December 16, 2006

• Wake Speech

  Cubism¹ as Multispeech²

  

  – From Pedagogy, Praxis, Ulysses

  A quotation omitted from the above excerpt:

  In Ulysses, there is “… the same quality of simultaneity as in cubist collage. Thus, for
  example, Bloom surveys the tombstones at Paddy Dignam’s funeral and, in
  the midst of platitudinous and humorous thoughts, remembers Molly
  ‘wanting to do it at the window’….”

  Related material from quotations at the poetry journal
  eratio:

  “The
  guiding law of the great variations in painting is one of disturbing
  simplicity.  First things are painted; then, sensations; finally,
  ideas.  This means that in the beginning the artist’s attention
  was fixed on external reality; then, on the subjective; finally, on
  the intrasubjective.  These three stages are three points on a
  straight line.”

  – Jose
  Ortega y Gasset (“On Point of View in the Arts,” an essay on the development of cubism)

  Related material on
  tombstones and windows:

  Geometry’s Tombstones,
  Galois’s Window, and
  Architecture of Eternity.

  

  See also the following part
  of the eratio quotations:

  
  
  Quotations arranged by
  Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino

  ¹ Or hypercubism: See 10/31/06.

  ² Or “Wake” speech: See 10/31/05.

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