with hidden noise http://withhiddennoise.net "One thing I've learned since I was born / that I must die since I was born" (Robert Filliou) Sat, 19 May 2012 07:50:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 2009 dbvisel@gmail.com (with hidden noise) dbvisel@gmail.com (with hidden noise) 1440 http://withhiddennoise.net/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg with hidden noise http://withhiddennoise.net 144 144 "One thing I've learned since I was born / that I must die since I was born" (Robert Filliou) with hidden noise with hidden noise dbvisel@gmail.com no no the sacred fount, reduced http://withhiddennoise.net/2012/05/19/the-sacred-fount-reduced/ http://withhiddennoise.net/2012/05/19/the-sacred-fount-reduced/#comments Sat, 19 May 2012 07:50:41 +0000 dbv http://withhiddennoise.net/?p=7238

“Gertrude Stein was a great reader. In novels, Henry James’s for instance, characters talk, and in their nuances lurk the subtlest intricacies of the author’s web. Imagine a text of a novel, say James’s The Sacred Fount (1901), from which everything has been extracted except the dialogue.”

(Guy Davenport, “Late Gertrude,” p. 189 in The Hunter Gracchus)

Following Guy Davenport’s suggestion, here’s a version of Henry James’s The Sacred Fount from which everything has been extracted except the dialogue. A print-on-demand version can be purchased at Lulu; or, download a PDF version for free.

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  • Buzz Poole, I Like to Keep My Troubles on the Windy Side of Things
  • Jerzy Kosinski, Steps
  • Elizabeth Smart, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
  • Diane Williams, It Was Like My Trying to Have a Tender-Hearted Nature
  • Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life, trans. Johnny Lorenz
  • Clarice Lispector, Água Viva, trans. Stefan Tobler
  • Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G. H., trans. Idra Novey
  • Enrique Vila-Matas, Dublinesque, trans. Anne McLean & Rosalind Harvey

Films

  • Tiny Furniture, dir. Lena Dunham
  • The Fly, dir. David Cronenberg

Exhibits

  • Whitney Biennial
  • “Frank Stella: Black, Aluminum, Copper Paintings,” L & M Arts
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  • Harry Mathews, The Conversions
  • James McCourt, Wayfaring at Waverly in Silver Lake
  • Teju Cole, Open City
  • Eugene Lim, Fog & Car
  • Robert Kelly, Kill the Messenger
  • Robert Walser, The Walk, trans. Christopher Middleton & Susan Bernofsky

Films

  • Habemus Papam (We Have a Pope), directed by Nanni Moretti
  • Ruggles of Red Gap, dir. Leo McCarey
  • The Two Mrs. Carrolls, dir. Peter Godfrey
  • Marguerite de la nuit, dir. Claude Autant-Lara
  • The Sound of My Voice, dir. Zal Batmanglij

Exhibits

  • “Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art,” Met
  • “Naked before the Camera,” Met
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  • Alan Singer, The Inquisitor’s Tongue
  • Massimo Bontempelli, Separations: Two Novels of Mothers and Children, trans. Estelle Gilson
  • João Fernandes, François Piron, Patrick Besnier & Annie Le Brun, eds., Locus Solus. Impressions of Raymond Roussel

Films

  • L’amour à mort (Love unto Death), directed by Alain Resnais
  • Melancholia, dir. Lars von Trier
  • Another Earth, dir. Mike Cahill
  • A Dangerous Method, dir. David Cronenberg
  • Giulietta degli spiriti (Juliet of the Spirits), dir. Federico Fellini

Exhibits

  • “Beryl Korot: Selected Video Works: 1977 to Present,” Bitforms
  • “Michelangelo Pistoletto: Lavoro,” Luhring Augustine
  • “Speakers’ Corners,” Eyebeam
  • “Mamiko Otsubo: Idea/Equivalent,” Horton Gallery
  • “John Evans: 1984,” Pavel Zoubok
  • “Guðjón Ketilsson: Extensions of the Head: sculptures & works on paper,” Luise Ross
  • “Iran do Espírito Santo,” Sean Kelly Gallery
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(Edmond & Jules de Goncourt, journal entry for 8 June 1863, trans. Robert Baldick.)

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(Edmond & Jules de Goncourt, journal entry for 10 December 1858, trans. Robert Baldick.)

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“Raymond Roussel is the most fortunate young millionaire of Paris. He has no handicaps.”

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  • Tommaso Landolfi, Gogol’s Wife & Other Stories, trans. Raymond Rosenthal, John Longrigg & Wayland Young
  • Tommaso Landolfi, Words in Commotion, and Other Stories, trans. Kathrine Jason
  • Tommaso Landolfi, An Autumn Story, trans. Joachim Neugroschel
  • Rachel Levitsky, Under the Sun
  • Harry Thurston, A Ship Portrait
  • Anne Carson, Glass, Irony & God
  • Edmund White, Jack Holmes & His Friend
  • Siddhartha Deb, The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India
  • Julio Cortázar, A Change of Light, and other stories
  • Alison Knowles, Spoken Text
  • Alison Knowles, Footnotes: collage journal 30 years

Films

  • Meek’s Cutoff, directed by Kelly Reichardt
  • Only Angels Have Wings, dir. Howard Hawks
  • Götter der Pest (Gods of the Plague), dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • La vie est un roman (Life Is a Bed of Roses), dir. Alain Resnais
  • On Approval, dir. Clive Brook
  • La piel que habito (The Skin I Live In), dir. Pedro Almodóvar

Exhibits

  • “Eugène Atget: Documents pour artistes,” MoMA
  • “Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration,” MoMA
  • “Print/Out,” MoMA
  • “Millennium Magazines,” MoMA
  • “Nomads and Networks: The Ancient Art and Culture of Kazakhstan,” Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
  • “Rembrandt and Degas: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” Met
  • “Spies in the House of Art: Photography, Film, and Video,” Met
  • “Natalie Czech: ‘I have nothing to say. Only to show.’ ” Ludlow 38
]]> http://withhiddennoise.net/2012/04/02/march-16-march-31/feed/ 0 (from canto li) http://withhiddennoise.net/2012/03/29/from-canto-li/ http://withhiddennoise.net/2012/03/29/from-canto-li/#comments Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:34:35 +0000 dbv http://withhiddennoise.net/?p=7168 12th of March to 2nd of April
Hen pheasant’s feather does for a fly,
green tail, the wings flat on the body
Dark fur from a hare’s ear for a body
a green shaded partridge feather
 grizzled yellow cock’s hackle
green wax; harl from a peacock’s tail
bright lower body; about the size of pin
the head should be. can be fished from seven a.m.
till eleven; at which time the brown marsh fly comes on.
As long as the brown continues, no fish will take Granham

(Ezra Pound, from Canto LI.)

]]> http://withhiddennoise.net/2012/03/29/from-canto-li/feed/ 0 a picture of savage life http://withhiddennoise.net/2012/03/29/a-picture-of-savage-life/ http://withhiddennoise.net/2012/03/29/a-picture-of-savage-life/#comments Thu, 29 Mar 2012 05:44:59 +0000 dbv http://withhiddennoise.net/?p=7165 “70. Beneventum was built by Diomede, the nephew of Meleager (Cluver, tom. ii. p. 1195, 1196). The Calydonian hunt is a picture of savage life (Ovid. Metamorph. l. viii.). Thirty or forty heroes were leagues against a hog: the brutes (not the hog) quarreled with a lady for the head.”

(Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. IV, chapter XLI; p. 646 in volume 2 of the Penguin edition.)

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