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  1. Happy #Caturday!

    T.S. Eliot's 1939 collection of whimsical light poems, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, is entirely dedicated to felines and served as the basis for the musical Cats.

    #poetry #poem #kitty #cat #cats #poet #eliot #tseliot #catsOfMastodon #books #reading #literature #bookstodon @bookstodon #books #books #booksky #booktok #bookwyrm #bookstagram #feline #today #cartoon #catsOfFediverse

  2. Happy #Caturday!

    T.S. Eliot's 1939 collection of whimsical light poems, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, is entirely dedicated to felines and served as the basis for the musical Cats.

    #poetry #poem #kitty #cat #cats #poet #eliot #tseliot #catsOfMastodon #books #reading #literature #bookstodon @bookstodon #books #books #booksky #booktok #bookwyrm #bookstagram #feline #today #cartoon #catsOfFediverse

  3. Happy #Caturday!

    T.S. Eliot's 1939 collection of whimsical light poems, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, is entirely dedicated to felines and served as the basis for the musical Cats.

    #poetry #poem #kitty #cat #cats #poet #eliot #tseliot #catsOfMastodon #books #reading #literature #bookstodon @bookstodon #books #books #booksky #booktok #bookwyrm #bookstagram #feline #today #cartoon #catsOfFediverse

  4. Happy #Caturday!

    T.S. Eliot's 1939 collection of whimsical light poems, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, is entirely dedicated to felines and served as the basis for the musical Cats.

    #poetry #poem #kitty #cat #cats #poet #eliot #tseliot #catsOfMastodon #books #reading #literature #bookstodon @bookstodon #books #books #booksky #booktok #bookwyrm #bookstagram #feline #today #cartoon #catsOfFediverse

  5. Happy #Caturday!

    T.S. Eliot's 1939 collection of whimsical light poems, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, is entirely dedicated to felines and served as the basis for the musical Cats.

    #poetry #poem #kitty #cat #cats #poet #eliot #tseliot #catsOfMastodon #books #reading #literature #bookstodon @bookstodon #books #books #booksky #booktok #bookwyrm #bookstagram #feline #today #cartoon #catsOfFediverse

  6. π΄π‘π‘Ÿπ‘–π‘™π‘’ 𝑒̀ 𝑖𝑙 𝑝𝑖𝑒̀ π‘π‘Ÿπ‘’π‘‘π‘’π‘™π‘’ 𝑑𝑒𝑖 π‘šπ‘’π‘ π‘–: π‘”π‘’π‘›π‘’π‘Ÿπ‘Ž
    πΏπ‘–π‘™π‘™π‘ŽΜ€ π‘‘π‘Žπ‘™π‘™π‘Ž π‘šπ‘œπ‘Ÿπ‘‘π‘Ž π‘‘π‘’π‘Ÿπ‘Ÿπ‘Ž, π‘šπ‘’π‘ π‘π‘œπ‘™π‘Ž
    π‘…π‘–π‘π‘œπ‘Ÿπ‘‘π‘œ 𝑒 π‘‘π‘’π‘ π‘–π‘‘π‘’π‘Ÿπ‘–π‘œ, π‘ π‘‘π‘–π‘šπ‘œπ‘™π‘Ž
    𝐿𝑒 π‘ π‘œπ‘π‘–π‘‘π‘’ π‘Ÿπ‘Žπ‘‘π‘–π‘π‘– π‘π‘œπ‘› π‘™π‘Ž π‘π‘–π‘œπ‘”π‘”π‘–π‘Ž π‘π‘Ÿπ‘–π‘šπ‘Žπ‘£π‘’π‘Ÿπ‘–π‘™π‘’.

