Comments on: True to Form http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/2008/09/12/true-to-form/ Where Manifest Destiny Goes to Die Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:58:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: sweetleaf http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/2008/09/12/true-to-form/comment-page-1/#comment-700 sweetleaf Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:35:07 +0000 http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/?p=616#comment-700 "sharks patrol these waters, swim, swim, swim, swim like a muthafucker, swim. that day glow orange life vest won't save you, sharks patrol these waters,"...something like that. anyway, reminds me of a quote i read, "notions crowd my heart like punched pigeons, but fly to cold horizons when i think." you however nezua, have a gift, and you don't lose much, if anything in translation. you help fill my heart with punched pigeons. “sharks patrol these waters, swim, swim, swim, swim like a muthafucker, swim. that day glow orange life vest won’t save you, sharks patrol these waters,”…something like that. anyway, reminds me of a quote i read, “notions crowd my heart like punched pigeons, but fly to cold horizons when i think.” you however nezua, have a gift, and you don’t lose much, if anything in translation. you help fill my heart with punched pigeons.

]]> By: nezua http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/2008/09/12/true-to-form/comment-page-1/#comment-672 nezua Sat, 13 Sep 2008 13:30:55 +0000 http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/?p=616#comment-672 RC thanks for the prompt. i tend to agree. and really, i dont think i'm all that amazing to analyze. its more fun to play games in the worlds i make, if you can fit through the doors. its more fun to try on the masks i paint. the cat himself? he's rather mad and typical in that way. RC thanks for the prompt. i tend to agree. and really, i dont think i’m all that amazing to analyze. its more fun to play games in the worlds i make, if you can fit through the doors. its more fun to try on the masks i paint. the cat himself? he’s rather mad and typical in that way.

]]> By: nezua http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/2008/09/12/true-to-form/comment-page-1/#comment-671 nezua Sat, 13 Sep 2008 13:28:54 +0000 http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/?p=616#comment-671 whenever i write on this theme, or usually, someone either defends boundaries or reminds me we need them. and we do. we do we do we do. were there none, i might as well be oceanwater than have my own shape and thoughts. i have to remember to work in the angle that it is the stasis that is to be avoided. not the boundary. the mistaking a boundary for our boundary. hey! i am enjoying it too! whenever i write on this theme, or usually, someone either defends boundaries or reminds me we need them. and we do. we do we do we do. were there none, i might as well be oceanwater than have my own shape and thoughts.

i have to remember to work in the angle that it is the stasis that is to be avoided. not the boundary. the mistaking a boundary for our boundary.

hey! i am enjoying it too!

]]> By: Tracy Rosen http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/2008/09/12/true-to-form/comment-page-1/#comment-669 Tracy Rosen Sat, 13 Sep 2008 13:13:34 +0000 http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/?p=616#comment-669 These hard lines and simplified equations trick us into believing we are half the being we can be at any given moment. Edison said, "If we all did the things we were capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves." and KRS-One reminds, "This is an opportunity for you to rise to your highest self...there it is." Boundaries, drawn or linguistic, can either hinder or help us rise and astound. I have no immediate control over the boundaries that have been drawn around me on territory, but I have ultimate control over my own, linguistic boundaries and I can let them trick me, as you say, into a narrow being, or recognize and reorganize them into rungs as I rise. I am enjoying writing with you this morning. t These hard lines and simplified equations trick us into believing we are half the being we can be at any given moment.

Edison said, “If we all did the things we were capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” and KRS-One reminds, “This is an opportunity for you to rise to your highest self…there it is.”

Boundaries, drawn or linguistic, can either hinder or help us rise and astound. I have no immediate control over the boundaries that have been drawn around me on territory, but I have ultimate control over my own, linguistic boundaries and I can let them trick me, as you say, into a narrow being, or recognize and reorganize them into rungs as I rise.

