Sunday, August 24, 2008

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THE RISE ONLY A DREAM

My friends, I am going to tell the story more absurd and incredible never told, if they manage to communicate it.
This is a dream ... so crazy and absurd that you will not be easy to identify with such a world, so far from reality.
I was on a planet of men ... but they were very strange men.
words (and here comes the hard to explain): These men claimed to be individually ... one by one!
That is, they believed unconnected ... divided as their bodies ... claimed that they were alive and independent at the level of essence, to be ... in short, really difficult to explain and imagine.
Besides continually argued that disappeared when the senses, the "they" would be "dead" ... "What is'" would be dead (!!!!???)
This shows that, as I said, still believed to exist individually.
argued that the 'I am' was locked up and limited (or even matched!) To a form!
me laugh, but in the dream was not so funny, because that they believe the "death of Being" (Being tied to time ... I think that nonsense! Thereby have a psyche that was believed to be), led them to try a thing called "fear" or the desire to avoid constant and indelible fact that this (the alleged "death of life") could be ... but the strange contradiction is that they knew (like us) that groups of senses, the individual conscience, is bound to disappear, so their mind is constantly contradicted ... Yes, their brains working in watertight compartments, divided into groups of thoughts that turns and contradicted themselves constantly, without them even realizing it, except in a few rare moments.
That feeling called "fear" is a reaction that was so, to avoid feeling it, they produced in their states of self-protection (fear) called "hate," "jealousy, anger," "envy" "resentment" and many others unknown to us, which produced the absence of happiness and a sense of malaise, which ended for somatization and create physical disease.
I can not explain what these were because I have no idea ... but the consequence was that these they are prevented by repulsion, which attack for the sole purpose of removing, do not share, up even to want to physically eliminate another body-mind ... it disappears and decompose before the natural time, undeterred in supporting that they were not only forms of 'One Being, but that the' I ', identity, "what is" it was their property, or the contents of memory brain.
for "their" hand in this strange dream, perform actions detrimental to their own environment, insignificant gestures that made me think (but you can not, of course, if in a dream) that they did not mind the case, are with Love, so they used this word to indicate the states of arousal or mental confusion.
And then did not bother to show that, constantly, that their skills were better than some other similar, or that their preferences had a valid reason for most of the preferences of others ... but the paradox is that while they thought of this, expressed the opposite, that were obviously fake to try to accept their surroundings.
In the long run even longer able to understand if they were fake or not ... What really felt about things from which they were surrounded.
Their assessment was distorted from an emotional dressing approval or disapproval of what they called "trial", which increased enormously their sense of separation and the consequent lack of happiness, which, as everyone knows, is synonymous with total acceptance.
The most inconceivable of this dream was that I watched these men "judge", that is split between approval or disapproval emotional all the time ... could not do without!
time used it in an equally inexplicable and distorted.
Many of them worked to build bombs that would eliminate hundreds or even thousands of bodies simultaneously, others were busy to mess with any kind of harmful substance, the nature of the planet where they lived and the food we eat, others spent their lives to break up the material, or animals, to see life as it is done ( INCREDIBILEEE, but as he came to mind ... but I say, it was a dream!), or calculate data that does not serve any purpose for the quality of life of the senses ... but the most common activity was present in all views, not only of all kinds and anything that did not even know from personal experience, but such an absurd 'that I can not tell you about it.
work, think, 70% of the day, and 70% a year or so, and for what? to accumulate money (those who could) spent on improving individual properties, obviously for them, they would not have shared with their peers, but they guarded with attachment, making fetishes for psychic satisfaction.
In these men in my dream seemed strange that the objects (and body) had replaced the sense of being.
Then, when they used the time to eliminate one another (not for food, but without purpose), passing many times (which they called "free") to look at moving pictures on a TV screen by the name .
All had a TV that emitted the same images of others ... TV and this made them cry (who knows why), or laugh, or to discuss and judge the time.
was funny, because while watching these pictures, they seemed to lose the connection with the sense of being even more.
Among the many images there was a call football where two teams of men kicking the leather ball, and this thing will turn her on (I wonder why?) Until, at times, to ensure that a body came to murder someone because this leather ball went right instead of left ... unthinkable!
But the beautiful, despite the apparent reason this was not murder those who had sent her there, but another body-mind person who attended the event.
The weird thing beyond belief was the fact that this device is to issue almost exclusively images that reproduced their most distorted and disastrous way of life, giving examples in excess, as if it were normal, and even right!
And you know what I wanted to see were the men? Mechanically reproduced this behavior they had observed, without thinking about, and, what is really possible only in a dream, do not try any resentment even after a long time, except in a few cases. I wandered
the streets, in the dream, and I found not a man ... like us, I mean ... a Human Being ... psychic bodies seemed disconnected from Love.
good luck and of course, was just a dream ... a dream of mine.