    T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land
    Traduzione di Mario Praz

    #poesia #aprile #Eliot #TSEliot

  7. π΄π‘π‘Ÿπ‘–π‘™π‘’ 𝑒̀ 𝑖𝑙 𝑝𝑖𝑒̀ π‘π‘Ÿπ‘’π‘‘π‘’π‘™π‘’ 𝑑𝑒𝑖 π‘šπ‘’π‘ π‘–: π‘”π‘’π‘›π‘’π‘Ÿπ‘Ž
    πΏπ‘–π‘™π‘™π‘ŽΜ€ π‘‘π‘Žπ‘™π‘™π‘Ž π‘šπ‘œπ‘Ÿπ‘‘π‘Ž π‘‘π‘’π‘Ÿπ‘Ÿπ‘Ž, π‘šπ‘’π‘ π‘π‘œπ‘™π‘Ž
    π‘…π‘–π‘π‘œπ‘Ÿπ‘‘π‘œ 𝑒 π‘‘π‘’π‘ π‘–π‘‘π‘’π‘Ÿπ‘–π‘œ, π‘ π‘‘π‘–π‘šπ‘œπ‘™π‘Ž
    𝐿𝑒 π‘ π‘œπ‘π‘–π‘‘π‘’ π‘Ÿπ‘Žπ‘‘π‘–π‘π‘– π‘π‘œπ‘› π‘™π‘Ž π‘π‘–π‘œπ‘”π‘”π‘–π‘Ž π‘π‘Ÿπ‘–π‘šπ‘Žπ‘£π‘’π‘Ÿπ‘–π‘™π‘’.

    T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land
    Traduzione di Mario Praz

    #poesia #aprile #Eliot #TSEliot

  8. We make poetry out of a mouthful of air

    In his wonderful How To Read a Poem and Fall in Love With Poetry, Edward Hirsch reflects on the orality which marks the poetic form. For most of history it was been an oral art and it retains that orality even now. Inspired by the boast of W.B. Yeats that β€œI made it out of a mouthful of air” Hirsch reflects that:

    As every poet does. So, too, does the reader make, or remake, the poem out of a mouthful of air, out of breath. When I recite a poem I inhabit it, I bring the words off the page into my own mouth, my own body. I become its speaker and lt its verbal music move through me as if the poem is a score and I am its instrumentalist, its performer. I let its heartbeat pulse through me as embodied experience, as experience embedded in the sensuality of sounds.

    At the weekend I found myself thinking about the word β€˜phoneme’ and its parallel to tokens upon which large language models rely. We too compose meaningful units out of components so atomic that their constituent character falls beneath the surface of our awareness. I was making the point to a friend using the word β€˜phoneme’ and was suddenly struck that β€˜phoneme’ itself is composed of phonemes: pho-ne-meme. It was startling to experience the concept itself involuntarily decomposed into atomic units.

    Except these aren’t phonemes. These are syllables. Phonemes are even more basic units of sound out of which syllables are composed. The fact what presented itself to me as the most basic unit was not, when I thought about it, actually the most basic unit was itself striking. This led me to discover the International Phonetic Alphabet in which phonemes can be rendered using the phonemic alphabet. In which case β€˜phoneme’ is composed as /f Ι™ΚŠ n iː m/. This is how GPT 5.2 breaks that down phonetically:

    f as in fan
    Ι™ΚŠ the diphthong like the vowel in go
    n as in no
    iː the long vowel like in see
    m as in man

    It’s a struggle to remain at this atomic level. It’s too basic and too strange. Though it does suddenly make me regret not doing the linguistics degree I fleetingly considered as a teenager. You can stay at this level but it takes a bit of training to do it. The syllabic register is more accessible but even then it takes work. You have to manually decompose as an analytical exercise rather than seeing or feeling the composition. This highlights to me how we’re embedded in the semantic register such that we have to abstract from what words convey in order to analyse them as sign systems.

    There are mysteries in the phonetic register. This exercise is akin to repeating a word until the meaning is lost. It just becomes a sound. Then a series of sounds. Until its unsettling to realise that only a minute ago, before you repeated the word fifty times, it conveyed a meaning with an immediacy which now feels inaccessible. There are mysteries in the semantic register as well though. If we instrumentalise our use of words, or rush through speaking and writing, we lose the experience of the force which animates them. There are words which energise us and words which drain us. Words which move us and which leave us cold. There’s a meeting in our experience of words between something deeply human and something…. Other.

