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alexander, the crystal seer

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&spades art deco
&spades '20s german expressionism
&spades silent films
&spades film noir
&spades '20s & '30s delta blues
&spades '40s standards & bebop
&spades '50s cool jazz
&spades '60s mod, psychedelic & garage
&spades '70s ghetto grooves & funky jazz
&spades '80s post-punk, new & cold wave
&spades vinyl records
&spades vintage clothing
&spades red wine
&spades libraries
&spades dark & seedy bars
&spades dusty roads to nowhere
&spades city streets at night
&spades maps
&spades abandoned buildings
&spades lighthouses
&spades alter egos
&spades greek hexameters
&spades william carlos williams
&spades the thought of schopenhauer
&spades pre-raphaelite poetry
&spades the visions of blake
&spades the 1001 arabian nights
&spades the history of piracy
&spades torn & dispersed gods
&spades sufi mysticism
&spades the elegant words of borges
&spades indo-portuguese art
&spades baroque music
&spades the history of the byzantine empire
&spades romantic gardens
&spades catholic mystic poets
&spades sephardic music
&spades mexican morbid folklore

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My Blog

The Frontiers Of Self II

Imogen Cunningham, The Dream, 1910.Bound without.Boundless within.Cited by Williams Carlos Williams in A Nouvellete and Other Prose, 1921-1931....
Posted by alexander, the crystal seer on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:38:00 PST

The Other Side

Sergio Larrain. The "Isla Negra" house, Chile, 1957The more exquisite the thing seen, the more exquisite the thing unseen.Wallace Stevens, Letter to Hi Simons, 29 March 1943. ...
Posted by alexander, the crystal seer on Sat, 07 Jul 2007 10:15:00 PST

The Initial Idea

Gueorgui Pinkhassov,  1999From this the poem springs: that we live in a placeThat is not our own, and, much more, not ourselvesWallace Stevens, Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction, It Must Be Abstract...
Posted by alexander, the crystal seer on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 06:24:00 PST

The Frontiers of Self

Herbert List, Goldfish bowl, 1937 The existence of literature is the greatest evidence that life is not enough. Fernando Pessoa...
Posted by alexander, the crystal seer on Fri, 04 May 2007 01:48:00 PST

Imago Mundi

"> Raymond Depardon, Egypt, Western Desert. 1984 I think these days when there is so little to believe in - when the old loyalties - God, country, and the hope of Heaven - aren`t very real, we are mo...
Posted by alexander, the crystal seer on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 02:14:00 PST

Absence

Julia Margaret Cameron, Sadness, 1864Your fragrance,firewoodof melancholy.Carlos de Oliveira, Childhood [fragment]...
Posted by alexander, the crystal seer on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:31:00 PST

The Female Principle of the World

Edward Weston, Dead Man, Colorado Desert, 1937She   To make you lonesome, ready for my caresses.William Carlos Williams, De Soto and the New World, 1925...
Posted by alexander, the crystal seer on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:57:00 PST

Leaves of Grass

Dorothea Lange, Ditched, Stalled, and Stranded, San Joaquin Valley, California, 1935... Dante was to die in Ravenna, as unjustified and alone as any other man.Jorge Luis Borges. Inferno, I, 32. El Hac...
Posted by alexander, the crystal seer on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:25:00 PST

Blood and Earth

Emmet Gowin, Edith and Elijah, Pennsylvania, 1974The earth is black and it is there: only art advances.William Carlos Williams,  The Destruction of Tenochtitlan, 1925...
Posted by alexander, the crystal seer on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 06:57:00 PST

The Numerous Man of Sorrows and Days

 Julia Margaret Cameron, J.F.W. Herschel, 1867I, who've been so many men, have never been He in whose embrace Matilde Urbach spent.Gaspar Camerarius, Deliciae Poetarum Borussiae, VII, 16 [Jorge L...
Posted by alexander, the crystal seer on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 04:32:00 PST