish citizen?

by O As If

Sun Apr 11, 2004 13:17

Cool, I'm going to marry africans.
terrible waste of marriage giving it those citizen rights to locals alone.
And the Kirk knows only the Kirk blesses a union.
So you know what to do...
Marry Africa. We have (we estimate)[and they used trust our estimates] over two million passports available to marry the poorer of our brothers and sisters.
Do it.

Was James Joyce an irish citizen till the end?

by arts and media and ephemera and miscellany. - the arts and media and ephemera and miscellany really totally effin muppeteers.

Fri Jun 04, 2004 23:57

eh?
Senator, Minister, & you fine men of Errrin.

Author: Jonathan Swift
Libertas et natale solum:
Fine words! I wonder where you stole ’em.

I then took a scissors and cut @ random
these tapes and cut @ rand thes tapes
and cut @ random these tapes.
Author W. Borroughs

Fuck off and write your own book, this is all plagiarism.
Author : Kathy Acker

great characters.

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