Sunday, August 3, 2008

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Madurai

The beat of dishes and accompanying hands frightened the girl
What flies over the crowd
Barefoot
on that tightrope between the Middle Ages and the day after West
In the chaos of anarchists
motorisciò composedly that dot the High Town Road
afternoon
The cows are sleeping in the nooks of the future
The light poles are torn by a thousand cords
ready to explode into a hiccup overload

Here, where no one has any idea who is his neighbor
Here, where something has already happened
- it seemed impossible -
Where something might still happen
a pedestrian run over, perhaps a reflection of another world

sending cablegrams crackling
From the phonograph to the foot of the temple destruction

But what is the modern elephant
I ask the holy pilgrims
naked, sweaty and dark
The supplier of donuts phosphorescent

But the girl trapeze artist, still staring at me seriously and not
responds

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

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Rick Moody, maximalist

Yes, I am a maximalist . Rick Moody, New Yorker writer born in 1961, has a reassuring smile and eyes, but its pages with stories dripping complex, often lived on a fine line and dangerous, and are supported by a powerful language and multi-faceted, light years away from standard of minimalism. In Italy to present his new book - " three lives ", published by Minimum Fax editing Raymond Carver -, Moody admits that it failed never wanted to follow the example of the great minimalist :" I never wanted to be a writer like this - told in Kilgore a pleasant meeting in Milan -. Since high school I was never a good minimalist, I can not be summarized and simplistic. " It just started reading "Three Lives" by realizing . The novella that opens the book, "The Army Omega", it is a polished route into the madness of a paranoid old billionaire who, while fighting against disease and age-related personal problems, is to aware of a frightening conspiracy and immediately engages in the first person to guarantee national security against enemies of the mysterious "dark-skinned . The key to enter this dark world, Dr. Van Deusen finds in a novel of political fiction and his contact with the security forces is another old man who pretends to be a fisherman, but it is actually a secret agent. And this is just an incomplete summary of the story.

Nothing could be more distant from the machinations of Carver skinny then, and thought that now runs to the masters of postmodernism, such as the elusive Thomas Pynchon. "Alongside the tradition minimalist - Moody told us - there is another literary movement strongly influenced by Europe and the experimental literature that includes Pynchon, but also Don DeLillo, William Gaddis . I feel closer to these writers and I have been trained by John Hawkes and Angela Carter, I feel more akin to their style. If this is maximalism then yes I am a maximalist. " As the definitions are always a bit 'limited, it is nevertheless true that Rick Moody high points, both for the subjects of his stories and for the way he says. But when, again in "The Army Omega", the protagonist understands that should be its aim, that's the story turns from semi grotesque into something different, difficult to circumscribe . It is Moody's prose that marks the difference with periods like this: "As we walk, I heard the whistle a couple of golf balls that I sped by, as small asteroids in the great unknown of this this apocalyptic, but not I have paid the slightest attention. " Or, and here the link with the issues most dear to Pynchon and DeLillo is manifest, a little further on we read: "Perhaps the Fraulein was crying because he knew this life not keep anything of what he promised, that is to say that every human interaction was mediated the sad fact that there surrounded. " The context is not so important, because these phrases own light shine.

