tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post6609351834009985689..comments2024-02-05T00:16:13.698-05:00Comments on Banjo52: STRATFORD, ONTARIO, THEATER, DYLAN THOMASBanjo52http://www.blogger.com/profile/04342397136888422440noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post-4643128413699319152010-08-01T19:43:38.767-04:002010-08-01T19:43:38.767-04:00No, I think he's confessing to being or feelin...No, I think he's confessing to being or feeling dumb, or dense, never mind what the other kids call him. He's dumb because he understands so much more than he can communicate. <br /><br />Hope you'll tell us about Wild Grass. I haven't heard about it.<br /><br />Got some good comments on Wild Bone, but would like more. Wonder how many will actually see it. Maybe if it hits the big theaters.Banjo52https://www.blogger.com/profile/04342397136888422440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post-8854298087566808242010-08-01T09:49:46.635-04:002010-08-01T09:49:46.635-04:00Hmmm.Maybe like movies, I take poetry too literall...Hmmm.Maybe like movies, I take poetry too literally? 'Dumb' means a name a kid calls another kid to embarrass him/her. <br />I am just being dumb - as in 'dense' - in this case. <br /><br />(off to see "Wild Grass" this week - have you seen it? I enjoyed our dialogue re: WB movie. I hope more people will see it!(Brenda's Arizonahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17880225110712592548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post-31794279161084683362010-07-30T17:43:46.095-04:002010-07-30T17:43:46.095-04:00Brenda, you've nudged me to remember an explan...Brenda, you've nudged me to remember an explanation I settled on once upon a time. Both meanings of "dumb" apply. I am "mute," AND "I am stupid"--as in "unable" in either case. <br /><br />"I cannot explain" how I can claim to know these other people and items in their other situations, but I do. If the same force (time? growth?) drives both a flower and me, if I can claim that, why not claim such identification with other beings as well? We are all driven by similar or even identical elemental forces, especially forces of life and death.<br /><br />Sorry you asked? I don't remember reading any authoritative scholarship on Thomas, so those are probably my own deductions--buyer beware. <br /><br />I must say, I like the rhythm and vowel-consonant sounds of "I am dumb" as a refrain, compared to other fancier, more abstract words--"unable," "incompetent," and so forth. <br /><br />Also, I do like that he gets both meanings, stupid and mute. This kind of knowledge is beyond knowing in any rational, logical, intellectual, cognitive way.<br /><br />You claim your brain is ONLY "parallel" and "serial." Forgive me if I don't believe you. On the "Winter's Bone" post, you just claimed you and your friend "have each other's backs." How rational is that? Your gonna put yourself (or she is) in harm's way to protect someone else? That's kinda "dumb," isn't it? That's a bond you'd have trouble explaining to someone else, isn't it? You're "dumb" to tell it, explain it, make it logical sequential. <br /><br />Ditto your empathetic fear for Ree Dolly in the movie. That makes no sense; that's irrational as hell. Yet you claim it, and I believe you. <br /><br />Whaddya think? <br /><br />Once again, I really appreciate your earnest responses.Banjo52https://www.blogger.com/profile/04342397136888422440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post-29352399411280643242010-07-30T11:14:45.426-04:002010-07-30T11:14:45.426-04:00Does it help to be equally under the influence whe...Does it help to be equally under the influence when one reads these poems? What does "dumb" actually mean in "The Force..." poem? <br /><br />I can see AH's point - the tongue loosened resulting in a mystical + chemical reaction. But my brain is a parallel circuit, not a serial one. <br /><br />sigh. What does 'dumb' mean in this case?Brenda's Arizonahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17880225110712592548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post-63068260174890642082010-07-30T07:39:57.927-04:002010-07-30T07:39:57.927-04:00I'm pretty sure I read (a long time ago) that ...I'm pretty sure I read (a long time ago) that Hemingway claimed he could see in someone's prose the place where the person started drinking while trying to write. (Writing Under the Influnce, WUI). <br /><br />He might have included Fitzgerald in that because FSF had Hemingway do some critiquing of his drafts (which wasn't a two-way exchange--all of this is probably from A Movable Feast or Papa Hemingway and is in the category of "if memory serves." Don't quote me.). <br /><br />But I've also heard such thinking from at least one or two other writers over the years. Can't remember who.Banjo52https://www.blogger.com/profile/04342397136888422440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post-6116782212245764852010-07-30T00:21:11.818-04:002010-07-30T00:21:11.818-04:00And my hero, FSF. Even Capote. The problem was, af...And my hero, FSF. Even Capote. The problem was, after awhile, they forgot to come up for air.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post-59719153764474488762010-07-29T22:02:37.917-04:002010-07-29T22:02:37.917-04:00AH, I'm sure we can't rule that out. Also,...AH, I'm sure we can't rule that out. Also, though I've called him windy, he's much more disciplined than I'd think a sloshing, falling-down guy could be. I will add that I've heard a few writers say that this or that hard drinking writer never WROTE drunk, stayed sober long enough to do the work. I might recall that Faulkner and Hemingway were two such guys.Banjo52https://www.blogger.com/profile/04342397136888422440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post-5163582624369233392010-07-29T21:51:15.975-04:002010-07-29T21:51:15.975-04:00god, I hate to say this, but I think there are/wer...god, I hate to say this, but I think there are/were certain authors and poets who could not have written what they wrote without the drug. I don't think the whiskey or whatever loosened the tongue -- it was part of the mystical, chemical reaction that made the tongue.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com