"Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler," Juan Felipe Herrera
Pg.93
"Do it on the road, Red
Feed it on the bracnch, Beaulah
Knead it on the berry, Bobo
Braid it on the forest, Freydo
Lose it on the water, Waldo"
I particularly liked this pass age in Juan's poem mainly because it is very unique from any other poem I have read. As I noticed, the last two words in every phrase has the same first letter. This makes me think, why would Juan put the poem in that particular order? It sounds to me as if the words actually make music if you read it out loud to yourself. The way Juan uses words for music is incredibly talented. This poem is great because it doesn't need to make sense. It's not a poem in which you think of the meaning, but actually hear the meaning.
"Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler," Juan Felipe Herrera
Pg. 94
"Battles, missions, random intersections, chaos, time and culture boosters, explosions; I want writing to contain all this because we contain all this--is this closer to what you mean by saying we are Americanos? Is this your mission? You know Víctor, I am going to say it--no more movements, nothing about lines or metaphors or even about quality and craft; you know what I mean?
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
NOACVS 56-80
"Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler", Juan Felipe Herrera
Pg.64
" Everyone is talking about growing the brain by the age of I; grow the brain! I suppose the brain is the ultimate sale, product, frontier, capsule, coin, cow, chick, river, horse, train, rubber, wheel, map slop, over yonder there is a brain to plow, to sell & sew, carry to market! Who owns the market?"
This quote is interesting because it really improvises on society and the corporate way of advertising the brain. Society, without people noticing, creates standards for people with intelligence to those that are considered "dumb". Those that are intelligent are advertised and used only to support the corporates and societies.
"Notebooks of a Chile verde Smuggler," Juan Felipe Herrera
Pg.72
"A lie in the algebra"
This is interesting because what happens if there was a lie in the algebra? Then everything that anyone learned mathematically would be incorrect. Also, anything scientific would be mathematically wrong. So, what would happen? Society would fall and humans would have to restart from the beginning. This is an interesting concept.
Pg.64
" Everyone is talking about growing the brain by the age of I; grow the brain! I suppose the brain is the ultimate sale, product, frontier, capsule, coin, cow, chick, river, horse, train, rubber, wheel, map slop, over yonder there is a brain to plow, to sell & sew, carry to market! Who owns the market?"
This quote is interesting because it really improvises on society and the corporate way of advertising the brain. Society, without people noticing, creates standards for people with intelligence to those that are considered "dumb". Those that are intelligent are advertised and used only to support the corporates and societies.
"Notebooks of a Chile verde Smuggler," Juan Felipe Herrera
Pg.72
"A lie in the algebra"
This is interesting because what happens if there was a lie in the algebra? Then everything that anyone learned mathematically would be incorrect. Also, anything scientific would be mathematically wrong. So, what would happen? Society would fall and humans would have to restart from the beginning. This is an interesting concept.
Sunday, May 13, 2007
NOACVS 30-55
"Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler, " Juan Felipe Herrera
Pg.31
" I look at myself put letters on paper and all I can conjure is the loss of time, the delving into bodiless terms and the thousand layers of empty space around me. The ink is mind. The mind has no barriers. The paper is breath. The word is deep silence."
It seems as though Juan is in a deep meditation when writing poems or anything in particular. "The ink is the mind" relates to the fact that whatever you think is written down with ink. I believe that not only is the ink the mind but also the translator. The ink is responsible for making your thoughts visible to the world. It releases the unknown questions of life, the emotions you feel, and just about anything your mind thinks about. Since the mind has no barriers neither does the ink, so there is no barriers for writing. There are no guidelines or rules to writing. It all simply comes from the complex compositions of unanswered questions, prophecies, and philosophies. The contradictions and simplicity of writing comes from the set mediation of the mind when the paper is a symphony of breaths that let out the thoughts and the words describing them efficiently in silence rather than speech.
"Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler," Juan Felipe Herrera
Pg.42
"Is it the fact that we never did fall, truly alone and shivering, into the furnace of an authentic experience and explosion of community across assigned boundaries and voices, into the colossal and marvelousn thing called change, called reality, this Thing-just-like-this? Wipe my face, squint, make sure I say what I meant."
In this quote, Juan appears to be questioning the genuineness of this modern day world. This world filled with monotonous societies and dream-like lives with the hopes of no consequences. Has human's in the modern day really felt the experience of falling of maybe making a mistake? Society has always been afraid of change, but whats to fear about change? It just throws a curveball at the way things are or have been for the past millenium or so. Why do we fear adjustment, unknown, and difference? The reason why things remain monotonous is because society is afraid of taking chances with the possibility of failing. So society continues to stay unoriginal and remain neglecting diversity.
