Green Candle notes 3-10-08 plus

Time Travel Film?

Success and Pre-empting failure?

Burning at both ends

Lead and Balloon… lead filled balloons?

Green Candle … Green Balloon-bladder; Condom- ejaculation? It keeps coming!

Illumination and micturation? Contained … repressed urge? Sexual Toys?

‘Art films’…Recently saw series of sexually explicit short films “Destrictions” (Barney, Larry Clark, Abromovic, Taylor-Wood… and others… (We Fuck Alone!))

Spiralled candles… some light green and it’s opposite… orange-ish… (Flesh?)…some broken and repaired with metallic tape, Green balloons at both ends… inflation/deflation.

GC7c? 20-10-08

Reading Burroughs… Looking for adequate quote re aleatoric processes from cut up sense…but… GC deviation happened:

Came across group of essays apparently from his period of teaching in NYC late 70s… in ‘Adding Machine’ (86) …

The essay on ‘Creative Reading’ talks lots about characters and style in Hemingway (‘Ernie’) and Fitzgerald…This one is quoted from the ending of Gatsby:

He has come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter, tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further, and one fine morning…So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Fitzgerald’s ref to ‘the green light’ must surely be derived from the Coleridge quote I found earlier... Or could it be older? To young writers, Burroughs says that this passage ‘stays with the reader and becomes part of his inner landscape’… “commensurate with his capacity for wonder” … (last bit double quoted, is probably from Gatsby, too. Long time since I read it). It could be about ‘Time’ you mentioned other day… and for Burroughs too… time travel. (my italics)

Burroughs’ idea of ‘creative reading’ is great. On the one hand, it conforms to Barthes’ …& P-M’s ‘death of author’… (note that translated into visual art… it would be creative looking?). It also justifies JB’s refusal to respond to some questions that require a subjective and personal answer… Although not denied that there could be a personal reading… it’s beside the point.