tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post3940604043822772551..comments2024-03-11T08:31:04.022-04:00Comments on Bieganski the Blog: Vaclav Havel 1936-2011D Goskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09353495585591945881noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-58552918233674907012012-01-01T08:25:50.912-05:002012-01-01T08:25:50.912-05:00Eric, thanks so much for that post.
Can you tell ...Eric, thanks so much for that post.<br /><br />Can you tell me any more about the presence process, whose blog you link? <br /><br />I read most of that blog post but he lost me when he denounced all religions as cults.D Goskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09353495585591945881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-50916019345645097292011-12-29T03:29:31.589-05:002011-12-29T03:29:31.589-05:00I also experienced a 4-month bubble of profound po...I also experienced a 4-month bubble of profound poetic memory with a Polish girl named Aga. She works for the Polish department of foreign affairs now and ushers around foreign diplomats. We were both 'isolated', living as foreigners in a big German city. I could never say what a profound gift to me that friendship was - and it has always seemed one of life's mysteries, she herself has said nothing like that happened to her since. At the end I cut her off sharply and abruptly, being freaked out to be a nervous 22 year old virgin with no successful relationship experience, achieving that level of intimacy and friendship with a beautiful woman (she had a boyfriend in PL). The depth of shared feeling did not make sense to me and I ran from it. <br /><br />The letter to Beata from which the snippet is taken addresses an interesting point. The feeling and perception it describes are also known to me. The most profound poetic statement of the feeling I found in Siegfried Sassoon's poem "Strangeness of Heart":<br /><br />When I have lost the power to feel the pang<br />That first I felt in childhood when I woke<br />And heard the unheeding garden bird who sang<br />Strangeness of heart for me while morning broke;<br />Or when in latening twilight sure with spring<br />Pausing on homeward paths along the wood<br />No sadness thrills my thoughts while thrushes sing<br />And I’m no longer the wondering child who stood<br />So many sunsets past and could not say<br />What distant voices called from far away:<br />When I have lost those simple spells that stirred<br />My being with an untranslated song<br />Let me go home for ever; I will have heard<br />Death; I will know that I have lived too long.<br /><br />And the most profound statement on the meaning of that feeling I found expressed here:<br /><br />http://presenceprocessquestions.blogspot.com/2009/07/even-though-i-have-completed-tpp-i.html<br /><br />Its awesome how you lace your social commentary with passages where you reveal yourself more thoroughly - it makes reading you such an experience. <br /><br />cheers<br />EricAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-18130949861220127742011-12-28T22:10:33.431-05:002011-12-28T22:10:33.431-05:00My guess is that most traditional PolAm editors ar...My guess is that most traditional PolAm editors are wary of anything that looks like it is even tenuously associated with anything PC, or "progressive', or "enlightened", or "cosmopolitan", since these have more often than not been the sources of assault. ----- or "inclusive", which in practice means, eventually, Slavophobic,and highly exclusive-- of us. <br /><br /> I don't blame them. <br /><br />Bowing to everyone else's gods as much as you bow to your own, while they are always kicking yours in the ass, and you say that they can't be blamed, basically affirms or reifies the dominant paradigm (oh that deconstruction and business shit talk) that they are always equal, and you are always lesser. It even shows that you agree with them.<br /><br />Start your own publishing house. Your are mostly there now anyhow. Epub would be a great way to go. The costs of ePub are grossly down. I have heard that Amazon and Apple and a few others pay royalties of 70%. Authorial control. Always --- read that, always --- in print. Massage your price point. You can DO THIS ! The people will then vote with their dollars, and at the speed of light. If you talk a lot of crap, that too will get around, at the speed of light. I DID after all, buy your book twice, even if we always don't agree on everything. Taken over time, I don't always agree with myself !!<br /><br />NemoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-67954187788925349032011-12-28T21:44:44.446-05:002011-12-28T21:44:44.446-05:00OK, now and then, maybe once every 10 years. They...OK, now and then, maybe once every 10 years. They usually bow to everyone else's gods a zillion times before they get back to us. Academic szlachta?<br /><br />What is the Po/Lit, or Pol/lit scene?<br /><br />dja notice that Bram Stoker's Slovaks fit Dr. Goska's description of (her) Bohunkophobia and (my) Slavophobia?<br /><br />Ah, do you think it more or less likely that the Bohunkophobic play Dr. Goska describes in further articles would have ever been published as a reference to Slavs? <br /><br />I think not. <br /><br />Bohunk is a play word, not real, so they can use it freely (it means what they say it means, says the caterpillar), since to most it means a not real person, too many composites. It means what's in their minds, as a a very ethereal concept, it can be better manipulated by the media shits.<br /><br />Slav is harder to screw with, and if he had said that about Slavs, it would not have flown. Don't think that Bohunk cannot be used toxically by the other side. You see it has.<br /><br />NemoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-39222696688773886442011-12-27T11:17:29.097-05:002011-12-27T11:17:29.097-05:00Christina Pacosz has done inestimable service to P...Christina Pacosz has done inestimable service to Polonia and all Bohunks through her writing. <br /><br />Ditto Thomas Bell, a Slovak American, author of "Out of this Furnace." <br /><br />Ditto Louis Adamic, Slovenian-American. <br /><br />Re: Christina's comment that there is something wrong with the Pol-Lit scene in America. All too true.<br /><br />I've got two essays coming out shortly about Polish and other Bohunk issues. <br /><br />The editors who will publish me are not Polish at all. They sent me lovely notes, treated me with respect, and will even pay me !<br /><br />I submitted an essay to an upcoming anthology of Polish American writing. The Polish American editors sent me an email calling my writing "sophomoric" and unfit for publication. <br /><br />I've had too many such experiences not to conclude that there is something deeply wrong in Polonia.D Goskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09353495585591945881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-58113229604591417322011-12-27T09:36:03.954-05:002011-12-27T09:36:03.954-05:00Not sure about that never, but far too many weak t...Not sure about that never, but far too many weak talents run the PO/Lit biz here in the U.S. that's for sure. Havel was an inspiration for me. Christina PacoszAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-11501812951006177602011-12-26T01:12:06.069-05:002011-12-26T01:12:06.069-05:00We must champion intellectuals – writers – playwri...We must champion intellectuals – writers – playwrights!<br /><br />of course, but they're usually bullshit, and they play to the pay, and they are NEVER around for us, here - - - - in the USA.<br /><br />NemoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com