Anyone one else in for a long night?

[TheProject]

Hey! We can't post dirty pics here! This is Chat and Conversation! What're you trying to do, cause trouble?!?

entertaining...gotta be entertaining.... hmmm...

 

[ladymacbeth]

Sorry, just give me your e-mail and I'll send you some dirty pics to make up for it.

...as I was saying about quarters vs. semesters...

 

[ladymacbeth]

Hey! We can't post dirty pics here! This is Chat and Conversation! What're you trying to do, cause trouble?!?

entertaining...gotta be entertaining.... hmmm...

this had better be good...I have high expectations for you...

 

[Virtual Acid]

Hell naw im going to bed w00t w00t!!!!

 

[SofaGeorge]

a. The Harlem Renaissance, and why people think that it is just too damn sexy.
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I can best explain why the Harlem Renaissance was considered so "sexy" by starting with an anecdotal story about Ezra Pound.

When Allen Ginsberg was a very young man, he went to visit Pound in the insane asylum. For the most part Pound enjoyed the meeting, and the fact that Allen brought him thick slab bread and mayonaise. (Pound had a thing for mayonaise on bread.) But suddenly during the meeting, Pound's mood took a sudden downward shift. He buried his head in his hands and murmered over and over, "I am sick. I am sick." Allen asked him if he meant his body or his mind. Pound answered, "My mind. All I do is create great balls of crystal that no one can lift."

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The Harlem Renaissance came on the heals of the Imagist era of poetry. There was some spirit and passion in the Imagist school, but for the most part they became ever more infatuated with their own cleverness, their hidden meanings and literary allusions. Erudite symbolism replaced the beating heart.

The Harlem Renaissance was in a large part made up of less "schooled" writers. They discovered literature, writing, rythm, and passion outside of the Ivy League schools. They were raw. They were gritty. They were colorful, passionate, melodious, and alive... at a time when poetry was becoming a dead voice.

How can anyone not find that sexy?

 

[TheProject]

this had better be good...I have high expectations for you...

Crap, now there's expectations. How the hell am I going to live up to that?

Got no funny stories off the top of my head...this ain't the medium for singing and dancing, and I dance like Grover anyway...

hmmmm...

 

[TheProject]

It's merely symptomatic of our post-modern ennui.

There are no absolutes, unless you perceive our world as meaningless, when it's really your own freedom you detest!


































I like pork!

 

[ladymacbeth]

Re: Re: Anyone one else in for a long night?

I can best explain why the Harlem Renaissance was considered so "sexy" by starting with an anecdotal story about Ezra Pound.

When Allen Ginsberg was a very young man, he went to visit Pound in the insane asylum. For the most part Pound enjoyed the meeting, and the fact that Allen brought him thick slab bread and mayonaise. (Pound had a thing for mayonaise on bread.) But suddenly during the meeting, Pound's mood took a sudden downward shift. He buried his head in his hands and murmered over and over, "I am sick. I am sick." Allen asked him if he meant his body or his mind. Pound answered, "My mind. All I do is create great balls of crystal that no one can lift."

*****************

The Harlem Renaissance came on the heals of the Imagist era of poetry. There was some spirit and passion in the Imagist school, but for the most part they became ever more infatuated with their own cleverness, their hidden meanings and literary allusions. Erudite symbolism replaced the beating heart.

The Harlem Renaissance was in a large part made up of less "schooled" writers. They discovered literature, writing, rythm, and passion outside of the Ivy League schools. They were raw. They were gritty. They were colorful, passionate, melodious, and alive... at a time when poetry was becoming a dead voice.

How can anyone not find that sexy?

Well, less schooled for some, though authors like Jean Toomer and Hughes were ivy league...I also believe that Toomer's father was once the governor of Louisiana. I think Countee Cullen writes shitty poetry, though.

I'm actually using some of Cantos in my paper, specifically the part addressed to Robert Browning. Pound was pretty nutty, but I love his translations of Chinese poetry (he didn't speak chinese at all, he just wrote what he thought the poems meant by looking at them and knowing a very few words).

My paper is on the erotic and primitive in harlem renaissance literature, and why it's not a function of blackness and rather a function of Modernism in itself. Faulkner and Joyce and Pound used the same themes, but are not judged on their "sexiness" (if you will) like harlem writers are. Keep in mind, I'm dealing with lit here and not music, visual art, etc...

It's all coming out so hard...I just wish I were done and drinking like I should be on St. Patty's day...!

 

[ladymacbeth]

I like pork!

No you don't! You rotten liar! I am NOT entertained!

 

[smallmovesal]

too bad it isn't art or i could be of assistance...

instead i will post smut.