Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 11:54:31 -0600
From: allen scult <allen.scult-AT-drake.edu>
Subject: Re: Riders on the Storm


>Cologne 11-Jan-2002
>
>Allen Scult schrieb Thu, 10 Jan 2002 20:37:33 -0600:
>
>>  >From: Michael Pennamacoor <pennamacoor-AT-enterprise.net>
>>  >
>>  >Michael E riding the storm recently:
>>  >
>>  > >Riders on the storm,
>>  > >Unto this house we're born,
>>  > >Into this world we're thrown.
>>  > >
>>  > >        -- The Doors
>>  >
>>  >And the poet, doors wide open, lets himself be a storm, the I of the storm
>>  >:-), thus:
>>  >
>>  >"I circle ... the ancient tower, and I circle for thousands of years; and I
>>  >do not yet
>>  >know: am I a falcon, a storm, or a mighty song." [Rilke, The Book of Hours]
>>  >
>>
>>  But there's an important difference here, at least one that moves me as I
>>  listen to the two verses.  The Doors sing of being thrown into the world,
>>  riders on the storm.  Rilke,as poet, IS the storm, This is the presumptive
>>  capacity of the poet to "bring into existence that which heretoforew did not
>>  exist."  Whitman in Leaves of Grass announces the possibility for American
>>  (English):
>>
>>  " I celebrate myself,
>>  And what I assume you shall assume,
>>  For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you."
>>
>>  William Carlos williams decides to be a city and that City is Paterson (
>>  where I grew up).
>>  The poet creates by taking on the wordly personna of something already there
>>  and then gives it to us and we have it too. . .as if for the first time. . .
>>  a storm, a falcon, a city. . . a mighty song, THERE (da).
>>
>>  The Doors are good, but not that good.  Riding the storm ( or whateverf else
>>  comes along), making interesting observations along the way. . .Truckin'. .
>>  .What a long strange trip it's been. . . gratefully dead
>>
>>  In a curmudgeonly mood,
>
>Aw, don't be like that, Allen.
>
>I thought, there are some remarkable resonances in these Doors 
>lines, probably a
>trickle-down effect from the poet's or thinker's word.

Michael,

What a wonderful idea! I knew there was more to it than just 
smoke.But I wonder how this trickle down effect works?  And how far 
down does it trickle?

Sometimes I hear terribly off-key, but none-the-less moving 
variations on said word in the strangest places.  I guess where it 
comes from is where it's going.  Dasein sings into its own ear. . . 
hears its own voice singing.

Allen
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