Pg.31
" I look at myself put letters on paper and all I can conjure is the loss of time, the delving into bodiless terms and the thousand layers of empty space around me. The ink is mind. The mind has no barriers. The paper is breath. The word is deep silence."
It seems as though Juan is in a deep meditation when writing poems or anything in particular. "The ink is the mind" relates to the fact that whatever you think is written down with ink. I believe that not only is the ink the mind but also the translator. The ink is responsible for making your thoughts visible to the world. It releases the unknown questions of life, the emotions you feel, and just about anything your mind thinks about. Since the mind has no barriers neither does the ink, so there is no barriers for writing. There are no guidelines or rules to writing. It all simply comes from the complex compositions of unanswered questions, prophecies, and philosophies. The contradictions and simplicity of writing comes from the set mediation of the mind when the paper is a symphony of breaths that let out the thoughts and the words describing them efficiently in silence rather than speech.
"Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler," Juan Felipe Herrera
Pg.42
"Is it the fact that we never did fall, truly alone and shivering, into the furnace of an authentic experience and explosion of community across assigned boundaries and voices, into the colossal and marvelousn thing called change, called reality, this Thing-just-like-this? Wipe my face, squint, make sure I say what I meant."
In this quote, Juan appears to be questioning the genuineness of this modern day world. This world filled with monotonous societies and dream-like lives with the hopes of no consequences. Has human's in the modern day really felt the experience of falling of maybe making a mistake? Society has always been afraid of change, but whats to fear about change? It just throws a curveball at the way things are or have been for the past millenium or so. Why do we fear adjustment, unknown, and difference? The reason why things remain monotonous is because society is afraid of taking chances with the possibility of failing. So society continues to stay unoriginal and remain neglecting diversity.
NOACVS 1-29
"Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler", Juan Felipe Herrera
Pg.8
"As I walk, I drop my burdens. As I walk, I melt with the snow."
This excerpt from Juan's poem is simple, yet has many meanings and interpretations. As he drops his burdens he melts with the snow. This metaphor relates to when he relieves any stress he goes out and becomes one with nature and finds himself blend in with the simple delicacy of nature. The snow may be a metaphor to his burdens, and instead of having the burdens weighing him down he actually blends with it. This an exceptionally hard characteristic to obtain. Instead of being controled by stress and burdens, he acknowledges these hard times and becomes one with it. Realising what he has to do and maybe making it possible to achieve these hard to reach goals or maybe he just lives in a moment where stress cannot reach.
"Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler", Juan Felipe Herrera
Pg. 27
" I worry about the day having hours, minutes, and seconds."
This quote is particularly significant and displays a great point. It makes me question why does the day have hours, minutes, and seconds? Time is time, right? Well, in the looks of the human eyes time is divided which makes me think about time itself. Time continues on no matter what speed it travels in. So why do we split time into these sections? it's really interesting and in my opinion a very significant quote. In the eyes of time, seconds are hours and minutes and vise versa. We live in it and no matter what we may divide time into, time will still go at its same speed in its own way.
Pg.8
"As I walk, I drop my burdens. As I walk, I melt with the snow."
This excerpt from Juan's poem is simple, yet has many meanings and interpretations. As he drops his burdens he melts with the snow. This metaphor relates to when he relieves any stress he goes out and becomes one with nature and finds himself blend in with the simple delicacy of nature. The snow may be a metaphor to his burdens, and instead of having the burdens weighing him down he actually blends with it. This an exceptionally hard characteristic to obtain. Instead of being controled by stress and burdens, he acknowledges these hard times and becomes one with it. Realising what he has to do and maybe making it possible to achieve these hard to reach goals or maybe he just lives in a moment where stress cannot reach.
"Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler", Juan Felipe Herrera
Pg. 27
" I worry about the day having hours, minutes, and seconds."
This quote is particularly significant and displays a great point. It makes me question why does the day have hours, minutes, and seconds? Time is time, right? Well, in the looks of the human eyes time is divided which makes me think about time itself. Time continues on no matter what speed it travels in. So why do we split time into these sections? it's really interesting and in my opinion a very significant quote. In the eyes of time, seconds are hours and minutes and vise versa. We live in it and no matter what we may divide time into, time will still go at its same speed in its own way.
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
CCC Interview
Questions:
1) How has being an Anarchist changed your lifestyle?
2) How have you been able to adjust to a lifestyle that secludes itself from government?
3) What made you choose to believe in anarchy?
4) Is it difficult to live in modern society as an anarchist?
5) Has it been somewhat difficult to live up to the ideal dream of living without any type of government?
6) Has being anarchist changed your life for the better, and if so, how did it change your life?
7) What do you personally think about governments today?
8) What would be an alternative to living without any form of government?
9) What are people's reactions when you tell them you are Anarchist?
