Walking one afternoon along a road out of the ancient city you come to an ancient crossroads, from which one way continues on the road south towards Rome and the other leads up to a bare rocky outcrop. You take the road up to the ridge and the eye begins to take in a what…
ON THE PUBLIC ROAD: – walking the last few days, wet through from the rain and spattered with mud. Everywhere leaks. Waterlogged. But we walk on, as city vagabonds in HOPE (hope of the ‘non-delusive’ kind – as defined by Vaclav Havel: see ak’s last week’s post). One of the things we are hoping for…
In another letter to Philip Whalen GS (he’s working as a seaman) comments (The Gary Snyder Reader page 154): "At Napoli went out to Pompeii & mounted a bit up Vesuvio.Seeing historical monuments first hand does have a bit of thrill in it. But Istanbul is more entertaining & Sophia is inexpressibly religious and vast."…
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Different WORDSTALL Categories in the past supported the mainly experimental personal writing in posts. The previous list of Category headings was: Anti-gravity Surgery / Atelier / Catastrophe Games / Echo Effects / Exodus / Fundamental Perversions / Hitting the Potholes / Holy Fool-Hero / In Conversation / Old Men Traveling / On the Street / Out in the Wilderness / Over and Beyond / Tonite at the Coliseum. Some of these still persist or recur as Tag key-words.
The even earlier Category headings for the walkingtalkingwriting blog (2006-2012) have been forgotten, but can be explored if desired via the long tail of monthly posts for those years here.