provides a treasure trove of practical techniques and ingenious approaches. In this captivating guide, noted artist
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June 27, 2008
Slipping Glimpsers, Loafers & Dingledodies
“We must reserve a back shop all our own, entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.” – Michel de Montaigne
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“All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)” --Gerard Manley Hopkins
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“Be out of sync with your times for just one day, and you will see how much eternity you contain within yourself.” – Rainer Maria Rilke [cf. Whitman, “I loafe and invite my soul.”]
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“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.” Emerson
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“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)” -- Whitman
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“In life, never do as others do…. either do nothing, just go to school, or do something nobody else does.” --Gurdjieff’s grandmother to him, on her deathbed. -- Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson
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“But then they danced down the street like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I’ve been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue center light pop and everybody goes “Awww!” – Jack Kerouac
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“Y’know the real world, this so-called real world,
It’s just something you put up with, like everybody else.
I’m in my element when I am a little bit out of this world.
Then I’m in the real world – I’m on the beam.
Because when I’m falling, I’m doing all right;
When I’m slipping, I say, hey, this is interesting!
It’s not when I’m standing upright that bothers me;
I’m not doing so good; I’m stiff.
As a matter of fact, I’m really slipping
Most of the time, into that glimpse.
I’m like a slipping glimpser.
--Willem de Kooning
Posted by Jane on June 27, 2008 7:59 PM
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How I needed a shot of a Jane Freeman blog--way overdue! I'd been trying to keep up, complete lists, follow through . . . all I can say is, "Phew!" And, "Thank You!"
Posted by: Claudia Cassel at August 8, 2008 12:11 PM
