German O.D. (or poetically-endowed German-fluent peep(s) needed)
From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, February 25, 2004, 20:12 |
Helfen!!!
I am bein' deluged (happily, not complaining) by a German from another
list whose poetic-_schwer_ language - even in translation to English - is denser
than _dick_ Weber & Schoenberg all rolled into Brecht and Beckett.
And I have read Weber' sociology texts in English translations, but this
takes the cake in terms utter "linguistic overload" (or O.D. - overdose).
I think it might be bit easier to get the original German from him and
have one of you more capable German-fluents ::mutters "masochist-types" under
breath:: deal with him... eh?
Geschmack und Prüfung der Enigma:
>I still feel I am rushing over your lines. I am not sure if you are aware
>of the compensation mechanisms within my glory of languaged heaps of
>inspiration. But that is subjective. I might be insighted with what you are
>brillianced in when I study the next muse-letter (there is no way for me in
>interlocking answers to questions without the moment of true grasp). To >end
our lovely conversation I may close with what lead Lucifer to fall in >love
with his self-awareness when he became a rebel to the Father: he >could through
the brilliance in that he appeared convince almost all >planetary princes to
follow his fallen leadership in the name of a "freedom >of mind and choice" in
invisible counterwork towards the ascension of the
>spiritually educated being itself. I was lucky to receive your light but I
>must leave you with that I do not recognize the stability of eternity within
>a longing to inspire our fellows with too much pressure, as I knew myself
>to do. This would have enabled us to study, as a loving services science, >the
true (cosmic) background (pervading meaning-bestowing of >attributing
philosophy concepts) for what made it necessary to be more >opened up than
technologies of mere minded circles, and, the >relationships that we have formed within
these non/tensions.
[...]
>By the way, I would love to receive personal letters only from you. I get
>too much gifts, you know, and there is already so much to study. I do not
>want to run into the danger to unfocus the global dust of information
>through the high numbers of valued information i am in decreasing.
---
Hanuman Zhang, _Gomi no seito/sensei_ [Student/Master of junk]
"To live is to scrounge, taking what you can in order to survive. So,
since living is scrounging, the result of our efforts is to amass a pile of
rubbish." - Chuang Tzu/Zhuangzi, China, 4th Century BCE
"The most beautiful order is a heap of sweepings piled up at random." -
Heraclitus, Greece, 5th Century BCE
"...So what is life for? Life is for beauty and substance and sound and
colour; and even those are often forbidden by law [socio-cultural conventions].
. .Why not be free and live your own life? Why follow other people's rules
and live to please others?..." ~Lieh-Tzu/Liezi, Taoist Sage (c. 450- 375 BCE)
"Taoism in a nutshell: Shit Happens. Roll with the Punches. Hang 10 - Go
with the Flow!" - anon. California surferBeatnik, c.1950's/1960's
Voices of the Past:
http://advancement.uark.edu/pubs/Research_Frontiers/fall_2001/05_Feature1.html
At its peak, the Tang Dynasty (618-906 CE) of China a mixture of cultural
influences were reflected in the music of the times.People traveled from
other countries, including Japan, Mongolia, India, Korea & Turkey, to learn about
the Tang culture.But the multi-racial, multi-cultural era waned at the end of
the Tang.China,one of the greatest cultural & military powers in history,
began to close in on itself, the rulers closed the country's borders - fearing the
destruction of their civilization.The rich, diverse music of the Tang, along
with that of the surrounding cultures, was lost or destroyed. Bits have been
found & the rest is theory & re-construction...
"The whole world of musics and instruments lives around us....I am
interested in a 'transethnic,' a planetary music." - Lou Harrison ("...Europe is a
region he called Northwest Asia...")
The power of education & culture to transcend social and political
differences is still largely untapped...
Proud to be a Race Trader! Race & Culture Mixin' is the Future!