style is central to the work of Rick Moody, and when asked how important it is for him the "how" is written , the answer begins with a "not quite there arises the question" which sounds like a veiled charge to those who focus too much on story lines. "My idea - explains the writer - is that everyone has a refined his style, Carver and Hemingway also pointed that, intentionally, to the maximum of restraint. My method is made up of long sentences, complex, full of adjectives and adverbs. " A choice of articulation of the language that fits well in the musical dimension : "I give great importance - the writer has added - either the sound of the language, which joins the simple meaning of words." Sounds, rhythms, kaleidoscope of images that overlap in the long story that closes the book by Moody and Dave Eggers has selected for his anthology of adventure stories have appeared in Italy a few years ago: " Albertine." A novel complex and visionary memory and reality quoting Proust in the title but then somehow reinvented the science fiction genre in key hallucinatory, in the groove in the tradition of Phil Dick. "The distinction between the genres of literature - Moody told us about those who consider children in certain types of writings and writers - is arbitrary and is not written anywhere. I believe that science fiction has the same dignity literature 'traditional' and there are great science fiction writers that I consider great literary writers fully. There is a continuum between literature 'high' and 'low' and novelists such as Dick, JG Ballard or William Gibson can not be pigeonholed in a genre definitions. Dick, for example, can be criticized for some sentence is not perfect, but his ideas are very strong .

"Albertine", in the tradition of the best science-fiction, is nevertheless a story that speaks of our present, particularly the U.S. linked to 11 September. In a New York " day after " depopulated a drug that has the same name of his beloved Proust, which remembers the past, the life that the explosions have blown away with the city. Everything is obviously much more complex and space-time between jumps, future advances, signs of drug resistance, Brooklyn and moments in which the protagonist can " to recite all the poems I had learned in life ", you enter into a vortex of perceptions of gender definition and overrides everything seems to point towards the heart of the firm literature, the place where the writer nuclear power to maneuver its demiurge creator. An interpretation that may override the intentions of Rick Moody, who, while appreciating it, brings us back to a level of reality: "The element of memory - the writer explained - comes from the feeling that after the September 11 public opinion U.S. is trying to forget much of the past political , ie all responsibility for Americans who had helped to create the conditions for the attack terrorist. And at the same time, people wanted remember what was there before the attacks on the World Trade Center . They tried to forget some hard things and remember other intensely, and the memory was like a treasure, but many parts were removed. In 'Albertine' I tried to make this feeling and this paradox. " The

fear, as pointed out by the editor of the book Martina Testa, is one of the red wires of the three stories and, on closer inspection, you feel those stories photographing a country adrift, lost in the maze of their fears. "A year ago - said Rick Moody - The situation was exactly this, for as I saw it. But today they are much more hopeful for the developments we are seeing. " Developments that have a name and a surname: Barack Obama. "It will be an election fought - Moody explained with great interest - but Obama has the chance to make and I support him. He has a good chance of winning, it would be wonderful if the did. " Obama likes to other writers, like Jonathan Safran Foer , who recently told his political passion for the black senator also to the Italian press. Rick Moody adds its voice to Safran and is convinced that not only elites and intellectuals look sympathy with the Democratic candidate. "People are with him - he said - true bases of popular support even if a certain band of white racists could lower classes to resist, especially in the Midwest. They are the ones who supported Hillary Clinton, but if we now make the ticket even this problem can be solved. "

Moody gets excited when he talks about Obama, but as a writer believes in the look sociological more than in, shall we say, political science. "More than politics are interested in describing how people react to fear, for example. Do not try to tell the political atmosphere itself, even if the metaphor does indeed cover the conditions of my country. " Politics and literature, even in the case of an avid writer like Moody, are still different and distant objects and is also perceived to be as the writer, while telling of paranoia, violence between colleagues or an alternate present and apocalyptic, it takes care of his characters. The look is never contemptuous and, indeed, seems to become more affectionate As their situation became more complex and their conditions worse. "The moment of politics - he wanted to explain Moody - is a tool to evoke the psychology of the characters, their inner life and are therefore deserving of attention and affection of contempt, even if they represent political views that I do not agree. " And then, as Salinger brilliantly reminded us at the end of "The Catcher in the Rye", the writer can not not become attached to the characters born from her story: "If you let a character tell his story for a long time - admitted Moody - it becomes impossible not to feel compassion, and this is the role of the writer. " Also a maximalist who declares proudly.