bluke bayou

Lost again to gain; recollecting clichés.

[bluke bayou @blukebayou]

“Writing and talk do not prove me,

I carry the plenum of proof and every thing else in my face,

With the hush of my lips I confound the topmost skeptic.”

Walt Whitman

[bluke bayou @blukebayou]

@GrundleGustave @drumm_colin "And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?"

Isaiah 8:19

[bluke bayou @blukebayou]

@GrundleGustave @drumm_colin yeah, but then I'd wonder why he wasn't clearer that it's *to reproduce* subjects who agree with you, not "that reproduce." I'm not convinced that those institutions produced subjects who agree but placed people together in particular alliances against itself

[bluke bayou @blukebayou]

@Sacrifice_Isaac I was surprised that Oedipus the King was my one of least favorite tbh

[Ill Will @illwilleditions]

New article by Phil A. Neel examining the post-2020 political order, arguing that liberal myths about law, elections, and restraint function as counterinsurgency in an era of open state violence.

https://t.co/DBBGdm972o

[bluke bayou @blukebayou]

My hands wait for tears, but my tears wait for you. Is it then your hand I await?

[bluke bayou @blukebayou]

Saying things that we want to be true is helpful only if we after saying it begin to believe.

[bluke bayou @blukebayou]

I am working on despising you less. It will require seeing your face more.

[bluke bayou @blukebayou]

The zeal of generative AI, of critical thought alone, of this chain of physical necessity, of ourselves animals, attempts to prophesy against the sacred history where the poet begins the chronology, against meter-making for the sake of meter, and will set whole realms on fire.

[bluke bayou @blukebayou]

We are entering an era where people who "know literature" credit the voice of poets, particularly Homer, though lingering in them all, to the same phenomenon of "generative AI" and that is, frankly, the same danger as historical materialism, is idolatry.

[bluke bayou @blukebayou]

labor has lead, we choose to credit nothing! We credit a fortune needless of praise! A position worthless of gratitude! A conclusion danceless! Now you see the temperament two truths divide us to. How would we in despair devoid of comfort be quick to spout spoil?

[bluke bayou @blukebayou]

“O sinewy silver biplane, nudging the wind’s withers!”

Crane, Cape Hatteras

[C. S. Peirce @CSPeirceSpeaks]

Signs, therefore, in this narrow sense are not treated of in logic, because logic deals only with general terms.

[bluke bayou @blukebayou]

The lines on victory were probably the strongest of the whole speech; truly beautiful

[bluke bayou @blukebayou]

Ok I did really enjoy the weight/wait line. not sure about the average tone, but I suspect the fault the cameras. the turning of Lincoln's phrase for New Yorkers was beautiful. The tension between calling each New Yorker a city and then dogging on individualism was interesting

[Frank O'Hara bot @oharapoems]

It is the law of my own voice I shall investigate.

[bluke bayou @blukebayou]

there's something about Hart Crane, surely severed from the man, that swiftly surges me to tears. it's him if anything I'm superstitious of

[Frank O'Hara bot @oharapoems]

for shame! What a host, so zealous!