I am enjoying writing with you this morning.
t

]]> By: RC http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/2008/09/12/true-to-form/comment-page-1/#comment-661 RC Sat, 13 Sep 2008 02:44:43 +0000 http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/?p=616#comment-661 I hope you keep away from those Art Scholarship investigators Nez! You have enough people after you already. With a little psychic dissection here, a little motivational analysis there, soon you won't even be the sum of your parts. And god help you if the deconstruction people ever get on your case. I suggest a tightly woven web of impenetrable aliases and Borges like torsions. One must never fall victim to the hoards of ponderers. Cuidado! I hope you keep away from those Art Scholarship investigators Nez! You have enough people after you already. With a little psychic dissection here, a little motivational analysis there, soon you won’t even be the sum of your parts. And god help you if the deconstruction people ever get on your case. I suggest a tightly woven web of impenetrable aliases and Borges like torsions.
One must never fall victim to the hoards of ponderers. Cuidado!

]]> By: nezua http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/2008/09/12/true-to-form/comment-page-1/#comment-659 nezua Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:14:21 +0000 http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/?p=616#comment-659 heya hannah, thanks. i dont think you are contradicting me...and i dont really mean to say "you cant know me"...just trying to augment some of the well-thought out reasoning and definition in my writing with some fluidity. again neither contradicts the other and actually, are best taken together. :) good to see ya! heya hannah, thanks.

i dont think you are contradicting me…and i dont really mean to say “you cant know me”…just trying to augment some of the well-thought out reasoning and definition in my writing with some fluidity. again neither contradicts the other and actually, are best taken together. :)

good to see ya!

]]> By: NerfButch http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/2008/09/12/true-to-form/comment-page-1/#comment-658 NerfButch Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:54:34 +0000 http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/?p=616#comment-658 Can I say something? I'm not sure if it's going to sound right, or be well written, but here is my best try. Of course we all understand -- we all understand, right? -- that we can't get a full picture of you from your writings, as well-worded as they are, from your art, as well-crafted as it is, from any of your ways of communicating with yourself and others. The reason I can assert this is because of all the writers and artists of the world, past present and future who we just know so little about. That their bodies of work and the work of their bodies and all that, well, sometimes it serves only to make them all the less understandable. Thus there is Art Scholarship, as derided as it is, all those great people known and unknown, and we sift through their work with the most delicate of scientific instruments and our collective brainpower all to divine the mystery that is their lives. And we really don't know all that much in the end. So, the case with you. Even your own journey of self-discovery by the same means of looking into your words and trying to write about the person. You create an even greater body of work that someday people will look to and find a way to understand you even less. So, that's my thought and my assertion and right or wrong there it is. And I know that's not the whole of what you were getting at, but if you can't explain the whole, how can I even come close? It doesn't mean it's not worth trying. Worth trying all the more, is my guess. I go now. Can I say something?

I’m not sure if it’s going to sound right, or be well written, but here is my best try.

Of course we all understand — we all understand, right? — that we can’t get a full picture of you from your writings, as well-worded as they are, from your art, as well-crafted as it is, from any of your ways of communicating with yourself and others. The reason I can assert this is because of all the writers and artists of the world, past present and future who we just know so little about. That their bodies of work and the work of their bodies and all that, well, sometimes it serves only to make them all the less understandable.

Thus there is Art Scholarship, as derided as it is, all those great people known and unknown, and we sift through their work with the most delicate of scientific instruments and our collective brainpower all to divine the mystery that is their lives.

And we really don’t know all that much in the end.

So, the case with you. Even your own journey of self-discovery by the same means of looking into your words and trying to write about the person. You create an even greater body of work that someday people will look to and find a way to understand you even less.

So, that’s my thought and my assertion and right or wrong there it is.

And I know that’s not the whole of what you were getting at, but if you can’t explain the whole, how can I even come close?

It doesn’t mean it’s not worth trying. Worth trying all the more, is my guess.

I go now.

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