Thursday, June 6, 2013
what dreams may come
Jessica Duchen is a rather neat person. She also has an aesthetic sensibility. That unusual condition can sometimes cause a special dream to happen.
In fact, I can imagine an unwritten Jessica character appearing in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain. At the Davos sanitarium, she is sitting for breakfast at one of the dining hall tables. Hans Castorp, at another table, overhears her telling about last night's dream:
"Has anyone seen my dream aria?"
about SWANN'S WAY
"Surrender to Proust"
This:
"Knowing that you are reading a work of genius, it is difficult to recognize that Swann’s Way is strange."
And this:
"Proust goes on to explain that, 'Swann had regarded musical motifs as actual ideas, of another world, of another order, ideas veiled in shadows, unknown, impenetrable by the human mind, which none the less were perfectly distinct one from another, unequal among themselves in value and in significance.'”
Also:
"For this reason, reading Swann’s Way can feel like falling into a dream. Pages will drift by light as ether. You sometimes forget you are reading. You get lost in the stories, the memories."
IN ABSENTIA -- the Brothers Quay
First, a word about the Brothers Quay, who are filmmakers. They are interested in Polish and Czech stuff. They are interested in the surreal, the aesthetic, the literary, the rapturous, the forlorn, the nightmarish. They've made things inspired by the writer Bruno Schulz and by the composer Leoš Janáček. Bravo! Someone needs to be thinking about this gloriously deep shit.
Emma Hauck (1878 - 1920)
She was confined to a mental asylum in Heidelberg. She wrote letters to her non-visiting husband. Sheets of paper on which the phrase "sweetheart come" is overwritten dozens of times. Until the sheets are nearly illegible:
This film is a tribute:
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