    Poetry I think is the purest form of connection to that mystery. If we rush through reading a poem it remains flat and inert. The meaning only emerges through us if we take the time to linger with what we are reading. There’s an obvious role of the unconscious here, at least in my experience of as someone who gets gripped by certain lines which I then find myself circling round and preoccupied by. Why am I gripped by these lines? What is it they are evoking in me? Why are they evoking this? I find it hard to appreciate a poem as a whole because I need that foothold to gradually learn to inhabit the poem or rather to find a way to let it inhabit me. The analytical register is too ready-to-hand for me, a tool that presents itself when I have a question but if I do that with a poem (at least too soon) the fragile life of what I’m ready withers and dies in front of me.

    There’s something there which we’re encountering with poetry. How it feels and looks changes as we change. But it is in a real sense, I increasingly think, an encounter:

    And the ragged rock in the restless waters,
    Waves wash over it, fogs conceal it;
    On a halcyon day it is merely a monument,
    In navigable weather it is always a seamark
    To lay a course by: but in the sombre season
    Or the sudden fury, is what it always was.

    T.S. Eliot, The Dry Salvages

    As Yeats put it we make poems out of mouthfuls of air. What I’m circling round is I think how mysterious and remarkable this is. How we have the capacity not just to produce meaningful sounds with motor movements of our mouth, tongue and throat that coordinate human action but that carry transformative meaning that transcends the very system of signs we have constructed. That reaches beyond and past it. The theme of the Other I’m just as much circling round relates to what is beyond. What is that deeper reality beyond the sign system. This makes me think that I’m unsatisfied with the obvious Lacanian reading that I’m talking about the machinic quality of the linguistic system. The alien mechanisms through which it churns away in a quasi-autonomous way. I’m talking about what’s in us that exists beyond that system yet remains utterly dependent on it for intersubjective expression.

    Perhaps this is just the unconscious: the mycelium which chains together more sensory intensities then we could possibly process and out of which a mushroom of conscious meaning occasionally pops up. I don’t know, I’ve confused myself and I’m going to stop rambling now. But this feels like fertile terrain.

    (I’ve also got a book to finish imminently and I’m struck that this sudden mystical fixation on inarticulacy could be the world’s most abstract procrastination exercise πŸ€”)

    #EdwardHirsch #eliot #inarticulacy #language #linguistics #poetry #sound #Yeats

  9. Hype for the Future 64L: More on York County, Maine

    Introduction Apart from the central and northern portions of York County, the community at the southern tip of the State of Maine is also important relative to the historical context of New Somersetshire as well as of historic Yorkshire County of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Today, however, the county hosts numerous historic sites as well as art galleries representative of the culture at the beginning of the modern Yankee settlement of the State of Maine. The Berwicks The communities of […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  10. Hype for the Future 64L: More on York County, Maine

    Introduction Apart from the central and northern portions of York County, the community at the southern tip of the State of Maine is also important relative to the historical context of New Somersetshire as well as of historic Yorkshire County of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Today, however, the county hosts numerous historic sites as well as art galleries representative of the culture at the beginning of the modern Yankee settlement of the State of Maine. The Berwicks The communities of […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  11. Hype for the Future 64L: More on York County, Maine

    Introduction Apart from the central and northern portions of York County, the community at the southern tip of the State of Maine is also important relative to the historical context of New Somersetshire as well as of historic Yorkshire County of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Today, however, the county hosts numerous historic sites as well as art galleries representative of the culture at the beginning of the modern Yankee settlement of the State of Maine. The Berwicks The communities of […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  12. Hype for the Future 64L: More on York County, Maine

    Introduction Apart from the central and northern portions of York County, the community at the southern tip of the State of Maine is also important relative to the historical context of New Somersetshire as well as of historic Yorkshire County of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Today, however, the county hosts numerous historic sites as well as art galleries representative of the culture at the beginning of the modern Yankee settlement of the State of Maine. The Berwicks The communities of […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  13. Hype for the Future 64L: More on York County, Maine

    Introduction Apart from the central and northern portions of York County, the community at the southern tip of the State of Maine is also important relative to the historical context of New Somersetshire as well as of historic Yorkshire County of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Today, however, the county hosts numerous historic sites as well as art galleries representative of the culture at the beginning of the modern Yankee settlement of the State of Maine. The Berwicks The communities of […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  14. Forgetting was my only option

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9qZOuE-VoY

    What might have been is an abstraction
    Remaining a perpetual possibility
    Only in a world of speculation.
    What might have been and what has been
    Point to one end, which is always present.

