Happy New Year Post
So it was New Year's and did you all enjoy yourselves I hope you did I'm glad you did or am I it's a terrible cliche and what do we hate more than being cliches living it up on New Year's Eve that social construction and if we do not celebrate we're snobs that's what we are elitists snobs or worse (both above and below) social outcasts muddled unfortunates or outside alien and is that not splendid to be above and below and outside at the same time it distinguishes us yes me and you and you and you the lot of us uncommon lot the mob entire but not like the old mob no that was the wrong one entirely we're in the right place now
And what's so wrong about a new beginning?
But are we not allowed to decide for ourselves, when to have the beginning, and how? A beginning every day, for instance - beginnings all the time. A life consisting of nothing but beginnings... Let's have nothing but beginnings... Nothing but beginnings...
Things are simple really. It is winter, and we are much in need of good cheer. Let us step across the threshold together; let us be together, for once. This is not weakness, this is not surrender, but simply graciousness, a joy in fellowship.
And that is how it begins. Insidious, is it not? The social construction
Who belongs, and who does not, that's all that matters, not what
I hate "New Year's". Happy New Year. (Late, as usual)
And what's so wrong about a new beginning?
But are we not allowed to decide for ourselves, when to have the beginning, and how? A beginning every day, for instance - beginnings all the time. A life consisting of nothing but beginnings... Let's have nothing but beginnings... Nothing but beginnings...
Things are simple really. It is winter, and we are much in need of good cheer. Let us step across the threshold together; let us be together, for once. This is not weakness, this is not surrender, but simply graciousness, a joy in fellowship.
And that is how it begins. Insidious, is it not? The social construction
Who belongs, and who does not, that's all that matters, not what
I hate "New Year's". Happy New Year. (Late, as usual)
posted by Cheshire Cat at 12:21 AM
7 Comments:
Did you know that 2007 is the year of the Fire Pig ?
Happy New Year.
oh I have been told my blog is too dark and yellow is a good colour now. We should all be Yellow. Narcissus. To be bright and shiny and hey, that's coherent prose here. So many beginnings and becomings....
what I really like about blogger is that it askes you to choose an identity when you are about to coment- oh dear, this is pretty meta...
Crp, "The Year of the Fire Pig" - great title for a Frank Kuppner poem?
Antonia, I like the darkness, it seems more honest somehow :) I can't think of beginnings any more without thinking of "If on a Winter's Night a Traveller". Books are bad that way, those frozen selves attempting to substitute for real thinking... But meta's good, "Metamorphosis" is my favorite story.
haha calvino is also so 'meta'. I really don't like Calvino,it is as if he restrains himself from somehting that could add somuch more to his writing.
yes you are right with the honest aspect of darkness. That's just that shallow unserious people that always demand brightside. People that when they visit me and ask me: oh you have many books, have you read them all and I say: these are the ones for today. There is no other answer to this or to this darkness-complaint, one always should answer with exaggeration. Everything to excess. And then Kafka. Oh dear, what a combination...
Kuppner... haven't read much by him but the title recalls to my mind another poet you had introduced me to -- the supremely funny James Tate.
okay, so how about more regular posts in this new year? :)
and your first paragraph is so Bernhard-ian!
Alt + 0233.
Letters are wanting to be written now.
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