[Two-legged triangles are walkers. They are the walkers-along-with, or the walkers-by-the-way-of. They are, sure, basically any three things that are fine to have thought over the week, but considered together, new shapes maybe occur. Death to the Venn! This is step one.]
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‘No Drama House’ by Jean-Pascal Flavien; it’s the good old: I have some imaginary problems; I have a real solution.
His problems:
– there is no door on the first floor
– there is some kind of door on the second
– it is very thin and very narrow
– all power outlets are located on the first floor
His answer:
(Sidebar: In the sleuthing through the wiki-entry to ‘problem,’ I have my favorite moments. “The term ‘issue’ is widely and wrongly used as a substitute for the word ‘problem.’ This use is believed to have originated in corporate communications where ‘problem’ is deemed to be too negative.” And, “In rock climbing a problem is a series of rocks that forces the climber to climb.”)
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Today I was reading the good poem, my cadastre by Uljana Wolf (trans. Nathaniel Otting), and inside my copy (www.norbypress.com) I found a little strip that says “liebe leser: f??r leibe lese liebe”.
How nice to get a strip of German in a book, sure. But I like the looking at these words quite a real lot–haven’t looked them up yet–; they pre-state and iterate something really good in the poem. It’s the folding over, something just more than gravity, an equality of surface and internal tensions. Like this:
It doesn’t make much sense to excerpt the poem here since it is in eight short parts and the most of the poem is the recycling of its own momentum. Better, I suppose, to see the first two lines of parts I, II, and, say, VI:
from
“meine v??ter/ sind einfache manner”
to
“meine v??ter/ sind keine einfachen manner”
to
“meine m??nder/ sind einfache t??chter”.
See?
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The MLA, the expensive to my students Penguin Handbook says, has finally coded for the world of paper-writers, “No need to underline anything anymore.” Finally. But really, who has been underlining things but Kyle, the friend with the typewriter still?