10) How does it affect you when people make harmful comments about your belief?
11) Have you ever felt a time where you actually would rather live a lifestyle surrounded by government?
12) Do you believe that Anarchism brings out an aspect toward life that typical Americans today don't quite have?
13) Has this lifestyle been an experience worthwhile, if so, how?
1) How has being an Anarchist changed your lifestyle?
2) How have you been able to adjust to a lifestyle that secludes itself from government?
3) What made you choose to believe in anarchy?
4) Is it difficult to live in modern society as an anarchist?
5) Has it been somewhat difficult to live up to the ideal dream of living without any type of government?
6) Has being anarchist changed your life for the better, and if so, how did it change your life?
7) What do you personally think about governments today?
8) What would be an alternative to living without any form of government?
9) What are people's reactions when you tell them you are Anarchist?
10) How does it affect you when people make harmful comments about your belief?
11) Have you ever felt a time where you actually would rather live a lifestyle surrounded by government?
12) Do you believe that Anarchism brings out an aspect toward life that typical Americans today don't quite have?
13) Has this lifestyle been an experience worthwhile, if so, how?
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
The House on Mango Street
The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
pg.748
" You live there? The way she said it made me feel like nothing. There. I lived there. I nodded."
It seems although the narrator does not like the feeling of being considered inferior and does not feel comfortable considering that he is neglected by the inhabitants of society. The statement lowers his self esteem and he seems to be personally distraught with the statement on his household. However, he seems to be defiant and show that indeed he does live there. Yet, he still seems to want to live in that lifestyle of a personal home with all the materialistic necessities.
pg.748
" You live there? The way she said it made me feel like nothing. There. I lived there. I nodded."
It seems although the narrator does not like the feeling of being considered inferior and does not feel comfortable considering that he is neglected by the inhabitants of society. The statement lowers his self esteem and he seems to be personally distraught with the statement on his household. However, he seems to be defiant and show that indeed he does live there. Yet, he still seems to want to live in that lifestyle of a personal home with all the materialistic necessities.
Monday, May 7, 2007
Seeing
Seeing, Annie Dillard
Pg. 695
" But the artificial obvious is hard to see. My eyes account for less than one percent of the weight of my head; I'm bony and dense; I see what I expect."
This quote is emphasizing on our typical nature of seeing what we expect instead of taking everything, including the unknown, into consideration. We take things we see with our eyes and expect to see what we picture in our minds. We see a dandellion and we expect it to be yellow. We don't take into consideration the hints of brown shown on the tips of the peddles or the different shades of green that flow parallel in the stem. We just look at what we see dully and don't take into account the intricate design of the objects created by nature. This relates to how we look at life, we just visualize the opportunities and expodential peaks in life when we obtain success. Yet, we never look at life intricatly, we never visualize the upsets, hard moments, of life changing decisions because we choose to neglect the obvious in order to focus on the things we want to see.
Seeing, Annie Dillard
Pg.697
" But shadows spread, and deepened, and stayed. After thousands of years we're still strangers to darkness, fearful aliens in an enemy camp with our arms crossed over our chests."
Annie really emphasizes on the fears of the human race. It's kind of ironic how most people are afraid of the dark. Why is that? Mostly because people simply cannot see visually what inhabits the dark or if their is anything in the dark. People are afraid of what they cannot see and what they cannot comprehend and the typical fear for the dark is an excellent metaphor to show the fears we have towards things we do not know.
Pg. 695
" But the artificial obvious is hard to see. My eyes account for less than one percent of the weight of my head; I'm bony and dense; I see what I expect."
This quote is emphasizing on our typical nature of seeing what we expect instead of taking everything, including the unknown, into consideration. We take things we see with our eyes and expect to see what we picture in our minds. We see a dandellion and we expect it to be yellow. We don't take into consideration the hints of brown shown on the tips of the peddles or the different shades of green that flow parallel in the stem. We just look at what we see dully and don't take into account the intricate design of the objects created by nature. This relates to how we look at life, we just visualize the opportunities and expodential peaks in life when we obtain success. Yet, we never look at life intricatly, we never visualize the upsets, hard moments, of life changing decisions because we choose to neglect the obvious in order to focus on the things we want to see.
Seeing, Annie Dillard
Pg.697
" But shadows spread, and deepened, and stayed. After thousands of years we're still strangers to darkness, fearful aliens in an enemy camp with our arms crossed over our chests."
Annie really emphasizes on the fears of the human race. It's kind of ironic how most people are afraid of the dark. Why is that? Mostly because people simply cannot see visually what inhabits the dark or if their is anything in the dark. People are afraid of what they cannot see and what they cannot comprehend and the typical fear for the dark is an excellent metaphor to show the fears we have towards things we do not know.
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