tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post8797865550132944088..comments2024-03-20T16:46:13.343-04:00Comments on Marly Youmans / The Palace at 2:00 a.m. / poems, stories, novels: Morning thoughts: on makingMarly Youmanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-9986030972070694942014-06-26T13:29:52.610-04:002014-06-26T13:29:52.610-04:00Oh, Job--I love. Especially 41:
[1] "Can you...Oh, Job--I love. Especially 41:<br /><br />[1] "Can you draw out Levi'athan with a fishhook,<br />or press down his tongue with a cord?<br />[2] Can you put a rope in his nose,<br />or pierce his jaw with a hook?<br />[3] Will he make many supplications to you?<br />Will he speak to you soft words?<br />[4] Will he make a covenant with you<br />to take him for your servant for ever?<br /Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-89049105056535776062014-06-26T13:25:56.467-04:002014-06-26T13:25:56.467-04:00And certainly our own time has an awful lot to say...And certainly our own time has an awful lot to say about the subject...Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-78063941966549316482014-06-26T13:25:11.189-04:002014-06-26T13:25:11.189-04:00Ah, that's a great quote for a studio wall!Ah, that's a great quote for a studio wall! Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-69338391652855933582014-06-26T11:51:15.743-04:002014-06-26T11:51:15.743-04:00Funny you should mention it, but Job is my favorit...Funny you should mention it, but Job is my favorite book in the Bible. It's terribly strange. A great post!Jane Harringtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05914649664507501849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-16753271984858937962014-06-26T09:43:09.913-04:002014-06-26T09:43:09.913-04:00I agree with Mary. This is certainly something you...I agree with Mary. This is certainly something you come back to every once in a while, but you say it especially well here.<br />I too return often to the conundrum of "realism" in literature. Such "realism" is only a pose, as you say. It is a framework or pattern that reveals much more about the time it was written and the person who writes it than the nature of reality Robbi N.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04881145195435485238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-69191791862336787362014-06-26T09:19:20.868-04:002014-06-26T09:19:20.868-04:00This is among my favorite postings of all those I&...This is among my favorite postings of all those I've read on your blog--. And it applies equally, I think, to the making of visual art. I especially like this: "I've long felt that the roots of our literature in English are quite other than what is often praised--this thing called realism that so dominates much of our thinking about books. And I've felt, in fact, that there is noHow to contact Mary: marybullington53@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08174581825078147922noreply@blogger.com