RE: a little JDS

Our posts intersect and we stand at the crossroads, maybe we can do some
soul business. The mystsic Rilke (that German Poet more precisly) kicked
the leg out from Seymour's apple bin and apples fell every which way. Even
Seymour's 'extrodinaireness' didn't equip him with picking them all back up
but he couldn't just stand there and watch them all roll away either. Buddy
on the other hand leaves a trail of lost apples everywhere he goes.
Hopefully none of the rest of the Glasses will slip on the peels. Kafka on
the other hand reveled in scattered apples and particularly bruised
scattered apples with worms. That last one was for you John O.
Daniel

> Only after a good dose of Rilke.

rilke, in the 'elegies', moved from despair to
affirmation. from a desire to emulate the
consciousness of the angels, to an embrace of earthly
life. (the crowning elegies are 7 & 9.)

and the post-elegy 'sonnets to orpheus' are even more
overtly affirming of life and a natural death.
suicide was not a rilkean solution. see the second
requiem to w.v.k. (not the 'requiem to a friend').

'being here is glorious.'

kim

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