    T.S. Eliot – Burnt Norton

    Quick now, here, now, alwaysβ€”
    Ridiculous the waste sad time
    Stretching before and after.

    T.S. Eliot – Burnt Norton

    #BurntNorton #eliot #forgetting #immediacy

  15. Forgetting was my only option

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9qZOuE-VoY

    What might have been is an abstraction
    Remaining a perpetual possibility
    Only in a world of speculation.
    What might have been and what has been
    Point to one end, which is always present.

    T.S. Eliot – Burnt Norton

    Quick now, here, now, alwaysβ€”
    Ridiculous the waste sad time
    Stretching before and after.

    T.S. Eliot – Burnt Norton

    #BurntNorton #eliot #forgetting #immediacy

  16. Last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice

    For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
    And next year’s words await another voice.

    T. S. Eliot’s Little Gidding

    https://soundcloud.com/frxgxd/1553470665499594756a

    #eliot #personalMorphogenesis

  17. Last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice

    For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
    And next year’s words await another voice.

    T. S. Eliot’s Little Gidding

    https://soundcloud.com/frxgxd/1553470665499594756a

    #eliot #personalMorphogenesis

  18. Last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice

    For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
    And next year’s words await another voice.

    T. S. Eliot’s Little Gidding

    https://soundcloud.com/frxgxd/1553470665499594756a

    #eliot #personalMorphogenesis

  19. We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

    β€”T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets, Little Gidding, V.

    #quotes
    #Eliot

  20. PREVIEW: DON'T FORGET YOUR BRIEFCASE #1
    Everywhere the President goes, there is a military liaison who follows, carrying a briefcase with the codes to launch a nuclear strike––and it’s just been lost. This is the story about what happens when a ten-year-old boy finds a nuclear football and accidentally brings the world to the brink of...
    comiccrusaders.com/comic-books
    #mad cave #comics #comic books #eliot rahal #phillip sevy

  21. PREVIEW: DON'T FORGET YOUR BRIEFCASE #1
    Everywhere the President goes, there is a military liaison who follows, carrying a briefcase with the codes to launch a nuclear strike––and it’s just been lost. This is the story about what happens when a ten-year-old boy finds a nuclear football and accidentally brings the world to the brink of...
    comiccrusaders.com/comic-books
    #mad cave #comics #comic books #eliot rahal #phillip sevy

  22. PREVIEW: DON'T FORGET YOUR BRIEFCASE #1
    Everywhere the President goes, there is a military liaison who follows, carrying a briefcase with the codes to launch a nuclear strike––and it’s just been lost. This is the story about what happens when a ten-year-old boy finds a nuclear football and accidentally brings the world to the brink of...
    comiccrusaders.com/comic-books
    #mad cave #comics #comic books #eliot rahal #phillip sevy

  23. #11aprile

    Per la Giornata Nazionale del #Mare proponiamo un articolo di #AOQU, che intende dimostrare come il tema acquatico della "Ballata di Rudi" di Elio #Pagliarani, sia stato influenzato da "Terra desolata" di T.S.#Eliot.
    #Ecologismo ed #epica, sono possibili chiavi di lettura dell’opera di Pagliarani, in cui l’#acqua, e specialmente il #mare, sono motivi centrali.

    ⬇️ riviste.unimi.it/index.php/aoq

  24. #11aprile

    Per la Giornata Nazionale del #Mare proponiamo un articolo di #AOQU, che intende dimostrare come il tema acquatico della "Ballata di Rudi" di Elio #Pagliarani, sia stato influenzato da "Terra desolata" di T.S.#Eliot.
    #Ecologismo ed #epica, sono possibili chiavi di lettura dell’opera di Pagliarani, in cui l’#acqua, e specialmente il #mare, sono motivi centrali.

    ⬇️ riviste.unimi.it/index.php/aoq

  25. #11aprile

    Per la Giornata Nazionale del #Mare proponiamo un articolo di #AOQU, che intende dimostrare come il tema acquatico della "Ballata di Rudi" di Elio #Pagliarani, sia stato influenzato da "Terra desolata" di T.S.#Eliot.
    #Ecologismo ed #epica, sono possibili chiavi di lettura dell’opera di Pagliarani, in cui l’#acqua, e specialmente il #mare, sono motivi centrali.

    ⬇️ riviste.unimi.it/index.php/aoq

  26. #11aprile

    Per la Giornata Nazionale del #Mare proponiamo un articolo di #AOQU, che intende dimostrare come il tema acquatico della "Ballata di Rudi" di Elio #Pagliarani, sia stato influenzato da "Terra desolata" di T.S.#Eliot.
    #Ecologismo ed #epica, sono possibili chiavi di lettura dell’opera di Pagliarani, in cui l’#acqua, e specialmente il #mare, sono motivi centrali.

    ⬇️ riviste.unimi.it/index.php/aoq

  27. #11aprile

    Per la Giornata Nazionale del #Mare proponiamo un articolo di #AOQU, che intende dimostrare come il tema acquatico della "Ballata di Rudi" di Elio #Pagliarani, sia stato influenzato da "Terra desolata" di T.S.#Eliot.
    #Ecologismo ed #epica, sono possibili chiavi di lettura dell’opera di Pagliarani, in cui l’#acqua, e specialmente il #mare, sono motivi centrali.

    ⬇️ riviste.unimi.it/index.php/aoq

  28. Lyrik - Lyrik - Lyrik

    Und ich werde dir etwas zeigen, das anders ist als
    Der Schatten, der dir morgens nachlΓ€uft,
    Und als der Schatten, der dich abends einholt;
    Ich zeig dir die Angst in einer Handvoll Staub.
    T.S. #Eliot - aus Das ΓΆde Land (S. 11)
    πŸ‘‡
    media.suhrkamp.de/mediadeliver
    #LyrikLyrikLyrik #Lyrik

  29. Heute geht's wieder mal ins Deutsche Theater
    WASTELAND: PETER PAN

    T. S. #Eliot.s Lang-Gedicht (mehr als 400 Verszeilen) DAS Γ–DE LAND von 1922 spiegelt die Verwerfungen + Unsicherheiten seiner Zeit wider - β€žein Hohelied der Bitternis, mit trockener Kehle verfasstβ€œ (Hummelt). FΓΌr den heutigen Abend wurde das Gedicht mit #Barrie’s TheaterstΓΌck PETER PAN oder DER JUNGE, DER NICHT ERWACHSEN WERDEN WOLLTE (1902) verbunden.
    Sehr gespannt!
    #DeutschesTheater #DT #Schauspiel #Berlin #PeterPan

  30. πŸ’•

    "It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are. We must always take risks. That is our destiny.” ~ T.S. Eliot

    🎢

    Here I am looking back, finding myself with my 32strings in a landscape. Contemplating The Wasteland next to my own beautiful world... luckily there are angels and harp music. πŸ˜‡πŸ˜‰

    πŸ™

    www.annevanschothorst.com/animamundi

    #harp #poetry #art #landscape #eliot #wasteland #nature

  31. I got absorbed by the poetry section. I got two Chaucers so I can read the old version and a modern one.

    #libraries
    #chaucer
    #yeats
    #eliot
    #gunn

  32. I got absorbed by the poetry section. I got two Chaucers so I can read the old version and a modern one.

    #libraries
    #chaucer
    #yeats
    #eliot
    #gunn

  33. I got absorbed by the poetry section. I got two Chaucers so I can read the old version and a modern one.

    #libraries
    #chaucer
    #yeats
    #eliot
    #gunn

  34. I got absorbed by the poetry section. I got two Chaucers so I can read the old version and a modern one.

    #libraries
    #chaucer
    #yeats
    #eliot
    #gunn

  35. I got absorbed by the poetry section. I got two Chaucers so I can read the old version and a modern one.

    #libraries
    #chaucer
    #yeats
    #eliot
    #gunn

  36. "But you are the music, while the music lasts"

    I looked at this in the library, and thought, no, I'll never really want to watch it. And now I do. I'll walk to the library, it won't be there.

    T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets – Ralph Fiennes – Official Trailer youtube.com/watch?v=e7F7hmlelT

    #eliot
    #poetry
    #books

    But it might be.